Test drive Fiat Multipla 1998 - 2004 Minivan

I'm not indisputable, maybe outwardly ...

Fiat Multipla Fiat Multipla
The unusual mini-wen fiat-multipay debuted a year ago-in the fall of 1998. It is produced only with a five -door body and one version of the wheelbase in the SX and ELX trim levels. It is equipped with a 1.6 liter gasoline engine or a 1.9-liter turbodiesel and a five-speed manual gearbox. With a 1.6 -liter engine, also cars operating on compressed gas are produced: Bipower - GAZ+gasoline and Blupower - only gas.
For a long time, I sharpened the tooth on this two -story aquarium. And then, finally, the case introduced himself-he grabbed a fiat-multipay for a couple of days, however, not in his homeland in Italy, but in Germany, where he costs 32-38 thousand marks. So instead of Spaghetti and Chanti there will be sausages and beer. However, this does not directly apply to the case, and therefore the keys-documents in the armful and trot on the parking lot.
Blimey! Already something, and the courage of Italian designers cannot be occupied. It seems that a hefty glass box has been sewn on a regular low -profile on top. The impression of two -story enhances the step with the headlights above the hood. The rear and side glasses are located almost vertically, so that the salon looks implausively huge.
Although why does it look? He is really spacious, like a bus. In both ranks there are three seats, which can be separately adjusted, folded, rearranged (rear) or remove at all. The backs are medium, in a folded state, they form wide armrests-stolks. If you have in your family (or in the company) only five, a large boxing box can be installed ahead instead of a chair. Such a spaciousness is due to a fair amount of a width of the machine - 70 mm more than, say, in the Volga. The length is less than four meters, shorter than the eight! At the same time, you can sit at the back, even throwing your foot on your foot.
In the middle of the front panel there is something remotely resembling an anthill. Yes, some kind of face sticking out from there! Either the robot, or the knight is walled up. In fact, this is a combination of devices, a ventilation control panel and a radio, and the face is a block of deflectors. Despite the strange appearance, all this structure is very functional.
However, we must go - the owners seem to be slightly concerned about the stamping around the car and are delicately interested in problems. No! - I answer cheerfully and jump behind the wheel. Rucking with diesel, multiplas cuts to a lively metropolis street.
In motion, the width of the car does not bother, just remember about it somewhere implicitly. To a large extent, this is due to the excellent view to the sides - the line of lateral glazing is not much higher than the waist. But under no circumstances, the hood is not visible under any circumstances forces to reinsure with a dense parking and leave ahead half a meter in front. In the inner mirror, the rear head restraint loomly loom - medium, for a better view, had to be removed.
In the meantime, I get out for an autobahn. The course is for Bavaria. There are mountains, forests. Nature, in a word. Sausages, again ... time for dinner. Okay, after an hour and a half I will be in place, but for now we will see how much 105 diesel horses are.
And what, very, very good. Incidentally, it is more frustrated than gasoline - acceleration to hundreds of only 12.4 s instead of 12.6. The diesel is perfectly pulled from the bottom, without forcing him to switch once again. At a speed of about 140 km/h, the acceleration intensity is reduced, but if you do not remove the leg from the pedal, the multiplic honestly gains passports 170 km/h. As it does not seem strange, a slow set of maximum wipes is a certificate of good aerodynamics. Powerful, but unwritten machines are accelerated quickly in the entire speed range, and then seem to rest against the pillow. Yes, and fuel consumption on the highway - 5.5 liters per 100 km confirms that a square in appearance of a mini -ven in the frets with air. Having been stubborn, I am no longer embarrassed to occupy the left ranks and drive, as they say, with all the money.
No hour passed, the hills began. I turn on the local road - landstrasse and do not deny myself the pleasure of hoping for half an hour on a mountain serpentine. True, after the first turn, I had to stop and fix the suitcase, as well as dissect the belongings dangling through the cabin in different pockets and glove compartment - there are many of them. But only then the parrots of multiplayers of rare sedate burghers. Surprisingly, on the road it stands like a good passenger car: it exactly obeys the steering wheel, is minimally rolled in a bend, quickly accelerates and effectively slows down. There are no habits of the wagon at all, only a high landing contradicts the pace of movement.
And here is the reason to remove the contradiction - a small cozy town appeared ahead, in which there will probably be a small cozy beer ...
Afternoon siesta is sacred. Moreover, there is a legal excuse - you need to look through the instructions, inspect the car. Interesting: the right frontal airbag (four of them) is double, for both front passengers. In a bag with a tool is not only a first-aid kit, but also an orange vest in case, for example, a wheel replacement somewhere on the sidelines. But the front rotation indicators are shifted so far back that the far-finger is not visible in front-fence. Grunting, I look under the car: between the levers of the compact rear torsion suspension, the dock, the front and behind stabilizers - it is clear why the car is so confident in the bend.
However, it is necessary to know the honor, it's time to combine the camera. And the first thing to remove is the 1899-Fiat-1999 sticker. Yes, yes, just so much - a hundred years Fiat already produced cars. Nevertheless, despite his age, the patriarch is not afraid to break the canons and surprise with unusual cars. Or maybe this is the secret of longevity?

+ A spacious salon with many transformation options, a painful diesel, good dynamics, large doorways, an excellent view to the sides.
- Invisible hood, a small road clearance, a limited review through the inner mirror.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
General data: number of places - 6; Equipped mass - 1370 kg; full weight - 1930 kg; maximum speed - 170 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 12.4 s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 5.5; 8.0 l/100 km; fuel supply - 65 liters; Fuel is diesel. Dimensions, mm: length - 3994; width - 1871; height - 1670; base - 2666; The track in front/back - 1515/1520; Road clearance - 120; trunk volume - 430/1300 l; The turning radius is 5.5 m. The engine: diesel, with turbocharged and intermediate cooler, four -cylinder, in order, located in front of the front; working volume - 1910 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 82.0x90.4 mm; compression degree - 18.5; Power - 77 kW/105 liters. With. at 4000 rpm; The maximum torque is 200 N.M at 1500 rpm. Transmission: front wheel drive; gearbox - mechanical five -speed; Transporting numbers: I - 3.91; II - 2.24; III - 1.44; IV - 1.03; V - 0.82; h. X. - 3.91; The main program is 3.35. Suspension: with reproach stabilizers, collected on subframes, in front - like McEferson, from behind - torsion with single longitudinal levers. Brakes: hydraulic with a vacuum amplifier and ABS, in front - ventilated disk, back - drum. Steering: rheck with a hydraulic wrap. Tire size: 185/65R15.

SUMMARY
Fiat Multiplas is a practical and functional car for those who are not afraid to look like everyone else.

Yuri Nechetov. Photo by the author and fiat

Source: The magazine "Driving"