Test drive Fiat Stilo 5 doors 2001 - 2006 hatchback

European approach

Fiat Stilo - chic or zilch?
The car that came to our test was not quite ordinary. With an almost complete set of additional equipment, it costs $ 22800, against the starting price of the price of $ 15700. It does not have enough organizer for the trunk, pre-heater and Easy-Go, who abolished the ignition key and a signaling keychain. The list of bells and whistles is also outstanding for the car and for the car is twice as large: xenon headlights, a leather salon, a huge (640x750 mm) glass hatch in the roof, electric drives of everything and the whole, cruise control, climate control and other, other ... behind this ostentatious The splendor of the fiat-style itself was nearly lost.
Around and near
Designers are unlikely to ever be friends with technologists. They just to draw the edges of it, and the problems of docking the surfaces and coefficients of the hood, they seem to not excite them. And in vain: not only impressive appearance forms an opinion about the machine, the gaps of body parts also matter. Here the fiat was not an excellent student - a maximum of four. However, this is an assessment by imported standards - our factories can only dream of this. But the malyars tried - Shakhrin is not visible even in the most intricate places.
In the cabin, everything, at first glance, is gorgeous. The material of the torpedo is especially impressive - plastic black granite looks more than rich. Do not immediately notice that the inserts in the doors are leather - you can distinguish the material only by texture. But the upholstery of leather seats could look more solid - it seems as if artificial. Or is it natural? I would like to see a shreds sewn somewhere in the corner: feel and make sure ... The electric drive of the seat with memory-and this is serious, but why can a thick bunch of multi-colored wires be seen from under the plastic lining? If you could not hide the wrong side, it was worth at least to put black insulation on the tourniquet ...
Let's look under the car. The road clearance with an unloaded car is 105 mm, the pipelines are covered only with a thin plastic lining, like the engine compartment, all this will make you be extremely neat on our roads and forget about trips to the country, where they have not yet laid out an even and hard coating. Yes, Fiat Stilo is a typical European citizen.
Let's go in front!
We adjust the position of the driver's seat, mirrors, steering and entertain the sensations. A high landing is trying to convince that the fiat-style is not a hatchback, but a mini-wen. In fact, there are not so many heights, especially above his head: the hatch ate the space under the roof. But the longitudinal adjustment is enough with an excess of even a very tall driver. And at the same time there will be enough space in the back seat. Unless, of course, it is not moved forward by a full 120 mm to increase the volume of the trunk. However, the rear seat pillow is separate and both unequal parts are regulated independently. In our case, children's seats are also integrated in them. And in the back there is a armrest with two cup holders and a hatch for transporting long -meters. In general, comfort and safety for juvenile and poor skiers. In addition - a folding table (also with a cup holder). There would still be glasses and how to fill them ...
Passengers will probably like large doorways - sitting in the styl is extremely convenient, as well as survey from it the surroundings. But the driver has the right to complain about excessively massive head restraints and the central counter of the body.
It is worth looking through the fifth door to the trunk: although its left corner occupied the sabwiffer of the audio center, there is quite enough space for baggage. Under the floor, a full -sized stock on a alloy disk is a pleasant surprise during flawed doctrines.
Emotions and reactions
Cars are growing from generation to generation. This fully applies to the fiat steel, today the most large in its class. But a spacious salon, safe body and powerful sound insulation will certainly weight the car. The assumption was confirmed when weighing: the equipped mass of fiat was 1367 kg! It becomes clear why the possibilities of a 1.6-liter engine, whose temperament is pretty softened by setting up for ecological norms of Euro IV, is enough only for a calm ride. The car is gaining a hundred from the scene for 14.1 s, and overcomes a kilometer mark for 35.3 s. Similar numbers are shown by ordinary Samara. True, in the maximum speed, she is not a competitor to the Italian - the styl laid out honest 172.7 km/h and passport 183 km/h along the speedometer.
But the brakes of Fiat are quite matching the speeds on Italian highways. At the Steilo landfill, he demonstrated a record deceleration of 10.2 m/s2, spending on braking with 100 km/h only 37.7 m
What about pleasure driving? You should not count on a quick reaction of the car - despite the serious tires and a small road clearance, the fiat -style offers a comfortable adjustment of the suspension and, as a result, noticeable rolls. However, this does not affect the reliability of management. But it makes itself felt on uneven roads - the suspension ability to swallowly swallow the pits are limited, especially on a loaded car.
The pleasure of driving is not only the opportunity to drink tires on corners, but also comfort on the long journey. Here the fiat was again at the height. Even at high speed, the engine is almost not heard, like aerodynamic noises. But suppressing the rumble of hefty wheels is not so simple, although here the designers made maximum efforts - special furry shelves are installed in the rear wheeled arches, mocking not only the noise of the tires, but also the blows of small pebbles. rough asphalt concrete of a dynamometric road. The lack of information content of a light short -flowing pedal is redeemed by the exact and timely work of ABS. However, the efficiency of the brakes is explained not only by four impressive disks (in front - ventilated), but also by impressive size and adverse qualities of the tire Danlop Sport 205/55R16. The combination of moderate dynamics and tenacious tires primarily serves security.
What is a styl?
No, we are not going to explain what the ancient Greeks wrote. We are more interested in why Fiat decided to transfer his new European ideology to Russian soil without special changes. Will the audience take a richly equipped, spacious and modern car with a modest engine and outright gravity to smooth roads? On the other hand, European trump cards are also significant. If the five -door hatchback in simple configuration is equipped with four airbags, ABS, an anti -boom system, fog lights, air conditioning and the My Car individual settings system, then for $ 15,700 this is a very profitable offer. Especially for those who carefully calculate the cost of additional equipment in advance, not allowing the clever seller to promote themselves to the whole coil. If we take into account service intervals of 20 thousand km and a two-year guarantee without limiting a run, then the fiat-style offer will become even more profitable. Maybe this will revive interest in other fiat in Russia?

Fiat Stilo - one changed two predecessors, models of Bravo and Brava. In Europe, it is offered with three- and five-door, gasoline engines 1.2; 1.6; 1.8 and 2.4 liters and turbodiesels 1.9 liters, with a capacity of 80 to 170 liters. With. In Russia, the choice is limited by only one motor: 1.6 liters, 76 kW/103 liters. With. and packages of additional equipment Ektiv and speaker.
A spacious salon, a large trunk, a comfortable suspension, a solid equipment in the basic configuration, excellent brakes, a long warranty.
Small energy intensity of the suspension, small road clearance, lack of inexpensive basic configuration, mediocre dynamics.

Fiat Stilo
General data: number of places - 5; Equipped mass - 1205 kg; full weight - 1750 kg; maximum speed - 183 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 10.9 s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 5.8; 10.3 l/100 km; fuel supply - 58 l; Fuel - AI -95 gasoline. Dimensions, mm: length - 4253; width - 1756; height - 1525; base - 2600; The track in front/back - 1515/1510; Road clearance - 150; trunk volume - 410/1035 l; The turning radius is 5.3 m. Engine: gasoline, in order, four -cylinder, with four valves per cylinder, it is installed in front; working volume - 1596 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 80.5x79.4 mm; compression degree - 10.5; Power - 76 kW/103 hp at 5750 rpm; The maximum torque is 145 N.M at 4000 rpm. Transmission: front wheel drive: gearbox - mechanical five -speed; Transporting numbers: I - 3.91; II - 2.15; III - 1.48; IV - 1.21; V - 0.9; Z.Kh. - 3.82; The main program is 3.73. Suspension: with reproach stabilizers, in front - such as McExeson, from behind - an elastic transverse beam. Brakes: disk, with ABS, in front - ventilated. Steering: rheck with a dual -mode electric power. Tire size: 205/55R16.

The results of measurements driving
Weather conditions: temperature +17C, pressure 755 mm Hg. Art.
humidity 70%, coating - dry asphalt concrete
Weight characteristics
Equipped mass, kg 1367
The load on the axis, kg:
front 813 (59.5%)
back 554 (40.5%)
Dynamic qualities
(Partial load - 2 people+25 kg)
Acceleration, C:
0-40 km/h 3.4
0-60 km/h 6.0
0-80 km/h 9.3
0-100 km/h 14.1
0-120 km/h 19.9
0-140 km/h 30.5
0-160 km/h 47.1
0-400 m (km/h) 19.2 (117.3)
0-1000 m (km/h) 35.3 (148.3)
Maximum speed, km/h 172.7
Speedometer error, % 7
Elasticity, C:
60-100 km/h (IV) 15.6
80-120 km/h (V) 26.5
Run, m:
120-50 km/h 1273
50-0 km/h 594
Braking with 100 km/h:
braking distance, m 37.7
slow down, m/s2 10.2
Text / Anatoly Fomin
Photo / George Sadkov

Source: The magazine "Driving"