Test drive Fiat Stilo 5 doors 2006 - 2007 hatchback

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Fiat Stilo Multi Wagon
The fiat-style with the bodies of the three- and five-door hatchback changed the Bravo/Brava family in the fall of 2001, and exactly a year later the multi-eagon station wagon appeared.
The styl of multi -Eagogon is equipped with 1.6 and 1.8 liter gasoline engines (two options) or a 1.9 liter turbodiesel (with and without intercooler). The gearbox is only a mechanical five -speed, front drive.
In Russia, universal sales will begin in late summer - in the fall. Prices are presumably from 17 to 24 thousand dollars. The cost of a test car in Europe is 22 thousand euros.

A person buys a car based on personal preferences. The journalist, in order to fully evaluate the advantages of the car, you need to get into the skin of a potential buyer, adopt his value system. Otherwise, claims like in this Porsche are not even plunged by a bag of potatoes!. The fiat-steel multi-Eagogon gave a pleasant opportunity to remain himself, not to dress up in other people's clothes.
In my preferences, I am inclined to spacious and comfortable mini-wans. Such a choice explains the craving for travel and active rest with the whole family. However, in everyday operation, when you carry only yourself, I would prefer something closer to the usual light car. Styl Multistagon gets just between the station wagon and the mini -van - with the appearance of the first, it has almost all the advantages of the second.
It is quite high - as many as 1570 mm, but thanks to the embossed longitudinal substettle on the sides and a rather big 16 -inch wheels does not look bulky. He has large doorways and just a huge salon with highly located seats. This is not to say that the passenger is lost inside, but can sit freely in the hat, and at the back - even throwing his leg on the leg. The second -row seat is split in the proportion of 60/40; Both parts have separate adjustments: longitudinal, within 165 mm, and along the corner of inclination of the back. In terms of height and corner, each of the three head restraints is adjusted - by the way, they fall on the back with the back and do not interfere with the review. So one of the passengers can doze a reclining, and the other is fun to the extent of fantasy, using a folding table on the back of the front chair. Incidentally, the list of additional equipment includes advanced children's chairs integrated in the rear seat.
Rich equipment includes all kinds of electric drives (in a driver’s driver’s seat in three positions), audio and navigation systems, cruise and two-zone climate control, rain and light sensors, as well as many more familiar things. Of course, in the station wagon there are many boxes and shelves for different little things, with which the crew usually has to fight on the road. If you add all these advantages, it will become clear that the longest journey will not seem to be a burden on four or even five passengers.
In terms of size and equipment, the salons of a five -door hatchback and station wagon are almost the same. Significant differences are found behind the back of the second row - there is no too large trunk on the long road! At the same base, multi -eagon is 260 mm longer and all this increase went to the luggage compartment - an almost correct parallelepiped volume in a half -cub. To be precise, even a little more - 510 liters against 335 liters of a hatchback. There is enough space for five sets of ski equipment, and an unbearable cover with skis - on the roof, for fastening the crosses there are relings. With a limited number of passengers, you can fold not only the rear seat, but also the back of the front right - then a load up to 2.6 m long will be located inside. And for the convenience of loading and unloading, the fifth door window opens separately.
Well, loaded, sat down - you can go. Filling the salon with vibration, he cheerfully fired a 1.9-liter turbodiesel Common Rail. With a boost of constant geometry, it develops 59 kW/80 liters. S., I have 115-horsepower with a controlled Garrett turbocharger and intercooler. Having warmed up, the motor has subsided, and in motion it became almost never heard. But the turboyam was not completely covered in the end.
At low speeds, the styl is more suitable for a melancholic driver-it accelerates reluctantly, and somewhere on the rise may even freeze if you do not switch to a reduced gear in time. Well, okay, I go very calmly with the children, and in the far flight the vanity is completely contraindicated. However, it is worth spinning the engine to one and a half to two thousand, as the character of the machine changes-255 Newton meters literally dig asphalt and with a whistle is laid out 100 km/h for 11.2 s. In general, as retreating on the way to work will be reserved, you can stretch out. At the same time, the diesel is surprisingly economical: 600 km of high -speed roads, mountain serpentines and Genoese streets took only 32 liters - a little more than half of the tank! But you should not move off the asphalt: the road clearance is small.
By the end of the third day of this official novel, I was subdued by the advantages of the multi -capacity and closed my eyes to minor flaws. Moreover, in Russia they will sell cars with an enhanced suspension. Perhaps this is a car for me ...

EQUIPMENT
Abs
Anti -boom system
Side airbags
Climate control
Adjustable steering column
Audiosystem
Full -size spare wheel

SUMMARY
+ High economy of the engine, good craving at medium and high speeds, a spacious comfortable salon with a variety of transformation, a rich equipment, a spacious trunk.
- The failure of the draft at low speeds, a small road clearance.

The volume of the trunk is from 510 to 1480 liters, in the back there is a hatch for long -meters.

To load small items, it is enough to raise the glass.

It is convenient to open the trunk door by the handle.

The station wagon is practical, easily washing black plastic panels on the doors, but at the same time rich equipment.

At the back you can do something to the table or take a nap recovery.

A 1.9 liter turbodiesel with an adjustable turbine and intercooler develops 85 kW/115 liters. With.
 
 

Yuri Nechetov.
Photo by the author

Source: The magazine "Driving"