Test drive Ford Fiesta 5 doors 2013 - NV hatchback
Adult baby
In our market, the fiesta is in the shadow of the older brother, focus. And it’s a pity, because this car has something to brag. In her wide-open eyes, she was read by no means children's spontaneity rather, stiffness. The strong-willed fold of the mouth-air intake in the front bumper. In the adult way, sharply defined, geometrically correct forms of the body. Fiesta? At first glance, you cannot say. Instead of explosive Latin plastics, an undisguised demonstration of the All -Exposivity of the Ford style is a new line. Brother Focus also made the younger sister accept his own rules of the game, different from those practiced in the sandbox of the mini-class mini.
Three-door more lives, but she also does not pull to name the plush and make her a goat-led. The interior of the machine gives rise to a feeling of deliberately vaccinated frivolity. Well, where, from where on this strict front panel of hard plastic such funny nozzles are such a multicular deflectors! Or the playful nature of the baby is no, no, and will it come?
Well, let's look at the car from the other side. For example, price. FIEST-1,3 in the basic configuration costs 11,450 euros, but more than 15,170, which is completed with additional equipment. It is quite adult money, which costs the model a rank higher. Is it only considered a sentence to the Ford Hatchback? Of the models of golf class, only a few can be purchased for such an amount with side airbags. But even without them, a 4-star rating earned in the crash tests of the Euroncap fiesta. One thought warms about it.
Nevertheless, Fordic gives more warm tangible. Stove beast! Pillows of the front chairs with heated. And why the windshield in a small, barely noticeable net? And here is an electric heap! By the way in our climate. In the warm season, the air conditioner will take care of the coolness in the cabin. True, in the standard it is laid only the top version of the GIA, which, due to its high cost, dealers are almost not ordered. Therefore, a comfortable microclimate in the cabin will cost an additional 960 euros. What the buyer acquires right away is a spacious, light salon. The fiesta of those few models of class B, in which four adults are not crowded. That's just whether everyone will fit the short seats? On the contrary, the design of the sofa split back is well thought out. The headrests drowned in it do not limit visibility. It was necessary to fold the sofa to transport a voluminous cargo, the headrests remain in their places. But more often the kids are not embedded under the tie, but according to the nominal volume of the trunk (284 liters of the 5-door version) of the fiesta one of the best in the class. Plus a wide neckline of the rear door, small loading height, flat area. Is it possible to desire more from the trunk of the Minikyetchbek? You can, Fords counted and simplified access to the luggage to the limit. No need to grind the castle larva with a key on a dark parking lot, just press the button on the front panel. Close the back door without dirty, a comfortable handle from its inside will help. Another reason for joy is a full -size reserve in dryness and warmth in a niche under the false lamp.
But, you see, the car was born to drive. Once my driving instructor loved to repeat the saying: moving from a place, gas should be felt by ear, grip to the touch. It may not be too round in shape, but correct in essence. That's just the fiesta allows you to follow this covenant only half. At low speeds and when the stove is turned on, the engine is pretended to be silent. This is later, when the tachometer arrow will pass for 4500 rpm, the sound of the engine will appear against the background of the rumble of studded tires of Gislavwera-Nord-Frost-3. What is vibrations at idle, the Ford Four is unknown. Yes, and in the absence of temperament you will not blame it. It would seem that a power of 70 hp. The imagination is not amazing, and even the lower gears are stretched for the sake of economy, but good acceptance remains at the fiesta, and it uses it, abruptly leaving the traffic light and without any problems, rebuilding from a row in a row in the hustle of Moscow streets. Only on lifts and when overtaking on the highway, short traction breathing makes itself felt. To stimulate it, you can not do without switching to transmission, or even two down. And if on some models of competitors this procedure is not without roughness, then on Fordic it delivers true pleasure. The lever of the checkpoint climbing on an impressive foundation seems to be the desired gear itself (and the shortest way). The clutch is also debugged perfectly. It is only a pity that very little space was left between the left pedal and the wall of the body, apparently, in the calculation of the ladies' leg. But whose foot may press on the accelerator pedal, FIEST-1,3 will perceive it with ease, without suddenly breaking into rampant gluttony.
The hood of the hood from the driver’s place cannot be seen, and this sometimes stops from trying to squeeze into the opened gap between the machines. Maybe for the better, but the outer mirror mirrors that seemed at first in fact provide a good viewing field. In the management of the Ford toy is simple, understandable and interesting. It is strongly impossible to make a mistake in choosing the intensity of braking. ABS is not from the category of panickers, it only triggers on the verge of wheels lock. And the effectiveness of the extinguishing speed of the mechanisms is good. Somehow he caught himself thinking that the fiesta stopped for a suddenly braked car faster than the experience prompted. And with what readily Fordic reacts to the turn of the steering wheel! And at the same time, on the track, the steering wheel clearly fixes zero, riding the driver from tedious steering. The tenacious, with which the fiesta at high speed holds the road canvas is worthy of a separate praise, because the car base is less than 2.5 m! So do not record it in clean citizens.
There are several more reasons to pay tribute to the chassis to the chassis. Yes, the tight suspension of the fiesta is not one of those that conceal defects in the road surface, but it has a decent energy intensity. In addition, it is not faded, especially for those who are bored with models running from the very concept of a controlled skid. Come on, let's release the accelerator at the entrance to the turn and send the rear axle in sliding along the elegant arc. Now we grab it with gas. This is really a fiesta! A small car with adult habits. One trouble and his price is by no means a child.
Two adults will be placed behind without problems
Indications of large speedometer and tachometer are easily read
You can open the trunk by pressing the button on the front panel
The sofa has a pillow and back
The gas tank hatch is locked with a key
Two bodies, three engines, four performances
3- and 5-door versions of the fiesta are delivered to Russia. Three-doors are equipped with a 1.3-liter 8-valve-capacity of 70 hp. and 80-horsepower 16-valve engine with a working volume of 1.4 liters. In addition to these engines, a 1.6-liter four with a capacity of 100 hp is laid for the five-door modification. The price of a fiesta in the most affordable configuration of the ambient starts from a mark of 11,450 euros. Having richer basic equipment of the version of comfort and trends are offered for 12,100 and 13,200 euros, respectively. At the top of the pyramid, the GIA modification with an initial price of 15,600 euros.
Ford Fiesta 1.3
Length x width x height, mm
3917x1683x1432
Trunk volume, l
284/950
Radius of turning, m
4.9
Speed, km/h
160
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with
15.8
Fuel consumption, l/100 km city/highway
8.4/5.0
Engine
Working volume, SMZ
1299
Power, L.S. at rpm
70/5000
Torque, kgsm at rpm
10.8/2600
Price, euro
15 170 (equipment: ABS,
4 airbags,
fog lights,
air conditioning, heating
frontal and rear glasses)
Mikhail Kozlov, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine "Limousine" [01/04]