Test Drive Ford Galaxy since 2006 Minivan

Move Your People.

Having sharpened the public to the youth-kinetic S-MAX, the Lord from the European division Ford finally decided on the niche orientation of their flagship. Lifting the intermediate position more active in his ideology younger brother, Galaxy became a clean piplmouver, that is, the first class bus.
But in appearance and you will not say. No, Galaxy is at least sympathetic. But for the car approaching the ideology of the same name Transit, VW Multivan or, God forbid, Mercedes-Benz Vito, it is not sufficiently strict. In his appearance, too much frivolous IOSIS, which corporate status categorically not acceptable. In addition, it is difficult to imagine a manager in a suit for a half-two thousand euro, which is on the folding chair of the third row, so, as they say, Cesar Cesarean. But for not abusing a different kind of contraceptives of the family pair Galaxy just right.
In a full-fledged salon, all passengers are offered separate chairs. Each of them, by the way, is easily brought into line with personal anatomical features. The front passengers are in force initially great opportunities to do this, of course, easier, but the rest here do not feel deprived of themselves. What is characteristic, the spaces for the legs are enough on the gallery. By the way, on the site of the filling of the internal space model Martin Bulhofa, your humble servant would leave the third row untransformed in the tail of the Ford Place, and for a couple of full seats, however, the Fords preferred to keep the traditional layout. On the other hand, the comfort of the loss of functionality in this case should not be compensated for.
The inner world of Galaxy is wide, and so much that the space behind the backs of the front seats should be measured by non-generally accepted liters, but cubic meters, there are no small 2.5 units there, or speaking in a simple, half of the railway container. The second and third row are transformed into a freight area of \u200b\u200b2x1.15 meters.
Surprisingly, the designers themselves on the recognition of the heavy-time abilities of Galaxy do not insist, modestly mentioned about the nominal 308 liters remaining behind the gallery. But what they say with pride is about three dozen additional tanks that give another 110 liters of additional volume. It is clear that the strongest players are still the door pockets, a glove box and boxing in the armrest. But at the same time, optional niches, located under the legs of passengers of the second row, and (long in our case) 20-liter ceiling console consisting of five rounded offices, in which not only sunglasses will easily be easily located, but also a few omnipresent magazines.
In principle, Fordsoms have something else to boast. This is a damping by damping active suspension, and a helping system for moving uphill, and adaptive cruise control with the function of preventing and weakening impact ... But the most ridiculous that potential buyers of such machines such technical details are usually worried about the least. Little is not the only position capable of really attracting the engine. A Russified car can be equipped with one of the four engines (two gasoline and two turbo diesel engines), but by and large, nothing new to the buyer will not offer here. The exception, perhaps, can only be a relatively fresh 2.3-liter gasoline unit.
This 161-strong motor is distinguished by a decent return, but lovers will need to disappoint: on Galaxy, this engine can be aggregated only with a new sequential 6-speed automaton.
However, the resulting tandem is also lucky very well. Acceleration is smooth and confident, like a trolleybus, pushes are almost invisible. But at the same time, sequential and sports modes here are more decorative functions of special changes in the behavior of the car Your correspondent did not notice. Dustly, there are also brakes, and suspension. In the latter case, it is worth noting that the car is primarily comfortable, but at the same time, it does not reach strong rolls. But the steering wheel did not like. More precisely, I did not like the reversal radius is Velik. Although, on the other hand, the 5-meter piplmouver is not compact hatchback and will never have other tasks.
Vladimir Lodkov
Author photo: Yang Segal
 

A source: Mkmobile Magazine [February / 2008]