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Ford Mondeo VS Opel Insignia: And there is little million

Kolesa.ru compared two well-equipped D-class sedan worth about 1,100,000 rubles, surprised by the dynamics of one and the useful space of the other. At the same time, we looked at competitors from other classes.

Opel Insignia in the Cosmo configuration with a 2.0 220-horsepower engine and a 6-speed automatic costs 1,162,300 rubles. Ford Mondeo (prerestyling) in the Titanium Black configuration with a 2.0-liter 203-horsepower engine and a 6-speed automatic transmission will cost a little cheaper than 1,071,500 rubles.

The settings of the machines are similar, in Opel there is a cruise control and a large color screen with the possibility of output of satellite navigation, while in the Mondeo display is not on the central console, but between the speedometer and the tachometer, and there is no control of the given speed in the list of standard equipment. But Ford is available to electroregulations of a driver's seat, and in Opel they are offered as an option.

The salons of Insignia and Mondeo are equally impressive, despite the fact that one car, in fact, is a relatively new model, and the other on the market for the third year. However, the space inside Opel is organized so that it seems that the car is enveloping the driver denser, but more comfortable, surrounding the necessary tools. Opel has a more chubby steering wheel with correct thickenings, and even flattened from below, as in sports cars.

Road clearance Ford: 130 mm
Road clearance Opel: 160 mm

As for the main tools of the radio and climate control, it is more difficult to make out the desired key in Opel and isolate it from the gray mass. In Mondeo, on the contrary, the climate control buttons and digits on the radio are made by silver plastic, and they are recognized on a black background is much easier. Another thing is, on the radio itself, some keys are made small, and the inscriptions on them are read more than once.

I was pleased that both cars had the buttons to control the audio system on the steering wheel. In Opel, a cruise control can also be controlled from the steering wheel, and an on-board computer has been controlled on the Mondeo steering wheel.

The engines of each of the sedans are much more powerful than the motorist who moves around the city and at times in Koltseva can wish. Two -liter turbo engines are rapidly taking away sedans forward, but Opel does this, demanding literally millimeter gas pressing. InSignia motor at 20 hp. Ford turbodel is more powerful, and in the sensations, the difference is 40-50 forces. However, in the updated range of Mondeo engines, a two -liter unit gives out not 200, but 240 hp! Therefore, horses hunters are advised not to make hasty conclusions

Acceleration to 100 km/h Ford: 7.9 from
Acceleration to 100 km/h Opel: 7.8 from

Mondeo in the version we have chosen had the opportunity to select the suspension mode: comfortable, normal and sports. Therefore, depending on the quality of the road surface and the degree of nervousness of the ride, the driver could choose what is more important to him: comfort, controllability or everything equally. Interesting toy! And the test InSignia did not have a Flexride system, which allows you to produce similar settings of the Opelian chassis. As a result, the taxiing of insignia left a double impression: on the one hand, 17-inch wheels with a low profile was harshly greeted by the joints of the asphalt and other smallest irregularities, on the other hand, it was impossible to name the shirts due to noticeable rolls that arose, as it seems, due to the increased move Suspensions of Russian cars have an increased road clearance.

Therefore, the potential owners of the Opel sedan recommend installing wheels with a higher profile and enjoy a more smooth move, or order cars with European road clearance, if possible. As for Mondeo, his handling left a more pleasant impression. You can only blame the excessive sensitivity to the ruts, in which Ford now and then strove to throw aside.

Opelian chairs liked a little more in particular thanks to the retractable knee support. And the lateral back support here is quite pronounced to keep drivers of various hellings. However, the Ford is not inferior in terms of landing comfort, and thanks to the electric regulations it also provides more convenient tuning of the seats.

Mondeo is much more welcoming met by the back row passengers. There are more places here than in Insignia for both knees and the head. In addition, Mondeo has a much more spacious glove compartment, and besides with cooling. It is a pity that now is not the time of the year to evaluate it.

A review of two cars opens approximately the same, but the side mirrors of Mondeo show a little more.

Ford trunk volume: 550 l
Opel trunk volume: 500 l

You can be sure that both top versions will not be the best in the grades sold in the line of brands, in many ways, thanks to the price of more than a million hundred thousand rubles per D-class sedan, this is too much for large-scale success. For this money, you can take not only almost any crossover in a good configuration, but also the sedans with a class above, like a 1.8-liter turbocharged Skoda Superb or Nissan Teana with Toyota Camry collected in Russia. True, the more modest dimensions of the D-class may be a trump card: someone can abandon additional cubic meters/kilograms that require increased energy consumption and an additional place in the parking lot.

As for the choice of two test cars, Ford Mondeo seems a little more attractive: it seemed a little better balanced in comfort and management and offers more space inside. Although the Opel accelerates noticeably better and holds the line a little better. Insignia The choice of an emotional person, while Mondeo will prefer pragmatists.

Cars were provided by the Russian representative office of Ford Motor Company and Laura-Ozerki, an official Opel dealer.


Author: Denis Kamenev
Photo: Roman Ostanin



 

A source: Wheel magazine [October 2010]