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Test Drive Ford Mondeo VS Hyundai Sonata: I have a business plan

The updated sedan from Vsevolozhsk is trying to prove to his rival from Korea that the car of local assembly is easier to succeed in Russia. The Kolesa.Ru portal is facing the foreheads of two sedans, which will be in a business class, but do not quite comply with its requirements, suspensions are looking for defects in asphalt and thinks over the increase in the city limit of speed.

In the minds of many Hyundai motorists, the Korean brand, which has recently lived due to the reproduction of obsolete Japanese cars. In fact, the company is already ready to demonstrate his own glance and its development, and Hyundai's shy nothing to Sonata NEW looks fresh and even more interesting to Mondeo, positively estimated by the autosurrenalists of many countries of Europe and America. Smooth elegant lines, a surprisingly stylish side view (exactly Mercedes CLS), the relief of the wings and doors of the Korean will not leave anyone indifferent. The updated Mondeo looks great, and a few years ago he was a real explosion at all, but now Restyling Ford looks like dorestayling Mondeo, and differs only by LEDs in the rear lights and in daytime running lights. Ford is a little more rounded, and Sonata with sharp and slightly sharper faces. One way or another, if in the appearance to highlight any of the sedans, it will be Sonata.

From the inside Hyundai looks no worse than outside. Materials are slightly fed: hard plastic in the trim of doors and on the front panel is adjacent to a spectacular and smooth black piano, however, not everywhere the same smoothly polished. Ford uses softer polymers, and plastic makes the impression of better.

And in the salon Hyundai, we met a familiar to us on the latest models of the Volvo silhouette of a passenger, by pressing which you can adjust the direction of blowing climate control. Only, unlike a Swedish sample, in which the buttons are head, legs and a torso, it is possible to press on the Korean man only in the region of the chest, the other parts of the body are not buttons

On the front row in Ford are spacious; Korean is more closely surrounding the driver by side tools, and Mondeo, on the contrary, provides a kind of operational space. Places for the rear passengers abound and there, and there. But in Ford the ceiling is higher, but in Sonata a little more space in front of the knees. In the width of the rear sofa, Ford wins sure, do not forget the roulette with this morning, the numbers would have revealed parity. But a little curved sonata seating edges talk about the convenience of no more than for two passengers. Perhaps Mondeo will be able to more comfortably place three.


Motors of both sedans have a button. A good start. But, despite the fact that under the hood Sonata was a top motor (2.4 l 178 hp), and Mondeo has the second power engine (2.0 l 200 hp), the advantage in the dynamics of Ford is indisputable. Mad turbosets tease and provoke even a calm driver; I can not even imagine how to drive on such a car in Europe, where 50 km / h is allowed, a slightly more serious penalty.

Under the right foot of the driver Mondeo 2.0 EcoBoost, there is a powerful potential that allows you to perform sharp and powerful shots between the intersections, break the sluggish stream of central streets and put the rejuvenations of moving between the north and south along the ring but the powerful motor would be easier to keep in the cord, if it were not for sleeping Chassis and rapid switches of the new Ford Six-speed PowerShift automaton with two clutches. On a flat, unwanted road (if you are lucky to meet this), Ford is going so smoothly that the driver can already find out on the speedometer only on the radar presented to him. The suspension perfectly copes with irregularities at speeds from 70 km / h, but in the urban cycle, quite painfully reacts to the little things like asphalt butts and shallow pits.

Hyundai is good at urban speeds. The machine switches smoothly, the motor works quietly, the shock absorbers cope with cracks and potholes, and only studded wheels are buzzing, disturbing silence in the cabin. It is worth accelerating how neither where neither undertake to emerge asphalt defects on which the sedan jumps noticeably. The car does not give a hint of readiness to accelerate at any second. The reaction to the gas pedal is somewhat lubricated; Compared to Mondeo, (having a direct fuel injection system), so it seems that there is a whole eternity between pressing gas in Sonata and acceleration. The Sonata Steering wheel is transferred to a minimum of information about the position of the front wheels and speed. However, there is no shortage in the steering sharpness; Led Sonata, though not so fun, like Mondeo, but still comfortable and easy.

Sonata and Mondeo Different cars not only at a price, dynamic characteristics, stories, but also by philosophy, a rare buyer, having understood with the advantages of each of the cars, will perceive the sedans as an alternative to each other. Hyundai is designed for those buyers who believe that already

Doros to business class cars, but still thinks how much he will have to pay when buying a car, and then, for the service, then Mondeo taxes are multifaceted, like engines that are equipped with it. With a motor 1.6 and not a particularly rich equipment, it may be an alternative to a different golf class sedan, and with 200-strong EcoBoost is able to become a fellow person of a person demanding and sophisticated. Hyundai can be used as a business card: I have a business class car, good taste for stylish things and I'm not afraid to try a new one. By Mondeo it is difficult to draw conclusions about its owner, except for one: he sits behind the wheel of the car himself.

Prices
Test cars are presented in almost the most complete versions; If Sonata Prestige for 1 208 900 is really the best thing that can offer Hyundai in this class, then for Ford Mondeo Titanium for 1,090,500 rubles there is a list of additional options almost half a million.

The basic Mondeo Ambiente with a 1.6-liter motor costs 699,000 rubles, and with a 2.0-liter 203-strong ECOBOOST and automatic (as on our test) costs from 1,077,500 rubles without discounting (at the moment there are discounts up to 120,000 on Mondeo. rubles).

The starting price of Hyundai Sonata 899 900 rubles with a 2.0-liter 150-strong motor and 6-speed mechanics. A car with a 2.4-liter motor and a 6-speed automatic transmission costs from 1 158 900 rubles.


The volume of the trunk, l
Hyundai Sonata 523.
Ford Mondeo Sedan 550

Clearance, mm.
Hyundai Sonata * 140
Ford Mondeo 150.
* Road clearance of all Hyundai Sonata packages, except Prestige 150 mm.

Acceleration up to 100 km / h, with
Hyundai Sonata 2.4 L, 178 hp 9.5.
Ford Mondeo 2.0 l, 200 hp 7.9.
 

Cars are provided to the test network of the Dealer Centers Alarm Motors Ford, the official Ford dealer and the Auto Center of East-Auto North, the official Hyundai dealer.

Posted by: Alexander Korchenko
Photo: Roman Stunnin





 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [February 2011]