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E-class and D-class, atmospheric and two turbo travels, classical automatic transmission and a couple of two clutch robots, a Japanese car, created for America, and the German duo do their comparison of them? Oddly enough, this is the case when parallel direct still intersect.


Ford Mondeo.
In the English political culture, the term Mondeo-Man is popular, which means the middle class representative between the ages of 35 and 45, having a stable income, its own home and the inclined to vote for the conservatives so that all this is not losing. With reference to Russia, it is more correct to talk about Camry-Mane, and Ford is rather a choice of younger, because, no matter how cool, and Mondeo car is much more sporty and dynamic than Toyota. Muscular appearance, powerful turbo engine, electronically controlled suspension, excellent controllability is not found among familiar Mondeo owners, many have no thirty.

Indeed, handling is close to reference. On the steering wheel, it is such an effort that the rolls must be small, the car is eagerly screwed into the turn. But it is on a good road and in standard suspension mode. Our car was equipped with electronically controlled shock absorbers, which allow you to change the character of handling. In Comfort mode, there is a routine, and unpleasant blows are transmitted on sharp joints on the body. However, the routing is very small and does not interfere in urban speeds. More upset PowerShift. I do not know who traveled on this car before me, but the robot went crazy: it was impossible smoothly, the box was constantly jerking, I switched to a minimum increase in the fuel supply, I was uncomfortable. It is good that after a couple of days, Powershift came to himself and softened, but his character still remained closer to DSG VW than to the Toyota machine gun.

The main disappointment was the engine. First, he did not pull on the declared 200 liters. with. Even less powerful Toyota feel fastened. Secondly, the lack of thrust at the bottom was not compensated by pickup when the turbine is connected, like Passat. Thirdly, after a couple of days, the test after a few consecutive accelerations in the floor on the panel lit the inscription: engine malfunction. The cure has occurred after the engine turned off and re-launched, but I no longer risked sharply. So EcoBoost this time did not please me. It is possible that in a press park, the car was refueling with poor-quality fuels, which I went crazy the control electronics. Previously, the new generation turbo engines from Ford did not disappoint me.

Ergonomics at height. Buttons are not so much, and they are located successfully. The central armrest is although not regulated by departure, but is located so correctly that you do not regret it. The steering wheel of the optimal shape and thickness, the buttons are ideal, and the skin is pleasant to the touch. Is that ties are fat. Seats at first glance are good to everyone. In fact, they have a terrible profile: the chair asks for you, even if you remove the lumbar backup. I, oddly enough, was able to conveniently settle, but the rest complained about the non-microjitism. And what is the quality of the materials! Such plastic will be premium and premium brands, the skin of the same brand that on Jaguar / Land Rover cars, music with juicy bass will have to taste and fans of blues and rock fans. Feelings and really premium!

And now about obvious punzes. Unlike the Camry's rear passengers who feel real VIP-feathers, guests of the rear sofa Mondeo are more like a taxi customers: there are a lot of legs for the legs, but the elements of a beautiful life are only 12 volt sockets. But the landing from behind is not optimal too vertical, but not like in a lounge chair, there is enough place and legs, and head. Disappointing the trunk, which, despite the huge sizes, is inconvenient. The thing is that the sedan has too narrow opening the trunk. Any little little big box will not enter. Hatchback will help to leave the position, but the cars with such a body type in St. Petersburg are not produced, therefore it is more expensive than a similar sedan. From the smallest things you need to mark the handle on the driver's door, which makes it difficult to access the mirrors and power windows adjustment keys. Why you can not remove this handle from one door, as was done at VW Jetta, which won in our past dough is not clear. Well, the main disappointment personally for me was the impossibility of listening to music from my iPod. The most offensive thing that the car saw the player, read all the tags, saw all the playlists, began to lose the music, but the sound from the speakers did not harm! In the summer it was already with Fiesta, but in December, there were no such problems in December with Focus. Mystery!
 

But there is a voice control, which is also supplemented with tips on the central display. So it is not even necessary to teach these English phrases, you can simply read them. By the way, about displays. They are here two one on the center console, and the other between the speedometer and the tachometer. Moreover, each of them has its own menus and its own control unit of five buttons on the left and right steering knobs, respectively. Using the display on the tidy, you can control almost all the functions of the car, so that the screen on the console can be completely given to the passenger spock. It is a pity that the menu is somewhat confusing. For example, remember the radio station by pressing one button will not be able, you need to join the submenu. In Claus, the central display did not immediately come to his senses and the first time slowed down, without reacting to the touch of the fingers. And this is another argument in favor of active use of the dashboard.

Alexander Shiryaev, 53 years old

I have a Mondeo of the previous generation, and I have long look at the new Ford. I liked the engine alive, sufficiently quiet. Good noise insulation, pleasant LED interior lighting, beautiful windsor upholstery.

But the lumbar stop of the driver's chair is very uncomfortable for me: the impression is from some medieval torture. The second is unacceptable, even the outbound quality trunk. This is not a trunk, but a simulator for Lazagna in Plastanski. I did not like some kind of twig, which does not want to dimly move the car. And if we talk about a car worth 1.5 million rubles, then the little things become important. For example, the armrest, which by definition should be under the elbow, and not somewhere below

 
Toyota Camry.
Camry Star. She has a lot of strengths, but much more important is the unspecified reputation that no scandals are capable of shaking. Camry We have a symbol of reliability, quality and comfort. Camry in modern Russia plays the same role that the Volga once played in the USSR, the indicator of prosperity and wealth. Camry is a successfully developing small business, promotion by military or civil service.

If a German couple, like a dietary sick with Thomas Anders, is blinded from one test, then Camry has a different breed. She was created for huge American expanses, bad roads, large-sized people, for the country where the car is primarily comfort. Toyota is designed to live in it. Soft, almost homemade chair, steering wheel driving at the opening of the door, giant cup holders capable of accommodating even a liter container, a huge central boxing, in which it seems you can settle the medium-sized dog, cruise control Japanese were guided by the very other needs of completely other customers. And as sales show, the Russians are much closer to almost half a million Americans, annually choosing Camry with their new car than it seems.

The new generation machine was to multiply the success of the predecessors who became real symbols of the nasty middle class. And the Japanese did everything to keep old customers and attract new ones. What is the old Camry inferior to competitors? Let's go through items. Rear passengers received less services and comfort than in TEANA; The quality of the finishing materials did not follow any comparison with the Passat, and the rich and strong rolls did Toyota like rather more on the crossover than the European sedan. What we have now: the rear passengers have a music and climate control unit (it is now 3-zone), the tilt adjustment has become an electric, the front panel was trimmed, plastic became softer, and the suspension is tougher. Almost Lexus!

By the way, now Camry is ready to listen to teams in Russian! And I still praised the vocal management of Ford Germans there is someone to be equal. In general, Russification here is total: all menu levels, navigation prompts and, as already mentioned, voice control. The position of the queen of the market obliges!

But efforts on the steering wheel, as it was not. And it is impossible to say that the steering wheel is completely empty. No, there is some effort, but the steering is not happy with informativeness. Perhaps only in the okolonulous zone, the effort is adequately. But, as applies toyota, Camry has an enviable course stability. Whatever the ground covering, you can safely let the steering wheel, and the car will not even get drowned. I was pleasantly surprised by the thrust engine so much that I was at first I decided that under the hood V6. Subjectively, the car is perceived as more dynamically than more powerful Mondeo. Unfortunately, the brakes cannot support the dock mood of the motor. The pedal is soft, slowing down is not intensive enough, and it is not easy to control it. As a result, it is difficult to slow smoothly, the brake path turns out to be longer than you expect, and passengers are frightened. Another minus Toyota is insufficient smoothness. And it surprises! On gentle waves Camry sample for imitation, but on irregularities with sharp edges, the vibrations of unsuccessful masses are tangible, and a unpleasant trembling passes along the bottom. There was no such thing before, but comfort was always the main advantage of a big Toyota.
 

It is good that the Japanese sedan did not lose his advantages for which clients loved him. Soft front armchairs create home comfort, the smoothness machine will give a hundred points ahead to any robot, besides, in his reliability there is no doubt, and all sorts of pockets have become even more. Due to the fact that the back of the front seats is now soft, and under the chairs you can push legs, according to real comfort, the Japanese machine will not give up Mondeo, although nominally the distance from the backs to the knees is less. Let the trunk be less than the predecessor, but the opening of the trunk is large, and it is the right form. In addition, the whole missing volume went to the place for the drives of the change in the back of the rear sofa back, which is excellent.

Catherine Suetin, 23 years old, student

There are two generation camry in our family, so acquaintance with the new car was especially interesting. I am glad that the Japanese did not turn the Camry to the starship, as many do now. It is solid, and the front resembles Lexus. The interior has become less feminine, less home. Looks like a cabinet, and male. And the color of the tree is some kind of unnatural, it can be seen that it is unreal. Why do producers generally pushing this artificial tree? But the skin is not only soft, but also my favorite color. Little detail: seat belts are now the same beige color as the seat. I liked the steering wheel, which is easy to twist. In addition, he seemed less. The central box was lost to a comfortable shelf, but became longer and deeper. All because the mailbox immediately after the box was less thanmed. Sorry, I always scored him with something.

 
VW Passat.
In the appearance of the car from Wolfsburg there is neither Camry monumentality, nor the figures of Mondeo forms. Outside, Volkswagen reminded me of a wolf: a roast body, a harsh look of small eye headlights, chrome grilled grille grille harshly, restrained, very in German. Inside, Passat continues to delight lovers of the notorious Ordnung not one extra details, no frills, all in the case. But the brown skin and plastic color still gives creative nature in our hero. Or is it a desire for premium? If so, then it is unfortunately not supported by the quality of materials. Plastic is hard everywhere, even at the top of the panel, the edge of the visor over the dashboard is completely reinforced concrete, and the speakers on the console are strung.

But to ergonomics, as happens with all VW, the claim is minimal. Comfortable volophilixwage steering wheel, perfectly readable allophilixwage devices, reference driver's seat, optimal landing, large compartment for trifles in central tunnel, deep cupcakes, space and comfort from the back. Let those luxuries here, which are present at Camry, but Passat is the only trio in the trio equipped with curtains on the side and rear windows. And last also with the electric drive. Unfortunately, the threesome on this sofa do not ride the hefty central tunnel. What to do, this VW is all-wheel drive and even increased patency (about the version of the AllTrack in our nearest number). Despite the fact that climate control is only two-zone, the services of the rear passengers are individual ducts.

I did not like it in Passat Exactly the same as before in Polo Sedan, Golf and Jetta: Direct DSG grooves and a temperature controller too small. As on Jetta, upset the form of the armrest, from which the hand clenches. Surprised the location of the keys responsible for the ventilation of the seats. If the heating is turned on with buttons on the center console, then the ventilation on the end panel of the chair! It seems that the place for them developers were looking for at the last moment. Like on Jetta, on Passat I do not like the location of the engine start button next to the DSG lever. Personally, I'm inconvenient to stretch there. But to all this, you can get used to it, these are not some gradual miscalculations, and as if in the main ergonomics is ideal.

The trunk and large, and his form is correct, and the opening is sufficient for the loading of something volumetric. And in the corners mesh and gum. Lepota! It is a pity that the loading height is large, but it is already picky. And what Passat is an employee and funny option! Come to the closed car, spend your foot under the bumper and the trunk opens. But on our car it was not. According to CC experience, I can say that it works only when the car is closed, and if you have already unlocked the doors, then the trunk will have to open with your hands, even if they are busy. The lid of the trunk is also equipped with an electric drive.

Almost perfect and everything else. Rather, not even perfect, but balanced. And at Camry, and at Mondeo, it also appears some kind of imbalance in the steering / suspension settings and the engine / box, respectively. And Passat everything is logical and correct. The steering wheel is not as acute and poured with effort, like Mondeo, but in zero is empty, but in contrast to the Camry of informativeness does not interfere. You always know what is happening with the front wheels. A couple of TSI and DSG, as always, at the height, and the faster you are going, the more their talents are revealed. A two-liter turbo engine does not allow to doubt each of its 210 liters. with. Sometimes it seems that the heads in this herd even more declared. It is almost impossible to move without slipping in the winter. Even if the first meters of the wheel and will be tightly kept behind the asphalt, then when connecting the lavina, the thrust is certainly silent them in disorderly rotation. Moreover, Passat started to stop even on overtaking at a speed of 80 km / h. Still, because DSG instantly falls from the sixth transfer to the third, and even on the second, turns are taken away, and the face begins to drag in terms of the overaction of thrust. Oh, how I want to try it all on dry asphalt!


One problem: in traffic jams, you literally feel like a high-tech robot destroys itself. The clutch is dropped by the body of vibrations run, the turnover jump in the end, so that at least somehow facilitate the suffering of DSG, you have to let go in front of the running car and accelerate to speeds when the clutch is closed to slow down. Interestingly, PowerShift does not scare in traffic jams, he just pulls. And generally smoothly roll in the city with such a motor is impossible.

Good and suspension. And again, thanks to the balance sheet of qualities. She does not miss irregularities, as it often happens to Toyota and Ford if shock absorbers are clamped in Sport mode, but also does not roll like everything in the same Ford in comfort. At the same time, tangible rolls, naturally, no. In general, VW, as often happens, you can take a sample.

On the move Passat is even more like a wolf enjoyed. Fast, prompt, ashamed of him the only one who packed to striking. If I want to slowly roll in Camry, and in Mondeo, calm is replaced by explosions of activity in turns, then VW keeps all the time in a tone. I can not even imagine someone chose it to drive with the driver!

Kirill Bakurov, 25 years old, realtor

It all started with the fact that I was driving the Passat B6 of my comrade and fell in love! The car and I instantly became one whole. Therefore, I bought myself a passat, already B7. Ergonomics at height, everything is where you need. In addition to high-quality furnishings of the cabin, Passat pampers first-class handling.

The machine on the track shows itself just gorgeous, overtaking tale. If you attach yourself for some kind of priority, I want to go for double overtaking. Power allows! 850 km from Moscow to Saratov, where I live, overcome easily, back and legs after that are in adequate condition. Already drove 15,000 km and no complaints. During operation, I got used to DSG and I can not imagine how I rode the mechanics.

 
SUMMARY

So, points are calculated, and the winner was a draw! Passat and Camry shared victory. Moreover, VW showed himself well in the driving disciplines, and Toyota played its comfort and luxurious equipment. But the price of Camry ends where the passat only begins! But Mondeo lagged behind, and pretty much behind. There is an uncomfortable seat, the trunk, to which it is not to get, and the motor, which seemed to have not given all its power. But, choose a car for myself, I would choose Ford. He is the most youth, and his character can be changed with one press of the button!
 

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