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Test Barguzin, Hope
 
VAZ 2120.
Hope
1.8 l, 89 hp, mechanical
5-speed gearbox, $ 8700 (244,000 rubles).
GAZ 2217-404.
Barguzin
2.5 l, 140 hp, mechanical
5-speed gearbox, $ 10,900 (305,000 rubles).
More than five years ago, the VAZ 2120 and GAZ 2217 (named, respectively, hope and Barguzin) have already met face to face (SM, 1999, No. 10). Then the Nizhny Novgorod minibus was prescribed on the conveyor, and Togliatti mini-Wenany had just begun to collect in the workshops of the industrial production of Vase. Since then, the cars matured their faces changed, new motors appeared, the list of modifications was replenished. In addition, other buyers came, looking for a multi-mone car for family trips and business trips, which falls under the category V.
Third-party observers
Plastic surgery had a beneficial effect on cars. New headlights visited the appearance of the Nizhny Novgorod car and the Togattinskaya was completely saved. And they shine better (this is especially noticeable in hope). That's just worth modern optics are much more expensive than the same.
Body of both are assembled. With side doors, they suffered in hope, they are in open state, and in the Nizhny Novgorod minibus, on the contrary, they are badly slammed. You were lucky, the driver said, kicked Barguzin from the car dealership. Many cars do not cry at all. Hood, add, too.
Ay, Barguzin, as not ashamed, not the first year on the conveyor! As soon as washing machines began to clothe the body, the water was fitted into the salon through the treated hatch and the windows. Hope the test moved dlyowfully, except for the faded headlights.
Luggage compartments in both are rather modest. In Barguzin, a 15-inch spare wheel eats a useful volume. Nearby the suitcase or a couple of small bags the rest will have to be dragged into the salon. In the hope of places less than in the baby Oke. True, the seats are detached here, turning the passenger car into the cargo-passenger. Having done this operation only once, I sincerely sympathized with the future owner. Clamps are seated, and even lift three seats at the same time the task is not easy.
The luggage compartment of Hope and Barguzin closes the door with the gas stops to raise an impressive sash can even the elegant young lady. Such a design for these cars is perhaps more convenient than swing doors on a picnic, the covered roof will take place from the weather or the scorching sun. The main thing in time to change the stops.
Seven across the vowels
On Barguzine pulls to go on a long journey or, in the extreme, to go beyond the city with a warm company. Hopefully it is better to download already arriving (reading, uncomplicable people) and bring them for short distances. Do not agree? I ask to the salons!
Safding behind the steering wheel of Barguzin, remember his relatives to the leg beyond high, sit in a bus, look back in large freight mirrors. However, a person with sufficient passenger experience serious inconvenience will not experience. But he will be definitely easier for him to manage hope for character closer to the car. First of all, it is easier to navigate in a dense urban stream and parking on close parking. Although the mirrors are clearly small for such a car, they are difficult to adjust from the salon (the lever rests on the trim), and the right partially overlaps the door frame.
The overall disadvantage of an uncomfortable pedal node. In the hope of clutch can be squeezed only with a sock, and in the barguing there is no floor for the left leg. In advantage, we write the adjustment of the steering columns of the truth, the range is small.
The quality of the assembly and interior design of GAZ 2217 is headed above hope. It is quite modern, neatly assembled, two-color dashboard of the bus against the morally obsolete, tasteless, overwhelmed Torpedo Mini Wen. On Barguzin, as on all modern models, heating and ventilation, control the three croutons. In the hope of archaic sliders; It is impossible to sort out how to direct the air on the glass or to your feet, without the instruction is impossible.
To Barguzin bibes, you need to pull the steering wheel switch unusual! In the Salon of Barguzin, I counted six loudspeakers. The future owner will save on audio preparation, spending only a radio tape recorder.
Behind five chairs with armrests located against each other, the sixth passenger sits next to the driver. In the middle, a comfortable folding table with cup holders, offices for automobiles and individual lighting. On the ceiling, four bright lamps with fluorescent lamps, in the legs an extra heater, on the windows of the curtain ... Only Gerani is missing! When outside the window -10C, inside calmly sit without outerwear, although the stove works randomly. But it is worth drowning the motor, how heat instantly disappears through bad seals.
In the second and third rows of hope, too, five, but they will not go so comfortable. Two rear armchairs, rather children. And behind the front seats the place is not so much, but the extreme passengers with increasing under 180 cm pinch the ceiling. Two weak light bulbs do not interfere with dorm, however, if the window is not very cold, an extra stove is not so hot, like in a barguing. However, in the summer, in the hope of too, it is also unlaced to omit only the front glass.
Road notes
Despite the overall roots with one and a half, in the behavior of Barguzin, passenger savings, for example, small rolls in turns are accepted. It is quite a comfortable and energy-intensive front suspension, but the back might be softer: the feed is noticeably rearranged on the irregularities. Nadezhda in character closer to the car, however, before ideals manageability and comfort, it is far away. Still, the chassis of Niva, suitable not only for the highway, but also for off-road.
On the snow-covered and iced road, the rear wheels of Barguzin, even in innocuous situations, begin to buck. The position will correct the winter tires and passengers that fit the leading axis. But it still can not compete with all-wheel drive hopes on slippery coverage. True, there are also barguzines in the execution of 4x4 in the car dealerships. But these versions are more expensive, they are produced by very small batches.
Base at Barguzin by 60 mm is longer than hope, however, maneuvering on a minibus is easier to turn the radius of almost two meters less! The VAZ 2120 hydraulicer accurately understands the desires of the driver, GAZ 2217 is not so good. When parking, turn the ram is a pleasure, but moving in a straight line, constantly drive.
Machines accelerate almost equally well, maybe hope is a little more. But on the elasticity of the 2.5-liter engine ZMZ-4052 will give odds a VAZ-2130 Motor with a volume of 1.8 liters in Togliatti mini-Wen accounts for more often. The Nivov box is already with the first kilometers crunches when switching and suggests in unison to other transmission nodes. Barguzin behaves quieter; For the sake of justice, we note that the option is 4x4 we did not listen. The GAZ 2217 snakes a little rear axle, but the main violin plays the outlet system.
According to the results of the test, Barguzin eats fuel on average per liter more hope. If you seriously look after one of the cars, count other expenses the cost of maintenance and spare parts. Note that the hope is still a small-sector car, therefore some details (in particular, iron) in price and in short supply. And with the assembly and quality of components as lucky. On the test hope, for example, the gasoline sensor and the rear janitor did not work, the Barguzin needed tighten the fastening of the wiper brushes.
With equal capacity, cars differ significantly as intended. In search of comfort you stop the choice on a barguing. And another compensates with the close and uncomfortable lounge of hope, remembering her passability. Everyone has their own advantages and, alas, common drawbacks. In part, they explain their main plus: the most affordable new foreign car of this class is more expensive than hope and Barguzin, taken together.
Future owners
GAZ 2217 and VAZ 2120
Factory guarantee 30 thousand km or 1 year for Barguzin and 35 thousand km or 2 years for hope. The cost of Normochas for repair work in Moscow 300400 rubles for GAZ 2217, for the VAZ 2120 one and a half times higher. TO-1 (2 thousand km) in the capital is an average of 4,000 and 6,000 rubles, respectively, T-2 (10 thousand km) 3800 and 4000 rubles, T-3 (20 thousand km) 6000 rubles. Barguzin has another intermediate on 1 thousand km of 800 rubles.
Call by name
Domestic cars are distinguished, as a rule, by indexes. Even those who had a name, they still contemptuously called numerical, for example, six, eight. Our deuel exclusion from the rules. The sequences of letters and numbers appear only in the documents, in conversation sable with a low roof from the very birth began to call Barguzin, and all-wheel drive mini-Ven from Togliatti hope. Alas, these cute names on the machines themselves are not found.
SUMMARY
GAZ 2217 Barguzin A wonderful car for recreation ... If you are not the owner and not driving.
+ Good maneuverability, warm and comfortable salon, good dynamics, Euro II.
- fuzzy work of the power steering, a leakage body, increased noise of transmission.
SUMMARY
VAZ 2120 Hope a car for every day for a large family while children will not grow or well-being will not improve.
+ Good permeability, transformed salon, Euro II.
- Access to many nodes and aggregates, close and thundering salon, increased noise are difficult.
Maxim Sachkov
Cauthor: Photo: George Sadkov
 
 
 
 

 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"