Test drive GAZ 31105 2004-2008 sedan

Family: "Volga." A lot for a little

Recently, the media said: the Gorky Automobile Plant turns the production of cars. When the passions were subsided, it turned out that the Nizhny Novgorod enterprise would really no longer develop new Volga. But the current models, while there is demand for them, no one is going to shoot from the conveyor.
 
Three of the senior class
The cheapest and most popular among the Volga is GAZ 31105. A couple of years ago the appearance of a car, which was based on twenty -four, starting three and a half decades ago, once again updated. Despite the familiar outlines of the body, one hundred and fifth does not look completely obsolete thank you to the new body panels, expensive fragile bums, painted in the color of the body, and newfangled headlights.
Another GAZ 3102 sedan leaves the conveyor, who lived for almost a quarter of a century and not undergoing outwardly serious changes. This Volga is released with modest batches, it is more expensive than its relative, although it looks more archaic. Nevertheless, its buyer has its own, more prosperous and less impractical to him is primarily important to a strict nomenclature appearance. True, during body repair, zero second does not climb into the owner’s pocket as a more democratic relative, iron is almost the same, but the bumpers and lighting technology of one hundred and fifth are incomparably more expensive.
The GAZ 310221 station wagon on the basis of the Volga will not be found for every dealer they are brought to order. The barn distinguishes not only food from the sedan, but also the front of the previous GAZ 3110 model; However, at the request of the client, the dealer will order a station wagon with a new person from GAZ 31105. The price is contractual. A comfortable salon ends behind the front seats instead of a convenient rear sofa in the station wagon, hard folding chairs. Of course, you can get there, but without chic. Apparently, the main task of GAZ 310221 to carry cargo. But if you will need, the station wagon will take on board seven. True, places in the third row are only suitable for children or subtile passengers.
DRIVING FORCE
The main motor, which today is installed on all the waves of the 2.3-liter ZMZ-4062 with fuel injection and microprocessor ignition. Despite the imminent restrictions on ecology, cars from the lower are in no hurry to try on neutralizers. Although many gazelles and sables with the ZMZ-4052 motor of 2.5 liters are already exhaling Euro II.
GAZ 31105 -600 with the GAZ -560 diesel engine will be brought to order (in first life it is Austrian Steir). The Volga with such a motor is more expensive than a gasoline version of an average of 75 thousand rubles. Despite the modest diesel appetite (8.5 l/100 km against gasoline 13 l/100 km), it is possible to repel this difference at the current prices of ninety -second and diesel fuel can only be with a very considerable mileage of 100 thousand km. True, in operation, Steir as a whole shows himself more reliable ZMZ-4062 this is confirmed by repairmen and our tests (ZR, 2002, No. 1).
More recently, GAZ 31105 with a 152-horsepower Crysler engine appeared on sale. Oddly enough, such a Volga costs about 240 thousand rubles, only 25 thousand more than with the Zavolzhsky engine. To a hundred GAZ 31105 -501 accelerates for about 11.2 s, and the maximum speed almost reaches 180 km/h. Future owners should know that the imported engine pulled other original details, for example, a other form, a clutch crankcase, exhaust system (for more details see ZR, 2005, No. 9).
Options are possible
More recently, the Volga confused in numerous modifications. Now the dealers have less cars, the number of configurations has also been reduced. At the time of preparation of the material, the cheapest (except for the performance of a taxi) were GAZ 31105 with a central lock, closing all the doors and even a trunk, four electric windows, electric grinders with heating such cars cost an average of 220 thousand rubles in February.
The same set of devices in the simple configuration of GAZ 3102, for which they ask for 260 thousand rubles or more. Only its central castle is not closed by the trunk modernization did not affect the larvae and the locking mechanism. From the past came the telescopic antenna of GAZ 31105 resembles only a plug on the wing. But the speakers according to a long tradition are installed on all the waves.
Of the options more than the modification GAZ 31105 and 3102 with air conditioning. Such cars cost 1820 thousand rubles more (by the way, installing the air conditioner at the dealer will cost one and a half more expensive). The next level of the Volga on cast discs, also raising the cost of 1012 thousand rubles.
The buyer of the station wagon GAZ 310221, which is offered for 230 thousand rubles, there is nothing to choose from the equipment, moreover, ascetic. Of the useful options, only the power steering. However, almost any of your desires regarding additional equipment will be able to satisfy the dealer. True, his services are more expensive than factory.
Recently, the demand for the services of tuning studio at the Volgars is probably falling that rich fans have already been cooked, and money officials prefer foreign cars. But still, tuning sedans occasionally appear in car dealerships, scaring prices. In addition to alarm (in the capital of 4 thousand rubles), anti -corrosion processing (from 3 thousand), they offer, for example, additional sound insulation (2030 thousand), a tattered salon (920 thousand depending on the materials and volume of work), application) Under the tree on the instrument panel or doors upholstery (5 thousand), a hatch with a mechanical (6 thousand) and electric (12 thousand rubles) drive. Sometimes brains are reconfigured to the motor, and the most expensive surgery of heart transplantation. For example, the Toyota engine with a proprietary gearbox along with work increases the price of the new Volga three times.
UPSTREAM
In recent years, the Volga added in reliability. Faults happen, but more often not very serious (like most domestic machines), which can wait to the future. The once ordinary replacements under the guarantee of rear bridges or gearboxes ceased. And the new nodes and aggregates that appeared on the Volga in the past few years almost ceased to be capricious.
When was the last time you got behind the wheel of the Volga? If more than ten years have passed since then, it is worth refreshing the memories of modernization have gone to her. For example, all the Volga not so long ago received a nursery front suspension, which does not need to be syringed, and therefore the owners call for maintenance twice as less. In addition, the stabilizer appeared on the rear axle and its more powerful colleague on the front forced the car more confidently to stand on the road (ZR, 2003, No. 6).
The hydraulic wrap helped reduce the force on the steering wheel and the number of revolutions, and an economical fifth gear was added to the box. Of course, against the background of modern foreign cars, these modernization seem to be funny, it is very much that the Volga lags behind classmates.
True, you involuntarily smile again, comparing prices with the closest competitors, the Nizhny Novgorod barge leads in its class with an enviable margin. A lot of car for a relatively small amount. A good argument to go by car on a big swimming car.

With the Volga in Life
The factory warranty is 50 thousand km (for the station wagon 30 thousand km) or 1 year, depending on what will come earlier; For the Volga with the Chrysler engine, this period is increased to 100 thousand km and 2 years. TO-1 (1 thousand km) without supplies in the capital will cost an average of 550 rubles; TO-2 (2.5 thousand km) 4200 rub., TO-3 (10 thousand km) 3100 rubles, TO-4 (20 thousand km) 6000 rubles, TO-5 (30 thousand km) 3100 rub.
 




 
  

Source: The magazine "Driving"