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Honda Civic against Chevrolet Cruze. Grandfather and Salag

Today we decided to make a deviation from the tests of machines exclusively from the country of the rising sun and compare a bright example of a Japanese automotive industry in a golf class and a hot new product from Chevrolet. The latter excites the consciousness of the public very tasty with the starting price for its class. Yes, yes, we are talking about Cruze a new and very promising car of the now worldwide brand. Well, since she is so promising, then a strict examiner with a long pedigree will be just right here!
Unfortunately, the cars did not approach the test on equal terms. If Honda is offered with us exclusively with a 1.8 liter engine with a capacity of 140 horses, then Cruze can be ordered with a 1.6 (113 hp engine) and 1.8 (141 hp).
The test chevrolet, of course, marks in the target audience, for which the price tag, indicated in a wide advertising company from 540,000 rubles, is important. And for that kind of money you can’t buy a car with a powerful engine. Therefore, Cruise is glued with advertising stickers under the hood of only more than one and a half liters of working volume. The machine on the test was in the average LS configuration with a 6-speed automatic, it is estimated at about 649,200 rubles.
Such an average Cruise is opposed not only to the restyled, but also the top Civic. The Executive version is more than 125,000 rubles more expensive than the opponent. But in fairness it is worth noting that the most-most Cruze has decently moved away from the people, or rather, from a magical mark of 540,000 rubles: a version with a 1.8 liter engine and a machine in the LT configuration costs 748,000 rubles. We will make appropriate discounts when evaluating the dynamic qualities of weak Cruise.
It is difficult to evaluate the appearance, because each individual’s preferences are subjective, but not to speak out in this regard in the framework of a comparative test would be wrong. Cruise has competently solved the front part: headlights flowing on the wings, a powerful grill of a false radiator lattice, accented arches of aggressive style! The sidewalls support the initiation of the front, flying up to the except lines, but the rear part turned out to be much calmer: here large lanterns with circles inside, like that of a dorestylovic tsivik. If the muzzle is purely European, then the back is given to Korean. Such a worldwide design.
Honda Mark with long-standing sports traditions, here is the golf sedan unambiguously preaches a sporting mood, albeit to a lesser extent than a hatchback. It is not worth describing a familiar appearance once again. It should be noted only that the aesthetics here, unlike the prefabricated Chevrolet, is purely Japanese. The silhouette with a short hood is lean and quite dynamic. The headlights look with an evil samurai squint. It can be seen that this car will not give up without a fight. Changes after restyling are cosmetic in nature, and the most noticeable of them is the rejection of round sections in the rear lights.
Inside, the rivals also differ significantly. The Civic in terms of interior has long established itself as a cosmic car. Bold strokes of the front panel and did not dream of a calm interior of Cruise. Honda has more panel, and the slope of the windshield is stronger. Yes, and the landing is deeper, more sporty. The finishing materials are not bad, but they are not able to call wow. It was surprised that a small area of \u200b\u200bsoft plastic is not from the passenger side (as, for example, this is done in Mazda), but opposite the driver closer to the glass. I wonder who will reach there to touch him?
The small three -spoke steering wheel looks very appetizing, the leg itself finds a convenient floor accelerator, and the hand reaches for a small neat gearbox selector. Immediately notice small petals of controlling the box on the steering wheel. This is the prerogative of the most expensive version. After turning the key, the bright blue lighting of the devices flashes, and inaudibly comes to life somewhere in the bowels of the engineering space of the motor.
Comfortable velor chairs quite tenaciously hold the body with a surface, and lateral support here (unlike the opponent) is not an empty phrase. Turning the automatic transmission selector to the Drive position, you can easily miss and turn on the sports regime, which does not contradict the spirit of this machine at all.
When you sit down in the chubby Cruze chair and look around the front panel, which was brewing to the sides, the sports mood, born behind the wheel of the Tsivik, quickly replaces with a calm-delicious one. And even spectacular devices in the wells under the visor are not able to level this effect.
The design of the salon here is close to the classic. An interesting detail of the panels of the panels with a cloth that plays unison with the upholstery of the seats. This creates additional comfort, and, apparently, allows the creators of the machine to save on expensive soft plastic. But, even despite the fact that the plastic here is solid everywhere, its surface is pleasant to the touch, vinyl. The assembly quality of the cabin is good, but in the nuances (such as fitting parts, etc.) the advantage of Honda. The Japanese cannot afford the central tunnel playing from pressing.
The Cruise console is neatly and aesthetically embedded in the control keys for service functions (in general, Opel Insignia personally reminded me of the design of this part). The general view of the salon of this machine, which is positioned as a budgetary, cannot be called budget at all. It is modern and stylish. True, small digitization of devices makes you strain your eyes. But unlike the catchy flowers of Civic, the backlight is much more balanced here.
When these classmates are nearby, it is noticeable that Cruze is larger. This is confirmed by overall dimensions. Chevrolet is 52 mm longer, 33 wider and 44 above his competitor. But here is a paradox: the wheel is not more close at the wheel of Civic. I was even more surprised when one and another car sat down in turn. And if in Tsivik I only slightly touched the back of the front seat knees, then Chevrolet surprised the knees unpleasantly rested, and I propped up the ceiling (height 188 cm). The fact is that the roof of Cruise rolls closer to the back, and the entire gain in height falls on the front of the cabin.
And I categorically now had nowhere to attach my feet closely! As far as you will not rejoice in the flat floor in the back row of Honda. Yes, Japanese components completed their task more successfully. By the way, the supply of space in Tsivik is also due to the fact that its wheelbase is 15 mm more with smaller dimensions.
To finally deal with layout comparisons, let's look at the trunk. According to the lusting in front of the Chevi, it was a compartment more by 61 liters. But the lower civilian offers a lower loading height, and Honda has more opening. You can fold the backs of the seats of the second row here and here, but it is done in different ways. In the Chevrolet standard: the buttons are located in the end of the back. Honda engineers brought control over the levers in the trunk. It, of course, is convenient. There is no need to climb anywhere, but here's the bad luck: in order for the back to fall, it must be pushed. How? Most likely to shove a long -meter.
The obvious disadvantage of Honda (and very strange) is the lack of a trunk opening button on its lid here must either be wielded with a key or climbing into the salon.
On the move, the cars differ in much the same way as their salons. Honda is expressiveness, insolence, pressure, and Chevrolet (with such a motor and checkpoint) is a means for transporting passengers, or in common vegetable.
Machines differ significantly in each parameter. Here, for example, is a suspension. At Civic, she is elastic, collected. The car is slightly rolled, and very clearly goes behind the movements of the sharp steering wheel. Even on winter tires with spikes, it is controlled gambling and interesting.
It is especially worth praising a sensitive floor accelerator and a filigree steering electric power steering. In everyday operation, this turns into the minuses the suspension clearly conveys the nuances of the road surface, and where you can go on a chevrolet without looking at the road, you have to be careful at the wheel of Honda. Well, sports requires certain sacrifices.
Cruz of another field of berry. This car does not imply races, its main task is to make moving comfortable. His suspension is significantly softer than that of the opponent. Especially with regard to the filtering of small irregularities. A longer steering wheel also means less clear reactions, and the emphasis on comfort turns into tangible rolls in corners.
However, all this does not mean that quickly driving Cruise is contraindicated. It’s just that the sensations are not the same in Civic. The steering wheel, although not sharp, but quite informative, the straight car holds confidently, does not get down from the course. And a slightly large mass, of course, affects the smoothness of the course.
 
Honda accelerates confidently. The motor here is quite civilian, but the Honda genes are definitely felt in it. The combat character is revealed in the zone of high revolutions, and the machine cheerfully accelerates. A five -speed machine helps the motor well. Switching and fast switching, the box of thinking of the box deserves praise to the response to the kik-Down timely and well-predicted. Well, the Sport mode adds pepper.
The accelerated dynamics of a 1.6-liter chevrolet, even if with a six-speed automatic, it will not be possible to say good. The accelerator drive is much dumber here, the motor is sluggish and begins to more or less normally carry the car only after the arrow steps over the line of 3,500 rpm. But even a pickup is difficult to call this process. The machine is not bad, but the civilian is inferior to the unit, even despite the extra step. It is slower, but, however, a little smoother. The latter, by the way, for many people is much more important than the speed of switching.
So it turns out at the exit that these cars are on different sides of the barricades, their target audience is far from the same. Honda is more individual and sports. Chevrolet is more comfortable and calmer. Both points of view on the driving process have the right to life, therefore, such machines are created.
As for the subjective opinion of the author of this article, I vote in this comparative test for Honda. This car is more thoughtful, more completed in its ideology. Civic is a brand-nim \u200b\u200bin a golf class, which has developed and successful, he does not need to prove anything. But Cruz will have to be proved a lot, but now it is possible to assume with great confidence that this machine will be successful, and not only the price is that premise.
 
 
 
 
 

Source: Drom.ru