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Genetic code

A catchy design and a chance to sportiness is just a floor of the case. To succeed, Sivik will have to prove that he, like ancestor, a car for the driver
PROLOGUE
Next to me on the stop line was frozen a black sedan of the representative class. The driver clearly raised quite ordinary her hatchback, suddenly furnished him on the previous traffic light. Green! The first meters of the machine pass side by side. The first turnover transmission step 5500, and suddenly the motor seems to explode with powerful pickup, and the tachometer arrow in the blink of an eye jumps up to 8500 rpm. The explosion is repeated on the second gear, and now the opponent with annoyance sparkles the headlights in the mirrors of the japanese rear view, four times cheaper ...
I will not forget these sensations donated to me Honda-Sivik Seven years ago, when the sixth generation of the model was stood in the system led by the cult VTI. Thus, those who combined the interior comfortable interior, comfortable, comfortable suspension and a rabid 1,6-liter, anemond-free 160 liter engine. with. Now for good copies of recent years, 15,000 dollars are asked.
Modern alternative 200-strong three-door Type-R, but it is expensive and is not very convenient for trips to work. The mass Sivics of the seventh generation is completely different: more spacious, quiet and unremarkable. Goodbye, Drive Is Honda refused sports ambitions? According to scientists, genes are transmitted through generation. Maybe the next Sivique is the same?
Attempt number eight
The new Sivique can be described in a few words as the first-class, personal, sports, stated at the presentation of the eighth generation of the machine Chief Engineer Shodja Akaya. Looking at the car sparkling graphite sides, his creator wants to believe the word. When spring Honda showed a prototype in Geneva, few people might think that the serial sample would be so close to the concept. We wanted all the rest of the cars to look close to Sivik old, slyly smiling Mr. Akaga.
The car really looks an aliel from the future: what is worth at least the transparent section between the headlights, behind which the chrome-plated letter H and shiny decorative fragments are hidden. Yes, and the feed is extremely expressive: double glass a la Mercedes C-Class Sport coupe or Mazda 323c, horizontal lantern strip and triangular exhaust system trunks!
The profile of Sivik reminds Alpha Romeo primarily due to the door handle hidden in the rear rack and the high glazing line. The similarity is not accidental. As reported to journalists, the Japanese chose Alpha Romeo 146 as an emotional reference, and the comfort and riding qualities of Volkswagen Golf! Unexpected revelation. It is a pity, to try Sivik on the go did not give us, promising to invite the autumn to the test drive. In the salon, at least you can look?
Yes, this see has not yet been brought! I remember the words of designers: the instrument panel is divided into two separate zones. Indeed, right before the eyes in the familiar visor, under which the huge volumetric tachometer is exactly in the middle. Its central part is given by the display of the on-board computer that flashes orange warning inscriptions or blue informational. Near odometer, temperature pointer.
Almost at the glass itself, the panel is bent into another visor: here is a large analog speedometer and an indicator of the optimal rotational speed of the crankshaft, on the right econometer. As engineers assure, with this arrangement of the speedometer, the driver is much less distracted from the road, since focusing the look at it is easier. Moreover, the colleagues of the most different growth quietly sat down at the wheel so as to see both combinations of devices.
It was worth getting the camera and aim to the panel, as a polite manager there. Apologizing, he asked not to take off: It's too early to judge the quality of the finish. Could not be modest! Plastic parts are fitted flawlessly, the doors like sticking to the castles, nice smack in the opening. From the details familiar to other hondam, perhaps only the cigarette lighter and the lighting ceiling lighting no unification! In general, Sivik looks more expensive than most classmates. I wonder if it will affect the car? Marketers are bred by their hands: Exact figures hope to declare on the Frankfurt Motor Show.
GO?
As you already understood, the first acquaintance with Sivik turned out to be purely protocol. Conversations with special clarity engineers did not contribute. Is Sivique really gained the spirit of the car for the driver again? The question is controversial. Take, for example, engines: there are three of them, and the base 1.4 liter base and with a capacity of 83 liters. with., as on the city compact Honda Jazz. I'm afraid for the sick-free Sivik this is not enough! And buy a stylish car with a dynamic appearance for movement in the tone of the turtle is somehow illogical.
On the other hand, the newest gasoline 140-strong motor with a volume of 1.8 liters promises in terms of the dynamics to put on the blades of many 2-liter competitors, and the fuel consumption with it is not much more than the 1,4-liter fellow! Probably, the weak version in Russia will not sell. Nevado and fate of a 2.2-liter diesel engine. This motor is installed on a chord, CR-V and FR-V, but the official diesel dealers will not be taken to Russia. With the same power, as in the 1,8-liter engine, diesel develops the moment twice the greater. Only he has no traditional for Honda, he does not have in risen.
Unusual picture and gearboxes. On sivik will put
6-speed mechanical transmissions, classic and automated. Subjectively moves of clean mechanics, the lever of which managed to work too close. Do not confuse with an active ride third with a fifth or fourth with the sixth!
But the biggest surprise presented suspension. The fact that the machine is equipped with the usual in the past generation Mac Fersson, no one did not surprise anyone. But to detect the back of the elastic beam, perhaps, no one expected. And although the journalists assured that this simple design was performed using high technologies and works on the road no worse than the multi-dimensional suspensions of Civics of a 10-year old ago to believe the word was not so simple.
However, it is only assumptions. Let's wait until the autumn test drive and then we will see if genetics are right in their theory.

Sivik Honda Success Symbol. For a 33-year-old history of the model, more than 16 million copies of about 30% of the total sales of the brand over the years have been released and sold. At the moment, Siviki is produced in 11 and sold in 160 countries of the world. The eighth generation hatchback is designed specifically for the European market, its production is organized in the English city of Svindon. At the beginning of next year, the sedan will debut and the three-door version of Sivik for other markets, primarily North America.
 
Mikhail Gzovsky
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"