Honda Fr-V (Edix) 2004-2007 Minivan Test

All photos of Honda FR -V (Edix) 2004 - 2007

Five plus

Have you had to squeeze five, or even more passengers into your car? Not?! You are a happy person! Probably, you have only one child, mother -in -law lives in another city, there are absolutely no extraordinary friends and, besides, you did not play the role of a sober driver after a common holiday.
Unfortunately, not everyone smiles at times at times in the car lacks a couple of places. On the other hand, I do not want to buy a full-size mini-wen for the sake of such rare cases and feel wagtered.
There is a way out, modern compact wen are small in size, but six and seven people accommodate. Moreover, often the presence of additional seats is completely impossible to guess only if necessary, they are cunningly extracted from under the floor of the trunk. Five plus is not an assessment of advantages, but the passenger compass formula of the four CDs that recently appeared in our market: Opel Safira, Honda FR-V (ZR, 2005, No. 8), Toyota Corolla Verso (ZR, 2005, No. 7), Renault Grand stage (ZR, 2004, No. 6).
Opel-Zafira

The test backwater turned out to be a wolf in sheep's skin. Behind the mark of 3500 rpm of an explosion of traction and emotions! Acceleration to hundreds of 9.1 s, maximum speed 222 km/h! The hard adaptive suspension DSA instantly manages to reconfigure shock absorbers, in accordance with the quality of the coating and lateral acceleration. The extremely sharp and nervous steering wheel (only two and a half turns from the stop to the stop) allows you to feel the wheels literally with your fingertips. The stabilization system works very delicately allows you to go with a dosed slip or in light skidding and interferes only in extreme cases. Not every car called sports can boast of such a set. On this sprinter, in the summer, to grab, but on an ironed racing highway!
And here winter is snow ruts, ice and broken frozen asphalt and a leisurely styer race to a long distance. And, it turns out that it is more important not to pick up the motor, but efficiency and even craving in the entire range. Not a low landing, but a good road clearance and reliable protection from below. Not a hard suspension, but comfort and ability, without cho a halt, swallow pits in the asphalt. Not the severity of management, but its convenience and reliability.

After all, most buyers choose such cars for quite pragmatic reasons. For example, based on the convenience and size of the salon. With this, Safira is full of seven places full -fledged, and even very tall passengers will fit on the front and middle row. True, the FLEX-7 sewage system, which appeared even by car of the past generation, today does not seem so perfect the middle sofa has an unreasonable pillow and it has to move forward to lay out the third row or put passengers there. But two can divide its entire width, having shifted freely to the center. By the way, only in this machine there is an adjustment in the height of the middle row belts and the angle of inclination of the driver's seat.
Like many modern Opel, here the non -fixed steering wheel switches, without exception, were, without exception, drivers at first randomly flashed with their left or right -wing turns, misleading others. From the little things a blind climate control panel, the sweeping passages of a gearbox lever, a weightless brake pedal. The rest of the spacious and German, I liked the neat car. And without a sports package with a more even characteristic of the motor, a high and soft suspension, and even a full-sized spare wheel of a backfill could compete with the leader of the dough.
Honda Fr-V

A very rare arrangement of the cabin with two rows of three chairs in each solution was remembered on Honda, only a fiat-multiph was remembered. It did not affect the outer width of the body; The same 1810 mm as the stage. Nevertheless, the car looks somewhat bulky due to the high line of glazing and almost vertical sides, which allowed the Honda inside 50100 mm wider than rivals. To place the third chair in front, the driver’s drive was moved left because of this, even if there are no passengers in the car, the full driver is pressed to the door and feels crowded. The same applies to the right passenger, who, in addition, has nowhere to stretch the legs: the massive bottom of the front panel interferes.
But the third passenger in the center makes the trip exciting-intimate, he is forced to slightly move the chair back and tighten his legs higher. So even at best, the driver’s hand lies on his thigh, like on a armrest. And if you need to switch the transmission or tighten the handbrake, probably in order to reduce the degree of intimacy, the gearbox lever and the stretching handle of the parking brake were placed on the console unusually high. Because of this, you have to constantly keep in my head, which transmission is turned on by the position of a curved lever this is difficult to determine.

The seat moved back forces to move away and sitting behind him in a six -seater configuration, both medium chairs are shifted back and a half tens of centimeters. Due to the fact that you do not have to push your shoulders, the three of the back is quite comfortable. There is a completely even floor, a supply of space in the legs and for the head is a little less than a dozen centimeters. In general, Honda is a car for slender accelerates.
An amazing thing: a two-liter 150-horsepower engine demonstrated a much more energetic character than that calm Sonya, which had a chance to ride in Europe last summer. Most likely, the matter is in our milder environmental requirements: they make it possible to more enrich the fuel mixture more strongly. The engine with the regulation of phases and the height of valves lift conquers excellent traction, magnificent elasticity, gambling and very low noise and vibration levels. Even in the VI program, the car willingly accelerates and easily takes the rises. To match the chassis: dense and tenacious, with an acute informative steering wheel, it allows you to go quickly enough, confidently, with an eye on the energy intensity of the suspension, it may not be enough on the waves, and even with the load.
Incidentally, Honda FR-V is positioned as a sports compact van motor, the suspension and management are quite consistent with such claims. As for the rest in the driver's place of Honda, you least of all feel like an athlete.
Toyota-Korolla Verso

The combination of the minimum length and maximum wheeled base made the rear overhang to the very tiny Toyota Corolla Verso at all like a car, especially seven -seater. Meanwhile, two seats are also hidden under the floor of the trunk, and completely full! If the middle chairs are slightly moved forward, seven sufficiently large men will fit in Toyota.
With the most modest of the four external sizes, the car is striking in the front of the cabin in front of the head of two tens of centimeters! In the middle there is less, but you can throw your leg on your foot, behind without frills, but not at all crowded. The floor in the cabin is low, but even without a tunnel, the chairs are low. The seats of the second row are almost flat here, as in Opel, you can slightly shift to the center. Door openings, without any exaggeration, are huge.
On a night trip it turned out that the headlights are very good, but the unreasonable backlight of the Optitron devices is too bright. Another feature is an unusual control algorithm for a robotic automatic machine, which has no parking position on the selector line.

Instead, you should use a neutral with a parking brake. Or does not follow, because the pads were frosty day and had to tear them off the power method. A very harsh winter revealed insufficient calorie heating.
On the course of Toyota, there is also a quite passenger car with energetic reactions, small rolls, a dense suspension, which, unfortunately, does not ignore the joints of asphalt. The machine turned out to be the noisiest, annoying roar of the motor at speeds above 100 km/h forces to regret the absence of VI transmission.
In general, the work of a mechanical gearbox with automatic switching is a separate song. More precisely, crying: jerks when touching, especially to the mountain, failures during switching, semi-second hovering when the kick-dowan is triggered by the city riding is simply unpleasant. The ES mode (Easy Sport is light sports) slightly improves the matter, in this case the box is in no hurry to switch up, supporting higher engine speeds, and when it works, it is a little more energetic. In general, the most preferable to go along the empty highway. Better yet, buy a car with an ordinary mechanical box, saving $ 800, and enjoy the elastic motor, which with a volume of 1.8 liters is only slightly inferior to two -liter.
Reno-grand scenes

When there is a five -seater scenes, there is no need to seem less to the seven -seater Grand than it really is. However, the convenience of additional rear places sacrificed the form, which decreasing to the stern, the roof limited the growth of their passengers at a level of 165170 cm. Yes, and get out of there through a modest doorway is difficult. But such a car is usually family transport: children will be happy to get back.
What amazes the scenes is a lot of diverse containers for small things there are more than two dozen of them! Only for shoes four basements such a layout allowed the floor to make the floor absolutely even, although it raised its level. Given the very high chairs, the heads of passengers of the second row are only five centimeters from the roof to look out the window, you need to bend down. Three equivalent separate chairs have longitudinal adjustments and tilting the back, but if the third row is filled, the average will have to move forward. However, a man of kilograms under ninety will quite fit here. And the shoulders are raised to the widest level of windows three do not have to push.

To the dashboard you need to get used to a huge display in the center of the panel is replete with many intricate scales and characters. It is difficult to quickly find the necessary information on it at first.
On the course of the Grand, the scenes turned out to be a well-balanced wagon in a lulling and compactable, quite quiet and at the same time high-speed. It would seem that the most powerful combination of a two -liter engine of 135 hp. Paired with an elderly four -speed automatic. However, inconspicuous switching is well suited to the soft character of the car and even some thoughtfulness of the box here is quite apologetic. However, smooth acceleration does not mean at all a slow scenes reaches hundreds of 11.5 s.
The steering wheel with an electric power is very light, a noticeable roll is so a wagon in the turns and was not created for aerobatics! With a calm mode, a long -speed suspension reveals the best qualities without a hesitation swallows potholes without disturbing the riders, although it is better to slow down on large waves to avoid swing. The brake pedal appeared too light.
But in general, Renault showed himself the most evenly, almost without punctures than the highest average score earned.
What are rich
In our four, 1.8-liter Toyota is most accessible in the initial configuration of Terra $ 26,900. It has an electric carrier of mirrors and front windows, heating seats, air conditioning, an audio system, an on-board computer, ABS and five airbags, including a knee of the driver.

From the options automatic gearbox. Prices for three other cars with 2.0-liter engines are in the range of $ 28 90031 900, and the equipment is richer by the rear windows, there are inseparable climate control, headlight washers. In addition, Renault (Privilege equipment) offers alloy wheels, fog lights, parking sensors, six pillows and also a machine gun. But the other pair has a system for monitoring traction and stabilization, and Honda still has a cruise control and xenon headlights. Opel (Cosmo Sport) has only four pillows, but there are rain and light sensors, adaptive sports suspension, alloy wheels.
Autonomous swimming
Mini-wen are often bought by lovers of long-distance travel, so the requirements for the autonomy of these cars are higher. Both Europeans are content with ordinary
92th gasoline, and the Japanese need the 95th here higher risk of running into surrogate. In two machines outside (in Honda inside), narrow doctors are fixed under the trunk floor, in Opel with a sport packet, a niche for the wheel is completely empty, only a remote control on board. And if you seriously damage the sidewall on the long journey?
Honda and Renault have a very good lumen of 150 and even 160 mm, and the second car also has powerful steel protection under the engine compartment. The other pair has a modest 130135 mm sports suspension of a 10 mm background below standard. Toyota requires more attentive care, it needs to be served every 10 thousand km. The rest of the cars have a run between then one and a half times more.

Opel Zafira

The seven-seater compact linen of the second generation on the elongated Opel-Astra debut debuted in 2005.
Engines: gasoline 1,62,2 l (105200 hp), turbodiesels 1.9 and 2.2 liters (100150 hp).
Gearboxes: 5- or 6-speed mechanical,
4-speed automatic. Front drive.
Complete: Essentia, Enjoy, Cosmo.
Price: $ 19 75031 900.
Opel Zafira Controversial Wagon with a Sports character. The choice of a city racer, burdened by transportation.
General assessment 7.9
+ Great dynamics, high salon, good equipment, roomy trunk, a rich selection of executions, 92nd gasoline.
- Unknown steering wheel switches, large moves of the KP lever, too light brake pedal, an uncertain seat of the second row, a hard suspension, a small road clearance, the lack of a spare wheel.

Honda Fr-V

A six-seater CD with an original two-row layout of the cabin made his debut in 2004. Built using the elements of the CR-V model platform.
Engines: gasoline 1.7 and 2.0 liters (125 and 150 hp), turbodiesel 2.2 liters (140 hp).
Gearboxes: 5- or 6-speed mechanical, 4- or 5-speed automatic.
Front drive.
Complete: Sport-Compact, Comfort, Executive.
Price: $ 28 900 (in Russia only 2.0 l, M6, Comfort).
Honda FR-V could become a great car, as it should be Honda, if not for the disputed six-seater concept.
General assessment 7.9
+ Relatively compact dimensions, good dynamics, powerful elastic motor, dense and tenacious suspension, comfortable steering, excellent noise and vibration insulation, wide salon.
- The driver is too much shifted to the door, close to full people, limited energy intensity of the suspension, the only fixed equipment in Russia.

Toyota Corolla Verso

A second-generation seven-seater compact wen on the Toyota Aventi platform was shown in 2004.
Engines: gasoline 1.61.8 liters (110135 hp), turbodiesel 2.0 liters (90 hp).
Gearboxes: 5-speed mechanical, 4- or 5-speed automatic.
Complete: Terra, Sol.
Price: $ 26 10028 900 (in Russia only 1.8 l).
Toyota Corolla Verso by the nature and perception of an almost passenger car, about the seven -seater essence of which only the initiates know.
General estimate 8.0
+ Compact dimensions, a very high salon, huge doorways, quick reactions on the road, an elastic motor, powerful headlights.
- unsatisfactory operation of the gearbox, too bright lighting of the devices, there is no choice of modifications, a noisy engine, a small road clearance, a small run between that.

Renault Grand Scenic

The second-generation compact wen on the Renault Megan II platform debuted in 2003, and in 2004 it was presented with its elongated seven-seater version of the Grand stage.
Engines: gasoline 1.6 and 2.0 liters (113163 hp) or turbodiesel 1.5 and 1.9 liters (101 and 120 hp).
Gearboxes: 5- and 6-speed mechanical or 4-speed automatic. Front drive.
Authentique configuration (not supplied), Expression, Privileg.
Price: $ 22 60028 500 (in Russia only 1.6 and 2.0 l).
Renault Grand Scenic is the most balanced car whose few disadvantages are perceived, rather, as features.
General assessment 8.3
+ Excellent visibility, comfortable suspension, large road clearance, good sound insulation, an abundance of containers and comfort elements, roomy trunk, 92nd gasoline.
- A complex panel of devices, non -optimal adjustments of the driver's seat, too light brake pedal, the third row is suitable for small passengers.

Yu. Nechetov: An ideal compact lure for Russia could look like this on Renault’s chassis to put the Honda power unit and cover with a body of Opel with a system of folding chairs from Toyota and numerous boxes. A scenas.