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Mitsubishi Colt vs Honda Jazz: money spoils

All cars are different. Well, or almost everything. Mitsubishi Colt and Honda Jazz, although designed in one country, perform in one market segment, are intended for a young audience, inexperienced sports and super -technological technology, are also different.
Take at least a couple of hundred thousand rubles, for which top jazz was more expensive than top Colt. The wheels undertook to find out whether it was worth overpaying.

All colors of summer
The color palette of both models is quite wide: COLT and JAZZ can be painted in 9 and 11 colors, respectively. But Honda paints are pink, yellow, blue, two shades of blue, red and purple while Mitsubishi offer red, cherry and blue collars from more or less juicy colors. Classic black, white, beige and gray colors are in each of the sets, but for this class, it seems to me, these are not the best options.
But Mitsubishi Colt is three -door. Let it not be so practical, but compactly, the price allows you to reduce by 10,000 rubles, and the choice is like.
Which is prettier? Hard question. Jazz looks more fatal; Small lines, a wedge -shaped silhouette, a large area of \u200b\u200bglazing in details are just a candy. But in proportion, Honda is more like a small mini-van, Ford Galaxy on a scale, and not to a typical B-class. And after all (I run ahead) Jazz is really not spacious in the class, but it would not be worth looking like a Mikroven to a female typewriter.
The same applies to COLT. Microenenium outlines are determined by a sharp slope of the roof at the place of transition to the rear door. Although the front of Lancer X, which has become a family line of Mitsubishi, adds a compact aggression. In the details of COLT, it also looks enough with its stylish optics and slightly dilated arches.

Operational space
Inside Jazz is much more interesting than outside. Civic spacecraft moved here; Climate control remarks with a round screen, a spectacular three-spitting steering wheel (this will envy the owners of senior models), the complex multi-level design of the front panel of Jazz is just an enterprise in miniature: so, somewhere there should be a negotiation module to call the captain of Spock ...

The steering wheel is regulated in two planes (in COLT only in height), and the chairs are conveniently adapt even to high drivers. The review is magnificent; However, there are no complaints about visibility in Mitsubishi.
Against the backdrop of jazz, the COLT salon is somewhere in the late 90s: hard plastic, inexpressive style only the red finish of the seats (to the tone of the body) with a bright spot revives a boring atmosphere of the interior.

The seats are quite amenable to adjustment, but, as in Jazz, they poorly fix the driver's body. The devices are simple and readable, and between the two circles of the speedometer and the tachometer, the modest black square is cut off the on -board computer.
There is no less free space in COLT than in JAZZ, but I had to pay for it a trunk with a more modest capacity. Honda won the battle for the baggage of one gate: mainly due to the fact that Japanese engineers marked a gas tank under the front seats, releasing a place for the clothing department. The rear seats are laid out in both compacts, but Jazz offers more transformation options.
 
Forced robotization
In comparative tests, it is very difficult to choose the most close cars. There are so many criteria for comparison that even if you push the foreheads of two Japanese B-class compact compacts with equally spacious salons, a fairly bright appearance and engines with a capacity of 95 and 100 liters. S., the fight can still turn out to be dishonest.
And in our case, it was not even that COLT is almost 200,000 rubles cheaper than Jazz. It's all about the gearbox: the 1.3-liter Mitsubishi Colt was with the mechanics, while the robot answered in JAZZ with a motor 1.4

Such boxes are in the list of modifications of each hatch. Because in traffic jams (and their varieties) are vital, and robots are perhaps the cheapest of the possible options.
And yet, if you are not rushing anywhere, then Jazz pleases. Surprisingly quiet, smoothly touched by the hatch does not bother with noise either from the street or from under the hood. And if you get used to and release gas at certain engine speeds (predicting the moment of switching), then acceleration will be linear. That is, twitching during switching will remain in the past.

Or in the future, if the slow pace of driving is still bored. No matter how much you play the gas pedal, but at a fast pace of movement of the clinking and jerking, inevitable. But the motor is peppy, smoothly, but vividly gaining momentum and almost noisy upstairs, and it all remains only to guess how fun the Jazz trip with mechanics can become. As for a popular combination 1.4 plus an automated box, not everyone will like it. And this is still mildly said.
Perhaps COLT will not be interesting with the COLT robot, but with the mechanics just class! Do not underestimate a 1.3-liter motor: 95 harsh ponies scratch their hooves, and they are looking forward to when they are spilled.

If the rider is persistent, Colt will stubbornly carry throughout the entire working range of revolutions. And it will rush until the oats end. Just do not let the gas go at the top of the motor is especially pleasant.
The controllability of both hatchbacks seriously loses comfort: small and medium holes and here and there remain out of work and are lost without a trace in the rearview mirror. The steering is not related to the wheels little to the touch, and only in the turn of the steering wheel and Jazz are filled with artificial, but appropriate, effort.

Arms race
Equipment of cars fully explains the price superiority of Honda. Even in the top configuration, COLT has only two airbags and is deprived of the stabilization system. There are no options in the list of options and climate control, rear electric windows, and even more so you are no hatches or panoramic glass roofs. Only a vital minimum.
As for JAZZ, here in the basic version there is climate control, a system of course stability, 8 pillows, electric drive and heating of mirrors. And in the two upper trim levels, cruise control can be added, rain and light sensors, a glass roof.
At the very beginning of the material, I wondered if it was worth overpaying. My subjective: there is no Jazz for the robot. And for the glass roof quite. For a stylish salon and vacuum silence, too. And for the fact that it is interesting and with the breeze is not necessary at all.






Author: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin

Cars are provided by companies: Rolf Karline by the official Mitsubishi dealer and Honda Krasnoselsky by the official Honda dealer.
 

A source: Wheel magazine [May 2010]