Test Drive Honda Jazz (Fit) since 2008 Hatchback

Micro Space

 
Honda Jazz.
Price from 497,000 rubles.
Max. Power 83 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b160 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 14.1 s
PEUGEOT 207.
Price from 590 500 rubles.
Max. Power 120 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b195 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 12.7 s
Mazda2.
Price from 549,000 rubles.
Max. Power 103 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b168 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 12.1 s
Toyota Yaris.
Price from 490 500 rub.
Max. Power 87 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b170 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 13.1 s
Opel Corsa.
Price from 429,000 rubles.
Max. Power 90 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b166 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 14.8 s
 
Speed \u200b\u200bin joy
Honda Jazz.
In 2002, Jazz seriously stepped his time. In those distant times, the musical directed models of Honda (Jazz and Accord) turned even those who do not distinguish jazz from blues. These works were so successful to Japanese authors that rightfully should enter the Best Collection of the best. And those who are engaged in collecting, it is worth to drag this car to mink. The new generation of the model will appear approximately in the second quarter of 2009, and what was on his mind from his creators, we will not learn exactly until the hell does not jump out of the box and does not plunge into our eyes.
Honda Jazz, of course, is not sinless. All mirrors (and side, and rearview) are amazingly small. The steering wheel is adjustable only in height, but not by departure. But this is not the main problem, but that even if the steering wheel is not most intensely, it can eat. Physically, it can cope with any driver, but not everyone will cope with annoyance. Especially by depressing that everything else in the car is done so that in Honda can, sneaking with turkey from pride, say yes, this is ours. In Jazz Giant trunk, high ceiling and spacious salon. Fuel consumption slightly deviates from 6-7 l / 100 km. There is automatic addition of mirrors and input for external media. Carlson would be very surprised as so many people and things climbs into such a small box, and Clarkson may have got it there. There is also all sorts of boxes, drawers, pockets and pockets and even an open regiment in front, long-width of the car, on which except books arrange. Amazing for the car of this class, yes, perhaps, for any class!
 
 
If you go to the manual mode (that is, the driver and the variator will pretend that they have seven gears), then stealless switch-switches will go into the course. Tittronic has some competitors, but no one who has real petals!
If you pay attention to the floor of Honda Jazz, which is more like a bottom of catamaran with bulk resemblances for chairs, will become ridiculous. But the other is not necessary! The boring body with the extremely simplified lines of Puroic vans once again proves that the sense of humor is more often inherent serious in appearance types, and not clowns in stupid shoes. Jazz is not fashionable, and it is not beautiful. But what is he cheerful and positive! (An incredibly popular Norwegian writer Erland Lu believes that an ordinary person has the right to put one exclamation mark for his life, and a person who makes a writer on bread two. Only in the Honda Jazz test is already an exclamation mark on which his author There was absolutely no right. But the fact is that the last book Lu trucks Volvo, and the last test machine of the Republic of Honda Jazz. Therefore, in this test there could be more than one exclamation mark).
The quality of the materials and the interior decoration are good. Equipment at the highest level. The amount on the price tag includes not only the frame and the nameplate, but everything else. And even more. All that was good in the Honda brand, and that it was possible to invest in a small urban democratic machine.
 
ON DESIGN had to close the eye or face the truth: the model is not new, and that it does not fit into the mainstream there is nothing wrong
Honda Jazz.
Engine
Type gasoline 1.4
The working volume, cm3 1339
Max. capacity, l.? a. when vol. / min. 83/5700
Max. Currently, when Nm vol. / min. 119/2800
Transmission Aut., Clinoril. variable speed drive
Dynamics
Maximum speed km / h 160
Acceleration 0100 km / hr, with 14.1
common data
Fuel consumption (mixed media. cycle EU), L / 100 km 5.5
Wheelbase 2450 mm
Length, mm 3845
Width mm 1675
Height, 1525 mm
Mass fused., 1093 kg
price, rub. from 497,000

BUT grayscale and variations on the theme has a silver metallic yellow, orange and the most seductive juicy red berry
 
SALON is bright and spacious. Ergonomics in the textbook
The lever KP will be a place for small things
No buttons, levers or controls does not seem toy
HERE small size does not reduce the quality synonymous
 
Due to a successful combination of engine and acceleration variator smooth and sure
 
Million Dollar Baby
Mazda2
On this machine has already been said so much, and she has won already so incredibly many titles and awards, it is difficult to believe that she was only yesterday literally in our hands hatched from a thick snow-white shell, which was the least calcium and maximum-precision data on the modern automobile market. Mazda2 is the product of its time and is the son of his father's company, which has recently been revived from the ashes too progressive and therefore too expensive, and therefore useless developments. At Mazda today and will not be another ten years for error, cars of this mark must necessarily become hits, sounding out each kiosk every mobile phone. This star factory, the production pipeline is the commodity which is now in demand. Only after passing this stage, it will be possible to reverse roles with the buyer and stopped in front of him cringe, he rigidly impose anything, playing for the years spent in the performance of foreign desires, like Groundhog Day happened on Christmas Day. In the meantime, you can be sure that any car Mazda is the best value for money, the most emotional choice among rational proposals, bright and fashionable image, fun and safe driving, and all that is required from a modern personal vehicle. For such words do not have to blame the cynicism, because these words are the same guarantee of reliability as a notary or a visa unshakable confidence lawyer.

Without this car, this test would not be obvious. Is it obvious that it is she who will beat the old guard and won? I think no. Otherwise, it would be possible to limit the column in the news. She has a delightful color under the grasshopper, a win-win bass for potential buyers. She embodies all the best that was created before her in the class of compact cars. It is the same zoom-zoom as RX-8 and CX-7. She is a beauty and she is wonderfully ruling but at night on a close parking lot in the yard or in the warm garage she dreams of a sticky nightmare that sooner or later a car appears like a manifold manifold. Wolves fear into the forest not to walk, it knows, so it is not afraid. Dive, and there will understand!
This is a car that is not just lucky, but lucky as you want it. Introducing role-playing games does not know borders. You can choose the MCP (which is about as a cow saddle for classmates) and scatter on the sport package, but go to all the money. The most cute that the machine on the version with a 1.5-liter motor does not deprive the driver of pleasant emotions. Emotions that change their character somewhat when it comes to the cost of the CAR OF THE YEAR sticker on the rear window of this masterpiece, but which invariably take their own, as soon as the car with a joyful unrestrained screech rides from the place.
Winner of the International Competition WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR in 2008, broke such strong competitors as Ford Mondeo and Mercedes-Benz C-Class
 
Mazda2.
Engine
Type gasoline 1.5
Working volume, cm3 1498
Max. Power, l.? p. for rpm. 103/6000.
Max. Moment, nm at rpm. / min. 137/4000
Transmission Avt., 4-stupas.
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h 168
Acceleration 0100 km / h, from 12.1
common data
Fuel consumption (mix. EU cycle), l / 100 km 6.8
Wheel base, mm 2490
Length, mm 3900
Width, mm 1695
Height, mm 1475
Mass cutting., Kg 1035
price, rub. from 549,000

One of the three finalists in the nomination of the year design along with Audi R8 and Volvo C30. Car of the Year in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, New Zealand and Japan
 
The interior is resolved in the classic style Mazda
As an option, a CD changer with MP3 function is available.
Here the 4-speed automatic transmission is better configured than on Mazda3
Bright body colors are not a hindrance for a practical interior in black colors
 
The speedometer is assigned a leading, but not an overwhelming role
 
A Tutta Corsa.
Opel Corsa.
We did not get this car on the ground, as some of our colleagues would have done. Unlike them, we did not hoped that a small urban car would survive after several laps, we did not believe in a miracle that it would be DIVO as adapted to sports loads. We traveled to Opel Corsa around the city stood in traffic jams, and then tried to keep up with the overlooking time at the Moscow Ring Road, parked in close yards and narrow alleys, and did not wait that the stars would begin with clusters from the sky.
Someone may say that she goes too slow. Opel has a quick Corsa OPC, but since the poor dancer always interferes with either the floor, or something else is also not a way out, or rather the wrong way out. Opel Corsa with a 1.4-liter engine and an automatic transmission goes well with low revolutions and does not immediately drop after a well-started start. In any case, its potential is enough to spoil the mood of others, frivolously rearranged at the traffic light. And you yourself are enough to have fun, seeing sincere amazement on the faces of those who believe that Corsa and others like it are not serious, as if it is only toys for slightly adult girls. But no. This is a car. This is a car (no need to be afraid of this word). For all. All those who live in the city and, as they say in every second advertising, playing by his rules, loves to win. These beautiful words, of course, a complete nonsense is the same as a waste of time in traffic jams and money on gasoline, extinguishing in these traffic jams, a waste of precious space in the parking lot, which occupies spacious cars in which a maximum of one person always rides. Although, the truth is yours. So be.
Front wonderful seats, which, however, are completely uncomfortable for large-sized saddles. Opel Corsa Envious choice of options (only perhaps Citroen car buyers do not have to envy): heated steering wheel, navigation, CD changer, DVD, climate control, cruise control, parking help system, adaptive lighting system, timer shutdown delay timer , sports mode.
 
In the asset Opel Corsa, several very progressive systems thanks to them this toy is very well suited for city games: various quests, as well as cats-mice with traffic police. Technical progress Bulldozer drove through this car, and its traces are well noticeable. There is also an electric steering power steering with a gain, depending on the velocity of the vehicle, and the electronic brake force regulator, the function of helping when turning turns, the function of maintaining coursework stability and even an improved system of eliminating insufficient turning.
Non-promoters will be happy to find out that the glove box has a very strange and inconvenient configuration. That the control of turn signals violates the thin screening equilibrium of the driver as quickly as in all other models Opel. What noise isolation is not ideal, and under the hood flies and the dirt is striking. But no longer know anything pleasant for themselves. Both the first and 101th ride on Corsa gives pleasure and brings a very good mood. In addition to jokes, riding this car fun. She has a light character and almost no bad habits.
 
The car looks very friendly and invariably causes a feeling of sincere sympathy on the verge of lunizing.
 
Opel Corsa.
Engine
Type gasoline 1.4
Working volume, cm3 1364
Max. Power, l.? p. for rpm. 90/5600.
Max. Moment, nm at rpm. / min. 125/4000
Transmission Avt., 4-art.
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h 166
Acceleration 0100 km / h, from 14.8
common data
Fuel consumption (mix. EU cycle), l / 100 km 6.8-6.9
Wheel base, mm 2511
Length, mm 3999
Width, mm 1944
Height, mm 1488
Mass cutting., Kg 1145
price, rub. from 429,000

Colorist gamma has 14 colors, and some of them seriously affect the impression that machine produces
 
Nowhere in the cabin not to notice a hint of traces of savings
The amount of chromium is strictly dosed
There is a lot of light and air in the cabin. Roof line high
 
All buttons are very small, as if toy, but all in their places
Among the top ten Opel Corsa victories have a prestigious European Award Autobest 2007
 
In Russia, it is believed that women already tremble at the sight of small machines. Let it be. In essence, it does not matter. It is important. A completely different majority of Russian men cannot afford to led compact city cars, because they are from the Babski segment, but not at all urban. Cut the bitter, spit into the well, dig a grave, brand a shame comfortable for daily drive cars all this can enter into one collection of story about everyday nonsense. The phenomenon of the elephant in the dishwasher does not lead to the right conclusions.
For five-door Peugeot 207 with automatic transmission, only one engine is available 120-strong 1.6 liters. And at first glance, it may seem that this car from another weight category, fraudulently touched in this test to destroy its opponents. Alas, the plot is not so intriguing good. Everything is much trivial in the conditions in which all these cars exist, in the driving characteristics, the difference between them is not as large as 33 hp (standing as com in the throat, between Peugeot 207 and, for example, Toyota Yaris). The main thing for a similar car is cheerful character, love and the ability to realize their power on low engine speeds. And, by sure, bright design and comfortable salon. And the cost proportional to the dimensions of the machine and the engine volume. Of course, what to say, 120 hp This is much more fun, but 240 is even better, and 360 is well. It is believed that the good is not looking for good. So do not.
Peugeot 207 Very harmonious car. It is perfectly combined both obvious advantages and obvious disadvantages. When starting the engine, the key strives to work out, but the dashboard is beautiful and laconic, and the scales are well readable. At the refueling, coming out of a white (or black) ground car in a white (or black) suit of flax and silk, you will go to pay for your fuel with wet and stinky tube from the gas tank in your hands it opens already mentioned key. But in the cabin is spacious and light. How the electric power steering works is not all. At a low speed, the steering wheel turns from the draft, on the middle it is still too weightless, and you don't want to score high speed completely. Although the machine turns quite eagerly, scattering the neighbors with a supervision squeal rubber. Salon lacking space. Passengers in the back seat are complaining of closeness, although nothing is particularly offended. Even one passenger can be excluded from behind that, with everyone happens. The cabin has an air freshener that is connected to the air conditioning system. The aroma is quite balanced, but it makes his aromatic business at his discretion, and this somewhat crubbles the driver trying at least to keep independence. And so on for each plus there is its minus.
When you take off the car from the alarm, he, welcoming, zadorly flashes the accident. Simple trick, but the mood raises trouble-free
 
PEUGEOT 207.
 
Engine
Type gasoline 1.6
Working volume, cm3 1598
Max. Power, l.? p. for rpm. 120/6000
Max. Moment, nm at rpm. / min. 160/4250
Transmission Avt., 4-art.
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h 195
Acceleration 0100 km / h, from 12.7
common data
Fuel consumption (mix. EU cycle), l / 100 km 6.3
Wheel base, mm 2540
Length, mm 4030
Width, mm 1720
Height, mm 1472
Mass cutting., Kg 1312
price, rub. from 590 500

The design of the rear lights may seem too cleaning, but in general the car looks harmoniously. It is easily recognizable and almost all causes sympathy
 
The quality of the salon materials and the quality of the assembly at the proper level
Convenient to use braking engine
Music management on the steering wheel is somewhere driving. And on the radio tape recorder the buttons are too small
In the outer mirrors, made from the front racks on the door, can be seen
 
Easy, yurkaya and a very frisky car imperceptibly picks up speed better cheer with speedometer
 
Japanese city
Toyota Yaris.
Today, once one of the most popular models lives very not just. Progress coming by seven-mile steps is much ahead of the speed of 365 days a year. And 2005 year of birth means that young has not been young for a long time. Although it could be preserved and better. Could, but could not. And if the external design still has nothing to do with the silhouettes of dinosaurs, then in the cabin it smells like naphtalin.
When landing on the driver's seat, Toyota Yaris does not arise confidence that it is the driver's place, and not the passenger in the right-hand drive car. Many automotive companies will confirm the busy philosophy of building a car around the driver. Here, the opposite is just called. The driver has only the steering wheel, which is chopped into plastic monolith, and nothing else. The electronic dashboard, rendered to the center, acts as the only source of entertainment for the passengers bored on the gallery. And the driver is deprived. Nissan has such experiments with the layout of the instruments ended with a triumphant return to the traditional scheme. And Renault is not recognized that it is not convenient and not beautiful in every family its family values. But Toyota! ..

 
As for the dynamics, then with the automatic robot mode, it is simply not. Persistent pressing on the gas pedal does not help. A jerk, which turns up the transmission, and then the loss of power for a long time, will switch to no all the efforts of a small but zealous engine. But it is enough to go to the manual mode, and life will play with new paints, the motor with new sounds, and the driver of joyful screams maybe, when he wants! From surprise, it may even seem that the car is much more powerful than it is. But back to the salon. Rather, we did not come out of it. All plastic in the interior causes only questions, besides an aggressive nature. Under the steering wheel there is a meager glove box, but it is unlikely to put something to bury something at the right moment. In addition, the lid of this amazing boxing encourages when opening. The glove box (in a traditional place) is divided into two sections, poorly those who are observing the mess. Between the KP lever and the central console there is a kind of tray, which is also quite by the way to obsuboy a variety of things. Behind the handmade there is a cupboard and shelf. Rear from the front seats are pockets, in the doorway, the cup holders. But the trunk is almost at all. Chairs are very flat, but nevertheless pretty comfortable.
Toyota Yaris produces a very ambiguous impression. Although sales data will not fit in any way with the opinion of individual ladies and gentlemen: in 2006, 2714 yaris pieces were sold, in 2007 already 4775 and 1213 copies only for the first quarter of 2008.
The previous generation of the model has become the most successful brand project on the European market in history. And in Russia, Yaris could not achieve bright victories
 
Toyota Yaris.
Engine
Type gasoline 1,3.
Working volume, cm3 1296
Max. Power, l.? p. for rpm. 87/6000.
Max. Moment, nm at rpm. / min. 121/4200.
Transmission of aut., 5-art.
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h 170
Acceleration 0100 km / h, from 13.1
common data
Fuel consumption (mix. EU cycle), l / 100 km 5,8
Wheel base, mm 2460
Length, mm 3750
Width, mm 1695
Height, mm 1530
Mass cutting., Kg 1010
price, rub. from 490 500

Failure with interior annoying, but not a deadly misunderstanding for a cute, dusty, reliable and economical machine
 
In the interior, many parts arguing with each other
All subordinate symmetry. But symmetrically does not mean comfortable
Manual mode need
Branches for small things, but not all of them make sense

The display is displayed all the data, does not glare, but little informative
 
SUMMARY
Little dog to old age puppy. In addition to the fact that the small machine is practical, economically and eco it is fun. It is fun first. It's a little bit seriously. This is when without complexes and no offense. More, cooler, more expensive, more powerful is good, it is a tessit of pride. But this is a dead end, or rather the horizon that a priori is unattainable. That is why this is a colossal stress. The pursuit of his own tail is exhausted, meaningless, cruel, infinite. Stop, enough! Smile! First, it's all annoying, secondly, someone is fun. Little urban cars are not only the fashionable impact of the winding West with its narrow, as a horizon of sloth, streets, not only a cash shopping on the blood, the unbearable difficulty, not only a toy as a gift to a girlfriend. This is a good mood car. It is not clear even how he succeeds. Probably, thanks to self-irony, light coquets, courage to be funny, be weak, to be small, to be honest and why it is very wise. Rejoice in life, rejoice in small, enjoy details, enjoy the moments. This is not a philosophy, this is a method. This test and summing up the results as a very serious material was made: everyone made important persons, they went out, put glasses, ties, suspenders, wrinkles and a noble gray, said a couple of smart phrases, they were meaningfully packed, but then something went wrong, and everyone looked around , I almost burst with laughter.
 
1. Mazda2.
+: The most dynamic, brightest and most modern car in its class
-: High final cost, taking into account the necessary options
2. Honda Jazz.
+: Smoothness, spacious salon, big trunk, efficiency
-: Elderly age model
3. Opel Corsa.
+: High quality interior trim, wealth options, cheerful character
-: Elevated appetite, reluctance dynamically ride without Kick-Down
4. Peugeot 207.
+: Bright recognizable appearance
-: Bad operation of the electric power steering
5. Toyota Yaris.
+: Image of reliability of all car brand Toyota
-: controversial interior design, unsuccessful robot
 
Text Olesya Rekina
Photo by Alexander Kiseleva and Nikolai Kuznetsova
 

A source: Cars