Honda Jazz (Fit) test drive since 2008 hatchback

New generation test drive Honda Jazz

Why did the Japanese suddenly seemed to the Japanese that pensioners are burdened by Honda Jazz? In my opinion, a one hundred percent youth car is lively, small, urban and rubber.

It is customary for their pensions to have a fulfill to the whole coil there, and our grandfathers with grannies gravitate to the nature of the beds, ray, potatoes, at best, a dozen, donated by grandchildren for a silver wedding. And how can you leave the city on this miracle of oriental technology, even if an ordinary border stone at the most inappropriate minute becomes a stumbling block for its delicate plastic front end?

On the first day of the test, I, out of habit, rushed to go around the familiar cork through the unknown unknown who, locked on the barrier, and, to my shame, created another one when I had to shamefully run away from the curb and return to the ranks of forced law -abiding citizens. But the girls at work were delighted with what a nice red car, which finally trampled my male pride in asphalt. But that evening I reconciled with the shortcomings of the new Jazz, when I threw all the shmurdyak of a regularly moving girlfriend in her bottomless gut, including a chest of drawers from Ikei and an impressive library of glossy magazines, with which she did not want to part. There is a lot of space: except mine, after loading work, there are two as many as two, however, in the back, but nothing will pull on the cold.

The new Honda Jazz youth has nowhere to control the radio as in the iPod, and you can sleep in the refresh position of the front seats removed, the backs are leaned back, and the bed for traditional yunshot fun is ready, and the money for a rented apartment can be spent on something necessary snowboarding, for example , or Mountinbike. By the way, about mountain bicycles, under the lower pillows of the sofa, a void, throwing them back to the backs, can be parked with two pieces across the cabin, though removing the front wheels.

To the ergonomics of the new Jazz, you can hardly be adjusted in height and departure, the driver’s seat rises, the settings range are wide, and the instrument shield is not blocked in a single position. Unless the swing of the gear lever is small (under the ladies' handle), there is no central armrest, and the hood is not visible even from the ceiling, develop intuition. It is interesting that in my Jazz, the side mirrors were folded using an electric drive, and the steering wheel was equipped with a road computer control buttons and an audio center, but the rear windows were lowered manually. We look further: climate control, a simple audio system with MP3 for one disk and mini-jack (in the trim levels there is a USB port through which the player can not only listen, but also charge). And a dozen cup holders: having reveled in the coal and having tuned in a wave of positive vibrations, you can not notice how the intra -junction mirror vibrates from the bass already on two -thirds of the volume. In general, the cheap plastic jazz salon is collected well, there are no smooth ones, but hard rattle of rattle even in a new machine managed to bred crickets. One I caught immediately walked away the panel under the wheel, but the couple regularly woke up on broken joints in the asphalt. There would be a softer suspension, no one would have heard about them, but, having aimed at the youth, the Hondians re -spill a little with stiffness: on the lying policemen, a senile spine could crumble under a chair.


The new Honda Jazz did not grow in height, but its length increased by 55 mm, and the width of 20 mm. The wheelbase is now 50 mm larger, and the track of the front and rear wheels is 35 and 30 mm wide, respectively. Despite the increase in the dimensions, the radius of rotation remained the same as that of the previous model. The total length is 3 900 mm, width 1,695 mm and a height of 1,525 mm allow the Honda markets to place JAZZ in a special niche between the B-class hatchbacks and compact minivans.

To join does not mean killing
I don’t know if the Japanese thought so when they made a new Honda Jazz, but it turned out fun and relatively safe. Fun, because the control of the machine is actually very good, and the suspension is too tough at small speeds swallows solid irregularities, you just have to accelerate a little, while no jumps on the road, only a slight instability in the asphalt rut. But the turn enters as the written, and the rolls are minimal. And relatively safe, because the new I-VTEC engine is 1,339 cm3, which replaces the I-DSI of the same cubatic, much more powerful (100 hp instead of 83), more gambling, but after 120 km/h it rolled slightly, not provoking further hooliganism. But around the city and with a 5-speed mechanics, just lovely. The cut-off works somewhere at six and a half thousand revolutions along the tachometer, the transmission of rather long slippers to the floor, and from the traffic light it blows off by the wind, and the extended track and the base gave an increase to the stability of the chances of tickling nerves without consequences became larger. The brakes do not require addiction, slowdown, smooth and predicted, just starting for the first ten minutes is difficult, but the understanding of the process happens very quickly this engine loves to turn it, and enthusiasm appears in the place with understanding.
 

CAB Forward style (off -forward cabin) provides a good overview to the car. The side mirrors were enlarged, the front stand was narrowed by 23 mm, the windshield is 25 mm wider and 205 mm longer than the previous one. The front triangular windows are a third more than that of the old Honda Jazz, and the wipers are located below the line of view. This complex of measures made it possible to increase visibility by 20 percent.

For every fireman
When developing the body of the new Honda Jazz, a compatibility technology for the structural elements was used, thanks to the use of which a power frame around the salon forms. The frame protects even when colliding with cars of greater mass, distributing the energy of the impact force between several main guides. The hardness of the body is significantly increased (for example, the level of lateral stiffness of the front of the car is increased by 164%). To prevent neck injuries in Jazz, active headrests are installed, in the basic configuration, the car is already equipped with frontal and side airbags and full -sized safety curtains as part of the side window that protect the driver and passengers in front and back. Front seats safety belts have double pretenders, and ISOFIX fasteners on the left and right rear seats and fastening in the roof allow you to reliably install a children's chair.


Honda does not forget about passengers, the rear doors open 80 degrees, becoming almost perpendicular to the side line of the machine, and can occupy three fixed positions. The space for the legs of the rear passengers increased by 18 mm, and the distance between the front and rear seats by 30 mm. A slight expansion of the body also ensured an increase in the width at the shoulder level by 44 mm in front and 43 mm behind.

Elderly and wealthy adolescents
In the JAZZ database for 615,000 rubles, there are already almost everything you need and even elements of luxury: climate control, electric mirror, heating the front seats, a VSA exchange rate stability system, metallic coloring. The choice of engines is not provided. If there is a desire, you can pay for the rain sensor, a panoramic glass roof, fog-tunnel, an electric drive of the rear glasses, a leather steering wheel and cruise control (although where in the city to cruise?) The most expensive equipment 1.4 Executive At costs 742 613 rubles. The traditional plastic sport package of linings-toning grains 1.4 Sport AT will add to the cost of the extra 79 950 wooden. However, is it happiness if 1.4 Elegance AT with the so-necessary-novice city drivers with a 6-speed I-SHIFT robot, which itself will squeeze the clutch for you, and the Hill Start Assist system, which helps to start on the rise, but without any trinkets, is more expensive The basic configuration is only 30,750 rubles (645 750 rubles). True, there will no longer be such renunciation as with mechanics. Well, right, we must be more solid, more solid.


The folding system of the seats Magic Seats has become even more convenient, now the front seats do not need to be moved, thanks to the headrests that are almost completely pushed into the rear seats, and do not come into contact with the front when folding even when the latter are moved back as much as possible.

The length of the smooth floor of the luggage compartment in the cargo position of Utility is 1,720 mm. This is enough to place three mountain bikes with 26-inch wheels inside the car without removing the front wheels. In the longest possible position, the LONG place will only need to fully push the front passenger seat forward, tilt its back back, and the luggage compartment length on the right side will be 2.4 m. In the tall position, the rear sofa pillows are fixed in the back in the raised state for the time To create a place for baggage between the front and rear seats, where it is possible to place objects up to 1,280 mm high. In the pillow of the left rear seat there is a department for storing small things. Having removed the headrests from the front seats and tilting them back so that they are on the same level with the rear, you can get enough sleep in the Refresh position.




 

A source: Drom.ru