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Kia Venga, Opel Meriva, Honda Jazz: Working volume

Such machines are created for people who would be practical to take more shopping, the place in the parking lot is not to search for a long time and do not burn fuel. Updated Honda Jazz attack two new items of the Kia-Hong season and Opel-Meriva. Who will win?

COMPRESSION RATIO
Sorry!
Oh, that you, that you, I am so awkward!
Scene at the door of the museum or theater: two intellectuals cannot decide who will come first. With cars, such problems usually do not occur the front and rear seats passengers are sneaking into place independently of each other. But not in Meriv. Unconditional Raisin Opel Rear doors that swallowing against the course, but they require a clear arrangement of priorities, otherwise there is no wonder forehead. Immediately declare as in the subway: Caution, the doors are closed.

The unusualness of Opel gives a brown finish. There are options and with a red overlay on the front panel.

Let the first driver: let it make a removal seat with giant adjustment ranges and is played with a box-armrest moving along the rails. Now the passenger wade back one pleasure. If you use the rear sofa double configuration, then go is great here. But threesome are already closely, because the seats have to move forward to return to the place the cut full part of the pillow. As a result, the knees come to the front back.
One car god is known how much power the Opel engineers should have tried their door idea. After all, all cars produced now with the wrong circuit (for example, Honda-element and mini-clubber) can open the rear gate, only calling the front. Was it worth the game of the candle? In our opinion, except for the external effect, there is nothing practical in this idea. This is obvious in comparison with competitors.
Heng meets the smile of the front bumper seems to be breathing positive. We give proper designers: it was KIA who attracted increased interest on the road (especially, of course, female). Inside Weden after Opel, like an apple near the coconut near Moscow.

Everything comes to comparison: the inner decoration of the Wenga lacks fantasy jazz, softness and brightness of Meriva.

No exotic or in ergonomics, any finish. But to taste the apple thing. Arrange in a hard and set high driver's seat. I look around. There are the same as on most other Kia convenient units, climate control and audio; cute, though somewhere already vision devices. The obvious drawback visibility. Wide A-pillars and mirrors with cropped area it does not contribute.
Lounge at the rear of the most extensive, and cheesy-looking sofa will even three. The doors, of course, does not swing open at a right angle. But enter-exit will be able without difficulty.
And what about the Honda? She had become familiar, and hardly changed after the upgrade, and therefore fly on it in the landfill side as on the plane of invisibility: we ignore and mothers with prams in the courts, and young people in the diner on the highway, and even immediately notice the new model girl operator favorite gas station. Maybe in a couple of years, the Honda Jazz will play an entirely new way? But, please, do not improvise with the interior!

Due to openwork front uprights overview of the interior Honda does not cause problems.

Honda managed to create some kind of a special mood in the cabin for all its asymmetry and illogicality. In my opinion, it is in Jazz you feel the owner of a modern car. Unsuited to look and feel like plastic fused with each other. Cloth seats are soft, comfortable and cool themselves sidushki pleasing lumbar support.
Like a capacious glove box and two offices. But the most important revelation of the second row. And it was not in its ability to transform (s we dedicated separate chapter). There's more legroom than in a Kia and Opel. But Jazz Shorty: Meriva and wenge longer than its 388 and 168 mm, respectively. For the most efficient use of space, we have awarded the Jazz 10 points higher in the category of the rear compartment.

TORQUE
Meriva, which we were able to get a test, is fundamentally different from the opponents not only under its hood, doors rumbling diesel. At comparable power it offers a moment a hundred Newtons greater than its petrol competitors. Encouraged, rolls out on a rolling road and measurable gas.

Six-speed automatic Opel running disputes and smoothly, but heavy machine is still unable to keep up with the other players.

Alas, neither a melting six-speed automatic, nor the maximum thrust, available from 1,700 rpm, do not cause emotions. After all, Meriv is heavier than Venga by 281 kg, and the difference with Honda and more than 413 kg! Not the last role was played by alkalon of sound insulation. According to a subjective assessment, Meriv is the most quiet of the Trinity. At high speed, it does not annoy the wind whistle in the mirrors, almost not heard and tires. Even the engine at idle is almost not heard.
The Korean car is more powerful than rivals for 25 forces. Henga will raise at the start and acceleration to hundreds of tears of Opel in Klochery. But the four-step automatic machine with inclusions and does not always adequately choose the transfer. Then, as if understood the mistake, starting jumping from one stage to another. Straightening the heart, we still raised wenge an assessment for the dynamics, but they rechected on comfort.

The kia machine selector with a zigzag slot allows you to switch blindly.

Venga suspension is characterized by one word: oak. It is impossible to break through neither the half of the speed at a low speed, nor the cords in full. In St. Petersburg, Hong is rudely shakes the rides and exhaust the soul with meticulous recalculation of small things. The final point poses sound insulation. Sandblasts in wheeled arches and slaps on puddles Here is your music on the road.
In Dorestayling Jazz, there was only one dissonance unsuccessful robotic transmission. The rejection of it was absolutely correct. Her place was taken by a stepless variator. And the car sounded! A light and sensitive gas pedal allows Filigree to dose traction, and the variator is configured so that the engine speed is also growing with a speed set.
So the engine of the engine on one note, like many other machines with a variator, there is no in jazz. Pleasant trifle Steel gear movement petals, they are also in a Japanese piggy bank.

For an active ride on Jazz, only the sports mode of the variator is suitable, when the revs are taken to the maximum.

But the jazz suspension, which seemed so successful on Moscow prospects, disappointed, was worth it to drive away a hundred kilometers from the capital. Several times she closed both compression and feather. In terms of noise in the hall of Honda is a middle, let and not golden.

Radius of turn
As I understand the Europeans: When to put almost from any point of the old world to the mountain hand, the handling is hardly in the first place when choosing a car. I live next to the Alps, I would look like Opel. Spit on mediocre traction, the collence and loyalty to the course are more important on serpentine!
Electro-hydraulic amplifier Meriva is not a standard, but close to it. The effort increases in proportion to the speed and the steepness of the turn, so you lead the car, feeling great that the face that Opel will float out. The driver continues to inactivate? The stabilization system smoothly wins the car and return it to the trajectory.

But if before the mountains still need to fly along the highway, then Meriva will show itself a little worse. The case in the artificial sensation of the steering wheel in the okolonulous zone and barely noticeable deviations from the straight trajectory. All the time trying to understand: this car goes a bit and therefore you will be inferior or vice versa? But these are all the soldiers try to draw the same route at Kia ...
At the first moment, the steering wheel of Venga seems to be ideal in terms of recoil, one pleasure is parked in the city. I add speed: the steering wheel loses its compliance, but it does not become unnecessary with the merry.

Idyll is scattered at the entrance to the first steep turn. On the uneven coating on the ram, the whole dirt comes, the force varies jumps like, confusing. In the next turn, the hare was ciganeous, I had to fulfill the rearrangement on the full move. It was scared not only oblique: the steering wheel bored with a sharp maneuver, the feeling of not pleasant. Probably, therefore, on all Hungary with a motor of 1.6 liters, the stabilization system is included in the basic equipment. It works with a margin, dramatically presting the rapidly developing demolition of the front axle.

Honda Like a fluff! Jazz willingly responds to the actions of the driver and merrily dives in turns until time. There are narrow tires on the car, so I would be naive to expect from it. Ceremony? The stabilization system will cope with demolition (it occurs more often), and with a drift (rare phenomenon). ESP works, like all other Honda systems, delicately, but for sure.

Lovers lay a steep rejoice for sure to subscribe to mediocre feedback on the steering wheel (it is noticeably easier than the Korean and the more the German car), with the expected growth of efforts to wait even at high speeds. Distharmonia contributes to active ride and tangible body rolls. At a certain point, the rear suspension begins to firm jazz to turn more and corrects the ram. Of course, the controllability of Jazz is imperfect, there is no spark that forced it to rush to the whole support. And yet Honda left a very pleasant impression by the complete absence of irritating factors, and not this is the main, although not at all the technical characteristics of the car?

I will reveal the secret to you
How is it better to study secluded corners of the cabin? For example, something in it is hidden. How about keys from the cars themselves? We declare on the key in different tunes in each salon. The task of the volunteer, who first saw these three cars, as quickly as possible to find treasure.
Pretty Values \u200b\u200bin Wenge turned out to be almost no place, but find it more difficult!

Two keys were found almost immediately, but the third of our hero had to look for longer than in Honda and Opel (7 min 11 s). Kia in this configuration starts the button, and the key we just put in a regular slot on the steering column. Such a substament did not expect our tracker!
In the Opel, the keys were easy. In Meriva there are boxes under the front seats, the niches to the left of the steering wheel and, finally, the driver's chain. But our seeker was most interested in the multi-storey armrest, which he collected and disassembled, like a rubik's cube (5 min 45 s).

With the Honda, there were no problems: here a bunk globe, caches in the trunk and under the pillow of the left rear seat (3 min 15 s).

Mikhail Gzzovsky:
Close total estimates are due to non-drying of models: original and quiet meriva, straight and spacious wing, compact and intelligent jazz. Each model has its weighty advantages.