Test Drive Hyundai Accent 4 Doors since 2006 Sedan

How much Sedan for the people

The client, as is known, is always right: I want a small car in a prestigious body, please.
 
Here you have Renault Symbol and Peugeot 206 Sedan. And in the company to ethnic French, we invited the Russic Korean Hyundai Accent.
 
Potat the peaks of residents of developing countries, turning elegant hatchbacks in the controversial appearance of the sedans, probably not worth it. But do not argue about tastes. Therefore, diplomatically refrain from the description of the exteriors of three-volume kids. Let's talk better about how comfortable they are and practical.
 
Perhaps most comfortable driving Hyundai Accent. (Although the Baranca is large and thinner does not cause touching memories of the Zhiguli.) True, a low landing (you can't fall into the chair, but you fall), due to the constructive features of this sedan, can cause complaints from people's people. The ability to adjust the seat pillow in height would definitely prevent. As well as the setting of the steering column on the flight, it will be needed by tall drivers so that the ram does not chop on their knees.
 
For the sake of justice, we note that the opponents do not indulge with this either (and in the basic Symbol steering wheel is generally unregulated). But both small Frenchmen can boast the presence of a driver's seat elevator (for surcharge, of course). The seats themselves are not a masterpiece, but quite comfortable: the back does not get tired. With visibility in general, too, everything is in order. And in general, serious ergonomic punctures, no one of the participants in this test is probably not. The choice of transfers from drivers of all three problems will most likely cause. (Except that the symbol rear duplicates the first, including with the lifting of the retainer ring on the lever.) The knobs of the CP have a big free move, but the transmissions are turned on smoothly and without noticeable muscle efforts. The length and rigidity of the clutch, of course, are different, but all drives are quite informative. In any case, you get used to fast and special problems in traffic jams are not experiencing.
 
Well, what do our heroes offer passengers? For the driver, whose growth is significantly higher than the average, people growing in the salons of our heroes, probably not worth it. And the place in the middle of the rear sofa is better to leave for a child it is so safer.
 
The budget sedan is regularly used as a truck: seedlings for the cottage to take, potatoes from there to take out. Therefore, the capacious luggage compartment for the owner of such a car thing is paramount.
 
And here our heroes are at the height. The trunkings are very hotels, and if necessary, useful volume can be increased by folding the back seat (in the Renault sofa back folds entirely, and in Peugeot and Hyundai in the ratio of 60:40). True, the possibilities of transporting large-sized longs in Symbol are somewhat limited to the protruding elements of the power structure of the body. The peugeot sedan of this lack is almost deprived, and taking into account the optimal form of the compartment (it is due to the traditional for budget models of this manufacturer of the rear torsion pendant) the trunk of the 206th can be recognized as the best in our Trinity. Although more than 500-liter Symbol chest volume, of course, impressive.
 
By the way about the suspension. Peugeot and Renault, she is very comfortable and practically impenetrable: abundant by pleasant surprises in the form of choseli, failing hatches and tram rails, Moscow directions, mistakenly called streets and prospectuses, they are nicking. It is not surprising, because both Frenchmen are adapted to heavy road conditions, we can say genetically: Symbol is produced in Turkey, and Peugeot 206 sedan in Iran.
 
Korean suspension, albeit adapted to domestic realities, such hardness to boast, perhaps can not. What, however, does not mean a low smoothness of the accent move for its class and the price category machine is quite comfortable.
 
It would be strange to wait for the modest smallty tract to outstanding dynamic characteristics. Moreover, the heroes of this test surprised us, who demonstrated a sufficient reasonably acceptable for their segment. Especially pleased with Hyundai real car on the background of rivals. But this is with its most powerful in the Trinity with a 1.5-liter 102-strong engine and not surprisingly. Both Frenchman are completed with the engines with a working volume of 1.4 liters, and if relatively modern Renault aggregate issues 98 hp, then the peugeot archaic 8-valve is only 75.
 
Although if you turn the engine, constantly supporting high speeds, then Symbol with 206-m allow you to draw. For example, the author managed to stay on the tail of the machine, halvening superior to the PEUGEOT power.
 
True, it did not deliver particular pleasure. The steering wheel of the Iranian Frenchman is not a sharp, nor informativeness. In the okolonul zone, it is absolutely empty. At the same time, at high speed, the machine simply does not have time to adequately respond to work with the steering wheel. And with the slightest provocation, it strives to break into the skid. What is a consequence of excess unsressum masses, which changed as a result of the transformation of the hatchback into the sedan of the wave (heavy ass unloads the front axle) or the problems of a specific experimental sample, do not judge. However, in comparison with the classic 3/5-door 206th, the car frankly loses.
 
However, the perfect manageability cannot boast Peugeot competitors. And Symbol, and Accent do not always have time to react to quick work by the Branca, is pretty harder in turns, demanding increased attention on slippery coverage due to an explicit tendency to drift.
 
On the other hand, it is impossible to evaluate an inexpensive car for every day by the supercar standards. Yes, behind the wheel of any of our Trinity at the auto speeds, it becomes uncomfortable (besides, at high speeds, the engines are noisy). But in the city, especially with a relaxed driving manner, the cars behave quite adequately. And what else is required from the budget car?
 
That's right, so that the package has taken to be cooled and cost cheaper. Miracles, it is clear, does not happen (especially in our time of cravy petrodollars, when the thing is as a red price in the ruble without a branch of conscience, they are asked ten). But nevertheless, we will try to compare the most affordable versions of our heroes.
 
The level of basic configuration as a whole comparable to the machine empty, like a tambourine shaman. For example, in the list of equipment ACCENT ($ 11,300, or 293,700 rubles), mentions of the GUR (by the way, the only option is definitely present in all three cars), adjustable steering column and tachometer. Basic Symbol for $ 11,9999 (311,900 rubles) can only boast only a driver's pillow with a central lock with remote control. On their background, Peugeot cost from 329,000 rubles. ($ 12,650) Equipped with almost royal: 2 airbags, electric windows of the front doors and even the regular radio tape recorder (not the god of the message of which Clarion, but still not an uddled cassette ural, like Accent). But for a person who is not spoiled by the domestic auto industry (namely, such people are the target audience of the participants of this test), and this is happiness.
 
In the most advanced versions, you can count on the gentleman's set of options: ABS, air conditioning (and even climate control!), Full electric car. Any of three cars are available even with an automatic transmission. True, such cars will cost much more expensive. For example, for the top version of ACCENT with an automatic dealers are asked 386 700 rubles. ($ 14,870). And the Iranian Frenchman with a 1.6-liter 110-strong engine and automatic transmission will cost 470,500 rubles. ($ 18 100). And here, right, it is worth paying attention to Symbol: In the maximum configuration of Expression + with the ACP, stitched with everything that is possible, this car will make it easier for your wallet for only 429,000 rubles. ($ 16,500). Or search the car class above.
 
Crash Test Hyundai Accent
Hyundai Accent 2002 model year has passed a series of tests of the American NHTSA Association. As a result of the frontal test, the car received 4 stars for the safety of the driver and the front passenger. The side test car performed worse: the protection of the front and rear sedals was estimated at 3 and 2 stars, respectively. The probability of overturning at the same time amounted to from 20 to 30 percent, which corresponds to the 4 star indicator.
 
PEUGEOT 206 SEDAN crash test
There is no information about the crash tests of the Iranian sedan, therefore, the level of its safety can be judged only according to the results of the tests of the same-name Hatchback of the French assembly, conducted by Euroncap in 2000. As a result, the compact earned 25 points (4 stars), 11 of them in frontal test and 14 in the side. In the first case, the experts noted the potential danger of injury to the driver's feet with hard elements of the cockpit and a pedal node. The second stage of tests has passed without serious comments.
 
Renault Clio Symbol Test
The frontal crash test Renault Clio Symbol according to EUROncap was carried out by one of the Russian automotive media in 2002. As a result, the sedan scored 11 points from 16 possible. Due to the high strength of the body, the car's salon remained almost entire, the passengers did not receive serious injuries, but as a result of the strike, the driver's door was blocked by the mixtured power elements.
 
Text: Andrei Tsybulsky
Photo: Alexander Polunin, Yang Segal
 

A source: Mkmobil [04/09/2007]