Test Drive Hyundai Atos since 2005 Hatchback

Korean gram

Headers dedicated to this machine publications - those that we know - all as one beat the Musketeer theme. Well, ATOS is so atos ... But here the car appeared in front of us, and we began to wipe your eyes. On the back door - although stylized, but completely clear metallized letters ... And not atos, but atoz! The first thought - stressed s not the side. But no - the word is completely different. Maybe the version is some special?

 
Everything turned out to be easier. Even the Koreans themselves call this car and so, and so. On the official website of Hyundai - ATOS. In the photo there - ATOZ. And in the machine description, the name and double - ATOS (ATOZ). The point is most likely that for Koreans Latin letters are as unusual as their hieroglyphs - for us. Or Cyrillic - for the British. After all, the misty albiones write our letter and as Latin N, when, not knowing the language, copy the Russian text - and on the contrary ... and in Korea - some kind of letters, apparently, made a stamp not to the other side. Well still that ATAS did not work ...

 
At first glance, the car learns a 100% citizen. The length of the car is less than 3.5 m, the width is less than one and a half, the sinks of the body are minimal ... All to the fact that in the deaf plugs atoz with their dimensions should feel like a fish in water. A large height of the machine (1600 mm), and therefore the cabin (1290 mm), do not leave any doubts that the residential volume will arrange not only a sutal. Rows of seats (due to the high legs, they would be more appropriate to be called chairs) are located amphitheater - the rear sofa cushion of centimeters is ten above the front row pillows. With such a layout, landing the driver and passengers is obtained more vertical than in the usual car - it allows you to play a dozen-other centimeters of the internal space and create an acceptable level of comfort for four increasing people.

 
The result of further strokes - flat internal door panels and compact torpedo. The latter is essentially, the shelf with three niches (one of them is exactly under a cigarette pack). The glove box moved under the right front armchair and is a retractable, similar to a large ashtray, tray. The interior is full of Korean flavor: cheap plastic, someone visible seams and traces of casting ... All this is quite consistent with the price category of the car.

 
Seats - with a convenient profile and very stingy adjustments back and forth. When the front chair is moved to the front, the driver, and before the stop forward - the rear passenger will be content with small: it seems not closely, but not spacious. The consolation can serve as a large air layer between the tops and the ceiling. The rear back can be folded only entirely, so that options for transporting more than one passenger and at the same time a washing machine - no.

 
Devices. Three round scales are assembled under the visor - shape and sizes, all this resembles an instrument combination on the scooter. Information is read without problems. Only the most necessary data is displayed - speed, temperature, fuel reserve. Yes, and that say: who goes into the peak hours on the instrument, especially - on the tachometer?! Much more important visibility. Here everything is in benchmark: from the driver's seat it is very clearly visible that it is going on in close proximity to the front bumper, on the sides and even behind (despite the high lower rear window line). An overview of the outer mirrors - massive burdocks - also does not leave the dead zones.

 
The proportions of the ATOZ bodies are caused by its unusual appearance. Special signs: Downstairs (huge windshield), straight posture (wide vertical rear rack with a block of lanterns on it), big eyes (headlights set on the hood and wings). In the appearance of ATOZ there is something from the concept car MERCEDES-BENZ Vision A93 (the last prototype of A-Class) ...

 
Hyundai Atoz - Full (in our national understanding) car. If only because it is not three in the engine, and four cylinders and wheels are not 12-, but 13-inch.

 
The liter motor has a typical configuration for Hyundai - 3 valves per cylinder under one camshaft. At the exit - 59 hp If we take into account that the average city car is constantly lucky by one driver and only 0.3 passengers, then in practice the full mass of Atoz rarely exceed a ton. And in order to confidently move, six dozens of horses to him more than enough.

 
It is worth paying attention to the feature of the ATOZ transmission (in addition to the usual 5-speed manual box, the car can be equipped with a mechanic with automatic clutch or a 3-speed automaton): the gear ratio of the main pair - 4.53. Such a short main gear limits the maximum speed, but allows you to inform the leading wheels more tracked effort - which is very important in the conditions of the metropolis. On the first gear, you can slowly, without slipping the clutch, drag in traffic. On the second ATOZ, it will easily be rolled in a slide and accelerates to 60 km / h. The third begins to work 30 km / h, and if the road allows you to economically roll on small engine speeds, then after 40 you can enable the fourth.

 
Starting at ATOZ from the traffic light, you can easily furnish more serious machines - the motor is spinning very vividly, and the moves of the lever allow you to quickly sort out the transfers. No tension is felt. Some Jeep was aimed for overtaking for overtaking, but our car, without reducing speed, laid the buses inaccessible to him, and a big and wide every time I had to skip myself that BMW, then trolleybus. ATOZ slipped between them, like a male through a large-scale network.

 
Dynamics. Overclocking up to 80 km / h occurs as easily and unnoticed, as, let's say, and on Hyundai Accent with a half-liter motor. But further acceleration is declining. It is felt like an ATOZ forehead literally crashes into a raid air flow. On the hundred, the third transfer rested - let's fourth. After a few seconds (driving it seems that this is a whole eternity) the speedometer arrow reluctantly translates through a three-digit mark. The pedal has long been in the floor, and the device as if mocking, slowly counting 104 ... 105 ... 106 ... only after 120 begins smooth, but confident overclocking. The maximum speed that ATOZ can develop is 150 km / h. But, in order to take it at least up to 140 by the speedometer, we barely had the runway of the airfield (taking into account the place left for braking).

 
With regard to Hyundai ATOZ, such a dynamics cannot be called. In the first three transmissions, you can go on the moment (therefore, with the possibility of sprint acceleration) and as a result, accelerate to 100 km / h. (Dispersed over this on the segment between the two traffic lights, and even in the peak hours, not every car can not be - except for some sports car ... not to mention the fact that we have no settlements, where it is allowed to ride at such speed. ) So all its sprint capabilities of Hyundai ATOZ sells at the location of a permanent dislocation - namely in the conditions of the metropolis and a dense car stream. Here it is helped and beautiful maneuverability, and a very lightweight steering wheel.

 
The maximum speed can be achieved only on the fourth - highway - transmission, which begins to work with 50 km / h. So, having left at Hyundai Atoz on a good highway, there is no reason to sit in the extreme right row. The highest, fifth, transmission (as it is customary to speak - economical) is intended to maintain maximum speed. Acceleration on it occurs with a very lazy progression, and even that - within 125-130 km / h. Further, all traction is spent on overcoming the resistance of air and rubbing tires.

 
The brakes above all silence - a confident slowdown without blocking wheels (not included in the standard package).

 
It should be noted that the car is largely subject to the influence of external factors, like the wind and irregularity of the road. With its very modest aerodynamic characteristics and high sailiness, Hyundai Atoz is inclined to ruin - it is worth only to catch the side wind, as the car pulls to the side. The cruising move is accompanied by a gingerbread and a split body. Soft long-weight suspension, coping with urban off-road, at high speed no longer able to maintain the ideal course stability of the car. But do not forget that the motorway for ATOZ is an atypical field of activity, and therefore leave any hope that on the track it will be as irresistible as in a hopeless jam.

 
However, in the city - you will sit in the other in the traffic jam, so wants to another car: more, more domestic ... But it is not the fault of Atoz, but a pretty concept of a city car.

 
Yuri Tikhvin

 
 
 
 

A source: Motor magazine [№10 / 1998]