Hyundai Elantra 4 doors 2003 - 2006 sedan

Hatchback for family and business

Hyundai Elantra: discreet, fast and affordable

In fact, the model was born a couple of years ago, and slowly sold to itself in Russia, without interfering with anyone. The situation has changed last year, when Carnet 2000 received the status of an exclusive importer of cars of this Korean brand. The first steps were a significant decrease in prices and the introduction of a five -year guarantee. Now the hatchback entered the market.

Practicality first of all

All Korean cars, not only Hyundai, are distinguished by a very peculiar design. Yes, recently, many of them are gradually pulling up to the European style, which traditionally combines in themselves as if the facets and severity brought out along the patterns. But still they are different. Many are still noticeable for a certain orphanage, as in the verses of Omar Khayyam. It seems to be clear what I wanted to say, but there is always a feeling of incredited. It makes sense to describe the appearance of Elantra, I think there is no one and so can be seen in the photo. Here are the front headlights. It is noticeable that more than one sheet of Watman and not one glass of coffee went to outline. The grille of the radiator itself is also very good, but all together does not create a feeling of complete harmony. Or rear lights. The hatchback, which, by the way, looks more dynamically and finished than the sedan, they migrated with the senior sonata v rank, and again, they look very respectable, especially when after pressing the brake pedal, salute from small ones that diverging in a circle flashes in them Lights. But for some reason, the whole back of general does not force him to look at him for a long time.

I re -read everything the above and thought, yes, perhaps, it is. But on the other hand, it is Hyundai for only 13 thousand dollars. What do I want from him for that kind of money? This is always the case with a Russian person: what we do not store, we will lose crying. It is worth looking in the car and good features. Frankly, there are also many of them. Take at least the same appearance. Simple, uncomplicated, calm and neat. And most importantly, imperceptibly. Such a car can be safely left for an overnight stay near the house, without spending on the super -signaling of Hyundai from the hijackers is not in fashion. Again, many prefer not to stand out and not to shine their own well -being. Elantra will suit such people.

I was convinced that I was convinced with the car very soon, I only had to sit inside. This is a real family car, spacious and bright. The front panel, as it were, hugs the driver, implying that the rest of the passengers is not necessary to look at it at all. Better let them relax, stretch their legs and look at the spacious windows. Fortunately, and in front and behind, free space allows you to get a job with very acceptable comfort.

In terms of the number of all kinds of drawers, cup holders and possibilities of transforming the Elantra salon, although not a leader, but at least is not inferior to many competitors. Firstly, convenient cup holders on the central tunnel, which can be used as ordinary shelves for small things. Secondly, the front and rear armrests already in the basic configuration are hidden in themselves in the box. In the trunk under the floor, a full -fledged reserve and, again, free space for tools or things that you want to hide from prying eyes. Yes, and the cargo compartment itself is by no means small sizes with folded rear seats (by the way, they can be disassembled in parts) its volume is more than 800 liters, and this, by the way, is one and a half more boxes from under the TV with a diagonal of 25 inches . In general, a very roomy car with its compact size.

Not quiet, but nice

I conquer the motor and shudder I got a diesel? The cold engine was so rubbing that I remembered the neighboring Volga, which he once drove from Norway, where she was changed to the engine to diesel. Every morning he warmed him for a long time, filling the whole yard with sounds. No, in Elantra everything, of course, is not so scary outside his sound is very muffled, but in the cabin it could be quieter. You warm up well, and then it will become quiet, an employee of the car dealership in which I took the car advised. Okay, three minutes pass, five, the sound has become indeed not so sharp, but still the motor is good.

I go to the Altufevskoye Shosse in the region in the region in the morning, I press the gas and ... wow, but the engine is not a mistake, it holds a shock! The first gas transmission to the floor on a tachometer of 6,000 revolutions per minute is clearly included; The second is twisted in the calling on the speedometer already 110 km/h. UV, let me take a breath. For such a dynamics of a 1.6-liter engine developing 107 forces, I am ready to forgive both a very calm design and noise. Moreover, at high speeds, the motor begins to be pleasant to bake, and does not switch to folding, like many of its low -commercial brothers.

On a straight wheel, you can carelessly hold ElanTra with one finger as if it is pressing an invisible magnet to the road. No screening and vita, even when traveling at speed with oncoming trucks. Here is my favorite platform a good square kilometer of asphalt, I don’t want to frolic. Previously, however, he went out to look at the tires. Kumho PowerMax? Well, I think it will begin now. I accelerate, smoothly outline the curve drawn in my head. The force on the steering wheel of those when it seems that you make a single whole with the car. One would like to say aloud: Elantra, and you are a pleasant interlocutor, and then go to you. The tires hold the road, and not bad. I repeat the exercise, but a little faster. It begins to demolish the turn of the nose, and for the discharge of gas goes into the skidding of food. Moreover, everything happens quite smoothly and predictably. So sideways and pass the turn next time to control the machine is a pleasure, if you want, correct the trajectory, if you want, you want.

Damn, where did the ice come from here? As I did not notice him, I won’t know the mind. In general, only a snowdrift, into which I flew into the front bumper, from a collision with a fine shoots along the edges of the site. The main thing is that the pillows do not work, I think. There are two of them in the car, regardless of the configuration. How much, interesting, would I have to pay a thousand, two for them? However, what am I talking about? After all, this is my safety, health, which you can’t buy later.

Enough for today adrenaline, it's time to give the car. I’m going back and get scared really something happened to the suspension? She began to remind herself with some kind of blink. I listened not, knocking on the front, but from behind. Strange, Elantra is new, only from the salon. I tried to go around all the pits in the salon of silence, but on irregularities knocking again. Yes, apparently, the Koreans did not pay too much attention to the sound insulation of the salon. Maybe in the sedan this is not so noticeable, after all, a separate trunk is jamming knocks, but in the hatchback they are audible.

What more like?

Finally, it turned out to be time to get together with thoughts. What happens? Honestly, I got more advantages in the column in the column. The equipment is one of the most extensive in the gamut, a groovy motor, capacity at a height. Plus, I was pleasantly pleased with the blue-violet backlighting of the devices is a very stylish solution, absolutely not annoying my eyes in the dark.

Who such a hatchback can come? Definitely a family, especially if there is a summer house. Or a manager, a businessman who has to take samples of some products with him from time to time. Finally, a quick, rather comfortable, economical and non -pathos machine is exactly the criteria that the Company Car is selected according to. Hyundai Elantra fully corresponds to them.

There are enough competitors, and I will not list them. Those who decided to choose a car with Elantra parameters, I recommend solving a simple equation in which the engine volume, the spaciousness and practicality of the magnitude are known, and the price will be the value of the desired. Read the advertisements, and everything will be clear.

Ivan Serpilin
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Brief technical characteristics of Hyundai Elantra 1.6
Engine volume, cubic meter. See: 1600
The number of valves for the cylinder: 4
Power, l. with. at about./min.: 107/5800
Max. Torque, Nm/at about. min.: 143/3000
Acceleration to 100 km/h, p.: 11.0
Maximum speed, km/h: 182
Average fuel consumption l./100 km.: 7.4
Fuel tank volume, l.: 55
Dimensions, mm.: 4495x1720x1420
 

A source: Newspaper "Automobile Izvestia" [No. 6 (30), 2003]