Hyundai Elantra 4 doors 2003 - 2006 sedan

Bank for family

A comfortable suspension, a rather frisky 1.6-liter engine, a spacious interior and a relatively low price.
Hyunde Elantra, who visited the test six months ago (ZR, 2005, No. 6), left a favorable impression. A comfortable suspension, a rather frisky 1.6-liter engine, a spacious interior and a relatively low price. In general, an attractive proposal in its class and a logical hit in the ten best -selling foreign cars in Russia. Now we have a more powerful modification with a 1.8 liter engine.
Since the spring dough, prices have grown: $ 600, the cheapest GL equipment with a 1.6 -liter engine ruled. Now this is offered for $ 14,390. The ceiling is a two -liter version with an automatic machine of almost 20 thousand green. A machine with a 1.8-liter engine and a manual box costs $ 17,090, with an automatic machine for a thousand two hundred more.

We postpone the price lists, it's time to pay attention to the car itself. Having left the cabin of the cabin, he immediately buried himself in a long cork. Not very flexor 1.8-liter engine in such a situation: at first it seems to be eagerly picking up, but suddenly, as if a craving disappears. It is not possible to touch without an unpleasant jerk. Perhaps the reason is the incorrectly selected adhesion or engine control settings. I will have to play pedals, otherwise I rinse the passenger.
I finished off due to a tight clutch pedal, I had to knead the tapped leg. But the brakes, on the contrary, are too light. There are no serious complaints about the effectiveness of, and it was not immediately adapted to dose the effort.
In terms of landing, ergonomics, design of the Elantra interior with a 1.8 liter engine, it practically does not differ from cheaper versions. The steering wheel is regulated only in height. And if the steering wheel was moving in the longitudinal direction, he could sit comfortably. The seat pillow turned out to be short.
For the rear passengers, the central armrest. By the way, this is far from all in all analogues of Elantra. The back of the seat is folded in a ratio of 40:60, the trunk of a convenient configuration, roomy. Under the floor, a full -size reserve.

Elantra with a 1.8 liter engine has a long list of options characteristic of more expensive and prestigious cars: four airbags, climatic installation, glass and mirrors with electric drives, fog lights, heating seats and armrests. But by inheritance from inexpensive sets of a 1.8-liter Elanger, an inconspicuous interior passed. If you do modernization, it is probably worth starting with a boring, poorly readable instrument shield.

The traffic jam finally ended in the break. This is not to say that the motor disappointed, but from a thousand eight hundred expected more. It is likely that the car is gaining a hundred slightly less than 10 seconds, but the engine feels not enough renunciation characteristic of units of this volume. There is no sparkle in the character of the engine, so pleasing when pressing the pedal to the floor: slowly, without failures and pickups, the motor promotes long gear of a five -speed box.
You can’t call a silent unit with a silent unit already from low revolutions, the salon fills its soft, but noticeable talk. True, it does not irritate the hearing, even when the tachometer arrow is selected to the red zone. The box is good: the gears are turned on clearly, the lever is softly and flexible to the desired position.
Hyunde Elantra with a 1.8 l engine is more expensive than the richly equipped version with a 1.6-liter engine (both machines with a mechanical box) for $ 600. But this is a allowance not only for cubes, but also for the opportunity to purchase options. One of the most attractive side pillows of the driver and front passenger. And the excess engine volume will be very useful when several passengers are sewn into the car, and a weighty load will be written in the trunk. By the way, do you have a big family?

Hyundai Elantra
The first generation debuted in 1990. The current one saw the light in 2000, three years later, the appearance refreshed. In some countries, the model is sold under the name of the Lantra or Avant.
Engines: gasoline 1.62.0 l (105143 hp). With a two -liter turbodiesel (112 hp), cars are not supplied to Russia.
Gearboxes: 5-speed mechanical and 4-speed automatic.
Test car: 1.8 l, 132 hp, a mechanical 5-speed box.

SUMMARY
Hyundai Elantra with a 1.8 liter engine for every day with all amenities. But the outstanding design and the clockwork character are not about him.
+ Comfortable suspension, spacious interior, rich equipment, convenient gear shift.
- poorly readable instrument panel, poor interior design, non -informative brake pedal.

Maxim Sachkov
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"