Test Drive Hyundai Elantra Sedan since 2010 Sedan

Test Drive Hyundai Elantra: Optimal Hyundai

The model that was lucky to transform beyond recognition, and for the better.
Becoming a full-fledged link in the updated model line Hyundai, having received a new appearance, Elantra was harmoniously fit between Solaris and Sonata. Now the consumer, loyal to this Korean automaker, has become quite simply determined with the choice of a particular model. Externally, they are almost identical, the difference is only in size and price, yes headlights of the headlight, then upside down, then the head.
Elantra is not inferior to relatives in attractiveness. Even on the contrary, it is a golden middle and able to beat the potential C-class buyers not only from other brands, but also at Solaris with Sonata, which in the end is definitely on the hand of the company.
A lot of new style has already been said about Hyundai. The public approves and praises him. Yes, that there is enough to say enough to compare previous versions of models with relevant two opinions can not be. Blurry bleeded forms changed clear sharp lines, emphasizing rapidness and modernity. Perhaps, no brand of direct Hyundai rival can boast such bright models, and Elantra, having the most harmonious forms, will definitely have to become a bestseller.
Tight steering wheel with an electric caller, moderately rigid suspension, a frisky 1.8-liter 150-strong engine and impeccable work of a 6-speed ACP put a car in one row with the best representatives of Class S. Korean company designers managed to catch up with Japanese standards as Assembly quality and dynamic characteristics. The elantra of the fifth generation is perfectly controlled, it has sufficient overclocking dynamics so that the driver felt a comfortable power supply for the maneuver, both in the urban stream and at the high-speed country track. The motor works softly and smoothly, it is resilitating to the gas pedal, it is easily spinning to 5.5 thousand revolutions, the maximum power is achieved even higher than 6.5 thousand revolutions. Fuel consumption even with aggressive ride did not exceed 12 liters per hundred. This is a little more declared by the manufacturer of 9.4 liters, but also the mode of operation of the engine during the test was not an average - turtle, in which the automakers typically measure the city consumption.
It is worth noting that with an automatic box and a 1.8-liter motor, the car does not demonstrate the outstanding dynamics of overclocking, but also declared by the manufacturer 10.2 from zero to hundreds of enough to be in the forefront avant-garde. The maximum speed of 202 km / h This means that the speed of 160-170 km / h car is able to hold as cruising. The main thing is that the road cover allows, and there was a space for flight free from traffic jams, overall agricultural machinery and police radars.
The car ignores most of the defects of the road: he does not throw a pronounced rut, almost does not demolish on the blesses when overcoming at high speeds of the joints of the concrete slabs of the Moscow etakada. The energy-intensive suspension of omnivorous it swallows most of the irregularities, while the return to the steering wheel is practically not transmitted. It does not mean that the steering wheel of the car is not sensitive, even on the contrary, it is very informative, thanks to which you decide on very thin maneuvers.
With such a sweet basis, you expect that at least in the filling the manufacturer did not report something, but, as I did not try to find the deficiencies in the organization of the interior, I did not find anything other than the trifles and the color. Is that the old color scheme black with chrome-plated parts The front panel traditionally for Hyundai is not decorated with the devices with blue illumination. Because of this solution, it seems that the interior has not changed from the previous version, although, in fact, the Elantra salon is original. It is modern, elegant, comfortable and quiet. And even heated the rear seat here is, as in the new sonate. Frequency for C-class cars. An incredible number of positive features even describe everything is somehow awkward. I feel angazhane, looking at the Sport version in each line plus. Rain and light sensors, start-up / engine stopping button, tailless access to the cabin, 17-inch wheels. As they say, everything except skin.
Summary
The car is definitely a worthy acquisition. Excellent running quality, a neat interior, a complete set of electronic helpers with the driver, optimal for the city size (4.5 meters in length) and, of course, bright appearance, of course, on the scales of weight to buy the fifth elantra. However, on a bowl against the price (899,900 rubles), the company of competitors is provided, among which not only top-end configuration of C-class cars of other automakers, but also the basic models from the D-class. If with the first Elantra confidently competes and has obvious advantages, then the second has a number of advantages in front of the optimal Hyundai, among which not only size, but also manufacturability. In addition, the Motherland of the brand and the country of origin of the model plays a latter role for us, and here Korea is still very difficult to compete with the same Japan.
Price test copy from 899,900 rubles.
 
 
 

 

A source: Business Autoclub