Test Drive Hyundai Elantra Sedan since 2010 Sedan
Test Drive Hyundai Elantra Coupe. Fifth wheel for cart
At one second, when you closes the ridiculous Long door Hyundai Elantra Coupe, the charm is scattered. The rapid coupe decorated in Hyundai's corporate identity with streamlined forms immediately disappears from memory. Before you the same dashboard, center console, speed switch and seats, steering wheel and everything else from Hyundai Elantra sedan. Since the engine is also similar, a volume of 1.8 liters, then the sensations are almost the same. It can sound like a compliment. Because we like Elantra in the body of the sedan. But do the stylish design and promise of the dynamics of the sports coupe itself the fact of the existence of such a car?
Creating a coupe
Like the biological child of Breda Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the Elantra coupe has excellent genes. In comparison with the sedan, in the attractiveness arsenal, the Elantra coupe has a unique Radiator Radiator Grille with two black inserts, a new front bumper, new thresholds, a unique rear spoiler, as well as designed specifically for this car rear bumper and alloy wheels. The result will only be able to evaluate the brand fans and the project developers themselves, the rest can hardly be able to find any significant differences. But those who love to measure everything will discover that because of the new bumper coupe longer sedan on a whole centimeter.
Here is a list of what remains unchanged: everything else.
As a sedan Elantra and Hatch Elantra GT, Hyundai Elantra Coupe is equipped with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder row engine. He is still developing 148 hp With 6500 revolutions and 177 nm of torque at 4700 rpm. The car arriving for us for the test, however, had a body of badge PZEV on the body (Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle (partially zero emissions of harmful substances), which means lowering power up to 145 horses at 6,300 and 176 nm at 4700 revolutions. Direct competitors Elantra, coupe Honda Civic and Kia Forte Koup, have at their disposal 140 and 156 hp respectively.
It is quite logical to assume that in terms of the economy of Hyundai bypassing competitors, with the rates of 8.4 l / 100 km of run around the city and 6 liters on the highway for a car equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission. Choose a six-speed mechanics, and now in the city the car eats 8.1 liters, and on the highway it is also covert for many automakers 5.8 liters (40 miles / gallon).
Difference to be a difference ...
The last Sedan Hyundai Elantra, which we tested, weighed about 45 kg less than a new coupe, and accelerated to hundreds for quite decent, but no less boring 9.4 seconds. Plus-minus one tenth seconds, more from the coupe should not be expected.
The sedan was pleasantly surprised by us in the middle range of revolutions, although we never managed to resurrect in memory at least some acoustic involvement, which is undoubtedly present at the coupe. Press the gas slightly stronger, and here your rumor caresses a pleasant mechanical voice of a variety of tonality. And then, like the old Honda with engines equipped with a VTEC system, the tonality varies to a higher, a note of enthusiasm appears. Moreover, it cannot be called barely catchy, another thing is that, unlike VTEC, this does not follow any increase in power. Only noise level is added. But in the coming era of silent engines and silent hybrids, we are grateful to Huyndai already for it.
The coupe must be sports. We do not know who owns the authorship of this statement and what is his reason, but we fully agree with him. Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe, a car that weighs more than the country in which it is produced is obliged to be more sporting than a car on the basis of which it is produced. Similarly, following this analogy, the Hyundai Elantra coupe must be more sporting than the sedan. The front suspension of the coupe is similar to the suspension of the sedan, this is a MacPherson rack, supplemented by a 22-mm stabilizer of transverse stability. The rear semi-dependent suspension is finalized, taking into account the features of the body of the coupe. As a result, the suspension of the coupe allows you to set a large diameter of 17-inch wheels (in the case of the SE configuration). GE equipment is supplied to the market with 16-inch discs. The responsiveness of the steering wheel still has little common with the real world, while the steering wheel itself is infinitely heavy. Why Hyundai did not adapt to the novelty the Elantra GT steering system with a variable gear ratio remains for us a mystery. This is worth waiting only in the 2014 model year coupe, at best.
One may iterate minor detail, but in fact it is important to only one thing: the coupe Hyundai Elantra Coupe rides just like the sedan, including a great comfort on the road and sluggish dynamics.
... should have a difference
Exclusive Elantra Coupe are front seats with pronounced side bolsters and heating. They clearly hold the driver and front passenger in place, but that's set lower than in the sedan, and streamer well, you know, this road which is necessary to drive exclusively on the sports coupe front desk partially blocks a review in the corners. This is the price we have to pay for a low landing, the acute angle of the windscreen and high scores on crash tests.
A few words on the back seat. It is in the coupe is, in comparison with the rear sofa in a sedan is a little more room in the hips and legs, a little less in the shoulder area, and just as much space for the heads of passengers. We have installed the driver's seat in the center position, and offered to our the tall (188 cm) colleague experiment. He has not given up, and we all had a good laugh about how he tried to squeeze through the gap between the front seat backrest and the B-pillar.
There is, however, one difference between the weighty Elantra in coupe and Elantra sedan: the price. Contact your local dealer Hyundai, you will find that the cost of the basic version of a sedan Elantra, with the manual transmission is $ 17 470. And standing next to him, and having two doors less coupe Elantra will cost $ 18 220. You can call it a fee for appeal. Buy GT (or sedan)
Coupe gained a high position at a time when the sedans were rustic, limited in configuration, mediocre. Hyundai broke this scheme, developed a range of expressive, attractive and at the same time practical modern sedans. Hyundai Elantra Coupe, unlike their predecessors in the class coupe, does not carry anything new.
Hyundai marketers argue that 52% of potential buyers coupe Elantra are looking for a car that looks like a boys. Only 40% of Elantra GT buyers are about how young the car looks like, but at the same time they want their car to manage to manage and so that it looks stylish. In the Elantra GT model, developers combined functionality and style by providing all this with more intent dynamics than the coupe. That is why we give our preference to Elantra GT. If he looks insufficiently young, we put on a fashionable shirt or engage in the alloy on kayaks.
And our young, energetic friends who are fond of extreme sports, appreciate the ability to penetrate the cabin through especially the doors made for them.
Approx. Drom.ru. Sedan Hyundai Elantra is sold in Russia at a price of 699,000 r. (1.6 MT). Hatchback Elantra GT is sold in Russia as Hyundai i30 at a price of 649 000 r. (1.4 MT). Elantra's coupe is officially sold in Russia.
A source: Inside Line.
