Hyundai Grandeur test drive since 2005 sedan

I'm sitting high

The grandeur, splendor, splendor well, let's put it off. Knowledge? This concept in the 21st century has become vague. Here is a high position (the word Grandeur has such a translation) new Hyunde is suitable. Even on the Moscow streets rich in prestigious cars, this Big Black Sedan is perceived respectfully.
IN THE BAG
I will not envy the stylists of representative sedans. The canons of the genre restrain the fantasy: they prescribe to have a long base, a spacious interior, wide doors. In addition, trying to pack these properties in the eyes of solid customers (and who else is addressed to such machines?) Forms or to defeat with screaming details, to put it mildly, risky. Hyunde-grander designers (stress on the first syllable!) They did not take risks. In front, the older brother resembles the NF model familiar to the Russians, behind the experts of modern fashion can estimate themselves which associations evoke two -story food and slightly narrowed lanterns. However, everything looks harmonious together: it is moderately relevant, moderately strictly.
A car like a hat. Now not a very fashionable headdress has recently denoted belonging to a certain social group. By the way, in the rear seat of the Hyundai Grandeur (acquaintance began from there) in the hat (if it is not a cylinder) sit down without problems. The opening is large, convenient, high ceiling. And reaching the back of the driver’s seat talked in 180 cm with the knees of the master in the hat is not easy. On the back glass, the curtain, above the head, touch the reading lights, darling!
I move behind the wheel. Like behind, everything is strict, solid, convenient here. But, alas, boring. Of course, the wooden inserts bring respectability to the design, but still the instrument panel evokes associations with cheaper cars. Here would give the will of design fantasy!
The seats with a lot of adjustments are convenient, although they could be wider and deeper, and the pillow is short. In fast, steep turns, the lower part of the body strives to pour on smooth skin.

Strong melancholic
Well, again! Lifted by a beautiful motor, sensitively responding to the gas pedal, and successful, clearly and timely changing transmission by an automatic box, I notice excessive sharpness of driving. This is not a thing! So he would have behaved a hired driver trying to smell a free hour on a chef for personal purposes. Or an uneasited offspring of a solid surname, grabbing a car on a day to a day.
Hyunde Grander does not save in front of powerful neighbors in the city stream, will allow confidently, with a large margin to overtake on the highway. The brakes work perfectly, convincingly besieging a heavy machine. Excellent sound insulation and an easy -to -use climatic installation are ready to reliably protect the inhabitants of Grander from the noise and smells of a vain, dusty world.
However, it is worth refraining from sharp maneuvers not only because it suffers Grander's status.
At a speed of about 60 km/h, I slightly sway the steering wheel to the left and right, but the huge piano will not move. I increase the corner: now the car, thinking a little and swinging melancholy, went where I planned. In cars, like people, sharpness, swiftness and high position are rarely compatible. Exceptions are, but not often. Grander is not one of them.

EFFICIENCY
Representative sedans are not the most practical cars in the world. Nevertheless, in this class, you can estimate the coefficient of the useful action of the machine, the price-quality ratio is more familiar.
Spacious sedans for $ 44,000 with a huge trunk, a powerful engine equipped on the principle of all inclusive (from eight airbags to separate climate control and rain sensor), in our market, and indeed in nature, not many in nature. So, Hyundai Grandeur is at least an interesting offer. I won’t talk about splendor and splendor, but I think there will be a feeling high at the inhabitants of this machine.

Hyundai Grandeur respectable sedan with rich equipment, a solid, but boring decoration.
+ A powerful engine, good gearbox, excellent sound insulation.
- A rusted, without imagination, interior decoration, sluggish steering.

For the same money
Mercedes-Benz C-class
Є30 30075 000 ($ 38 78096 000)
The brand, of course, is very prestigious. But for the value comparable to the price of Grander, only a version with 200 compressor with a 143-horsepower engine is available, whose equipment is close to the base.
(ZR, 2005, No. 6)
PEUGEOT 607
$ 40 33053 420
A solid and French in French, but, alas, far from a new sedan is offered with motors with a capacity of 160211 hp. A version with a 160-horsepower engine and a mechanical gearbox will cost about $ 43,600.
 
 
   

 


Sergey Kanunnikov
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"