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People's chosen ones. Hyundai Solaris against Renault Sandero

No need to look into sales statistics to understand: Hyundai Solaris and Renault Logan are extremely popular in Russia. It is enough to look at the transport stream with a glance, the available sedans literally flooded the streets of our cities. But the hatchbacks are not far behind and there are more and more solar solarians, and Sandero suddenly added, in January, having taken off at once from the 14th to the 7th line of the hit parade. So what is better than time -tested model or incredibly successful beginner? Duel, only a duel!


So, two five -door hatchbacks of Russian production with gasoline engines with a volume of 1.6 liters and four -band automatic machines. One field of berries? Outside, you can't say! It seems to be both in the most possible trim levels, but what is different perceptions. Gray Sandero simpleton, in his appearance literally everything screams: functionality is first of all, nothing superfluous!. Solaris, on the contrary, the dandy is a bright, fondant, a bully winding line, the Shchegol 16-inch (!) Wheels. Even those who do not like the frankly Asian face of Hyundai will probably pay more attention to him.


Of course, in Solaris I want to climb first. Click the button on the door handle (you don’t have to get the key for this) and get into a very elegant interior. The seats delight the eyes with two-tone upholstery, it is surprising and the abundance of displays has them in climate control, and the advanced multimedia system, and on the optimal instrument panel. Sandero inside is monumental and rather gloomy revitalize the salon only silver rims of round deflectors and large door handles. And the Blaupunkt radio panel will have to be removed so that small thieves do not pose. But this is full -time music offered by the manufacturer for a surcharge!

 
But Hyundai's price list is sobering like a cold shower. How much? 679 thousand rubles! And this is not a typo of exactly such an amount will be asked by dealers for Solaris 1.6 Dynamic AT with optional colored inserts on armchairs and door panels. Sandero pulls a pocket of 542 500 rubles. A solid difference! However, it is worth making a reservation that Solaris is stuffed with additional equipment inaccessible to Renault. Bend your fingers: six airbags, comfortable access and engine start button, rear parking sensors, climate control, heating of the windshield in the rest zone and even a dynamic stabilization system!

 
Let's try to bring prices to a common denominator. There is a catch with this. SOLARIS 1.6 At Active costs the same 542 thousand, but does not have fog headlights, alloy wheels and steering wheel decorations, but the audio system can be controlled by buttons on the steering wheel. And Solaris in the Style configuration and an additional package prestige, which includes 16-inch casting and climate control, costs 607,500 rubles. Busting. Therefore, it is easier to compare the basic versions with the automatic transmission and a minimum safety set.


The interior of Renault Sandero (left) is not as convenient for the driver as the Hyundai Solaris salon (right). Everything consists of little things: the headlight corrector is hidden at the bottom of the front panel, and the force on its handle is excessively; The horn is turned on by pressing the end of the steering wheel lever (all the French have already refused), the wiper does not have a pause of the brush wave, and the steering wheel is covered with rough skin. Solaris boasts music control on the steering wheel and button engine starting

In the case of Sandero, the machine is available only in combination with a sixteen -valve 1.6 and a minimum performed by Expression. The price starts with 453,500 rubles, plus ABS package and a passenger airbag (19,800 rubles) and air conditioning (22 thousand rubles). As a result, such Sandero is only 3 thousand cheaper than similarly equipped Slaris with an automatic machine. True, under one condition under the hood, the Korean hatchback will not be 1.6, but a 107-horsepower engine with a volume of 1.4 liters.


The windows control unit (impulse driverly) and the mirrors of Hyundai Solaris are on the door, and there are recesses for bottles in the pockets. But both cars in the rear doors do not have both cars. And Slaris's armrests are kutsi

But the main charm of Hyundai Solaris is that for this money you get a more modern machine in any case. The front panel has a similar architecture with adults, the seats are more convenient than in Sandero and delight with a normal height adjustment jack, wiper brushes are adjusting the pause of an intermittent operating mode. In its usual place are the buttons of the windows and lateral mirrors. With ergonomics is complete order!


-Theis backlight in the Hyundai Solaris requires the addiction of displays not only uncontrast, but the first time is unpleasant to the eye. The upper screen can be turned off by pressing the Dark button, but you should at least change the volume (and using the steering wheel control), as it flashes right there. But, of course, in terms of functionality, the Hyundai multimedia combine puts Renault on both shoulder blades here and Bluetooth, and convenient control of disk folders or a USB flash drive. And the sound is much better than in Sandero.
-Wlp buttons of the windows, emergency gallows, locking door locks and turning on the rear window heating in Renault Sandero can hardly be called an elegant solution. And the efforts on them are not an example higher than in Hyundai Solaris.
-Take the central console Hyundai block of climate control. It itself is very convenient for use, but it does not work perfectly. After warming up the engine, it automatically supplies warm air in the legs, depriving the glass of blowing. And if there are more than two people in the car, then the windows begin to fog up in frosty or wet weather. Yes, and the climate is available only starting with Style's configuration (578 thousand rubles with 1.6 and automatically + an additional package of options for 29,500 rubles).
-Renault train has classic control with the help of three rotating handles and its work also cannot be called excellent lack of the effectiveness of the heating of the leg zone. Plus, the pens themselves are small and you need to reach down behind them. And the high lever of the checkpoint overlaps the block in position P.
The heating buttons in the Hyundai Solaris are located in a convenient zone and have a visual indication

Alas, this cannot be said about Sandero. The joystick of the mirrors settled into an uncomfortable zone under the handbrake, you find giant windows keys on the central console, and the rear passengers are even forced to reach for the front chairs to open the window. But most of all, the terrible mechanism for adjusting the driver's seat in height is most annoyed. I sit down after our giant Kabyshev, pull the handle and at the same time jump on the chair. Otherwise, it will not rise!




-The adapasons of adjusting the steering column on the angle of inclination are insufficient in both machines. By departure, the steering wheel is not adjusted at all.
-This is more convenient in the Hyundai Solaris, but the position of the back changes stepped, and Renault Sandero has a comfortable lamb
-But the seal adjustment scheme in height in Sandero is incredible. To raise it, you need to pull the small metal lever and ... stand over the seat! And in order to lower, you have to rest your feet on the floor. The standard jack of Hyundai Solaris is a much more convenient solution

It’s good at least that there is heating, the inclusion of which can be guessed only by the sensations of the fifth point. So not only in the Logan/Sandero family, but also, for example, in the more expensive Citroen C4 and Peugeot 308, where adjustable drums are hidden in a blind area. What can we say about other signs of total savings? The simplest radio does not have control on the steering wheel, there is no ambient temperature sensor, and the instrument shield will cast a dusk and tunnels. It is better not to even stutter about such luxury as an armrest or a USB entrance. It is good that since the end of 2011, the wiper’s algorithm has been corrected now the brushes are turned on themselves, if you turn on the glass washer. Thank you anyway.


-Supervision Probory shield decoration of the Hyundai Solaris interior (this is the privilege of expensive sets, starting with Style). There is not the slightest claim to information. Renault sandero tidy looks good in the dark, and amber backlighting is pleasant to the eye, but at twilight or tunnels they become blind numbers merge with light scales. And the absence of a temperature sensor is surprising!
-What is an economical mode in Hyundai Solaris? In fact, nothing special. If the driver goes in a reasonable rhythm of movement, the ECO light lights up on the panel. Like, keep it up. Responses on the pedal or algorithm for the work of the gearbox do not change either.
-Do do not pay attention to the average fuel consumption in Sandero. It, of course, is more voracious than Solaris, but not so significant: the difference in the same conditions reaches about 1-1.5 l/100 km. In any case, to fit into the 11.8l/100 km in the urban cycle, which are declared for Sandero, rather than trying to achieve a result of 8.6l/100 km at Solaris

Although the quality is parity. In both interiors there is not a hint of soft plastic, but everything is well adjusted and the test machines with runs of 10 thousand kilometers does not creak even in frosts. Speaking of cold start. There are no problems with this that Sandero, that Solaris does not give reasons for concern. But with hoarfrost on the windshield, Solaris copes faster than heating the brushes parking zone. And the heating of the seats has two degrees of intensity, although it hardly makes sense: in both modes bakes. We have already talked about other features of winter operation as part of a long test of Renault Sandero and during the first acquaintance with Hyundai Solaris.

Go? I shake the Slaris engine start button and perplexed. At idle revolutions about the work of the motor, one can guess perhaps the arrow of the tachometer! Neither vibrations nor superfluous noise. At least until the supports of the power unit have been worn out. And the steering wheel is noticeably easier than that of Sandero, especially in parking modes. This will certainly appreciate the fair sex.



The rear passengers will definitely like it in Renault. In Sandero and sitting down much more convenient to pay attention to the shape of the doorway. And the three of them here are the most volitional, and the passenger who is in the center will not feel the extra sofa here flat. But with additional amenities, neither Sandero nor Solaris are indulging. There are only pockets in the backs of the front seats, and Renault has two of them, and Hyundai has one.

And it is worth clicking on the ends to the lightweight pedal of gas, how is the question inevitably born: and this is 1.6 with an automaton? Renault is behind, you feel a big difference in power 20 percent, after all! If Solaris without the slightest thought breaks off and easily reaches the main speeds, then Sandero accelerates strainedly, filling the interior with a monotonous engine howl.


-A 16-valve K4M engine of a 1.6-liter engine is known by a number of company models, but for the Logan/Sandero family, it was eliminated from the phasoregulator and deformed up to 102 horses so that it calmly consumed 92nd gasoline. However, the Hyundai motor also does not shy away from such fuel, but it has a more modern design with the phase regulator of the intake camshaft and the timing drive. And, of course, it surpasses the French opponent in characteristics: 123 hp. Against 102 and 155 Nm versus 145.
-The rangero there are 3 years or 100,000 km of run, on Hyundai Solaris 5 years or 150,000 km of run.
-The proprietary interval is the same 15,000 km. But if at Hyundai on each, then they only change the oil in the engine, the oil filter and clean the salon filter, then Renault prescribes the replacement of oil, candles, oil and air filters. The timing belt at Sandero is replaced every 60 thousand kilometers. Sandero has no salon filter

Moreover, Solaris 1.6 begins to provoke. In it, you immediately recall the forgotten impressions of the Asian machines of the 90s weightless pedals, low landing, a small steering wheel with a thin rim, constant background noise from tires, there is some kind of ease of movement in it. But the delays of the machine, when moving down, cool the ardor during overtaking, and the excessive help of the steering wheel amplifier, so pleasant in parking modes, is confused in turns the driver is deprived of a fair amount of information about what is happening with leading wheels.


-Thishic lever of the Sandero gearbox partly compensates for the absence of an armrest. Maybe that's why he is so massive? The checkpoint itself has a winter and manual modes, but the Hyundai automaton can offer only lower ranges 3, 2 and l, which, by and large, is absolutely useless
-The rear windows in Sandero are located on the central tunnel between the backs of the front seats. For Renault, this decision is far from new (it was used in the first-generation Megan or Symbol Sedan), but this fact is hardly the rear passengers.

The Renault machine operates a little smoother and, moreover, has winter and manual modes. Click a round button with a drawn snowflake, and the algorithm changes the Sandero from the second stage and the decreased in braking is much more active. But the main thing is that while driving Renault in slippery winter turns you feel much more confident than the steering wheel is much more informative. We move from the snow to the ice: yeah, the force immediately became lower, and the steering wheel is heavier on the asphalt bald spots. The driver is always aware of what is happening! And this is on medium and narrower, non -navigated Yokohama tires. By the way, they introduced an additional bonus in the Sandero piggy bank was less noise from the road. Especially in comparison with Solaris, where the Goodyear Shipovka buzzes annoyingly.


-The controlrability of Renault and Hyundai does not cause any complaints everything is simple, clear and without unpleasant fan. If the entrance to the turn is exceeded, safe demolition, and skidding can only be caused by a provocation in the form of a sharp discharge of gas or buildup. But Sandero allows you to get it out of seemingly transcendental corners! And the steering wheel does not bite with rapid rotation, unlike Hyundai, where an unpleasant step occurs by effort.
-To compose the maximum capabilities on the ice, we were prevented by different tires (Sandero has unsolved Yokohama Ice Guard 30, Solaris has his studded Goodyear Ultra Grip Extreme), but we can confidently state that the steering wheel of Sandero is much more informative. It is not for nothing that many lovers of winter or soil punch often choose Logan/Sandero as a training machine.
-The cake in both hatchbacks perfectly cope with their tasks, but Solaris's drive is a little more informative and acute.
-Thically, the strange behavior of the stabilization system on the ice near Solaris, which we mentioned in the text about the winter operation of the Hyundai hatchback, until a mystery from the Russian representation has not yet come an answer. As soon as the explanation appears, we will write a note right there

And, of course, the suspension at the couple Logan/Sandero did not praise only the lazy. I all do it! Rings, cracks, potholes? Nonsense. Renault with speed only smoothes the road, without annoying the buildup on the waves. For six months of our test, there was not a single case that Sandero break through the suspension! But Solaris also got rid of the problems characteristic of the first months of the release (the rear shock absorbers are replaced). Even with full load, he normally copes with the profile of the road, and the reactions in the turns are always unambiguous. However, Hyundai does not like the track, rides back and forth, forcing to steal. And only ugly deformation seams on the flyover are accompanied by uncomfortable shaking and roar this applies to both machines.


This photo shows how low the metal protection of the crankcase leaves in Hyundai Solaris

We have already found out that Renault Sandero, even with a machine gun, is well storming light off -road and contemptuously refers to snowdrifts. Clearance, this is the advantage of Sandero. You look around the bumpers hang at the same height with solaris. However, Hyundai is much lower than the crankcase is located (well, at least that it is metal). Therefore, sit in winter on the belly in the rut of a couple of trifles. By the way, Renault also has an off -road version of Sandero Stepway with an increased road clearance and a combat body kit made of unpainted plastic. The best option for those who like to spend the weekend in nature, but cannot afford more expensive crossovers.


-Formally Slaris trunk than Sandero 370l versus 320. But Sandero has a significantly wider opening and below loading height, which facilitates the use. The backs of both hatchbacks are folded in parts, but if they are folded completely, then the volume of cargo compartments will grow to 1210l in Renault and up to 1200l in Hyundai.
-In the underground of Hyundai, a full -size reserve on a cast (!) Disk, and Sandero has nothing. How so? Everything is simple: the fifth wheel of Renault is located under the bottom.
There is a niche with fixing straps in the left corner of the Hyundai trunk. There, for example, a canister with water or non -freezing fits perfectly. Trifle, but nice

So what is better? Watching why! The class is one, but the characters are completely different. Hyundai Solaris is an unambiguous leader if you operate the machine in civilized conditions. And even if the trunk is not as convenient as Sandero, and the rear passengers will complain about the cut doorway, but on its side is bright appearance, fashionable equipment and excellent dynamics. What else is needed for daily trips around the city or highway? Unless noise insulation is better ...

And Renault Sandero is an unpretentious hard worker. The worse the conditions, the better he! The energy -intensive suspension in combination with a decent clearance allow you to go along a broken primer faster than on other crossovers. A simple design and not the most modern engines the guarantee of reliability, because Sandero is almost identical to Logan, which has already established itself with an almost trouble -free and hardy machine. But age is merciless. It is felt that the Hyundai Solaris car is more modern, it is just a different level. Too obvious flaws in the ergonomics of the ascetic salon Sandero.

That is why the main sales of the Logan/Sandero family are available for their affordable modifications around many temptations, when you have an amount of 500-600 thousand. Don't like Hyundai Solaris? There is his twin brother Kia Rio, there is a Volkswagen Polo sedan, a new Chevrolet Aveo enters the market. But, despite the simplicity and imperfection of ergonomics, the demand for Logan/Sandero does not fall in January by their owners of 9046 people, against 7172 sales sold. And the next generation of Logan was no longer along the mountains of Renault threatened to bring him almost to a car dealership in Geneva in March. True, there is information that the French decided to postpone the prime minister. Cunning? Or make changes to the design, making the future Logan more attractive? One way or another, we will find out soon. And be sure to arrange a test for a rare!

Security
The Euro NCAP European Association tested Dacia Sandero even according to the old rules in 2008, when the presence of a system of dynamic stabilization and the requirements for reducing injuries inflicted in the case of hiding on pedestrians was not taken into account. But even with two airbags (and more for Sandero they are simply not offered) he earned 12 points for the frontal blow and 12.1 for the side. The result is solid 3 stars. Moreover, the conclusions of European experts were confirmed in the crash test of the Russian publication to Author, which has its own testing method there the basic Renault Logan with one pillow also received 3 stars.

But with Hyundai Solaris not everything is so clear. Koncap (KNCAP) beat the Accent sedan (as called Solaris in most markets) with six airbags and a dynamic stabilization system. The result is quite predictable 5 stars. And the American Road Safety Insurance Institute (IIHS) also assigned the highest index G (Good) to the machine. However, in the test, the author, in which Solaris was broken in the basic configuration (then he had only one driver's pillow), the car deserved only 2 stars. One way or another, but the power structure did not arise to the body of the Solaris of claims well the driver and passengers.

Vadim Gagarin
Photo: Vitaly Kabyshev

 

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