Hyundai Sonata NF 2004 test drive - 2008 sedan

All photos of Hyundai Sonata NF 2004 - 2008

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For the buyer, as you know, we must fight. Some manufacturers rely on a popular brand, others at an attractive price, others make a quality rate. It is in hand to the consumer who is not ready to overpay for prestige, can choose a similar product with an acceptable ratio of other indicators.
Especially in the course of Russian -made foreign cars, the quality is already European, and the price is almost ours. There are these cars in the secondary market. This time we acquire a Hyundai-intelligence produced in Taganrog on Tagaz.

Hard percentage

The choice fell on the multi-brand company Auto-Start dealer of several brands, including Hyundai. The company even had a department for the sale of used cars. Under his windows, in anticipation, 140 machines of twenty marks languished! There was something to choose from the price: offers from five to one hundred thousand dollars. The vast majority of the open genealogy at one time bought from official dealers. Obviously, car owners who have known the civilized market are afraid to get inquiring a little better to get into money than to get into the clutches of cunning traders.
The purchase price is highly dependent on the selected scheme. The most unprofitable option (minus 25% of the market) is the fastest when you get money for a rented but unsold car. About 15% of the average market price are lost by those who choose trad-in. The proceeds in this case are the first contribution for a new car. Those who are in no hurry hand over their movement to the commission, while appointing a fair price. The car is not paid here, but when selling, the company will certainly remove its percentage, the rates of which depend on the cost of the car. Their size is posted on the board of ads for the general review. There are original sentences. Say, the car can be put up for sale only on weekends, and on weekdays to use it as usual. And you can completely leave only a verbal (confirmed, of course, an act of inspection) a portrait, which will be offered to a potential buyer.

The efforts of the Department do not disappear in the bushing volume of sales are approximately 75 cars per month (about 50% of the proposed park). Everyone is satisfied: the seller without trouble receives the agreed amount (in the case of the trad-IN, she repeats, it is offset), the department of the commission, and the buyer of the car, the guarantee of the legal purity of the transaction and the remainder of the factory technical guarantee (about 30% of the car retain it). There are already regular customers who regularly update their personal fleet here.

The thirst for the beautiful
With all the wealth of choice on the site, only one sonata managed to find, but which one! Who could assume that such luxurious cars are produced in Taganrog! Judge for yourself: a 2.7-liter V6 engine (172 hp), a 4-speed automatic transmission, a complete set of all safety systems, an electric package, leather, wood, etc. Our machine was also quite fresh since the release time In 2005, she passed 38 thousand km, having lost about $ 7 thousand in price! (The cost of a new copy is $ 27,000, commission $ 19,999). What is this a gift of fate or a slow -off mine? Having rolled up their sleeves, our experts began inspection.

Outwardly, the car in strict black tuxedo looked no worse than the Mercedes-W210, resting in the neighborhood. But the neighbor had already begun to grow into the ground, and our ward found the buyer, not yet having time to dust. Who said that goods from Korea are the second variety? We still discovered some differences. The inconsistency of the front edge of the right wing with a hood, the sealing of the left rear door and the bursting of the left front wheel crawled out of the mount was calculated by exploitation costs, but the unevenly glued windshield and, with different efforts, the closing doors clearly testified about production flaws. Later, a small dent came out over the right door, but if the body was polished less diligently, it is unlikely that anyone noticed it.
They settled behind the wheel quickly enough, first of all, thanks to the successful cinema of the electric drive of the driver's seat. All governing bodies were in the field, and efforts on switches, as well as the clarity of fixation, are outside of criticism. Only the washer button at the end of the lever first seemed unusual to strain the memory, being distracted from the road.

Alienly, a flat music center JVC with a TV tuner, framed by a scarlet wooden plastic, looks alien. It is clearly not a little non -native does not fit into the bend of the mounting panel. The radio, by the way, can be installed two -day, the benefit of the place is enough, but it is difficult to choose the design, especially in the absence of a sample. Hyundai, as you know, stubbornly believes that the music is the problem of the client. But I unconditionally liked the two-story boxing box is convenient and does not interfere with the use of a manual brake.
Passengers in the cabin are comfortable, but the front airbag does not turn off, which means that you can’t put the child here. True, there is nothing to complain about fastening the children's chair on the back sofa.
In the cabin, quietly, only at high speeds of the engine, the silence dilutes the pleasant rumbling of the V-shaped six. The drum fraction of the pebbles in the wheel arches, as well as aerodynamic noise, is almost unable to hear, and if at the joints of the asphalt the suspension somewhere and reminds of itself, so in a whisper. The behavior of the car sets up on an inconsistent, unhurried drive, and not at all because he quickly does not know how to simply does not encourage you to do this. At the wheel of the sonata, the road vanity fades into the background, the entire driver's ardor (it is cooled by the inaudible work of the climate control) somewhere disappears a feeling of complete harmony with the outside world.

Well done Koreans created not just a car, but a car with an image that did not fade for all 38 thousand kilometers: no extraneous crickets in the cabin, no blank. Who traveled to the Mercedes of the E-class will understand what it is about.
It is believed that a capacious trunk of a machine of this class is useless. A wealthy man with potatoes will not be lucky, a diplomat and a set of clubs for golf. It seems that the creators of the car also adhered to such a point of view. The hump of the body amplifier, rudders towering above the folded backs of the rear seats, does not allow steadily placing a bulky luggage. And there is no hook or loops to fix it. A full -size reserve lurked under the false floor if there was a puncture, the contents of the cargo compartment will have to be dumped onto the road. A considerable part of the internal volume is eaten by the dynamics hanging from the rear windowsill and the seat belt coil of the average passenger. Competent kinematics of the lid loops that do not require additional space in a closed position, against this background, looks like a triumph of design thought.

Is it a hood! Everything is in its place, the control inspection is so simple that you will not even need to roll the sleeves of the shirt. The washer's tank is completely a special float of scarlet color, so you can distinguish the fluid level in the dark. Auxiliary units are given by the only clinic belt with an automatic tension device. If you need a replacement, it can be done and it is impossible to miss the tension effort yourself. The engine operating at idle, even with an open hood, is almost inaudible, the silence periodically violates only the cooling fan. There are no vibrations by putting your hand on the motor, of course, you understand that it works, but there is no kind of by ear and ear. And this is without individual ignition coils, with old -fashioned long high -voltage wires and with old (from the words of the manager), which have passed more than 10 thousand spark plugs.
Under the car is complete order. The bottom is even, without protruding parts, the protection of the crankcase in its place, the brake tubes are neatly laid in the shadow of Loneron. Perhaps, only only the knee of the exhaust pipe near the muffler handing back, it is easy to damage it about a high curve. However, scratches, dents, traces of wear and other signs of careless or merciless operation, we saw. At the local service, they assured that there are nothing to fear problems with multi -link pendants, in any case, up to 100 thousand km. Only sometimes in the support of the upper rear lever on the 30th thousand kilometers appears. In this massive design, a spacer sleeve is hidden between two steel burdocks, and with poor -quality welding it can tap. They learned to treat the defect for a long time, but in our car it, fortunately, is not.
Leaving the parking lot, each of us regretted in our souls, which does not have the right amount. Hyundai, of course, is not a Mercedes, but, in our opinion, can serve as a reasonable compromise.