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Test Drive Kia Picanto: Spicy Adult

Riding on the new Kia Picanto, the portal Kolesa.ru got off the bill, holding a sheet in his hands with options, was amazed to cheer out a small motor and removed away from the eye of the price list.

The ultra-compact class cars in Russia are still peculiar. They are with a smile, they are glad, they are sleeping, admire their parking, maneuverable abilities and economy. But do not rush to buy. In a country where the size matters, machines just over three and a half meters in length, at best, the role of the first car is assigned to the recently received spouse. Will the situation in the Russian market be able to change in the classroom and we tried to find out with the new hatchback Kia Picanto.

What to hide, the car began to look more balanced and adults. Thanks to the relief front bumper and the darkened front pharmaceuticals with the driving LED (!) Lights, on the face of Kia Picanto 2011 there was more seriousness. The overall picture of the matcano alloy wheels, chrome-plated door handles and turning repeaters integrated into the side mirrors are emphasized.

Heated steering and engine start with button in Kia Picanto?!
Holding in the hands of a key chain with the function of needleless access, causing yourself to think that this device is deprived of other prestigious sedans. The interior of the new Picanto and at all makes you forget that you are in the car of the budget class itself. In the maximum configuration of the LUXE, the White CD KIA climates, a major information display, an audio system with a USB connector and support for MP3 format, the sound of which, though leaves much to be desired. Buttons of the mirror folding of mirrors, heating the steering wheel and starting the engine (!), Delivered unprecedented on cars of this class, surprise no less.

Does not spoil the sensation even the hard plastic, which is finished the cabin hatchback. These are not tooth-ascetic salons of some competitors in the new Kia Picanto everything is an adult. In general, being inside the fresh generation of compact Kia, you feel in a full-fledged car, just very small. Although it's no higher than 180 cm in front of the front and behind a person, the feeling of the elbow and the shoulder of the neighbor will be felt very clearly.

The trunk in cars of this size has always been the subject of ridicule, especially from people for whom seasonal and country migrations are an integral way of life. However, for the urban needs of 292-liter space behind the backs of the rear seats, Picanto enough enough: a sports bag and a pair of packages from the grocery store will be arranged without any problems. Those who will seem insufficient to this volume can easily fold the rear row of seats, and in parts, increasing the space almost to one cubic meter.

Okay, how is Kia Picanto 2011 riding?
Moving through the realities of the metropolis of a new baby helps a tandem of 1.2 liter motor with a capacity of 85 hp and quadiapazon machine. And it helps very cool. Not bad engine settings and gearbox, supported by good sensitivity of the accelerator pedal, allow you to move on Picanto in a hooligan style. It is a pity that the excitement of excitement, immediately becomes the empty and non-informative steering wheel, devoid of objective feedback. Hood, but elastic suspension, it holds a car in turns well, but makes it harder to push the brake pedal to approaching obstacles.

Having collected all the listed advantages of the new generation of Kia Picanto 2011, it would be possible to conclude that we had a new bestseller in the class of super-compact cars if it were not for one but the price. We do not argue, at the level of equipping the top pack of LUXE with automatic transmission, puts on the blades of other representatives of the class above, but the cost of 549,900 rubles looks frightening. Adding a little more, you can consider a car with a machine gun not even one, but two classes above, albeit inferior to the equipment.

Is the new picanto cost so expensive?
Basic Standart equipment with a liter motor and a manual box will cost 364,900 rubles. Moreover, it will not be an empty car: electric power steering, front airbags, full electric car, heated seats and on-board computer all this is part of the most inexpensive version.

The modern urban car lacks only ABS and air conditioning. True, these two options are available only in the Comfort configuration, to pay extra in which it will have to make a dozen (and not very) positions. As a result, the price will be 459,900 rubles.

And yet, in the overwhelming majority, such a car will be considered with an automatic transmission. And although the starting cost of Kia Picanto in the absence of a clutch pedal looks quite adequate 409,900 rubles, the same optimal complete set of Comfort with air conditioning catapults the price to five hundred thousandth mark. With such pricing politics bright kid picanto smile will not have often not often, but sorry