Test Drive Kia Pro Ceed since 2007 Hatchback
Kia pro_ceed: reality on four
Without the editor, we listen to a roar from under the hood of the most sports Korean hatchback. KIA PRO_CEED 2.0 MCPP
Andrei Skvortsov, Head of the Advertising Department of the portal Kolesa.Ru
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Keep the keys and good luck to imitate! In the voice of Mikhailov felt chitrijan. As if he had nothing to do with the drive, we would not go well, we will understand.
I go out on the street and in a second I find Pro_cee'd among several dozen parked by the editorial board. Like! All such an aggressive, with a dynamic design, noticeable from all sides. He sets up a special style of movement: with drive, which begins with a turn of the key in the ignition lock.
The interior of the machine is fully qualitatively. The plastic dashboard is soft, and the chair is well integrated and coped with side support. Controls are logical, all in their places. The scales on the instrument shield are read easily, and the red backlight does not cut eyes. And if you distract from all this and click on the gas car rides! A double-liter, 143-strong motor captures already from the bottom and climbs up to the red zone, and the transmissions switch clearly, despite the length of the scenes.
However, to enjoy the dynamic qualities of Pro_cee'd turned out only on a flat asphalt. Pluses ended ... - -
When setting up the rear view mirror, I caught myself thinking that at the next parking lot I had certain problems. Will it back this and eat rear window? Not glass even a boat! Yes, and is located under such a sharp angle, except the light to skip into the car.
I did not like the steering: the force increases with a clear advance of the speed set, as a result of which feedback is lost. The suspension is harsh, very sensitive to the irregularities of the road and creates a certain discomfort to the driver and passengers of the car, getting into a rut, mainly at low speed, it strives to jump onto the neighboring strip. Maybe the reason in low-profile rubber on 17 '' discs? However, again by moving onto the smooth asphalt, I still could get my share of drive.
Philip Berezin, editor-in-chief of the wheel magazine
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Nothing more corresponding to the status of a car of the beginning of the XXI century in Kia has not yet created. Drawn, invented and assembled Pro_cee'd very good. This is the main thing.
He has a memorable appearance: expressive headlights, sharp body lines, dynamic silhouette. Such a car could do in France, in Germany, in Japan and this can be considered a compliment, because in
this component is unlikely to take place in explicit leaders, and it is necessary to match the high average level. Salon generally beauty. The exact colors of the instrument illumination are found, perfectly combined with metal rims, well-reading numbers, practical and beautiful design of radio tape recorder and climate control. The interior turned out to be a adventurous and quite understandable. The convenience of managing secondary functions does not cause any complaints. On the contrary: everything is made with inaccessible Koreans until recently shik and style.
On the course of Pro_cee'd was not very impressed, but the higher the speed, the more confident I felt for his pleasant in the tuning steering wheel. Undoubtedly, tightly pressed to the road Pseudo-alone KIA can delight. So, choosing a golf class budget car, I would pay attention to Kia. It is quite competitive in dispute with Peugeot, Opel or Ford.
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For a critical journalist Pro_cee'd, the car is hardly ideal. Because, despite the fact that the advantages of it is evident, Kia is definitely there is something to criticize.
I'll start with the tail. Loading things in the trunk is even pleasure. Bags have to drag over high thresholds, the overall objects are hardly cleaned into the narrow opening of the third door.
In a specific instance, the rear gear was twice the third. To remove the ignition key from the castle, it must be drown in the larva. While I understood it, I almost broke the key. List of annoying trifles can be continued.
Two-liter motor of course, advantage. But even for a pseudo-adjusting machine, the steering wheel could be fired. If you drown a pedal to the floor, the adhesion of the front wheels with the road leaves much to be desired. And on a slippery road was terrible: the steering wheel became weightless, the front axle was about to break into the skid.
As an ordinary family car Pro_cee'd I really liked. When he had five doors. In this status he is good. But as a quick, youth selfish, if you want, you do not want to consider the means of movement. Maybe therefore 5-door kia we have a lot, and there are few 3-door?
Alexander Korobchenko, Deputy Chief Editor of the Wheel Magazine +++
Pro_cee'd brought to the idea that Kia goes in the right direction. Much does not work yet, but this is not a problem for an ambitious company. Much comes with experience, and if you look back, on previous arrows of Koreans in a golf class, it becomes seen: a little more and Korea will pass the stages of evolution, repeating the confident flow of the Japanese car industry.
Prosida perfectly turns out sharp traffic lights and timely stops when the jerks suddenly be broken by the next traffic light. Its low-profile wheels allow, not tightening, to keep straight at high speed, and the energy-intensive suspension elastically smoothes vertical asphalt oscillations. But the most remarkable in Korean is the ability to surprise stylish and not yet covered dynamic design. Not from the ceiling, it turns out, the Slogan of The Power To Surprise The ability to surprise ... And the prosidation has a good interior design and quite acceptable finish materials; And besides, Kia can recognize MP3 player records. Ask, yes, who can not stick the iPod or another player now? In fact, except for Koreans, so far
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Not so long ago, Kia broke into a segment in which there are stronger rivals who have established too high standards. Before Mazda3, VW Golf and Ford Focus, prosoid clearly displaces.
The engine works loudly; Insufficient vibration isolation causes the floppy and salon mirror to crack and buzz, and the rear transmission can be turned on not every time.
Places above your head will only be enough for the driver in 180 cm in 180 cm; The edge of the seat cushion should be lifted a little higher, and the backrest adjustment is carried out by a wheel: uncomfortable.
The suspension is surprising: at low speed, Kia Ryano is clearly felt clearly. And when the speedometer arrows indicates the coming fine for exceeding, it is necessary to fear turns: small pits, bumps and asphalt joints can lead to jumps and jumping of the rear axle. Scary
And the Pro_cee'd need a parking radar. The docking of the car with the parking lot complicates a bad overview of the back, fraught with scuffs and bother the rear bumper.
Alexander Mikhailov, Wheel Magazine Observer +++
It seems our meeting was not accidental. I waited for this test that the proposal to take on a trip from Moscow to Peter a two-liter Pro_cee'd made as of granted. While boredom! I'm driving an alternative! Alternatives to the Okomina two-liter foci, which and to disperse in the parking lot already problematic so much was divorced: alternatives to the general idea of \u200b\u200bKorean technique as something utilitarian. The squat, proportional, gouge, this KIA will easily respond to the prefix in his name. Pro What? Pro Sport!
Passers-by head will not get out, but it is not lost in the stream, it is for sure, especially against the background of the modest-Ceed. Designers so much succeeded attempted to bring the spirit of the coupe into the flesh of the usual, in fact, the hatchback that the question was that three doors were somewhat uncomfortable, did not even stand in the most famous editorial pragmatists. Beauty, you know, the force that it is necessary.
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A two-liter atmospheric under the hood, at least not turning. The interior, at least, is boring. The price is at least high. Three hours steals are not bad, the suspension is tight enough; And at the same time, the driver was left the chance to keep all the dental seals in its places, but from a cotton steering wheel, practically deprived of a clear reactive effort, I was tired in a couple of hours. Motor, of course, is a line, but the same Fordovsky is inferior and in the torque, and the tasty of pickup. The difference in overclocking up to 100 km / h between Focus 2.0 and Kia Pro_cee'd a little more than a second in favor of the first, but much more, much more. And to the high-frequency, very and not sporty sound of the exhaust system can be used to, and pride in flat chairs is quite bye. But after all, I wanted a drive, the pleasure of Pro-Sport finally, and got a solid utility with a united taste of monotony.
But focus, as it is boring, it is for a long time to meet any of the parking lots. Pro_cee'd also remains an exclusive. But not in their will.
Authors: Alexander Korobchenko, Alexander Mikhailov, Andrei Skvortsov, Philip Berezin
Photo: Margarita Clickhev
A source: Magazine "Wheel" [October 2009]
