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Kia pro_ceed: reality for four
The whole editorship are listening to a roar from under the hood of the most sports Korean hatchback. Kia pro_ceed 2.0 manual transmission
Andrey Skvortsov, head of the advertising department of the portal kolesa.ru
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Keep the keys and good luck! A cunning is felt in Mikhailov's voice. As if he had nothing to do with the drive okay, we will understand.
I go out into the street and in a second I find Pro_cee'D among several dozen of the cars parked at the editorial office. Like! All so aggressive, with a dynamic design, is noticeable from all sides. He sets up on a special style of movement: with a drive that begins with the turning of the key in the ignition lock.
The interior of the car is decorated quite in high quality. The plastic of the dashboard is soft, and the seats are well -stained and cope well with lateral support. The governing bodies are located logically, everything is in their places. The scales on the instrument shield are read easily, and the red backlight does not cut the eyes. And if you distract from all this and press the gas, the car is going! The two-liter, 143-horsepower engine is already capturing from the bottom and lucky up to the red zone, and the transmission switches clearly, despite the long stroke of the curtains.
However, to enjoy the dynamic qualities of Pro_cee'D only on an even asphalt. The pluses are over ... - -
When setting up the rear -view mirror, I caught myself thinking that in the next parking, I would have certain problems. Looking back is this the rear window? Not glass even a loophole! Yes, and is located at such an acute angle except perhaps the light to let the light into the car.
I did not like the steering: the force increases with the obvious advancing 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 a car, falling into the rut, mainly at low speed, and strives to jump into the next lane. Maybe the reason is in low -profile rubber on 17 '' disks? However, having again moved to even asphalt, I was still able to get my share of the drive.
Philip Berezin, editor -in -chief
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Nothing more corresponding to the status of a car at the beginning of the 21st century has not yet been created in Kia. Drawn, invented and assembled Pro_cee'D very well. This is the main thing.
He has a memorable appearance: expressive headlights, sharp lines of the body, a dynamic silhouette. Such a car could be done in France, in Germany, in Japan and this can be considered a compliment, since in
this component is unlikely to escape into obvious leaders, and it is necessary to match the high average level. The salon is generally beauty. Exact colors of devices were found, perfectly combined with metal rims, well-reading numbers, practical and beautiful design of the radio and climate control. The interior turned out to be moderately adventurous and quite understandable. The convenience of controlling secondary functions does not cause any complaints. On the contrary: everything is done with the inaccessible Koreans until recently chic and style.
On the move, Pro_cee'D was not very impressed, but the higher the speed, the more confident I felt for his pleasant wheelbuilding by the steering wheel. Undoubtedly, the pseudo -sports Kia can give pleasure to the road. So, choosing a golf-class budget car, I would pay attention to Kia. It is quite competitive in a dispute with Peugeot, Opel or Ford.
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For a critical journalist Pro_cee'D, the car is almost perfect. Since, despite the fact that its advantages are obvious, Kia certainly has something to criticize.
I'll start with the tail. Loading things in the trunk is still pleasure. The bags have to be dragged through a high threshold, overall objects are hardly squeezed into the narrow opening of the third door.
In a specific copy, the rear gear was stuck twice to the third. To remove the ignition key from the lock, it must be drowned in the larva until I understood this, I almost broke the key. The list of irritating little things can be continued.
A two -liter motor of course, an advantage. But even for the pseudo -sports car, the steering wheel could be more further. If you drown the pedal to the floor, the adhesion of the front wheels with the road leaves much to be desired. And on a slippery road it was scary: the steering wheel became weightless, the front axle was about to threaten to break into a skid.
As an ordinary family car, Pro_cee'D, I really liked it. When he had five doors. In this status, it is good. But as a quick, youth selfish, if you want, the means of transportation do not want to consider the Pro version. Maybe that's why we have a lot of 5-door Kia, but 3-door Kia?
Alexander Korobchenko, Deputy editor -in -Chief of the Wheel magazine +++
Pro_cee'd suggested that Kia is in the right direction. Much does not work out yet, but this is not a problem for an ambitious company. A lot comes with experience, and if you look back, at the previous attempts of Koreans in the golf class, it becomes clear: a little more and Korea will pass the stages of evolution, repeating the confident tread of the Japanese auto industry.
The project perfectly get sharp traffic lights and timely stops when jerks suddenly break off the next traffic light. Its low -profile wheels make it possible, without straining, to stay straight at high speed, and the energy -intensive suspension elasticly smoothes the vertical vibrations of asphalt. But the most remarkable in the Korean is the ability to surprise with a stylish and yet not so blurred dynamic design. Not from the ceiling, it turns out, the slogan of The Power to Surprise has taken the ability to surprise ... And also the Sender has a good interior design and quite acceptable decoration materials; And besides, KIA knows how to recognize MP3-player records. You ask, who can not stick an iPod or another player now? In fact, except for the Koreans, so far a few
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Not so long ago, Kia burst into the segment, in which there are stronger rivals who have established too high standards. To Mazda3, VW Golf and Ford Focus, the sitting clearly does not fail.
The engine works loudly; Insufficient vibration insulation makes you crack and buzz the internal lighting plafon and the salon mirror, and not every time it is possible to turn on the rear gear.
There is only a place over his head only to the driver tall below 180 cm; I want to raise the edge of the seat pillow a little higher, and the back adjustment is carried out by a wheel: inconvenient.
The suspension is surprising: at low speed, the KIA ruts are zealous clearly. And when the speedometer arrow indicates the upcoming fine for excess, it is worth fearing the turns: small pits, bumps and joints of asphalt can lead to jumps and jumps of the rear axle. Scary
And also Pro_cee'D needs a parking radar. The junction of the car with parking greatly complicates the bad view back, fraught with scuffs and bumper bumpers.
Alexander Mikhailov, observer of the magazine of the wheel +++
It seems that our meeting was not accidental. I was waiting for this test so that I accepted the proposal from Moscow to St. Petersburg to St. Petersburg as granted. So far, boredom! I am driving an alternative! Alternatives that filled the soreness of two-liter tricks, which are already problematic to settle in the parking lot: alternatives to the general idea of \u200b\u200bKorean technology as something utilitarian. Square, proportional, merchant, this kia will easily be responsible for the prefix in its name. Pro what? Pro Sport!
The head will not be unscrewed by passers-by, but it will not be lost in the stream, this is for sure, especially against the background of the modest, simple. The designers were so an attempt to implant the spirit of the coupe into the flesh of the usual, in fact, hatchback that the question of the fact that three doors are somewhat uncomfortable, did not even stand with the most burned editorial pragmatists. Beauty, you know, the power is what you need.
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A two -liter atmosphere under the hood, at least does not start. The interior is at least boring. The price is at least high. The three -door is not bad, the suspensions are tuned quite hard; And at the same time, the driver left a chance to preserve all the dentitions in their places, but I was tired of a cotton rustle, almost deprived of a clear reactive force after a couple of hours. The motor, of course, is burdened, but the same Fordovsky is inferior to both the torque and the goodness of the pickup. The difference in acceleration of 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 it feels much, much more. And to the high -frequency, completely not athletic sound of the exhaust system, you can get used to it, and sit down in flat chairs is quite possible. But I wanted a drive, Pro-Sport's pleasure finally received a continuous Utility with a freshly taste of monotony.
But the tricks, no matter how boring it sounds, meet for a long time on any parking. Pro_cee'D will remain exclusive. But not of his own free will.
Authors: Alexander Korobchenko, Alexander Mikhailov, Andrey Skvortsov, Philip Berezin
Photo: Margarita Shchelgacheva
Source: Wheel magazine [October 2009]