Test drive Kia Spectra 2004 - 2009 sedan
Pragmatism as a way of life
If you are calm, pragmatic and do not like external effects, you will definitely like it. All that we have dreamed about so long ...
This was talked about in spring: in Izhevsk, in the squares, where more recently, the mound and strange plots were born, the assembly of Kia was supposed to begin. Rumors were even confirmed by business. A little more than a year ago, the so -called pilot batch of 600 cars was released at the factory and tried to sell them. They tried, because because the price of an optimally equipped Korean Russian screwdriver was set, to put it mildly, not at $ 14,950.
Everything has changed for the best last fall: in the capital of Udmurtia, the welding and paint workshops were earned. The same optimal (it is called the optimum) modification immediately fell by $ 1630. In other words, the Russian spectrum has become the most profitable golf class sedan in our market. Dealers accept orders with might and main. Moreover, versions with automatic transmission appeared. The most richly equipped car for $ 14,700 we took for acquaintance.
Udmurt Ivan everything without deception I didn't expect. After all, a new car from the cabin should be filled to a samovar shine. And here ... a layer of dirt on the body is such that it is impossible to take up the door handle without getting dirty. However, what am I talking about? Especially for me, the car was in a hurry to drive into the pioneers in a thousand kilometers. Rather to the sink! Moreover, this will be a good reason to carefully study the flaws of the domestic coloring will be found.
And here is the first pleasant surprise. Washed and polished, the spectrum shone with silver metallic, and no matter how I looked out, I did not find any factory flaws. Now let's look inside. The luxury version must please something like that. I remember how unexpectedly solid was a purebred Korean (such cars were produced until 2003 and in small quantities were officially supplied to Russia). Chairs with a fabric-kozhana finish and good side support, and a driver with an abundance of adjustments, the skin on the steering wheel, inserts for aluminum on the front panel ...
Classes of the door. Oh no no no. The gray November sky, a gray machine, the ocean of gray hard plastic. Neither centimeter of the skin, no aluminum gram. The only weak spark of the velor of the upholstery of the doors is pale blue. And the apotheosis of the hymn of savings is huge, almost with the cover of the glove box, a plug for a two -dine radio.
Marking in miles and km/h slightly worsens the readability of the speedometer
The front seats have good lateral support, but are deprived of height adjustment
Starting from the optimum, the machine is equipped with a glass, reading lamps and a mirror in an anti -loner visor
Anyway. All this is by and large emotions. And what about the options promised in the price list that increase comfort and safety? Here they are: simple buttons and air conditioning control hilts, an electric drive of heated mirrors, even a couple of airbags, all this is available. And somewhere in the bowels of the machine, the steering hydraulic power steering should work and actively interfere with the locking of the ABS wheels.
Well, the pragmatist triumphs in me: as much as you want to call the spectrum gray or plain, but everything that is needed for life is in it. And it would be good if it were not for the flaws of ergonomics.
The steering wheel is clearly thin and regulated only in the angle of inclination. Plus a sad-pile-yellow illumination of gleaming devices. To sit higher, unless they are ready to put to the place that lower the back, the grandmother’s pillow will not work. The chairs were also saved on the microlift.
Places on the back sofa with more than two dense tall adults are enough. But the entrance/output is limited to the narrow part in the lower part
The holes on the wings can become foci of corrosion or serve to install lins
Russian tires, battery and Izhavto sign all other components from Korea
Actually hidden wiring of the heating of the seats is the only visible flaw of the Izhevsk assembly
The trunk cannot be opened outside without a key, and he cannot boast of the lid upholstery. But by the standards of classmates, Yemok 440 liters
But high (from 185 cm) there is an unexpected expanse. Even such, sitting behind themselves, will not feel unhappy atlantes. A rather long base 2.56 m and low seats allowed us to stock up on the place and above the head and in front of the knees. But getting out of the back sofa is inconvenient. The doorway in the lower part is excessively narrow, and the door upholstery protrudes greatly.
Of course, both design and such an approach to ergonomics can be argued. But from a 101-horsepower 16-plate without electronic bridle in the form of eurloh IV requirements, I definitely expected quite gambling dynamics.
Illusion of flight It wasn't there. As if somewhere in the bowels of a 4-speed machine, thirty good forces were lost. No matter how much I push the gas to the kik-doward, after 50 km/h, I can’t even keep up with the VAZ seven. And where are the promised less than 14 s during acceleration to hundreds? Eh, now I would have time to emerge from under the gazelle being rebuilt from the left row ...
However, where am I in such a hurry? If you, as the inhabitants of the pioneer camp, are always cheerful and cheerful, buy a lively spectrum with mechanics after three thousand. I, having chosen the machine, teach myself to calm and generosity. And now I have already learned to use the trump cores of the Izhevsk Korean most effectively. I notice how smoothly can switch the machine. The motor at high speeds does not torment: it is noticeably effective, it is still to four thousand. I am glad that at the start of the rise, I do not have to dance immediately on three pedals. If the engine was shocked less on the idle, otherwise it is how he beats Morzyanka with a slightly ajar glass of the driver's door ...
Outside the city, gently swaying that the intercity bus, the spectrum scored its 110 km/h. After all, not according to the rules. But not one of those who rush in the neighboring rows along Simferopol, now, it seems, does not remember this. In order not to interfere, I had to get an old driver, but still a vigorous for the 24th Volga for his years. We are not going, we float. For a small machine, the spectrum unexpectedly imperceptibly swallows joints on the overpasses and licks the fits and waves in the asphalt.
We float for five minutes, ten. A slight rise speed drops to hundreds. The line is again 110. And everything would be nothing, but today I intended to drive more than one and a half hundred kilometers to the south. It would be desirable to return back. And in an involuntary tandem with an old barge, it is doubtful that I will have time. And I can't crawl like that anymore! In dry weather, and on a solid highway.
Walking all ... on the right side! Thinking, done. Left row. Five hundred meters flying behind. Now. I am able to be polite and have time to overtake a series of trucks. The machine gun switch to the step below. But so far, under the annoying rudder of the motor, buzzing about five thousand, the speedometer measured 120, my spectrum, like a large-fledged truck, managed to collect a string of cars. Yes, I press on the gas, I squeeze! I would still have a straight kilometer, and, like you, rush, I would have rushed 140150 ...
The most interesting thing: finally accelerating to this speed, I found out that it does not force the spectrum to dance on comfort. The car confidently holds the straight line. I even started to like it. Alas, not for long. At the first denouement, a little faster, entering the turn, almost paid. Kia tilted, waited until the shock absorbers, as if from a large all -terrain vehicle, would choose all their impressive moves, finally began to follow the wheel, but then the tires requested mercy.
You must thank the steering wheel for the fright. The impression is that its transmitted mechanism works in very viscous oil. Yes, and 14-inch tires of amtel-planet-2r are not for gambling drivers. While you are going in a straight line, such a chassis and the steering does not interfere with the laziness. But if in Russia there were only arrow -shaped highways! With each left bee, passengers, as if sailors on a catamaran, are just right to command the left side, with the right, on the contrary. You look, and it will be easier to align the course.
A very true thought
Of course, you can calmly ride no higher than 100110 km/h. To overtake so as not to force the crankshaft to spin faster than 35004000 (above very loud), and before each bend of the highway, it is prudent to lose the benefit of disc brakes even work more efficiently than expected. And no sharp movements, here it is the element of an automatic spectra. So you need to live a respectable family man.
And so, for sure, buyers of this kia will do. Warring the soul very pragmatic (and the hand on the heart, very true) with the thought: albeit boring inside and outside, albeit without a spark in character, albeit noisy from medium turns and even if not without flaws in ergonomics. But the new golf class sedan is cheaper, but with such a comfortable suspension, a spacious salon and a machine gun in Russia, you can’t buy.
Norm or luxury?
The Izhevsk spectrum is sold at five levels of equipment. The cheapest versions are the norm for $ 11,500 in the salons most likely you can’t find it yet. Such should appear closer to the New Year. And do you need such a car? After all, its only good audio training. The standard for $ 12,200 has a power steering, a central lock, electric windows and even a pair of airbags. The optimum by $ 1100 is more expensive and richer for air conditioning, fog lights and heated mirrors. There are versions with automatic transmission. This is premium for $ 14,320 (the same as the optimum, with the exception of heating of mirrors and fog) and luxury. It costs $ 14,700 and attracts the presence of ABS, the heating of the front seats and the telescopic antenna.
PER
The most profitable golf class ratio and quantity of the car; comfortable suspension; quite a spacious salon; the ability to equip with modern means of passive safety
AGAINST
Boring appearance; cheap finishing materials of the cabin; large rolls in corners; noise and vibration from the motor; thoughtful automatic transmission; Modest dynamics
Kia Spectra 1.6
common data
Body, number of places/doors
Sedan, 5/4
Equipped mass, kg
1094 (1030)
Length x width x height, mm
4510x1410x1160
Base, mm
2560
Trunk volume, l
440
Speed, km/h
175 (186)
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
13.4 (11.6)
Average fuel consumption, l/100
8.3 (8.0)
Fuel tank capacity, l
fifty
Engine
Working volume, SMZ
1594
Power, L.S. at rpm
101/5500
Torque, kgsm at rpm
14.8/4500
Chassis
Transmission
4-speed automatic
(5-speed mechanical)
Suspension:
independent, spring, with stabilizers
front
Type McEzerson
behind
Mollycent
Steering
rack type with amplifier
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Tires
185/65 R14
Car
0.21 $/km
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [22/2005]
