Kia Venga test drive since 2009 hatchback

Kia Venga. Road "City - Garden"

Compactwaines in the segment B+ are now a dime a dozen. At least a dozen representatives compete in this frog. Buyer in a panic. His eyes scatter. He does not know what to do. And recently, another representative of the Kia Venga clan family came to this terrarium of friends.


The European design studio of the Hyundai-Kia alliance worked over the appearance. More than once, the chief designer Peter Shreyer has not been pumped here and has not pumped up here. The appearance of the Vengia turned out to be whole, but most importantly memorable

Although recently it is how to say. In Europe, the machine appeared in the fall of 2009 after the debut at the Frankfurt car dealership. Then, by the way, I saw the light and restyled sed, which visited our test last summer.

In Russia, Venga has become available only in February this year and is not so far not too good in demand. The novelty has not yet been tasted. And many who have already managed to find out about her are scaring off the cost. Venga is more expensive than many competitors, the prices for compactiven will start from a mark of 614,900 rubles! Say, the Koreans are stunned! And you will be right. Stunned. Everyone was stunned. The increase in prices in the automotive market is the trend of recent years and nothing to do with it.


Venga translated from Spanish as a call come on! Or go!

Now let's try to figure out whether it is worth looking towards Venga.

Ladybug? Not at all. Venga is not so small, although it is built on the same front -wheel drive platform as the city Kia Soul and Hyundai I20. The length of Venga is comparable to Soul, but the wheelbase is 65 mm longer (2550 mm versus 2615). So passengers in Weng are much more comfortable. In the cabin, the place is almost like in CEED, which, incidentally, refers to the C-class. And above the head of space, even more than a weng is higher than Ceed for as many as 12 cm!


The interior is designed simply and concise. The steering wheel is grip. The front panel is made of hard, but pleasant to the touch plastic. Silver inserts revive the overall atmosphere

For the city, for the house, for the family. The main thing in any compactwane is a spacious and functional interior. These are the main advantages over ordinary hatchbacks. With the same dimensions, more space and transformations. In our ward section of the 2: 3 of the rear seat, they move independently from each other forward-back within 15 centimeters. Moreover, the inclination of the backs is also a step -by -step. Such flexibility will always allow you to find a compromise between the riders and the placed load. It is a pity the back of the front chair does not fold. There are plenty of containers for small things. But the main thing for the rear passengers of the place of the car. I sit down behind myself, and in front of the knees to the back of the front chair the place is still a fist, and this is with a height of 190 cm. Plus, the floor behind is absolutely even, there is no tunnel at all!


The climate control unit is all the same. Cossack twins and large comfortable climate keys are arranged in the sun. Large pen leads the temperature, small with a bottle cover with fan performance

The trunk also has its own feature of the floor here double and its level is regulated. If the false floor is in the upper position, you have at the disposal of a fenced off hold, into which a pair of beer boxes will fit and much more. The height of the loading platform is maximum, which is convenient when loading heavy things does not need to be transferred through the side. Need to translate a large luggage? Lower the false floor to the bottom, and then the total amount of the trunk will increase from 452 to 560 liters (under the curtain with seats completely moved back and back back).

And what is behind the wheel? On the ergonomics of Veng, a hard middle peasant. She is far from the Skodov Rumster, but it is much more convenient here than in the popular Nissan Note. To play a place for the rear passengers, the landing of the front riders was made slightly vertical, which is why the fair part of the weight falls on the fifth point and this is an additional load on the lower back. Back back, giving part of the mass the back and there wasn’t there. I no longer have enough range of departure of the steering column. Although for the very availability of this adjustment to the engineers respect! The pedal node is free, the clutch is light, the brakes are sensitive, like the French

The dashboard itself is simplicity and conciseness. At the bottom of three wells of information at least there is not even a temperature indicator (instead of it an overheating indicator), but the readings are read at a time. Of the decorations only red risks on the speedometer, but they do not seem superfluous ... However, there is a significant minus on Russian machines, unlike those that are supplied to Europe, the brightness of the instrument lighting is not regulated. ESP, six pillows and other benefits please. And a penny chip that changes the voltage of the supply is not-e-e-e-it! Squeaks !!!


Capacities according to the law of the genre of a whole scattering. Only in the central panel and tunnel there are three of them, only two cup holders are not enough. In all doors, voluminous pockets with patterns for standard 1.5-liter bottles. A voluminous glove compartment with a cassette for paper and pockets for trifles. Auto -breeder only driver electric window

Despite the fact that Vienna shares the platform with Soul, on the road she holds more mature. It stands better on a gentle arc and is less astray from the course on bumps. Comfort is also incomparably more. All thanks to a softer suspension and a stretched base. The rolls, by the way, are completely small in extreme modes. The rotation insufficient in sliding the first is sent the front axle. So safer. In the skid, the wing should also be allowed to try. But this is only possible if you disable the strict system of dynamic ESC stabilization (available in Luxe and Prestige performances). The steering with a progressive characteristic of amplification depending on speed. At parking speeds, the steering wheel is very weightless for this thank you, especially the girls will appreciate. But at the feedback speed, the cat cried. How characteristic of Koreans!

And what about the craving? In the Russian market, compactwane is offered with two gasoline sixteen -plasticities of the GamMA family with a volume of 1.4 and 1.6 liters. Both engines have a phase -inverters at the inlet, resonant boost and the recirculation system for exhaust gases. Thanks to all tricks, the engines meet the requirements of Euro 4 and are very economical. But the diesel engines have been bypassed by us. It's a pity.

90-horsepower 1.4 is available only with a mechanical box. 125-horsepower 1.6 for a surcharge can be obtained with a four-speed hydrotransformer automatic machine. By the way, the Koreans are soon requested to replace this transmission with a new less thoughtful, preselly box with two clutches, which will have higher efficiency. This year, five -speed mechanics will be replaced by a six -speed one, just like that on diesel machines, only with a different side.


At the back is an absolutely even floor and an adjustable split sofa, driving forward-back on the sleds. On the seat, a man tall 187 cm

Vienna with 1.4 highway. Despite the shorter transmissions, the engine provides very modest accelerations. Acceleration to the test hundreds of 12.8 seconds, maximum speed at 168 km/h. At high speeds of overtaking, there is a real torment, especially when there are two or more people in the cabin.

Sufficient for the Wenger can be recognized as a more powerful version of 1.6. A 125-horsepower engine, accelerates compactwane to 100 km/h in 10.9 seconds (with automatic transmission 12.2). But this already looks like something! The maximum speed here is more than 182 km/h (C automatic transmission 178 km/h), and more elasticity is better. The motor is noticeably more at average. It develops the maximum 156 nm (at 4200 rpm) against 137 nm (at 4000 rpm) in 1.4.

We have a weng presented in three fixed performance. For the start of 614 900 rubles, you will receive Comfort with a weak 1.4 and mechanics. There are ABS, a pair of frontal airbags, adjusting the steering column by departure and height, central locking, air conditioning, heating the front seats, front electric windows, 15-inch wheels on steel disks. And, oh, horror! Comfort does not have a head device, there is only an audio training of four speakers and antennas. For such a price? Somehow not ice at all!

Two other Luxe configurations (679 900 rubles) and Prestige (702 900 rubles) go with a 125-horsepower 1.6 engine, two mechanics and machine gun, the latter adds to the cost of 33,000 rubles.


Venga is produced by the KIA plant in Slovakia in the city of Zhilina

Luxe execution is noticeably richer. There is a lot here, which is not available to the mass of competitors even in the top. Luxe flaunts ESC dynamic stabilization with a system of dynamic stabilization and a care system working in its shell when starting at the rise, there are already six pillows (a pair of frontal, a pair of side, a pair of side curtains). There are also active head restraints of the front seats that protect against whip injury. There are rear -view mirrors with heating, electric drive and electric mural. Instead of air conditioning, a single -zone climate, and there are four electric windows. The music is full -fledged, with control on the steering wheel. The receiver is equipped with an AUX-connector through which external audio sources can be connected. The sixteenth wheels with alloy disks, and the handles and mirrors are painted in the color of the body. The central castle, unlike the initial version of Comfort, has remote control.

The performance of Prestige (702 900 rubles), which was on our test, to all of the above, the rear parking sensors and the Smart Key are not closed with the buttock launch of the engine. Hooray! The key from your pocket can not be pulled out. But the panoramic roof and sophisticated multimedia, in the shell of which navigation and parking chamber are working, remained overboard. These options are the lot of European buyers.

However, like the Start/Stop system (company name ISG IDLE STOP & Go), which in order to save fuel during stops (even short -term, for example, in traffic jams or to intersections) automatically jams the engine. As soon as the driver touches the clutch pedal to turn on the first gear (you need to release the brake pedal by car with the machine), the engine will come to life immediately

Koreans were afraid to bring this system to us. Looks like a cold climate and hellish traffic jams. Saving fuel and environmental friendliness is remarkable, but there is no point in jerking off the engine even with not very low temperatures in a deaf traffic jam. Firstly, you need to warm up somehow. And secondly, the charge of the battery in the cold quickly runs out, you need to nourish lighting equipment, a fan fan, and start the engine! A year and a half and you will need a new battery! So the savings of 0.1 liters per 100 kilometers of the city cycle under our conditions are ephemeral. Although it is necessary to pay tribute, this system is turned off both forcibly and automatically. In the summer-spring please save. No one bothers. Under inappropriate conditions, the system can be deactivated, the engine will be thresh constantly, heating the interior, driveing \u200b\u200bair conditioning, heater and all on -board equipment uninterruptedly
Why am I? And to the fact that the development of all this technique and the technological process eventually falls on the shoulders of customers. Moreover, all, even those who choose the cheapest basic versions of the car. It’s just that one who buys the right additional option pays more. Hence the dynamics of increasing the cost of all modifications ...

And what about competitors? They will eat to Vienna. Nissan Note, who recently survived restyling, can be bought from us for 485,000 rubles. In the initial performance of Comfort with a 1.4 engine (88 hp), it will be comparable to the equipment with the cheapest Wenga. And the maximum TEKNA set with an engine 1.6 (110 hp) and automatic transmission is sold for 670,000 rubles. True, there are only four pillows, but such a machine already has a multimedia system with navigation!


The layout is traditional for cars of this class. The power unit is located transversely. In front of MacPherson, behind a semi -dependent beam.

Road clearance 156 mm. Some SUVs can not even boast of this value

Citroen C3 Picasso costs from 539,000 to 677 500 rubles. The base price of Skoda Roomster 599 000 wooden. 775 000 rubles costs a car with an inflatable 1.2 TSI and a pre -sequential DSG robot. Moreover, even the base Volkswagen Golfplus, which is higher, it costs from 608,000 rubles. Let it be 80 hp in golf, but at least, besides ABS there are six airbags here! Ceiling for Golfplus 796 000 rubles. And this is for a car with ESP, the beautiful 1.4 TSI (122 hp), a robotic DSG box and a bunch of other charms.

Of the direct competitors, only Honda Jazz is more expensive than the weng. For 100 rubles! The simplest performance of jazz with a 1.4-liter engine (100 hp) costs 615,000 rubles. For this money, there is already a stabilization system, six pillows, climate control, electric mirrors, advanced music with USB and AUX. What jazz? The same Kia Ceed with a station wagon, 122-motor 1.6 in the initial configuration costs 702 900 rubles! And this is already, for a minute, intra -bending competition.


Warranty for Vienna five years or 150,000 kilometers. Depending on what will come earlier. But not everything is so smooth before buying a car, it would be nice to familiarize yourself with the warranty conditions

In general, Venga is not quite understandable substance. Safety and equipment are good. Execution, functionality, ergonomics and design are somewhere better, somewhere worse but the price behind the clouds! The only reason that you can buy this car is sympathy. If you like, take it. He will not disappoint, for sure. But the market has more optimal and cheap solutions. No worse, but in many ways even better. You just need to delve into.

Vitaly Kabyshev
Photo: Vitaly Kabyshev




SAFETY


Kia Venga was tested according to the new tightened Euro NCAP methodology in 2010, and twice!

In the first test (upper photo), Venga earned four stars from the maximum five. Mikroven’s power structure is a frontal blow at a speed of 64 km/h about a deformable barrier with 40% with an overlap, which is called on the verge. The photographs and video shows that the front racks are deformed under the onslaught of the mass of the car, and the width of the opening of the driver's door is noticeably reduced. The driver's chest is extremely poorly protected

In the second test (lower photo), after a series of refinements, Venga received five stars. In particular, the rigidity of the power structure was increased. The deformation of the front racks is not so great, and the width of the doorway was reduced by much smaller. As you can see, even the glued glass of the triangular window in front of the front door remained intact. SPEPLEMENTARY RESTRAINT SYSTEM) and pre -gravians have also bear fruit. Protection of front passengers from 79 % increased to 89 %. Children's protection increased from 66% to 85%. In the collision, the driver will receive much smaller injuries, its chest during the frontal blow experiences substantially smaller loads. The points that evaluate the defense of the driver increased from 9.7 to 13.5. Please note that SRS in a modified machine opens the side curtains and pillows even with an acute oblique-frontal blow. Everything is aimed at security.
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru