Kia Venga test drive since 2009 hatchback

Boy? Girl? A family!

The compact single -coater is not easy. The competition is high, high and the requirements of the audience. How will Kia Venga, Nissan Note, Honda Jazz and Ford Fusion answer?

We have a road to young people everywhere? Kia Venga is proud of her youth. Honda Jazz is modest, they say, this is only an update. But her trump card is serious! But are those who have not yet reached this road that have not yet reached this road, but the Nissan Note and Ford Fusion has long been settled in the bestsellers?

Old Guard

Outside and inside
What are our market veterans not even in appearance, but in the pretentiousness of this appearance. But is it just a loss? Nissan came out, but it was not clear that it was facelifting or facezanization, the most noticeable result of the operation was the appearance of a powerful bumper, which made the face more heavy. Ford is even trying to remain forever young without cosmetic surgery. At least from the moment when he, in 2002, became, in fact, the ancestor of the UAV urban active compacts, and for the time being, while he has already come to replace it, but in our realities, not yet visible B-class replacement.

One way or another, both by the appearance of the hard workers, and not the fuckers. And this is evaluated: both managed to visit the category's bestsellers in their history. They are known so well that there is no reason to talk about appearance for a long time. Moreover, at least in the first years of the appearance of Urban Activity Vehicles, their main trumps and the possibility of transformations were announced. Only then cunning marketers began to throw gender topics, representing this class rather female. By the way, from this point of view, the differences between veterans are noticeable immediately! Nobody was going to fence all sorts of cute finhtifs here. According to the first sensation in Nissan salons, one can not be called male and not female, but simply family. And Ford is even more than a guy.

But the household guy is European! In some ways stingy. The concept of lateral support during landing is not even conditional here. If the back is still trying to hold the driver, then the pillow leaves the feeling of a banquet with which you slip. The steering range of the steering wheel is small and only in the vertical plane, but, surprisingly, to find the correspondence of its position for the arms and legs even easier than in Nissan. The steering wheel itself is quite tight and is not replete with fashionable multifunction buttons: music management is entrusted to the corporate Ford -shaped steamed block. Another stroke chip control of glass miners at the end of the corresponding steering wheel lever.

But this guy is very attentive to the little things! Such an abundance of all kinds of non -standard trifles from slots under the cards of passes or a credit card to pay for paid roads, from a coin (where, by the way, in the West it is convenient to put the tokens of the deposit for carts in hypermarkets) and there is no more than anyone in the quartet above the head of the driver.

In the trunk no less, excuse me, Fuzn. On the one hand, only here is a full -size reserve, the floor was lined not with a cloth, but a full -fledged sound insulation. On the other hand, the trunk door actually primitively, and the possibility of transformation and attachment of luggage is not record.

Alexey Sergeyev editor-in-chief of the Internet portal
In its class, for me and the family, Nissan Note simply has no competitors! Beautiful, roomy, convenient, dynamic, does its work 100%. Over the years of driving, there was never a desire to change it to something else. The disadvantages are more likely not to the car, but to the suppliers of the components, rubber, brake discs and pads too quickly eaten (there were two replacements for 20,000 km), and one after another lamps and lamps were burned out.

Nissan inside is richer. To start with the fact that he is the only one of our competitors is equipped with a simple, but navigation. Multimedia capabilities are quite modern, only the SD card slot is misleading: it is designed specifically for the loading of cards, and not for listening to music. But so that at the junctions of the third ring the car, the track CD would go away, but NOTE surprised that it could lose ten seconds to look for a radio station! This is something new

Landing? It seems like the seats are short -term (tested both on men and women), but good back support saves the situation. But the river adjustment range of high drivers will no longer be enough. The steering wheel itself, although it is very convenient, perhaps the only thing that seems not enough for this car: in everything else, Note looks older than itself. The trunk does not initially look big, but if you play it with transformer shelves and squeeze a little longitudinal place for the rear passengers that are not offended by such, then the impression changes significantly. From the chips of the transformation, a solid secret box under the seat of a passenger. True, laid only in the top configuration. In terms of the possibilities invisible to an extraneous look, to hide the laptop’s lug clearly at a height.

IN MOVE
That's when Nissan is fully recouped against the background of not only Ford only, but the whole honest company is on the go! The most adult and balanced car in the quartet! A clear dialogue with the steering wheel: exactly 3 turns from the stop to the stop, always understands what you want, and good feedback. The chassis seems to be older again than it is in particular, by the way the suspension works out the irregularities of the road. If you find fault with anything, it is not in her work for the little things, but to the fact that on the asphalt. Review due to high planting is good even with modest mirrors, but does not create a dangerous illusion of too large clearance.

But there is one strongly annoying factor. Not even the one that the engine temperature sensor was no longer found here. The worse is that they did not find it under the indicator of the automatic transmission mode. Given the fact that the clarity of fixing the automatic transmission regimes here strives to zero, you find that you skip the right position and instead of D you hang in mode 2. Yes, the laptop transmission willingly gives the motor, but it is not the same extent to bring the matter!

In terms of consumption, even in the conditions of urban traffic jams, Nissan is held within the framework of decency about 9.510.5 l/100 km. For the second most powerful car in the quarter!

Ford, alas, gives its position in the competition on the go. Not only is it 100.6 liters declared in the registration certificate. With. This is generally a mockery of the taxpayer, so they are also implemented according to the technology of those years. It is impossible to call a stupid combination of a motor and transmission, but it is some kind of viscous. Acceleration is not very hunting, the steering wheel is tight. There are no global claims, but it was Fusion that turned out to be a truck in the quartet in nature. Which, of course, is also good, but with such arguments to contrast something and the laptop, and even more so our youth is difficult.

Alexander Lovvygin driver
The car was, as they say, I do not like mine more dynamic. The trunk is definitely good, all the more I had to carry a lot. Not bad visibility. And of course, without a machine gun in the city it would be hard. And so, probably, he would better suit a woman with young children: to ride calmly, not to go out, actively not to twist the steering wheel in Fuzhn, not the easiest to put a chair in the rear seat or put a child normally, it is cramped to the adult.

However, why and the price? Cheaper 500,000 in the quartet is only Fusion! Note has the simplest version even for a little less money, but it will already be a 1400 motor and mechanics! Kia and Honda, even with mechanics, are at all in space abroad 600,000. And such a difference in price is really an argument in favor of antiquity Fuzhn!

 
It is young for green

Outside and inside
Whether we like it or not, but no one has something simpler and more attacked by anyone now. On the contrary, having pushed away from the once abandoned slogan more than the car for the same money, we are imperceptibly offered even more, but already 10 percent more expensive. And now the priority to give the buyer the sensation of not for nothing was spent. Our rivals, representing the young Honda and Kia tribe, are trying to please their buyer here in their own way.

The common features are bright, somewhat elaborate. Beautiful eyes, which are understood to be loved immediately. But if Honda further continues to appear in everything in the playful girl, with whom it is great to give jazz, then Kia presses on more serious feelings trying to seem like a hostess! The forms are more chubby, inside more protected space. With the makeup of the dashboard and panels, they also tried here (and the central console seems to have even surpassed even the Soul Tuser's branding party), but where this cosmetics are to the brightness of jazz! Even seems to be much smaller, which gives to the designers, the central hondochka console is much smaller, and it is solved in an original way, but at the same time it is quite convenient.

KIA is still not perfect behind the wheel: the pillow is short again, even with a fair height of the seat. By the way, it is in Weng that the general feeling of a large car and a high landing create a dangerous illusion that the road clearance is great here. But unlike the generally symbolic central hinged armrest jazz in Kia, you can at least somehow lean in reality. On the steering wheel now accepted sound control buttons. And light bulbs and ceiling are everywhere! Vienna is a leader. The front row, back row, backlighting inside the visors did not save simply, thought about passengers. About the driver, it seems a little less. He was deprived of the temperature sensor, and the readings of the route computer are not right before his eyes, but in the center of the panel. And yet the general impression of the hostess! Entering the second row is simple, and it is convenient there. The central and side armrests are in the back, large in itself, but at the same time also having almost a huge underground and hooks for attaching bags of bags, too, by the way, like that of Note, a transformer due to rearranged policies.

Honda on the spot fights three things. The first is, albeit an option, but a glass ceiling. The kingdom of light and review. Because of which, however, the central ceiling inevitably moves far back. The second rag upholstery of panels and seats. Honestly, soft and comfortable so that you do not expect this from the car at all. And finally, the same variator due to which this generation of jazz has the entire fuss and flared up. But about him a little later.

Ilya Fisher editor-faculty
Honda is incorrigible in the good sense of the word. Even in a small volume, all the signs of the right car are available. A hard suspension and sharp steering wheel are provoked to activity. Ergonomics allows you not to think about it. Hare habits of a single -coat, like jokes in Comedy. And the ride is like a fight in which you obviously prevailing. The result of communication with Jazz is an invariably good mood and confidence that a small car can also be self -sufficient.

The steering wheel is regulated in two dimensions (sitting in jazz is generally convenient and comfortable), and in the places the grip is also perforated. At the same time, there is no busting with plastic in its design, and the impression of a computer toy does not appear. The front triangles of the glasses are so large that they add overviews, and the body racks are easy in appearance and play a general feeling of space. The steering wheel and space under it and around it are strongly loaded with all sorts of control buttons, but you get used to them quickly. As well as to the atypical scatter of climate control and music on the central console. Unusual in their round-round form and shelves are compounded. Perhaps the only overkill of variegated on the instrument shield itself: the red-black main devices are also attached to just black and white screens of the route computer and the transmission mode, for some reason contrasting relative to each other.

In access to the rear seats, Honda is slightly inferior to Kia, as well as in terms of the legs of the rear passengers. Still, the front seats are lower here, and the feet are a little closer. But not knees. But OP! And, lifting the back, you can get a very rather big additional place for luggage. And the trunk itself, although smaller than the Vengovsky, but is more sprighter than Nootovsky. True, instead of policeman shelves, there is a mesh for a soft suspension of a minor, but fragile luggage.

IN MOVE
Here, our girls (and, unlike Ford and Nissan, both new products are already really, rather, the girls) demonstrate an amazing sequence of the image! Kia continues to emphasize household notes, builds a small bus rather and is very difficult to play over the provocations. It seems like the most powerful motor in her quarter (at the same time, not at all a gluttonous in 9 liters per hundred vehicles are laid), and the character is more powerful. The brakes are not bad, but it would be better. At a small and even medium -course, the suspension worthy of even lying policemen worthy, but you will go quickly, will already begin to outraged too strong returns. As for quickly here, one must be more careful here. Firstly, the very tolerance of the suspension on the average moves has the opposite side harsh and noisy. Secondly, Vengino chassis was clearly not tuned to driverships. The steering wheel seems to be short only 2 and turning, but this does not guarantee sharp reactions and full feedback. Rather, his algorithm is tight again tight. And the stabilization system can sometimes begin to intervene in an apparent absolutely harmless situation like a 90-degree turn when accelerating from the intersection. Yes, dancing and athletics are clearly unloved classes of our hostess!

For this to Honda! Small, playful, but monolith is a jazz character. Great gas reactions (who could expect such softness and logic of work from the variator), 7 manual steps both in normal and in sports. Clear brakes, an unfortunate stabilization system, unambiguous reactions to the steering wheel (and after all three with a quarter of turnover) and answers to the driver. True, everything needs to be paid for everything, and the Hondochka requires to come to terms with the very unienmatic suspension.

But in offhand you will never say that here is the smallest and lowest motor in the quartet. At least in the city for which UAV, in fact, are born. And although in my duets by the Nissan and Honda drive on top, I do not want to face them directly. These are just different drives and different characters.
 
Summary
Perhaps these machines are only distinguished by the reasons themselves, which caused their birth. Spacious salons by city standards, good possibilities for transformation, transportation of everyday luggage and personal trifle. Otherwise, different characters, even different eras. And partly different prices. The old friend of Fusion may be better than the new ones, due to the requested budget. Nissan takes an adult drive, and Honda is a playful character and a bright mood. Venga does not try to seem driven, in some ways her chassis and settings are inferior. But on the other hand, she gives a sense of economy and security truth, for considerable money. Machines of this class are either second in the family, and then it is already necessary to solve modernity, drive or price is preferable for (most likely in this case) the owner. Either the first and only and then I want everything to be at once for the whole family!

 


 




 

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