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Mazda 6 Hatchback test: difficult Muscovite days in St. Petersburg

In the bright and sunny April, Mazda 6 hatchback came to the editorial office of the Kolesa.ru portal. During the month of operation of the car, we found out when the hatchback becomes a crossover, why it is better to carry seedlings and building materials in something else, and what dangers are waiting for the city’s guests in night Petersburg.

Looking back at the spring plugs growing in geometric progress and evaluating the fleet of summer residents clogged under the eyeballs, we thought about whether the new Mazda 6 would be made for the role of the mobile summer house. That is, whether the aggressive design can be combined, carefully polished by the ideology of Zoom-Zoom with the driver’s character, but very pleasant to drive a car, with a carefully stuffed trunk

By loading packages with foods, folding tables with chairs, water cans, coal bags and food bags with food, I was more and more surprised by the luggage volume, each time carefully covering the door so that the fragile contents would not suffer. As a result, there are many free space, and in the proper amount. I suspect that we take the sedan, part of the equipment would have to be loaded into the salon (which means to sacrifice passengers comfort).

For opening the trunk, a button, located next to the blockfara, is responsible, but with your hands it is not comme olpho to reach the weighty lid, your hands get dirty. I want the action to happen without hands, with the help of electronics but the car of the Mazda, the back door of which can close itself, does not come to Russia for some time ...

We set off on the road. On the way, I take three more people (who did not have to sit with packages in an embrace thanks to the body of the hatchback). Mazda 6 is softly sitting down, but there are no tangible losses in the 2.0-liter engine traction. The automatic machine seems to still smoothly change the programs

But in the first overtaking I understand that I can not have time to complete the maneuver. I press the pedal on the floor and after half a century I feel the long -awaited transition to the third gear. Mazda 6 News growl loudly and showing total discontent what was happening, reached out into the gap.
In almost complete loading, the hatchback Mazda is difficult to get out, and I already planned the next breakthrough in advance. And then I transferred the automatic transmission selector into manual mode. You can understand how the character of the car has changed almost from the first degree of seconds. Two movements down, and only then the new Mazda 6 is ready to eat all the asphalt prepared for overtaking.

Concluding overtaking, I no longer want to return the selector to my native position D. Yes, you will have to pay for the use of the upper part of the tachometer scale (all the more so, the car has become heavier), but confidence in overtaking is worth it.

The last three hundred meters to the destination we had to drive along the forest road, with uneven pits and bumps. Before entering her stood Nissan Qashqai, whose driver waved his hand cheerfully, wishing good luck, and did it really be so bad? Let's check it!

We note the accuracy of the steering: to follow the traces of Qashqai, who just drove here, was not difficult. So a meter after a meter we overcome natural obstacles until we parked 10 meters from a smiling driver.

“And what, they never touched the bottom?” A cheerful uncle was already running to the new hatchback Mazda 6 ...

- Not! Never, I answered, and I thought that I should thank the skillfully tuned gas pedal and, of course, sufficient clearance for our country roads.

Here you are! The owner of the crossover would never have thought, it seems, a little upset

A few days later we were upset. In the early morning, going to the car, I did not find the wheels! The bronze color of Mazda 6 stood on bricks absolutely without tires and disks. Nearby stood sadly and without wheels Mercedes-Benz sedan left by attackers on the jack

- the pros worked, said the district police officer. It will be difficult to find them. You come in a week after the documents, we'll talk there. He summed up. We sent a car to a guarded parking lot to wait for an insurance expert. Yes, and you never know what else can happen in the cultural capital with guests from the capital of Zlatovoi ...

The car was provided by Mazda Motor Rus, thanks to the operational reaction of the employees of which, after a week and a half, the long -suffering Mazda 6 received new wheels and was able to return home on her own




 
Competitors Mazda 6 Hatchback in the Russian market
Ford Mondeo
Opel Insignia


We liked Mazda 6 Hatchback
Manageability, appearance, interior design

We did not like Mazda 6 Hatchback
Suspension rigidity on bad roads, dynamics at full load


Author: Maxim Sokolov
Photo: Alexey Alexandronok, Roman Zubko
 

A source: Wheel magazine [Byun 2011]