Mazda Mazda 2 test drive since 2007 hatchback

May the sun always be

Trampers in this test, although small class, but still more than means of transportation. For success, they must have the spark that makes the buyer's eyes glow, like a child in front of a shopping shop. So, the rivals of the successful Mazda-2 in the Russian market will be newcomers to the seatic and fodder. Who will litter brighter? Compares Mikhail Gzovsky. Photo: Alexander Batyr.

A star by name
Children's dreams are not much different from adults, except that the scale is different. The little ones were longing to find the island of treasures. Now it is enough to spend at least a week among palm trees, and instead of finding a treasure, go on some entertaining tour.
Seat is already a name for a separation from Ibiza and blows a Mediterranean breeze and a summer vacation. And what is the color! And these bizarre faces on the sides! Not a beauty, but the person is very charming. Following, they turn around to evaluate all the charms of the figures. Um, with lanterns, perhaps sorceressed. And what's inside?
She seems to be offended by me. For the wheel so simply it does not let the threshold and strives to leave the mark on trousers. The meeting in the cabin is also cool: the front panel is completely subordinated to functionality. As if at first they determined the location of all key buttons and displays, and then they tried to twist everything in plastic. It turned out soundly, but without imagination. Light control, steering wheel levers, a characteristic profile of the chair, either German, or Czech. In a word, implicated on the Volkswagen test. Is it bad, you ask? Not at all, but we are on vacation, right? So, there is no place for ties, long live the shorts!
Ibiza went to us with a 85-horsepower engine, so it would be naive to expect exploits from her. But she holds on to well done: she willingly pulls out from low revolutions and honestly strains all the cubes of the motor on overtaking. Typical features of the concern’s models, of course, betray themselves: a rather sweeping, although with excellent selectivity, the transfers mechanism and match it a long -term clutch pedal. But what about the brakes? The early operation of the ABS, accompanied by a strong drum accompaniment and the failures of the pedal, somehow does not want to rest in the bumper in front of the traveling.
On the winter road you will have to be careful with the steering wheel. It is excessively light, and the effort does not grow any substantially with a set of speed. Hence the risk of going beyond the borders of safe driving and uncertainty at high speeds, especially since the stabilization system is not provided. Moreover, these 17-inch tires pull the steering wheel from the hands in the asphalt ruts and do not add comfort.
Seat stoically holds the blows of the roadway, protecting the suspension, but it is not easier for passengers: it seems that every joint penetrates into the salon, and pardon is more larger ... to the coccyx. And all this is under an echo of a echoing body: once in his youth, in a similar volumetric effect of sound, the recruiters were soldered from the electrihitars for the night.
This time it was not possible to light on this Ibiz. The machine is predicted to yawning, regardless of a small steering and ABS malachous steering. All this, along with a boring salon, cools no worse than the price list to immersion to the coral of the Red Sea at the height of the season. Or maybe it? Maybe a well -groomed beach? And the sun of the ibits?
Walks on its own
All people are divided into two categories: some love dogs, other cats. It would seem that devotion and obedience will always prevail over independence and pride. And still, these two camps exist.
Mazda-2 is impeccable from the point of view of the breed. It is useless to argue, she will simply point to the title of the winner of the Grand Prix at the wheel, given to you, dear readers. Now finding shortcomings in it is even more difficult than six months ago, when the car only declared itself. But still I risk bringing the wrath of fans. A mixed interior is hiding behind a hot appearance. An indisputable plus the most spacious rear sofa, on which two tall passengers can go for a long time without complaining. However, there is a desire for savings: if there is a sharp maneuver, there are nothing to hold on to the handles. And the plastmass torpedo is booming and tough, as if strangled in a 20-degree frost.
The driver will not like the seat with a short pillow and a shapeless back, adjustable only in height of the steering column and climate control, the readings of which are not displayed on the display. On the course of the Mazda is shaking and sonorous: either the motor solves, then the tires sing, then the rocks in the wheel arches enter the litaurs. Just a car-organ!
With controllability, the case is also ambiguous. On the one hand, the accelerator drive, steering and the box are spurring to go faster. In Japanese, short, but understandable brakes, unusual, but conveniently located short-skined lever of mechanics and a grip, without exquisite tides are close to perfection. The 103-horsepower engine is good: responsive and ready to conquer the red zone. But, on the other hand, the settings of the chassis sooner or later die ardor.
I remember, during the past dough, summer, kopeckoy, not equipped with stabilization, and strove to go into a sharp skid when driving on the verge. The number will not pass with this copy: the electronics will besie the wayward rear axle long before the dangerous situation. But if you turn it off, the summer sensations will be repeated, and even with the season for the season. A deep skidding, getting used to this behavior, it can be fended in time. Only now Ibiza with her empty wheel at the exit from the ice bevel does not behave more calmly as an example.
Do not demand dog obedience from this cat, and everything will immediately fall into place. Mazda-2 will never give a paw and will not put his head under the collar. She will always walk on her own.
MISS WORLD
All the girls want to become princesses, but to get a crown falls out units. Each new Miss of the world immediately after receiving this title goes on a long tour of the world with a charitable mission, shares smiles and kindness. FIEST was prepared for the conquest of the planet from birth. The car was conceived as global; Ford plans not only Europe, but also America, which in itself is interesting because the ocean does not hurt the small class machines. So what is required for success on a global scale?
First of all, the right appearance: without vulgar shouting, but not too modest. Ford designers turned out a worthy younger sister of Focus with almond -shaped eyes and a lively profile. Girl, can’t you tell me where the nofelet is located?
In fairness, I note that we got the fiesta in a very rich configuration. There are not only alloy wheels, but also chrome at the waist, and shiny trunks of foglights. Even massive door handles create the illusion of communication with a solid machine. The door behind me slamms with a pleasant deaf sound. This is just the beginning...
If you do not look in the rear view mirror, then do not forget for long and forget which class the fiesta belongs to. The front panel is from which you are looking at you
alien eyes of devices; shiny butter-butter around the ducts and buttons of the audio system; Excellent materials and accurate assembly. Burgundy plastic in the color of the body will also meet infrequently. Well, the fiesta will be met with a fiesta by clothing, but Miss the world should still have ... erudition.
The fiesta will not be able to take it by surprise. She is ready not only to support a leisurely conversation, but also to shine with humor. An unhurried ride on Ford is pleasant due to the good traction of a 120-horsepower engine with an excellent timbre, unobtrusive rustle of tires and, as a rule, good smoothness of the course. Exceptions from the rules arise when a person falls into a dysfunctional quarter is not ready to be ready to cripple on poor asphalt. True, in a few hundred kilometers, breakdowns happened only a couple of times.
Fast riding for Ford is a continuous pleasure. You can only complain about the narrow back of the tenacious seat: a large uncle in winter clothes is cramped here. Yes, and the helm with characteristic tides in a position without ten two with active steering to an amateur.

   
 
   
 
 
 
 
   



 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"