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They are worth it
For a clear advantage, they dominate both the European and domestic Mikrovaen market. But which of this couple is more talented? Stakhanov pace
Yesterday it seemed that Mikrovenna would not take root in Russia. They are too unusual and non -parting for the country, selflessly in love with big sedans. Yes, and is it worth overpaying for a single-crew built on the basis of a supermini when you can buy a golf-class hatchback for the same money?
As it costs not in a word, but buyers prove to business. Already, according to the results of nine months, the sales of Mikrovenov have more than half the indicators of the whole last year. And all thanks to the efforts of the laptop and merchants. Inviting them to the barrier, we wanted to understand what exactly these kids liked the customers. And at the same time, find out why Nissan is sold almost five times better than Opel: 14,296 versus 3124 according to the results of three quarters.
Maybe it's all about design? Despite belonging to one class, they look absolutely stained. Meriva is a typical bus, only small and cute. With a roll, the back of the roof, charming, almost animated headlights and barely broken contours of the hood. However, I believe that someone will not appeal to someone.
Apart from the vertical rear door, in the laptop from the bus there is no more than in Micre, on the basis of which it, in fact, is built. A clearly designed hood, familiar proportions of a modern hatchback. Looking at this blue charm, but the laptop also not to occupy almost toy cute, and you do not understand that he really forgot in the class of single -combatants.
Not visible
Doubts are scattered, it is worth opening the door of the laptop. Almost a vertical landing and a high doorway that does not force to bend, here they are, the first joys of Mikroven. Nissan’s interior is as if created to give you a good mood. Despite places, the budgetary quality of the finish is particularly noticeable in the rigid plastic of torpedo and ceiling fabric, the cabin is perceived not cheap, but charming. Well, how can I not marvel at the funny block of climate control from Mira, a pretty dashboard and a cute door handles? Conducted a full -fledged glove box that accommodates the documents of the format of our magazine, almost jeep dimensions of the mirror and compact head restraints of the sofa, not interfering with the review.
Only the small flaws of ergonomics slightly spoil the pretty, high -quality and generally convenient interior of the laptop
Nissan's chair lacks a slightly more generous range of vertical adjustment
The heating buttons of the seats are extremely stupid
In the upper part of the dashboard is a small box for small things
Make -up mirrors with illumination will delight the beautiful half of the driver of the laptop
In the trunk of the laptop, there are hooks for bags of one on each side
Double -haired glove box is very practical
The folding tables of the laptop do not interfere with the legs of passengers
The box under the armchair of the front passenger is laid only laxori and text
Minuses? Where without them ... a funny climate block glance to consider his testimony, you have to peer. Traditionally stupidly like other compact Nissans, there are buttons to block the doors and heating the seats. Find them to the touch is difficult task. Finally, the steering wheel has only an adjustment on the angle of inclination, and its range is minimal.
The merchant interior is made in a more conservative style, and no complaints about the quality
The glove box of Opel, although cooled, is very tiny
Mirrors in visors and illumination is even in the basic performance of Essenshia
The heating buttons in Opel are much more logical
The convenient and elegant removable boxing box can be ordered for just 2600 rubles.
At the top of the cabin, mounts for the dividing grid of the trunk are provided
For Mikroven, the meriva, perhaps, is an exemplary chair
A steling keys for a computer and a radio enter into the database of Cosmo version
Comfortable tables in folded form eat up legs space
The trunk of the meriva is also regulated in one direction, but this is almost the only thing that is related by the interiors of two cars. In an amazing way, Opel turned out to be the exact opposite of the laptop. There are no small ergonomic flaws of Nissan here. The same buttons of heating and locking doors are located much more logical. But the glove box is modest to indecent. But the main minus of the meriva is disgusting visibility. Massive head restraints completely overlap the feed overview, but the worst of all the pseudoforms of the front rack racks. If these narrow loopholes were closed with sheet metal, nothing would have changed. In any case, neither ZGI is visible through them. When overtaking and restructuring, you have to constantly pull the neck of an unpleasant occupation.
What a miracle this sofa!
Both were pleasantly surprised. The laptop shocks with an incredibly generous leg margin. Even with a fully pushed off the driver’s chair, there is enough space behind the rear to plant Uncle Stepa, who was nifting a meter ninety. True, the pillow is quite low and you have to sit, bending the legs in the knees. But this is a reasonable fee for the royal scope.
In height from the pillow to the ceiling, the grade sofa even exceeds the laptop, but the supply in the legs is more modest. This is especially felt with custom -made folding tables located on the backs of the seats. You touch their hard sides now and then with your knees, and you touch it very painfully.
Like any Mikroven, the driver’s seats do not indulge in serious side support
For such a compact car, the laptop sofa is fantastically spacious
The grade sofa is quite easy to turn into a couple of chairs
By the way, the sofas of both cars are sliding. Moreover, in Meriva it is regulated not only in length, but also in width! Initially, a 3-seater banquet after simple manipulations turns into a couple of individual seats with an armrest.
The dimensions are given in centimeters. * The distance from the seat pillow to the ceiling. The space for the legs of the seated rear is indicated provided that the driver’s growth is 185 cm
Miracles of transfiguration
At first glance, Mikrovenov’s trunk is no better than ordinary superminos. In the standard layout of the measure and the laptop, one large road suitcase is taken on board. Not much. And the hidden side cavities of Opel and the two -level trunk of Nissana add only amenities, but not a useful volume.
Everything changes, it is worth it to delve a little into the jungle of transformation of the salon. And here the Meriva appears in all its splendor. The branded system of Flex-PS-5 is a real treasure. It allows you to fold the backs of the seats or clean them entirely on the floor. It turns out smooth and very solid loading platform. At the same time, you can add only part of the sofa, leaving a place for the passenger, adjustable in the longitudinal direction. Very exquisite.
Additional pockets and hidden cavities and the laptop (left), and in the measurement in the assortment
With folded seats of the back row, both the laptop and the measure turn into real cargo vans. But in a 5-seater version, both will be able to take away one large road suitcase
The laptop of such convenience cannot offer a pillow unreasonable. And in general, Nissan’s trunk is slightly inferior to Opel both in volume and in dimensions. And yet, for such a baby, the hold is wonderful good.
Not pampering for the sake
On a measure, as on the laptop, you can install engines with a volume of 1.4 liters. But this is Corses and Mikra 90-horsepower fours are enough for the eyes. Mikroven, who is written in the family with a family car, with invariable shops with full load, is more suitable for a 1.6-liter engine.
Especially Meriva. After all, despite the modest dimensions, it turned out to be a very heavy equipped mass as much as 1300 kg. That is why even a 105-horsepower one and six seems optimal, but by no means an excess motor. Thanks to a good rod on the bottom of the Opel with such an engine, it is subjectively perceived by faster than it implies acceleration to a hundred in more than 13 seconds. Yes, and on the route the meriva does not extinguish when overtaking and even in the left row feels at ease. It is a pity that she is not laid in Russia. A serious minus, given that robotic Isetronik does not so easily facilitate the life of the driver as he plays on his nerves.
A 1.6-liter laptop is equally good both on the handle and the automatic transmission. Moreover, the hydrotransformer is very nimble. You do not need to ask about acceleration twice you just need to touch the accelerator pedal, and, almost without chewing the oil, the machine immediately takes from the place to the quarry.
The fastest Mikrovenmir Meriva-OPC is possible, it will soon appear in Russia
It is difficult to make some complaints about the brakes of both cars. In standard modes, they delight with responsiveness, tenacity and competent work of ABS.
Pleasant surprises
There are no complaints about the controllability of the meriva and the laptop. Moreover, Opel, perhaps, can be considered the most gambling small bus. A very informative steering wheel is good, and a well -tuned chassis does not scare the early rolls in quick turns. And in general, the meriva with enviable determination responds to the orders of the driver. Having traveled quite a bit on this Opel, you will understand why German engineers came up at first glance the idea to create a version of the OPC with a 180-horsepower turbo engine on the basis of a single-combat. A capable chassis allows such experiments.
Nissan is not so light, but no less reliable. The fraction of sports excitement Nissan takes some kind of rubber to the steering wheel. At the same time, the driver is listened to the driver implicitly, and the suspension successfully fights both with longitudinal swing on the highway and transverse rolls in vihi.
The traditional Nissan automatic machine is much more convenient than twitching and nervous Iseronik from Opel
It is worth noting that, despite the reliable nature of controllability, the laptop and measure can be equipped with ESP. As they say, for every fireless case.
No worse than many For relatively inexpensive cars, both were surprisingly comfortable. And this primarily concerns the suspension settings. The meriva, swallowing irregularities silently and softly, liked a little more. But the knot of the laptop is not so hard as excessively talkative. Nissan tells you almost about every flaw of the roadway with a fairly loud boom-boom.
A slightly noisy appeared and a vicious rod -roboca motor, which was adjusted to the hydrotransformer, was heard from 3,000,3500 rpm. But Nissan exemplaryly copes with the flow of running air even at speeds close to maximum, aerodynamic noises do not bother.
The meriva is exactly the opposite. The muffled engine voice is completely dissolved in the whistle of the wind, which is well heard at 120 km/h. There is nothing to be done here, a fee for the bus constitution.
An unequal draw
The problem of most single -combatants with a vertical planting of the driver and front passenger is a weak protection of the legs during the frontal impact. It is possible that it was this circumstance that prevented the laptop to win all five stars in the Euroncap crash tests. But also breaking into four, Nissan did not yield to Meriva, which led excessive loads on the chest of those sitting in front. It would seem that the hard four honestly deserved both, right? Not really. The fact is that Meriva passed the tests only with the front-line eire-begs exactly the same amount of the basic configuration for the Russian market. So, the assessment is not in doubt. Another thing is that the laptop earned its stars thanks to four pillows while the initial equipment for Russia implies only frontal ones. I had to remove half a half from Nissan. And one more unpleasant trifle of inflatable curtains on the laptop not to get for any money.
Unlike the laptop, the Meriva can be equipped with six eire-beams
It could be worse... In 2003, when the Meriva only appeared on our market, this Mikroven was surprised by non-child prices as much as $ 16,000. Today, when everything around is getting more expensive, even 424 thousand rubles or almost $ 17,000, which are asked for a 1.4-liter configuration Essenshia, do not seem unbearable. However, we agreed that the minimum sufficient for the measure would be a 1.6 liter motor. This is available in the version of Ango for 464 thousand with mechanics, and robotic Isetronics will add another 20,000 rubles. But in order for your meriva to become acceptable convenient, you will have to fork out the color of metallic (9000 rubles), a package of options, including a leather steering wheel, air conditioning, MR3-magnetol (27,000 rubles) and heating of the seats (5300 rubles). Total is 505 300 rubles. with manual transmission. For today's money, a little more than 20 thousand green at. e. For a decent equipped Mikroven, this is still acceptable.
The laptop is a little more profitable. Basic comfort-1,4 costs from 413,700 rubles. And a completely self-sufficient laxori with a 110-horsepower engine and a functional set of all kinds of convenience (two-section luggage shelf, folding tables and pockets on the backs of the front seats, a luggage box under the armchair of the front passenger), as well as airplane, electric packets, side pillows and a pockets. Even alloy wheels will cost 515,400 rubles. with manual transmission or 541 600 rub. With a machine gun. Similarly, a equipped measure is 1015 thousand more expensive, depending on the type of gearbox. In addition, a full -fledged Japanese machine gun is much better than a nervous Isetronics.
Finally, the conditions for the guarantee of Nissan look prettier. Traditional Japanese 3 years or 100 thousand km cover almost all important nodes and assemblies, while Opel dealers, it happens that for the second year the shock absorbers are not recognized as a warranty case.
We decided: It seems that we found the answer to both questions posed. The popularity of Mikrovenov is by no means a whim of buyers and not only fashionable towers. The laptop and Meriva to date are certainly the best representatives of their class, it is really more convenient than myrrh and corses on the basis of which they are built. With similar dimensions, the wagons attract commanding commander, a much more capacious salon and an incomparably more convenient trunk. In addition, they do not lose either comfort, nor in the ease of management, or safe. So, in our opinion, the slightly higher price of the Mikrovenov is quite justified.
As for the advantage of the laptop over the measure, everything is not so obvious here. Cars are actually close in consumer qualities, and objectively OPEL (, the average rating of 4.1) is almost not inferior to Nissan (, average rating 4.2). Another thing is that Meriva is still a little more expensive. We take a chance to assume that not all customers like the external similarity of Opel with the bus. But the main reason for the gaze lagging, in our opinion, is the absence of a full-fledged machine gun in the price list. So far, robotic isitronics cannot be called an equivalent change in automatic transmission.
Mikhail Medvedev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
A source: Magazine buy a car [22/2007]
