Test Drive Opel Adam 2013 - HB Hatchback

Opel Adam. Diagnosis - Gadgetomania

I am with an old phone Nokia and simple, albeit Apple brands, the laptop on the presentation of the baby Opel Adam was uncomfortable: the Opeless repeatedly repeated that the multimedia system (forget the word of the radio!) Adam is friendly with all the smartphones, regardless of the platform, and the car itself can Per-co-ni-fi-qi-rt, as if a tablet or a mobile phone ... Maybe it's time to buy an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy? And at the same time get a fashionable Opel Adam.


Their name is Jam, Glam and Slam. Three characters of the smallest of Opels. No, not configuration, namely character, which differ not only by the level of equipment, but also the nuances of the design: different color palettes, different options for designing the cabin and even the design of wheeled disks is different! Do you think yourself with stylish fashion? Choose jam. Do you like adrenaline? So, SLAM is created specifically for you. The name GLAM can be left without comment version for glamor girls reading glossy magazines. You can buy a simple adam, without any individual rims.

But these grazers are the main chip of Adam. Even the choice of the color is an ordinary procedure through which every buyer of a new car passes, Opolev's marketers managed to furnish as a fun game. For example, a black color is called ILL BE Black. Remembered? This is the reeued phrase of Arnie from the first terminator. With a cinent tint and other names: Purple Purple Fiction Criminal Fiction Tarantino, white james blond irony over bondan.

And such funny moments so much that the purchase of a new Opel seems to have to spend a few hours. First you need to decide between jam, glham and slam. Then choose the appropriate kel and the motor (70-strong 1.2 are available to the choice of 87- and 100-strong versions of 1.4 liter engine). And at the end to hang over the choice of decor: the color of the roof, the outer mirrors, the grille of the radiator and wheels, everything will tell the future owner. But there are still stickers ...

Interior mathematics is as follows: 4 basic colors to choose from + 15 options for trimming seats + 19 front panel design options + 4 Ceiling upholstery design options. The list of options also indicate a panoramic roof and eight colors of the interior lighting. Feelings, as if you choose not a car, but a smartphone with all sorts of covers-firmware-firmware. What, in fact, and achieved Opel designers, enhance the similarity to the opportunity to change covers at any time you can visit the nearest dealer and order finishing panels of another design. Honest word, gadget!


With the gadgets, by the way, Adam is friendly. For a moderate surcharge in the middle of the front panel, a 7-inch touch TV will shine, which is easily connected with all types of mobile devices via USB and AUX outputs, as well as using the Bluetooth protocol. And when a mobile phone and TV will find a common language, you can listen to music by a smartphone, watch the video, and use the phone navigation: your own navigator is not provided, but the car understands the Bringo service program for Apple and Android smartphones.

High tech! But engineers who taught to drive a small Opel cost without high technologies: neither fashionable turbocharged engines with direct injection, nor robotic boxes with two clutches on the part of the mechanical filling of the ADAM are simple and is familiar. Simple as Corsa! And let the parents of a tiny baby are rejected from kinship with the middle of the Opel family, we know: At the heart of Adam lies the chassis of the company from the company, which is experiencing hard times, there is no money for another.


Basic Adam for 11,500 euros is a black, white or gray machine, without air conditioning, but with eight airbags, ABS and ESP. For any of the sentiments need to pay

ADAM rides more interesting to the cord. The steering is crystal clearly transparent that with a short ramper gives a baby in a perky character, which, however, does not completely interfere with high speeds, the high-speed direct hatchback holds confidently, not forcing the driver to strain. Is Opel really created a driver's drive like mini? Alas, before the British lighter, the German novice is far away: in the steep turns, Adam rolls and swing and swing, although the trajectory writes exemplary.

Those who do not care do not worry the nuances of controllability, you will like the CITY button: I pressed and the ramp force decreased so much that it is possible to steer with a literally one finger. Comfortable! The system works only at urban speeds and disconnected when 25 km / h is reached, so without feedback on the steering wheel, the Adam remains only during parking. Although the Parking procedure itself is better to entrust the Park Assist system, which will independently drive the machine to any free Piglet driver you only need to switch the transfer Yes to click on the accelerator. Checked works.


Adam Glam elegant and stylish, for people with sophisticated taste. Glam is more expensive than Jama only 500 euros, but flashes with a climate and panoramic roof! Heating Leather Steering Basic Equipment

But I could not really experience the suspension capabilities. Yes, the roads of Portugal, where the test passed, is imperfect, but those who are characteristic of the Russian areas of the wells and the choice here will not meet ... But it was possible to find a portion of the road, on which there is absolutely Russian, pieces, the workers took off asphalt. And these abandoned cutters of the Adam funnel passed the podonobin, as if she had flimbins, and the gravel pebbles and the junction junctions, the little hatchback was destroyed from passengers as a good antivirus cuts off the computer infection. In general, the trolley Adam got good.

But this chassis is completely lacking a motor! I will put a 100-strong modification, maybe the car would leave another impression, but the test Adam engine gave out only 87 horses and for a 1120 kilogram car it seemed a dystrophic. How much to fly the box with a lever (with a toddler machine have not yet made friends), no matter how much the tachometer arrow under the red zone, the powerful acceleration will not be only an uncertain jump forward.


Adam JAM for customers who know fashion. Basic jam for 13,400 euros is equipped with poor other moods: instead of climate conditioner and no LED running lights

But, maybe a city car and no powerful motor required? In theory, a 50-strong diesel engine for less than 4 meters long, but ... when you're going on Lisbon, and German numbers hang on your Adam (in the crisis of the Eurozone, Southerners are the Germans), no one will miss you, no matter how much Morgay turn signal. So any rebuild looks like this: to wait for a moment and, sharply swinging the wheel and drowned the right pedal, wed up in front of the old diesel peugeot.

Whether diesel will appear under the hood Opel Adam a big question. While the Opolevtsy in secret told only about the small, the volume is near the liter, the turboster, which is now at the finish stage. Tests and automatic machines are also tested, without which Adam in the Russian market is doomed to fail. But there will be no powerful lighters under the brand OPC in Europe, where the sales of new cars are steadily reduced, no one wants to engage in image projects. Therefore, the new Opel was created at the best German patterns without a chance of failure and without discounts on compact dimensions.


Adam Slam Manly, Sports and Attractive City Car. This version of Adam costs 14,300 euros, and instead of a panoramic roof, offers a sports chassis. What it is, failed to try

So I, closing the car by pressing the button on the stylish key (by the way, in the body of the body!), I thought: and where is the inflicacy of the small-caliber car chambers? I had to return, open the doors, trunk ... yes she! In the cargo compartment, only a pair of backpacks or one average value of the road suitcase will fit, and the attempt to hesitate for himself on the rear sofa ended Fiasco had to shift the front seat almost until the stop forward. So the four of Adam's quadam is conditional, and truly comfortably here only the driver and the front passenger.

But comfortable without reservations. Since the width of the Adam is without a small and a half meters, and the adjustment range of the seats adult, the sensations are not completely microllaze here. Plus Premium finishing quality: soft plastic, flowing backlight, the pleasant sound of the audio system, which can be expanded to infinity, squeezing eight speakers and subwoofer. And the trifles are premium: there is even a fastening and charging for the smartphone! Optional, but there is.

About prices only on the basis of German price lists. In Germany, soft plastic and interior fisheeth now inexpensive. The easiest Opel Adam on the homeland of Adam Opel is offered for 11,500 euros cheaper than superpopular Fiat 500 and only one and a half thousand more than tiny Smart Fortwo. Dumping? It is not excluded. In Russia, dumping, most likely, will not be: high duties, utilization collection and skeptical attitude to any small car.

It's like with smartphones True Gajetomanians go to the latest New Apple and Samsung in Europe or the states cheaper there. Opel Adam is also a gadget, a pleasant toy with a stylish appearance and a kind interface. It is good to walk with her in a megalopolis, but outside the big city she is useless: in the trunk, do not put anything, friends on a country walk can not take out, to overtake the truck, too. It's like a smartphone: without Wi-Fi and 3G networks, it becomes an ordinary phone is not better and no worse than others. But pleases the owner.

Alexey Kovanov
Photo by Opel

 

Source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.