Test Drive Opel Antara Since 2010 Crossover

To the new Opel Antara difficult to choose a comparison

The updated Opel Antara is similar to something ... In general, it is difficult to choose a metaphor, but what is always like something like that is not enough ... Check the suspension. They frustrated her. Now comes assembled.


Turns passes in a sporty, Yegor Dobrovolsky told me, PR manager General Motors, giving out a car. Usually I rarely listen to the pirachikov say. They too exaggerate. But Egor from another opera recently, he himself was a journalist and tested new items, he was worth it.


Closer to the people.
Opel's rustic roads very well swallows all irregularities

Make direct paths
In a combat mood, the photographer with the photographer with the search for a deserted winding asphalt path. In the suburbs, there are still remained. Sasha hid around his twist with his half-meter lens, and I promised him a spectacular gypsy with the exit. The first time it turned out somehow without courage. The second again without squealing tires and squeezed drift. Third, fourth, fifth ... The suspension is beautiful, but its collens are more likely in favor of security. Egor Rights, Chassis's sportiness was added, however, in order to realize his potential, another gearbox is needed and more traction on the rear wheels. But will this be the family crossover then?


Attempt.
In this turn, at the request of the photographer I needed a lot to sit on the right wheel, but ...

So far, Opel Antara remains as part of the portrait of a good-quality average fleet and its gearbox does not seek to support driver's racing maneuvers. Therefore, in turn, you have to put up with increased transmission and the intention of the car to hide the trajectory.


Kunstkamera. The front panel demonstrates the worst achievements of the design of automotive interiors of all times and peoples. The most prominent place is occupied by air ducts, and climate control and navigation go down, in the blind zone


Prepare money. Fuel consumption sensor brazenly towers over other devices, as if warning: I eat a lot

How much do you turn the key ...
GENERAL MOTORS engineers have conceived restyling to cope with another problem of voraciousness. Therefore, they were sent to the landfill an old five-speed automatic box and a 3.2 liter motor. In return, they equipped the six-speed automatic transmission parckarter and a new three-liter gasoline engine. Made everything to reduce the appetite of the power plant. Reached the absurdity. Eco mode turns on automatically as soon as you turn the key in the ignition lock. Want faster? Turn off. What is the result? I rank consumption on the track, it turned out 16 liters per hundred. Modestly. Old Opel Antara We remembered as a crossover with a huge reversal diameter and the same fuel consumption. The updated model is generally different. Is that the magical pass over the front panel led to the appearance of a new multimedia screen in the interior of Opel Antara. More precisely, the screen. Even more or rather, SPEYSYSIK. So, he did not confuse his toy sizes of solid owners, he was lowered below the peripheral view, for some reason supplied with navigation. It is quite dangerous to look out for the route in it. Let's hope that tuning companies will soon throw on the market decorative panels covering this confusion.


Ceramics. What color leather on the seats? Coffee with milk? Toffee? No clay!

Eat, eat, but all little
The little things of the interior is important, but it's not worth forget about the main thing. Who is addressed by Opel Antara? What is his message to humanity? At first, this question put me in a dead end. I would not be confused if we were talking about Toyota RAV4, which carries the idea of \u200b\u200bconfidence in tomorrow, or about the Mazda CX-7, proclaiming Barbie and the reactive aircraft, or even about Nissan X-Trail, lubricating pensioners scouts. Any competitor Opel causes instant associations at least with something. With the metaphor for Antara had to sweat. As a result, Opel seemed most like a cafe at a refueling. Good, decent institution on the highway with modern, but in no way clinging the soul interior. It is good that hot dogs do not serve here and you can quickly quench the hunger. It is bad that later, how much I eaten, still pulls to call somewhere behind the dessert. Opel Antara lacks completeness, self-sufficiency, integrity. It is difficult for me to present it to the final point of whose car history. So that a person says: I lived a lot, traveled on hundred different models and chose Opel Antara for myself. If I had a chance to be born again, I would not doubt what to ride in the next life. Something prevents saying so, and it is hardly a small screen.


Creation. From a huge piece of polyfoam under the trunk floor, you can make a house ... for your refrigerator


CAREFULLY! Technical details
Opel Antara 3.0-liter V-shaped 6-cylinder engine with direct injection of fuel with a capacity of 264 liters. with. It is aggregated with a new 6-speed machine. Gas distribution phase control technology allows you to optimize the characteristics of the moment and power and increase efficiency. In normal mode, the engine drives the front wheels, but if necessary, the torque can be instantly distributed between both bridges in the ratio to 50:50. This feature is provided with an electro-hydraulic clutch installed on the rear axle. Compact and easy-to-complete full drive system is entirely integrated with ABS and ESP systems, which effectively help the driver in any situation, for example, with sharp acceleration. In addition, the machine is equipped with a mounting system on the slopes (Hill Start Assist). It is able to still hold the car on the slope for 1.5 seconds after removing the leg with the brake pedal. This technology eliminates rolling and simplifies the beginning of the movement in difficult conditions.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova

A source: 4x4 magazine [November / 2012]