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Will Astra be blossomed if it is (l) to diesel fuel?

In the fairy tale about Uncle Fedor was a funny character of TR-TRI-MITH. Remember? Local cheerful Prostokvashinsky wheeled tractor. In those days, diesel fuel in state farm ath (auto-tractor) was at least a bit, but the TR-TR-MITH treated the human wipes with special warmth. Cheeses, sausages, pancakes. You can understand a clean diesel fuel without impurities of sulfur and mechanical inclusions cannot be found
Contemporary representatives of the diesel race Kalachi did not fit in, Mount Magometov does not stand still. Foreign engines have learned to adapt the finest fuel equipment even under our non -unconnected fuel, and for our barbaric operating conditions. How else? You need to sell!
But one thing is commercial transport, and another private. Diesel cars in Russia, even though you crack, take root reluctantly. There was a persistent judgment. If diesel means noisy. So it smells. So capricious. Goodbye the dynamics. Yes, and to overpay money for clicks tractor driver non-e-e, it’s not about us if they were more economical three times.
Yes, low -power diesel lines (especially popular in Europe, by the way) are used as a taxi or transported/corporate machines. 75-, 80-, 90-horsepower cars are taken for the sake of savings. It is clear. But what about the forced engines? Why are they better than gasoline?
Everyone. Or almost everyone. I jump behind the wheel of an unremarkable three -door silver astra with a banged GTC nameplate (by the way, who does not know the Grand Turismo Coupe). The delicious smell of a new salon, soft plastic of the torpedo, verified ergonomics. A low roof interfering with a salon mirror, useless visibility back. In general, Astra ...
I touch and feel that the surrounding space begins to take back, as I did not expect at all. Bud in OPC, sat down. The perpetrators of the sensations Fiat engineers. It was Fiat GM that borrowed the diesel engines of CDTI (Common Rail Diesel Turbo Injection) for its passenger dews. These engines have Astra, Meriva, Zafira, Combo and the VECTRA removed from production. But units are made not in Italy, but in Germany at a highly automated plant in the city of Kaiserslautern.
In total, five are put on Astra! diesel sixteen-plastic: 1.3-liter 90-horsepower, two modern 1.7-liter (110 and 125 hp) and a couple of 1.9 liters of 120 and 150 forces. But in Russia, the model (we have dizmodification in the summer) goes only with the last two. Of course, we decided to try the most interesting 150-horsepower engine.
It is worth throwing a clutch a little and the wheels immediately begin to crush the asphalt. Abnormal! In traffic jams, by the way, when touched, the engine allows you to forget about gas, and if you really want to, you can start right from the second gear! To two thousand, a snail with a variable geometry of the guide apparatus enters into full power.
Characteristic, bitch son. There are no turbias, but picking up the A-Ako-o-oh! .. Already breathtaking. Not kicking, but picking up. It feels like a diesel diesigist, knowing his strength, measuredly without unnecessary bustle and jerks, makes an output of strength on the crossbar. And so six times to the row, until it reaches a high -speed ceiling of 210 km/h. But diesel fuel can be sweet in taste!
Still, 320 Newton-meters (like Astra OPC) and in the interval from 2000 to 2750 rpm (thanks to the variable geometry of the turbine) with an exit to a maximum power of 150 hp. At 4000 rpm, this is not a huhra-mukhra .. True, these huhra are not long. You can twist, of course, further, but the engine is noticeably in a noticeable engine (for 5000 rpm).
The working range is talked to the narrow. What did you expect? Diesel! If you want to stay in the stream by an athlete of the highest category, juggling with programs. If you try very hard, then, having managed to go up twice after the start, you can reach a line of 100 km/h in 8.9 seconds. U we did not work out at this time at this time. The moves would be shorter than the lever, there were no prices for the box! Time. Precious time is lost on switching.
Rock and vibrations? Very little. But to forget that Diesel drags you, it will not work. A small trembling through the controls runs at low speeds, and tractor harmonics are heard on increased deficiencies in diesel astra is exhausted only by this. But these are all seeds in comparison with frantic dynamics and efficiency, in the combat city regime with constant intense shifts in the floor, the consumption of diesel astra did not rise above 11.7 liters per 100 km! Well, what, but the car made itself to respect.
And finally about prices. Of course, the diesel version will always be more expensive than a similar gasoline. There is nothing to be done here, dizmotors boast of a complex construct and require a higher -tech approach. So, for example, Astra with a 150-horsepower 1.9 CDTI ECOTEC and six-speed mechanics in the Cosmo configuration will cost 724,500 rubles.
A similar apparatus with a 140-horsepower atmospheric gasoline engine 1.8 VVA Ecotec (equipped with a phase change system) and a five-a-way will facilitate the wallet by only 584,500 rubles. It is much cheaper, but his dynamics is noticeably worse up to a hundred such a motor drops the astra in just 10.2 seconds, the maximum speed is the same 210 km/h.
If we compare our diesel with the next in rank with a gasoline two -liter Turbo Ecotec about 200 horsepower, then it will cost only 10 thousand rubles. more expensive at 734 500 wooden. 262 Nm of torque at 4200 rpm, 7.8-seconds up to hundreds, maximum speed of 234 km/h speaks for themselves. So I would take it! But appetite.
Passport consumption of 95/98th gasoline per 100 km of flight is not compared with diesel liters. If 200-horsepower the gas station in the city/combined mode/highway consumes 13.1/9.3/7.1 liters of fuel, then the 150-rocked diesel eats only 7.4/5.8/4.9. Is it worth a winning 1.1 seconds to hundreds of such a difference? I think no.
Meanwhile, the fifth generation of Astra has been the sixth year for the sixth year, how quickly time flies! It seems that there was a premiere at the Parisian Auto Show 2003. It seems that only charged versions of OPC appeared, she is clearly not going to take the positions, it is painfully winning the constructive, and the design will still live. Astra GTC still attracts glances on the streets. The suspension is knocked down, it will be stubborn in the rolls as it can (it succeeds very cool), the Astra course holds great. The contrasting system is tuned as it should: it allows you to be bad to the fuck, but in deep drifts it besieges decently. Gamma of power units and options is wide. Why not the perfect car? Only diesel modifications were not enough in our market. Now enough. After all, competitors are also not basting. What competitors? And take, for example, the 140-horsepower Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI (from 810,439 rubles) or KIA CEED 2.0 CRDI VGT (from 620 thousand rubles). At least, I-I ... in dynamics to Astra, they far from 9.3 and 10.3 s to 100 km/h against 8.9 are somehow not pulling.
What is the conclusion? Auto manufacturers are slowly recovering from diesel coldness and are increasingly promoting machines with heavy fuel engines. Of course, many, including Opel, are reinsured and supplying not the most modern motors to third countries. For example, Europeans receive asters with the latest turbodiesel with a volume of 1.7 liters (it has been in the spring of 2007 and is offered in two variations), but we do not. But the main thing here is not this. It is important that the process has gone. Now the matter is for us.
Vitaly Kabyshev
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru