Opel Meriva test drive since 2010 Minivan

Kia Venga, Opel Meriva, Honda Jazz: Working Volume

Such machines are created for people practical to take away more purchases, you can’t look for a place in the parking lot for a long time and not to burn the superfluous fuel. The updated Honda Jazz is attacking the two new products of the Kia-Veng and Opel-Miner season. Who will win?


COMPRESSION RATIO
Sorry!
Ah, what are you, what are you, this is me so clumsy!
A scene at the door of a museum or theater: two intellectuals cannot decide who will come in the first. With cars, such problems usually do not arise, passengers of the front and rear seats make their way to their places independently. But not in Meriva. The unconditional highlight of the Opel rear doors open against the move, but they require a clear arrangement of priorities, otherwise it is not surprising to clash the foreheads. It is just right to declare how in the subway: carefully, the doors are closed.


The unusual Opel gives a brown trim. There are options with a red pad on the front panel.

Let the first driver be the first: let him relish an excellent fashioned seat with gigantic adjustments and played with a boxing box moving along the rails. Now the passenger to make your way back is a pleasure. If you use a double configuration of the rear sofa, then going here is great. But the three of them are already crowded, because the seats have to be moved forward to return to the place a reciprocated middle part of the pillow. As a result, the knees come in the front back.
One automobile god knows how much strength to Opel engineers was worth breaking through their door idea. After all, all of the currently manufactured machines with the wrong scheme (for example, Honda element and mini-clabman) can be opened by the rear gate only by opening the front. Was the game a candle? In our opinion, in addition to the external effect, there is nothing practical in this idea. This is obvious in comparison with competitors.
Vienna meets the smile of the front bumper seems to be breathing positive. We pay tribute to the designers: it was KIA that attracted increased interest on the road (especially, of course, female). Inside the Veng after Opel, like a near Moscow, an apple against coconut.


Everything is known in comparison: the interior of the Vienna lacks the imagination of jazz, the softness and brightness of the meriva.

No exotic neither in ergonomics or decoration. But the apple is the same. I am sitting in a rigid and highly planted driver's seat. I look around. Here are the same as in most other KIAs, comfortable climate control blocks and audio systems; Cute, although somewhere already visible devices. An obvious defect of visibility. Wide front racks and mirrors with a cut corner do not contribute to her.
The interior in the back is the widest, and the unassuming look of the sofa will take even three. The doors, of course, open not at right angles. But you can enter, you can go without difficulty.
And what about Honda? She became familiar for a long time and almost did not change after modernization, therefore I fly on it towards the landfill, as on an invisible plane: we are ignored by both mothers with strollers in the yards, and youth at the snack on the highway, and even immediately notices the new models of the operator girl beloved gas station. Maybe in a couple of years Honda will play jazz in a completely new way? But only, I beg, do not improvise with the interior!


Thanks to the openwork front racks, a review from the Honda salon does not cause problems.

Honda managed to create some kind of special mood in the cabin with all his asymmetry and illogicality. In my opinion, it is in jazz that you feel like the owner of a modern machine. Various in appearance and to the touch plastics seemed to have grown together with each other. The fabric of the seats is soft, cozy, and the seats themselves delight with a cool lumbar subpoor.
I liked the capacious glove compartment of two departments. But the main revelation of the second row. And the point is not even about his ability to transform (we devoted a separate head to her). There is more legs for legs than in Kia and Opel. But jazz shorty: Meriva and Vienna are 388 and 168 mm longer, respectively. For the most rational use of space, we have awarded the jazz of the highest 10 points in the category of the back of the cabin.

TORQUE
The measure that we managed to get for the test is fundamentally different from the opponents not only with the doors under its hood rumbling diesel. With comparable power, he offers a hundred Newton's moment more than his gasoline competitors. Encouraged, we roll out onto the dynamometric road and give in to gas.


A six -speed Opel machine operates a spore and smoothly, but a heavy machine is still unable to keep up with rivals.

Alas, neither a quick six -speed machine, nor maximum thrust, available from 1700 rpm, do not cause emotions. After all, the meriva is heavier than the wengings by 281 kg, and the difference with Honda is more than 413 kg! The no least role was played by a sound insulation fat. According to a subjective assessment, Meriva is the most quiet of the Trinity. At high speed, it does not annoy the whistle of wind in the mirrors, the tires are almost not heard. Even the engine at idle is almost not heard.
The Korean machine is more powerful than rivals by 25 forces. Vienna skimpers at the start and over the acceleration to a hundred tears Opel to shreds. But a four -speed automatic machine lick with inclusions and does not always adequately select the transmission. Then, as if understanding the mistake, he begins to jump from one step to another. Relieved our hearts, we still raised Wenge an assessment for the dynamics, but recouped on comfort.


The KIA automatic machine selector with a zigzag slot allows you to switch blindly.

Hungry suspension is characterized by one word: oak. It is impossible to break through either a lying policy at low speed, or a podobina at full speed. In revenge, Veng rudely shakes sidelines and exhausts the soul with a meticulous recount of trifle. The final point is sounded by sound insulation. Sandwall in the wheel arches and slap on the puddles here is your music on the road.
In the Drestylic jazz, only one dissonance was observed an unsuccessful robotic transmission. The rejection of her was absolutely correct. Her place was taken by a stranded variator. And the car sounded! A light and sensitive gas pedal allows you to filigently dose traction, and the variator is configured so that engine speeds also grow with a set of speed.
So the mournful song of the engine on one note, like many other cars with a variator, is not in jazz. A pleasant trifle of steering wheel transfers, they are also in the piggy bank of the Japanese.


For an active ride on jazz, only the sports mode of the variator is suitable when the revolutions are shot to the maximum.

But the jazz suspension, which appeared so successful on Moscow avenues, disappointed, it was worth driving a hundred kilometers from the capital. Several times she closed both at the compression and on the Hitch. In terms of noise in the Honda Salon, the middle, let not be gold.

The radius of the turn
As I understand it, the Europeans: When it is at hand to the mountains from almost any point of the Old World, the controllability comes almost in the first place when choosing a car. I live next to the Alps, I would take a closer look at Opel. Spit on mediocre traction, on a serpentine, the course and fidelity is more important!
The electrolyword amplifier is not a standard, but close to it. The effort increases in proportion to speed and steepness of the turn, so you drive the car, feeling perfectly the line behind which Opel will float out. Does the driver continue to inactive? The stabilization system will smoothly pull the car and return it to the trajectory.

But if you still need to fly to the mountains along the high -speed highway, then the meriva will show itself a little worse. The point is the artificial sensation of the steering wheel in the near -Stolium zone and the barely noticeable deviations from the straightforward trajectory. All the time you try to understand: is this a car scouring a little and therefore you are stinging or vice versa? But try to grab all the nit-picking with the same route to Kia ...
At the first moment, the weng spoke seems to be an ideal in terms of return, it is a pleasure to park in the city. I add speed: the steering wheel loses its suppleness, but it does not become unnecessarily stubborn, like a measure.

The idyll crumbles at the entrance to the first steep turn. On an uneven coating on the steering wheel comes all the dirt, the effort changes in a spasmodic, beating. In the next turn under the wheels, the hare cigered, I had to perform a rearrangement at full speed. It was frightened not only by a scythe: the steering wheel bit the sensation of not pleasant ones with a sharp maneuver. Perhaps that is why all the Hungarians with a 1.6 -liter engine is included in the basic equipment. It works with a margin, sharply stopping the rapidly developing demolition of the front axle.

Honda is like a fluff! Jazz willingly responds to the actions of the driver and merrily dive into turns for the time being. Narrow tires are on the car, so it would be naive to expect a picture stubbornness from her. Have you changed your mind? The stabilization system will cope with demolition (it occurs more often), and with a skid (rare phenomenon). ESP works, like all other Honda systems, delicately, but for sure.

Fans of laying a steep turn will probably visit mediocre feedback on the steering wheel (it is noticeably easier than that of the Korean and the more than the German car), and the expected growth of effort does not have to wait even at high speeds. They bring disharmony into active ride and tangible bodies of body. At a certain moment, the back suspension begins to screw jazz into a turn more actively and straightens the renom that was shaken. Of course, jazz’s handling is imperfect, there is no sparks in it, which would make you rush at full speed. Nevertheless, Honda left a very pleasant impression with the complete lack of annoying factors and is it not the main one, although not at all the technical characteristics of the car?

I'll tell you a secret
What is the best way to study the secluded corners of the salon? For example, hide something in it. How about the keys from the cars themselves? We lay out on the key in different secretaries in each salon. The task of a volunteer who first saw these three cars is to find a treasure as quickly as possible.
There was almost nowhere to hide values \u200b\u200bin Weng, but it is the most difficult to find!

Two keys were found almost immediately, but our third hero had to look longer than in Honda and Opel (7 min 11 s). Kia in this configuration is started by a button, and we simply inserted the key into a standard slot on the steering column. Our trackers did not expect such a setup!
In Opel, the keys were easy. There are drawers in the Meriva under the front seats, the niches to the left of the steering wheel and, finally, a glass for the driver. But our seeker was most interested in a multi -storey armrest, which he collected and disassembled, like a cube of a chubby (5 min 45 s).

There were no problems with Honda: there is a two -tier glove compartment, caches in the trunk and under the pillow of the left rear seat (3 min 15 s).

Mikhail Gzovsky:
Close final assessments are explained by the dissimilarity of the models: an original and quiet meriva, a straightforward and roomy Vienna, a compact and intellectual jazz. Each model has its own significant advantages.






 

Source: Behind the wheel