Test Drive Opel Omega Sedan 1999 - 2003 Sedan

Business proposal

Do you want to ruin me? The chief postponed the room plan, the unwanted look looked at the humble group of car testes and got up, leaning on a large, size with a tennis, table. Lancer EVO VI, Impreza WRX and 3-liter A4! Yes, such comparative tests need not to be a publisher, but by the owner of the oil well and, part-time, a bus factory with a car service shop! I need a real car test for real life! Enough sports and fingers fan! Take a case!
Business so business! We decided to decorate. They took three sedans with the overall cubicature of motors eight and a half liters and went to rub the tires to the landfill. Sorry, Anatolich, we are in the case! But nobody pulls behind you! Any tester with two hands for riding sports cars. Just imagine: you bring the turbine to white cagid, unscrew the motor to the ring and frantic stroke, shade out of four leading wheels of gravel, as if the last time in the life of sideways you fly into a narrow forest turn! When it turns out with one hand steering, and you wipe out the other tears! And if you didn't come out the ideal to apologize in front of the forester ... Alas of motor racing in our chart takes quite a bit of place. Behind the windows of our houses and offices there is a life that does not have anything in common with the Grand Prix of Formula 1 or the stages of the World Rally Championship. Therefore, we dream about machines for the soul, but we buy for the body and affairs. Today's test attempt to figure out that they offer to the consumer some importers as crews for family and business.
Peugeot 607, Nissan Maxima and Opel Omega belong to Peru and Kulmanu of absolutely different design and engineering schools. Cutting them on the same platform, we did not try to determine who to whom Rabinovich. It was interesting to find out what degree of harmony each of these cars is able to offer its future owner, and what money you need to lay out to feel in the car, as in your plate. The hero of our April number, Peugeot 607 the most fresh and extraordinary car in the top three. The elegant, stylish and pisher, the Frenchman, as much different from the predecessor, the 605th, as a new, super-modern building of the airport Charles de Gaulle from the Old Terminal, where the Parisians prefer to unload the Aeroflot passengers. The appearance of this car is unlikely to enter the textbooks on automotive design, but the bright future among the fans of the European Auto industry is provided. And if you succeed in the case to give them to look inside and feel how the interior is enveloped, made by the expensive Mediterranean yacht, they are already in captivity. And it is unlikely that they want to go out to freedom.
607 Real flagship model of Peugeot. It feels in every nuance of ergonomics, over which the best PSA designers worked. Each little thing looks expensive, high quality and stylish, which is waiting for the car for 45 thousand dollars. Only after a few days of operation, you begin to notice that the front panel material is a little rude, and over the head of the rear passengers there could be more places. True, the French are better known to us that the elegant things stitched by harsh thread will not come out of fashion for a long time, and the basketball centerways do not all equally accommodate any normal car, except in the Kirkorov Hummer Stretch, and then lying. In terms of equipment, our copy had everything, except for direct communication with space and the helicopter landing. It is not even worth saying about the standard set of additional equipment that someone from readers will call the option, which the French did not take care of. And about the adjustable dual-mode suspension, auxiliary systems that work out for the driver in fast turns and complex road conditions, with a steering of variable characteristic, we described three numbers ago. A new product for us was only an automatic KP with the ambitious title Tiptronic System Porsche, naturally possessing sports and winter work modes.
During the city ride, on which, actually, these cars are designed primarily, Peugeot has to leisurely moving from traffic lights to the traffic light. Perfectly keeps at the road, indifferently reacts to small irregularities, confidently stretches behind the engine from the very bottom of the Niza and barely noticeably goes through the transfers in the most comfortable simply automatic mode of KP (without sports, Kick-Down and unwitting pearfish lever. By the way, the intensive study, carried out by us among the owners of the automata with the possibility of manual switching, was uniquely convinced that this is a toy for one week. Try, feel like a novice rider and understand that the modern machine is still switched more competently and in a timely manner than the average driver. After that, to lightly translate the lever from the parking position in Drive and do not disturb it all the time while the car goes forward.
Again, we note that the most comfortable mode of operation of the suspension in the Russian conditions according to our observations is the sport rigidity of it is far from rally, but it has an enviable energy intensity and, the main, stable and predictable work algorithm. And in the automatic non-taxable import electronics go crazy, trying to analyze where the pit ends and the ditch begins. And why numerous sewer hatches alternate with the same frequent geological exploration shurts, silent in search of the subway and hot water. I would know that Moscow and Luzhniki is still a mirror compared to Peter, Smolensk or Voronezh ...
With a dynamic driving, the toy shoots to a hundred years in less than 10 seconds, easily goes to mark 200 and willingly storm turns of any category of complexity. On the annular track, we made sure that this big sedan can be inserted sideways in a turn and easily controlled in this power steering and gas. But with the theoretical attempt to figure out how much you need to have a sane person, who gave a 3-bedroom apartment for the 1960s on the outskirts of the Russian Capital, to feel like Markus Gronholm, the consensus is not achieved. And anyway, Peugeot Sport specialists who helped customize the car, we still remember with warmth and understanding ...
Nissan was taken to the test with trepidation and confidence in his Japanese strength. There would be no first year one of the best-selling cars in the classroom, while in all its evolutions standing much more than they ask for him. And for the one who is not a snob or Eurofil and does not know what the Japanese reliability is different from German quality, the question of choosing a car in this target and price category was only in the modification of the maxim, which you want to have. We take a 3-liter car, published by admiring it with a rapid and aggressive silhouette. Yes Asian! Yes, without age-old charisma and vain complaints to be accepted for its alien and arrogant European automotive parties. Samurai has their own pride and aesthetic canons. Therefore, the Cefiro purebred islander was sent to the countries of the setting sun under the Maxima pseudonym, being essentially the most impoverished European version of the rich Japanese. But Maxima never on the shelves was not very good for the goods, and the price is not that it does not bite, but it turns about the ankle, like a cat.
From the salon, they also expected a maximum. Sitty, shut down ... levers instead of buttons in the mechanism of seat adjustments? Strange ... Ancient, like a VEF lamp radiol, a cassette tape recorder instead of a music center? Some kind of nonsense ... primitive, as on the Sunny of the first years of release, the adjustment panel ... air conditioning? Not climate control? It is impossible to believe it! After all, the car is an order of magnitude more expensive than empty Almera Spanish assembly! And when the hands came across the steering wheel from an inexpensive plastic, the leaning lever of the wiper and ancient glass of the windows control unit, I had to make a couple of breath-exhale, so as not to faint. What's the matter? Looking ahead, I will say that the answer burst unnoticed, like a speedometer arrow to a level of 120 km / h. And when a melodic bell tower, warning about the violation of a suspiciously friend on trips to the UAE, was heard at this moment, warning about the violation of a suspiciously friend on trips to the UAE, we stopped, carefully inspected the car from all sides and found a sign with Arabically died on the driver's seat test About the assembly of our maxim for the needs of a completely different market. Suspect that the price of this car is even slightly lower than that we have an empty Almera Spanish assembly ... So, when searching for Nissan Maxima, pay attention to the above-mentioned things. Otherwise there is a risk to stumble upon Nissan Minima!
For the sake of justice, we note that in some parameters, even this Maxima has practically not inferior to the test participants, and on the dynamics of overclocking, the area of \u200b\u200bspace for the rear passengers and the number of envious views of the owners of 3-5-year-old Japanese sent to relax and Peugeot, and Opel. In the ride greatly annoyed with tangible jerks when switching an antediluvian 3-step automaton, and the suspension was upset by a rather sluggish resistance to the longitudinal splitting of the body, especially when driving at high speeds. With intensive work with the steering wheel and gas, this Nissan willingly fell into turns, however, at the same time hanging the rear inner wheel, and the brakes boiled before all, after which I had to complete the bullying and postpone acquaintance with the real maxim before the first purebred machine.
Opel Omega want to say especially. According to the old Antinenets habit, I have long refused to take it into this company, and when we still finally sat down the composition of the participants, naively predicted him inglorious death under the shelling Peugeot and Nissan. Too fresh were in memory of the impressions of the overwhelmed Omics of the first years of release, which our fallen compatriots fell on the Berlin dumps were willing on the Berlin dumps. Thank God, times are changing! And not always to the worst! Now, after three days and thousands of kilometers spent behind the Opela Roule, I remember this car with light sadness it is a pity to part with the technique in which smart people have invested as many knowledge, love and labor. For the Elegance version, the list of additional equipment consists of all of the seven options, five of which already had an instance in our hands. Salon are a sample of German ergonomics and practicality, multiplied by comfort not without a claim for luxury. And if Peugeot is fascinated by spectacular, and therefore, they are not always optimal from the point of view of using solutions, then Opel does not seek the gentle utility much more in trifles, and Omega is not inferior in this one of its 4-wheeled compatriots. At the same time, the skin is very organically inscribed in the interior, a wooden insertion (a single case, when the firewood was not irritated in the cabin!) And such a lot of pleasant and useful things in everyday life, for whose description of the guys from the representative office went no less than an hour! Add here the most spacious and convenient trunk from the point of view of loading-unloading and you will become clear that General Motors is not in vain thinks Omega with its European flagship and even makes at its base Cadillac Catera! By the way, Omega in our triple is the only car that has a body version of the wagon what America without a backpack behind the shoulders?!
Riding, despite the weakest in the troika motor (2.6 liters, 180 hp), brought us a lot of pleasant minutes. Smooth torque shelf, a flexible automatic, a stability stabilization system and a chassis system. The concept of Dynamic Safety Action with thoughtful elastokectic turns ride on Omega in simple human pleasure. No, this car is not for street hooligan, but for a person with a tower there is no surprises or liberties. In the corners, it will readily react to a sharp discharge of gas by the rear axle by the rear axle, but it is almost impossible to rip it into a fan with an open throttle. True, it is enough to turn off the assistants with the button on the panel and the rear-wheel drive Eurasmerikanka begins to dance the lambad on the asphalt, as if escaped from the carnival Latin lady of the middle age. Then I can handle it only by the sexual experience of Macho. By the way, the rear-wheel drive can become the only disadvantage of this excellent car in our latitudes. But do not forget that the electronics now easily takes the car under the bridle.
In conclusion, I will again note that we have not set themselves the task of saying one of the cars Yes! Thereby putting others on the step below. We just responded to the team of senior management to do business. I will not hide, it gave us great pleasure. And soon, if everything is formed, and Evolution with WRX and A4 will be uploaded to the start. There will also be a business meeting. Only in sports costumes ...
 
Alexey Mokhanov,
Photo by Alexander Nosdrin

What do they look:
Nikita Rozanov
 
Outside:
All three test participants are classic business class representatives. In this regard, the design assessment was carried out in accordance with unwritten rules, strictly regulating the appearance of business partners.
Each car is well recognizable, and even the identification of the nationality of their design task is simple. Although the whole troika and has diagonal headlights, the Japanese gives them a special cut, the traditional verification of the details and the disadvantage of style, the German accuracy and indestructible thrust to ensure that each item is in its place, and France is found in independence and freedom in style that In comparison with the design of Opel, it just looks like hooliganism. The expression of people is strict, but at the same time open to acquaintance and dialogue. As you know, one of the main additions to the appearance of a business man is the watch, on the brand and the appearance of which a business partner can learn about you. In our case, the clock may well be replaced by an anterior emblem that Opel in full compliance with German accurately demonstrates without clauses in the geometric cladding center; Nissan has been agreed with the eastern mentality and turned into a confused hieroglyph. Peugeot demonstrates his heraldic lion with the dignity of the refined aristocrat, whose Patek Philippe peeps from under the sleeve of the expensive costume smoothly as much as it is necessary for identification, but not in read more. The silhouettes are also different and formed the image and provincial-conservative Nissan, whose style can remind the club jacket with gold-plated buttons (especially when the car is dark), and Lufthansa Opel's luriser. Also elegantly energetic and very modern silhouette of Peugeot, which can remind something from the Brioni men's collection. Rear cars are also very different: from the Nostalgia to the 80s of the last century Nissan and nothing that causing Opel does not cause Opel to trigger the rear lights of Peugeot, which provoke to call the driver, try to catch it up and talk about beautiful things, as sitting for The wheel of such a car probably knows in them.
Results:
Nissan Maxima Car Design Although the Printing of Quality is most likely to do with people who adhere to conservative views, or adherents of high-quality and inexpensive constancy.
Opel Omega Related and Clear Design In Connection with High Quality Compensate Some Dry Style.
Peugeot 607 is a stylish and very intelligent design, which must come to taste people of creative professions and those who value the image of the businessman going to the foot with the time.
Inside:
The interiors of this kind of cars are traditionally rich and boring. As a rule, this image is formed by a busy and richly equipped with the instrument panel, as well as the style of the chairs that relates them to office furniture. The exception of Peugeot, the composition of the panel of which can be called a mischievous, and the rear sofa can be installed at home. High quality upholstery leather, and a tree finish in Japanese and German cars is striking with its naturalness. Due to the fact that all three cars use completely different compositions and layouts of the instruments panels, interiors are also perceived differently. The most conservative at Opel is quite modern at Nissan, and the most advanced to Peugeot, which, besides, looks also at the class above. Steering wheels are designed by a four-spin scheme that gives them solidity and reliability. Door upholstery is diverse from soft and plastic on peugeot to hard-plan for Opel. The color-factor solution of the interior of Opel is strictly and officially and resembles unagnificent clothing, and a contrastful two-color finish of French and Japanese cars, on the contrary, gives a feeling of freelanceness and individuality of the image of the most appreciated properties of modern business men's clothing
Results:
Nissan Maxima Everything looks good and quite appropriate to the exterior of the car and money, which was paid for him.
Opel Omega Typically, the American instrument panel composition is very conservative. And the sensation of a morally obsolete solution does not save even German care.
Peugeot 607 bright and most modern interior solution. However, the style dominating rationality (for example, accented two-storey central console) may be a hindrance to a safe ride.
 

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