Test drive Opel Tigra 1994 - 2000 hatchback
Three sources of popularity
A practical station wagon, a clumsy coupe and a prestigious sports sedan. With such a wide modeling program, the Ji-Em concern will always be ensured in demand. 40:40:20
Opel carefully monitors the preferences of customers: a bright, expressive tiger appeared not by chance, but took its own, strictly defined place in the portfolio of the company. In the near future, the gamut of the Opel models will be 40% consist of classic cars with a sedan or station wagon body. Another 40% will take the latest inventions of designers, combining the advantages of large machines in a relatively small volume, for example, about a meriva. Finally, 20% are extraordinary, impractical models like a new tiger. The ratio of 40:40:20 The company calls the formula of success.
Of course, I used to know that General Motors the largest automobile concern in the world. And that he owns more than a dozen brands. But it is one thing to know, to feel the other, as they say, in your own skin. The program of the presentation of the new Ji-Em models surprised: at the airport we will wait for something by the name of Chevrolet-Korob Stayshn Wagon, in the morning the next day they offer to ride an open Opel-Tigin Top Top, and then transfer to the diesel SAAB 9-3 to return To the same airport. A little more than a day for three very different not even models, but brands. Then the standard phrase suggests itself: they are united
Not a damn thing unites them! And perhaps this is the strongest quality of an invincible concern: you grow up, change the image, get rich, get out by grandchildren, buy cars that are very different from each other. But ultimately, all your life remain faithful to one company. You don’t even have to know about it just the ji-em is able to offer the car truly for every taste.
In a good way, width The latest universal of the tubleus of a joint venture of Ji-Em-deu. As befits the brainchild of the concern, who spread the network around the world, he is a real cosmopolitan: the assembly is conducted in South Korea, one of the motors is brought from Australia, the German ZF is offered a clinic box, the design was developed with the Italians Pininfarin and Dzhujaro (they worked on them. previous DEU models); Finally, America shared the brand. Actually, the tubla is just from those chevrolets that only gives the golden cross on the radiator, but by no means trait.
On the go, the station wagon is completely ordinary and this is not a drawback at all. What can you say about your ballpoint pen? About the so-the-soem camera? About the paper clip? These objects have only one simple function. Also, Chevrolet-Korida was made for the sake of one task to deliver his owner and his family from the luggage from point A to point B, and made well. Let's say nothing else, refined pleasure from driving or, God forbid, aesthetic pleasure from him is not required from him.
No, of course, I put several pros and cons in a notebook. For example, the car is noisy after 110120 km/h. I would like more clarity in the clutch. I was pleased with a considerable road clearance. I liked the spacious rear seat (the car leads in the class). But all this is only the background for the general impression is a convenient, practical station wagon, from which you will get exactly what you expect, and not a gram more.
It was not for nothing that it was tested for a long time on the roads of England, improving the design of the spring slightly tougher, slightly thinner, you first get behind the wheel and, half an hour after the start, you cease to carry the control process, everything is familiar and clear. And it would be completely boring if not for two questions.
The first what is his name? It seems that the ji-em does not like the name of Daewoo, which confirms, for example, a clear expansion of the Chevrolet brand. The owner-barin, let it be chevrolet. At first, they wanted to call the new station wagon, then they leaned towards Nubir all because the Nubra sedan inherited from DEU is selling well. However, the hatchbek Latsetti too. Total, there is a tubli, Latsetti and Nybra-Stayshn Wagon, all of them are based on the same J200 platform.
In order to finally confuse you, I will mention that the car we are talking about is entering the Polish market under the name of Latsetti-Steshn Wagon. And in China, Buik-Exel is produced on the basis of Latsetti. In general, there are still disorders of disorders, there are still Daewoo models, they are replaced by Chevrolet, the names are confused, it remains to be hoped that this will not affect the sale and after -sales accompaniment as a play of its nubira!
What is the price? For a car claiming the high title of consumer goods (by golly, without any irony), the question is key. The price becomes the very highlight that, what is a sin to hide, the car (or to me?) Lacks in technology.
The cost of the basic version of the Chevrolet-Kh pick is quite attractive to 15 thousand euros. For so many, the car will be bought in Europe. For Russia, the price has not yet been determined by sales will begin by the end of the year, then let's look at the price tag in rubles. The car will appear in the dealers of the ji-em dealers, and the company will soon compose the following novelties of the three-door galos, Chevrolet Niva and the new Matiz.
But this is a matter of the future, and here it already flashes the tiger engine, inviting to play?
Anton Chuykin. Photo by the author and GM
Source: The magazine "Driving"
