Test drive Opel Vectra sedan 2002 - 2005 sedan

Opel Vectra 2.2 /5500 km

Opel Vectra is good because it allows the user to operate the car without noticing it. Everything as it should be, but there is no delight - but it is essentially difficult to find fault.
+/- ADAM OPEL AG company is proud of the aerodynamics of the new vector. The coefficient of the CLA is 0.28. The designers first blew the car on the computer (the program even took into account the distribution of air flows under the hood) - it took more than 25 thousand hours, and then brought it in a real pipe. The car was put on four treadmills (one under each of the wheels) and additionally studied aerodynamics for 750 hours (they say that it was a little, but all because the computer did most of the work). What do we have in a living car that drives in the fall of 2003 in Russia? The almost complete absence of extraneous whistles at speed and a very dirty trunk lid. Light, like a rock, the back pulls the dirt, like the fifth door of the station wagon. The rear window, we note, remains clean at the same time, so the only nuisance (if you discard the aesthetic moment) is the hands stained when opening the trunk.
 
 
The trunk on the vector has an electric drive. The castle can be open remotely from the key - with double pressing the door drive button or once - on a special key with the icon of the suitcase. This key makes it possible to climb into the trunk without removing the car from the alarm! That is, during loading and unloading (products from the trolley of a supermarket or mattress pillows), you will not be stolen from the cabin. The trunk opens from the cabin using two keys - on the driver's door and the front passenger door. One but - at the same time does not bounce, and willy -nilly has to take on it. If it is dirty, it is difficult not to stain your hands. But in this design there is a plus: since the position of the cover after the opening of the lock does not change, the trunk is automatically blocked in five minutes - if you or the child pressed the button by chance.
  + The vetera, a soft rubber skirt under the front bumper, plays to improve the aerodynamic properties of the car -. By the way, a practical thing. Visually, the lower cut of the bumper is located quite low - more precisely, at the usual level for a modern car at a maximum speed of 200 km/h - but when hitting a curb when parking, the winner of the vetera has five to seven centimeters: where the bumper plastic has every chance to split, The rubber skirt will only bend.
+ Vectrov music we have already praised - it sounds good. The CD player with a tuner is integrated into the front console - which means that they will not be stolen, in any case, they will not pull out, like an ordinary radio in 25 seconds. Of the claims: the tuner is grazing outside the city - even if you compare it with the radio for $ 100, which pairs with the internal magnetic antenna for $ 20. Opel has an external antenna, but made competently: located on the roof, does not fold and withstands the onslaught of automatic washing brushes. Although it is better to unscrew it in advance.
Text and photo Sergey Sherestnikov
Costs (September 15-October)
Mileage city/highway - 2000 km
AI-95 gasoline (278 l) $ 110
Moika $ 25
Washing liquid $ 6
Total $ 141

 

A source: "Autopilot"