Test drive Opel Zafira 2006 - 2008 Minivan

MOTHERBOARDS

Such cars should be equated with maternity capital and are considered as a tool for the implementation of a national project to create large families. Because if you have 5-7 seats in the car, you will involuntarily begin to look for and make people to fill the vacuum. However, married people with children, according to manufacturers, are not the only users of vehicles, like Mazda5 and Opel Zafira. In the target audience, the compactwenes were also closed, the so -called pragmatists, which give everything at once: spaciousness, functionality, comfort, speed, and leisure inexpensively.
Opel entered a single-volume arena in a compact class back in 1999 with a Zafira built on the basis of Astra. It holds the title of the best -selling compactwane in Europe not too large, but spacious, quite fast, but economical. However, the main highlight of the Zafira Salon-transformer. If you want seven places, you only want two plus almost two cubes of cargo space. To make such tricks, extra seats do not even have to be removed from the car. There is a miracle system of Flex7. Klaz-Class the sofa drove away and developed in parts. Also, the clan-clock suddenly, from nowhere, a gallerine from a pair of seats appeared (by the way, quite convenient for teenage passengers). By the way, no one was able to make a compactiven with an even trunk floor without the seats removed.
Naturally, the 2008 model year inherited the elegant mechanism of FLOX7. And also the contour of a miniature swift bus characteristic of the first softer. Added chromium in front and behind. The radiator grille gave a playful V-shaped. Once the square foglights opened and curved. And the wheeled arches subsided athletically.
There is nothing fundamentally new inside. The 2008 ZAFIRA Salon can be distinguished only by chrome kantics of the audio system and climate control pen. And the Cosmo version will now be able to flaunt with black piano panels the same as on the new Astra sedans.
Opel emphasized equipment. The owner of a single -racer should not feel deprived. Bixenon adaptive light? Please. Adaptive suspension? No problem. There are all attributes of luxury panoramic roof, multimedia system with GPS navigation and color screen, parking sensors. Supply and enjoy.
The main difference between the lineup engines. The usual 1.6 ECOTEC is replaced by a gasoline motor of the same volume with the system of variable phases of intake and release of Camphase (115 hp). There is also version 1.6 on natural gas. The new 1.7-liter turbodiesels (110 and 125 hp) are very nimble and at the same time very economical and at the same time very economical.
In Switzerland, where the test drive of new Safir took place, I first chose a 2.2-liter gasoline version with 6-speed mechanics (so far only with a machine gun will be delivered to Russia). Alas, the impression remained greased. The car itself is good. A leather salon, an impressive ceiling, good, by no means minivan handling. But the motor, which so lit the first -generation backwaters, now seemed lazy and sleepy. Well, the ecology, toxicity, Euro4 ... is clear ...
 
And the car itself is good. A leather salon, an impressive ceiling, good, by no means minivan handling. You can complain to non-traditional ergonomics on the steering wheel, installed at a non-natural angle, as well as on the gearbox lever, which, when switching to the fourth gear, goes somewhere down. However, by and large, these are the costs of the wagon layout of all machines of a similar class, and not the salmon.
Diesel is what a single -racer needs. It is not stupid, very resourceful, has an angry thrust above 2000 revolutions per minute. Safira 1.7 accelerates perfectly. The turbodiesel reliably pulls on steep lifts and restrains the car on the slopes. And on a high -speed autobahn, it is easier to eat a reserve for immediate acceleration in both fifth and sixth gear, while the gasoline sank will have to be transferred to the fourth and unscrew the engine to safely complete the risky overtaking.
In 2005, 6 Mazda5 cars were sold in Russia. In 2007 1009. The former Deputy Prime Minister could safely write such statistics on his asset and bring as evidence a successfully prepared and skillfully directed demographic explosion.
The updated Mazda5 has been updated not only that all the headlights, bumpers and lanterns are always updated, but what was really important to update if you count on a positive response of the best half of humanity. This is not about a more fun coloring of the machine, although this is also important: in the Mazda palette, seven new colors were found three varieties of blue, two red, white and sand. Mazda5 is much more significant in strengthening the matriarchal positions that the 2-liter version of the car is now equipped with a 5-speed automatic box.
Male drivers with a high blood content in the blood can, however, do not worry: it will not become a slurry. Firstly, the machine gun has a manual mode and a new design hydrotransformer, thanks to which the spent with its low frontal resistance coefficient (0.29) prophesies good acceptance (at least the abnormality of the mechanics has become noticeably higher: it is now leaving to hundreds now. Not 10.8, but 10.2 s). Secondly, the car can be, if not spurred, then emphasized by the quick SAP SAP or Sports Appension Package.
A car with such a package is 60 mm longer than the standard version. Its is more spectacular: the radiator grille, the front bumper skirt, 17-inch discs, the ass in general, where a small spoiler appeared, and the rear lights in particular, the dozen of their LEDs is decorated with a black edging. In the complex, the car began to look more sports and more dynamic. Here is the time to remember that once on a dashing mazda5 even they focused and promoted with the help of a commercial, where the fashion designer rolled a mankene girl on Mazda5 and at the end of a trip with a breeze found that she had either the nipples from pleasure or from excitement.
The concept of Zoom-Zoom in the company is now investing any meaning. But the real Zoom-Zoom of this model is manifested in the option, which none of the direct competitors offers. This option is a rear sliding doors with a height of 1083 mm with an electric drive. The doors open by 700 mm in four seconds, and close in five. The attraction, however, is fascinating and can stretch out onto the clock if the owner of this miracle of technology begins to demonstrate it to the familiar and idle others.
The process of penetration into the salon, thanks to the use of three-dimensional shooting, turns out to be as easy as possible even for a woman with a 3-year-old baby in her arms, especially since the rear doors open with the help and buttons on the instrument panel, and door keys, and remote control buttons on a universal manner. The key from the Key-Yess-Go, which can not be removed from the pocket, provides entrance to the salon and the engine starts, and also eliminates the user from the need to in contact with the dirty surfaces of the same rear doors.
Mazda5 has become noticeably more fashionable: the passenger has where to stick your iPod, what to listen to 3000 records (except CD, there is the opportunity to play mp3-musical), where to see DVD and where to follow the docking of a mobile phone with Bluetooth.
But, probably, something else is much more important: the car has not lost anything from what summer residents and strong business executives loved it for. The number of compartments in which you can hide everything, starting from glasses to carpentry clamp, has almost fifty. Ten cup holders of different calibers are compatible with almost any container. The trunk door opens at two levels of height of 1810 and 1910 mm, and the beneficial cubature of the trunk with folded seats is 1566-1678 cm3. The transformation of the salon from 5-7 local rooms in a spacious hall occurs in strict accordance with the concept of Karakuri. The second row is removed at all by one pressing the button.

Opel Zafira 2.2
Gasoline engine, 4 in a row
Raboche volume (cubic cub) 2198
Power (L.S. at rpm) 150 at 5600
Moment (nm at rpm) 215 at 4200
Front drive
Gearbox automatic, 4-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4476/1670/1801
Maximum speed (km/h) 190
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 11.6
Fuel consumption is average, (l/100 km) 8.5
Price in Moscow () from 819,000

Mazda5
Gasoline engine, 4 in a row
Raboche volume (cubic cub) 1798 | 1999
Power (L.S. at rpm) 115 at 5300 | 146 at 6500 MOTE (Nm at rpm) 165 at 4000 | 185 at 4000
Front drive
Gearbox5MT | 6MT/5At
Length/width/height (mm) 4505/1755/1615
Maximum speed (km/h) 182 | 194/186
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 11.3 | 10.2/12.4
The fuel consumption is average, (l/100 km) 7.6 | 7.9/8.3
Price in Moscow () 606 000 | 736 000/775 000
 
Text: Ruslan Tarasov, Khasan Ganiev
Photo: Mazda, Opel AG
 

A source: "Autopilot"