Test drive by Renault Clio 5 doors since 2012 Hatchback

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It is customary for boxers to drive the weight to go to another category and deal with everyone there. A powerful engine in a small car is the same story. Toyota Yaris T Sport and Renault Clio Sport are invited to the ring.
 
Car races on public roads is not the most plain activity. If only because those to whom you assigned the role of slandic chips, can be disgusted with motorsport in general, and even more so for its amateur varieties. Nevertheless, the army of those who want to amaze everyone with their driver’s skill is growing constantly. This is evidenced not only by the statistics of deaths in road accidents, but also by the popularity of films such as taxi-2. The public likes not so much a primitive plot as the race on lively streets, in which Peugeot 406 is very prosaic in everyday life, pulls Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.
There is no money for Rally ART products, but you will have to park on a patch-look for something charged in a CD. What we did, avoiding, however, the temptation to remove the remake of the aforementioned film is to steal the Frenchman and the Japanese on busy streets.
 
 
 
AT THE START. When they stand nearby, it becomes clear that even such different cars can solve similar problems. Yaris - a typical microven, tall, with microscopic front and rear overhangs, sat down and went ... to a supermarket. Clio, in comparison with it, seems almost Stretch: it is as much as six centimeters lower, much longer. Plus, he, as befits a real sports car, is only two passenger doors. In fairness, we note that the Yaris T Sport is also three -door, but the doors' cars that we have inherited are five: an unnecessary evidence that the sport for many is a hobby, not a profession.
Cars also differ from their unsportsmanlike counterparts. Yaris T Sport has more massive than the usual Yaris bumper. Fighting headlights are integrated in the front. Both holes of air intakes are taken by a net like a rabid. The upper one is decorated with a small, but noticeable Toyota Sport nameplate. The car became two centimeters longer and as much closer to the asphalt. Plus, in standard equipment, not fourteen, but fifteen-inch discs. Clio Sport has overgrown with sports ammunition more modest. If his dorestyling predecessor Clio RS, and even more so the Clio Sport V6 medium -time monster, could not be confused with unsportsmanlike versions, then the current athlete can boast of a larger front spoiler, another radiator lattice pattern, wide thresholds and an awlade of the Renault Sport on the rear door .
Finally, for Clio, the owner chose the color that we decide to call dark brown with a spark, and rearranged the car on gold wheels. For the entire Toyota series, T Sport is provided with a single color-Quick Silver.
 
 
IN THE LOCKER ROOM. By the way, silver sports tones are also present in the interior of Yaris T Sport. For example, those parts of the steering wheel, for which the driver grabs infrequently, is covered with a silver shade skin. The working surfaces of the steering wheel are lined with material for Kevlar. The same pseudo -class inserts and on the doors of the car. The dashboard in the last Japanese fashion is located in the central part of the torpedo. It immediately attracts the attention of almost the same diameter of the speedometer and tachometer scale, clearly digitized by white in black - if you remember, on the very first yaris there were similar scales of speed indicators and fuel levels, which later replaced with a liquid crystal display. Plus, another sports stroke is a brilliant insert of polished aluminum in the knob of the gearbox switching handle. It looks stylish, but taking a palm is not very pleasant, because it is cold. Or should you put on gloves for such a car for driving on such a car?
However, in the Clio Sport, the lever is also with a metal insert - it is clear that this is the whole sports life. Under the feet of a matt, metal overlays on the pedals with deliberately rude holes and rivets shine. The stormy is sewn with the same deliberately careless stitches, without ten two of which are tides of plastic. In the decoration of the salon-all the skin-alkantara. The seat is especially good - it is moderately soft, moderately elastic, it perfectly covers the body, so that a physically inferior person will be interested in the number of adjustments. Having settled down in such a seat, you can forgive the car all the shortcomings of the three-doors that the designers have not yet learned to fight: the safety belt must be stretched far beyond the left shoulder, and in order to configure the climate control, which is still located at the bottom of the central console-to lean forward-to lean forward .
In the Yaris T Sport, you don’t need to reach anywhere-even the cummier-sackwheel with the sash open towards each other is opened without any rolls of the body. And the point here is not in organizing space, but in the cramped and method of landing. If in Renault in the adult way it is spacious, then in Yaris you have to twist the legs, and if the back of the seat is made in a sporting gentle one, you can’t get to the steering wheel. In a word, a typical Vanovsky landing, which, as it turned out, has its advantages in charged cars.
 
Weight categories. We press on the accelerator, and a vertically standing back of the seat with the same force presses on the shoulder blades. Yaris T Sport shoots up to a hundred no worse than many GTI. A high landing allows you to better see what is happening around and accurately calculate your own and other people's maneuvers. True, it was extremely not too comfortable to pass the turns and make rearrangements in the flow of transport on T Sport-for some reason I remembered how four years ago Mikroven’s ears were made by one German company. However, the suspension - a new type of spring and shock absorbers were used for the sports version, and the car itself pressed to the road for as much as 20 mm - plus sports tires Bridgestone Potenza RE040 intermittently keep the course. In addition, the standard equipment of the car includes ABS with EBD, and in the most extreme case - airbags for the driver and passenger.
Of course, it is also possible to go slowly on this car: I cut the transmission higher and you slowly put the tachometer arrow on the gas. But, firstly, it is boring, and secondly, if the Clio Sport is specially configured to the sporting and the street is announced by the bass roar, then the designers of Toyota, on the contrary, tried to drown out the operation of the power unit, and the motor is somehow frivolously buzzing. Therefore, again we grab the handle of the checkpoint - the sports Yaris switches extremely elastic - and we drown the pedal. The instant effect: the electronic system for changing the gas distribution phases of VVT-I allows you to remove greater power from the engine at low speeds and a high torque at maximum.
 
Masters and candidates. Renault Sport engineers also know what a change in the collector’s working volume is due to a change in the length of the intake channel. And they expanded the 140-horsepower two-liter from Laguna first up to 169 hp, and in the restyled model they managed to add three more horses. Therefore, after a second after the start it becomes clear who the master and who - only the CCM. Acceleration to hundreds in 7.2 and 9 seconds - the difference is still large.
At the first we accelerate to 60 km/h. On the second - up to 120 km/h. The third is already 180. We reach the remaining to the maximum value of another 40 km/h, sticking the fourth and fifth. This acceleration in free space, perhaps, is even more interesting than slalom in a dense stream. Although Clio Sport does the last exercise perfectly. The elastic steering wheel here is not equipped with an electric amplifier, like all other restyled clio, but traditional hydraulics. The suspension is tough, but in moderation: enough to fit into the turns, without getting a kick under the ass from each bump.
Exercising with rudders and pedals, we somehow forgot that in Yaris T Sport there is an on-board computer, heated side glasses, and on Clio Sport there is a rain sensor and the quality of outboard air.
Pocket Rocket. In Europe, charged compact cars are popular for several years. Their owners join real and virtual clubs, expressions like Hot Hatch or Pocket Rocket managed to become idioms, the Toyota series T Sport is seriously associated with the upcoming performance of the company in Formula 1, and in the context of conversations about the Renault Clio Sport, the name of Damon is still often sounded. Hill. By today, the situation has developed a little different. All machines are less than the Land of Kruzer Prado are considered female, the sportswallness of the car is measured by horsepower or the presence of anti-wing, there are few expenses for gasoline, and it is still accepted to park on lawns or across the yard. That is why car manufacturers are not even going to certify pocket missiles for Russia. The most powerful Russian clio has a 1.6 engine with a capacity of 110 hp under a hood, and the supply of Yaris to Russia has recently been terminated. However, the euro has already appeared in our exchangers, and the number of domestic pop and cinema stars, performing in various kinds of races on small -class cars, is becoming more and more. After all, they also take an example from them.
 
Text Dmitry Gronsky, photo Igor Timofeev
Toyota Yaris T Sport is provided for the Wess Motors, (371) 706-8300, Renault Clio Sport-a private person. The editors thank the administration of the Birkerniek highway, (371) 755-3161, for help in organizing shooting.
Model/Modification Renault Clio Sport Toyota Yaris T Sport
Manufacturer/country Rn des u renault/France Toyota Motor Co, Ltd/Japan
BODY
Type hatchback Mikroven
Number of doors/places 3/5 5/5
ENGINE
Basin type with electronic injection
Front location, transversely in front, transversely
Working volume (cubic cub) 1998 1497
Number/location of cylinders 4/rowing 4/row
Power, kW (L.S.) at O. Min. 124 (172) at 6250 78 (106) at 6000
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 200 at 5400 145 at 4200
TRANSMISSION
Front front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 5-speed
SUSPENSION
Front independent, such as Mcpherson, reptile stabilizer Independent spring, triangular transverse levers, subframe
The rear half -dependent, spring, multi -link, dependent spring, beam of the bridge on longitudinal levers
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster
Min. Diameter of the turn (m) 10.7 10.6
Brakes
Front/rear disk, ventilated/disk
Dimensions/volumes/weight
Length/width/height (mm) 3773/1636/1417 3635/1660/1485
Wheel base (mm) 2472 2370
Dry mass (kg) 1110 960
Tires 195/45 R16 185/55 R15
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 220 190
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 7.2 9.0
Economy
Fuel consumption (l/100 km, average) 8.5 6.9
The price in Moscow from $ 22 thousand (without customs) from $ 17 thousand (without customs)
 

Source: "Autopilot"