Test drive by Renault Kangoo since 2008 Minivan

Pies with heels

The career of each successful businessman necessarily includes the stage of large and small transportation-crossings. This stage is difficult and nervous, but inevitable, like a stone at a crossroads. Any move trouble, any transportation of hemorrhoids. But some everyone undergoes and even get involved, so much so that they change, sorry, orientation of their business, and begin to earn money. Others acquire a couple of transported specialgars, insured against unforeseen hemorrhoids. And others simply lay the golden eggs of experience in an eternal piggy bank of knowledge ... in how! And they said: pies, they say, with heels is a continuous practice and no romance.
What is the use of raking into a bunch of all auto chlobular and auto -shaped products presented today on the Russian market? It is enough to roll out to the court of people's typical representatives of the cargo -passenger family in this case the proven old -timed Renault Kangoo and the young unoparfaling Ford Tourneo Connect. Then with the rest everything will immediately become clear where and in which direction everything goes. By the way, it is worth a reservation we are not going to deliver pizza to the ozka, to carry ten packets of beer on the Izhevsk heeled in twenty stalls and stuff the piano in a gazelle. In short, the cake products of the domestic auto industry are marked immediately. There will be time and desire, we will return to it. So what is the main thing for us in foreign pies? The main thing for us to sit: the appearance, volume, utility, comfort, the price directly for the vehicle and the cost of its maintenance.
Renault Kangoo in Russia, this eye of the French pie appeared at the end of the last century, and it cannot be said that he instantly surpassed everyone present here before him. However, an extraordinary appearance, of course, was embarrassed. But no one rushed immediately to sell his then Volkswagen Caddy and Skoda Favorites. Firstly, to everything new, and secondly, our people have always been wary of all French, and thirdly, such a technique has a obviously large margin of safety than a civilian technique. So why in vain fussing if the old pie has not yet worked out? Really. But with our hypertrophied love for the prefixes of Peres and over a long and happy life, it is not even guaranteed the most iron and unsophisticated, like a sledgehammer, to a car. When the next hard worker Kaddy fell apart under the next ton of beer, the time has come to Kangoo. And all this was five years ago, after which Kangoo only changed a little outwardly: the French united the dimensions, headlights and turn signals in one block, changed the shape of the front wings and the hood with the bumper. And all. Why change something inside, when everything is there O.K.? After all, every potential buyer Kangoo clearly imagines what he receives for 13,500 euros and, of course, does not wait for Full Option. Nevertheless, for this money there is everything so that the movement with the cargo in the city does not seem hard work: air conditioning, hydraulic power and music. All controls are available, understandable and do not require additional attention and clarification. Upstairs, above the heads, a long regiment. You want an umbrella there, you want the club everything will fit. In our case, there was a first -aid kit, which was easy to find with a hand. Small, but comfortable chairs, upholstered in practical material, a removable rear seat, sitting on which the three of them, however, is cramped, but still not very well-fed. Ultimately, our version of Kangoo without a twinge of the conscience of the station wagon. All passengers and cargo can be transported on it, moreover, cargoes are both high and long: a joke, with the rear seat, the volume of the cargo compartment is 2.6 cubic meters! Only for long -meters, the front passenger seat will still have to be folded. I don’t want Georgia, since the rear door is sliding, which is very valuable and convenient, especially for lovers of rational placement of cargo. And the floor of the luggage compartment is flat thanks to the traditional torsion rear suspension on the longitudinal levers and shock absorbers highly tilted forward. In extreme cases, you will throw a mattress there and snatch a couple of hours, stretching your legs freely. He slept, opened a huge back door and chew under it his sandwiches will protect both the sun and the rain. So what, that the landing behind the wheel is a little bus, and the barracks itself are slightly littered with the horizon!
 
  Kangoo drives very well, although in an empty form it sometimes jumps in nomadic turns. So the wheels 175/65 R14 are to blame. Heel is in Africa heel. But a 14-centimeter clearance allows you to fearlessly drive through rural primers. And the dynamics are very, very, up to a hundred 13.7 s. In fact, just do not be afraid according to the plant, on Kangoo it is possible to install as many as seven varieties of engines armed with a pen and automatic. However, the most often four types of two gasoline and two diesel are found from the world in the world. Kangoo is supplied to Russia only with a 75-horsepower gasoline engine with a volume of 1.4 liters and a mechanical box. Yes, he is the most popular in our latitudes. Of course, no extreme and turns in skidding! What for? The car easily goes 140 km/h in a straight line without cargo. But somewhere after 130 km/h the wind begins to beat in a tall body with such force that it is better to besiege a little. You can turn on, of course, music, but whose hearing can be pleased with the regular cociantal columns? With the load, Kangoo without tension produces 110 km/h and gently floats through bumps. The maximum 525 kg, of course, we did not load it in it, but with ours 300,400 kg felt completely confident and unstressed. As for service ... The French believe that for 100 thousand km of run, the owner of any Renault car should appear on the service a maximum of five times. The first is 15 thousand, the second 30, the third 45, the fourth 60 and the fifth 90. The service prices are declared unified throughout the CIS, somewhere in two tariffs depending on the region in which the dealer station is located. So, for the first Renault Kangoo, the client will have to pay, for example, in Moscow and St. Petersburg 99 euros, and in Tula and Nizhny 89. Plus, an annual guarantee excluding mileage, plus a six -year guarantee from corrosion. Charm, isn't it? Judging by the increased Kangushki population, conditions are quite suitable for operation. One trouble of the gas tank at Kangoo opens with a key, and the keyhole is not covered by anything. So the main thing is after the winter sink do not forget to blow the larva and sprinkle inside something non-freezing. And so the highest class! A wonderful, simple and very thought -out car.
Ford Tourneo Connect, he came to us last fall as it should be in Russia to all celebrities a year after the start of sales in Europe, withstanding a significant menopause. And it came to the court. Times are changing, and hemorrhoids remain with transportation. But even the short -busy Tourneo Connect is visibly larger than Renault Kangoo. However, we were not going to compare their forehead in the forehead. The romantic naturalist artist would be sincerely surprised to learn that Tourneo Connect received some kind of award for some kind of design. But apparently, this is how the perfection of the lines is the young lemonade generation. And in all likelihood, they are right. Why, indeed, to a practical modern hard worker, baroque exercises and egg -like roundness? Everything is strict, straightforward and without extra things. Quadratish, Fordish, Wow! Nevertheless, he, although assembled in Turkey, but Ford, looks much more serious than the frivolous Kangushka. And, discussing his appearance and insides, there is nothing to rely on due to the lack of any predecessor. Although, no, it still sins a transit spirit. Our journey on it began very unexpectedly at night, not making out what was happening, I had to immediately jump behind the wheel, on the way to comprehend its cargo -passenger mask. And the farther he and I retired from the point of our rendezvous, the more he liked him. The seats are wide with six types of adjustment, the steering wheel is thick, vertical, very pleasant to the touch and is also adjustable, regular music glows and plays better, by the way, a staff than in Kanga, the devices are more and large and understandable, the emitogram of the air conditioner, and external double mirrors are huge. And he rides excellently, clearly surpassing the dynamics of parallel cargo -passenger brothers. And no wonder: the 115-horsepower Ford Duratec 1.8 cannot be reproached for stupid character. And turns great, like on rails. First, the front door with the hood confidently enters the turn, also confidently drawing a distant rear axle. I only apologize for the hooligan details if there is an ashtray to shake the ashes into the window uncomfortable. The high, almost Gazelian-Trance glass, which drops with a multi-turn rotation of the handle, is divided into two sections, one of which resembles a triangular windbreaker on the Zhigulevsky classics, but only unprotected. Therefore, they reach for the alkalka, it is already up to the ceiling, which is located from the crown at a distance of the AU!, According to the plant, a driver’s pillow and ceiling is divided as much as 1147 mm! Several times I looked back, trying to examine the back seat on the move. It almost happened. Places for passengers of the wow, probably, like on a bus. You can definitely be planted for children about four width and surface, and God's grace. By the way, despite the back beam supported by the springs, Tourneo does not shake the bones, but treats the human body carefully. So about the back seat. It folds, disguised as entirely and in parts, and can also be left in the garage as unnecessary. Of course, I read about this. As well as about the cubature of the luggage compartment with the decomposed seat of the second row 1.2 m3. Strongly.
 
Having walked through the night dirt, blizzard and ice another 40 kilometers, I suddenly realized that in this configuration Tourneo was not equipped with the rear janitor and even a little depressed about this. But then I thought that this was not a reason to get aook at all, because in my driver's outer mirror at a speed of 120 km/h in the Moscow Ring Road I probably permanently observed the lights of the aircraft entering the Planting in Vnukovo. Everything is visible! .. But the glass is still very dirty ... In the morning, looking at the world from a height of the 15th floor, I was convinced of its imperfection. Below stood a silver square gut, striking by the passing merchants of the tangerines with steep chering forms. He is strict. He is in moderation. And he is a real universal inexpensive, that is, a budget car. A huge back door, inner space, similar to the cave. And one key for everything without a central castle. A sliding back door, opening the rear windows ... So what can he? Much. The maximum length of the cargo compartment with a folded front passenger seat is 2467 mm! Powerful. Plus height from floor to ceiling 1193 mm. That is, a three -meter luggage weighing 550 kg of Tourneo on the shoulder, or rather, for 160 nm. It remains to add to all the advantages the internal volume with a passenger armchair of 3.4 cubic meters, and we will get a natural pies of the universal purpose for 15,650 euros ... Yes, I almost forgot about the service. 20,000th then you can go at any dealer where this pleasure will cost 5060 mandatory Uev plus the cost of consumables. And how much it is ... Tourneo car in our market is new, but its 1.8 liter gasoline engine has already been quite studied. Probably, all that will cost no more than the same focus armed with the same engine. Here, perhaps, is all about Tourneo Connect. Controversial car. Unwonted. But extremely convenient, if you add some necessary options.
Text Nikolay Ushanov photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

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