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Test drive by Renault Logan vs Hyundai Solaris: Knights of the Localization Age
Gyundai Solaris, grown specifically for Russia in the genetic laboratories of Seoul, appeared on the market only at the very beginning of 2011. And Renault Logan has been successfully conquering the hearts of Russian gardeners and former owners of domestic cars for more than five years. The Kolesa.ru portal brought his nose to the nose of the most popular foreign car of the 1st quarter of 2011 with its most ambitious competitor. On our test, the Moscow Frenchman against the St. Petersburg Korean. Looks for all five
It would seem, what's the point of comparing them?! Logan began to be sold in Russia since mid-2005, and the Romanian roads, teeming with a Logan dachas today, met the angular seds a year earlier. Solaris is a novelty of the new products - we can say that the paint did not have time to freeze.
In general, it makes no sense to talk for a long time on the design of two state employees and the correspondence of their appearance years of release. You can argue, but it seems that Solaris attracts not only former owners of domestic cars, but also those who want to change a used foreign car to a new modern car. But the main audience of Logan is apparently those who are ready to part with the fed (or sprinkled) by Lada and ripened to a foreign car, albeit Russian production.
The appearance of Solaris has family features characteristic of other modern Hyundai models. In particular, proportionally and stylistically, the budget hatchback resembles the senior relative of Sonata, with which it is easy to confuse it at a distance. The owners of the latter are unlikely to be very upset that a car like a sonata can be bought for 400,000 rubles, and it is pleasant to the owners of state employees.
As for Logan, its angular silhouette can be confused only with its Romanian twin, who are negligible on the Russian land.
Our foreign cars
Renault Logan is assembled near Moscow at the Autoframs factory. Production began in 2005, 120,000 cars are produced annually. In addition to Logan, a five -door version of the Sandero hatchback Logan is also produced there.
The first Hyundai Solaris came off the conveyor of the plant in the Leningrad region in 2011. Production volumes are growing day by day, and in 2011 it is planned to produce 105,000 sedans. Soon, Hyundai is going to start assembling a hatchback based on Solaris, but this will happen not earlier than the late spring of the early summer of 2011
The facets of reasonable comfort On the test, Logan in the maximum configuration of Prestige, compiled Solaris in the maximum version of Family. However, in this case, manufacturers are differently approaching an understanding of a comfortable interior in budget cars.
Logan is really comfortable in the budget. The soft chair was Easteno and absolutely does not hold with sharp restructures. No buttons on the steering wheel is provided; The front panel does not shine with the sophistication and technologicalness of the design except that the edging of deflectors and door handles are solved in a slightest original way.
And to French ergonomics you will have to get used to for some time. In particular, to the location of the sound signal button (not on the steering wheel!), The front windows (not on the doors!) And the rear windows (not next to the front ones!). Renault does not cause complaints about the spaciousness in the salon either in the front or behind. Yes, the last is not as convenient as the first, but for two travelers on the gallery, the soft sofa Logan will not be the worst option.
Solaris as if class above. The buttons-handrails and inserts are organically inscribed in the style of the salon, in general, a single style is visible in everything.
The seats in Solaris are more grabbing, the steering wheel (with the buttons of control of the audio system and the phone!) It is conveniently in the hands, and even adjusted for the inclination and flight. Only the traditional blue backlight seems too bright. However, the traces of budgets are also visible here: the toggle switch responsible for the volume of the radio has managed to break the music, you can, but without a concomitant click of the key.
In general, Solaris clearly counts on the favor of young drivers. Is there an iPhone, pocket mp3 player or just a flash drive? Then it is not necessary to carry music discs with you. Any carriers of information with the USB output can be connected to an audio system and play the playlist prepared in the machine in the machine. Not bad for a state employee, right?
In the tough framework
The task of transporting goods is best solved in Logan. Mainly, because the luggage volume of Logan holds 510 liters, Solaris is significantly less than 454 liters. In addition, in Hyundai, the opening is very memorized, which leads to the salon and interferes with the transportation of large objects, whether it be a TV or washing machine. There is no such problem in Renault: the passage between the trunk and the salon is no less in area than the back of the sofa.
Collected and not very
When I handed over the test Solaris and went about his business on Logan, he came to us for a month from the Russian representative office Renault, I finally tried this car. He is not as bored as it seemed before; The reactions to the steering wheel are clear, the chassis allows you to maneuver in the stream and even briskly starting from the place no longer seems impossible to get used to the soft left pedal with a giant course and a slightly perceptible moment of the start of adhesion
But if you constantly transplant from one sedan to another, the differences between them are not in Logan. Slaris steering is more acute, elastic chassis, reactions faster. Both treat uneven roads with understanding, damp the flaws, voicing them, but not allowing to hit the body very much. But Renault sways noticeably strongly on the waves of asphalt, and Hyundai behaves more collected, although it is not a plus on great bumps - it is very difficult to break through the Logan suspension.
Author: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [April 2011]
