Test drive by Renault Logan since 2009 sedan
Budget Nick
Well, they waited. On the street of admirers of cheap foreign cars there was a small holiday. Summer residents and taxi drivers can dance and beat the drums: in Russia, sales of the updated Renault Logan, collected at the capacities of the Moscow Autoframos, begin.
I must say that the author of these lines has long been interested in the question: why are designers and marketers Renault so sure that the budget machine is obliged to look wretched? Think differently, the design of the old Logan would not resemble the heartbreaking results of modeling lessons in the preparatory group of kindergarten
But our people, nurtured on the forms and comfort of the classics, not paying attention to the appearance, appreciated the convenience and reliability of the Frenchman. No wonder the previous generation Renault Logan, according to the results of the last year, was ahead of the number of sales even such an auto icon of middle -level managers as Ford Focus, reaching almost 50,000 copies!
Looking at the new Logan, which is essentially no more than a slightly updated copy of his predecessor, you understand that the French still decided to destroy a cheap wretched bunch. It turned out that to give a retired armored personnel carrier, nothing is acceptable for civilians, acceptable for civilians. The radiator cladding was slightly updated. The boundaries between the front bumper and the body were smoothed. The size of the front block factor increased slightly, and the fog-tulle wrappers received a black edging.
The trunk cover received an integrated spoiler. On the lower part of it, you can order a chrome lining. The trunk line was extended to the rear lights, by the way, also modified. The rear bumper now flows into the body smoothly. It is only a pity that the victim of innovative trends fell a plastic tongue above the castle of the trunk. Now, in order to raise its lid, you have to grab onto the protruding cylindrical part of the castle itself.
Yes, and the inner world of Logan was definitely enriched. First of all, a new front panel is striking in the eye. The plastic here is applied, of course, inexpensive, but quite decent quality. The liquid crystalline display on the dashboard copes with the display of data on the run, fuel consumption, the amount of gasoline and other instructive information. The technological grooves in the door armrests, which have become in the tongue, who, according to the strange whim of nature, called the pens, were sent to a landfill of history. Now in the Logan salon there are full, pretty and quite ergonomic door handles. Another pleasant innovation adjusting the steering column in height.
But there are several more nuances in the inner ergonomics of the machine, which would be nice to draw the attention of the designers. Say, the buttons of the front windows did not take their legal places on the doors. Apparently, their deployment in the center of the passenger compartment costs noticeably cheaper in production.
Electric heating of the front seats device for our frosts is ingenious. But the button for turning on this vital unit is located on the floor, in a narrow gap between the seat and the door. Not all winter clothes will allow the first attempt to find the desired key. It is much easier to press it with an open door, but these annoying little things more than pay off with such characteristics of the inner space of the machine so respectable by our fellow citizens, like a lot of place for the rear passengers and a huge trunk!
As for the engines, the consumer is free to choose between the gasoline eight-valve 1.4-liter (75 hp) and 1.6-liter (84 hp) motors, as well as a sixteen-valve 1.6-liter unit with a capacity of 102 liters .With. By the way, with the last of the above engines under the hood of Renault Logan, it turned out to be enough with a quick car. In traffic lights, this is facilitated by a fairly short gear ratio in the manual transmission and the traction settings of the engine. The suspension of the renovationist, like the Logan of the previous generation, deserves praise. It is almost ideal for a budget car. With good energy intensity, it also differs with enviable smoothness. Yes, it is noisy inside, of course, but in corners the car is rolling, but continues to write a trajectory. In terms of controllability, the new Logan also pleased. The car turned out to be very simple and understandable in management.
In conclusion, we say that the basic version of the updated Renault Logan 1.4 Autentique will cost 309,000 rubles. At the same time, the driver's airbag will already be present in it. The maximum equipment of the car will cost the buyer 418,000 rubles.
SPECIFICATIONS
Renault Logan
Dimensions (mm) 4288x1989x1534
Wheel base (mm) 2630
Road clearance (mm) 155
Trunk volume (L) 510
Slave. engine volume (cm3) 1598
Max. Power (L.S.) 102
Max. Twist the moment (Nm) 145
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 10.5
Cf. fuel consumption (l/100 km) 7.1
Price (rub.) 418 000
Material: Alexey Batushenko
Photo: Armen Meetarjyan
