Test Drive Renault Modus since 2008 Minivan
AT THE DISPLAY WINDOW
I have nothing to hide!And indeed, driving these lu-pheel machines that feel about the universal review. They are obvious apologists of transparency (transparency), so popular in the modern Western society they say, we have no secrets from anyone. And, accordingly, antipodes of aggressive, gloomy, glue-toned jeeps with narrow rissed windows.
Ford Fusion
Under the hood Engine: Working volume 1596 cm3,
compression ratio 11: 1,
max. Power 100 liters. with. at 6000 rpm,
max. Moment 146 nm at 4000 rpm / min
Fuel consumption (EPA): 6.1 / 10.4 liters per 100 km
Volume of fuel tank: 45 l
Maximum volume: 460 liters.
Maximum volume: 335/1175 l. Considered, apparently, the volume with the folded back of the front right seat. But without that here you can take a lot of boot
Number of seats 5.
Drive front
Suspension
Front Macpherson
Rear multi-profile
Auto gearbox. 5-stupas.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 178
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, from 10.9
Total information
Mass cutting. / Full, kg 1070/1605
Renault modus
Under the hood Engine: Working volume 1390 cm3,
compression ratio of 10: 1,
max. Power 98 liters. with. at 5700 rpm,
max. Moment 127 nm at 4250 rpm
Fuel consumption (EPA): 5.6 / 8.7 liters per 100 km
Fuel tank volume: 49 l
Maximum volume: 200/620 l. The crushing volume of the trunk is swimming here by gigantic sizes of the fifth door and her lifting height
Number of seats 5.
Drive front
Suspension
Front Macpherson
Rear multi-profile
Auto gearbox. 5-stupas.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 177
Acceleration to 100 km / h, from 11.4
Total information
Mass cutting. / Full, kg 1160/1650
Who is something
Ford Fusion *****
Price tested car $ 19 840
Max. Power 100 liters. with.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b178 km / h
Acceleration 0-100 km / h 10.9 s
RENAULT MODUS *****
Price tested car $ 18,670
Max. Power 98 liters. with.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b177 km / h
Acceleration 0-100 km / h 11.4 s
Security
Ford Fusion *****
The result of the EURO NCAP crash test in 2003
Front. 11 of 16 (69%)
Side. 13 of 18 (72%)
Common score 25.
Medium level of protection. Risk of damage to the knees and chest at the front rides.
RENAULT MODUS *****
Total EURO NCAP crash test in 2004
Front. 14 out of 16 (88%)
Side. 18 of 18 (100%)
Common score 33.
Lovely side and frontal protection, striking for such a compact car.
Liked / did not like it
Ford Fusion
LIKED
It is good that on a modest car there are things like control of the radio from the steering wheel and the opening button of the trunk
DID NOT LIKE
Is it really so far a big hub of the steering wheel is needed to hide the pillow? For hands uncomfortable
Renault modus
LIKED
Successful short steering control lever. All provisions are clearly fixed.
DID NOT LIKE
The most inconvenient gear shift function. Yes, and the lever is far away
Eh, here would be for another one or two participants. Well, nothing, it will take another six months - a year, in this sector there will certainly be the other premieres that then and make a new big test. As long as the duel.
Moyus (emphasis on the last syllable!) And fusion what is common? Both rose vertically from the popular basic classic hatchbacks in Klio and Fiesta, respectively. Not yet microsany have formed their subclass in +. Wednesday of their habitat Megapolis, habits Comfortable movement with low speeds. In this mode, low silhouette and excessive flowing is not needed. But you can raise the ceiling above your head, make the landing of passengers more vertical, give long-awaited freedom to always clamped knees, improve visibility, increase the volume of cargo transported. What will have to sacrifice? An increase in fuel consumption at high speeds (small) and change in the center of gravity (raised slightly above), which negatively affects the rapid passage of turns. But both in the specified conditions are irrelevant.
But the differences between these models are abused. And not in trifles, but in ideology. Ford is not too radical. He is a small wagon, slightly processed over the road to overcome urban obstacles to the border type. But the salon height here is more smoothly so so that the high person does not get to the ceiling even with a vertical landing.
But Renault is even in French avant-garde standards the original. It will pay attention to the stream even not quite interested in cars. The growth of the model in height occurred unevenly without narrowing, the roof of the almost same width as the bottom of the body. Visually superstructure seems expanding upward, but not to such an extent as Fiat Multipla. This made it possible to make the doorways of the doors so big that even the largest rides should not bow and squeeze when landing. And the compact hood makes the modus one and a half capacity.
It is very difficult to compare a hamster with a parrot, but if they are about equal in size, both warm-blooded, herbivores, a lean, why not? ..
Dynamics
Small cars are usually quite alive even with small motors. And with a dummy engines, they seem real lighters. Their dynamics perceive sharper, and it seems like from the inside and outside that acceleration is more active than it is in fact: the drivers of the surrounding machines do not assume that the subtitle kid with naive eyes suddenly disrupts and flies forward as the hence.
With the proximity of comparative indicators, more impressive the dynamics of Ford. Its gas pedal allows you to more accurately dose acceleration and keep the car in constant tone. Above and elasticity of the engine, the thrust engine is provided in a wide range of revolutions. If you add a relatively short range of gear and clear operation of the KP lever, we get almost the perfect urban ensemble. And I do not work in pedals, it would be possible to put a fusion fusion. The right foot at the reverse course all the time faces the brake pedal, and it is inconvenient to tolerate it in the case of braking. And the work of the clutch disappoints the fact that there is no special platform for the left leg, and the narrow slit between the pedal and the flow of the feet is not placed more than the forty size. What is a women's car? And this is already similar to the discrimination by sexual sign!
Brake dynamics, too, with reservations. Usually, large Fords are well braked, but, apparently, this kid carries the genes of relatives. Avs here in principle there is, although it seems, some very classified. Break into the floor on a snowy road the car goes by the user. Neither clicks, no jerks characteristic of AVS observed. By the way, since I remembered the winter operation: the Fusion salon warms up a lot longer than you expect a family trait again. Want more critics? Ford is more noisy on cheap car sound insulation. It is customary to save. And the fact that our Fusion with all the increments stands without a small twenty, it seems that few people are worried.
And how modus? Of the shortcomings, first of all stretched transmissions. Between the first and second interruption ... here is big. But the car does not stall when Trokhani, as a competitor. With minimal gas, you can almost throw the clutch pedal. Even plus: despite the fact that in the city noise, which in Reno breaks through without a lot of interference, the sound of a motor at idle is almost no heard.
The Frenchman accelerates, maybe not bad, but the picture spoils the vague switching of the agitator growing from the floor. Somewhere there in the depths you must find the necessary transfer and get a lever to the desired position. And this is on the new car! And what will happen after the run of thousands at least in a hundred?
But the brakes Renault are good! They are somehow exaggerated efficient and easy. Is that the move pedelized is short and difficult to dispense the effort, but by the end of the rising day you get used to it. And, pah-pah, there was never a fear that I would not put on the braking path.
Controllability
Let me start with passability. After all, one of the objectives of creating this type of body to lift it over the road. Of course, in order to get out of the snow captivity, there would be another 4x4 wheel formula, but it is easy to run on the risk without risk, the bumpers can easily. And especially succeeded in this fusion. This is a real find for the citizen, who for the day you have to repeatedly park in places where the passenger cars are passing!
But Reno is easier to shove into the far corner. The steep angle of rotation of the wheels, almost missing swelling and the location of the driver is close to the front edge of the machine allow you to leak into completely incredible gaps. And no matter how close you did not get the front bumper to the obstacle, it turns out that there are still centimeters of ten gap. Check of view in your favor!
Oh, these electric power steering cheap and angry! But on the reverse reaction on the steering wheel, it is necessary to speak only in the subjunctive tilt. Understand how the wheel is rotated, immediately not easy. Especially in Renault. And Ford goes sick. Even quite clearly as a thread behind a needle. Classic version of the front drive. But on the curve slightly fed, and the muzzle went to the outside of the turn until the speed was noting. At what moment the wheel will join the road and the trajectory will round, it remains only to guess. But it is in winter. On the road with a good clutch, this problem almost does not occur. And embroider on a lightweight powerful car with sharp reactions is a pleasure.
Another fusion feature is long-freight, rigid suspension. All small irregularities are going to the body, and on large pits, Fordick jumps like a grasshopper, but before breaking the case never comes. The position can be fixed only by the loading of two or three passengers will brighten up your journey and make a trip unforgettable-comfortable. Or maybe it's a hint of a capacious trunk, where does the indental owner take his priceless barracks?
MODUS is much softer. He, of course, there is no luxurious Ford Clearance, but if you didn't feel anything for him at the congress from a high border, you won't feel sick. Surprisingly energy-intensive suspension, quenching fluctuations in a wide range. For the passage of steep turns, the suspension, however, is soft, the machine swims out with all four wheels. But the turning is close to neutral here, and fill the modus back when you have already loaded the front, easy to add gas.
Ergonomics
From the point of view of landing behind the wheel, Renault geometrically preferable. Is that knees rest in the steering wheel when it is middle position in the angle of inclination, it is necessary to reject the column from itself. True, the Branca at the same time does not interfere with the instrument shield something not behind it, but in the middle of the panel!
In Ford, it is noticeably closer on the left shoulder presses the door, and the large-sized passenger on the right will also be with you in direct contact. But Fusion finishing materials seemed from Mondeo, high quality and precision fitting. And the cool outlines of the elements of the Renault salon are made of beautiful, but, alas, the call of plastics with uneven slots.
Special attention deserves mirrors as far as they are good in Ford, so ugly on the French car. The ideology of MODUS itself involves large external burdocks flowering here in the last place. But here are unbroken ovals, leaving huge dead zones. And even in the salon mirror, the glass of the fifth door does not fit! Conclusion: Going to Renault turn the head more often. Especially for this there are all the prerequisites: the visibility is six points on a five-point scale. And even the front racks, looming far in front, overlap not too large sector. And through a slightly convex triangles of the windows on the front doors, those zones are visible at the bottom of the corners, which are inaccessible to the sight of most passenger cars.
Summary
This is the very case when the unequivocal preferences cannot be and cannot. Both cars have bright character traits, and, at the same time, to them a considerable list of claims. But, given that both applicants are in the original genre, I would allocate Renault as a more copier with the task.
How do they look
Ford Fusion
Renault modus
OUTSIDE
If you find fault, then at first glance it turns out some kind of nonsense: both of these tiny automobiles are officially referred to as compact universities of high capacity (control) ... It is logical to ask: can it be compactly improved? It turns out yes. For example, MODUS is shorter, and, indeed, higher Collogrammer CLIO III. Hence such original, and, I would say, fresh proportions. Fusion is also not lagging behind in originality, also high, but more restrained in style. Its design is clearly aged, although the recent facelifting of the face brought in his appearance fashion features of a two-story bezing of the radiator, which is so relative today many German cars. The Frenchman's face is fresh and pretty punching headlights and lifts orange animal cilia. Symptyaga will not call, but attractive. Silhouette is also characteristic and very modern. For example, falling back the roof line sets the profile a serious dynamics from which the baby is torn on the road, even froze in the parking lot with a tightened handbrake and without a driver. German side in comparison with this rapid manifestation of life, the charter of the guard service, although there is a slope, and the vocabulary of the windows line, but there are no curaza. Behind Fusion in a hurry can be misleading: Either Fiesta, or Focus, whether C-MAX probably, Ford Stylists greatly dislike theoretical statements of Bangla and torment this similarity to a pixel colleague. Well, well ... if MODUS caught up on the road, to recharge with life optimism, I would specially slowed down, I missed forward, and loved his mischievous rear lanterns. Empty, and my mood would raise me for sure.
INSIDE
The interior style Renault is not suitable for each driver and not to every suit. Image such an interior will also not raise. The task is not that. From here, it is not visible in the finish or a tree, nor the blood of the pseudocarbon. Everything else is different and differently from the door pockets and oval the central console. All this is none of the way that does not mow, and there are no self and primary analogues, and this is undoubted merit of Stylists Le Kedan and his philosophy in the Touch-Design ergonomics (design touch). Indeed, to touch everything and pulls: for example, I want to even slam the cover of the combination of instruments, which is arrogant to the middle of the concise panel. Ford, as you know, in Africa Ford ... The current generation of stylists, without leaving the stone on a stone from a hooligan stylistic outfield called New EDGE, they began to restore respectability and order in a row. A little bit of the past mischief remains unless in the separation of the wings of an absolutely symmetric panel of instruments, and chaotic outbreaks of silver aluminum inserts. And that's it.
SUMMARY
This type of car transportation for a young energetic family and the city. And the city is sometimes gray and sullen. But sadly in it will become all, but not for you. You are in Renault Modus! In Fusion, however, nothing too. I go to a German car yourself. Used.
Text Vladimir Smirnov
Photo Leonid Dedukh
A source: Cars
