Test Drive Renault Sandero Gt Line since 2012 Hatchback

Test Drive Renault Sandero with automatic transmission: my first automatic machine

Renault made a car designed for those who are just starting to lead their car biography. However, according to the wheels, the appearance of the box automatic did not help the inexpensive compact Hatchback Sandero cope with the task. Instead of a certain target group, I liked the car.

In Renault set the task before Sandero: to rejuvenate your client. Not to say that the Renault Logan is a car for pensioners, but the desire to hook clients is the fool from the French arose. It is also clear: the main audience of the first bestseller of autoframos former owners, to put it mildly, not new (moral and technically) domestic cars. But young active customers are also interesting and conquered the loyalty of which means success both political and commercial.

Sandero, according to the Renault marketer plan, was supposed to offer novice drivers what Logan youth body, hatchback could give, because the big trunk is not exactly what young buyers look first. Although the decomposed rear seat and can provide much greater than the sedan useful volume of 1,200 liters! So with the transportation of snowboarding problems will not arise.

And another car for young people (if we are not talking about the gold part of it) must be inexpensive. Sandero satisfies this criterion in the initial price of 329,000 rubles, which are asked for a 1.4-liter car with minimal basic equipment. But even in the maximum equipped version with 1.6 and the automatic machine will not be more expensive than 473,000 rubles.

In addition, the conditional audience is up to 30 matters and how the machine looks like. Renault designers went a little further; Before them there was a task to make a unisex car, which, unlike a compatible competitor, Peugeot 206 will be comfortable to feel comfortably and woman. Happened. But stylish and modern it will not call it anyway, something else confuses. Even despite the optional plastic silver plated inserts in the front and rear bumpers. Young people although they are not always practical and reasonable, but will definitely notice how the spectacular overlays scrace about the boat when parking.

The top version of the Sandero Prestige with a 1.6-liter 102-power engine and a machine gun came to us on the test.

According to the department of sales of the official dealer Renault on the car, as long as the interest in the automatic gearbox is small, the main part of the buyers is quite conservative; I handed out your cars under the recycling program (almost half such), they first moved from the domestic car industry to a new foreign car, and for the first time for themselves, such a type of gearbox was opened.

The Renault Salon will have to get used to those who used to drive the car other brand. In particular, to the fact that the front windows are on the central console, and the rear is good, of course, that they are, but still on the back of the central tunnel. Moreover, it is inconvenient to the driver or rear passengers. A crown of unique layout layout Sandero sound signal. Naturally there is no button on the steering wheel, otherwise there would be no surprise. And there is she on the end of the steering wheel signal turning switch! This beginner renovodov needs to be warned immediately: you never know what

In the cool St. Petersburg weather, Sandero stove will have to just right: the salon warmed quickly and efficiently, however, starting with the third intensity mode of the blowing, the noise twisted the hum of studded tires

There is a lot of space for the driver, although high drivers may not have enough steering adjustment in depth. The chair does not have a tangible lateral support, which almost did not affect the comfort of landing.

In the rear seat, the driver in the rise above the average quite conveniently set up for himself; Places before the front armchair remained a bit, but in the knees the stock was, and the free space above the head - in excess. The only disadvantage is the location of the rear window. If only the driver did not slow down sharply

Soundproofing salon could be better. However, the automatic allows you to keep the motor noise in the ultrasound of the most serious stimulus. With unexpected ride when working turns do not rise above 3,200 rpm, the sound from under the hood does not strongly doc.

How does Sandero go?
The largest plus the smoothness of the stroke and comfort in the processing of asphalt deficiencies. That is, Renault Sandero is at least a little, but changes the second Russian problem towards optimism. Usually you have to pay for the smooth driving, but the surprise is not about Renault. Yes, steering control lacks sharpness and informativeness. Yes, the skid occurs a little earlier than you expect (but there are wines and studded wheels, well sliding on the asphalt). But Sandero is very clear, light and intuitively predictable in the control of the car.

There are no problems and with a slowdown: the brakes completely copier with workloads. But with parking and with them there will be no problems, if you do not upgrade plastic lining on bumpers.

Machine in Sandero learned. That is, by what the pace are in the first (conditional) half an hour, the electronics will determine how you will go further, how often you need to switch the speed and to which mark you need to unwind the motor. It will be convenient for those whose driving manner does not change during the day, however, even tuned to the measured manner, it was exactly that a car with a half-sleep understand that the pedal pressed into the floor means to go fast. Relatively quickly. And if you demanded increased dynamics, the automatic transmission will be constantly being in the sport mode. With a relaxed switching, the upwards occur smoothly and imperceptibly, but the down transitions are often accompanied by a slight impetus.


The unconditional plus automatic transmission is a high selector handle, literally at the driver's hand.

To judge the fuel consumption was early: how we were told by the representatives of the car dealership, in the routing mode (the car for the time the dough drove less than 500 km) the motor is distinguished by increased voraciousness. You can believe: the on-board computer showed the average consumption of 18 liters per hundred!

The queues on Renault Sandero stretched to the second quarter of the next year. True, some waiting gladly change Sandero in the summer at Logan now.

Yes, all buy it, not only young people summarized us in the dealer center, summing up the interim total Renault marketing policy against Sandero and reducing the average age of their audience. Popularity is very difficult to call in the narrow framework of the target group. But isn't it not enough?!

We liked in Renault Sandero
Smoothness, spacious salon, suspension, price

We did not like in Renault Sandero
Ergonomics, insufficient steering severity

Renault Sandero competitors in the Russian market
Chevrolet Aveo.
Priora Hatchback
 

The car is provided by the company Petrovsky Autocentre, official Renault dealer

Posted by: Alexander Korchenko
Photo: Roman Stunnin


 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [November 2010]