SEAT altea test drive since 2009 minivan
Are I wen?
A tall hatchback, named after a small town in Valencia, the car is attractive, but controversial. First of all, because of the price. But the two Bukovs XL, which in 2006, the Spaniards added to the name of the car, changed it so much that it turned out to be a completely different model even older. In captivity of stereotypes
Will you be lucky or not? With this far from optimistic thought, I ended up in the salon of one of the largest children of the Spanish company. The gray sky, to match the weather, the mood and the minimum of hope that the car will somehow raise it. There are laws that, it seems, cannot be circumvented. Yes, a powerful FSI engine produces 150 liters. With. But the car weighs almost one and a half tons. Moreover, I am morally preparing with a machine gun for the fact that desperate racers will sincerely sign up in the back of my phlegmatic compactwane, if I suddenly, by the will of chance, will be the first to stop at the traffic light. What kind of life is this?! Well, let's start, a hot Spanish guy!
The acoustics of the exhaust is alarming. Did they manage to break through the silencer and he involuntarily imitates the voice of the sportsman? However, to fly on a stone with a road lumen of 160 mm, it was necessary to try very hard. I add the turnover of the bass clearly man -made. All the same, I do not really believe in some dynamic talents. True, bodily sensations differ from those that impose a sophisticated mind. The chair is fitting, an ergonomics, albeit a plastic, but two -color dashboard, as well as a central console, slightly deployed to the driver, does not raise questions. To the buttons and pens do not reach them all under hand and are correctly organized.
We seem to be friends In such a machine, albeit designer cut, but just a modest trailer for a little -known brand, no matter how much a left turn indicator, no matter how much with a blinking high light when wedging from the yard into the stream is useless. You will sew a Moscow driver either with a nameplate of the eminent brand, or impudence. Therefore, there was no automatic transmission selector in an unambiguous position S, the steering wheel is cool to the right, gas to the floor, and whatever happens! But something that should not be. The motor roats that it is in it at 250, and the leading front of the fraction of a second scratches the asphalt with his studied rubber. Then the excess moment is slightly extinguished by the TCS anti-wings system, and my Altea, completely inhabited, brazenly throwing the stern on the strip, do not feel sorry for the money, so kiss! The tank rushes forward. Dona Alya, you are not in the fish market in Barcelona! It breaks out with me from surprise, but the mind fixes that I really like the rear wheels steering algorithm.
Eh, dance, so to the worn soles! Now the lead sky in the joy of the lighting is soft, the eyes do not get tired. Hold on, hold the moment! I tie a machine gun with a pedal of gas, which is only worth a little weakening the pressure, strives to switch to a step higher, saving fuel. And still it seems that each of the horses of the Volkswagen of the engine, which is familiar from many models of the Euro-4, in the Pyrenei, was caressed, fed, it was fed and ready to apply for the championship title. Apparently senior engineers with the settings of the control unit are cunning! So, in Spain their ideas about how the car should drive.
However, how he should slow down. If you realize that you have a brake pedal under your foot, and not an evil rodent that you need to crush at all costs, everything comes out wonderful, and ABS does not cause any complaints even on a slippery road.
Smilet chest The automatic machine is already in pseudo-row mode, on a 4th gear display burning with red light, and only the road and the tachometer arrow, dancing at its limit of 6500 rpm, remained visible and significant from that moment. But Altea-XL does not just rush forward under the whistle of windshield racks and the noise of the arches of the rear wheels, squinting the almond-shaped headlights. Particular movement of the steering wheel with electromechanical, sensitive to speed, the amplifier effectively changes the trajectory of movement. Only hands work, merged with a chubby, skin -sheathed with a steering wheel. Overall, rapid rebuilding, free straight, city, track, again a city stuffed, but nothing happens in it. The compact shows Torero’s excerpt, not changing the course for a second.
A series of fast and deep movements by the steering wheel to the left and right in an attempt to bring the car out of balance and rolls, deep rolls to the asphalt, to make you ask for mercy, however, everything that he managed to achieve resembled the light welcome nods of the head of the high -society lady at the official reception. Ah yes the pendant's character! But it is not at all oak racing rather dense. In addition, the additional 18 cm of body length in the back, in the most positive way, affected the weight of the axes and, accordingly, controllability.
We will not, of course, overestimate the capabilities of the lords. The speed at which we took a moose test in the city was a worthy decent fine, but not deprivation of rights. Nevertheless, I solved the riddle why even in the most complete configuration of Alte-XL the system of dynamic stabilization was entitled only by order. With such a balance of ESP characteristics, it is simply not needed.
And the day ends, and gasoline in a 55-liter tank is running out. Really such a decent expense, but they drove like nothing. I note that I am completely not tired, but for the sake of interest I look at the indicator of the daily run. And I do not believe my eyes! How is it 435 km? What did I go to then?
Strokes to the portrait
The gaze in the mirror reflects the distant perspective of the rear window, returns to the reality of the high ceiling and makes you look at this Spanish woman rationally and from all sides. This approach to southerners is simply unthinkable, but what to do with them also cost money. Yes, there is a compactiven, into which ordinary alteen outgrown. You look at XL in profile and rejoice. Here it is, the proportionality, which, in my opinion, was so lacking in the predecessor. But designer delights are not so important for a car that claims to be practical. And he came out really so. The ceiling does not press the ceiling even for a tall family at any point in the cabin. And the 532-liter trunk container is spacious for the cargo, we get it immediately, without any transformations. If you move the back row of the seats forward and change the tilt of the back, we have 635 liters, fold all 1604 liters.
There are many cars in the world, having found yourself in which you want to fasten more and count the number of airbags. In our case, everything is exactly the opposite. Air-begs are more than enough, but you do not remember them. The aura of reliability charming me at a subconscious level, as soon as I got behind the wheel. Where is such a courage otherwise on a general unfamiliar car? The thoroughness of the racks of the windshield and the wide central, steel chrome door handles ... Even the socks of the seats look monumental. They did not save on the strength of the structure: what is experiencing loads is made only of metal. But there are many plastic details, and all justified. Folding tables on the backs of seats, boxes under the front seats, a two -section armrest between them, compartments in the door panels.
The modest size of the glove box, not otherwise, the fee for the gigantic volume of the trunk. And under the seat there is also trays
In traffic jams, the on -board computer display displays fuel consumption per hour. For this, we will forgive the red backlight of the sophistication devices for an amateur
The intercessual system of the system is three in one: armrest, container for trifles and a comfortable panel for service buttons and outlets
Deep cutouts in the door panels create an additional volume for both elbows and shallow luggage
The width of the trunk opening is almost the same from floor to ceiling. A very functional and soft curtain that is cleaned in a removable bar
In bad weather, you can have a snack in the cabin. All conditions for this are
Spray how they are
In just one day, I liked the car so much that I doubted again. Is everything all right or is subjectiveism under the influence of a juicy drive? The disadvantages are urgently required, we will look.
The fact that after a couple of minutes of movement along the wet road side, the rear window and door XL are covered with a layer of dirt, the wheels are vaccinated. Tires 225/50 R17 look, of course, stylish, but they are not for bad weather. But the basic for the configuration of styles 205/55 R16 with disks made of light alloy would have come to the court. However, like mudguards, all the wheels. Five liters of glass gunner in two hours are a clear technical miscalculation. The front nozzles of high pressure are not so much effective as wasteful.
Did you calculate?
Now about the main thing. The compactwen clan implies that the owner of a similar car or a selfless friend, or the father of the family, who bothers him with the same question every day: when will we go travel? It would seem that there are a lot of such people. But it is no coincidence that the claims to the active drive is a seama entering the sports division of Volkswagen make adjustments to the collective portrait of the owner. He is all the way young soul and generous within reasonable limits. For $ 33,390 or 874 750 rubles, you can get this car with the maximum of the necessary options, not counting perhaps the heating of the seats and their electrical regulations. For 699 750 rubles or $ 28 330, get a 102-horsepower 1.6-liter engine and manual transmission, and for $ 26,811 or 662,250 rubles, its slightly more modest conferenus set.
Yes, competitors are cheaper. Basic Ford-Sing-Max-1,6 MT-ambitis, supplemented by how much options is possible for it, is available for 592,700 rubles or $ 23,977. Two-liter automatic SI-Max-GIA in a similar equipment will cost 737 200 rubles or $ 29,822. Comments, as they say, is unnecessary. I’ll tell you honestly, I really like Spanish. But love she does not have a monetary equivalent.
Double standard One of the chips of Altea-XL, and all the other models of Ceata, the design of the door frame. They are not painted, which may seem strange, but rubbed on both sides. The aesthetics of such a solution is controversial, especially in the light color of the body. But dust penetrates the dust into the salon, and from corrosion these traditionally delicate elements are thus protected in this way much better.
Seat Altea XL 2.0 6at (1.6 5mt)
general information
Body, number of places/doors
Universal 5/5
Equipped mass, kg
1454
Length x width x height, mm
4467x1768x1581
Base, mm
2578
Front/back, mm track
1534/1523
The diameter of the turn, m
10.9
Speed, km/h
203 (181)
Acceleration 0100 km/h, with
10.1 (12.8)
Fuel consumption l/100 km, highway/city
6.7/12.7 (6/10.4)
Trunk volume (5/2 places), l
532-635/1604
Fuel tank capacity, l
55
Engine
Location
Front transversely
Design
in line, 4-cyl., 16-valve, 2 upper camshafts
Working volume, SMZ
1984 (1595)
Power, L.S. at rpm
150/6000 (102/5600)
Torque, kgsm at rpm
20/3500 (14.8/3800)
Chassis
Drive unit
On the front wheels
Transmission
Automatic 6-st. (mechanical 5-st.)
Suspension:
Independent, spring
front
Type McEzerson
behind
Mollycent
Steering
rack type with amplifier
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Tires
205/55 R16
Car
from 7.32 rubles/km
+
Practicality; excellent engine and chassis settings; abundance of basic equipment; packet for bad roads
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High price; The high cost of some options
Kirill Savchenko, photo of Maxim Goncharov
A source: Magazine buy a car [02/2008]
