SEAT Leon Cupra R test drive since 2009 hatchback

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240 l. With. on the brother and no engineering miracles: is there any blocking, no cunning pendants? Yes, today we are dealing with the most unbridled hot hatching market.
They dance their jigs from the primitive VW Golf GTI: 1.6 l, 110 l. p., 830 kg. To accelerate up to a hundred less than 9 seconds and maximum boys are crazy 182 km/h. This is in 1976! Such numbers seemed simply monstrous for a small angular box: then the 911st Porsche spent seven and a half seconds on acceleration, and 150 km/h and 1213 seconds for ordinary people were the limit, for which they could swing not only the Ferrari poster folded. In a tube. GTI has become a revelation for everyone, and primarily for the authors. They did not count on that success of their endeavor, in the face of which they found themselves after the start of sales of the little Gran Turismo Inject). A limited batch of 5,000 copies scattered from show rooms with smoke from the wheels, and this became a signal: since then, powerful engines began to regularly appear under the hoods of compact front-wheel drive cars of many brands. On autobahns, secondary paths and mountain serpentines, the owners of expensive GT had to look if anyone is overtaking: now in the rear -view mirror, the simple face of the Peugeot 205 GTI, Ford Escort XR3 or Opel Astra GSI could be found. The luxury of speed ceased to be synonymous with luxury, and hot hatchbacks are responsible for this.
For thirty-three years, the hot-shatchi has grown to their thirty-three marks, when the boiling rise at high altitude suddenly flies into the ceiling, which seems to be a ceiling. All past years, they accelerated, gradually increasing power, and now, in 2009, the heroes of our dough are rash at the limit of the very idea of \u200b\u200ba quick front-wheel drive. The current attempt to put the turbines under compact hoods puffed up so many horses that it seems that no detachment will make it sod. 200 hp They did not remain for a psychological line for long: Megane Renault Sport forced it in 2004 and gave it out at once 225. But the French were the first to use a cunning mcPherson with a spaced persistent shock absorber and a swivel fist, building a very powerful, but quite friendly and balanced machine.
But our guests today are simpler and more powerful: 240 hp. For brother, 6.4 s for overclocking to hundreds. They are extremely powerful and as fast as possible the most radical tags of their front -wheel drive tribe of our times. Yes, Mazda3 MPS is even stronger: 260 hp, but its driver helps to live a differential blocking, and our guests are the most unbridled hot hatchi in the market. However, on Opel Astra OPC and Seat Leon Cupra, it is easy to find as ordinary city hatchbacks Opel Astra GTC and Seat Leon of external differences, if you unscrew them, even to fill the stiff racer baseball cap. As simple as they look, they go, while you are sitting in the mode, I do not touch anyone, I fix the primus. The gas is one third of the pedals, the revolutions are from 2000 to 3000. Both of our turbomons in such a rhythm do not give out any aggression hidden in them. The adhesion pedals are easy and long -flowing, the reactions to the gas are soft, feedback to the steering wheel ... Only by the steering wheel and suspension they can be distinguished from their civilian relatives. However, both Seat and Opel are not so uncomfortable. Yes, they are tough, but not shaky, but dense in the case: to the pendants for comfort on the four. This is a high rating for sports car.
The approaches to the design of the salon in them are the same, but our attitude to these approaches is different. The main difference between the cockpit of both cars and the interiors of their utilitarian versions luxurious sports seats. Moreover, in Opel they are even better than in Seat: more convenient and sports, and their profile is more ergonomic. Even because Opel is offered at a price of 896,000, and Seat from 1,269,000 rubles. In this scenario, the standard gray plastic of the interior decoration, on which all sorts of sports overlays on the pedals, the norm for Opel, but the shortage for the Seat are flooded: for such money I want special attention not only to the details with which everything is fine, but also to the base.
Turbines blow differently. The Seat is more modern and smooth. The power grows smoothly, but the turbine is a turbine: it is difficult to keep the front wheels on the verge of slipping. And the SEAT forces are enough to grind on the first, and on the second, and on the third. 240 hp It can only be used in the floor after the first hundred to reach overtaking. Seat is good for shots on a straight highway going beyond the horizon. In corners, it is quickly and precisely difficult to go on it: the engine is powerful and keeping the front axle on the trajectory is not easy. According to the Volkswagen tradition, it is forbidden to help yourself with the left foot with the left foot: the car believes that if the driver pressed the brake means it is time to stop and extinguishes the engine for how much seconds.
And Opel allows you to use the left foot, and this allows you to compensate for the plague charisma of its engine. Turbocharacter, turbo -capacity? Turbodur! She is here over the edge. After the turbine gasped in the engine in the motor, it is rampant like any war begins suddenly. The steering wheel is torn from the hands, and the wheels are polished asphalt. Opel is completely wild, but coupled with a low price in this and its charm. Those who like such a friendship, in which, before drinking a beer together, you can go in a friendly manner in the face in a friendly manner, it is quite suitable. Yes, you need to fight with him in every turn, but still he is completely on your side. And with him it will be fun to remember.
Text Dmitry Sokolov

 

 

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