Skoda Felicia 1995 test drive - 2001 -

All photos of Skoda Felicia 1995 - 2001

New car for the "old" Russian

In most of our nenish compatriots, a new foreign car has still aroused purely academic interest. We used to go in five and saved for nine. However, times have also changed in the price range, previously firmly occupied by domestic cars, their imported competitors began to break through. True, for the most part some international-cosmopolitical, but nevertheless new. So, on our test there are seven (!) Cars worth up to $ 10 thousand: six, to a greater or lesser extent, foreign cars and a dozen who joined them.

During the test, eleven experts wound up more than two thousand kilometers and set about one and a half thousand assessments. This array of information we processed, systematized, classified, inter- and extrapolated, and even came up with our own coefficients. Now sit comfortably and choose - with us, like us or even better than us!

BODY.
The quality of manufacture, the convenience of planting and planting, the functionality of the luggage compartment and other parameters are evaluated.
I - Peugeot 106
II - Skoda Felicia
III - Deau Tiko
IV - Dau Nexia
V - vaz 21093 Baltic
VI - Fiat Uno
VII - VAZ 2110
The first place of the Frenchman is not by chance - the modern structure and purification of origin affects. Even a three -door body is not a hindrance - the passage back is simply magnificent. True, a dozen is no less purebred and even more modern, but it was digested by the disgusting quality of manufacture. It turns out that the metis from noble parents is better than a purebred mongrel. And Skoda is a clear example of this. But the leadership of Tiko in comparison with Nexia, at first glance, seems inexplicable. However, do not forget that the Uzbek -Korean sedan is the only owner of a non -transformed trunk. In addition, the situation in the dimensional-valine coefficient, showing how many dollars the buyer pays for each liter of the useful volume of the car also clarifies the situation. At the smallest car, it is $ 2.0, and the largest $ 2.4/l. By the way, in Peugeot, this ratio is extremely disadvantageous - $ 3.1/l. But Uno, although somewhat cheaper than a Baltic, is much more simple and defiantly utilitated.

Workplace of the driver.

The working space, the convenience of seats, ergonomics of controls, instrument information, visibility, additional equipment are evaluated.
I - Dau Nexia
II - Skoda Felicia
III - Peugeot 106
IV - Fiat Uno
V - deu tico
VI - VAZ 2110
VII - VAZ 21093 Baltic
Here is an indisputable leader - Dau Nexia. First of all, the driver feels at home here, in addition, the list of standard equipment is the most impressive. But usually the sedan loses the hatchback at least two positions - the rear window cleaner and the transformable trunk. What are at least a flight comprehensive comprehensive compartment and an automatic octan-corrector (for any gasoline-from the 91st to the 98th). Peugeot lost to Skoda because of a more modest configuration and poor visibility through the inner mirror. However, Felicia has its own defects - the steering wheel is located too high and horizontally. Tiko lost Uno due to a smaller working space, uncomfortable front seats and an unpeeled rear window. The fact that a dozen was ahead of the nine, albeit Finn, in principle, naturally. Still, this machine of another generation, and the flaws of manufacturing and assembling at the wheel are not as noticeable as, say, on the body. So the fact is obvious - in the top ten, the driver is more convenient. In addition, from the entire seven, only the VAZ novelty boasts of the steering wheel adjustable in height and the installation of climate control.

TRAFFIC.

The engine, dynamic qualities, brakes, steering, predictability of behavior on the road are evaluated.
I - Dau Nexia
II - VAZ 21093 Baltic
III - Deau Tiko
IV - Peugeot 106
V - Skoda Felicia
VI - VAZ 2110
VII - Fiat Uno
The first pair is the most dynamic cars: acceleration to 100 km/h for 12.5 s and 14.0 s, respectively. At the same time, Nexia, due to a powerful motor, will break away on long straight lines, and the Baltic will quickly pass the turns due to more acute control, hard suspension and the absence of a long heavy trunk.

Dau Tiko seems surprisingly nimble. Growing in an adult way, an elastic motor willingly disperses a small car, which, due to a sharp steering wheel, is somewhat reminiscent of cards. If we take into account three cylinders and eight hundred cubes of a working volume, then the third place becomes quite understandable. Peugeot is a well -balanced, confidence car. At the same time, surprisingly, the most sluggish in acceleration to a hundred. So not always the pleasure of driving is proportional to the number of horsepower under the hood. The 1.3-liter Felicia engine pulls well below, but frankly sour at high speeds, so that overtakes, and even in a loaded car require a good stock. A dozen is quite dynamic, but in a turn behaves unsolved: heshes and ... turns itself. The front outer wheel breaks and the force on the steering wheel instantly changes the sign. The steering wheel spontaneously takes it on an even larger corner, tightening the car in an even more steep turn. This car behavior is dangerous. A sluggish engine, slurred brakes and narrow rubber did not allow UNO to shine in any of the special exercises.
COMFORT.

The free space and quality of the interior decoration, noise, vibration, smoothness, microclimate and ventilation efficiency are evaluated.
I - Peugeot 106
II - Dau Nexia
III - Skoda Felicia
IV - Deau Tiko
V - vaz 21093 Baltic
VI - Fiat Uno
VII - VAZ 2110
One hundred and sixth of the most comfortable in motion. The only remark is the noise from the engine and wheels. Nexia conquers the size of the cabin and smoothness, but quite noisy inside, and her suspension sometimes passes to the body defects in the road surface. Felicia has a noisy motor and a tendency to build up.

Dau Tiko provides its four small passengers with a fairly toleble level of comfort. If you correlate it with the price of a car, it turns out completely good. By the way, the factory instruction stubbornly calls Tiko a five -seater car. However, if you compare the dry and complete masses given in it, it turns out that each passenger has a very weight - 39 kg! Samara, albeit Finn, is hard to compete in comfort with foreign cars. The only one who is inferior to her is Fiat Uno. There are louder noise, stronger vibration, worse, the quality of the finish is shorter, lower than the class. About the top ten, the conversation is special. Well, where it is visible - the salamus and reinforcement of the front seats are not only closed with plastic overlays, but not even painted and not primed! Just naked iron! And the salon? The main color is gray, but finding a couple of details of the same shade is not an easy task. In general, one disorder ...

Operation, service.

Adaptation to Russian conditions, simplicity of service, service base used by fuel and lubricants are evaluated.
I - VAZ 21093 Baltic
II - Dau Nexia
III - Skoda Felicia
IV - Fiat Uno
V - deu tico
VI - Peugeot 106
VII - VAZ 2110
Let's start with the most difficult cars in the operation of cars. VAZ 2110 is simply impossible to operate without a large amount of argument work. And even one and a half hundred service stations in the open spaces of the former union will not help here.

Peugeot requires the highest quality fuel, has the least developed and most expensive service, which will have to be visited quite often. In addition, there is no protection of the motor compartment, and the spare wheel is located outside. The main problem of Deu Tiko is a short -lived twelve -inch wheels and a subtile suspension. Fiat Uno is good for everyone, but it requires 95th gasoline, although let's say ethylated. For our fatherland, a large road clearance will be relevant for a long time, which Felicia, alas, cannot boast of. Nexia often will have to carry out that, but the cost of a norm-hour on the services of Daewoo is moderate. Leader - Baltic: here is a significant road clearance, and simple fuel and lubricants, and a developed inexpensive service. And there are no white spots in the design.

Total.

According to a comprehensive expert assessment, the place was distributed as follows:
I - Dau Nexia
II - Skoda Felicia
III - Peugeot 106
IV - VAZ 21093 Baltic
V - deu tico
VI - Fiat Uno
VII - VAZ 2110
However, we do not claim to have truth in the last instance. It is possible that any of the advantages of a particular car will outweigh all its shortcomings for you. Maybe you will choose exactly the top ten, as a grateful object of skillful hands. Or uno - for the comparative simplicity of the design. Suddenly, you will like Tiko - for skewing on the city streets clogged with cars. Baltic is notable for external indistinguishability from standard Samara. Isn't the elegant one hundred and sixth good? And Felicia is very pretty. Few people will leave indifferent a huge trunk and a powerful engine of Nexia. But there is also such an irrational category that is not amenable to analysis, as sympathy or, if you want, love.
By the way, about love and sympathy ...
If the buyer was me ...

... then, having discarded all sorts of high, deep -scientific categories and grades, I would choose the largest and, if possible, reliable car. That is exactly what our experts did when they were offered to simply buy cars, guided by their own, terribly subjective sympathies. Here the places were distributed as follows:
I - Dau Nexia
II - Skoda Felicia
III - VAZ 21093 Baltic
IV - Peugeot 106
V - Fiat Uno
VI - VAZ 2110
VII - Deau Tiko
In principle, it is very similar to the final expert rating. Only a gentle Peugeot lost the third step of a more practical Finnish nine. Moreover, Tiko crawled from fifth to the seventh - too small, neither on vacation by the family to go, nor bring potatoes from the garden. So, the pampering is one. There should be many cars in Russia. Even imported. So choose. Today you can afford it.

The editors thanks the company Armand-Pyozh, Laurin and Co.
for the cars provided for the test.

Dau Tiko

In 1982, the Japanese company Suzuki released the Alto model. Since 1988, the car has been produced under a license in Korea called Daewoo Tiko. In 1996, the assembly in Uzbekistan was established - mainly, on the Russian market. Only a three -cylinder gasoline engine with a working volume of 0.8 liters is installed on a miniature five -door hatchback. Depending on the configuration, in Russia a car costs from $ 5600 to 6600.

+ Modern appearance, pleasant finish, high interior, convenient planting, good brakes, opening rear windows, an abundance of pockets and niches in the cabin, a large glove compartment, a split rear seat, gas stops of the hood.
- a three-door body, unhealthy 95th gasoline, noise from wheels and a motor, a noticeable roll in corners, a bad review through the inner mirror located outside under the trunk floor, the lack of protection of the motor compartment from the bottom, a large turning radius.
Summary. PEUGEOT 106 looks less than it really is. The most modern, expensive and well -designed car. Most likely, it may be a second car in a non -poor family, since it provides a minimum of a car for each invested ruble. But to become the first and only one hundred and six is \u200b\u200bunlikely to be able to: the poor man will buy something more for the same money, and the rich man from us in such a baby is simply unsolvable.

PEUGEOT 106

It has been produced in France since 1992. Three- and five-door hatchbacks have been delivered to Russia, most often with 1.0- and 1.1-liter gasoline engines. The price range (basic configurations) is $ 9900-11900. A full list of additional equipment costs another $ 4622.

+ Excellent dynamics, elastic motor, high maneuverability, acute steering, the permissibility of the use of ethyl gasoline, high salon, good visibility, a five -door body, completely lowering rear windows.
- a four -seater salon, a small trunk, a noisy motor, the absence of a rear window cleaner, uncomfortable front seats, a large force on the steering wheel, the lack of distance adjustment of external mirrors, meager instrumental information, a non -standard battery size, an uncertain rear seat, poor equipment, lack of choice of body types and the absence of types of body types and power units.
Summary. Deau Tiko is a record holder among foreign cars on the effectiveness of money investment. It is not only the cheapest, but also offers the maximum of the car for each money paid. It is perfect that without special excesses to carry yourself, a loved one to work and a few family - to McDonald's. The presence of good roads and the absence of a cottage are almost necessarily.

Skoda Felicia

In the fall of 1987, the premiere of the Czech Skoda-Favorite took place. In 1994, after the plant in Mlada -Boleva became the property of the Volkswagen concern, the car received more modern body panels and a new name - Felicia. A five -door hatchback and station wagon (combi) is produced with the body. Cars with a 1.3-liter engine and Volkswagen 1.6-liter are supplied to Russia. Two levels of configuration - LX and GLX. The price range is from $ 9300 to 13,600.

+ The motorized engine, light steering, a pleasant interior, a high interior at low revolutions, say ethyled gasoline, rich equipment.
- A small road clearance, a highly located steering wheel, there is no platform for the left leg, aerodynamic noise at high speeds, a tendency to build up the body, lack of traction at high speeds, a noisy motor.
Summary. Skoda -Favarit + Volkswagen \u003d Skoda Felicia - this is what a good engineer, a competent technologist and a conscientious collector from a product of developed socialism can do. A pleasant, soundly made, quite modern car. It is unlikely that the athlete (with a 1.3 liter engine), a summer resident, hunter or fisherman will like, but for daily city trips, is perfect. The ease of management will be especially appreciated by women drivers.

Fiat Uno

Since 1983, only liter five -door hatchbacks of the Polish assembly has been officially delivered to Russia, where they have been produced since 1992. The price range is $ 8200-8600, depending on the configuration ..

+ Compactness, high maneuverability, unattractiveness for hijackers, the admissibility of the use of ethyl gasoline, a convenient pointer of the amount of fuel.
- archaic appearance, a lot of bare metal in the cabin, 95th gasoline, a sluggish engine, uncomfortable steering wheel switches, meager dietary information, ineffective heater, a glove compartment without a lid, an ineffective rear seat, high wiper speed.
Summary. Fiat Uno is a small car for little money. Although it looks like an alien from the past, this is the cheapest truly five -seater foreign car. Option for a beamless old Russian, disappointed in domestic cars.

VAZ 21093 Baltic

The official debut of the eight took place in 1984. Three years later, a five -door nine appeared. Since 1996, the ninety -third, under the name, Baltik has been collecting in Finland by Valmet (ZR, 1996, No. 12; 1998, No. 2). The car costs from $ 8600 to 9000.

+ Good quality manufacturing and coloring, comfortable chairs, acute steering, good dynamics, small rolls in corners, an extensive service network, inexpensive spare parts, let's say etched gasoline.
- outdated appearance, a large loading height of the trunk, a close unreasonable rear seat, a noisy gearbox, poor ergonomics, large moves and an uncomfortable location of the KP lever, tight brake pedal, aerodynamic noises, lack of choice of power units and levels of configuration.
Summary. If you have already eaten products of the domestic auto industry, but so far you are complex about foreign cars, Baltic is for you. Among the owners of ordinary nine, your pride will amuse exclusivity, and the main argument against foreigners is an abundance of cheap spare parts and a developed service. However, once succumbing to the corrupted influence of the West, in a year or two you will still move to a foreign car, because you will understand that even if you collect the Lada on the Moon, they will not become a Mercedes.

VAZ 2110

The dozens of Vazovskaya's debut took place in 1995. So far, dealers offer only sedans, mainly with a well -known eighty -third power unit. The equipment is only a basic, minimum cost of a car - about $ 8150.

+ A spacious salon, comfortable seats, a large transformable trunk, a capacious glove compartment, a good speaker, a relatively soft suspension, a developed service network, the provision of spare parts to a power unit and chassis, let's say ethy gasoline, a rich equipment.
- Low quality of manufacture, mismatch of planes of body panels, unsatisfactory coloring, a very poor adjustment of the interior elements, rumper of the wheel and tightening, noise in the cabin, lack of choice of bodies (so far) and power units.
Summary. To avoid accusation of curtain dullness, we will only evaluate the VAZ 2110 body No. 0017076 - we did not meet a more poorly assembled car. It is no coincidence that all experts for the quality of manufacture unanimously put up a deuce. According to this parameter, a dozen is incomparable even with ordinary eight-dresses. The situation only slightly corrects the proven mechanics. So, maybe to give the assembly for the same Finns? And it would have turned out a good car ...

Dau Nexia

The prototype - Opel Cadet 1984 was produced in Korea Corporation of the DEU under the names of Riser and Siel. After modernization, I received changed front and back of the body and a new name - Nexia. In 1996, production was established in Uzbekistan and assembly in Rostov-on-Don. Only four -door sedans with two modifications of one and a half -liter gasoline engine are officially delivered. Depending on the level of standard configuration - GL and Gle - Nexia costs from $ 9300 to 13,000.

+ Excellent dynamics, a powerful elastic motor, predicted behavior on the road, good smoothness, a huge trunk, a spacious salon, a large glove compartment, a rich standard equipment, comfortable seats, a solid appearance, let's say ethy gasoline.
- Non -transformed trunk, steering wheel switches, a small gap between the steering wheel and the dashboard, uncomfortable internal door handles, the lack of choice of bodies and power units.
Summary. Dau Nexia is the largest, most powerful and fast car in our test. This is probably why he turned out to be the leader in the sympathies of our experts. And we have no business to the point that in Europe Nexia is yesterday. Such a car is not visible in the bright future: a dozen is the best confirmation of this.