Skoda Yeti test drive since 2009 -

We get acquainted with the habits of Skoda Yeti

Skoda crawls into the mud. At first, she crawled with all -wheel drive octavia, later focused on the light off -road with scouts, then to the best of the elevated Rumster and Fabia in anti -gravel armor -plastic body kit. Skoda, following the rest, crawls into the mud, delves into the forest and climbs into the mountains ... although slowly, but systematically. Now in the lineup there is a more serious tool for conquering the moderate off-road CDsword Yeti.
 
 
Yeti or snowy man, a legendary humanoid being, allegedly found in various high -mountain or forest regions of the Earth
The first Skodovsky cross has a 180-mm clearance, a solid front overhang and an inconsistent Cleeti-wheel drive is built on a combined Volkswagen platform. In fact, the content is the same Volkswagen Tiguan, only with a Czech accent. The chassis with a long -speed suspension borrowed from Passat B6, the same, the power structure with golf load -bearing elements is identical. A full -wheel drive transmission (there is also front -wheel drive options) with the Haldex IV multi -disc cyk connecting the rear bridge as the Tiguan 4Motion.

Tiguana in Yeti, to find out easier, take a look at the body panels, door openings, the shape of the wheeled arches, and you will understand everything
But the emphasis
 
He can confuse anyone. The bold game of designers with racks and optics, a higher roof, unpainted bumers, other thresholds would be strange if the Yeti appearance did not echo with the rest of the Skodovsky model range. In the appearance of Cross and Roomster, you can find Fabia, and even Superb, but another is interesting. The Czechs managed to create an amazingly paradoxical design: yeti is both calm, expressive, and youth, and conservative (although Tiguan, nevertheless, is more conservative). The crossover is fresh and traditional at once ...

 
According to unconfirmed evidence, Yeti has a dense physique, pointed shape of the skull, longer hands, short neck and massive lower jaw, relatively short hips. They have a hairline all over the body of black, red or gray. They climb trees well. It is claimed that mountain populations of snow people live in caves, forest are building nests on trees
The main differences in the technical part between the yeti and Tiguan in the variety of power units and tracers. Tiguan is a total of five engines 1.4 TSI 150 hp, two 2.0 TSI with a capacity of 170 hp. and 200 hp, and a pair of turbodiesel two -liter TDI with a capacity of 140 and 170 horses (only the first two are supplied to us). Yeti is also content with five motors, but other 1.2-liter TSI (105 hp), 1.8 TSI, developing 160 horses, and three TDI diesels with a capacity of 110, 140 and 170 forces.
I managed to try three from this assorted. The most funny among the rest was a new 1.2-liter 105-horsepower unit, which debuted on the new Volkswagen Polo. I did not have to wait for stunning dynamics from the baby (it is installed only on the front -wheel drive versions of Yeti), but we put five for working capacity. Look at the torque curve of a completely expensive maximum of 175 Newton meters is reached in the range of 1,500,3600 rpm. Combined boost (at low and medium -speeds is blown by a mechanical supercharger Roots, at increased, about 3500 rpm, turbine) works miracles. So, from the engine that worked in a duet with a quick seven -speed pre -sequential DSG (there is an option with six -speed mechanics), it was possible to achieve very acceptable dynamics. But this is only on the plain, in the mountains where most of the test drive passed, the tiny four had to be hard. Interestingly, how will the degree of forcing will affect the resource of a small unit? Time will tell?

 
The concept of Yeti Skoda introduced in 2005. For four years it took German and Czech developers in order to bring the crossover to mind and put it on the conveyor. Czechs presented a pre -production copy at the Geneva Motor Show in March this year
The remaining two engines were also good, but in their own way. If you want a driver, choose a 160-horsepower gasoline 1.8, you will not lose. We appreciated its agility again when we took a dorestyling octavia for the test. Despite the fact that this motor has one turbine, the assertiveness of its character is already felt when the tachometer shows the mark of 2000, there are no troubles even (thanks to the decorating compressor impeller). It is easy and pleasant to dose acceleration, the engine is extremely responsive to pressing the gas pedal (the range of maximum torque of 250 Newton meters lies in the range of 1,500-3500 rpm). In general, you will not be deprived of accelerations, hundreds of one and a half-ton Yeti with this engine reaches in some 8.4 seconds (only 0.6 more slowly than European octavia), a maximum speed of 200 km/h.
With a 140-horsepower Yeti diesel, it flies much slower and lower. It is much more modest when touched with him a couple of trifles, but the appetites of this motor are much more modest. Passport 6.1 liters per hundred average consumption quite naturally turned into 12.3 liters with test annealing on the serpentine of the Slovenian Alps. Gasoline 1.8 saw noticeably larger in our mountainous mode engine he consumed good 15 liters (the mixed consumption of eight liters according to the passport).
The suspension in Folkswagenski is harsh on the country, shakes pretty. The front side of the coin is resistant to high -speed lines and adequate behavior in arcs. In steep turns, the car almost does not roll respect to engineers! ESP, as on Tiguan, is disconnected with the anti -boom system. You can step in lateral slipping, but only at speeds up to 50 km/h, after this line the stabilization system (the higher the speed, the stricter) is ready to enter into force. And right. If Yeti wakes up, catching it will be difficult to willingly go into skidding. The same thing when stopping during braking.
The steering mechanism for the Yeti donor is designed from scratch. The productivity of the electric power with excess, even during extreme steering, it does not lock. This is due to the fact that the electric motor does not move the rail through the gear, as in most cases, but through a separately executed ball screw. This design is more complicated and more expensive in production, but it is able to ensure greater performance and better transparency of the steering.
180 millimeters under the keel is little. But for those who are off -road (if it, of course, moderate) falls episodically just right. Although even for episodes, a modification with an off -road bumper (by analogy with Tiguan), which increases the angle of 10 degrees compared to the standard one, is more suitable for episodes.
Full -wheel drive of the off -road behaves well done. The rear axis is connected almost without hemping (connecting the coupling almost always creates a ten percent pretense), but diagonal hanging (in the event that there are no serious rolling obstacles) for the Yeti not hull of the Haldex of the same generation and the anti -tugal system that imitates differential locks, extended.
For beginners Yeti, off -road movement is able to simplify markedly. The crossover inherited from Tiguan a new system for the assistance of descent from the mountain (works both when moving forward and when moving back). To activate it, you need to press the Off Road button, stop on the descent and turn on the neutral. Then you will only need to steer and adjust the speed of movement. I pressed the gas went faster, pressed the brake slower. The set speed of the descent supports ABS (sets up for effective braking on slippery/loose coating), selectively branding the necessary wheels and carefully filling the car on the selected trajectory. The system will come in handy on both the slope that has been decorated after the rain and on the icy spiral of multi -storey parking.
So. And what's inside? Landing one on one as on Tiguan and Golf Plus in general, an order of magnitude more vertically than in ordinary golf or octavia. Isn't that why, the steering wheel overlaps the upper segments of the devices that migrated here with some changes from the superb?!
According to transformations, the salon is definitely the best among classmates. Varioflex allows you to modify the internal space as you like. The rear sofa is cut into three separate seats, all of them independently move back and forth and have the adjustments of the back of the back.

 
In the basic equipment, Yeti has six airbags around the perimeter. A couple of lateral inflatable pillows (as on Tiguan) intended for the rear passengers will be made available to order
It is very easy to find a compromise with such seats between the located passengers and the cargo transported. If all the seats are moved forward and put the backs as vertically as possible with the trunk volume (according to the window line) will increase from 405 to 510 liters. If you need to transport something long, but not too overall, you can simply put your backs on the pillows of the cargo compartment will increase to 1580 liters.
It is also allowed to reset and fix each of the folded seats vertically (they will stand close to the front seats). In the case when the maximum volume is needed, the rear row can be dismantled at all. Fortunately, the removal/installation operation is simple (you just need to raise a couple of levers with red flags), and the mass of the seats themselves is small. Then the trunk volume will increase to 1760 liters!
If I evaluated Tiguan and Yeti from the point of view of the buyer, I would surely bow towards the second. On the purely practical side, the Skodovsky crossover is preferable. Well, look yourself. In a similar performance with Tiguan, it will be cheaper (although prices have not yet been determined). Again, the Czech boasts of a more voluminous salon, his roof is higher above the heads of the place. Yes, the salon is easier, so what?
The production of Yeti at the Czech plant of Skoda Auto in kvassin started on May 12. European dealers will start selling a car from a week to a week. We will have a crossover at the end of the year, prices will be determined closer to business. Presumably, the delay is associated with adjusting assembly production in Kaluga (the Tiguans are collected there since last year). Yeti will have not easy, because in the market of competitors a dime a dozen. Toyota RAV4 (from 999,000 rubles), Ford Kuga (from 1,320,000 rubles), Renault Koleos (from 905,000 rubles) and many other Volkswagen Tiguan more than a competitor to the simplest performance of Trend & Fun with a 150-horsepower engine 1.4 TSI and six-speed engine A mechanical box now costs 972 736 rubles. I think the more budget Yeti in Russia will gain good popularity. Interestingly, when Skoda is liquefied by a full -fledged SUV, like a Touareg?
Text: Vitaly Kabyshev
    
    
   
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru