Suzuki Aerio (Liana) Sedan 2001 - 2007 sedan
Pleasant surprises of Japanese extreme
For the most affordable all -wheel drive sedan in our market, there is nothing better than bad weather. Narrow circle
Extremists have always been overlapping among automobile companies. Small studios and tiny ateliers, allowing themselves to mock the machine as you like, of course, do not count. We are talking about large companies for which the car is not a luxury, and even more so not a toy, but a means of making a lot of money. Among these rebels are units. Well, let's say, Citroen rebel in life, although today no one will remember that at the beginning of the way the double chevrons were quite conformist. Recently, Nissan began Buzota. It was also clear with the image of the Japanese for a long time to do something. But why did Suzuki suddenly go to the revolutionaries? Fashionable towards? Search for the second I am? Burning desire to be noticed? One way or another, it has already been possible to draw attention to the attention of the new golf class model: Suzuki-Liana The world's first sedan made of Minivan!
But if the rebellious character of this machine was exhausted only by its entertaining origin, it would not be worthwhile to fence the garden. Immediately a whole bouquet of surprises, starting from appearance and all -wheel drive transmission to very attractive, but let's not open all the trump cards at once. For charging, as they say, in order!
Case with an elephant Remember the Kiplin Elephant, on whom the crocodile attacked a watering house? He grabbed him by the nose and, well, pull him into the river. An elephant burst out with sin in half, but his nose stretched and became a trunk. It can be assumed that such a nuisance occurred with the compactwhen of Liana. Unless the crocodile grabbed Suzuki by the rear overhang. The result was a neat such trunk
Well, seriously, I probably did not have to see the owners of the more strange exterior. There is no catch in the lines of this Suzuki, they are clean and swift, the whole thing in proportions. The height of the car per meter is fifty. For compactwane, it is. But after all, a separate trunk ... This splendor is based on the seeming tiny wheels with 14-inch discs. Non -conformist, nothing to say. By and large, there was nothing to blame the designers of Suzuki, they went on the non -flowered path of what happened, it turned out. I would still look at the classic sedan on the basis of, say, Xara-Picasso.
And then I like the question or not, fell by itself. Having finished the face control of Liana, I opened the door and was stunned. Blimey! The convenience of entry/exit is just five with a plus. Neither you bend, nor bending just came up and sat down. To be surprised as if nothing, of course, if we still remember that Liana was originally compact or, as the Japanese themselves insist, a hatchback with a high roof. Therefore, it was decided: if a similar layout of the body facilitates life, then it has the right to exist. This is definitely.
Between crocodile and lion
But inside Liana continues to confuse. After all, I seem to be in the sedan, but what is the landing is high, almost juper, or, as it is sometimes called, commander. In any case, the option is highly sitting, I look far from a good thing. True, you have to sit almost vertically, in the same way, I admit, I don’t like it too much, but you won’t write anything, the genes of this vine are single-liability. Compactwane, I remember, left the most pleasant impressions about his interior. The sedan is no worse in this regard.
Impeccable assembly, quite original design. The back row is very friendly, at least to two adult passengers. The legs are enough, but for the head in excess. The pronounced profile of the sofa and the protruding central tunnel are prevented by three. But four full-fledged places in the golf class sedan are good. In essence, you will not have a fact that the driver, too, is not a driver. The digital panel brings a little in the sun, but otherwise impeccable. The only low position of the steering wheel was surprised (that’s where the bus planting legs grow from) and not the most clear gear switch. In general, good overview of the outer mirrors are so simply magnificent a little spoil the pseudo -trees of the front racks of the body. It is only a pity that on cars from the last parties the salon is exceptionally black. Compactwane beige interior made a much more home and warm impression. On the other hand, velor on seats is now of better quality.
The workplace of the driver of the vines looks unusual, but there are no complaints about convenience
The indications of the digital dashboard are well read even from the rear sofa
Full electric package and adjustment of the seat in height are included in the basic configuration
Having thrown back the arc, the cup holder can be turned into a convenient box for a phone or other little things
Velurovo upholstery of seats of very high quality
Any part of the vine from the ignition key to steering wheel switches literally exudes a feeling of quality and reliability
By and large, only the trunk frankly did not like the interior. 480 liters of useful volume is quite a convincing figure. But how to take on a modern car the absence of a completely folding sofa in the vines of Liana can only be folded? Or the lack of trunk upholstery? Against this background, a large loading height and a cunning optics, the opening seem to be trifles.
All so sudden But Liana does not get tired of surprising her only in joy. Having adjusted the seat for me, mirrors and clicking with a belt, I set off. And he barely managed to tax on the highway, made the music louder. Not because such a music lover, but because tires, engine and wind noise are not the best musicians. The noise insulation of vines of vines leaves much to be desired that the tires are studded. Yes, and the motor is by no means filled with a nightingale, as if there is no standard sound insulation under the hood.
Again the machinations of a single -volume past. With the worst, than ordinary cars, you can forget about the silence in the cabin about silence in the cabin. The only consolation is that a 1.6-liter 16-valve is lucky to be adequate to its noise accompaniment. Simply put, good. You just need to not forget that this engine needs to be twisted on the bottoms, and after 2500 rpm 103-horsepower one and six are seriously taken up the case.
The numbers in the speedometer window flash like tenth shares in an electronic second -ender, the tachometer column stretches up, like the first snowdrop, and a tall sedan under the sonorous accompaniment of the pistons and valves cheerfully rushes forward. With such a grooved and vigorous character, the box of Liana, a little stretched in second gear, can be exchanged a hundred. Is this good or bad? How to see. A fan of active driving will be forced to switch more often, and on the highway with risky overtaking you will have to smell not the fourth, but the third gear. But by choosing the philosophical style of riding, it will be possible to forget about the box in the city, it is possible to limit yourself to the same second or third. For economic reasons, a long checkpoint will be more profitable at gas stations less often.
Liana trunk is one of the most spacious in the classroom, however, the rear suspension tumors eat useful space
The side mirrors are simply excellent, but the decorative pseudoform interferes with the side review
Liana also pleases very good for a sedan with a high roof (almost said compactwane) feedback on the steering wheel. The force on the steering wheel is present even at low speed, so that there is no disunity from the machine. In addition, the steering wheel is quite sharp from and up to only three turns, so nimble around the city is not at all a burden.
A good help will be the brakes. Do not see that behind Liana there are only drums, which, according to common understanding on modern golf class models, may not be enough. In fact, everything is wrong. The dynamics of Suzuki is very good. I remember that when spreading the efficiency of braking at the Dmitrovsky Auto Poligon, Liana-Compertwhen scattered even Mitsubishi-Pisse-Star with rear disc mechanisms. And let's not forget that in the US market, Liana, under the name of Erio, is sold with a two-liter 141-horsepower engine and all the same drums from behind. It turns out, and a more powerful car is enough.
But the suspension is in a hurry to surprise. It would seem that Liana copes with most road flaws without any problems, only on large potholes the body is noticeably shaking. But rough rough asphalt causes a very unpleasant vibration in the cabin. And at the speeds for a hundred body, the vines begins to dance the suspension does not have time to work out the laid profile. However, this is light, with at least partial loading, the situation must improve.
Ace in the sleeve More precisely, under the bottom. Given the quality of Russian roads and our weather, personally, I would prefer a lulling smoothness of the course a hundred times from a hundred times an all -wheel drive transmission. This is where Liana is on top.
We make a reservation right away, the 4x4 wheeled Formula on this Suzuki is not a jeeper weapon, as on Pajero, and not an assistant amateur athlete, like Audi-Pvattro. The patented system of the Kuad-grip is a significant answer of winter slush, demi-season thaw and summer dampness. Suzuki on dry coating, simple as a Swiss bank, is simple as a cheese, and reliable, like a Swiss bank, a full -wheel drive transmission. But when slipping the front wheels, the silicone fluid inside the viscous fluor is heated, expands and begins to twist the rear wheels. Depending on the degree of slipping, the torque between the two axes can be divided in a ratio of 50 to 50.
Of course, it is not worth expecting feats from the vines of the feats of off -road, but I easily made my way through a viscous, with the remnants of an unstable snow, which would hardly submit an ordinary car. It is also pleasing that the all -wheel drive transmission is not burdensome. Fuel consumption, in comparison with the front -wheel drive version, increases on average by 400 grams per hundred mileage. In addition, the KUAD grip does not require maintenance throughout the entire service life.
The spoiler means sports Since March, the dealers of Suzuki appeared in the Liana-spoiler set. In fact, this is a GLX with a special aerodynamic body kit that gives the appearance of the car a sports image. The cost of this package adds $ 500 to the price, and it can be ordered for both the sedan and for compactwane.
How much to hang in thousands?
Well, how did you like the rebellious Liana? Let's not rush to the answer, but weigh all the pros and cons.
In the balance of positive qualities, we write down a spacious and stylish interior, high -quality assembly, non -conformist appearance and quite lively. Minuses? Unimportant noise insulation, bus landing, which is like far from everyone, unpleasant buildup at high speeds and again the same non -conformism in appearance. Really a draw? No, this rebellion knows how to get a wandent audience. All -weather, but not off -road, all -wheel drive could and in itself to persuade the scales in favor of Suzuki. But Liana has another argument in an attractive price. In fact, where you will find a full-wheel drive sedan of golf class pure blood, and Liana is produced only in Japan, for $ 16,000? Octavia, golf and A3 with a 4x4 wheel formula are good for twenty, and Suzuki does not actually have other rivals.
Standard GLX equipment
Air conditioning, ABS, two front and two side airbags, electric windows and heated mirrors, heating the front seats, audio forces for four speakers, wheel wheels made of light alloy
BEHIND
A full -wheel drive transmission, a nice and spacious interior, a frisky engine, a competitive price, a very generous basic equipment
VS
Unimportant sound insulation, the absence of a fully folded rear sofa, exterior for an amateur
Suzuki Liana
general information
Body (number of places/doors)
Sedan (5/4)
Equipped mass, kg
1140
Complete mass, kg
1640
Length x width x height, mm
4350x1690x1545
Base, mm
2480
Track, mm
1450/1445
Road clearance, mm
150
Speed, km/h
160
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with
13
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
6.9 (mixed cycle)
Fuel supply, l
50 (AI-95)
Engine
Location
Front transversely
Design
gasoline, in-line, 4-cylinder, with distributed fuel injection
Diam. cylinder/piston stroke, mm
78/83
Working volume, SMZ
1586
Compression ratio
10.5: 1
Power, L.S. at rpm
103 (76)/5500
Torque, kgsm (nm) at rpm
14.7 (144)/4000
Chassis
Transmission
all wheels
Transmission
Mechanical, 5-speed
Suspension
independent, spring, such as McEferson, with reptile stabilizers
Steering
rack type with amplifier
Brakes: in front
disk, ventilated
behind
Drum, abs
Tires
185/65 R14
Mikhail Medvedev, photo Maxim Goncharov
A source: Magazine "Limousine" [05/03]
