Toyota Avensis test drive 2003 - 2006 sedan

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They say that men love some, but get married on others. This statement, like any generalization, is not always true. But it can be attributed to the process of choosing a machine. For example, the new Toyota Avensis.
The new Toyota Avensis is the granddaughter of Carina E, a model popular in the secondary market, although it is not expensive for years. The reason is not in an amazing appearance, not in crazy characteristics, but in banal comfort - physical and spiritual: it does not break and does not attract attention.
The new Avensis continues the old traditions and meets the idea of \u200b\u200ban almost ideal half. It is moderately conservative, certainly reliable, does not cause an unhealthy interest in others-Avensis has never been in the leaders of the stolen top list. The machine that will correctly serve you, and with a divorce and sale will easily go to another. Previously, there was one drawback - the high cost of maintenance, but parents promise that the youngest of the sisters - the new Toyota Avensis - does not either. But in order.
With the world along the thread. Japanese cars are hard with their own face - it is not easy to distinguish a car of one brand from the other at first glance. This, of course, is not scary. You can come closer and look at the icon. Another thing is that individual citizens take the liberty of saying that the Japanese as a whole with a car design is not common. It is likely that this is just the result of a clash of views of representatives of two cultures. One way or another, Toyota draws cars for Europe in a special design bureau in the south of France. The new Avensis was made specifically for Europe: it was developed here, it was tested and brought here, and it will also be produced here in England.
Competitors Avensis - colleagues managed to note this before me - are well read in the design of the new machine. If you put VW Passat, Opel Vectra, Ford Mondeo and, perhaps, Mazda6 and provide electronics with the opportunity to take it from everyone, it is likely to get a new Toyota Avensis. Although, of course, it is lying. Radiator grille is its own, proprietary. But Toyota was not valued for these delights. In the end, the image, as you know, is nothing. And for every minute of admiring the car - while you come to her, twisting a keychain in your hands, - you have several hours of driving, standing in traffic jams and communicating with receivers on the service. Traffic jams with the advent of the new Avensis will not resolve, but the reasons to visit the service should be reduced.
 
The very unpretentiousness itself? I have already said about appearance. She is not bad. In the sense that it is quite pleasant, but not enough to wake up with envy, although this idea, I will reveal the secret, and is laid down in the new Avensis commercials. In them, everyone just dying when it appears. Let's leave this on the conscience of advertisers. We know that the main advantages of the Japanese machine open over time-or rather, they do not fade.
What do the Japanese love for? For reliability. What do they relate to them with caution? For high cost in repair and maintenance. In the new Avensis Toyota, she decided to increase the first and change the second for the better.
For example, the intervals between maintenance are divided by Avensis into large and small. Large - 30 thousand km of run, small - 15 thousand. On the small you need to change the oil. It is necessary, ”Toyota echoes,“ but it is not at all necessary to fill in an expensive synthetic, which our competitors insist on. Mineral is quite suitable. The antifreeze in the cooling system is required for the first time to change 150 thousand km. It is also a pleasant trifle, which, quite likely, will pay the second owner of the car. In general, Avensis requires 100 thousand km of run-according to Toyota calculations-only 4.2 hours of service hours, with the best previous result in the class-4.5 hours.
 
Beauty without casualties. Unfortunately, at the time of preparation of the material, the Russian representative office of Toyota has not yet announced the cost of the novelty. By the way, Western automobile magazines are usually not limited to indicating the price of the car and its options, they also indicate the cost of insurance. In European countries, in particular Germany and England, insurers, when pronouncing the sentence, take into account the data of standard test clashes.
In the new Avensis, they are very good, and compared to the previous ones, they are magnificent. If earlier, the muzzle against the wall at a speed of 15 km/h was estimated at 3,000 euros, now at 1300, and this is not because the European currency has grown in price, but because Toyota has used some technical tricks. Firstly, the body of a special structure is designed that the first 15 cm of the crushed space absorbs the main energy of the blow. Secondly, interchangeable details-and in an accident they can be considered consumables-are attached on the bolts: both faster and welded seams, for their absence, do not need to be painted.
Beauty, which does not require sacrifice, is especially appreciated by men aged 30 to 40 years. This is how the purchasing backbone of Toyota marketer is seen.
They moved pistons. Now almost every car at a price of $ 18 thousand.-We take a chance to assume that Avensis is unlikely to cost cheaper-has some of its baubles. Avensis also has them, but not very noticeable. The supernavigation system, like products from competitors, is resting in Russia, and in Spain it is a small mistake-just 50 meters, but on Hyive, where you can’t pass back-cost forty minutes of lost time.
Frankly pleased the music. The chief engineer of Avensis, pure Fukusato, a great lover of jazz and classics, shoved eight columns and almost an audiophile system into Avensis - as far as mass production of cars allows.
The second hobby of pure is a rally. In his youth, he even performed at the Japanese Championship. Avensis has excellent handling. She was tested on the tracks from Finland to Spain - and I will add from myself that on public roads it is easier to drive yourself than a car. And the brakes with enlarged disks are also excellent compared to the last version. But do not quite correspond to the engines.
While there are four of them on Avensis. A two-liter turbodiesel, followed by journalists from Europe on a test drive, almost signed up in the queue: we were not even certified for Russia-there is neither demand nor special economic benefits in use. A gasoline motor - otherwise, you can’t say for a car of the Passat class - 1.6 liter to Russia is planned to be supplied only to order.
Two engines remain: 1.8 and 2.0 liters. Both the one and the other, honestly, did not make impressions. Both, despite the system of changes in the gas distribution phases VVT-I, on the fourth or fifth transmission of frankly letters. Perhaps the case is in Euro-4-the norm of the exhaust that enters into force in Europe in 2005, and on Avensis-now. Here, either motors strangle ecology, or ecology - motors. The engines entering Russia will receive some adaptation, including to the quality of the fuel, however, it is impossible to say with the confidence that they will be more frustrated.
After traveling by car with a mechanical box, it seemed to me that there was nothing to wait for from a machine gun from 1.8. It turns out no. If it were not for a very familiar switching of modes on a winding labyrinth (somewhere I saw it!), Then the assessment is unequivocal-five. Without any sports modes, the gas pedal squeezed out to the stop tells Avensis that the motor must be unscrewed to the red zone. In manual mode in second gear, you can accelerate to 120 km/h. It is impressive, however, in the fourth automatic transmission, as in mode D, tangible acceleration is felt up to 160 km/h. And then you have to wait. But even on mountain roads with constant acceleration and braking, the on -board computer showed the average fuel consumption within 9.5 liters per hundred.
True business. Of course, the fate of this machine in Russia will be determined by Mark. Avensis, a decent girl from a good family, albeit not without flaws, will find many suitors. Who will live with her for a long time and happily. And when the time comes, they will part without tears and mutual reproaches. Which, you see, is not so bad.
Model/Modification Toyota Avensis Sedan 1.8 Toyota Avensis Wagon 2.0
The manufacturer/country Toyota Motor Co. Ltd./ English
ENGINE
Type/number/location of gasoline cylinders/4/row
 
Working volume (cubic cub) 1794 1998
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 95 (129) at 6000 108 (147) at 5700
Moment (Nm) at about./Min. 170 at 4200 196 at 4000
TRANSMISSION
Front drive
 
Mechanical gearbox 5-speed automatic 4-speed with manual mode
Brakes, safety
Front/rear disk, ventilated/disk
ABS, assisting electronic systems 4-channel
with the system of distribution of brake force EBD;
vSC and Brake Assist course stability system
available with 2.0 liter engines
Front and side airbags for the driver and the front
passenger, pillow for protecting the knees of the driver;
option - four curtain pillows
Dimensions/mass
Length/width/height (mm) 4630/1760/1480 4700/1760/1525
Wheel base (mm) 2700
 
Tires 205/55 R16
 
Mar is equipped/complete (kg) 1245/1820 1385/1895
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 60
 
Maximum speed (km/h) 200 190
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 10.3 11.3
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 7.2 9.4
The price in Moscow has not yet been determined

 

A source: "Autopilot"