Toyota Camry Solara 2003 test drive - 2008

ABOVE AVERAGE

The middle class breaks the ceiling
Ford Mondeo is now higher than disputes with Toyota Avensis. But Mazda6 is still in the game. It was their efforts that the middle class buried in the Absolute, stopping a step away from the size of representative cars. The very existence of a business class framework in the average price range is now in question: the new accelerates threw a competition of competition between parallel worlds, in which the Peugeot 407 and Toyota Camry existed independently yesterday.
Peugeot 407
Price from 728 600 rub.
Max. Power 143 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b207 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 12.2 s
Ford Mondeo
Price from 820,000 rubles.
Max. Power 161 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b207 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 10.5 s
Mazda6
Price from 852 000 rub.
Max. Power 170 hp
Max. speed 220 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 8 s
Toyota Camry
Price from 910,000 rubles.
Max. Power 167 hp
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b205 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 10.2 s
Is it so important today, when the word Fuzhn also understand grannies, to deal with the class boundaries?
1 PLACE
Ford Mondeo
Pros: running qualities, size, price, quality, wide selection of body types, transmission, engines and configurations, excellent balance of consumer properties
Cons: noise in the cabin
2ND PLACE
Mazda6
Pros: bright appearance, excellent controllability, spaciousness, dynamics, quality of ergonomic solutions
Cons: exactingness to the quality of roads, a narrow selection of motor combinations and transmission
3RD PLACE
Toyota Camry
Pros: space in the cabin, acceleration dynamics, stability on a straight line, reputation
Cons: running qualities, if it is necessary to accept active maneuver, visibility of back, balance of control.
4. Place
Peugeot 407
Pros: style and design, comfort, visibility, stability and handling
Cons: dynamics, stock of space in the cabin, energy intensity of the suspension
SUMMARY
The new Ford Mondeo destroyed the system with its appearance. Even considering the general acceleration, this car seized through three steps, taking the dominant height before the fight. Above those who lived in a different, higher coordinate system yesterday. Maybe you should not be attached to the name Mondeo, but to admit the fact that this is a car from the next class? Only the future will show. And is it so important today, when the word Fuzhn also understand grannies, to deal with the class boundaries? It is important to understand: the dimensions of Mondeo correspond to the current ideas about the dimensions of large sedans, its price fits into the total range of invoices of the middle class, and the sensation of quality is not stretched through the immense expanses of the machine with a soap bubble: this sensation is smeared here so that there are no questions. It can be recognized that Mondeo is most universal when we are talking about the portrait of a potential owner.
 
Sports and elegant. The clockwork and practical Mazda6 balances between emotions and pragmatism. It is capacious and convenient in advance. She controls great and looks great. She will not let me get bored: Mazda6 Drive car. And she draws the circle of her fans with a thin confident line. 1.8 only with mechanics, two-liter universal machines are possible with a machine gun, and the frisky 170-horsepower 2.5 with only six-speed mechanics: to love the queen? Yes, on a smooth road, she is the queen of turns, accelerations and braking, but when under the wheels it is not perfect, but a normal Russian road, you will have to look at it in both.
 
Camry is primarily a powerful engine and space in the cabin. Toyota reliable transport. The running qualities are acceptable for normal driving, but no more: the suspension setting up at least attention. Not because they could not, but because it was not necessary. Such work would not affect the sale of this machine. In third place, it was due to the age and latest achievements of its new competitors. Only in the light of technical comparison. But the technique is not everything that determines popularity: Camry has a bright future.
 
PEUGEOT 407 did not lose heart: neither in appearance nor in the ride. A pleasant machine that saves a couple of nerve cells with every trip: life from around the steering wheel looks more calm and harmonious than the one in which most of the capital's drivers participate. In a dry comparison of 407? Mu had hard due to small sizes. Closer to the front line is the 607th model, but the price and position of this machine is higher than those that were the subject of the conversation.
Text Dmitry Sokolov photo Andrey Sahakyan and Nikolai Kuznetsov
 

A source: Cars