Toyota Camry Solara 2003 test drive - 2008
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The goods are face For several years now, Toyota Kamri is one of the leaders of sales in the Russian market. Moreover, the machine is not the most affordable. An important component of success is a high reputation of the model as one of the most reliable. However, the price can be called moderate for this class, of course.
A well-equipped business bar with a 2.4-liter gasoline engine and a five-speed manual gearbox costs $ 29 800, with an automatic $ 31,300. Machines are equipped with several electronic ABS anti-locks, the distribution of EBD brake efforts, and brake assh brake systems. In the expensive version, there are devices for the exchange stability VSC and the anti -wings TRC (disconnected). All Kamri has four airbags (front and side for the driver and passenger), active head restraints of the front seats, fastening the ISOFIX children's chair.
The basic configuration includes fog lights with washer, external mirrors with an electric drive and heating, climate control with a dust filter. There are electric windows in all doors, cup holders in front and back, a radio with a CD resigner, six speakers and an electric antenna on the rear wing. The steering wheel and lever of the gearbox are covered with the skin, the glass is slightly tinted, the front seats with heated, on the anti -alcoholic visors of the mirror with a lid and adjustable brightness of the backlight. In general, everything, as it should be in the business class.
If someone doesn’t have enough such a set, you can choose an expensive package there a lot more. Not being distracted by the details, I can only say that a car with a leather salon, a 3-liter engine and an automatic gearbox will cost $ 39,800. It is on our test.
Outside and inside Toyota has a lot of oval and soft, functionally comfortable and pleasant to the touch. Unlike many classmates on the front panel of Kamri, there is no accumulation of tightly grouped buttons. Freedom gives airiness.
True, it is unusual to discover the shutdown of the interpretation-control somewhere far below the left to identify this button, tilt your head. Logic is clear: what is extremely rarely used to hell; What is more important. Some secondary functions have to be sought. But on the main ones, you do not need to concentrate their buttons themselves fall by the arm.
The car can easily accommodate four people and a huge luggage. Behind a two -meter driver, a person will comfortably sit just above average height. The width is also spacious, so the fifth will not feel too infringed.
Large by Japanese standards and rather soft chairs offer modest side support, the leather steering wheel lies excellently in their hands.
According to a long -established tradition in Toyota, you rarely see the solutions beautiful and fashionable, but uncomfortable. But no matter how archaic the spinning handles of the radio seem to seem, including for adjusting the wave, nothing more convenient to this day has been invented, therefore, Kamri has exactly that. But the cassette gave way to the CD.
How to go The intensity of acceleration is easy to judge by the nameplate on the trunk. The first hundred Kamri with a 3-liter engine takes in 9.1 seconds and very zealously seeks to swallow the second. The machine with a 2.4 liter engine and mechanics is very slightly inferior to a powerful modification. This accelerates to 100 km/h for 9.4 s, and given that the machine gun slightly smooths the driver's sensations, both options are approximately the same by the ability to delight him. However
Toyota suspension settings, like the ergonomics of the workplace, are by no means pushed by aggressive driving. On the contrary, getting used to the car, you try to enjoy the comfortable movement in space. Only occasionally, you will seer the gas to the floor to reach the required moderate high-speed mode. And with the same pleasure you remove the craving, intending to quietly rustle along the asphalt.
The suspension is energy -intensive, but soft; He does not really like the quick work by the steering wheel, responding to her tangible body rolls. But the potholes swallows with pleasure. Where else
the car will shake in the wave, Camry will only impressively swing. With calm work, the car is accurately and quickly working out the driver’s commands, without requiring the trajectory adjustment. The sensitivity of the governing organs is also designed for a comfortable ride: it is convenient to dose small accelerations and deceleration with pedals. Yes, and the automatic gearbox works best when you do not slow down the gas pedal and switching is barely noticeable, and the engine capabilities are fully implemented. But if you stomp more rudely, there is a misunderstanding: steps appear when switching, and the driver's chair unsignsingly pushes into the back.
There are probably no cars without flaws. In Toyota, the most significant applies not to the product, but to the sales network and the corporate service. Sometimes there is a feeling that the high popularity of the brand fell on them with a heavy burden: try to repair the car quickly and for reasonable money. Well, Kamri is a very pleasant car for quick, but not aggressive driving on Russian roads, because its popularity is quite justified.
Prices for spare parts and then, US dollars
Then 10,000 km 190
Then 20,000 km 250
Then 30,000 km 190
Front brake pads 100
Rear brake pads 58
Front belt + videos + work 56 + 168 + n. D.
Front bumper 280
Rear bumper 295
Hood 455
Front door 450
The rear door is 400
Front wing 215
Windshield
(with a set for gluing) 580 (!)
Block Fara 210
Rear lamp 120
Norm often work 50 (!)
Alexander Budkin. Photo: George Sadkov
Source: The magazine "Driving"
