Toyota IQ test drive since 2008 hatchback
Many noise
The end of last year for the Russian branch of Toyota turned out to be extremely productive. Lie joke, in the conditions of a tough crisis for incomplete two months, the Japanese brought three new models to the Russian market, and far from the most budgetary. At the start, there was a third prius, on the eve of the New Year holidays, the new Land Cruiser Prado, and between them one of the loudest European premieres of the Toddler IQ. It is the baby, and nothing else. Outwardly, this Toyota resembles a cube: its width and height is almost equal, moreover, they only twice the length, which, in turn, does not reach up to three meters. Add here traditionally sloping hood and get the car almost the same on all sides. Almost Smart. True, really IQ for the entire half-meter is longer than the most popular in the old world of the compact, and in the width a little less much more overall Honda Jazz. And this is perhaps its main advantage over a formidable competitor. That up to style, then this car can be called fun. The weak floor, which, in fact, should become the main consumer of the product, will certainly appreciate and massive optics, and smooth windows of glazing ... At the same time, the novice looks somewhat brutal and in something even modern main rivals.
And larger. However, given the presence of four nominal seats, it is quite explained. However, it is not worth deducting: the IQ salon is hardly more luggage compartment of the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class wagon. The desire of the Japanese to make a compact quadruple, of course, commendable, but, settling even a person of medium height behind the wheel, the owner of a priori will refuse fourth seats. He will not fit the driver's seat, this is a fact. There, even the child will not put, not to mention adult. The only way out to store the legs of the back of the rear left armchair at the neighbor, but convenient placement according to the formula 3 + 1 you will not call anyway. Yes, and to security, the claims will arise, even despite the presence (as standard) of the occipital cushion for the inhabitants of the second row. In general, the rear sofa IQ can be transformed with a light heart.
On ordinary days, when IQ transports one, the maximum of two people, it is easier to use it as a natural addition to the trunk. Then the car will fit not only a portfolio with documents, but also a pair of packages from the hypermarket. In the denomination, the entire useful space of the freight compartment is almost completely occupied by a standard set of a motorist, the presence of which we remember, prescribed by road rules, and even if not regulated, but an equally mandatory brush with a scraper. By the way, passengerism is not the main problem of this car, much more relevant difficulty with the placement of related objects and ergonomics.
Alas, the standard glove box here fell in the fight for the free space for the legs of the front sediment (whether it is in place, the rear sofa could not be done at all). The corresponding functions are placed on the plaid folder attached to the front panel by means of a pair of lipukets and four buttons. Terribly uncomfortable, it is necessary to admit, the thing, especially when you try to establish it in a legal place. In addition, its geometry allows you to place in depths only a pair of naked CDs and several sheets of paper A4 paper, which, however, have to be folded in half.
The instrument panel is also a compromise solution. In essence, the speedometer scale, tachometer and the minimum set of controls The Japanese placed on half of its standard area. Everything else on a small monochrome display. In principle, the driver receives the required minimum of information, but the tidy still seems too small. In European specifications, there is also a capable navigation picture of the multimedia block, we also have a central part of the cockpit crumpled a certain semblance of an information display. However, it could not be done at all, replacing a pair of appropriate control lamps on the instrument panel.
And in the IQ, the steering column is adjusted only by vertical, the driver's seat in this plane is not shifted at all. So to customize the driver's seat under the rounded seds will have to be exclusively due to the horizontal displacement and changes in the tilt of the back. In principle, the average driver of the presented ranges is enough, but people above average growth, alas, will feel a certain discomfort. That's why you do not present complaints, so it is for registration. Formally the interior is as brutalen as the exterior, but the complex parts are even smaller here. However, the sake of fairness should be noted that the Japanese tried to revive the picture to the measure of their strength, building a pair of instrumental overlays, which, in essence, are the instrument panel and the center console. The IQ is assembled on the normal (by class standards), it seems quite decent and plastic, although in the same Auris it would not look too presentable.
By the way, a comparison with Auris is also relevant here and because under the hood of the test IQ, a 1.33-liter gasoline motor was installed for the medium-sized hatchback. True, if the buyers of Auris offer it exclusively with 5-speed mechanics, then in our case a clinoremable variator worked in a pair. By the way, this is the only IQ option for our country, a version with simpler liter units, and even more so with 1.4-liter turbodiesels, the Japanese did not decide to visit us. However, if they possess the same dynamics
Although what are we talking about? How can you judge what is not? IQ does not know how to accelerate. According to the passport, the second hundred car with the top engine, which is on a second! Almost 100 horses should be swapped in less than 12 seconds, and this is the data for versions with the variator. But really this motor turned out to be from the series a lot of noise from nothing. It is buzzing loud and intrusive, fuel consumes as an aggregate in the C-class machine, but absolutely not going. We have overclocked until hundreds of 15 seconds, no less. And then, provided that one driver was sitting in the cabin, just over 80 kilograms smoothness also not at height. The IQ suspension does not give it to him in turns, but at the same time, the wild tremor is accompanied literally every irregularity. The only sweat of maneuverability. The steering wheel, as expected, is absolutely empty, in turn, the driver has to go like eyes. But but the baby unfolds within two lanes. Although it should be in rank
In general, we will not rule this Toyota future, it is not foreseen. Everything ultimately rests on the financial component: IQ almost the only one in our market car, which is cheaper in Europe. In Germany, a top car similar to ours is estimated at 16,800 euros (Basic 12,900 euros). At the current rate, this is a little more than 730,000 rubles, for us the price tag is one of 777,777 rubles, and no less than a penny. It seems that the sad experience with the first generation of Yaris managers Toyota has not taught anything.
SPECIFICATIONS
Toyota IQ.
Dimensions (mm) 2985x1680x1500
Wheel base (mm) 2000
Road clearance (mm) 135
Mass (kg) 1005
Trunk volume (L) 32238
Slave. Engine volume (cm3) 1329
Max. Power (hp) 98
Max. Torque (NM) 123
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km / h) 170
Acceleration 0100 km / h (c) 11.6
Middle fuel consumption (l / 100 km) 4.4
Price (rub.) 777 777
Competitors
CLONE?
A car that is known from us as Spark, in Europe was sold like Matiz, now the old light got a full-fledged spark. In infancy, he was called Beat and was one of the three progressive subcompact concepts. Now he is already sold with might and main, and for the basic version they ask for 9,000 euros. Russian SPARK Sample 2010 is a restyled version of the model. She is a little more contemporary, but in general it is the same Matiz of the second generation. Prices apparently will not change. Today, the initial package of SPARK is asked a little more than 300,000 rubles.
Splash
Heir to Wagon R Suzuki Splash Another incomprehensible Japanese car with an incomprehensible normal Russian price tag. For about a year ago, Suzuki marketers have already passed this expensive, setting the basic cost of the model at a mark of 460,000 rubles. Nevertheless, Splash is larger than IQ, has a normal quadruple salon. In addition, two gasoline engines of 1.0 and 1.2 liters are offered to choose from, and the first is equipped with a mechanical KP, and the second machine.
First hundred
Peugeot 107 The most affordable European car of this size. The initial cost of one hundred seventh today is 397,500 rubles. Unlike Toyota, it can be both three- and five-door. Under the hood of Russian versions, only a liter gasoline engine can stand, but it is aggregated with both 5-speed mechanics and with a more advanced 2-Tronic robot. As for the shortcomings, the one hundred seventh car is age-related, therefore IQ inferior and in the design, and in equipment.
Material: Vladimir Lodine
Photo: Armen Maitarjyan
A source: Mkmobile magazine [January / 2010]
