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In the extended version of Caddy Maxi, removing the rear seats, theoretically you can download the medium motorcycle

With the phrase of commercial transport, we most often associate any bus-van images. But this is not a completely adequate reaction. Commines would not be a comontance without such an indispensable minunci, like all sorts of heels. One of the oldest representatives of this clan is the Volkswagen Caddy, who has survived the next upgrade this year.

Your correspondent was always surprised by the tendency of our compatriots, not offended by the number of Chad and households, to acquire something off-road or as a last resort of a minibus. Literally lying on the surface of a much more practical alternative in the form of passenger versions of commercial heels until recently remained for most potential buyers behind the scenes.

Try to ask a question to someone from familiar owners of all-wheel drive passenger cargo: Why do you get a bunch of your children and my wife exactly on the jeep if the asphalt is laid right to the gate of your cottage? Most likely, as an rationale for choosing a car type, you will hear verbose arguments about unstandingly overcome meter snowstorms on metropolitan highways, as well as a solid intention to ever make a large off-road adventure (this is exactly how the title letters and in a very, very future time) or that Similar arguments. In general, the position is not quite intelligible, but the horror is unshakable.

However, the tentacles of pragmatism, delivered by regular global economic surprises, are increasingly excavated by a seventrel of fellow citizens. As a result, the percentage of maintenance in the transport stream of passenger modifications of heels from different manufacturers is continuously growing. Considering this, the Caddy update can be considered quite timely. Although most likely it just reached him. All according to the German Ordnung: last year brought new VW Transporter / Multivan (T5), and in this his junk, Caddy.

The miniature representative of the VW commercial lineup of the progressive international community was presented to almost their homeland in the vicinity of Frankfurt. Thoughts about the robust roots in the thickness of the Suglinks of Russian motorizm a class of civil servants forced the author of these rows to raw down a couple of more subtitle colleagues and set up VW Caddy in one of the best complete sets with a new two-liter turbodiesel under the hood and quasia automatic DSG transmission. In order to convey, so to speak, the most kind and, accordingly, the most eternal to oscillating and sympathizing the newest, the fourth generation of Caddy in the spirit of the ideology adopted at the moment in VW is not a completely new machine. This is the fruit of the process that is best described by neologism improving. Its meaning is that the new car model is obtained as a result of a gentle change in the appearance of the machine and light refreshment of interiors. At the same time, the modernization of the desira (nodes and aggregates) is one or another degree of depth. This statement is fair both for T5 and for Touareg, and for Caddy, because it is stupid to try to revolutionize a truly good thing. The path of evolution is much more productive.

Looking at Caddy from the side, immediately notice the tracks of improving. First of all it concerns the front of the machine. The headlights in accordance with the current branded dress code acquired corporate corners. The hood got a little more relief. Motioning the profile of the car MAKE MOUNT to say even the connoisseur of combatrans: the new design of the wheel drives. View will not immediately not immediately. Rear to distinguish new Caddy generation from the previous one can only through thoughtful study of the rear headlights. As before, the car is produced in passenger and cargo-passenger versions, as well as in a fully utilitarian cargo version. Each of them is available with standard and elongated by 32 cm base. The number of seats may vary from two to seven. The main advantage of any passenger version of a small merchant is enclosed in a spacious and functional salon. Each of the seds are available boxes and shelves for things, cup holders, pockets in the doors and other luggage joys. Under the ceiling, meshes are attached, and over the windshield is a wide shelf. Boxes are hidden under the front seats and under the legs of the second-row passengers. The rear seat can be folded in the ratio of 1/3 and 2/3 or remove, increasing the luggage compartment to 2850 or 3030 liters, respectively. In an elongated 47 cm version of Maxi to 3700 and 3880 liters. As an option, you can order Caddy with a full-fledged third of the seats for transportation of a particularly numerous family. Planting the driver here is a clear bus: driving are sitting noticeably straight and higher than in the cab. Large mirrors complement the picture. The new Caddy got a dashboard, audio and climatic systems, already well known for other models of the brand.

How cosmetics seem to have external differences with the predecessor model, this is so significant for this innovation machine. Take, for example, two-liter diesel, annexed by your correspondent. This work volume in the case of VW Caddy may produce 110 or 140 hp. The machine, by the way, can also be equipped with even less volumetric diesel motors with a volume of 1.6 hp. With a capacity of 75 and 102 horses.

Supplements the range of engine engines of 1,2-liter gasoline motors (so I want to write agregatics) with a capacity of 86 and 105 hp. With the task of moving the machine from point A to the point to they copble perfectly, however, the dynamics at the same time, as you guess, to call an outstanding language does not turn 12.4 seconds to hundreds of ways. Let's start with the fact that you get into the car, turn the ignition key and hear how the typical gasoline motor started.

On sound insulation in this case there is nothing more to have a little different from the previous Caddy. Aerodynamic noise at speeds Over 100 km / h, the bus-like aerodynamics is still listened to anyway. Just the motor runs on rarity gently for a diesel unit. But all the time advantages of a diesel engine over a gasoline, it demonstrates to the full.

Diesel paired with a wonderful tandem on any machine of any brand. And in the case when the machine is replaced with such a two-walled robot, like DSG, you can not even mention about any thoughtfulness when switching. Just go and go. And in sports can be stolen on the track.

However, the German autobahn only in Russian folk folklore do not have high-speed restrictions, and in German, completely registered reality with speeds of over 120 km / h, you can not move everywhere.

Therefore, we somehow did not work out for all the money on the autobahn, but to draw along the village tracks (we would have such rustic tracks!) It was fully fully. Impression, I must say, dual. On the one hand, according to a set of tactile and audiovisual signals, you feel yourself in old good Caddy.

The updated design of the tidy and the entire front panel does not change the picture. Almost the same sensations from touching the plastic finish, as well as the ram, the same clear operation of the brakes, the same reactions of the machine on the taxiing in principle, this is not surprisingly ergonomics of the last generation of the machine special complaints caused.

The suspension here practically did not undergo changes: the Golf of the fifth generation with springs in the rear bridge as it was, so remained. The dynamics has changed, and with it and the overall impression of the car. And her appetite. If it is not a humane handling of the gas pedal to go beyond 6.5 liters of diesel fuel per 100 km of the track, the author failed.

And there are strong suspicions that even with a full allowed loading machine will not show other numbers. In this regard, there is hope that a terrible obstruction on the soil of electrification all and all in the automotive industry will not touch Caddy and it will remain like there.

Moreover, according to representatives of Volkswagen, the Russian price of the updated Caddy will remain at the same level as the machines of the previous generation, in contrast to expensive hybrids.


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The pedigree VW Caddy begins in 1979, when a small pickup appeared on the US market, built on the basis of the Volkswagen Golf passenger car. There he was called Rabbit Pickup, because in the North American market Golf was sold under the name Rabbit. Three years later, in 1982, who loved in the Pickups, the car was represented by the European public. In the old world, he received the name Caddy. Its model range included cars with an open platform, as well as with tarpaulin or rigid riding. Successful gasoline motor in 70 hp and 1.6-liter atmospheric 54-strong diesel. It is curious that the Caddy of the first generation was collected in Yugoslav Sarajevo already until 1992, when the plant stopped because of the war-started on the Balkans.


SPECIFICATIONS
Volkswagen Caddy.

Dimensions (mm) 4406x1794x1856
Base (mm) 2681
Mass (kg) 2000
Engine (cm3) 1968
Max. Power (hp) 140
Max. Torque (nm) 320
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km / h) 186
Acceleration 0100 km / h (c) 10.6
Cf. Fuel consumption (l / 100 km) 6.5
Price (rub.) N.D.

 

A source: MKMOBIL magazine [November / 2010]