Test Drive Volkswagen Golf Plus 2005 - 2008 Hatchback

Addition of advantages

Spacious, transformed salon and beautiful appearance What else do you still need to compact it to meet buyers worthy?
 



If it were not for a huge chrome spider of the world-famous emblem, and do not recognize Volkswagen in this sympathet. After all, folk, especially in recent years, rarely get beautiful. Rather, their appearance deliberately make neutral so that as many potential buyers as possible found it acceptable. Here are the Germans and praise the golf quarter of a million per year. And we, yes for such money, give candy.
 

Please get! This one can not not like. Unlike the ordinary golf, plus the windshield line is clearly marked into the single complicit. Useless in the sense of improving visibility, but responding to the ideas about the exterior of compact representatives by 100 percent. Easy downstream roof to the stern also pleases the eye. So much that the golf is ordinary, perhaps, looks next to the plus at a primitive van. The main difference from the progenitor rolling down on the wings of beautiful headlights with even rows of three reflectors: large, medium and small.
 

But the whole chip is that the newcomer will be competing not only with golf. More precisely, the sellers just would not want internal competition. Plus must fight the market with compactnes from Ford, Renault and Opel, because the previous fighter, Turan, this mission was safely failed. And not only because the mocking roads. With such a fresh appearance, which was created on the design project of the 90s, created in the closet, in the price segment of about $ 30,000 there is nothing to do. In any case, in Russia. Another thing is golf plus, conceived as something intermediate (after all, in Germany, the same Turan eat out of the showrooms of 100,000 per year), but we have a designed to fill an impressive gap in the model range.


Convenience at the head of the corner
Well, let's see what loves him inside. First of all, high landing. Due to the increased 95 mm altitude (length and width compared to the golf, almost did not change), it became possible to lift the front seats to 75, and the rear even at 85 mm. Automatically added space for feet sitting from behind so usually and happens when landing becomes more vertical. Unlike golf, there is a completely different front panel, with double, each other, deflectors of heating and ventilation system. With such, it is not necessary to painstakingly select the directions of air flows blowing, where it follows. There is no complaints about the landing at the wheel of the Volkswagen misskushki.

 
   
Blue devices backlight corporate identity. And small divisions scales hint at accuracy of up to 5 degrees and 3.5 liters

Rear seat armrest serves as a table for lunch in the car

In the ceiling gallery of four boxes. Just do not advise hiding there heavy things fall on the head


Sliding at 160 mm rear seats allow, not even folding them, vary the volume of the trunk from 395 to 505 liters. And if you fold, it turns out almost one and a half cubic meter. An independent adjustment, both the longitudinal and the corner of the backrest, gives the rear passengers an unknown comfort in conventional hatchbacks. True, in a sleeping position you can tilt the backs of only front seats. Rear places are always seated. In the configuration of Comfortline, folding tables in the backs of the front seats and drawers under them are provided. The boxes in the ceiling are available, unlike glove, and rear passengers, as well as the bulk pockets in the doors finally convince you are that you are sitting in a family, convenient for long-distance travel.

 
   
When the air conditioner is turned on, do not put gloves in the box intended for them, the skin will blow up from the cold

The rear seat is not only folded, but also moves back and forth in parts. Yes, and the backs can be tilted to someone as convenient

Retractable boxes under the seat only in comfortline. But even in the database on the side of the seat caps
 
   
For rear passengers, climatic installation deflectors, cup holders and 12-volt sockets

In the maximum freight version in this trift, we will fit with a dozen suitcases

Folding the back seat completely, we get almost half a cubic meter of the luggage volume. And most importantly, almost even loading pad




He would be a couple of Penal ...
On the go, golf with a plus behaves in the same way as without it. Hard-preastable on Coldes, but in whatever flew only silent, elastic blow. The multi-type rear suspension retains the almost optimal geometry of the chassis in almost any quality asphalt, and the machine is tightly keeping the road in turn, even if you significantly exceeded a reasonable speed. In the work of the electric power steering wheel, you can almost not find the shortcomings, except for the position of the wheels, I would like to make control slightly. The brakes are out of any criticism, the distance that the pedal passes from the top stop before the beginning of the phase of intensive increase in the hydraulic drive, the Germans are verified by real masters of their business know the lot in such things.
 

The clarity of the KP lever is perhaps the limit for the machine with a transversely located motor. At the same time, the slightest feeling of the reactive moment from the pursuit of the power unit does not occur. The clutch wants to squeeze in the case and just so, every time feeling, as is perfectly drawn by the kinematics designer of the rolling parts of the basket. You can almost throw a pedal, but the speed of the pressure disk at the very end of the stroke falls to a comfortable minimum, and the clutch takes with a soft, painless impetus. By the way, the association with hydromefta arise and in the crawling mode in traffic jams even accidentally stuck on the gas pedal, you are surprised to notice that the jerk did not follow. That's exactly what attention to the little things to learn to those who are still yesterday, engaged in weaving the straw mats, suddenly found that the production of cars, it turns out, a rather profitable business ...
 

And only a sickly 102-strong engine spoils the impression of the car. Conforming the modern requirements of passive safety and comfort, Golf Plus caught up with the mass of the Volga. Of course, he needs horses once a half more. And with the 8-valve 1.6-liter veteran, which the Germans have already promised several times to send a retirement, quickly get used to putting on gas until it stops, supporting high revs. That is, in the city, driving such a car, like a mardyushka to shock the KP lever and stalling the clutch pedal accounts for almost every second. But the situations where you have to give up overtaking, annoying the dullness of the motor, still arise regularly. Eh, there would be a 150-strong 2.0 FSI, and the dynamics and dynamics are added to the sum of the advantages of appearance and convenient salon. But close to the elbow ...
    
In lists do not mean

In addition to gasoline 1,6-liter and 2.0 FSI, Golf Plus for Russia are equipped with diesel engines. 1.9 liter develops 105 liters. p., and a 2-liter 140 liters. With. Gearboxes: 5- or 6-speed Mechanical, 6-speed automatic (except for the basic configuration of the Trendline) or robotic DSG mechanics (only with diesel engines).
 

It is curious that, in fact, presenting a separate class of cars, plus does not advertise its difference from a simple golf. In Prospects and Price Lists, yes, there is such, but legally it seems. You will not find any nameplates of Plus on the car. Yes, and in the registration certificate it will be written just Volkswagen Golf to be, traffic cops both models do not distinguish. It would be more so, otherwise it usually happens on the contrary, we will told us nerves because of some nonsense inconsistencies ...




... do not bite
Because, taking an example from customs officers who adore export duties of a prohibitive nature, Volkswagen's leadership traditionally makes everything that buyers take cars with the smallest motors and in the minimum configuration. So, the surcharge for a 2-liter motor exceeds $ 6,000, because it will have to take a golf plus already in a more expensive configuration of Comfortline or Sportline and with a 6-speed KP. Moreover, one share of extra 48 liters. With. In this surcharge amounts to $ 4000! Already fairly expensive ($ 21 263) basic plus, imagine without air conditioning! Naturally, you order it, surcharge alcent $ 1483. Well, without metallic for $ 546 and the hatch for $ 981, we will somehow manage, but the winter seating package for $ 502 is really needed.
 

So, if you agree to ride Ginno and leisurely, Golf Plus will cost you $ 24,000, with a minimum of $ 27,000 with a gun, then there are five more expensive Scenic, Si-Max and Zafir in equal configuration, inferior to them on a disappearance of the cabin and power Engine. At a plus with a 2-liter engine, prepare about $ 30,000, having raised at the same time to forget that Japanese all-day Japanese people offer. And among the expensive compactners golf plus a car albeit perfect, but still banal, clearly loses a 6-seater Honda-FR-V machine not only more beautiful and spacious, but also with a highlight.

 
PER

Comfortable salon, high quality finishes and assembly, wide list of options
AGAINST

High price
 
Volkswagen Golf Plus 1.6

common data
 
Body, number of places / doors
Universal, 5/5.
 
Curb weight, kg
1490.
 
Length x Width x Height, mm
4206x1759x1580
 
Base, mm.
2578.
 
Pitch in front / rear, mm
1541/1529
 
Speed, km / h
180.
 
Acceleration time 0100 km / h, with
12.0
 
Fuel consumption, l / 100 highway / city
6.2 / 10.6
 

Engine
 
Location
Front cross
 
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, row
 
Working volume, SMZ
1595.
 
Power, hp at rpm
102/5600.
 
Torque, kgmm at rpm
15/3800.
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
on the front wheels
 
Transmission
mechanical 5-speed
 
Suspension:
Independent, spring with transverse stability stabilizers
 
in front
Type Mac Foodson
 
behind
Multi-type
 
Steering
Rack type with electric power
 
Torkemose
Disk, ventilated front
 
Tires
195/65 R15
 

Car
0.24 $ / km
 
 
Anton Utkin, Maxim Goncharov
 
 

A source: Journal Buy Auto [22/2005]