Test drive Volkswagen Bora 1998 - 2005 sedan
It is easy to rob the blind
The undertaking to make the best the best is doubtful in one thing: it may turn out, or maybe not. Enthusiasts from the Moscow Tuning company Lada Engineering, having stuffed their hands on domestic semi -finished products, encroached on the European product - VW Bora ...Bora, which appeared just two years ago, is an interesting car. Expressive design, memorable appearance, sports style finally.
This seemed a little of this. If expression, then it should be brought to shocking. If a memorable appearance, then to the syndrome of the multiplication table, at least ask at night. Well, if we are talking about a sports style, then Ferrari should just rest.
Of course, they did not reach the level of Ferrari. However, the car, of course, became more expressive. A completely new radiator cladding, integrated into one whole with a bumper and a powerful front spoiler, is logically combined with wide pads on wheel arches. On specially manufactured car in the NGO, air -stroke wheels of special strength, through the knitting needles of which red calipers of brake discs are visible - 17 -inch low -profile rubber (205/50ZR17). Stylish thresholds. A new rear bumper with a spoiler, from which powerful pipes of the exhaust system Remus peeps slightly. The exterior ends the indispensable attribute of a sports car - anti -wing.
In the cabin there are completely redone front seats with powerful lateral support, Nardi steering wheel and a few carbon fiber inserts.
The start of the engine instilled hope. The sports baritone of the exhaust system was clearly heard even with the glass tightened into the framework. While the arrow of the coolant temperature sensor slowly but confidently sailed to the mark corresponding to the operating temperature of the engine, an icirbag has persistently blinked on the instrument panel. Alas and ah: Nardi is not equipped with this passive safety tool, which means that in the future the driver will have to rely only on the strength of seat belts and that, following the results of tests for a frontal clash according to the tightened American standard, Bora distinguished himself with unusually low parameters of traumatic loading.
The engine warmed up slightly, and the driver (the road allows) to the approving exclamations of anticipating the acute sensations of passengers from the heart drowned by the gas pedal. Bora is not that slowly, but not so fast, moves away from the start line. A worried driver repeats the start procedure - already with a more intense engine promotion and accelerated gearing. The effect is the same.
The fact is that, with all the volume of work done by Muscovites, tuning Bora did not go beyond the appearance of a plastic kit and minor changes in the cabin. Our athlete could not improve the result of a standard 100-horsepower engine to overcome a high-speed line of 100 km/h in 11.7 seconds.
Did not affect the changes and the chassis. The same standard package with the usual suspension course. But if this is normal for an ordinary serial car, then for such a sophisticated car is absolutely unacceptable. And the point is not that the car is rolled in turns not at all in sporting, and not even that on an uneven road he strives to leave a piece of his powerful remotkobamperpoler (it is difficult to pronounce, but the truth is whole!) Threshold at the bottom of the pit. And the fact that already with an insignificant load (driver and three passengers without luggage), the rear wheels of the car on a flat road now and then the flaps are struck. This is not only acoustic discomfort, but also a direct threat of the loss of these very clips.
In general, behind external effects, if not an ordinary, then a completely standard car is hidden.
Beauty blinds, the Americans say, and the blind man is easy to rob. This is what makes it sense to overpay the infant only for new packaging?
Technical characteristics VW Bora 1.6 (Forso)
Subanated mass, kg - 1183 o dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 4376/1735/1446 o maximum speed, km/h - 188 o - acceleration time to 100 km/h, s - 11.7 o fuel consumption ( mixed), l/100 km - 7.5 o engine: working volume, cm3 - 1595; Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 100/5600; Twisting, NM at MIN -1 -145/3800; Food system - injection O transmission - mechanical., 5 -Test. o wheels suspension - unenvalrated. o Brakes - disk, ventilated/disk o stele control - gear -rack o price, $ - 25,000.
Text: Oleg Kalaushin
A source: Magazine 5 wheel [10/2000]
