Volkswagen Jetta test drive since 2005 sedan

Second birth: get acquainted with VW Jetta Kaluga assembly

If you delve into reference books and dictionaries, you can find out that the word Jet, which has English roots, hides several meanings. Jet is a strong stream, stream. Geologists under the word see exclusively their gagat or, as it is also called, black amber (a variety of coal). Engineers, some others are better, imply different, but for the most part something that uses a reactive principle. Under the vulture of the def. Many dictionaries in Jet give out a turbine or a blessed jet aircraft. In German jett decoration made of black glass and Volkswagen developers built a little word and since 1979 they began to call them one of their models. Jetta. Sounds flattering and promising, right? Is the meanness that the car carries this interweaving in tune with this interweaving? We have to find out.
The current jettu was showed in 2005. Since then, since then, a lot has flowed to ask what made us take a model for a test, which is produced more than two years for a row? We answer! Moving its production to Kaluga. After all, since February, only Russian assembly has been delivered to our markets of jettas.
The affair began in the distant 2003, when the Germans brought to the market the long -awaited golf of the fifth knee. At the first meeting from the very first seconds of dating, I was imbued with warm feelings: he turned out to be too cool. Dense, but not tough. Accurate, but not sharp. Confident. Calm. Unmistakable. Reference.
These features, along with the platform, inherited the sister. Jetta from the unlucky golf brother in short shorts, like an apple from an apple. In manners and behavior, it is also full of pragmatism, but (what is a sin to hide?) The feminine, whatever one may say, gives it peculiarity. You will take a closer look at her a sort of young woman from a good family: flexible, with a good look and even character. True, it still does not reach the beauty, but it cannot be called a simpleton either. Sarafan was sewn to her what needed to match Norov: the swan looks not easy, but also discreetly. Take a look, for example, on a chrome radiator shield or the roller arrow of the arrow of the arrow of the arrow (their brother does not have).
By the way, decorations here are such. This is an attempt to make golf sorry of course, Jettu is more adult and mature. Agree, many thanks to these attributes confuse it with a higher rank by the Passat. However, the size and proportions of the baby are also contributed to be healthy. And if such a confusion is only on the hand, then the owners of the windmes can begin to be jealous of a cheaper car.
But back to our Kaluga ward, the key in the fist, in the knees trembling, under the spoon anticipation of a sense of pleasure from the new rendezvous with the golf chassis that I loved. Why only the chassis? Yes, because our jetta with a 1.6-liter motor, strangled, moreover, to the norms of Euro 4. Because of it, the poor man suffers from hypodynamia. Light, but still suffers. The baby is heavy for those 102 horses and 148 Newton meters that lurked under the hatch of the gas station. Heavyly. The sedan is lazy to accelerate and stubborn as he can. Although, on the other hand, if you whip non -part -time stronger, you can jump very, very briskly and even backwardly. But this is if you keep the tachometer arrow within 46.5 digital-turnover per minute. However, if you want to cheat in the stream, you need a more powerful motor. Fortunately, jetts in Kaluga are produced with a 1.4-liter 140-horsepower TSI (220 Nm) and 105-horsepower 1.9-liter TDI (250 nm). These engines, by the way, can be selected with six -speed pre -sequential DSG boxes.
The sprint to the coveted hundreds of our 1268 kilogram Jet performs in a long 12.2 seconds. But the 55-liter tank is enough for a do-oo-olgo requires a motor for his work quite a bit: a mixed cycle, if you don’t really break, no more than 7.5 liters of the 95th octane fly out a hundred kilometers into the pipe. A hundred km of run along the highway, the car spends six liters, in the city 9.9.
And what about handling? There is a complete order here. In this category, Jetta is very weighty. The car on the road behaves extremely collected, the suspension is very dense and energy -intensive.
And it is suitable not only for everyday measured trips on a tablecloth with rolled asphalt roads, but also for driving to the limit. Moreover, the chassis of soil bumps and Khumtyin does not shy at all for Russia what it is necessary (our cars, by the way, are more clearance than European ones). The suspension also does not annoy excessly shaking and breakdown. The rolls in the turns are minimal. In direct golf jetta, it is extremely stable, reliable and pleases with neutral rotation in the bend. That's just the standard Continental SportContact 2 tires are not very suitable for her. Reactions are smeared.
The productivity of the electrical power and the value of the feedback force is generated depending on the speed. In the parking lot, you can twist at least one finger, with a further increase in speed, the steering wheel is pleasantly heavy. But now, the best samples of hydraulic analogues of electric power systems still do not. With active steering, although it is a little, it still shuts up, and information about the micro -relief of the road and the angle of rotation of the wheels on the steering wheel could be more ... However, what is, it does not destroy the feelings of unity with the car.
The ergonomics of the workplace (yes to discuss, more than once said) has been worked out for five with a plus. A medium -sized steering wheel (adjusted in height and departure) is remarkably in the hands, the adjustments are enough for the eyes, and with what a loud dives from the position to the position of the switching of the mechanical five -a -stage you sway. The picture is slightly spoiled by a long -flowing uninformative clutch. The drive when touched from the place often sends small flour (we are talking about the motor) to the knockout. However, this is a matter of habit. I changed the tactics a little, gasped a little more than usual, with start and order. The sightseeing of the forward and sides is magnificent, but you don’t feel the stern absolutely, there is simply necessary parking sensors. Jetta is ideal for long trips: you don’t get tired both, and there are plenty of space behind even for tall high-rusty riders, neither knees nor crumbs even in 190-centimeter dials are rested anywhere. Honor and praise to the ergonomists!
But what about quality? Did the sedan not damage the assembly conveyor? Yes, it seems that, because in Kaluga, the jetts gather on the protocol of the large -sized assembly SKD (Semi Knocked Down). The bodies on the tape are supplied completely ready. And ours only hang on them separately brought front and rear bridges, power units and some other little things. Sedans season with technical fluids, of course, here. After assembling, the car and all its systems are subjected to final testing: electronics, as befits, is interviewed by a computer for malfunctions. The engine, transmission and chassis, are checked on treadmills and dynamometric paths. The body is checked for tightness in the sprinkle chamber, and the quality of the paintwork in the light tunnel.
But not everything turned out to be smooth as we wanted. The assembly of our copy hung in the air a couple of questions the first of them cicada in the front panel, which in fact turned out to be a rattling glass of the dashboard. But with this nonsense you can still come to terms with a much more significant shortage of the driver's door in addition. In the opening, the gate stands with a slight skew along the windows and glass shows that the back of the millimeter of a millimeter is one and a half lower than it should be. Somehow not at all in Folkswagenovsky. Everything is nothing if this had not interfered with the doors to open without jamming. What is this? Does Volkswagen are losing ground? Or is it guided by double standards? Whatever this, we hope, will not happen again in the future.
Would I choose a regular companion to Jett? Perhaps yes. But in marriage with her, I probably would become ashamed from time to time, which pulls left to the more temperamental and burning representatives of the C-class. Yes, a mature chassis, yes ergonomics, and a spacious rear sofa, and a bottomless 527-liter chest on the stern ... But this companion is too correct. So correct that from this correctness it sometimes blows boredom and can even be cold. I will tell her yes, when I become a little older and more calmer. And richer. After all, 578 969 wooden for the weakest of the Jett family is not a joke.
 
Vitaly Kabyshev
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru