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Test Drive Volkswagen Polo Sedan: Higher Hope

The Irony of Fate Volkswagen Polo Sedan is that everything, accustomed to the German cars of the new time and bought on a solid appearance, expect from a budget car of comfort and dynamics not less than the trade wind, while forgetting that it costs from 400,000 rubles. And probably this is the highest assessment of its merits.

There is nothing more difficult than to earn folk love. That is why the development of a massive, affordable car, which in all its compromises will be able to like, not every engineer-designer-marketer on the shoulder. But this is a huge segment of sales: it is massive inexpensive cars that make a profit, and not futuristic-technological and magical and wonderful exclusive machines. Discussed in the smoker new supercars and concepts, motorists go to real topics: what car to take yourself.

After all, it is even more difficult to choose your only one. Here is the main thing and everything is decisive.

While Volkswagen brought to delight the handling (and the price) of the small hatchback Polo and painted the elegant Passat CC lines, Renault, Peugeot, Koreans, and even the Chinese, and the Chinese, and the name of Volkswagen have long ceased to be associated with its original sense of the folk car.

But VW has a trump card, with whom you can pull out a late party, - the new POLO budget sedan. And judging by the interest of the potential audience, the chances are high.

Designers when creating affordable sedans, popular in the Russian market, usually choose one of two possible ways: either a slightly washed image, or catchy. And the one and the other option is no particular attractiveness. On their background, the Polo sedan, it would seem, does not represent anything special: the muzzle reminds the front of the stylish hatchback Polo, you can take a car from the back from afar for Skoda Octavia. This, apparently, is the secret of its attractiveness: Polo Sedan is the most beautiful and solid of all segment models. He is impressive, harmonious, concise and stylish. Polo looks not just more expensive, he seems a representative of another class.

Probably, so you expect so much from him, and the expectations are not always justified ... However, in order!

Take the same salon. At first glance, one in one stylish interior of the cheap hatchback under the same title, which served as the basis for the new sedan. But it is worth seeing how you notice a cheap and hard plastic, slippery plastic steering wheel without keys of the radio tape recorder, the absence of some decorative parts, even the sound of the slamming door is different.

The trouble is that from the machine, slightly different in the dimensions from Jetta (the length of the sedan is 4384 mm, the width is 1699 mm, the height is 1465 mm, which allows the machine to be the largest in class), expect the same cabin. And in fact, the Polo sedan must be compared with competitors with the same Renault Symbol, Peugeot 206 Sedan, Hyundai Accent, etc. And the comparison is definitely in favor of the German.

The space in the glove box is perfectly organized, taking into account tanks for various things. Cuttings are provided, pockets for bottles in the doors, metal inserts finished the central console and scenes of the gearbox. Family disadvantages are preserved: uncomfortable joystick control of electric mirrors and armrest, overlapping access to a handler, invented by someone obviously in a minute of resentment for the whole world.

In the rest of the interior ergonomics at the height: high-quality assembly, comfortable chairs with good lateral support and adjustment in height, the correct diameter of the steering wheel, which can be adjusted in two planes, readable, though boring devices. Between the speedometer and the tachometer of the onboard computer window with an electronic fuel level indicator and onboard computer data.

Behind the place again on the class above: and the legs have space, and it's not close in shoulders, except that the ceiling is low at the level of inexpensive sedan. The volume of the trunk is significant 460 liters. The seats can be decomposed almost to the smooth floor, significantly increasing the loading space. The trunk opens with the key or with a button from the cabin. From the inside the metal cover is covered with a good tissue insert.

At the presentation of the Polo sedan, which took place in Moscow on June 1, it became known that the novelty would be produced at the Volkswagen Kaluga Plant at the full cycle. So as part of the first test drive of the new Polo Sedan, we went to Kaluga. Excellent option: And testing cars in the case, and at the native factory of Russian sedans VW to visit.

As representatives of Volkswagen told, the novelty for a year was tested in Russian conditions. It's time to find out how cars will be felt in private operation. The test were provided by cars in the most expensive equipment Highline: 1,6-liter 105-strong engine, transmission five-speed mechanics or six-speed automatic, air conditioning, radio, heated front seats, electrically regulating mirrors and windows, ABS, etc. The cost of such cars begins with 534,400 rubles (578,800 per car with a machine gun).

An ideal landing due to the adjustments of the seating and the steering wheel is easy to choose (only to set up the mirrors, you will have to, as usual, to suffer with the joystick). Air conditioning for full overboard more than thirty degrees heat!

Rimpets of silver and red sedans roll out on the track and easily gain speed. Noise from the motor, rotting the wheels, howling winds everything penetrates the salon. The suspension is rigid and not sufficiently energy-intensive, on the irregularities the rear axle will noticeably shudders, but the breakdown does not allow (during the heated Russian tests it was decided to replace the standard rear semi-dependent suspension to a stronger beam from Golf IV). If it did not deliver any inconvenience on the near Moscow track, then discomfort was felt on nonideal Kaluga roads. Among the advantages of great stamina. And 170-mm clearance is the most for our roads.

The first test Polo went to us with a mechanical transmission. Switch clear transmissions nice and quickly, the course of clutch pedals are vital, the car reacts cheerfully on the accelerator, although without hasty.

You can add speakers at the expense of the magic button ... Turning off the air conditioner: the car becomes clearly easier. However, in such a heat, it is impossible to abandon this necessary summer summer, moreover, the climate installation copes with a stuffy peckel in the cabin quickly and all the time maintains the temperature at a comfortable level.

1.6-liter motor 105 hp motor It pulls well on the bottoms, when overtaking it is better to switch down. With increasing revolutions, the howl, with which noise insulation finally ceases to cope. At cruising speed 120-130 km / h engine supports about 3000-3500 rpm.
Polo Sedan keeps the arc well, no longer forcing it to redo, perfectly comes into a turn, predictably listening to the steering wheel, and steadily behaves at high speeds on a straight line.

Did not like the brakes (the front on the sedan disk, rear drums), more precisely setting the brake pedal itself: it is cotton and non-informative.

As for the automatic box, the six-speed AISIn transmission with manual mode is installed on the VW sedan, the most advanced in the segment. What does not prevent it from the delay to respond to the press of the gas pedal and think about switching. When kick-down, the engine of the motor becomes annoyingly loud. The translation of the selector to position S increases the responsiveness of the accelerator and allows the motor to spin up to 6000 rpm, which slightly improves the dynamics. By the way, the average consumption of sedan fuel with a machine gun with an unstable test mode was a pleasant 8.4 liters.

The irony of the fate of Volkswagen Polo Sedan is that everything, accustomed to the German cars of the new time and bought on a solid appearance, expect from a budget car of comfort and dynamics no less than the trade wind. Forgetting that it costs from 400,000 rubles. And probably this is the highest assessment of its merits.


For this money Polo Sedan must be compared with ...

-Renault Symbol: from 464,000 rubles per base with a 1.4-liter 98-strong engine. The most affordable Symbol with a 1.6-liter engine will cost at least 547,000 rubles, however, for this money here there will already be air conditioning, full electric car mirrors and glasses, radio tape recorders, driver and passenger airbags, ABS and adjusting the driver's seat height.

-Peugeot 206 Sedan: from 424,000 rubles. Also a 1,4-liter engine capacity of 75 hp

-Hyundai Accent in the database is cheaper than polo - from 387,700 rubles with a 1.5-liter engine, but in a poorer configuration, and the appearance with the interior is not as an example ascent.

-Kia Spectra is also cheaper from 379,000 rubles per car with a 1.6-liter 101-strong engine, power steering with adjustable height, electric drive of all glasses.

-Chevrolet Aveo: The most powerful 1.4-liter 101-strong motor. With him basic equipment costs 446 200 rubles.

-FORD Focus standard of all comparisons. A sedan with a 1.4-liter 80-strong engine costs at least 459,000 rubles. True, the base is rich: ABS, front electric windows, two pillows and electric mirrors.

Unfortunately, in the basic version of Polo Sedan for 399,000 rubles, the car, as well as the absolute majority of competitors, has no air conditioner and it is impossible to deliver it. The back of the rear seating in the basic version is not laid out in parts only entirely. There are frontal airbags, all power windows, adjustment of the driver's seat in height, and the steering wheel in departure and height, the electromechanical steering amplifier. Magnetol surcharge 8 000 rubles.

In the complete set of a Comfortline worth 468,000 rubles for a version with mechanics and 512 300, ABS, electrically regulating and heated mirrors appear with an automatic machine, heated the front seats and the rear seat folded in parts. There is no air conditioner and the radio tape recorder, it will be necessary to pay 33,000 and 8,000 rubles for them, respectively. At 4 160 rubles will cost the leather management bodies.

Top equipment Highline worth 534,400 rubles for the mechanics and 578,700 per automaton are rich in 15-inch alloy wheels and front tums. For 67,000 rubles, you can recruit the package Premium: the stabilization system, the trim of leather controls, climate control, multifuction steering wheel and anti-theft system.

Possible wheel options: 175/70 R14, 185/60 R15 and 195/55 R15.

Thus, the most optimal version of Polo Sedan costs 509,000 (553,300 for a machine with a machine gun) rubles.


Svetlana Aleeva
Photo: carclub.ru and Volkswagen, Evgenia Baghdasarova




 
 

A source: Carclub.ru.