Many wanted to get to know this car better, including journalists who wanted to quickly drive the new Russian car market. As practice shows, on medium distance trips all the qualities of the car either justify themselves or refute. Therefore, we decided to go to St. Petersburg straight from Moscow.Cost Kia Rio 2011 – 609 900 rubles, car with basic configuration, motor 1.4, manual transmission costs about 460,000 rubles.
2 gasoline engines are offered, the first – 1.4 with 107 horses (135 nm at 5000 rpm.6 with 123 horses and a torque of 155 nm at 4200 revolutions/minute. Both motors can be with a 4-speed automatic transmission or 6-speed manual transmission. Acceleration to 100 km with a manual transmission and the first engine – 11.5 seconds, with the second – 10.3 seconds. With automatic transmission – 13.5 seconds and 11.2 seconds, respectively.
The stove in the car is powerful, the interior warmed up quickly enough, and the temperature was needed in the future was maintained by climate control control. In addition, there are 2-mode heating the front seats, air ducts to the rear seats, heating in the so-called “recreation area” of wipers and blowing windshields. If you, for example, will take your child to school in the morning, he will not complain about the refrigerator in the rear of the car.
Managing music is simple and clear. Adjust the volume, move to the next tracks or radio stations using switches on the steering wheel. The sound quality is good, there are 6 speakers in the cabin, near the cigarette lighter there are additional connectors for US, iPod and AUX, and a socket. Music can be listened to both the USB drive (flash drives) and disc.
On the left armrest there are buttons of windows, adjusting the mirrors and locking windows and doors. The right motionless armrest, alas, is located far from behind, therefore, you can only rely on it when you need to take something in a way. There are two cup holders in front of the armrests.
The luggage compartment of the car with a volume of 500 dithers, which is normal for a downy or 46 liters more than that of Hyundai Solaris. Car wheels – R15, on alloy disks, but they are very similar to caps. Okay, when, on the contrary, the caps are like disks, and so strange. On the mirrors there are repeators of turns, foglights are made in an intricate form. Car length – 4370 mm, width – 1700 mm, height – 1470 mm. Minimum road clearance – 160 mm.
Noise insulation is good, the motor is almost not heard. But “smell -insulation” is not very. Smoke of trucks on the Moscow Ring Road quickly penetrated the salon, and fogged into the glass in recirculation mode. Tank holds 43 liters. There is an eco -mode in cars that can be used. A green indicator on the panel is responsible for it. The lower back can get through the road, but if you twitch the handles and set up the seats, the pain disappears and the trip turns into pleasure.
During overtaking, the car begins to buzz, but it copes well with acceleration. The suspension is elastic, small irregularities are clinking comfortably. If you let the steering wheel a little, the car will pull the right a little, you need to check the wheel balance so that this is not. Very high -quality disc brakes on all wheels.
On the road I had to check and light. The near light perfectly illuminates the dark sections of the highway, and if you turn on the fog, then they illuminate all the way from three rows in its entire width. There is a headlight regulator in the cabin (above/below). Did not use the high light, since there was no need for this. The route from Moscow to St. Petersburg at 707 km on this car was passed in 10 hours. Average computer consumption – 6.7 liters per 100 km. The trip was comfortable as for me.