ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
Premonition of good
The report on this test deals only with how the Chance moves with a new motor paired with an automatic transmission. See the stories about the “on the handle” model (there are several of them on our website) for details about the body, suspension, and interior, since there are practically no differences between the previous and last modifications in these components. The most notable innovation is a different form of taillight block.
What could be expected? ZAZ experts said: engines assembled with boxes in Zaporozhye are brought from the General Motors Korea plant. That sounds almost like a guarantee that the owner of the "Chance" -automaton will receive "at the exit" from the motor what is stated in those. performance, i.e. 101 hp For an apparatus with a curb weight of less than 1200 kg of such power - for the eyes.
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
Switching from neutral to “drive” went without clicking and poking. The lever "came" to the desired position with a natural movement of the hand. Not only the driver who has already worked with the “automatic”, but also the beginner will get used to getting in without looking, it will be simple.
There is no indication of the selected gear on the dashboard, but perhaps, as we were told, it will appear at the beginning of the launch of the model on the conveyor. It is more convenient with her, no doubt, however, you can do without it. This is because the machine is included in the “budget” price group and it is probably not worth it to overload it with driver comfort devices that cost money.
In the city, without "traffic jams"
Possibilities of sea trials limited the conditions of the route. "Test site" (as it is called) - sounds like flattery: a road, a kilometer and a half round-trip in the factory, with a railway crossing, past the entrance gate … However, our car is purely urban, so simulate "its" conditions there are opportunities.
The first lap of the route is in “urban mode without traffic jams”.
I pressed the gas pedal, the “automatic” a little thoughtful, and the car confidently (without reservations, like, “quite”) rolled, adequately reacted to podgazovka after braking at the intersection of the rail, on the bends of the road. (Along the way: steering is as easy as a true "American" - here is the power steering.)
When accelerating (at a safe distance of 500-600 meters), "Chance" did not give any reason for the inner desire to "fit" the machine. Accelerated tightly, without a hint of failures. Transitions from transmission to transmission took place in the same tone, as if there were no disconnections.
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
At rush hour
In the “cork” conditions stop & go “Zaporozhets” is diligent. “From scratch” it starts off gently, without the threat of “catching up” with the close bumper in front of the traveling car. But it also “breaks out” into the lumen when you want to occupy it as soon as possible.
Simulation of drag racing (very approximate). The manufacturer indicates in the characteristics of the machine: acceleration to 100 km / h - 12, 3 s, maximum speed - 170 km / h. Neither one nor the other allowed the track to check. But you can simulate what sometimes a city driver does. For example, “start from a traffic light”.
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
The load is approximately 170 kg (two in the cabin). Pedal to the floor - the car stubbornly gained momentum. In Kick-Down mode, at about 5000 rpm, the speedometer needle passed the “80” mark … And we had to slow down - we will assume we ran into the next “red” traffic light.
In the situation of “risky overtaking”, the expected thing happened: after Kick-Down, a short pause, leaving the box two steps down - a swift pickup.
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
Fully loaded
With five riders in the cabin (total weight - over 400 kg), acceleration from a standstill, of course, weakened, but the motor not only “did not howl from exertion”, but by sound (in the cabin) and agility showed good physical condition. I can’t name the indicators from the tidy, because in this race I acted as a ballast on the back of the couch, and the driver only said: “Why are the numbers - everything feels clear to me!”
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
Comments of passengers from the sofa (all three are tall and broad-shouldered). It’s a bit crowded, but if it’s around the city, if it’s not long and long, it’s quite tolerable. In the long haul you get tired of "unbearable". The extreme ones had to slightly bend their heads to the center - the curvature line of the ceiling, curving from the "walls", forced. If you were driving together alone, you would not have to bow your head - the height is normal. Comments of passengers from the sofa (all three are tall and broad-shouldered). It’s a bit crowded, but if it’s around the city, if it’s not long and long, it’s quite tolerable. In the long haul you get tired of "unbearable". The extreme ones had to slightly bend their heads to the center - the curvature line of the ceiling, curving from the "walls", forced. If you were driving together alone, you would not have to bow your head - the height is normal.
That riding program and limited. Only two “Chances” with “assault rifles” (only one of them in the back of the T-150, in which the car will be exported to Russia) were prepared for the ZAZ test, and there were several dozens of colleagues who wanted to test the car. But Qingroup, the official distributor of ZAZ in the Russian Federation, promised that in October the editorial board of ZR. RU would be the first Russian media to receive Chance for a full test. We will not delay the report on its results.
Technical regulations - against smokers
What can not but be told - the occasion gave a characteristic episode of our tour of the plant. In the pause between moving from building to building, we had a smoke on the street, at the gates of the building. And nowhere to throw out cigarette butts: there are no ballot boxes. But one of the escorts approached each smoker, gathered up “bull-calves”, picked up those that someone had managed to “drop” from the asphalt, and carried them somewhere to throw them away.
It turned out that an exception was made for guests: the entire production area is a non-smoking area. The anti-tobacco law is not someone’s whim, but one of the provisions of the standard of the enterprise, transferred, as part of technological requirements, to ZAZ from the General Motors standards. There is even a line in the staff turnover statistics: those who quit due to a reluctance to comply with the smoking ban.
GM is fundamental to the smallest detail: if you use our technologies, be so kind as to obey them scrupulously.
Chance gruzchiki
There are two things you need to see in this photo. First: in the front, representatives of the profession, the rarest in ZAZ production, are loaders, almost all operations of moving parts are performed by mechanical hands. Here the robots have not yet been installed. And second: pay attention to how clean it is. But this is a stamping production. This is how GM standards work. There are two things you need to see in this photo. First: in the front, representatives of the profession, the rarest in ZAZ production, are loaders, almost all operations of moving parts are performed by mechanical hands. Here the robots have not yet been installed. And second: pay attention to how clean it is. But this is a stamping production. This is how GM standards work.
“We need pennies ourselves”
At the factory, responsible persons for their observance are literally assigned for each square meter, and they monitor the order mercilessly.
Moreover, when the development of the next process, borrowed from GM, takes place, the company’s auditors come to ZAZ and until they verify the in-depth knowledge of the subject of each contractor, they will not sign documents to start the process. Hedgehogs! But here they adopted the rules of the game - they provide a perspective. The factory is aggressively increasing the degree of localization. Say, about 60% of the parts, components and assemblies of the "Chance" are already being manufactured on site. And they want to raise the level of localization to 70%. The explanation is simple: “Why then on our machines would you want to spawn pennies behind the cordon?” Stink to us yourself!”
The line is lining up
Chance with automatic transmission should go on sale in early November, two body options - a sedan and a hatchback. You can buy them from any of 140 dealers in 80 cities in the territory from Kaliningrad to Ulan-Ude. It will be the cheapest car with automatic transmission on our market and the only one in the category of up to 400 thousand rubles.
Options and prices (rub.)
S: sedan - 349, 000; hatchback - 359, 000
Heater, standard door trim.
SE: sedan - 369, 000; hatchback - 379, 000
Heater, standard door trim, power steering, driver airbag, power windows on the front doors.
SX: sedan - 389, 000; hatchback - 399, 000
Air conditioning, power steering, central locking for door locks, driver airbag, power windows for the front doors, tachometer, fog lights.
The beginning of acceptance of preliminary applications is scheduled for October, when the assembly of the car will be arranged on the conveyor. However, according to Qingroup employees, many dealers have already formed and applications for the first installment - buyers made an advance payment.
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
Already gone counterfeit
Up to now, Ukrainian cars have not been stagnated by Russian sellers: in the several years since the start of ZAZ sales in the Russian Federation, about 200 thousand were sold. This year another 20 thousand will be sold (this is a quarter of the output), twice as much is expected in the next - 40 thousand units.
A bold growth forecast seems realistic. The buyer will appreciate that the “Chance” is given a 4-year warranty or 120, 000 kilometers. It is sold by all dealers, including on their service stations (equipped according to ZAZ standards, which, in turn, comply with GM standards). To the topic: the car factory supplies spare parts not only to dealers, but also to spare parts stores. However, owners are advised to less often visit them: counterfeit has already gone.
101 "horse" - it will be too much
To the question ZR. RU about operating costs for the owners of "Chances" deputy. Qingroup CEO Alexander Gnezdyuk called a figure: they are a quarter lower than for owners of comparable cars.
Another answer to the question of costs. Do they know at the car factory that in Russia the amount of tax on vehicles with an engine capacity of over one hundred “horses” is decently higher than “up to one hundred”? Yes, Alexander Gnezdyuk answered, it was brought to the manufacturer, and he and GM are already considering the possibility of reducing the engine power to 99 hp. But this is not a long thing, you have to wait.
In addition, Qingroup launched a loan program involving the purchase of a car without a mandatory down payment, with moderate interest on the loan. Authoritative financial partners - Sberbank, Gazprombank and the like in terms of reliability.
But the determining factor of attractiveness is not in sales technologies, but in the fact that Chance is worth the money for which it is sold. It feels like the car is pleasant to use, the owner and he feels equal in the automobile stream among equals, not lower. And finally, let’s stop associating Ukrainian cars with “humpbacked” or “eared” Zaporozhets. ZAZ is a European-level enterprise, its products are modern machines
ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission
At the assembly, the principle of the placement of women workers is well-known: they are where scrupulousness and tirelessness are required. At the assembly, the principle of the placement of women workers is well-known: they are where scrupulousness and tirelessness are required.
To avoid readers ’reaction, such as“all is too good to be true”, I’ll inform you that in his value judgments the author (whom no one has yet suspected of complacency) is not alone. Roughly the same thing was said by automobile journalists who attended the premiere test of the "Chance" -automaton. General conclusion: "The machine gives a little more than you expect to receive."
