Overview of the Lade "Grant" with an automatic transmission, based on personal experience. The article discusses specifications, exterior, car interior and test drive results.

On August 24, 2011, the public was first represented by Lada Grant with an automatic transmission at the InterTuto exhibition. Official sales started on September 14, 2012.

Exterior car

The appearance of the Lada "Grant" is pleasantly happy. All proportionally, the overall circuit of the car is harmoniously combined with the trunk line and smoothed bumpers. The front wings of the car create a volume-streaming shape, neat racks emphasize a significant glazing area.

Manufacturers offer a choice of 13 body color solutions: from the color "white cloud" to "Panthers". Bumper, outdoor handles and mirrors are sustained in a single colors with a body. Frames of doors are decorated in black. Door moldings are provided not in all configurations, but they can be installed with their own hands. Wheel discs - cast, installed on 14 "and 15".

Among AvtoVAZ cars, Grant has significant advantages on aesthetic design. On the video in the World Wide Web, you can read in detail the external design of "grants".

Technical characteristics of the machine

Lada "Grant" with a machine gun is currently represented by a gasoline power plant with a working capacity of 1.6 liters equipped with a distributed fuel injection with electronic control, manufactured in accordance with the norms of the European Standard. The engine is equipped with 8 valves, a bit noisy, but quite economical and frisky. Even after significant distances, do not smoke and "not eating" oil. In the cold, up to minus 45 ° C, start without problems, the main thing is to pre-warm and have patience: even if you do everything correctly, the engine can blame. How many times have to start, depends on the temperature conditions (the practice shows that not more than 7 times). In the harsh climatic conditions, it is better to use a tank battery with a high launcher. But sometimes the repair of the motor and in the summer (though it is an exception to the rules).

The machine has a 4-speed "Automatic" Jatco, manufactured in Fuji (Japan). It should be noted that Lada "Granta" is the first car "AvtoVAZ" on which the "Box machine" is installed serially. The choice of a four-stage box with a torque converter is not accidental:

• First, it fits perfectly in size;
• Secondly, to properly adapt the box, in accordance with the factory plans, it turned out in the shortest possible time;
• Third, the project price.

But, despite this, to adjust the interaction of the automatic box with the engine to employees of the enterprise and their colleagues from abroad, a lot had to work hard and the cost of financial resources.

The car, according to the results of the work carried out, in addition to the new calibrations, was equipped with new nodes, and also undergo significant design changes that are now used on the "grant". For example, now the most powerful radiator cooling radiator, with an integrated oil cooler. Now you can use the air conditioning in all Lada Grant cars with a machine gun where such a type of radiator is installed. The car now has a more stringent spring system in front of the suspension, because the bundle of the "engine" has become a weighty of 33 kilograms. The power unit is now equipped with a littered crankcase, the pallet is now attached directly to the torque converter. It was also replaced to properly use the workpiece.

Specialists led to their constructive changes to the reduction of the road lumen by 2 centimeters, compared with a sedan equipped with a manual box.

Use the automatic box installed in the "Grant" is a pleasure:

• transfer is moving back spore and gently;
• excessive thoughtfulness is not seen;
• sharp accelerations are not knocked down her pole;
• and, probably, one of the main, does not jerk a box-machine.

The absence of a manual or sports mode does not deprive the dynamic sedan, and the absence of torment during the inclusion of the first or rear velocity makes you forget about all the shortcomings of the manual box.

From some owners, it is possible to hear that when the gas pedal is pressed in position D, this effect is created as on the mechanics: the grip drops, and after the jerk, the car moves as usual. They sin on the "automatic", but the main reason is a dirty box, the valve simply do not have time to pump oil. This repair is better to do in the workshop, although with certain skills you can make repair with your own hands - clean the box, so you will save strength and time. After that, it is necessary to change the oil.

Project executives generally adhere to the position that the repair of an automatic box can only make specially trained masters in dealership centers. But due to the inability to prepare a large state (Lada has more than 450 official offices) "Avtomat" during breakdown will change.

Interior of Lada "Grant"

The salon is very practical, but not devoid of creativity. So I want to touch the steering wheel: smooth and comfortable lines attract. It also has a safety pillow.

There are no tissue upholstery in the lounge of the cabin, so Lada "Grant" will not need to be regularly cleaning (the fabric on the doors, as a rule, is constantly crashed, and the surface does not always turn out to cleaned the surface). The torpedo is made in the classic style of Renault Logan. Use a traveling machine is very convenient - a large number of things will fit in the trunk of 500 liters.

For Lada Grant, an original design was developed on its own on its own, the instrument shield includes two round speedometer scales and a tachometer, a sidecomperscript screen and a pleasant green backlight.

On video with a test drive, you can see all this. You can warm the salon, as before, with the same control unit. The price of "grants" with an automatic box is reduced by refusing a temperature pointer to the panel.

Test Drive Lada "Grant" with a box

As before any launch, for the proper operation of the car, before starting it is necessary to check the oil in the engine, and more precisely its level, after which to warm the car.

According to the test drive, with which you can find on the video, Lada "Grant" showed itself quite well:

• Fuel consumption is fully fitted in the declared 7.8 liters per 100 kilometers;
• On the country track, at a speed of 100 km / h, turns do not exceed three thousand;
• Motor has good acceleration, on "Nizakh" - pulls very decently;
• Soft suspension, chassis design compensates for all shocks;
• The electric power steering makes it easy to maneuver on small sites;
• The brakes react even on the slightest touch, but the drift is not felt;
• A large rearview mirror, in comparison with Samara, significantly increases visibility;
• In the snowdrifts, the car drops, but despite this, rides.

Salon Lada "Grant" is noisy, the trunk is easily opened with the buttons, but sometimes closed from the first time. With a sharp turn, the glove box can open. The synchronizers of the box lacks - switching between speeds occurs after a small pause, which can play a dick joke on a slippery road, caused by the drift. And where is the guarantee that this will not entail body repair.

The reliability and life of the suspension depends directly from the style of driving and roadbed. Someone the repair will be required after 4 thousand, and someone calmly drives up to 40 thousand.

The appearance in the model range of AvtoVAZ is rich in the modification of the sedan pleases not only by its presence, but also functional characteristics.