this video was translated by parallangs.com hi! my name is igor burtsev and i do test drives for you here on my youtube channel today we are testing what the official avtovaz website refers to as “crossover†called xray i reckon for avtovaz “crossover†sounds cooler than say a regular "sedan" and that’s why they called it that anyway, when i was going to replace lada vesta for lada xray for testing i had a gut feeling that i am boosting the status and not otherwise and what kind of status ‘dropping’ we could possibly talk here about if this car costs 75 thousand rubles more than lada vesta in its minimal package and 45 thousand rubles more expensive than the maximum package of vesta therefore, when you see this vehicle for the first time after its presentation at the moscow car show... ...where steve mattin presented a fabulous and resourceful three-door concept, it’s truly shocking to see such a small vehicle for this kind of money
it’s clear that xray is based on b0 platform and the blood brother of this car is renault sandero, with a difference of just 3 mm in wheelbase but there is also vesta, which has a 41 mm longer wheelbase with a lower price tag there is also renault duster with a wheelbase of 81 mm longer and you get a good automatic gearbox and even all-wheel drive for roughly the same money something lada xray will never have that’s why dealers in showrooms will have to be inventive while convincing you to buy xray over sandero, vesta or duster what the dealer will have listed as benefits is the bright design of lada xray it is clearly more staring and catchy than renault sandero it has more design because steve mattin is more of a designer than those unknown guys who worked on the looks of stepway
we have x-shaped front just like vesta, we have x’s on the sides – the so called “joy of the tin smith†– just like on vesta, which raises a legitimate question: why people call this car xray and crossover and not simply vesta hatchback? if xray had these plastic ribs on its sides it would at least remind of a crossover and this way, apart from 190 mm under the belly and this x on the nameplate i cannot spot any crossover features on it i see this light assembly with steve mattin’s signature stroke you see this and you immediately know that steve was here. this looks like a droplet of volvo i am only confused by a halogen lamp in this ‘droplet’, which is a bit outdated by now the trunk opens with a button and it looks rather tiny. it has 361 liters of useful capacity. it is somewhat narrow, somewhat black it is 120 liters less of useful capacity than lada vesta. for some reason they decided to make this double bottom
it does not clamp in its upmost position, though, and gives you access to another compartment with a full-size spare wheel yes, if you have luggage and you decided to dive for the spare, it would be rather problematic to place the floor back in its place there are quite a few lifting eyes, i reckon it should be convenient like that and check this out, this plastic plate is peeled from the body. look at the size of the crack here it wobbles back and forth. looks like i could use some chinese glue to lock it firmly in place it seems to be not a big deal but it’s rather unpleasant, because the car is not cheap the rear seats of lada xray clearly demonstrate the compact size of the car my height is around 190 cm (6 ft 3 in), the front seat is positioned as though i sit behind myself and i have the back of the seat on my laps here no gap whatsoever here. if we put a third passenger of my size here, he would hardly fit in here
there is a small transmission tunnel, however this car does not feature all-wheel drive the seats are very renault-like. the ones in vesta are more shaped, textured and cool. here they are more simplistic, roundly and puffy however the sofa itself is more comfortable than in lada vesta at least the cushion seems to be long and my legs seem to lie on it and we got this x-shaped texture on the upholstery everywhere here in the front we got the same x lettering on the textile and the same desire to turn me into a gymnast i.e. i place myself into this seat and i cannot adjust the lumbar support and the seat is c shaped like this. and i will have to travel like this all the time another inconvenience in that the steering wheel from vesta, which lacks all the right buttons, is only height adjustable
and the adjusting range is very narrow i would want to force it down but i can only get it up from here and there is no length adjustment of the rudder in lada xray just remember, our car here costs around 700 thousand rubles in this package the instrument panel is very renault-like and pitch black in order to see the numbers you need to keep the city beams on. that puts the lights up and it becomes visible in the right corner we have an extra bright blue (for some reason) display of the onboard computer sifting through the screens of the computer is logical unlike in vesta as you understand here we have the same screen as in renault, where here it says lada
we have the same inept button volume controls here: plus and minus. thank god we have volume controls on the wheel and also here we have some challenged decision: glossy piano enamel around the multimedia system and this awkward nameplate i can understand the shocking reaction of bo anderson when he first saw it well, in fact it would be an empty space if there was nothing here, but placing something like three icons here as a standard option of course, there may be tolerance or something involved here this thing here is a big cover plug. look, it’s black and flexible this here is a weird pocket that is good for nothing. everything falls from it. a blank button, a lighter, a small cup holder the parking radar’s switch is here. btw i would accept this solution, unlike the decision to place the seat heaters’ buttons here it’s very renault-like. my driver’s seat heater button is located like this one here but on the opposite side
everybody’s got the same reaction to this vehicle. everybody is like: “i thought it was bigger!†because the producer’s imagery is very shrewd and it looks like a big crossover, although with small wheels. and in real life it’s a tiny goody-goody hatchback not much space here. everything is pressing on you, hanging over you. this massive black panel made of tough, woody plastic in vesta it is also woody but it looks kind of ok, you are less worried about it there guys had to get x into the name of the car somehow. and russian language is somewhat obscene when it comes to words starting with x so x-rays came somewhat handy. it’s a great and loud name. so, why in the world it was given to this tiny hatchback is unclear to me they should have waited and built a good powerful crossover and called it xray honestly, this car is just a mere hatchback. a regular, city hatchback. quite a modest one, i would say clearance of 190 mm? yes, it’s good. however, if you look underneath lada vesta, the things are rather good there
and i drove it across our winter roads without hesitation. you can turn the esp off in it i was creeping up a slippery slope; i thought i would never make it but i crept up largely thanks to the fact that you can skid your way out. you can switch off the esp and rotate the wheels all you want but in stepway… oh, my god… a freudian slip, but xray will not let you shut off the esp it will start choking the engine down to 3,500 rpm. until this moment you will be able to handle the situation but then that’s it! the car will not move anywhere renault sandero stepway unlike regular sandero features what they call an adventure kit it looks like a lego set – plastic for kids – that was glued to a car. peel them off, and you end up with a regular hatchback xray does not have even that. one nameplate on the back simply does not cut it! lada xray drives in a different way. when i say different, i mean different than its blood-brother sandero and lada vesta
i drove vesta just before xray and my first thought was: wow, what a heavy steering wheel second thought: wow, what a bad reaction to cornering this car has vs. vesta vesta’s got a lively and brisk character. the steering is lighter, more synthetic, toylike, but you find a common language with it easily and you start feeling the car from the front to the back. it’s cool. and the handling at high speeds in vesta is good: you set the direction and go but in xray i don’t even have a desire to drive at such speeds, because handing here is like through a layer of rubber sandero has got a better pace than xray to my taste here we have a different driving character due to different shock absorbers it’s got something from logan and sandero but at the same time the rear suspension jumps here over bumps it jumps and flaps, which makes the sound image of driving over bumpy roads not purely renault-like
it’s got some of ours cheapening additives after vesta the suspension seems to be tougher, stiff on bumps, less energetic, which is surprising vesta’s ride is like a logan that is pacing on tiptoes and tries to tread like that on tiptoes xray gives you a sense of heaviness, some sort of monolithic feeling we have millions and billions of bumps on the roads. good to any taste. we’ve got roads from hell so, on bumps and pits i hear some squeaking from the door panel areas when i touch the doors and feel these small inserts with seams that start to wobble and squeak when i push them, it does not make me happy at all i would rather have door panels that look more austere but without any noise whatsoever
how is lada xray better than sandero? by design. the exterior design here is brighter and more contemporary. steve mattin rules another upside of xray versus sandero, for instance, is the right placement of the multimedia display it’s the same screen, with the same inconvenient music volume controls. but it’s more convenient to use the rear view camera like this because, unlike renault duster, you can actually see it in duster you sort of don’t have it. you shift into r and need to kneel down here to view the screen it is by far easier to park by the mirrors in duster unlike vesta, xray is warmer. here we actually feel the renault heritage vesta is a surprisingly cold vehicle. it takes terribly long to start this whole heating system the heating on renault works better
xray has a better deal with engines than sandero. it has better more powerful engines it can offer 1.8 liter engine with 122 hp, something lada vesta does not have and if we consider the figures claimed by the manufacturer, it is a half-second or a second faster than sandero and lada vesta two engines with 1.6 liter engines are not much different the difference is that one is avtovaz engine with 106 hp, same as the one placed on lada vesta and the other one is french with 110 hp, just like the one we have under the hood now the difference on startup dynamics is within tenths of a second. for a car of this class this kind of difference does not really matter i mean, when we are talking about acceleration to 100 km/h over 10 seconds. however, it is faster than vesta even with an engine of 106 hp sandero throttles to 100 km/h 4 tenths of a second faster than vesta with the same engine and with same gearbox
price, price, this is the real problem of xray. weird pricing policy. 589 thousand rubles ($8.3k) minimal price, 723 thousand rubles ($10.2k) maximum price this kind of price range we are talking about. this particular car costs 700k rubles it features manual gearbox, 110 hp engine and not with all the available options that i could have in similar vesta the same 700k rubles would buy me, for instance, renault sandero with automatic gearbox, or add just 30k and i would have duster with all-wheel drive overall the car is good. if you consider it outside of everything xray looks good if there was no sandero or vesta, xray would be a really good buy. and probably you could ask 600-700k for it but we have all these cars. and a person making a decision to buy has all these options inside his head people who approached us were all saying one and the same thing. the car is nice overall if only it had a price tag of around 500k for me, xray is a sort of taste booster of lada vesta. it makes the success of lada designer team and steve mattin’s success really stand out
i am not quite sure i’d understand the motivation of a person who would prefer xray to vesta, while choosing between the two it would be a statement like: “i want a lada hatchback by steve mattin. period" subtitled by parallangs.com – we translate videos
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