We have autumn, and therefore in a month - two will be the right time to buy a car because the price begins to fall a little closer to winter (because demand is falling) - it is a kind of axiom of the market. Therefore, I decided to make a selection of cars up to 120 usd on the machine, and you have been asking me about it for a long time. We already had cars up to 3800 USD, as well as parquet flooring - SUVs up to 11000 - 12000 usd, read interesting sets turned out. And now I think the most popular amount.
Again, I would like to make a mistake, we will take cars for a maximum of 10 years. And it is necessary to understand some models already enough used. That is, they may have to be invested a little bit. However, if you take them from under the first - second owner, they will not bring you any global problems.
We limit the choice
- As usual, at the beginning I want to limit the scope of the choice, because there are a lot of things to choose from, even from the premium segment:
- Class C cars. You know, I don't want to take the so-called "folk cars", that's what I'm saying about Solaris - RIO - POLO and other representatives of class "B". Maybe I will write a separate article about them. Let's try to choose a car of a class a little bit more, that is, "C", but it is not necessary to look at "D", because for 7700 it will be already firewood, they just will not fit into our budget and year.
- We will not take our cars. Nevertheless, we choose a foreign car, not a KALINA - PRIORU - WESTU.
- No China. Used Chinese car, and even if it is for 5 - 7 years (closer to 10), it is not what we are looking for. YES, and those years Chinese cars rotted pretty fast.
- I won't take the French. Nothing personal, but I just don't like them, they are often problematic (especially the pendant) and lose value they are decent.
- We don't take the right wheel into account. Again, nothing personal, somewhere in the far east of these cars in bulk and everyone rides them, but we have very few of them and to find a normal, you have to try or drive it directly from Vladik.
- No turbines. For an understandable reason, a car in 5 - 10 years with a turbine, it's an additional hemorrhoids.
- Normal automatic transmission. Again, no robots, variators. Only a good old tried-and-tested torque converter.
Well, the selection criteria have been set, we can move on to the "TOPU" itself, we start from the last place, and at the very bottom, there will be the first one.
NISSAN TIIDA - 11th place
We need to see the C11 generation (possibly Reistaling). Our 7700 range includes cars from 2010 to 2012.
Engine is 1.6 liters (110 hp), standard and reliable automatic machine for 4 gears. One of my acquaintances had such a car, it was very strong, inside it was soft plastic, huge interior, excellent noise insulation. There were two types of sedan and hatchback bodies. But there is one problem - this foreign car is terrible on the outside! Straight here is a scary - square - elongated, etc. If your appearance is not important, but you need a means of delivery to work - "Archana", which will not do "your brain". It is possible to consider it. If appearance is important it is not your option.
CHEVROLET CRUZE - OPEL ASTRA - 10th place
Why are there two cars here at once? Yes, it is simple, because they are almost the same made by the same concern and use the same platform, box motors and so on.
Chevrolet Cruze (it will be the first generation), you can take the production of 2010 - 2012. There are two engines here, 1.6 (109 hp) and 1.8 (141 hp), paired with a six-speed automatic rifle. The 6T40 automatic transmission, which is not the most outstanding box (there were jambs on it), mostly lacks cooling. Install an additional radiator and everything will be fine. With the engine of 1.6 liters - the car is sluggish, it is better to take from 1.8 liters.
OPEL ASTRA generation J can also be taken in 2010 - 2012.
The engine 1.6 (115) is essentially the same unit, but with a little bit of other firmware. And here is 1.4 (140 hp) - do not take it, again Turbo and again we agreed not to take them into account in our TOP. The automatic transmission is still the same, and the same problems as CRUZ
TOYOTA COROLLA - 9th place
We will consider the X generation, the year 2009 - 2010.
First of all, I do not consider TOYOTA to be the peak of the evolution of the automotive industry (an ordinary car that does not cause emotions, nothing supernatural).
Secondly, the 9th place is only because of the fact that 7700 usd is a tight spot because of its overvaluation in the market. It is possible to search, but VERY difficult, a lot of beating and other slag, for this car it is necessary at least 8500.
On the technical part - the engine is 1.6 (124 hp), automatic transmission of 4 stages.
To be continued in next part https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5d934fbd8d5b5f00b14d5a38/foreign-car-up-to-500-000-part-2-5d94958534808200b112effe