Small battle
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These two super mini cars that are going to struggle in the private market and in the institutional market head first come first to us for a comparative test, who is the list, who is the best and who put a little over NIS 100,000
Kenan Cohen
02/02/2020Amid all the bokeh and bullshit that the local and global automotive market goes through, with the jeeps and crossovers passing a category and leaving scorched earth behind, there is one group that seems to be less affected by this blow - the super mini group. What's the secret? Very simply, while large family and family cars appeal to a very specific area of use, where it is very easy for jeeps to offer superior usability at a similar price to the same, the Super Mini group has a much higher ability to appeal and score to a wider range of customers.
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To the full articleStudents who are looking for a cheap little car, families who need a second car, or adults who no longer need a family car, that the rear seats accommodate a maximum of grandchildren once every few weeks. All of these rank the crossovers in a lower place than the need to fulfill functional and low-cost tasks. They also manage to keep their heads above water thanks to proper sales for vehicle fleets and rental companies, again, two segments where price and capability have higher weight than impression. These two cars, the new Nissan Micra and Hyundai i20, are on this intersection between private customers and car fleets.
The micra is designed and fresh looking, the i20 is more subdued and routine
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
Nissan Micra is the newcomer to this game, even if not new in general. It took her three years to come to us from the Renault-Nissan factory in France where she is manufactured (the outgoing generation came from India). Here too, the engine is 1.0 liter turbocharged and with three cylinders. Here the gearbox is continuous automatically. The price of its basic version is NIS 100,000 (NIS 83,000 per manual) and in the case of the test car with the highest finish level ACENTA Plus is NIS 105,000.
A leap in every aspect of the outgoing generation
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
The Hyundai i20 has almost no need to display, a local bestseller in this generation, sorry, even in this generation. But in contrast to where it mainly sold credibility, mechanical simplicity and sturdy assemblies, it is now in line with the European "standard" - a liter engine, turbocharged, 3-cylinder and dual-clutch automatic-robotic gearbox. For the test, the i20 has stabilized at the SUPREME finish level, which costs NIS 107,000, with the PRESTIGE below NIS 103,000 and the SUPREME plus at NIS 109,000.
A dedicated three-cylinder engine and a 7-speed dual clutch box
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
Business Card
In a world where cars simply clone their looks from generation to generation with traction and evolution here, Nissan Micra flies everything from the drawing board and redesigned without a reminder of the outgoing generation's round look. Despite three years of tenure, she still looks fresh, especially in the red she wore in honor of our test. This design makes it look not only modern, but also larger than the data in the specification. Next to the micra arrival effect, the Hyundai i20 which is a handsome car in itself seems routine, almost anemic.
The cabin has a more comfortable and comfortable passenger compartment
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
Micra's passenger compartment also brings more life and interest to the show when sitting in it. Not only is the overall design much more modern than the i20, it's also the shades and combinations of materials here, the screen, the dashboard, in short - Hyundai is clear that you have chosen to buy a small, efficient car, with a stellar, shiny and fairly basic level of material, except perhaps the steering wheel coating . At the Mikra there is a real attempt to put some atmosphere and style into this choice.
Despite the good equipment, there is not much joy in the i20
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
In terms of fittings, at these finish levels, the two cars show a fine list with both 16-inch alloy rims and 195 195 identical tires in section 55. Daytime running lights with LED, rain sensors and lights, cruise control, dark rear windows. Nissan's multimedia system with connectivity to Apple and Android devices and Hyundai's with the ConnectD system featuring navigation, parking apps, Internet radio and Revers camera. Also the list of advanced safety systems with automatic braking, distance retention warning, correction of deviation from the lane, where the pedestrian and two-wheeler identification is also included.
The advantage of the SM in the wheelbase produces a more spacious rear seat in Hyundai
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
The thing is that, as in the case of external dimensions, when the world of registrars go through the world of metrics, they find that Hyundai may be lowering the performance, but transcending all things. The front spacing is similar in both, the driving position is also easily achieved and the miter offers a slight advantage in the backrest with a faucet that allows for a better angle and a slightly more generous window area for front-facing visibility.
The micra is more limited for those in the back
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
In contrast, the Hyundai rear spacing has a significant advantage, the 253 cm wheel base and 257 cm in the i20 have real meaning instead of the knees and feet, as does the Hyundai head space with 147 cm height Compared to 145 cm in the micra. Both of them will only seat an adult duo here. Micra returns useful points with the trunk. Despite the same volume (300 liters in Macra, 301 in i20) it is of the deeper Japanese. Both have a high threshold of duty.
The trunk cells are the same volume, that of the deeper Micra
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
taking off
Both cars are maneuvering well in the city, their round diameter and the 4-meter end-to-end dimensions make it easy to live with them in the city. They both use three-cylinder engines, though there are differences in refinement levels between the two. While this Hyundai will remind you of this fact only under load in its sound, Micra's is also present in idle. The car is just a constant vibration in standing, I think this is the first time I've quite liked the standing engine bleeding system.
Both load cells have a high loading threshold
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
For all types of disruptions, it was the i20 that had a clear superiority to its absorber capacity, no matter if it was a corrugated, broken road, pits or slits - it was the one that left more of them out of the cell at both the softening level and the noise levels coming in. On the highway neither provides a particularly quiet driving experience, but the i20 is also a little better at isolating wind noise quickly between urban areas.
Mikra presented the least successful suspension calibration for comfort (Photo: Rami Gilboa)
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
In terms of Nissan propulsion units, the engine delivers 100 hp at 5,000 rpm and 14.7 kgs at 2,000 rpm. For Hyundai, the power is the same, but comes in at 4,500 rpm and the torque is higher with 17.5 kgs at 1,500 rpm. The Hyundai's torque advantage and power availability are also reflected on the road due to the choice of equipping the two cars with two purpose gearboxes One - fuel savings, are more or less in two opposite poles. Korean has a quick and sharp dual clutch box, while in Japan a continuous gearbox that keeps the skinny engine from climbing to high rpm when you want performance and while it spins there we wait for the horses To take action.
In the acceleration tests, this is reflected in a more determined jump of the i20 from the scene when up to 100 km / h it opens a gap of like a car between it and the micra. In intermediate accelerations that simulate indirect gaps were smaller, but still in favor of the i20.
Both are not fun to drive, but the i20 does it better than Micra (Photo: Rami Gilboa)
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
On the winding road, these two cars are not designed, incapable and do not provide smiles. Still, the i20 is the better. Despite its slightly longer wheelbase, its coping with direction changes, weight transfers and the better overall sense of agility combined with the dual clutch gearbox have led it to be the one to do that part better. In front of her, the micra had a hard time impressing with a slightly slower response, less precision and when all this was done up then accompanied by a straining engine sound due to the continuous gearbox. Both are forgiving even if they exaggerate their driving pace, calibrating the chassis and suspensions preferred by Korean has led her to exhibit a higher level of patience for driving errors such as frightened face braking or excessive steering wheel corrections. By the way, braking, despite the use of rear drum brakes in the micra, there is no gap in the braking abilities of the two.
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
During the test day, we performed two fuel consumption tests, one at the end of a demanding driving segment and the other at calm driving that more closely simulates the likely use of cars. Both had a consistent advantage for the Hyundai. In the first measurement, the mine achieved 10.7 km per liter and the i20 recorded 11.6 km per liter. In the second segment, 16.9 km per liter was recorded and the i20 measured 17.8 km per liter.
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)
Summary
The new Nissan Micra is a huge leap compared to the outgoing generation, really that except for the icon on the front and the name behind it has nothing between it and its predecessor, which is great. Compared to the outgoing generation, a worker who will receive it from his workplace can certainly rejoice. The thing is, the space in which she lives is full of other cars, like the one she's facing this test. Now, the Hyundai i20 doesn't excel in the category, in its comparative test against the Seat Ibiza we did a little over a year ago (and not here due to a relevant finish level missing from the demo fleet) it was far less impressive than the Spanish-German in almost every section.
At a price of NIS 107,000 to the i20 at this level and a price of NIS 105,000 per share, the NIS 2,000 gap between the two also largely reflects the goodness gap between the two. It is also understood after a day of driving and comparing these two cars.
In the summaries, with the exception of the exterior, the passenger compartment of the Micra and the cheaper price shows NIS 2,000, in the other sections in which a car is measured, from the spaciousness, performance, behavior to fuel consumption - the Hyundai i20 shows higher scores and also emerges victorious in this confrontation.
On the technical side
Comparative test: Hyundai i20 versus Nissan Micra (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)