Test drive Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo: do not drive, and I will make it!

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Test drive Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo: do not drive, and I will make it!Photo: Avtosklad Skoda Rapid has become such a popular model that it gladly exploit even the taxi drivers.What to do if the car is good but you have to look in the eyes of others “fish is” do not want? There is a solution. SkodaRapidAlexey Batushenko

Skoda Rapid — a typical representative of the class of budget cars. So typical that, as in the case of Renault Logan, Hyundai Solaris and VW Polo at first glance, this car comes to mind only one thought: “taxi driver”. Especially if the color of the machine white or yellow. It turns out that a decent man now behind the wheel of the vehicle to sit is somehow “not comme Il faut”? Of course, it’s not! But it is better to err. For example, choosing to purchase such a modification is Rapid, which no one taxi can not be confused. It is called Monte Carlo. Note that variations in this style is not one model of the Czech brand.

However, about “where it has gone” is the name in the product line Skoda not going to go deep. We can only say that differences of Monte Carlo configuration from other models-the tribesmen are purely cosmetic. All intelligent, stylish, and “taxi drivers” none of the others have not record. Lining on the side mirrors, rims, grille, bezel fog lamps, spoiler on the edge of the trunk, the lower part of the bumpers painted all black. We got to test the car with a red body (as “winter cherry”!), and because of these reasons above, black parts looked at his background, particularly contrasting and stylish. A kind of “zakos” under RS.

For those outsiders who did not understand what is that car in front of him, provided another hint — the one with the logo “Monte Carlo” on side a-pillar. And the case that we were able to test the machines — and even the roof is painted in black color. Just like the panorama!

In the cabin, the theme of non-standard standard Rapid clearance continues in the same unobtrusive style. The first perceives them, oddly enough, the fifth point of the driver and front passenger. The fact that Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo is equipped with seats with more pronounced lateral support. Speed, as they say, is not affected, but the mood it creates.

Of course, the seat material is implanted fixings red — eyes happy sport notes. Like the red stitching on the steering wheel and the gearshift lever boot. Not without plastic under the carbon fiber on the center console. What is Motorsport without it?!

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At the end of the description cosmetically improved Rapid mention also about the Monte Carlo lettering on door sills. Making “montecarlos” salon Rapid did not change its basic properties. Perfected ergonomics, inherent in all the “Chicks nest volkswagenaa”, will not go away. All that are constantly at hand, secondaries in the background. “Tidy” — readable media “taskinpasa”.

Virtually no fault anything, except, perhaps, one is not fatal but annoying thing — the armrest between the front seats. Thing is, of course, useful, but here it is done so that every time you need to fasten the seat belt armrest have to be up. Otherwise, to reach the seat belt buckle is practically impossible. A trifle, Yes. But annoying when boarding the car.

On the go Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo also did not sport a revelation, but pleased the “volkswagenwerk” habits steering and suspension. On the racetrack, of course, it will not stick, but 125 “horses” is paired with “robot” DSG provide more than enough for daily city driving dynamics.

If, for example, to drive in sport mode KP, it seems, will often have to change tires on the front wheels. When starting at the traffic lights in the style of “pedal to the floor” to actively drive wheels are slipping so that ESP does not help. In fact, sportregion have DSG in tandem with this engine — thing is not particularly in demand. In normal “drive” 125 “horses” is quite enough for dynamic driving. Judging by the catalogue number performance characteristics, nine seconds “to a hundred” especially to impress should not, but in practice it’s more than that.

Czechs offer four options sportivnogo Rapid — with different engines and transmission. All the other points of the equipment in the liftbek — identical. Depending on the engine/box, the cost of Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo varies from virtually any 879,000 per car with a 1.6-liter naturally aspirated MPI 90 HP manual transmission-5 to 1 022 000 for the 1.4-litre TSI 125 PS c seven-step “robot” DSG.

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