The Hyundai i10 is produced in India and has been thoroughly revised. How to beat
the new city flea compared identical with the Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo
Peugeot 107?
Of two of the best new cars in Germany, the new Hyundai i10 and, well, arrivierten Peugeot 107, expect anything but top performance with comfort and safety, because certainly the pen of the calculators was as red as their colour.
Thin sheet, simply built chassis allow no automotive excellence. So it spans before the back muscles ever for the hardest of all convenience checks: the drive with full loading. But you, the Peugeot 107 is it not, to confirm the prejudices. Sure stones scheppern cheerfully in its little-clad wheel houses, but how he wegsteckt also the hardest blows without knock on the attacks of his feathers, is worth all French comfort honorary.
A look back shows that the faces in the rear signal no larger malaise. The Hyundai i10 which in turn is different from the Peugeot 107. The Hyundai i10 rolls with amazing confidence and quiet on the highway, but trying the torture track shakes by its passengers as a unwuchtiger kitchen mixer - common class standard just.
This Hyundai has come up quite a bit with for its smallest offspring, which rather type to a higher class. The compliant designed Innenraumchen of Hyundai i10 is well dressed and with a breezy in the amount of space.
The controls sit at the right place and are handy. If you would like to dock its mobile music player, is an exemplary good-to-reach interface directly in front of the gear lever. The instruments are easily visible (up to the blue lights need of getting used), and who would like to control the oil or the windscreen washer fluid refilling, supported exemplary of the Hyundai i10 under the hood.
As the somewhat aging Peugeot 107 (closely related to Toyota Aygo and Citroen C1) can not keep up. Freely painted sheet metal on the doors and unpainted on the inside is the inmates the hood contrary to, the plastic feels like children's toys from the one euro market, and radio as oil dipstick require patience to operate.
Also wild frayed plastic parts are unforgivable in this class in the trunk - which tiny with 130 litres as compared to the 225 of Hyundai i10. Also, 107 small metal hook just wait on the side of the sheet metal of the rear seats in the Peugeot, brought furniture-cartons.
That can better the Hyundai i10: it is much more spacious, page loading more friendly and equipped with more generous additional shelves as the Peugeot 107. In addition, his 1 Purring 1-liter four hating in revs like in the partial-load range, very mannerly, while the one litre cylinder in the Peugeot 107 cheeky lot trompetet. Not to collect charm points. He storms with his 68 HP and even a little faster to 100 as the Hyundai i10. But unfortunately, you kill the fun at the intermediate sprint to long translations in fourth and fifth gear.
The more important value needs the Hyundai i10 in the fifth over eleven seconds less of 80 to 120 km/h - in practice. Also his steering feels, in turn binding and more precisely within this class, as the rather camembert soft steering of Peugeot 107.
But Oops, what makes the Hyundai i10 because the boundary? Its high structure can shake it like a dinghy in stormy seas. Early his front wheels squeak untersteuernd, he criticizes on fast removal of gas in the curve with rear panning. Driver confidence does not promote this vote but the gruff acting ESP prevents here worse.
Good braking power of two city flitzern
With the Peugeot 107, it drives mature and predictable. A higher-dose electronic security program curb load change reactions. After all, both, given the narrow tyres and brakes brake rear at the proper level to 40 metres from 100 km/h.
In the city, however the handling differences play a much smaller role. Since along with their small Wendekreisen and the small size at the car park Wuseln make more fun than all luxury SUV.
Pity that they shine despite their brevity not through superior clarity. When the laser all round view measurement, they are with values of 24.9 (Hyundai i10) and 27.6 per cent (Peugeot 107) cover only in midfield. Safety equipment such as cornering lights and side airbags back does not offer them money and good words, and at the Hyundai i10, Hyundai demands even outrageous 910 euro for ESP. You don't know there because that this
life-saving safety technology then hardly is ordered by the extremely price-sensitive buyers?
There is a CD-radio in series at the Hyundai i10. Nice, but vice versa, such as when the Peugeot 107, it would be better. So has the French while the slightly higher strike price, brought to a similar standard as its Korean competitor, he is a few hundred euros less.
Consumption of five litres are no problem
For this, its oil but would like to be changed all 15,000 instead of 20,000 km as in the Hyundai i10. A small faux pas which he compensates with 869 kg of two hundredweight lighter French with a 0.2 litre lower consumption of the test. If you both use very sparingly, even loose reached five liter values.
But also the Hyundai i10 has to offer even a small advantage: instead of the statutory two years, he offers mobility guarantee three years technical and even 15 years. Thus, with its higher overall comfort, as well as the more substantive operation takes the new victory. But only just - this is a surprise.
