In the previous issue we watched the process of finishing the undercarriage of a Lada Grant". Now let's talk about the improvement of passive safety budget new AVTOVAZ.
All the time I felt a nook while talking with the engineers and the management of the passive safety laboratory of AVTOVAZ while he was watching the Hrant's obsession with the sensors, weighed the sensors, weighed it, tried it on at the end of the broken strip of deformable barrier. I have been told all the time that Grant is a good one even in the basic "Standard", where there is nothing but the car itself, there is a driver's pillow, that none of the competitors for this money has such a safety concern. And I, being a bit out of myself after an emergency fee and an emergency flight to Togliatti, was trying to keep the facts of the car in my head. There's something wrong here. Stop! That's it. Just a few months ago, Anton Chuykin, back with AVTOVAZ with the first material on "Grant", said that there would be no pillow in the basic version, that the car for 220 thousand rubles was calmly loaded into existing norms and without a pillow. Where's the truth?It turns out that the concept has changed slightly over the past time: now the driver's air race will be on all "grants" without exception, rather than starting with an interim "Norms" for 256 thousand. The price of the question has been put on 9,000 rubles, and now the base version will cost 229,000 rubles. It's a modest addition to the price and a giant leap forward. Even considering that the Standard will account for about 15% of the total "grant", 15% of the buyers are removed from the list of fatalists, for which the price is more important than its own safety. Now AVTOVAZ has decided to interfere with their fate-and has earned our deep respect. The current test is a mandatory vehicle certification. Today is the base "Grant" (with a pillow!) at 56 km/h on the deformable barrier with a 40 percent overlap. The Euro NCAP is hit in similar conditions, but at a speed of 8 mph above. Since "Grant" is intended only for the domestic market and the near abroad, the implementation of the norms of the European organization from it is not required by it. Although the result is quite clear: there is no deformation of the passenger compartment, the driver's dummy has been put into the pillows, the minimum movement of the pedals, the instrument panel remains on the spot, the driver's door after the application of some effort (without the use of the tool) has opened. It was a great help for the security of Grant's security that the "Kalina" platform, which is used for it, has been thoroughly studied and is already quite good in this regard. The Mathematical model of deformation of the body was available, but it was only to be optimized to accommodate the new elements of the body and salon, the application of new restraint devices for the development and production of Japanese-German firm Takata-Petri. About the last separate conversation. The machine successfully passed the test even in the simplest version-with one pillow and ordinary inertial belts-85% "grant". The belts with pretension and the second airrun are the pick privilege of the "Luxe". It is this company (more precisely, its European branch) that helped develop the steering wheel, cushions, belts, and electronic control of electronics, ensuring that the technical requirements are met. After all, even the most expensive version of "Lux" with additional functions, where side cushions will be placed, is unlikely to be much more expensive than 350 thousand rubles. The price level and the set of options it receives to date is not competitive. At the same time, Takata-Petri came to the Russian car industry seriously and for a long time: in April 2012 in Ulyanovsk it will launch its own production of the components of the passive safety system, which will be purchased by GAZ, "Sollers", "Reno", "Volkswagen", "Nissan" ...In the doorway now completely new bars-made from a special profile, in exchange for "Kalina". "Grant" is also preparing to go to the international level-at least in terms of security. For example, the project already contains elements for the protection of pedestrians. It is true that they were mostly taken out in the budget sedan from the future modernized Kalina, the calculated and external markets. With it, Grant's will have common, for example, hood and wings, moved to a safer place of the bonnet, the thickness of the lining covering the mechanisms of the caretakers has been reduced, the valet of the wings has been changed. And it will be on every Grant!Impact of the deformable barrier with a 40% overlap. Speed, 56 miles an hour. I respect the current AVTOVAZ and the people who work there more and more. The resulting tables are opened in the full size of the click: