Thread: Pregled: Vauxhall Adam Slam 1.4 i

Style-led city car gets revised, UK-specific steering tune to correct its nedostaci. When we first drove the new Opel Adam, due in UK showrooms next March, we werent happy. The ride seemed lumpy and the engine thrashy and old-tech, but the big mismatch was between electric power steering that seemed at once ponderous and unpredictable, and a sporting ride quality (our Slam-spec test car was on sports suspension and 18-inčni kotači) that surely demanded oštre dlake, intuitive steering. However, Opel-Opel is fast developing a tradition for retuning the electric power assistance of its cars for the UK market (its biggest in Europe). And following our adverse reaction and others, this is what it firmly decided to do. In cooperation with Opel chassis engineers, Opel chassis guru Gerry Baker conducted some wide-ranging tests to set the car up in a way that would please local customers. The setting was signed off weeks ago on some pretty and narrow badly surfaced roads around Vauxhalls Millbrook proving ground, and Autocar was allowed to try it.