TOYOTA AVENSIS TOURER (2003 - TO DATE)丰田avensistourer(2003年至今)
Medium range estate cars have staged something of a comeback in the last few years.中期地产轿车纷纷上演一些在过去几年东山再起. One of the lower key but higher quality offerings is Toyota?s Avensis Tourer.一较高低,但关键是质量冥丰田?avensistourer收盘. Once a rather lightweight and compact estate, the Avensis Tourer completely changed its focus in 2003 when it was relaunched.轻量级一度相当紧凑,地产,avensistourer彻底改变其在2003年时就重新集中. Bigger, better equipped and aimed at a more premium sector of the market, this car took aim at the best in the class.越大,旨在更好、更优质的行业市场这车瞄准最好的班. Cars like the Ford Mondeo estate and the Honda Accord Tourer both had to be on top of their game to fend off the threat from the big Toyota.像福特汽车和本田雅阁蒙迪欧地产tourer双方都必须加上其击退威胁来自游戏大丰田. As a used proposition it?s as close to bullet proof as it?s possible to get.用它作为一个命题?接近收盘防弹它?收盘可能得到.
HISTORY历史
The 2003 Avensis Tourer is a fascinating car, reflecting the changes that have hit the estate car middle market.2003年是一个令人神往车avensistourer,反映变化,地产轿车撞上中间市场. This sector was dying on its feet as mini-MPV style vehicles and small 4x4s stole most of its sales.这个部门是它垂死脚迷你小四轮驱动车和巡逻艇风格最偷走了销售. A resurgence in the upper end of the market in the early Noughties saw many manufacturers having to reprofile and relaunch their products.回潮在上月底,市场在年初noughties看到不少厂家不得不reprofile产品和活力. The Avensis Tourer was a case in point.avensistourer的是一个例证. Toyota took the gamble and pitched the Avensis Tourer at the quality end of the medium range estate market, powered by decent 1.8 and 2.0-litre petrol engines.丰田avensis代为tourer的豪赌,定于年底前中期优质地产市场由18马力2.0象样公升汽油引擎. In November 2003, Toyota expanded the range with a clean D-CAT diesel engined version that used a revolutionary catalyst system to lower emissions still further but unfortunately wasn?t offered in Tourer guise.2003年11月丰田扩大清洁范围以四-猫柴油引擎版本,用革命的催化剂体系还有进一步降低排放可惜.其余?tourer为名推出笔. This initially sold alongside the less high-tech D4-D diesel engine that had been introduced to the range a few months earlier.起初这一起卖少高技术的D4-四型柴油机已推出了一系列数月前. A flagship 2.4-litre petrol model also joined the range at the end of 2003.一旗舰2.4公升汽油模型也加入射程在2003年底. A 2.2-litre diesel engine of 148bhp was unveiled in Spring 2005.2.2公升的柴油发动机148bhp揭幕春季2005.
WHAT YOU GET 什么才叫 
It?s no fashion icon, but there is a quality look and feel to the product which, for the first time in a Toyota of this size, will please Mondeo and Vectra customers as well as possibly appealing to a few of the BMW and Audi buyers shopping in the next class up.?收盘没有时装图标,但有一点是对产品的外观质量,对于第一次在本丰田大小请蒙迪欧和vectra以及可能吸引客户数的宝马和奥迪买家在下次购物阶级. The doors thunk shut like a Lexus and it was to their luxury division that Toyota looked to imbue the Avensis interior with a genuinely upmarket feel.车门关闭咚像个凌志、名贵师,这是对自己充满了期待丰田avensis内政部一个真正高档的感觉. It seems to have worked.它似乎奏效. Soft touch plastics, neat metallic finishes and a well appointed cabin make the car feel a class up.触摸软塑料、金属装饰和整洁的车感觉良好舱内任命一类. Indeed, you could put Lexus logos on the thing and, although you might not be that excited by the product, you probably wouldn?t think the badge out of place in terms of quality of engineering.确实,你可以把标识的事,凌志、虽然你可能不兴奋,由产品你大概wouldn?笔徽章认为出在地方工程质量.
With that achieved, it might now be fair for Toyota to expect that some of their more traditionally practical virtues would begin to come into their own.这一成就,现在它可能会公道丰田指望他们更多一些传统美德将开始投入实用自己. So what are these?那么这些呢? Well, since despite the trendy name, this is an estate car, we?d better start at the sharp end.那么,既然尽管时髦的名字,这是地产车,我们呢?四好开始急剧下场. Hearing that this latest generation Avensis is longer and wider than its predecessor isn?t something you should get too excited about: the old model was in danger of getting rivalled by cars from the next class down.听说这是最新一代avensis较长、较942肖国?笔一件你应该过于紧张:旧型号危险越来越直追到车下阶层. It?s more significant to point out that this latest Toyota is still shorter than its rivals ??收盘较显指出,这是最新的丰田仍低于竞争对手? around 100mm shorter than a Mondeo for example.少于100毫米左右蒙迪欧为例. Which leads one to worry as to whether the Tourer?s carrying capacity is going to be up to very much.这使人担心是否tourer?收盘承载力将是非常多达.
As it happens, it?s not bad.因为它发生,它?收盘不坏. There?s 520 litres of space on offer with the rear seats in place, rising to 1500 litres when they?re folded flat: good enough to get close to the class leaders in other words, if not quite to match them.?收盘520公升空间投标与后座到位,1500公升上涨时?重新折叠单位:够接近的领袖级换句话说,如果不配合他们. A section of the load floor can be lifted to reveal a hidden storage tray, big enough to accommodate the luggage cover when not in use.一段负荷地板就可以取消揭示隐藏存储盘、可容纳行李封面岸上. An integrated partition net can be added to this cover to stop shopping bags crashing into garden centre produce and vice versa.综合净隔墙可以加入这个封面停止生产销售购物袋毁园2086. Moreover, the luggage floor itself can be folded to create separate storage compartments, while tie-downs and shopping hooks are there to ensure that with loads both large and small, delicate items can be carried safely.此外,楼本身是可以折叠的行李分开存放车厢制造、同时配合有起伏,以确保购物钩与荷载大小微妙项目可以平安.
WHAT YOU PAY 您付出
Prices start at around £12,000 for the first of the for the T3-S 1.8-litre estates on an 03 plate with the plusher T3-X tacking another £150 onto that price.价格为12000英镑左右,开始了第一次的T3为硫一点八公升遗产板块与车窗上03年的T3-十对付另推到150英镑的代价. The entry-level T2 model is rather thin on the ground, but T-Spirits were popular and opening prices on these well equipped versions is around £10,750.入门级的T2模式比较薄在地上,但笔-神流行开价格分别就这些装备精良的版本是10750英镑左右. An indicative price for one of the desirable 2.0-litre D4-D diesel models is £13,000 for n 03 plated T3-S.其中的一个指示价格适宜2.0公升的D4-丁柴油型号为1.3万英镑,是2003年存入的T3氮硫. Insurance groups range from Group 7 through to Group 9.七国集团通过保险集团从779.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR 寻找什么
The Avensis has forged a reputation for monotonous reliability and while drivers of old Corollas may well have hoped in vain for a broken timing chain or an electrical fire to interrupt the car?s clockwork tedium, there?s no such issue with this version.avensis铸就的声誉和可靠性而单调corollas老司机可能希望落空了时间链条断裂或电气火灾打断轿车?收盘发条无聊、?这个版本没有这样的问题. As long as the service records have been properly adhered to, it?s difficult to imagine a more trouble-free car in its class ?只要坚持正确的服务纪录已,?收盘难以想象更畅通车阶级? a testament to both Toyota and the British workers.一份遗书,英双方丰田工人. A 1.8-litre long term car we ran performed virtually faultlessly during a six month spell, the only minor complaint being a slight rattle from the rear tailgate.180公升长期轿车几乎完美演出期间我们跑了6个百、只有轻微的投诉被从后面稍微嘎嘎栏板.
REPLACEMENT PARTS 替换零件
(approx based on a 1.8 T3) Although pitched a little above what you?d expect to fork out for Vauxhall or Ford spares, Toyota?s parts pricing policy has come under the microscope of late with the result that many prices have been frozen or reduced.(基于大约180的T3)虽然有点搭起以上您?预计四叉出路上还是福特备件、丰田?收盘零件价格政策来晚显微镜下的价格,致使许多已经冻结或削减. A clutch assembly will cost in the region of £160, whilst an exhaust is around £350.离合器装配了该地区将耗资160英镑,而排气是350英镑左右. A new starter motor retails for around £175, although a replacement headlamp will be in the region of £220.新起动电机零售175英镑左右,虽然更换前照灯将在该地区220英镑. Repair costs have been kept down with a consequent effect on insurance premiums.修理费一直保持下来,因而影响了保险费.
ON THE ROAD 在路上
Better sound insulation has reduced weight and decreased noise, but to give some illustration as to how seriously Toyota took refinement, they didn?t choose the most refined car in the class ?更好隔声减体重下降、噪音、但对于如何让一些插图丰田代为认真细化、他们雾化?笔选择最精细的车班? let?s say the Vauxhall Vectra ?让?收盘vectra说狂暴? as a comparison when developing the post-2003 Avensis.作为一个发展中国家,当后-2003avensis. Instead they chose the Lexus LS430 as a benchmark and claim that even at 124mph, there is zero wind noise from the door mirrors.而他们选择的凌志LS430汽车为基准,声称即使在124mph,有风零噪音门镜. The Mondeo and the Peugeot 406 were identified as class leaders in the area of steering feel, handling and ride and Toyota have tuned the steering for better feedback.在蒙迪欧和标致406被确定为区级领导督导感觉,丰田已办理转乘调谐督导更好的反馈. The compact strut front suspension is similar to that of the Corolla, but the rear is a modified version of the Celica?s multilink system.紧凑杆前悬架类似的花冠表示,但后面是一个改良版的celica?收盘多连接系统. One advantage of this is that it reduces intrusion into the luggage bay, the saloon version featuring a 520-litre boot.一个好处是可降低闯入行李湾,球馆版展出520公升行李箱.
OVERALL 总体
Although it?s still difficult to get passionate about an Avensis Tourer, you?ll no longer have to make excuses.虽然?收盘仍难觅热中的avensistourer,你呢?当地已不再作借口. Well built and imbued with a certain gravitas, it?s very practical and supremely reliable.并建成具有一定的庄严,它?收盘道出十分现实而可靠. If you?re buying a used estate car for pragmatic reasons, it?s difficult to buy better.如果你?重新买屋车用务实理由吗?收盘很难买到更好.
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