It looks solid, not only because it is quite large (4620 mm in length). The main thing is that it looks like a real car.
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But just which one?
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More recently, Chinese cars were poorly copied copies of Japanese cars, cheap fakes of some Toyota. Haval (pronounced not “Hawal”, but “Hawale”), judging by the F7 model, is a new stage of evolution.
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His appearance is quite original, although somewhat eclectic. The muzzle is rather Japanese – it seems that the designers painted the Mazda, but they were shy and stuck to the front bumper with an absurd pseudo-diffuser, richly decorated with chrome-plated plastic. But the side line above the threshold – almost like the Mazda CX5 – came out graceful. The back is almost Jaguar, but I really want to pick out the huge coarse Haval inscription on the trunk door. Well, “chrome” at least wipe with a little sandpaper.
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The most beautiful in the test F7 is the aquamarine color, a noble deep blue, a sign of the richest Premium equipment with a two-liter 190-liter turbo engine. with., LED headlights, 19-inch wheels, all-round cameras, panoramic roof with sunroof, parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, a warning system for a possible collision, a rear spoiler and a curtain in the trunk (available, however, with an average configuration Elite). In all-wheel drive, such a crossover costs 1.819 million rubles. And try for the money to find on the market something of the same color and size.
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The quality of the Russian assembly, by the way, can not be faulted: the gaps are even everywhere, nothing is skewed. Haval is assembled in the Tula region, at the first foreign plant of the concern, where full-cycle car production is organized.
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But as soon as you get into it, you understand: no, he does not look like anyone, everything in him is amazing and new. It is not for nothing that the letter F in the name of the line in the company is proposed to be considered the combination of three ideas – future, fashion, fun. So here you are, fun and fashion of the future.
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Everyone remembers a publicity stunt when a very special miracle laundry detergent is compared to “ordinary powder”. We will do the same – and compare the Haval F7 with the “ordinary car.”
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Here, say, the driver’s landing. In an “ordinary car” you move the seat so that the foot remains slightly bent when the brake pedal is pressed to the floor, then you adjust the steering wheel to reach so that outstretched hands rest on your wrists. In Haval, this will not work. Its ergonomics was designed for the gorilla. Because the driver’s hands should be very long and his legs very short. Otherwise, either you will not reach the wheel, or you will support it with your knees. There is a departure adjustment, but it is so insignificant that it does not change anything. But the bagel itself is fashionably trimmed from below. But this does not look like a hint of sport, but the inability of the designer to draw a circle. The seat has no lumbar support, but the gorilla has a different bend in the spine, which is probably just the way it is. Starting with the Elite configuration, the driver’s seat is equipped with electric adjustments, but for passengers they are not even in Premium.
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In general, the interior is pleasantly surprising. Not every “ordinary car” is so spacious, especially in the back row. Not every front panel is so obligingly facing the driver. Not every “ordinary car” is so soft to the touch. Not every artificial leather is so similar to real.
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On the other hand, in a “regular car”, when you press any button, there is no feeling that, judging by the crunch, you broke it. In Havale, this suspicion is compounded by the fact that the buttons do not light up: whether it is turned on or off is unclear.
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The purpose of the buttons is not always clear: for what, for example, is this one with a snowflake and a hint of a cardiogram? Wow, this is a change in transmission modes: “sport”, “snow”, “sand”, “dirt”. And the small wheel in the center of the panel under the screen of the multimedia system, which wants to adjust the sound volume, actually controls the intensity of the airflow. And at the same time the temperature in the cabin. But in order to change it, you have to go through the quest: you don’t have to press the wheel (then the ventilation just turns off), but turn it around – the blowing will be different, but the climate control menu will pop up on the screen.
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The system interface looks unusual, but clear and efficient. The processor seems to be rather weak – when the reverse gear is engaged, the message “the system is loading” appears on the screen first, and only then – a picture from the camera, distorting the space to completely non-Euclidean proportions.
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The lever of a seven-step “robot” is also intricate. After all, how is the user of the “ordinary car” used to? He grabbed the handle, pressed the button, transferred to the desired mode. In “Khawale”, instead of one movement, two things must be done: any switching from “drive” to “reverse” and vice versa is carried out through the intermediate mode “neutral”. But that’s okay: the main thing is not to accidentally fall into the “manual” – for about 20 minutes I just couldn’t understand why at a speed of 20-40 km / h the Hawail yells heartbrokenly and keeps the engine speed in the red zone. Until I squinted at the bottom of the dashboard and read the inscription in small print: “M1” – that is, all this time I was simply driving in first gear. And each time, including the “drive”, you need to follow this – the M and D modes switch, it seems, randomly.
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But if you get into the “drive” correctly, the Haval F7 rides like a “regular car.” Unless it’s stupid for two seconds after pressing the “gas” pedal, which makes it seem that out of the 190 “horses” declared, about 40 were stolen. And the brakes are completely cottony and uninformative, even if you give a discount to the fact that I drove on the asphalt on Kumho winter studded tires. In the “sport” mode, the reactions become more adequate, but a tangible buildup on the waves of asphalt remains. And Haval does not like to turn in principle.
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No, I did not drive it on mountain streamers. I just tried to drive into the underground parking.
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The problem is that the entry was designed for a “regular car” no more than a “Gazelle”. Haval drove half a floor and stood across – the steering wheel simply did not spin further. I had to take back and repeat the maneuver – and so three times on the way to the -2nd floor.
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We tested the cargo capabilities of F7, preparing for self-isolation in the country. They are small: in the trunk with the declared volume of 723 liters (without the rear seats folded), 450 liters of luggage fit. But this is because we have Premium equipment – with a luggage curtain! And if you remove it and load it to the ceiling, then the manufacturer probably will not be disingenuous. You need to be careful with the tailgate: it is heavy, without an electric drive and rises lower than that of a “regular car” – that is, a person with a height of 180 cm is already lying on his head.
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It remains to say two words about music. At first it seemed to me that in Haval you can only listen to conversational radio. But then I remembered – there is great music for this car. You can’t strangle “Civil Defense” with anything, you will not kill with anything. I cut it to the full, opened the hatch in the panoramic roof and realized that everything was going according to plan.
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