Better and more expensive

After recently postponed a major technical upgrade Chevrolet Niva SUV and got to the Ukrainian market. Niwa sores known: torque ripple on cardan shafts, vibrations in the gearshift range 3500-4500 rev / min and rattle in the engine compartment. Flowed seals in the engine and transmission slide front seats creaking, quickly covered with rust leashes wipers, "tupili" reel seat belts ... What is done? Instead of frogs in the drive shafts CV joints appeared, and, importantly, new shafts are interchangeable with the old. In the transfer case output shafts planted in double row bearings. Oil seals are designed to rid the company Freudenberg power unit from leaking oil. The design of the lever box added to the rubber damping pad, and to eliminate rattling hood should new heat shields. On leashes wipers - better corrosion protection. Under the hood - exclusive self-sealing leaking coolant clamps, corrosion resistant Torx screws and mounting bracket for a new battery. Worth it worth it? We were not confined to half-measures and have updated Niva in mileage on the roads of the Caucasus. About how she showed herself against the background of modern five crossovers, read in this issue Autoreview on page 14. A presentation of Ukrainian Shnivy CEO visited GM-AvtoVAZ joint venture Jeffrey Glover, who reiterated that Ukraine remains a priority for Shnivy export market. If a failure in 2009, we had sold only 208 cars (the second "export" after the result of Azerbaijan, where he managed to sell 220 cars), then this year, we no competition: the first nine months of Ukrainians bought 672 SUV (53% of exports) . Unfortunately, Glover did not give us the answer to the question of the timing of the appearance of Neve with a more powerful engine: the idea of ??setting a car on the 1800 vat engine VAZ-21177 is still "considered." Even more obscure prospects diesel version. There is no hope, and a quick replacement of the old woman: Glover confident that Neve good value for money and consumer qualities and it is still eight to ten years will not require replacement. I wonder if he knows of the existence of Glover car like Renault Duster, who plays in the field near the price? It's good that after the upgrade price Shnivu remained unchanged - from UAH 123 200. Until the end, Ukrainian dealers want to sell up to 600 cars.