SEAT Arona. Moose test.
We have tested two versions of Arona.
The first one, light colored, with the 116 horsepower petrol engine, automatic transmission and fixed damping suspension.
The second one, dark colored, with a 116 horsepower diesel engine, manual gearbox and adjustable damping suspension.
Both cars had 18-inch wheels and the same tires, the largest available.
The results we have obtained in the moose test have not been satisfactory.
This was the only attempt by many in which we managed not to knock down any cone with the petrol engine Arona,
not without effort.
The entry speed was 74 km/h.
Although it seems to overcome it with agility, the driver needed to learn well the reactions of the car to not end with a skid.
This situation would not be the usual before a sudden maneuver of an unsuspecting driver.
As we increased the speed of entry, the results worsened considerably.
In another shot at 75 km / h, after the second turn, there is a pattern of response that was always repeated more or less sharply.
An initial understeer, followed by a sudden oversteer,
and finally, a whip movement when entering the third lane of cones.
The feeling that the driver has at all times
is that stability control intervenes always late and badly.
Faced with this behavior, it is possible that a driver feels uncontrolled and afraid.
This pass at 79 km/h shows that, when increasing the speed of entry,
the tendency to skid and bounce of the body was always more.
In other equivalent vehicles, such as the Citröen C3 Aircross,
the only effect of entering faster is that the brakes act with more intensity
and an easily controllable understeer occurs.
We decided to do the test with a different unit to check if it was a punctual failure or not.
In the Arona Diesel with adjustable damping suspension
we obtained a result practically traced to the first time.
It was also hard not to knock down cones.
The passes shown in this video are made in the Normal position,
but we did tests in the Sport position in which exactly the same thing happened.
The maximum speed of entry was 75 km/h.
At the exit of the third lane of cones, a moderate oversteer is produced
that forces the driver to make a correction at the last moment.
At 76 km/h, we surpassed the first two swerves with success
but a skid came again in the last part after a rebound of the bodywork.
This is one of the best passes we were able to do without hardly knocking down cones.
As with the first Arona, an increase in the input speed means obtaining the pattern described above.
The Arona loses very little speed throughout the maneuver, something unusual.
There is a pronounced understeer that opens the trajectory outside the cones zone,
again the rear axle skids and the rebounds of the body make the vehicle ungovernable to achieve the last lane on time.
We tried to test a version with smaller tires and wheels,
but they were not available.
This was the first of all the attempts we made with the SEAT Arona in the moose test,
before knowing its reactions.
The result caught the driver unprepared,
who, not used to a car that loses so little speed at the entrance of the maneuver,
reacted late and went completely out of the coned area.
We show this shot to illustrate what our first impressions were
and what a driver, who does not know the reactions of the car, might have.
In no previous case of the more than a hundred cars we have tested in this test,
we had this initial feeling or results like that except,
perhaps, the SsangYong XLV and the Nissan Juke.
Slalom
In this exercise, which does not take the Arona to the limit of its possibilities,
we see our impressions on the road, counted in the test that appears linked in the description of the video.
It is a car that allows you to quickly change trajectory and link curves at a high rate due,
in large part, to the fact that stability control does not interfere at any time by reducing speed.
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