They are Hyundai i30 and Nissan Pulsar top end. Turbo versions approaching 200 hp on gasoline and also have specific tuning. Are sports and race?

We can not say, of course, that these new Hyundai i30 TGDi 1.6 Turbo Y Nissan Pulsar 1.6 DIG-T cars are not honest. Far from it. Release, the two arrive today as higher versions of their respective ranges, exhibiting maximum power and equipment, but without associating in any of the two cases to specific sports acronyms. Well done.

But it is also true that when one hears the word compact, hear and almost 200 hp (he Nissan Pulsar even exceeds our bank roller, encrypting to 202 hp) And read the word “Turbo” (as you also remember as mythical gates of Ford Escort RS, Renault Lancia Delta HF 11 or), You immediately come many images and feelings … head, here, today will not have the same continuity. And, rather than radical and extra power that term is now associated with new small displacement engines to try run spending as little as possible. So you should understand well today and not wallow in disappointment can assume, first, get behind the wheel of the new compact “top” of Nissan.

In fact, dynamics never was, much less a priority in the development of Pulsar, as they do start directly see and their proportions. Born to provide the greatest volume of space and trunk of the category, is up to 7 centimeters higher than the average compact, has relatively narrow roads and unbalanced weight distribution (64/36% between the front and rear axle, respectively ) what They are no longer a bet agility. Aesthetically also discreet, yes this time instead looking more emotion chassis through a taring rear damping springs front specific settings, ESP, a revised and oversized tires to brakes and steering. “Sportier feeling,” promised Nissan … which, however, do not appear.

Tions without pressing …

And that this Press Nissan DIG-T 1.6, at least, it is light enough. Although somewhat firmer than others Click on the tread, very soft controls (steering, pedals, accelerator …) nice rolling and noble reactions, but very uninspiring. Neither management transmits excess or the chassis is up to a moderately sporty version: opens soon drawn if you enter curve with too much joy, easily lost wheel if you are looking out fast accelerating in support and, therefore, its electronic controls conservatives are very intrusive and to never be destabilized. Clearly it invited to lift the foot: the find satisfaction in other ways.

Not in the Hyundai i30 1.6 Turbo TGDi. If aesthetically Korean brand puts more compact sauce with new bumper and diffuser, contrasting red or double outlet and exhaust, also more boot takes you to a old school product. Boast having the mark Turbo developed this version Nürburgring, there tuning new tared suspension, a direct address, shorter gear ratios and to a lowered body 5 millimeters to the rest of i30. Here it does not need to tell us.

Sportiness i30

He sat and clearly lower in the Hyundai i30, is also not to a radical compact but conveys much more “feeling“. Have a harder and shooting touch is more “rebotón”, so when you feel it always seems to ask retained and start more war. And you have it. Just balances, pulls much better, is more alive thanks to an ESP reactions that leaves more freedom of movement, braking capacity is exceptional and its steering is very precise and informative. More fun and agile, If you believe it Feels like pure GTI … until you come up and step on and throttle.

Of those Turbo …

To these. And is that Hyundai i30 seems to then Lacking a puntita more speed to raise it as more powerful version of its range, the category and real GTI. Not so much in this regard, however, the Pulsar. There are cars where power makes you vibrate. And others, like this Nissan where you need to understand as a simple backup acceleration, pure speed. No more. And this is where this Press DIG-T 1.6 leverages its better power / weight ratio (about 60 kg less than i30 and 20 CV more in practice) to be faster performance than the Hyundai.

is not it a real bullet this Nissan Pulsar, but clearly lower and 8 seconds in the 0-100, and be around 28 in the 1,000 meters, are becoming more significant figures … though still distant, no longer the input to a GTI world where VW Golf will cut more than 2 seconds, but even a Seat Leon 1.8 TSI FR “only” 180 hp or 204 hp Kia pro_cee’d that even in the same lower GTI step, also they put more than 1 second in acceleration. Fast yes, but they are not very quick, therefore, neither a Hyundai i30 seems to use his last 10% of pedal stroke almost like a power switch (appears to offer a kick-down), or a more powerful Nissan Pulsar that only seems to show aggressiveness in its Stop system / Start: takes to stop, put down revolutions and very abrupt.

Both Hyundai i30 1.6 TGDi Turbo and Nissan Pulsar 1.6 DIG-T, yes agree on proposal (1.6 turbo engine with direct injection) And response, where premium softness, progressiveness and pleasure always turns up. Forget therefore the pointed character, delays of a then very explosive turbo or consumption of more than 10 l / 100 km of those early versions Turbo: both very different dosages and with good low speed, mark exchange best cost today of its class with Nissan Pulsar here checking amazing 6.6 l / 100 km on average… almost the same as the version 1.2 DIG-T 115 hp or the praise Peugeot 308 1.2 PureTech 3-cylinder and 130 hp.

There, therefore, is where you begin and find the brightness of a Nissan Pulsar 1.6 DIG-T rapid, discreet, comfortable and familiar compact unrivaled asIf the Hyundai 30 already shows good habitability, Nissan is able to offer height and legroom of a VW Passat, heavier than trunk VW Golf or Peugeot 308 and only surpassed by category Honda Civic. If the time ever we discuss the good product that would be for pleasure, space and drive a Nissan Leaf with heat engine, today we have here in this Pulsar. As long as we understand it as a powerful family compact. So simple, nothing more.