The engine starts up smoothly and rotates in a balanced manner after warming up. When coming from a green light, the throttle is not in harmonic proportion with the force of starting or stalling. A small delay precedes the closing of the clutch, and then the start comes suddenly, which is a common problem of quite a few cars with a double-clutch transmission, even with century-old car manufacturers.
The graphics look good, the image of the 10.25″ touchscreen display is beautiful
On gravel roads and on gravel slopes due to construction, the insufficiently smooth clutch handling is also a problem. The shifts themselves are quick and smooth, and once we’re on the move, the dual-clutch transmission works decently.
With normal, stress-free driving, the gearbox switches in good time, but for more enthusiastic driving, two paddle shifters on the steering wheel would be useful, but there are none.
The Auto Hold switch, which activates and deactivates the maintenance of brake pressure when stopping, was more missing than the two in the front. At a red light, it’s convenient if you don’t have to hold down the brake pedal, but when parking, it’s annoying that the parking brake only releases the gas, it always lets the car go with a little jerk when you’re backing up.
Two telescopes help to raise the bonnet. The four-cylinder engine rotates smoothly
There is enough power in the engine, its performance is enough to drive briskly and overtake when needed. It is enough to try the supersport mode once because of the difficult-to-interpret sound effect, perhaps intended for a sporty engine roar.
You can get used to a lot of things, including the synthetic nature of the steering, but the very strange restoring force of the steering after right-angled turns in the city was quite disturbing. It feels like trying to steer the car through a layer of jelly.
Below 30 km/h, the front camera can be activated automatically, the car displays the image of the external camera on the center screen, which is helpful, but not always useful: when changing the view, the camera image covers the navigation instructions. But this function can be disabled.
The suspension is uncomfortable with the 18 rims and 215/55 R18 tires
The good thing about the Omoda 5 is that we are not tied to chasing the air conditioner, because it can let in the outside air. This works in older cars, but without air conditioning, many modern cars only blow in warm, dry-out air, so you are forced to use the air conditioner even if the outside air temperature is perfect.
Although the fatigue monitoring works well and the car correctly recognizes when you are not looking at the road, most of the driver support functions work poorly. The error message regarding the deactivation of the intelligent automatic accident prevention system has been received many times for a reason that is difficult to interpret. But despite the gong and the error message, the system often remains alert and active, steers and turns for us on gentler curves, and maintains the speed.
The chassis of many Chinese cars I’ve driven so far had a soft tuning for comfort, which involved a lot of lateral tilt. Compared to them, the Omoda 5 is not tuned to be fluffy at all, and in return it does not lurch in the corners. But the suspension comfort needs improvement, especially the chassis reacts unfriendly to the rails sticking out of the road. In return, there is really no wobble in corners.
Sound insulation is adequate, the noise level is acceptable even at 150-160
2000 at 100, around 2250 at 130, and 3000 at 160 in seventh gear. The sound insulation is adequate, the noise level is more than acceptable at 150-160 when driving on a section of a German highway without speed limits. The comfort of the front seats is also fine.
Source: www.vezess.hu
