Alfa Romeo Tonale diésel 130 CV | Prueba / Test / Review en español | coches.net

Néstor said the other day in his test of the Honda zrv that hybrids are the new diesels. And this is a bit like that. It started in the small segments and the hybrids have been surpassing the diesels in practically all segments, including the sub- hybrids. They began as an alternative to gasoline cars with the same performance and less consumption. In those markets that were not diesel- powered, especially Japan and the United States, but now that in Europe diesel seems to be the last of the biblical plagues, hybrids have found a place. very good gap in the market But there are brands that still continue to bet on diesels. There are no longer four or five power alternatives like a few years ago and all sub diesels have electrified gasoline alternatives within their same range, whether they are conventional hybrids or hybrids. light and even, as is the case of the car that concerns us today, plug-in hybrid versions but The Alfa Romeo Tonale is one of the C segment subs that continues to offer a diesel alternative, an alternative with its C label with its a priori scarce 130 horsepower and a price from 37,000 which is the same as the light hybrid gasoline version of equivalent power cars with diesel engines are still interesting today we are going to try to answer that [Music] question a diesel engine almost a rarity in this industry that has left this type of engines for the SUVs, the pickups, the vans, the long-haul ones because the urban ones are already many of them electric and obviously for the trucks an engine in this case with a 1.6 l four-cylinder that produces 130 horsepower and that has all the technologies that had made diesel engines interesting propellants from the point of view of efficiency, that is, direct injection, turbocharger, intercooler and St stop system, of which there is no trace is electrification [Music] Alfa Romeo approves a speed for this car maximum of 194 km per hour, a mediocre acceleration from 0 to 100 of 10.9 seconds and a low consumption of 5.6 L per 100 on average with emissions of 147 gr of CO2 per kilometer that does not exempt you from paying a 4.75 for registration tax like the rest of the tones except the plug-in hybrid, incidentally, in the consumption section, which is one of which we must analyze in detail, the approval figures are the following 6.9 L At 100 at speed low, that is, reproducing the conditions of use in the city and always below 60 km per hour 5.4 at medium speed in semi-urban driving with peaks of 80 km per hour 4.7 at high speed which is equivalent to highway driving up to 100 km per hour and 6 L At a very high speed that reproduces the consumption on the highway up to 130 km/h with this car it is easy to be within the more or less approved consumption levels. I have been using it for a week and before starting the video recording I had it at 5.5 l In conventional use in the city around the City, especially on the highway and on some trips with only two people on board, I have made measurements below 5 L so that being in those five or so than the equivalent is relatively easy where most It is complicated in the city, which is where you spend the most and I get the feeling that it is also a little because of the gearbox. This is a gearbox with only six gears, I say only because now there are more modern eight and nine gearboxes that are better suited to It's time to lower consumption because with a six-speed you force yourself to make bigger jumps and therefore reduce gears more, especially in the city, and therefore the consumption escapes a little there, but on the road or highway I insist on being between five and six is ​​the most common on the road, consumption will easily always remain below 6 l and even on the highway legal speed and unless it is a mountain highway with many climbs it will not exceed those 6 l either. I know that you will tell me that in In the good times of diesel there were cars of this style that had consumption of 5 l and even in some cases less is true but be careful because in the good times of diesel we had the net cycle and now we do it with the W ltp which without being the panacea is a little more realistic than the ciclet and obviously the consumption that the W ltp gets is a little higher. Furthermore, a car like this that did not reach 6 l has merit for two reasons, first because it is automatic and automatic diesels always consume more than the manual ones And secondly, and that is also important because this is a heavy car, it weighs 1695 kg, which is a lot of kilos, the performance of this engine is what can be expected in a diesel car of this weight. We have already said that it does not accelerate. much 10.9 in the 01 is a bad figure but due to the shifts in the gearbox and its slowness. It does recover well and above all it has interesting low speeds, it is true that up to 15 revolutions it is somewhat lazy due to its low displacement but once that regime is exceeded it moves The car is reliable and I insist it recovers well, especially in Sport mode, which offers more reactivity to the gas pedal and above all, it speeds up the gears more. Above I have been tempted to say that this is a noisy car and in reality it is good, it is not so much, what happens is that I have not tried diesels for so long, that is, I have been driving hybrid cars or gasoline cars for so long, even electric cars that they do not do any noise that you get back into a diesel car you recover that rattle that clack at idle and and this way of delivering the loudest power from below that diesel normally has And the truth is that you end up saying This is a noisy car but the truth is The thing is, not by the standards of a diesel car, it is well insulated, yes it does make noise because diesel cars make noise, but it is not a car that you would say Oops Eh This is terrible, you can't stand the amount of noise it makes, not even a diesel car. Well, the brand has worked well on the development and it is not a noisy car. This tone would need a few more horses, especially a loaded car. 130 horses in a car of this size is the minimum required, but with a power of 180, for example, it would compete. better with its hybrid rivals and its more energetic response Thanks to the support of the electric motors, as we have explained, the dual-clutch automatic gearbox has six speeds and is relatively smooth in operation and also by moving the gear knob to the left side we can use the cams in driving I have always said that in diesels this thing about the cams Well, it is not as Interesting as in a gasoline car because when accelerating a lot you immediately reach the injection cut-off and the transmission itself already puts you in one more gear, it doesn't. Most of the time, therefore, they can be used, especially on roads like the one I'm on now, which is a mountain road, but above all, the good thing about the cams is more than for determined driving, constantly going up gears, down gears, that in a gasoline makes more sense because you can lengthen them more than an automatic transmission would. Even in Sport mode, here in the diesel it is more or less the same sensation with paddles as without but it does work very well, especially for downshifting because when you reach a curve, you reduce down, one down, two gears and you have that powerful diesel engine brake that allows you to brake less with the pedal. But also, above all, put the engine at the correct revolutions to then be able to accelerate at the exit of the curve, therefore For that, I do like the cams, and they are typical Alfa Romeo cams. They are huge and very cool, large metal ones, you can always find them, that is to say, they are very good. Alfa Romeo is a brand that has always boasted about the sportiness of its chassis in this case. However, the platform is shared with the Jeep Compass and has MC ferson schemes on both axles, a system that works very well for mounting a driven rear axle, which in this case, however, the diesel tonale does not and cannot carry with this medium-rated suspension. The Tonal is a comfortable car that seeks to offer good performance on the highway. In this section, this diesel Tonale cannot have the controlled electronic suspension that other versions of this car do have, especially the plug-in hybrid, but in any case it must be recognized that the work What the Alfa Romeo chassis engineers have done is very interesting in terms of the behavior of this car to give it this sporty touch that one always expects in a car of this brand and I say this because this is a frame that comes from Jeep comes from Jeep Compass and Jeep have a completely different philosophy. Jeep Even in its sub-type models, what it seeks is for them to be as versatile as possible and as off-road as possible, in quotes, and therefore the differences are very important when one wants to make a chassis that works very well on the track, for example, in the case of the Jeep Compass, and then that same chassis has to be adapted for a car that has the lowest tone and has much more asphalt intentions, hence this work has been achieved because this suspension, the way It is tuned It has nothing to do with that of the compas, they are two cars with two different philosophies whose chassis adapts perfectly to those different philosophies of each of them, this one is clearly sportier than a compas Although it is true that this 130 engine horses would hardly put the chassis in trouble. Alfa Romeo has done a good job of tuning both the suspension and the steering, one of the specialties of the house, this Alfa pulls very well and is more agile than its weight might lead one to think. and it has good braking compared to before with good modulation with the brakes. It has happened to me a bit like with the engine or with the noise, that is, we are very little used to driving cars without electrification and therefore when you find a car which does not have any type of hybridization, any type of electric motor or anything at all, the brakes also become normal brakes like the ones we had a long time ago, that is, without that first part in which even though you give the pedal the What is braking is not the physical brake but rather the engine based on regeneration not based on reversing the operation of the engine instead of from forward to backward and therefore I recover and begin to brake with that recovery Before the discs come into action in hybrid cars in electric cars that happens And then The pedal feel is different it's a little strange here not here it's a pedal feel like the usual ones when you brake the discs brake and therefore it's not that there is You have to get used to it because what you have to get used to, let's say, is the opposite and what you notice is good, that way of recovering a little bit. The usual braking is not to say oysters, this brakes well when you hit the brakes and and it's something we have to deal with. get used to the braking of this car, it is stable, it is modular, it is a car that brakes well, you can notice the weight, but when you give it wax at the end, they end up saying hey, you're going a little too far, but they have that real brake feel. always since I honestly like it better than the brake of the hybrids or the electric tonale [Music] we have already talked about on many occasions so just a slight reminder of dimensions and design it measures 4.52 long by 1.84 wide wide and 1.60 high and it is really high since the ground clearance is less than 16 cm so this is a car that is not very prone to leaving the asphalt. The wheelbase is 2.63 m aesthetically and despite to the limitations imposed by starting from a platform from another manufacturer the tonale is an Alfa Romeo no matter where you look at the front with the Alfa Triangle triple headlights typical rims with circles little Italian flags in this sense we must remember that this car The tonal Alfa Romeo It was already completely finalized at the design level when the brand hired Alejandro Mesonero Romanos as the new head of the area, who was the designer of all of Seat's latest products. Therefore, to wait to see the work of the Spanish designer at Alfa Romeo, we will have to wait until The new models of the brand that come out from now on also have a very Alfa interior with a classic layout of all its elements, highlighting the 12.3-inch digital instrumentation that nevertheless maintains the two circles typical of the brand. a 10-inch central screen with a much improved interface the possibility of mounting 360g cameras the ignition button on the steering wheel the climate control outside the screen a phone charger on the console the aforementioned shift paddles that are also optional and the availability of the leexa system as long as you pay for an internet connection, the rear seats are correct with a generous distance between rows, a normal ceiling height and a width that is not one of the best in the segment but is perfect for two-passenger use. which is what this and almost all the cars in the segment are designed for. They have angled repos ventilation and a hatch that connects to the trunk and as for the trunk, I can tell you that it does not have an automatic opening, you have to raise the tailgate, yes it can have it but only in the ti version which is the top This is a Sprint it is the intermediate one and therefore it is not automatic here we have 500 l in a plug-in hybrid tonale we would only have 385 but since there is no battery here because it is a diesel car we can use the complete Double bottom lowering if I can get this down and here we have these 500 l a capacity that we can multiply by three if we fold the rear beforehand we have to remove the rigid tray and then fold down the seats to get a capacity of 15 l we finish with the equipment and the prices in this tonal Alfa diesel we have three super versions from 37032 Sprint which is the one that corresponds to our unit that costs from 39507 and you which costs 4198 our Sprint unit added extras such as the sports package, aluminum cams and pedals, the Autonomous driving package with peripheral vision camera and all the driving aids that are not standard and the winter package with heated steering wheel and seats with all this going to [Music] 43,875 I was here in front listening to the diesel idling because this is going to In fact, many of the new cars coming out in this segment, the Honda ZRV, the Renault Austral, the Nissan Qashqai, the new Peugeot 3008 that is yet to arrive, have already given up offering diesel versions in the case of the tonal ones, but within a range. where hybrid gasoline options are the majority, the question we asked ourselves at the beginning is that it still makes sense today to buy a diesel car because the truth is that for certain uses I think so. Firstly, because they continue to spend less no matter how much they have dropped. the consumption of both conventional gasoline and hybrid ones. And secondly, because for traveling long distances without having to stop or stopping very little, these cars are still ideal. It is true that this one only has 130 horsepower. It is true that it does not have the eco label that On the other hand, it does have the 130 gasoline and it has a practically identical price to the latter, but after trying it after recovering sensations with the diesel, I can tell you that yes, for certain people today, diesel is still a valid option, at least until they disappear. by [Music] complete i