Test drive Cheri Tiggo (T11) since 2005 -

He has a chance

Fifty years later, when everyone around will ride exclusively on Chinese cars, Tiggo will respectfully recall, saying: He was the first ...


Easy to fix with ...
And there will be no mistake. Of course, the means of transportation of Maid in the homeland of Mao Zeduna previously crossed our state border, surprising with low prices, eccentric design and cheerful quality of manufacture. But it was Cheri-Tiggo, in our opinion, the first of the China-Karov, whose creators should not be just ashamed, but simply inconvenient.
 

He even looks outwardly. On the other hand, nobody ever called the last generation RAV4. After all, one glance is enough to understand: Cheri and Toyota are siblings. And even the slightly bald sidewalls and headlights a la Honda-Cr-V do not spoil the favorable impression as a whole impression. If something annoying, then only a clumsy badge on the grille of the radiator as a fever on the lip, jumping on the eve of the first date. However, this drawback can be easily corrected. With the help of mounting, for example.
 

A pleasant appearance is only the beginning. Because the tiggo salon is quite at the level. Five years ago, I would not believe that I would be so glad of dull gray plastic. This long-standing sign of Japanese and Korean cars looks much more funny than dirty brown finish, to which China-Kara has accustomed us to the last couple of years. In Tiggo, also cheerful blue inserts on the seats. Immediately the contested white dials of devices, a false central console and is already quite unexpected for the Chinese almost a design element: climate control pens, stylized under the gas tank cover of the sunrise. Very original.
 

But most importantly, there are no fundamental complaints about the ergonomics. Yes, I would like to see the adjustment of the steering column along the length and not such a gleaming display of the radio. Well, and so it will do.


The brothers are forever
As you already understood, the creators of Tiggo did not limit themselves with external resemblance to RAV4. So if you are familiar with the Rafik of the previous generation, then in the cabin of the Chinese SUV you will find a lot of acquaintances. Is it cramped for three sofas? So he is designed for two, we remember this. Is it not too convenient to sit for a tall driver? But just like in Rafik. And the trunk here is the same small and narrow.
    
 
 

The spacious box in the armrest is good, but the fuzzy and long moves of the gearbox lever is not very
 

The score is far from the only detail in the Tiggo salon, entirely borrowed from RAV4


But both rear seats, just like in Toyota, can not only be folded, but completely removed from the cabin. However, no, here I, perhaps, flattered Cheri: it will not work in the same way. I took off the seats, but one of the guides could not put it back. As she was driven at the factory, by the way, I guess. With the help of a sledgehammer, for sure ...

 
   
One of the few advances of the trunk is small loading height
  
 
Despite the removable rear seats, the luggage compartment volume is not impressive


So the assembly quality here is not Japanese. But we will write off the problems of growth. We will also send the seats heating connector and the ignition key, which is so reluctantly in the larva, as if he had just passed it on the eye, the turner of the second category with shaking hands after yesterday’s hands. Nonsense ... The main thing is that nothing crumbles from touch, and the number of long -playing panels of the salon does not resemble a symphony orchestra in numbers. Unless the trio, the maximum quintet.

 
   
The heating buttons are not very successful at the very bottom of the central console, under the ashtray
 

Ash, cup holders, pockets in the seats, the life of passengers of the sofa is equipped at the level
 

It is almost impossible to distinguish Cheri from Toyota from Toyota
 




I'm not a coward, but ...
But frankly pleases the acceleration of the 129-horsepower engine. The four of the 2.4 liters, which the Chinese collect under the license of Mitsubishi, surprises not so much with a power as a torque. It is very in abundance at the lowest revolutions, because at the wheel of Tiggo you will always be aware of fun starts: with a slip and not without pleasure. Very brisk, at least according to the standards to which the seal-kara has accustomed the set of speed subsides closer to hundreds. As if a fair wind was replaced by a side. But the margin under the right foot still remains. According to the stories of the owners of Tiggo, they managed to get out the car until 190! Well, it happens. Personally, I did not even reach the declared maximum speed of 175 km/h. And in general, he didn’t want to go faster than 130.
 

Of course, I am not a coward, but the independent suspension of Cheri in the traditional row of the MKADA behaves nervously nervously. The body shudders, as if you are going on a ramp of an all -terrain vehicle. Strange ... Yes, and Tiggo's stitches, although he obeys, is somehow reluctant. With sharp maneuvers, the car hesitates for an annoying moment, withstanding a chess pause, they say, do you change your mind to turn to the left? And only then, at the very moment when you are really thinking about the need for maneuver, changes the trajectory. It is difficult to get used to this, but you can. And if you do not rush, but to ride calmly, then the nature of the controllability of Tiggo will completely arrange most of the drivers.
 

Only now, after five minutes of our acquaintance, I got the impression that the workers who gathered Tiggo nevertheless put them. The noise of the motor is as if a set of pistons, connecting rods and valves is not strained somewhere in the bowels of the hood, but almost in the cabin. Maybe they forgot to attach sound insulation? But no, a desired protective screen was found under the hood. Weird. The vibration, which begins somewhere at 80 and ending in the region of 100 km/h, was no less surprised. Wheel curves? No, it seemed to me that the reason is in an unusable cardan vale of all -wheel drive transmission.
 

Or here's another nuisance inadequate reaction of the car to press the brake pedal. It seems to be stomping her from the heart, and the car slows down barely. So let's see what is it ... yeah, but how else, if in a skewed caliper of the rear left wheel does the block fit to the disk only on a third of the working surface? Understanding how the girl was used by a styling girl from an old children's film.
 

 
Tiggo is Toyota in everything except the Mitsubishi engine




Let's be sad
What, it became scary? In fact, there is nothing to be scared. With poor sound insulation, even miserable sixes have been she who have long learned to fight successfully so that the sound of the pre -revolutionary motor resembles the purring of the kitten. Put the caliper in place for the task for fifteen minutes for any mechanic who knows how to submit tools. That's just with a vibrating cardan, it seems that you have to come to terms. Or just give preference to the front -wheel drive version. Joke.

But seriously, Tiggo is really a good car. Especially after the pre -collection in Kaliningrad lowered its price by more than 15%. If at the beginning of the year, at least $ 20,000 was asked for a front-wheel drive engine with a 2-liter engine, then a copy with a 2.4-liter in-line four, a drive on all wheels and in the maximum configuration (there wasn’t an electric lover). It was offered for $ 18,782. This, by the way, is almost half as much as the new RAV4 and even more noticeably more accessible to a used three -year -old Toyota. Agree, for that kind of money, many will come to terms with the fact that after the purchase you will have to listen, smell, see, fit and correct in some places.
 

And then suddenly in August, like a thunder among the clear sky, there was information that Cheri was suspending the release of cars on the car car, they didn’t agree with officials about benefits. However, in Kaliningrad itself, literally a week later, we were assured that this is just an ordinary des. The heads of the car hit themselves in the chest, promising not only to ship the already ordered cars to buyers, but also to continue the construction of a full assembly enterprise. There, in the future, they will produce up to 150 thousand Cheri per year! Unless, of course, agree with officials ... In any case, we will hope for the best. You see, exactly to the launch of the first Russian-Chinese plant, Cheri engineers will carry out easy work on mistakes, because there are no egregious flaws in the Tiggo, so, except for roughness.
    
Full-wheel drive

Transmission 4x4 on tiggo the simplest possible. In the usual mode of cherry, the front -wheel drive, and only when the wheel slipped automatically, the rear bridge automatically connects. The absence of any locks, as well as the reducing transmission, limits the scope of the use of tiggot with dusty primers and snowy yards. But the geometric patency of Cheri for the SUV is very short overhangs, highly suspended bumpers and muffler. Unless the levers of the rear independent suspension are in dangerous proximity to the road.
 
PER

Quite a modern appearance, a very interesting price, a very peppy engine, a rich equipment, the presence of all -wheel drive
AGAINST

Very noisy motor, vibrations from a cardan shaft, lame build quality
 
Chery Tiggo

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1375
 
Length x width x height, mm
4285x1765x1710
 
Base, mm
2510
 
Track, mm
1500/1495
 
Speed, km/h
175
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
12
 
Average fuel consumption, l/100 km
12
 
Fuel tank capacity, l
57
 

Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
Basin in a 4-cylinder gasoline
 
Working volume, SMZ
2350
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
129/5500
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
20.2/3000
 

Chassis
 
Suspension
Independent, spring
 
front
Type McEzerson
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
235/60 R16
 
Mikhail Medvedev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [16/2006]