Great Wall Wingle 3 test drive since 2005 pickup

Great Wall Wingle - the first Chinese pickup

The first Chinese pickup, from which you can enjoy. Values \u200b\u200bare added to him by the fact that it is equipped with a diesel engine. Typically, the interior decoration of Chinese pickups causes a slight feeling of disgust, and their appearance is a desire to help the unfortunate owner financially.
But after Great Wall Wingle, the market seemed to ventilate this first Chinese pickup, which does not resemble a Japanese ten-year-old second-hand. Now he looks like a wombat, in extreme cases, a stupid seal, and is pleasantly trimmed inside.
Materials and quality of panels fitting is an order of magnitude better than that of colleagues from the that shore of the Amur. It is only a pity that the assembly quality did not affect the ergonomic minus of Chinese trucks low landing. In our case, the seat was slightly raised and added an adjustment of the slope of the steering column, but, placed on the driver's seat, you still feel inside the clothespin, albeit a little weakened.
The package includes deaf, without viewing windows, Hardtop (in Australia it is called kanopi, and in Russia a lid for the body). Someone, maybe the lack of a rear review will be upset, and, on the contrary, the blind rear window always pleased. It is not too nice to look at the Assash Mirror as the kindest face of Russian car owners at the moment when you pass on the zebra of a frightened, gazelled pedestrian.
The rain is not terrible
The equipment that arrived for our test is estimated by the manufacturer of 483,000 rubles ($ 19,500). This is the most modest option without a leather salon, CD magnetos and windows. It is a pity that it would not be possible to feel the Chinese skin would be curious. But the fact that the car was on the oars, or, as they say, on a meat grinder, in general, with manual windows, on the contrary, pleased.
The slaughter thing is this Chinese electronics. They say they supply the whole world with computers? I have never seen the Chinese PC, but one of my friends, the owner of the Made in China car, during the rain, the speedometer stops showing speed, flow meter the level in the gas tank, and Parctronics pretends not to remember the price of the bumper.
Although there were neither glass windows, nor parking sensors on the test car, the manufacturer could not resist the electronic control of the distribution box. They probably put it at the last moment, because the machine hangs in the place that they usually sit on, crossing through logs and hills.
At different heights, trying to protect
Like any self -respecting diesel SUV, Wingle is touched without pugus from both the first and second transmission. He rides off -road and climbs into the hill without the help of an accelerator. Only scarce geometric cross -country ability always makes the leg on the brake, since the bottom of the pickupa is disfigured by the absurd pile of the crossbar of the frame. All of them are at different heights, trying to protect the transmission units, but in fact they simply anchor. The front bumper also opposes the off -road. It is made by a huge monolithic piece and hangs much lower than it would be appropriate. And Wingle has less than 200 mm.
When leaving the field to the track, you note that the diesel does not strain the driver with excessive noise, however, only compared to other Chinese pickups. Comfortable speed 100120 km/h.
You can also 140, if you are not used to traveling relaxed, especially since exchange rate stability allows.

Matter: Great Wall Wingle
 

Components from Japan and Germany
This is the fourth Chinese SUV with a 2.8 -liter diesel engine that has visited the test in the editorial office. Although even dealers do not even have accurate data on its origin, the external inspection of the motor and the internal sensations of the pilots give a confident answer: the ancestor’s ancestor’s progenitor was so widely used by Asian friends. Only Great Wall provided him with the Common Rail and turbine system.
By the way, the turbine is a turbine, and the turbine valve and the air flow sensor is German. They did not save here! Opening the hood, other imported components can be found. Valeo wiper motor, Bosch hydraulic wiper. It would always be so.
Almost everyone except a cocky bottom, a monolithic front bumper and a passenger landing. Well assembled, folded and well equipped. The Ssangyong Actyon Sports, for example, has an order of magnitude of the worst body rigidity and a smaller motor, for example.

The future buyer should only remember that the frequency of up to 50 thousand km of run is 7 thousand km, and then the maintenance interval increases to 10 thousand km. The cardan shaft changes every 30 thousand km of run. Steering rods and ball supports every 2230 thousand km of run. Hubbing bearings, shock absorbers and oil in the gearbox every 1520 thousand. Checking the body for corrosion every six months.
 
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 
 
 

 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [February/2008]