Hummer H2 test drive since 2002 SUV
Bye weapons
This car helps to feel almost omnipotent. But do not expect that he has retained all the talents of a military all -terrain vehicle, which is so striving to be like. Smiryo! Free. Dismant yourself ...
Lieutenant Dubrov! Verification of documents. A few seconds ago, the traffic police officer confidently stopped the three -lane stream at the entrance to the capital and fished us out of the left row. Armored? The serving did not hide admiration for our car. And then, seeing the driver's license of category B, he was delighted with the caught violator. Hammer-N2 on Moscow streets is no longer a curiosity, and to the fact that many owners of the car with a full weight of 3901 kg are traveling with passenger rights, the guardian of the law seems to be already used to it.
The ending of the just starting performance was unexpected. The lieutenant gave it to the visor and, with sadly, stretching out: this is how they collected the same thing ..., returned the papers. Kaliningrad N2 cannot boast of armor or anti -aircraft machine gun. But in his registration certificate there is a record: maximum mass 3493 kg. Free, lieutenant! There can be no complaints about us.
I worry
I repent, I was waiting for a meeting with H2 with some fear. The impressions of that very, the first, army Hammer, which had not far away from GAZ-66, were still fresh. Of course, I reassured myself that it would not be necessary to storm the sands near Baghdad. He consoled himself with the thought that H2 was just an unusually wide alternate. The Americans simply took as a basis the design of the warheads of Hammer the first, slightly detected, added a gloss and hoisted all this to the Tahoe platform.
However, nearby he still makes a strong impression. How to ride this giant around the city? And who was able to squeeze him into a modest patch in front of the car dealership?
First impression
Eyes are afraid, and hands are already jerking the door handle. No, this is not the hatch of the BMP driver. A wide and high door is easily supplied and open. One leg is on the footboard, the other is almost in the cabin ... but then the brake pedal is hooked. However, after a second I forget about the bruised leg. I can't get used to a huge salon. Wide leather chairs are driven by an electric drive. But these sofas have been made, it seems, for the gender-sovereigns. So with my subtile figure, I feel flawed in them. The arm of the armrest in the area will not yield to the restaurant tray. And the feed ends somewhere far beyond the sixth chair. Not an all -terrain vehicle bus. And almost nothing is visible back. Almost half of the rather narrow rear window covers a huge reserve in the cabin.
Huge leather chairs are equipped with electric drives and separate heating backs and pillows
However, we went! A multi-liter eight with uterine tiger purr is coming to come to life, and Hammer is unexpectedly easily, like a focus, touching. I accelerate, go, and only after a minute I understand: this is how the mighty car carried me out, as if not me, but it controls me. Here, please, turned the wrong direction!
The buttons on the front panel are controlled by a demultiplier and differential locks
Such a box will accept more than a dozen CDs, and even a football ball will fit here here
I am sitting so high, as if I climbed into the salon of a career dump truck. The cars seem to be with bugs, a Pajero with a machine that rolled out onto the sandbox road. The driver of the bus stopped at a traffic light, and he stuck below.
Luke with an electric drive, and there is a compass built in the mirror on all H2
H2 cargo abilities are great (up to 2450 l), but a huge reserve eats up a lot of space
Massive door handle inspires respect
Having tried on the role of King Mountain, I notice with surprise that it is no difficult to cope with a large heavy car than with a SUV. A powerful hydraulic wrap in place allows you to crank up a huge width of 315 mm toothy all -resistant wheels. The diameter of the turn is large 13.5 m. But turning around, I am slightly capturing the sidewalk, and Hammer quietly swallows the impressive height of the curbs. As if there was no this step at all. Taking a place in the stream is even easier. Respiration is now written on the faces of all participants in the movement without exception. So after a quarter of an hour, all my fears melted without a trace.
In the asphalt jungle The impressive dimensions of H2 are not a trick of vision. In the shoulders, it is more than two meters and about so much tall, and given the large chrome mirrors, he needs a corridor for 2.5 m for travel. Stronging for every hell to look like the brave boor of the first, N2 is not only externally.
Under the hood V-shaped eight for 6 liters. It is necessary to pour one and a half buckets of coolant and 5.7 liters of oil into the engine. The base of the machine is more than three meters. The trunk is almost 2.5 cubic meters. Fuel tank 121 l.
I stomp over the gas pedal, and the car breaks off, like an elephant elephant. At 80 and 120 km/h, the machine almost does not lose temperament. 488 N.Ms allow to maintain excitement even to such heavyweight. Hammer rolls quietly. Stably holds the trajectory and, the most pleasant, imperceptibly copes with huge potholes. True, already at 140, its agility also suddenly worships. This is the fault of the aerodynamics of a brick barn and a rather stretched automatic.
And yet, in a few hours of traveling on the asphalt roads of Moscow and its environs, H2 increasingly pleased me. The obedient, big, inspiring respect, for the time being, he tried to surprisingly carefully guard the calmness of his owner.
But I left the most delicious for dessert. Riding on Hammer and not try it on the off -road the same as visiting Paris and not looking at the Eiffel Tower.
The second does not mean the first Permanent all-wheel drive, 2-speed hand-up gearbox Borg-Uorner with electronic control, an impressive 25 cm under the rear bridge, 26.5 cm under the engine map of road clearance, toothy teshs BF-Gudrich-LT315/70R17 immediately allowed to storm the broken slippery primer without slip . In addition to powerful (2.64) lowering and blocking the central differential, the differential of the rear axle can also be forcibly locked. Together with the huge passages of the suspension and the steel protection of not only the motor and the gas tank, but also the distribution cards and the automatic transmission were very encouraging. I mumbled fearlessly where I used to cautiously go to many universal alternaters, I began to believe in his invincibility.
Even on the assault on a rather steep slope (40 degrees), ceasing to be afraid for the safety of very highly planted nose and stern, went with complete confidence in victory. But the car was not capable of passing through the next hill. Created by no means for military service, Hammer-N2, for the sake of comfort, said part of the geometric cross-country ability (for comparison, in H1 40 cm under the crankcase). A long wheelbase and low hanging thresholds reduced the so -called angle of the ramp from 32.5 to 25.80. Simply put, if the top of the hill through which you need to drive will be cooler than 1280, the civilian hammmer will sit tightly on the belly. And this is the worst result than, for example, the defender, LH470, a ranga-rover, not to mention the short-busy Pajero or Gelendevagen. The steep crest, through which I exceeded the 3-door Pinin, turned out to be too tough. So I had to back off back.
The face of a successful individualist
So, having said goodbye to most of his impressive weapons, Hammer showed himself not a very outstanding fighter on the off -road. And, of course, it is not too adapted to the living conditions in the modern city. The wallet at the gas station lost 1800 rubles at once. With an average consumption of 3032 liters per hundred a huge tank, there were not enough for 400 km. I had to put up with far from the best brakes. Thanks to large discs, H2 slows down perfectly at a high speed of up to 7080 km/h, but for a complete stop in the intended place, the brake pedal had to be crushed with a triple effort. Many cars shook from my black warlike crook in the city, but, habitually going around the cork through one of the Moscow courtyards, I was forced to return. Do not hug, in fact, tightly parked cars.
That is why a little by little by level of energy intensity and comfort the suspension, an excellent musical system of BOC, an abundance of electric drives and even general attention ceased to delight me. In the new civil incarnation, Hammer wants to seem better than he really is. Nevertheless, several hundred Russian owners of H2, choosing this expensive jeep as an image machine, seems to be ready to close their eyes to its such tiny shortcomings compared to physical data.
Do not look back at America
In the USA, Hammer-N2 costs from $ 41 thousand. In Russia, its price in a similar performance begins at $ 90 020. As you can see, it is expensive compared to America, but about 1820% less than this machine cost before the start of assembly in Kaliningrad.
In the basic H2 there are 2 airbags, climate control, an on-board computer, electric windows, heated mirrors and front seats, heating all seats, a stereo system of BOUZ with 9 speakers. A chair for the sixth passenger costs $ 530, an electric lover and a set of rugs $ 1,500.
Hammer-N2-Edvent for $ 91,800 is equipped with tubular rapids, kangarin with additional headlights, rails, compressor. Top laxori for $ 92 010 implies the presence of a chromium pack (pens, rails, mirrors).
PER
A unique appearance, a comfortable energy -intensive suspension, good course stability at high speeds, a spacious interior, high off -road abilities
AGAINST
Large braking distance, poor visibility, high fuel consumption, low protection of the motor compartment from dirt and moisture, large mass, thoughtful machine, high price
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [20/2004]
