Test Drive Hummer H3 since 2005 SUV

In superhero costume

What do you need a modern hero? In addition to superconductors, the original costume, a mask and a decent means of movement. Whether Hammer-H3 is suitable for this purpose, Denis Harutyunyan estimated. Photo: Alexander Batyr.
Together with the animated series and films about evil mutants and refined correct superheroes in our language came and some words. One of them brutalism spells in my head at the first meeting with Hummer Third. Interestingly, does the content correspond to the non-standard, deliberately rough appearance?
Martian Chronicles
Well, I have no abilities of a man-spider or mutant-ix! But without them to get into the car is difficult. The high threshold of Polwy, saves a powerful footboard. But the low door opening and a small distance between the wheel and the seat can be a real problem: squeezed for the ram. After completing the acrobatic sketch, I try to sink the hand to the adjustment buttons of the chair. To do this, you have to go to Martianin in the gap between the door and the flexible moving tentacles in the slot ... The leaving with a red planet and the growth should be small: the roof with the built-in hatch is pressed on the tech. If the aliens have to be squeezed on the rear sofa, there will be a good place of place for his knees. But the feet have nowhere to go, and the landing is very specific pillow is installed very low.
Unlike most drawn characters, Hummer in the urban isply that an elephant in the dishwasher. The windows resemble tank ambrusuras, and in the salon mirror it is visible, at best, the roof of the rear car. True, the side lops with an average TV are guided to navigate. Dimensions with unusual do not feel. So it seems that you are riding on battle Elefant, fearing to crush a couple of overwhelmed minor mines. On the highway it becomes a little easier, here you can already get a portion of pleasure, feeling the craving of an unusual engine (the volume of each of the five cylinders as much as 740 s). It is finally relaxing does not give an old four-stage automatic, which when accelerated sometimes starts to throw between the transmissions, and the whole bouquet of noise. A sensitive ear will distinguish here and the morning rotting of the motor, and the hum of huge wheels, and an unobtrusive wind whistle. With such an orchestra, it is not possible to fight even a good audio system, automatically increasing the volume with increasing speed.
PREDATOR
Snow-covered near Moscow field with a slightly noticeable ripples insurmountable temptation Check Hummer for strength. Making snow fountains, lean all the fibirs of their metal soul, he rushes to conquer off-road. Each turn laid in a deep snowdrift mining to which he moves with the aggression of a strong beast. Only absolutely impassable places require the inclusion of a low row of transmissions. The roar of the engine becomes monotonous, and a heavy 2,5-ton car slow a severity is inevitably approaching the target.
Even jumping across a deep tractor track, you can not worry about the suspension. In extreme conditions, springs and torsions seemed to be squeezed and became a tiger preparing to jump. Confidence that the suspension will not be punched as in the fact that the cat will definitely fall into all four paws.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Quiet crackling of the cooled metal satuned, the beast rests. It's time and I will breathe enough. No, Hammer-H3 does not agree to be a superhero costume. He has its own futsal character that requires complete psychological compatibility with the driver. Then you can enjoy the ride in the faint paths. Glamor heroes of glossy comics there have nothing to do there. And Hummer is still the hero of the road off-road ._x0008_
Each next generation of hemmers significantly loses weight and size. The machine with the N3 index wins in the progenitor, all-wheel drive with the index H1, only the competition in length (+96 mm). But it is already 88 and below 211 mm. The wheelbase has decreased by 461 mm, and the road clearance at 187 (!) Mm. Of course, more modest and its ability: the third can translate through the wall with a height of 407 mm, while the ancestor overcame the obstacles to 558 mm. The maximum depth of the fusion has decreased from 762 to 610 mm. Well, the carrying capacity fell more than twice from 991 kg to 429.
Hummer H3.
The third coming of the famous Hammer took place in 2005. The H3 model is essentially an ordinary sacrifice, and not at all a military all-terrain vehicle, from which he inherited only the stylist.
Engine: gasoline 3.7 l (245 hp)
Gearbox: Automatic 4-speed
Required: Base, Adventure, Luxury
Price of basic complete sets: 1 310 7421 708 767 rub.
Test car: Base equipment, options, 1 429 497 rub.
_x0007_ + excellent permeability, traction motor, good trunk.
_x0007_ - cloth interior, mediocre visibility, archaic machine.
Hummer H3 possessing smaller than those of ancestors, opportunities, nevertheless, traditions are true: he is best where many cars are not able to drive.
For the same money
Land Rover Discovery 3
1 420 0001 880 000 rub.
In the third generation, Discovery became more luxurious, but unlike many competitors did not lose off-road qualities. The discovery is offered with a diesel V-shaped six 2.7 liter and with a 4,4-liter gasoline engine V8. SP, 2005, № 4
Nissan Patrol Gr.
1 380 5001 721 000 rub.
Three-liter diesel or gasoline engine volume of 4.8 l plus an impressive supply of the patency of confidence in Nissan, which does not affect even the impressive age of the model. SP, 2005, № 4
Denis Harutyunyan
 
 
 

 

Source: Journal "Behind the wheel"