Test drive Jeep Grand Cherokee 2003 - 2005 SUV

Patriot

The new Grand Cherki, like an American politician, is ready to show that he is able to compromise in order to please the rest of the world. But even in this case, he first thinks about the interests of taxpayers of his country.


The battlefield Earth
What a glorious place! If Stephen Spielberg saw him, shoot the picture to save the ordinary Ryan would surely become here. Deep, all the ravine linked along and across in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Podolsk near Moscow either with a swamp, or with a huge puddle in the middle. Pits, like funnels from exploding shells, scattered here and there, are not enough for a fluid machine -gun fire and the howl of the attack aircraft on a shallow flight. But, thank God, the war has long ended, and here we are here for a completely different reason to experience in the case, I would say that in combat conditions a new Grand Cherki.
 

Before moving on to active actions, you need to carefully study the TTX of the tactical and technical characteristics of my new weapon. Well, the arguments set on paper are quite significant. The angles of the entrance and congress, respectively, 34 and 27 degrees. The advanced system of the full-wheel drive of the square-drive II, which will now be installed on all the faces sold in Russia, is equipped with a lowering transmission with a ratio of 2.72 and three high-control differentials with electronic control. As the instruction assures, they allow the car to drive, even if only one wheel applies to the ground.
 

So, the weapon is checked, the reduced gear is enabled, the inter-axial differential is stiffly blocked, and I go down to the battlefield. The descent is such that you hang on seat belts, and Cheroki is about to stick a bumper into the ground. Thanks to the short front overhang cost. Almost from the place, without overclocking, the all -terrain vehicle confidently climbs the steep tubercle, so that only the blue sky is visible in the windshield. Yamischi and potholes here are such that in some places the jeep rests on the ground with only two wheels. Colorful booklets did not lie: a car without hesitation, swaying busily, overcame the diagonal hanging. It seems to her, like a tank Abrams, everything is nothing. Including huge, in depth of up to half a meter, a puddle with frogs that are luminous from fear.
 

All. I give up, not a car. The jeep did not shake the flag. Of course, you can find obstacles that the aforementioned Abrams cannot cope with. But I would definitely go to intelligence from the Grand Counts. And how is he, curious, behaves in a peaceful life, that is, on the asphalt?
 



Not gonna get us
I remember that the predecessors of our hero in this discipline were, to put it mildly, mediocre. The symbiosis of the carrier body, dependent suspension and powerful motors made Grand one of a kind. On Bolshoi Cheroki, it was possible to quickly go without fear only in a straight line, provided that the road profile is extremely even. Otherwise, driving at speeds under a hundred could not frighten perhaps a real sailor, to whom not a single storm is terrible. And only after the unification with the Daimler, the German comrades managed to explain to the American colleagues that if they are going to continue to sell the Grand in Europe, the car should be taught to drive asphalt. Indeed, according to statistics, 90% of the owners of all -terrain vehicles do not move from normal roads at all.
 

As a result, a large one gained an independent front suspension and even a rack steering mechanism. The car began to be controlled significantly better, an unambiguous hint of feedback has now appeared on the steering wheel. A significant contribution to the struggle for the best behavior on the asphalt made an increased body rigidity by 60%. Nevertheless, the engineers could not completely deprive the pitching car. Firstly, due to the long jeep of a long-flowing suspension. Secondly, which American will like a hard car?
 

And to what citizen who has grown with an unchanged big for lunch does not caress the sounds of a powerful engine? From now on, the uterine roar of the revived Hemi engine with a working volume of 5.7 liters can enjoy Europeans. The herd of 326 horses accelerates more than a two -ton car to a hundred in only 8 seconds. The new 5-speed machine quite confidently digests the moment being created by the engine of 500 nm, changing the transmission smoothly and on time.
 

Special thanks to the designers for the trajectory stabilization system. The Granda animal power is also helped by the already mentioned alloy abilities system of a constant all -wheel drive, which distributes the moment along the axes in a ratio of 48: 52%.
 

Understanding that not everyone in America is crazy with the laurels of the national racing hero Mario Andretti, in Kraisler they decided to offer customers two more powerful engines. A familiar gasoline eight of 4.7 liters and Mercedes 3-liter diesel is very effective and economical. True, with these power units, the jeep is able to accelerate to 200 km/h, only the first hundred exchanging a little slower.
    
Consider your money

The diesel V-shaped six was developed by the engineers of the Mercedes Benz. Thanks to the aluminum alloy cylinder block, the engine weighs only 208 kg. And the fuel system Common Rail, which provides an injection pressure of more than 1600 bar, and a turbine with variable geometry of the shoulder blades can be removed from three liters of a volume of 218 liters. With. And develop a truly huge torque of 510 Nm. As a result, the diesel jeep accelerates to hundreds of only 9 s, like a car with a 4.7-liter eight! But most importantly, the diesel engine is significantly more economical than only 8.6 liters when driving along the highway and 13.1 liters in urban mode.




Time to create stones
The new Grand Cherki is collected in the Austrian grace. But if you think that because of this he began to at least partially be like a European, then you are mistaken. Moreover, unlike its rather elegant predecessor, the Grand looks like cut out of granite. It is very symbolic that the car is produced in the hometown of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is even strange how designers dared to put round front headlights on a jeep.
 

The design of the salon was a logical continuation of the exterior. Do not believe a light wind of sophistication, which blows from chrome rims of devices and inserts under the tree. Everything else looks as serious and menacing as a summons from the military registration and enlistment office. But it is very practical and made for centuries. The thick pork skin of the seats is not only easy to wash from ketchup, but also wipe, it seems that only aluminum pants can be.
 

And the ringing plastic of the torpedo should appeal to people musical: in traffic jams you can tap your favorite rhythms, unless, of course, it bothers you to listen to melodies that pour from the speakers of the BOOS company. It’s clear that in terms of the place in the cabin in such a large car (the Grand became 145 mm longer and 89 mm wider, and the base increased by as much as 64 mm) is full order. Thanks to the wide range of adjustments, the one who wears pants 72 and a miniature young lady can easily be sucked at the wheel. The latter will surely appreciate the possibility of adjusting the pedal unit in height.
 

Unlike the car of the previous generation, on the second row of seats with a height of 186 cm, I also feel quite comfortable. Of the boxing of boxing between the front seats, a cool breeze blow. And how much you can take with you on the road of hot dogs and boxes with a Budovizer, it’s scary to speak scary. After all, the trunk at the jeep is 1100-liter, but if you fold the rear seats, we get another cubic meter.
 
 


So what will the buyer cost the American patriot with stone forms, almost tank patency, a large number of liters under the hood and cubic meters of space in the salon and trunk? Oh not cheap. In any case, 4000 euros are more expensive than before. For me, the previous Grand was expensive, and the current price of 50,900 euros looks completely sky -high. Even more confident behavior on the asphalt, a modified all -wheel drive system and a spacious salon do not justify such money. Now, if the car cost, like in America, a little less than $ 30,000 or at least 50,900, but dollars. There is nothing to fight with Pajero and Prado, Discovery and Tuareg, Trailbraise and Explorer at such a price. Unless to bet on the collapse of the euro. But this is already politics ...

 
   
Reduced transmission and blocking of the center differential are included using an elegant lever

When leaning backs of the rear seats, the head restraints fold themselves

Adjustment in height of the pedal node is included in the basic equipment
 
   
The passage of the jeep can be improved by unfastening the plastic skirt
    
The arches for attaching the trunk are included in the package of additional equipment No. 2
 
    
Strictly limited

In Russia, the Grand Counts are sold in the only set of the limit. True, it can be called a unlimited Angelmist more rather, because the car has everything that the soul wants. Here are just a twentieth of the full list: the memory of the settings of electric drives of the driver's seat, pedal unit, audio systems and mirrors, separate climate control, rain and tire pressure sensors, ESP system.
 

Machines with a 231-horsepower engine 4.7 liter and a 3-liter 218-horsepower diesel engine cost 50,900 euros. A jeep with a 5.7-liter Hemi engine 58,300 euros. These are the prices of the Grand Counts with the so-called standard package No. 1, which additionally includes the protection of the bottom, heating the front seats, the alarm of the premium, the audio system with the CD changer. At 16001800 euros (depending on the motor), the package No. 2 is more expensive than the entertainment system with DVD, tinting glasses and trunk on the roof.
 
PER

Great off -road qualities, gamma powerful engines, excellent dynamics, rich basic equipment, spacious and practical salon
AGAINST

Mediocrity quality of the interior decoration materials, clearly high price
 
Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
2209)
 
Length x width x height, mm
4750x1870x1785
 
Base, mm
2780
 
Track, mm
1575
 
Speed, km/h
210
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
eight
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
12/21.3
 

Engine
 
Location
The front is longing
 
Design
gasoline, V-shaped, 8-cylinder
 
Working volume, SMZ
5654
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
326/5000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
51.2/3500
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
Constant full
 
Transmission
Automatic 5-speed
 
Suspension: in front
Independent, on double transverse triangular levers with telescopic shock absorbers and reptile stabilizer
 
behind
Dependent spring on four longitudinal levers with telescopic shock absorbers and Panar's reactive thrust
 
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
245/65 R17
 
 

Andrey Koltun, photo of the author
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [10/2005]