Test Drive Mitsubishi Grandis since 2004 Minivan

Wonders of selection

A certain Japanese recently surprised the world, growing watermelons in the form of Cuba. Such and package, and store more convenient. Perhaps no less an amazing product turned out from Mitsubishi designers.
 



In the footsteps of Michurina
Probably hearing that they have to do, the Japanese engineers were at first were puzzled. The car should not be angular and smooth, is obliged to combine business class comfort with a minivan room, the prestigiousness of a large all-terrain and sports dynamics. It is not true, the installation was more like a task of Michurinz selection. Fruit must be tasty, juicy, impervious, large, unpretentious, nutritious, and so that the eyes pleased. Try to grow like this!
 

So, let's see what you guys happen. I spoil on the main road, rebuilding and immediately notice that the necessary rows are broken, only the grandee indicates their intention to turn signals.
 

Whether I didn't hear the morning that I was declared the day of politeness, whether our minivan really trusts himself to someone more mighty than a modest family bus. It turns out, with one of the supplied buildings in Mitsubishi coped.
 

Not least by the merit in this designer team led by Olivier Boule. It was he who is the author of a new French look at Japanese Mayonnaise. Noseged, aggressive outlanders and Lancers of his brainchild. It seems that GrandiC in this company carrying cars carrying a new style of three diamonds is the most harmonious. Huge, length almost with the hood, headlights, reminiscent of giant arrows, at the sports rapid silhouette, garland of fashionable LED lights around the perimeter of a huge toned rear window.
 

However, only one of the talents of the grandi is beautifully able to use himself. Sparks of pleasant surprises He stuffed like grapefruit with vitamins.
    
Five options to choose

Seven GrandiC comes to our market with mechanics or machine gun. In the basic equipment, comfort costs $ 30,790. For this money, you get climate control, power windows and heated mirrors, stereo with CD player, 16-inch light alloy discs, fog lights, 6 airbags, ABS.
 

Fasting $ 1400, you can get a grand-sports (comfort + tinted glass, silver pads in the cabin and trim and lever KP leather, seats velor, backlight in visors, ashtray for seats of the second and third rows and discs on an inch of larger diameter). The same modification with ACP $ 1360 is more expensive.
 

And finally, the top grand-sport for $ 36,750 is a 6-seater salon, only an automatic gearbox, the stabilization system of the trajectory and anti-pussy, the interior trim under the tree and the climate control unit for the second-row passengers.




Who are you really?
If the theater begins with hangers, then acquaint with the car, a clear case, from the door handle. At this Mitsubishi, she, in the imitation of an expensive business sedan, attracts chrome glitter. However, we have a minivan. So, now on close parking, I just use it his sliding door. And then the first surprise: all wickets are swinging ...
 

Oh yeah, how could I forget, the Japanese insisted particularly that they were not a minivan at all. And sport turner. I mean a gambling station wagon. If so, the sliding doors to him, of course, are not laid. Spoiler in the back, the falling roof is just right.
 

Well, oh well, the turner is so turner. Especially since the high body allows you to enter without being flexing into three deaths. Inside, all doubts about class affiliation are scattered as morning fog. Over the head of the ocean places, triangular windows on the sides of the torpedo, panoramic visibility, the central console ends somewhere almost at the front bumper, and behind the back of two rows of seats. So, I am a bus driver. Or maybe it's still a new sacrifice? Here is the landing appropriate commander. In a different way, it is not convenient to settle down: the Japanese decided to save on the height adjustment.
 

But their colleagues who were responsible for the quality of the finish, one can safely check the top five. So successfully give out plastic for a tree from Mitsubishi, perhaps, never happened. This is the most naturally separated by a semicircular central console with a comfortable lever of a machine gun and door handles. And on the steering wheel, so did not regret the skin and polished nut. Similar materials on the richest modifications of large paramero. Maybe this is a sortier?
 

 
Such an exquisitely highlighted dashboard will envy a different concept car


Passengers of the second row have its own climate control unit


No. It is enough to look at the accommodation of passenger seats: a separate hatch in the roof (there is its own front), a separate climate control unit, a bright velor's upholstery of separate elegant chairs with armrests, tables with pneumatic and grandi will already seem a chic large sedan. At the very least, the ability to adjust the angle of inclination is not only the backs, but also the pillows of the seats of the second row (recreation mode) I only have met.

Only no one has a third row of chairs. True for the loop and in front of me two of the Lart, the same from the face. Ready to serve two adults almost any growth and a set.

 
   
On such an impressive (1600 x 1520 mm), even a small sofa will easily fit the loading platform
   
Considered seconds, and the salon turns into two spacious bedroom beds


Having played in the passengers, I am again at the driver's seat. Rotate the key and the dashboard welcomes me with a new flow of design sings. Withstanding the pause, comes to the kare of control lamps, a little weather, the devices are lit by gray-blue glow. Another tenth of a second, and the arrow blame the scarlet light. It remains to be from somewhere from above the voice of the dispatcher: I solve the takeoff.
 



Minivan minivano
Here at this very moment fiction and ends. Under the hood, a completely ordinary 2,4-liter four came to life. Almost the same successfully carries out an outlander. For better elasticity in its design, a system of changing the phases of gas distribution and lifting height of the valve is applied. The motor can boast the impressive (22.1 kgm / 4000 rpm) by a moment. Wow, now frucach!
 

And not there was something ... All because my grandi is equipped with a too awesome 4-speed adaptive automatic machine Inex-II-Sport-Mood. Designed primarily for solid, power, gentlemen, who everywhere did not go anywhere in a hurry, he decides on what revolutions to go to the step above. It even condescendingly makes it possible for such avid thoropeps as I, switch the transfer manually. However, I did not overlook the stubborn character of this allegedly sports second inquins and in two days I found mutual understanding with him only during a slow ride in the city. If you go on the gas, up to 6070 km / h GrandiC rather ripple into battle. But this is its sprint departments and are limited.
 

As if the Japanese breeders did not decide that they were still growing. If a calm, family bus, then him and such an eye over his eyes. But if an athlete ...
 

Quiet at idle, after a 4000 motor turns into a bore, and acceleration begins to resemble the acceleration of long-distance trains, the exhaust from the platform of the Kiev wok hall. I switched manually. Not a bit of gambling. And all because of the stretched gear. It's no joke, 120 km / h on the second ...
 

So, in the soul of our tourer, at best, a long-distance runner of average ability. Well tuned dampers Trailing confidently work out irregularities, even if dispersed to 140150 km / h.
 

But the above is not desirable. wind noise starts to annoy, vertical swinging and then appears, and roll in corners scare.
 

However, I find myself thinking that I was starting to demand too much from the Grandis. 150 What, what buildup? And so he allowed me more than most of his colleagues. And I did not notice that had covered almost a hundred and fifty kilometers. Possibility comfortably, as if slowly, but in fact at high speed carefree conquer any road distance costs.
 

It started to rain opened, by the way, is another plus of this Mitsubishi. With many disease roomy monocab quickly misted high humidity, the rear window (in the cold they also freeze) the car is easy to handle by a quartet of baffles in the roof upholstery.
 

Too bad with the economy is not all that chocolate, as promised by the creators. On average, 9.9 liters per hundred did not happen even with a relatively quiet ride. Judging by the on-board computer, a minivan like a real coupe, with appetite eats 13.4 liters of 95 octane.
 



Shikoku Shikoku?
The same Japanese Michurinist with the price of their wonderful watermelons clearly overdone. It sells them on the island of Shikoku almost a hundred bucks apiece. Until the mass market with such prices, the banner of the case does not reach. Breeders from Mitsubishi such mistakes are not allowed.


Not surprisingly, less than two months of sales sold out 88 cars in Russia. Convenient to the last lever, safe (some pillows six pieces), well equipped even in base, stylish and not fantastically expensive. In Russia, it costs between $ 30 790 to 36 750. In a similar equipping any of his classmates Sharan, C8, 807, Galaxy Voyager expensive. Although, maybe it does not Grandis their customers trying to seduce? But that's for you to decide.

 
PER

Attractive, dynamic exterior, stylish, good workmanship interior, good visibility, effective brakes, high passive safety, generous amenities, comfort fit, ease of transformation of interior, roominess.
AGAINST

The limited configuration and accessories, insufficient sound insulation, modest speaker on the highway, high fuel consumption.
 
Mitsubishi Grandis.

Total information
 
Body (number of places / doors)
Universal (6-7 / 5)
 
Curb weight, kg
1635.
 
Length x Width x Height, mm
4765x1795x1655
 
Base, mm.
2830.
 
Pitch in front / rear, mm
1550/1555
 
Diameter of reversal, m
11.6.
 
Speed, km / h
190.
 
Acceleration time 0100 km / h, with
11.7
 

Fuel consumption, l / 100 km highway / city
8.0 / 13,2
 


Engine
 
Location
Front cross
 
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, row
 
Diam. cylinder x piston stroke, mm
87x100
 
Working volume, SMZ
2378.
 
Power, hp at rpm
165/6000
 
Torque, kgmm at rpm
22.1 / 4000.
 

Chassis
 
Transmission
rear wheel drive
 
Transmission
automatic, 4-speed
 
Suspension:
Independent, with transverse stability stabilizers
 
in front
Type Mac Foodson
 
behind
Multi-type
 
Steering
Rack type with hydraulic
 
Torkemose
Disk, ventilated front
 
Tires
215/55 R17
 
 
Alexey Sergeev, Maxim Goncharov
 

 
 

A source: Journal Buy Auto [13/2004]

Test drives Mitsubishi Grandis since 2004