Test Drive Mitsubishi Grandis since 2004 Minivan
After Lunch
Mitsubishi Grandis Minivan Business Class
Coffee was excellent, the conversation is useful. But the car in which my interlocutor patiently waited for the driver and two cute employees, turned out to be tightly locked by other machines. (In Moscow, it becomes already somehow natural disaster). To ride late to the presentation of a business partner, besides along the way, an excellent completion of the meeting, I decided. And soon in the luggage compartment of Grandis turned out to be a compact stand, a diaperoctor and a pair of packs of waste paper. And on the two seats of the second row, two shrinking girls, for some reason who left me at the end of the trip their phones, which I needed to write down ... Promotion
After putting on the Cabinet of Drivers, my fellow traveler finally drew attention to the car in which I was driving. And, above all, noted the convenience of landing in minivan. In response, I admitted that only a couple of hours ago I was driving this car, but I already received some impressions. Driving seat, for example, well profiled. It is equipped with a minimum mechanical adjustment of the longitudinal, height of the pillow and the tilt of the back, but the range is large enough. The steering wheel is tilted forward, and I needed fifteen minutes already during the movement to take the optimal position.
The Baranca seems to require that the owner itself bes: it is covered with soft light skin, upper and lower parts made of natural dark wood. For a hired driver, too large luxury, and, for my taste, her appearance is slightly disconed with plastic inserts in the door and on the center console under the light tree, and even more so with a dark gray front panel. However, the plastic is high-quality, and the two buttons and three silver killers control unit of the climate control system definitely decorate the panel. Immediately under them radio with CD player. Even below the handle of the ACP. Grandis, like most other modern minivans, has no separation tunnel: it provides additional space in the cabin and at the same time improves driver's ergonomics. My bastard liked the layout of the top of the center console with a small niche in which you can put glasses, a phone or a pack of cigarettes, and with a side computer monochrome screen. The screen shows the most diverse information from the air temperature overboard, to medium speed, mileage without refueling and mode of operation of the audio center. I drew his attention to the unusual color decoration of the instrument panel: blue scales, white numbers and red arrows original and tastefully.
At some point I caught myself thinking that I would communicate with a partner as a sales manager, promoting the goods, with a potential client. And his interest in the car clearly increased, there were more and more questions. I could not answer everything and immediately, asking to wait until this newspaper number arrives at him as to the subscriber.
No delays
At the conversation, we somehow imperceptibly jumped into operational space, and I gave the will with a 2,4-liter motor endowed with the 165th forces. Here my interlocutor was silent on half a minute, and then said: noisy, however! There is a feeling, especially if you transplanted in a minivan from the sedan of the representative class. But Grandis demonstrates the durability, and it is not more difficult to control it than an ordinary wagon with the drive on the front wheels. The 4-speed ACP provides quite comfortable movement around the city, which does not suffer thoughtfully and quickly adapts under the individual driving style. In addition, the machine allows you to manually switch from one stage to another, for which the lever must be shifted to the left, closer to the driver. Moreover, in this mode, even when the maximum speed is reached, the electronics will not turn on the driver for the driver, it must independently push the lever upwards. Only when braking, the computer takes care of the transition to a lower step. In short, the transmission is configured quite competently.
The engine thanks to the branded system of changing phases of gas distribution has even characteristics, guaranteeing confident movement in any situations, although it exhibits its fighting character after 3500 rpm. Then there is noise in the cabin. However, the speed is well heard and rustling of tires, and tapping suspensions on the crystal. But there is a certain plus: potholes and irregularities of the road canvases are heard, but not felt. And in the turns of Grandis behaves well done, not allowing unnecessary rolls and demonstrating good stability. Designers as much as possible lowered the center of gravity, which, along with a long wheelbase, makes a car little sensitive both to the waves on the asphalt and the side wind.
In general, I had to taste and setting the steering. Perhaps, for a fan of an active ride, the ram and will seem not sharp enough, but, the right of the word, this is the minivan, and not a sports unit. Meanwhile, the hydraulic agent allows you to rotate the wheel at least a finger when parking, and at high speeds, it provides quite acceptable informativeness of the steering wheel as much as waiting as much as you expect. So go fast, rebuild, so as not to be late, Grandis is quite capable. So my travelers got to the presentation site exactly on time. Well, and girls?
The girls gave high gradis rating in the six-seat version and the maximum configuration of Intense Sport. They pushed separate seats of the second row as much as possible, stretched out the legs, put their hands on the armrests, and stated that they could go with us at least to Paris. We, let's say so, did not accept, starting to argue about the functionality of the minivan.
In this trip, the third row of seats was complicated, forming a smooth floor. But even if they decompose them (pulled the seat for one lever rose and fixed in the right position, the back of the second), the volume of the trunk will be 320 liters. Lifting, the seats release a niche like. If the third row is not needed, and the second row, lifting the seat cushions, move close to the front chairs, is released as much as 1545 liters. Finally, you can get rid of the rear seats at all, turning the minivan into a delivering van. For consupporting functionality does not except the sliding rear doors. But that, perhaps, not the best way to affect the external attractiveness of the car. Author exterior, Olivier Boulay, knew what he was doing. We can only regret that he is no longer in the Mitsubishi. After Grandis looks very impressive. The company argued that the basic idea of \u200b\u200bBoulay learned from the Japanese culture. Perhaps. Although the car looks and cosmopolitan as designed to meet the tastes of different people and in different parts of the world, it is quite original. Grandis full face is very similar to a full-sized wagon with a sporty character. However, the profile and the more feed left no doubt in his social class. From large original lamps on the rear rack, from tinted glass (depending on version) breathes solidity, even something American. So, probably, and should be a minivan business-class, designed and large families, and corporate clients.
serious competitor
Since I promised partner, I tell about the prices. Mitsubishi Grandis proposed authorized dealers at a price of 30,790 dollars. It is so much worth a seven-seater minivan (instead of two separate seats of the second row seat will be calculated and displayed on three in parts) with a manual gearbox, iron wheels, climate control and a lot of other things that to learn more about the seller. The tested car is sold for $ 36 750, with almost everything you need, including alloy wheels, electronic stability system, chrome mirrors and door handles, climate control for the rear passengers and more. In general, vehicles such as the VW Sharan and the Chrysler Voyager has appeared a serious competitor.
3 year warranty or 100,000 kilometers.
... We ought to call one of those girls and did not appear to know whether their company Grandis?
Andrei Osipov
Brief specifications Mitsubishi Grandis
Engine capacity, cu. See .: 2378
The number of valves per cylinder 4
Power l. with. when vol. / min .: 165/6000
Max. Torque Nm / at vol. min .: 217/4000
Acceleration to 100 km / h, with .: 10.0 (11.7)
Maximum speed, km / h: 200 (190)
Fuel consumption l. / 100 km .: 9.3 (9.9)
Fuel tank, 65 l .:
Dimensions in mm .: 4765h1795h1655
In parentheses are the data for the version with automatic transmission
A source: The paper "Proceedings of Automotive» [№14 (60), 2004]
