Test Drive SsangYong Musso Sports 1998 - 2005 SUV

Rhinoceros for horns

Polyglots claim that the Korean Mussian is translated as a rhinoceros. You have to believe on the word somehow it did not work out with me to learn Korean. And with a cute animal, until recently, it was not possible to communicate. But here is the four-wheeled creation of Korean automakers Mussian sports.
 
SsangYong Musso Sports /\u003e SsangYong Musso Sports
A car with a bodie of a pickup is built on the basis of Sanong-Mussian sazvnik, the power units produced a Mercedes-Benz license.
Engine: Turbodiesel 2.9 L (120 hp).
Transmission: 5-speed mechanical, 4-speed automatic.
Required: M29M01, M29M21, M29A21.
Price in Russia: $ 21,99025 390.
Test car: 120 hp, automatic, complete set M29A21, $ 25 390.
 
 
Still, there is something related from the animal and the car an impressive size, low raised over the ground of the BUUO, Rog Kangurin on the nose. Both do not look beautiful, perhaps even a little terrible, but one charming, and the other, iron, leaves you indifferent.
 
As a person with the average dimensions, I will fit Mussian salon. The seat can be moved back to a couple of clicks, raise the steering wheel, and the elbows do not fight about the armrest and the doorproof. But people will be more bigger than the pillow of the chair, they definitely do not need it, especially since his lever moves one left not easy.
 
But behind, unlike many classmates, not closely. No, not spacious, like in a limousine, but still knees do not rest in the back of the front armchair: three in the measure of the fastened will be in the second row without passing. True, the freedom in the back seat was allotted at the body
 
What cute bells seem to be not a rhino saddled, but sat down in the top three with the bubbers! Jingle Bells reminds that the key is inserted into the ignition castle. I'll buy a motor, and as in a mobile phone, melodic trills replaces the rhythmic vibration. Diesel, though Mercedesovsky, but far from modern, especially when it is cold, jump on the seat in the tact with pistons. But you immediately understand: under you there is not some car, but a real pickup.
 
Do you know, how fast is the rhino run? Despite its complex, this good sprinter develops up to 50 km / h. Korean Mussian more reminiscent of Stayer. The Diesel's trap is slowly spinning, the machine smoothly moves the transmissions. Submitting an example of many modern boxes with an incredible number of steps, the gas pedal reacts immediately. After playing the button located next to the switching selector, serious changes in the behavior in winter (Winter), not in sports mode (Power) did not feel.
 
In the country track, the rhino turned out to be quite peaceful animals. I did not argue with Jaguar, politely giving him the road. That's right, on the smooth road, the surrounding fauna will give Mussian a solid odd. Although on the standards of a pickup, he behaves decently at speed about a hundred you speak in a low voice. Rolls in the turns are absolutely not frightened, the suspension for the truck is unusual soft, however, in the ramka there are many shoes from the bumps and pits. And that before the brakes, fortunately, stop the runner rhino much easier than overclocking.
 
I do not even want to go with asphalt. Won on the color of the bumper bumper seleet marks. It is not excluded, someone has already experienced a pick-up pickup and hurt a delicate plastic branch or a dense snowdrift.
 
And yet the minimum road clearance under the front and rear suspensions is not very large, 190 mm, so it is to flour on a belly and caress Korean rhino loves. You can not be afraid to damage something from below: the protection is ahead, behind the massive bridge. In general, serious off-road is better to go around, and the four-wheel drive will help take a slippery climb or crawl into a shallow rut.
 
In recent years, the number of wild rhins has declined sharply. The number of mechanical relatives in Russia is also negligible. Will it increase? On the one hand, serious zoologists from Severstal car work on it. With a different rhino, you will have to divide the territory with strong rivals. Natural selection, you know.

SsangYong Musso Sports /\u003e SsangYong Musso Sports Pickup Outlook, but not essentially. Not a cargo sacrifice, but a full-wheel-water five-seater car with a large open trunk.
 
+ Diesel, clear operation of a machine gun, good review, decent smoothness for a truck.
- an undeveloped brand, controversial appearance, modest size of the cargo branch.
 
Maxim Sachkov
 
 
 
   
 

 
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"