Test Drive UAZ Patriot 2005 - HB SUV
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UAZ - tomorrow will be tomorrow Ask drivers as they imagine the UAZ, and the answers will be surprisingly similar: the 469th, commander, a goat is the brand name of the Ulyanovsky Automobile Plan. One hundred percent recognition of the machine with an exemplary biography of personnel military, excellent passability and holy simplicity of design - it is such a UAZ that everyone knows.
Many of the current owners of much more prestigious machines recall the UAZ together with the army weekdays, student construction and other romantics of youth. So there are automotive legends. But in order to occur, the legend was not forgotten overnight, not only the inventive work of the factory press service is required. Successful cars make talk about themselves more than advertising - we are trusted with free garage stories rather than expensive television rollers (although the truth there is a little there!). But still, they will not leave the myths: the story requires continuation - and new cars.
From the exhibition - in the series?
Hardly anyone calling UAZ 3160 by his handsome man, especially in the form, in which cars are going from the conveyor. The Body UAZ 3160 was created in the NTC Vase, and the community with the ugly Elsa of the Domestic Auto industry - the Vazovskaya Tent is visible to the naked eye. But if due to the mass production to the appearance of the Togliatti car, everything is accustomed to the Ulyanovsky all-terrain vehicle, apparently, not to avoid a serious cosmetic operation.
So, the star of the Moscow Motor Show is a symbir of UAZ 31622 (he is on the cover of the number). The new design of the front and the extended rut made the 62nd (see SM, 2000, No. 7, 11) much more attractive externally, and the new instrument panel - from the inside. How far is
exhibition car from mass production? What are the closest perspectives? We accrace these questions for the acting director for the development of OAZ UAZ Alexei Nikulina. And so I learned. Perspective 3162.
Appearance is important, but not all determines. The new front is too expensive and at first will appear only on parts of exclusive cars. There will be no cheap machines of the family 3162 - otherwise they will be unprofitable. Price from $ 8500 for the basic version to $ 15-18 thousand for full minced. The car for that kind of money should have appropriate quality, and therefore the focus - aggregates. First of all, the gearbox and dispensing box - there are more problems here. Thanks to the new equipment for grinding the teeth, the quality of the processing of the gear should increase - the hum of the Gul and the Circle of Transmission will disappear. And the main thing - the resource of the dispensing will increase at least up to 250 thousand km.
The power unit of the real alternative is not - ZMZ-409 today is the only motor, at least somehow satisfying the requirements of the plant. Environmental standards dictate the transition to the injection system with a neutralizer - without them it is impossible to fulfill Euro II. For a relatively expensive car, an ecological appendage is small. Ulyanovsky Motor UMW-249 has chances only with proper quality and low price - to invest in the Volga motors. The current owner of 60% of UAZ shares is not going to (recall that the plant belongs to Severstal). With a diesel engine is more difficult. The upgrade ZMZ-514 is designed only for UAZ 3160, for long cars, he, frankly, is weak - too small working volume. The prospects for Shattier on UAZ do not believe, fearing that in fully domestic performance its quality and reliability will be insufficient. Import aggregates are good all, but too expensive.
A five-speed gearbox is also required, without it economic performance of the car leaves much to be desired. The current design with an appropriate fifth transmission crankcase will give way to a new box with a special switching scheme (the first and reverse transmission opposite each other), designed to drive off off-road. It will happen in the middle of the year, but it does not have to talk about the complete replacement of old aggregates, the process is obviously stretched for two or three years.
However, work is underway to apply imported boxes and disasters for top versions. The clutch is only imported: the ability of the car is depends on its reliability, and therefore the savings are inappropriate here, especially since the price will increase no more than $ 60.
Perspective 31520. How will the heir to the 469 th, exactly is still unknown. Direct door with sliding window - step, of course, a radical, but too expensive: it would require the manufacture of the new body side. Likely to be limited to the new extensions with sliding glass doors, and there will be full sealing openings. Powertrain - ZMZ-409, gearbox four- or five-bridges with one-piece crankcase type Spicer, disc brakes on the front wheels - with the new motor can not be without them.
VIEW FROM commentary booth
UAZ 15 thousand for green? Toyota Land Cruiser 100 in a simple configuration without customs service costs about 25 thousand (after Customs 40). And this is not a cheap car, a clear leader in the class, owner of excellent reputation, besides more prestige. It turns out that without customs barriers, our factories - not tenants.
Today, UAZ reminds Vasnetsov Knight at the Crossroads to the prophecy in stone. Just go - you will find death, to the right - the horse will lose, on the left ... This is - a fairy tale. In fact, on the stone is written as a direct ehoti, there is no way any carriageway or-flight or passer ... One is forced to think about.
UAZ 31622 *
GENERAL INFORMATION: The number of places - 6; curb weight - 2040 kg; gross weight - 2840 kg; Dimensions (L x W x H) - 4720h2060h2065 mm; base - 2760 mm; maximum speed - 150 km / h. ENGINE: ZMZ-409.10, Petrol, with the distributed injection; working volume - 2.7 l; Power - 101 kW / 137 l. With. at 4400 rev / min; maximum torque - 228 Nm at 4000 r / min.
Preliminary data.
TEXT / Anatoly Fomin
PHOTO / ALEXANDER POLUNIN
A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"
