CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER test drive since 2000 SUV
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Who has more In the States on such large jeeps, women of families of families usually go. Ride slowly into the supermarket to slow down the whole trunk of fast food semi-finished products and pop up for the child after school. With the asphalt, it is never moved from the asphalt, but the type of actuator did not hear a layer (there are also rear-wheel drive versions of each of three models!). With this approach, the potential of the machine is used by percent for thirty. And sorry cars are capable of greater.
All three playing on one field on American standards. These are medium-sized SUVs, the class is very common. All three state corporations have in their arsenal for such a car. But if Ford and Chevrolet, produced since 2001, are well acquainted and repeatedly fell on the pages of our magazine, then Jeep for one season has not yet managed to take it away and is of particular interest.
If you look at the entire Trinity more closely, we can see that Shevi is the longest, most powerful, and at the same time he has the least engine volume and only six cylinders against eight from competitors. Ford is the only one of the three seventeen, and over the expensive it is higher. And the Grand is the most European on design, the company DaimlerChrysler. The Cherokee has a permanent four-wheel drive, unlike the two other purebred yokes, where the base layout is classical, and the front is connected by the TOD system, and they do not have any inter-axis differential.
Who would doubt that the glass of the fifth door is obliged to spark up autonomously. This is based on the conditions of the game: is it not a big SUV in order to throw in its depths with purchases? It should also be as many cup holders as possible in it, so as not to refuse themselves in a liter glass of the sticky of soda. In addition, it will be useful on the racks of the handrails to grab about them on the bumps. Yes, I almost forgot the pedal knot just obliged to be with an electrical industry! For some reason it is believed that it is easier and cheaper than adjusting the steering outlet. Well, oh well these are their American mentality.
Ford is the most massive of the whole Trinity, and is not wonderful that for landing the external steps the subject is quite relevant. But inside the most spacious. At least in front. Highly sit far looking far about it. But about what is happening from behind you have to guess. Kutsum, incomprehensible cut-off side mirrors are complemented by waste racks and a huge head restraint for the fifth passenger. Yes, in the close urban stream, Explorer may be an elephant in the dishwasher. And what about the case in the second row? In such a large car there should be spacious. At first glance, it is. Although it is better to make sure that on your own. But in this case, the practice does not confirm the theory. The rear door of the narrow, the feet of the saddle are not closed under the front chair, and the ceiling, despite the rise above the head, still presses on the top of the top (at least me). The most unpleasant ergonomic nuance hooks for clothing from solid plastics, compiled on the rack accumulate from the head of the extreme sedals of the second row. And on the uneven road, this barley continuously buys you to the temple. If I were an American, I would have sued the court for the attempt on my physical (and taking into account the potential wound and mental) health.
TrailBlazer from the whole of the Trinity is the most fancy. It is all at hand and in shape nothing annoys. But on the texture of the material full seams. All plastic parts are fabricated in experimental vehicles for difficult teenagers. Motion quality ranges in the range of ratings from very mediocre to terrific. But still, if you do not edge the instrument panel, but a look around the eye, if possible on the road, the irritation disappears and the two outputs. The first: visibility here at a decent level. And the second from the trail among the whole Trinity is space in the cabin. True, on the second row for two, threesome are closed. Apparently, the child of the acouting age should be located in the middle, since even the head restraint is not there, and therefore, it is more convenient to use a salon mirror. But neither the head nor the knees are not covered in anything, and, that is nice, you can even look at the road on top of the crown of the front rides.
The new Grand Cherokee on the stuffing has become a completely European. Even the wiper control is submitted to the right-hand driven lever. And here you do not have to break your head over the algorithm of the work of the front and rear janitors. At Jeep, unlike Shevi and Ford, who are annoyed by the mysteriousness of a series of turns and pressures needed for various modes of operation, the interface of the entire dashboard is very logical. Liked the front armchairs: deep, evenly distributing the load, with decent lateral support. Plastic worse panel What is called Soft Look, soft on appearance, solid to the touch. From the point of view of visibility and sensation of dimensions, the car is most adequate. Getting to the second row easily, but the legs are still not enough. Although the previous generations of Grande was even more closer.
All three represented cars have a lot of common, non-other qualities. Of the advantages, good dynamics and solid, sonorous roar of large-grade engines. Of the minuses of clogs when braking, rolled and empty steering wheel. Do not forget about your appetite in the city you are guaranteed consumption above 20 l / 100 km.
Despite the dynamics similar in numbers, the sensations of drivers are different. So, Explorer seems much more sweened. Explanation of a simple speed in it is most noticeable. But this is not annoying, but rather, it's too much. It has an active start, with squatting on the rear wheels, and therefore, with unloading controlled front. With a full gas transfer gas, we are prompted quite quickly, without inflatable. On the variables of the same modes to force Ford to switch as you want, it is not easy. Drop speeds, and with the fourth to cross the third you do not want it means that the motor is not braked. And manual control of the box here, of course, no. I wonder how, say, descend from the mountain serpentine? And what about kick-down? We give sharply on the gases, again, Ford first makes an attempt to unleash on the same gear, but if it does not work, reluctantly pushes the bottom.
Chevrolet in this respect is more sensitive. He is the most powerful of all three. And the most passenger in charge. The behavior of the car in acceleration is directly related to the gas pedal. But the Grand Cherokee has this dependence weaker. Here or the pedal is pressed until it stops, or there is almost no nuances completely released. Want to quickly come forth! But boxes and chevy, and Jeep are quite sensitive and fast.
From the point of view of brake dynamics, more or less adequate. Is that Ford slightly slows down to slow down. But compared to the past exploitor, whose pedal had to be dried to the floor for a slowdown, and preferably two or three times, the current simply sample.
With the handling of large Americans, everything was always somewhat launched. That's just important to what extent. For this, it is slightly deepening into the design features of our triple. Grand Cherokee has a permanent four-wheel drive with an inter-sieve differential. The other remaining the main drive rear. There is an AUTO position, with the help of a coupling, the plug-in front axle when slipping one of the rear wheels. And if you want to use 4x4 mode, you will have to be content with a trimmed range of the car's use, do not gape quickly, not quickly drive. And then without the mid-scene differential rubber, the transmission is tolerated, and from the road to fly for a short time. This is theory. The practice of trips on Ford and Chevrolet shows that at least some raw or snow-covered surface, both cars feel very comfortable. Do not really do the steering wheel, and the reaction of the machine on the steering steering action is delayed. Then I still turn to the laid mode 4x2. For Ford, this passes almost unnoticed. And Chevrolet is expressed in the appearance of very sensitive reactions on the steering wheel. This is a surprisingly large car with a powerful hydraulicer, and it can be very accurate. Another thing, if you put it into a skid. In turn, as nothing to do, give the Gat and Trail went to the tail. There is no longer before the filigree of management, but the plus-minus of the half meter can be used by the fan on the prience and even catch at the end. If the nerves are tired of taking themselves, the turnover is easy to straighten the trajectory. Specific classic layout! Who likes it to chase so much.
With Ford Such Games can not end. It is harder to put sideways, but if they were broken, then the calas reminds the Mammoth in the Silk. Especially hard it turns out on a mixer car flies somewhere with uncontrollable zeal. And if the road is still in pins, then in the turn of Explorer under the action of centrifugal strength, slowly rearranges the legs on an increasing radius.
Something like this happens with the Grand. Hard rear axle, with a transverse burden of Panar, even on the smooth surface jumpers on the bumps and strives for rearrangement of the machine outward turning. But the turns themselves pass easily and pleasantly a permanent four-wheel drive and electronic fools of freedom do not allow the jeep toastic. From the point of view of the speaker, it also makes the impression that the Jeep engine is specifically dull and the machine does not issue that overclocking, which you expect 4.7 liters from the motor. Although, perhaps, the reason in the best of all three smoothness and acoustic protection. Speed \u200b\u200bjust grows.
Since all three full-fledged frames off-roads, they must be periodically released to post the dirt, and then they lose their primitive skills. For the absence of dirt in the winter season, it is necessary to be content with snow. Although for the purpose of machines and at least the bumper is even better. Yes, and fade easier cease to wave a shovel and immediately freeze. So, do not scout.
The highest hopes assigned to Ford. Therefore, he first and sat down. The villages tight and tightly in the procrast rut. The wheels flung somewhere under the level of the rolled surface and began to rotate helplessly. The heavy machine lay down on the belly, and the engine was the most problematic place. The obvious reason for the landing seems to be just short levers of the rear independent suspension. Her here was trained in many ways for the sake of compactness and place the third row of seats. But it is minus for passability. In general, I had to look for a tractor.
TrailBlazer slipped the same path with honor, and without the urges to bite. But in areas with steep external inflection arose problems. And without the low thresholds, crowned with decorative steps, quickly clung to the soil and braked the movement. Although there is no big consequences such a local meeting. As a rule, it is possible to break back or solve the problem in a couple of minutes of operation with a sperm blade. Yes, and the long rear Sve chevrolet geometric passability does not add.
Jeep did not instill in us a special confidence in his jeeper properties painfully the urban appearance. But, as it turned out, only meet the clothes. The Grand Cherokee had a long stroke of the suspension, a high torque on minimal, pulling revolutions, and the largest corners of the ramp, a congress and entry. Moreover, the apron of the front bumper is easily cleaned, and then you can storm very high thresholds, inaccessible to competitors. But even if this is not to know, this apron is not sorry and it is made of soft black plastic, and it is difficult to reorder.
In the present case, priorities were set up unequivocally, and comforting phrases like this one is good in one, and that in the other are not suitable. It is necessary to state: Explorer, of course, a good car, and compared with his predecessor made a big step forward. But in this test, he is inferior to its competitors. Chevrolet can be boldly to put the second, and Jeep was so pleased with us (except prices) within the framework of this genre that we will try to ride it soon and with other competitors. But I will say honestly, they will have not easy.
Text Vladimir Smirnov Photo Leonid Deduch
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