Test drive Chrysler Voyager 2000 - 2003
The famous traveler
And adult uncles are familiar with a boyish desire to show off: approaching the voyage, I press the button on the key fabric lying in my pocket - and a huge stern door, buzzing with electric drives, swam up. I throw a bag into the hold, I quietly touch the remote control a couple of times - the trunk closes, but the side door rolls smoothly and, passing me into a leather -and -shaped interior, returns to its place with soft buzzing. Grandmothers on the bench sounded with inspiration, the company of teenagers opened their mouths, forgetting about beer for a moment.
In Europe, mini -wen are sold in the Austrian grace, but the roots of the car are American, which means that the scope and maximum comfort. Even an ordinary warrior 4.8 m long is one of the largest in the classroom. What can we say about the test, which has more than five meters between license plates! Yes, even two meters of width, 1.8 m A giant salon allows various layout options - in our car, a pair of individual chairs in the first two rows and a triple sofa behind. There are no protruding thresholds, the floor is absolutely even, and due to the height of the ceiling of 1230 mm inside it is quite easy to go from place to place. There are no restrictions on the dimensions of passengers, you feel at the wheel like in your favorite chair in front of the fireplace. It is a pity that there is nowhere to attach the left leg - there is no site, but the American poker of the automatic box on the steering wheel is unusual. What is curious, the voluminous box between the front seats is rearranged in the middle row: there are special mounts and electrical units. Naturally, the chairs can be folded or dismantled at all, and the sofa should be moved back and forth by 170 mm.
It is easy to imagine, for example, employees or guests of a large company: in the atmosphere of the Voyager they seem to be in a home environment. Behind - a bad trunk who, even in the most constrained form, contains about 400 liters. If you remove the seats, you just get an incredible volume: 4680 l!
However, the Americans are famous not only in size, but also with rich equipment. Our warrior worth 44.6 thousand euros in the Limited configuration to match the representative of the representative class - only an all -wheel drive version is more expensive. For example, having identified the owner, the traveler will automatically restore adjustments to the seat, mirrors and audio systems. By the way, the latter, in addition to the tuner, CD player, amplifier and eight speakers, also includes a six-disc CD changer, and the system control is duplicated on the steering wheel. Numerous smart functions can be programmed to your liking: automatic locking of doors, the duration of the accompanying lights in the headlights (up to 90 s), the delay in turning the servo drives after turning off the ignition (up to 45 s); You can choose one of the five languages \u200b\u200bof communication with the board.
The climatic installation here is a three -zone with a separate remote control for the rear passengers. It’s easier for them, but I had to remember every now and then, which of the two twin remiles controls the climate, and which is music. Naturally, advanced safety systems: ABS, Track Control, as well as belt pretense, smart frontal pillows, the degree of filling of which depends on the speed of collision, as well as side pillows. Incidentally, the warrior has a fairly original suspension: if the front is the usual macsons, then the back is a strong beam on two long one -leaf springs. And in order to exclude the transverse movement of the bridge, Panar's thrust is established. By the way, additional equipment includes rear shock absorbers with automatic maintenance of a road clearance - it was precisely these who stood on a test car.
Remember the joke: and now the pilot of the first class of Sidorov will try to raise all this into the air? Very similar to my feelings before the trip. Nothing happened. If you are not distracted by all sorts of little things, fights, it is quite possible to go even in the capital's crowding. Of course, you need to get used to the impressive dimensions of the Grand Prix, but his character turned out to be flexible and uninterfected, and the behavior of the steppe: light steering wheel, soft pedals, slightly
accelerator pedal, powerful brakes slowed down. Ten minutes later, he relaxed, as in a rest room: he calmly and peacefully rolled in the middle row, condescendingly watching the nervous vanity around. Sometimes, however, he allowed himself to step on the pedal under the outbreak of green to feel the powerful and even rod of the V-shaped six. However, the flight compartment with frightening fuel consumption figures instantly cooled my impulses - only a long suburban walk allowed to hold the average consumption at the level of 18.5/100 km, and in the city not to meet in the city. We will be objective: 174 l. with. With 3.3 liters of working volume - the indicator is far from record, although for a mini -wen, perhaps more important is a high torque of 278 N.M. The motor is very moderately forced, easily digesting any gasoline - from ninety -one to the ninety -eighth, nevertheless, the intervals between either American are small - every six months or 12 thousand km. And for difficult operating conditions - dust, dirt, low temperatures, driving in traffic jams and short distances - even three months or 4800 km! So in Moscow all these troubles, together or separately, are found all year round ...
Brief data
Chrysler Grand Voyager
Mini-wen Voyager (traveler) appeared in the program of Chrysler in 1983. In 1990, 1995 and 2001 New generations of the car that became popular were presented. The identical model is produced under the name Dodge Caravan, the production of Plymut-Voyader has been stopped. The drive is the front or complete, standard or elongated (Grand Voyager) base, the richest version is called Town and Country. Equipped with gasoline engines 2.4; 3.3 and 3.8 liters, as well as a 2.5-liter turbodiesel, a manual gearbox or automatic.
For twenty years, ten million of the cult mini-wen have been released. Today, the capacity of three enterprises in Europe and America is 2766 vehicles per day.
In Russia, Chrysler Voyager/›Chrysler Voyager costs from 30.9 to 47.9 thousand euros. The cost of a test car is 44.6 thousand euros.
On the roof there are two mobile crosses for long -sized cargo.
A spacious interior, soft chairs, an excellent review - why not an express long -distance track?
The control panels of the audio system (above) and climate (below) are similar as brothers.
A huge salon easily accommodates seven. Original solution: The nozzle nozzle is built into the stop-signal repeater.
For transporting voluminous cargo, the rear sofa can be moved forward by 170 mm, folded its back or dismantle it.
EQUIPMENT
Abs
Anti -boom system
Side airbags
Air conditioning
Climate control
Adjustable steering column
Fog lights
Audiosystem
A full -sized spare wheel of height, five huge doors and a equipped mass of more than two tons. It seems to be called a mini-wan by inertia; This is rather maxi-wen.
Yuri Nechetov. Photo: Konstantin Yakubov
A source: The magazine "Driving"
