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Great Wall Hover H5 VS Renault Duster. Time is money…

When the potential buyer Renault Duster finds out that it will have to wait almost two years old, he involuntarily wonders: what else can you buy for similar money with a much smaller period of waiting, and even at all on the day of circulation?
In our opinion, the Great Wall Hover H5 can be so alternative.
RENAULT DUSTER 2.0 MT. Price: 681 000 r. On sale: since 2012
Great Wall Hover H5 2.4 MT. Price: 748 000 r. On sale: since 2011
Oleg Kalaushin, a journalist, 42 years old, driving experience of 23 years, rides Renault Logan.
Indeed, if we consider DUSTER in the maximum configuration and with all sorts of dealerships, the price is almost equal to the sum that you need to lay out for Hover H5 with similar options. Plus, you will become the owner of a real SUV, not a crossover. But is everything so easy? We will understand together, especially since we have such an opportunity.
Here they are, handsome. One such as welcome for many and, alas, inaccessible in the near future due to explicit mistakes in marketing policies. The second is much more real, but with Made in China stigm. And now this SUV is now released from us, all one inscription this will still be associated with us as a stigma, and not a quality mark. However, I want justice to remember that another fifteen years ago exactly the same attitude from our consumer was to Korean cars ... But we were distracted.
 
So, Duster. You will not say anything, good hell. Okay, driven, firmly sewn. Moreover, from which side, see, the car looks very proportionally. Summary. With such as they say, it is not scary and the wall on the wall go. Hover less daring. Approve this SUV more urban look, the designers had a bear service. The front rounded part dissonates with a rectangular profile and chopped rear features. In this regard, the holistic image does not develop. However, this opinion is more subjective. So it's time to move to objective factors that may indicate either for, or against this car in the light of consideration of it as a financial and temporary alternative to Duster.

The trunk is quite spacious
To start Hover, much more french long. And if this is not particularly noticeable in the passenger part of the cabin, then throwing into the fifth door, you realize that the trunk is much more here. The numbers are also talked about. Therefore, if you first need to carry, and not to go, then it definitely wins Hover. In addition, with the folded backs of the rear seats, the floor here is more even due to the fact that the seats also lean. Duster can only drop backs. By the way, due to the fact that Hover's body rests on the frame, and the rear sink is quite large, it hangs from it from below, and the all-wheel drive Duster lies in the trunk and is quite seriously eating its volume. (In modifications with front-wheel drive, the reserve hangs from the bottom, due to which the trunk becomes much more spacious.)

Without such an attribute, the modern crossover can no longer do
Since now I went about the body's design, it is worth noting another parameter, which may somehow affect the choice of the car. The fact is that when framework design, the floor level in cars is much higher than their fellow with the bearing body. In this regard, the landing in Hover will have to get used to. The seats relative to the floor level are pretty low, and the planting process in the car causes some inconvenience. With Duster there are no such problems: what is called, standing entered, standing out. Is that when falling down the leg you have to exhibit far further than the usual, in order not to stain caviar about the threshold.

Contrary to fears, the windows control unit does not interfere with the driver's foot
Considering Hover as an alternative to Duster, anyone involuntarily led the issue of ergonomics of these cars. Let's just say that there is no obvious miscalculation. In any case, when transplanting from one car to another (and during the test, it was not one tens of times) there were no problems with the settings of the machine under ourselves, and everything and everything was literally the first time, so that in this respect the car is very similar. Even the light management of both on the steering wheel. It is similar in the machines and the smell: the skin smells the same, and, by the way, the notorious Chinese fragrance in the Hover salon is not.
Being pretty close by price, close cars and power. So, DUSTER with its two liters has 135 liters. p., Hover can boast already 136, however, the engine volume is 2.4 liters, which is very well affected on the torque: it has a Chinese higher and is available in a wider range of crankshaft revolutions. Hover, due to the presence of a frame and large dimensions, much harder DUSTER, but it does not prevent him from possessing almost similar dynamic characteristics. Tell me, can you determine the difference in 0.6 seconds on the eye? So we didn't feel particularly. Although it should be noted that hover overclocking is more basically. Apparently, insufficient sound insulation affects.
On the road, Duster feels no doubt. Independent suspension, a rather adequate steering amplifier, all this allows you to control the car on the highway without much difficulty. Hover is less adapted to dynamic driving. The steering wheel is practically devoid of feedback, the torsion front and spring rear with the continuous bridge of confidence suspension at speed, especially in turns, are also not added. But if you do not demand more than what it can, and keep constructive features in the mind, which cannot not affect the behavior of Hover, it is quite comfortable to move on it.
 
Highlighting a four-wheel drive, the future owner of the car anyway plans to exploit it outside of public roads. So, not to check these cars in such conditions we simply could not. As expected, Duster felt nicely and on the capping. Short front and rear skes allowed him to ride a wavy track. The energy-intensive suspension was easily coped with serious irregularities, the shock absorbers quickly quenched the resonant body fluctuations, and the steering allowed even under such conditions to clearly prescribe the intended trajectory. Hover in this respect more inert. A pretty heavy body, squeezedly dancing on the wave, and then it was necessary to catch the brakes, in order not to make a belly on the next tubercle. But there was a substantial plus here. A longer freight suspension allowed to be based on the surface by all four wheels, while DUSTER in such a position with two wheels hung in the air. Confidently felt Hover and on Kosoyrats. The presence of a lower row in the transmission made it possible to drive there, where Duster could fly only from overclocking, and then not the first time. And although the last Cropped first transmission is designed to perform the role of reinstate, all one with a full-fledged handout with a downgrading nearby she does not compare.

Rear view camera Pleasant addition to the audio system
So what's the result? And as a result, the following. With an equal price, these cars have no equal opportunities, which means choosing a car, you need to clearly understand what you want from it. Only after that you can make a decision in favor of money or time.

A downgrain in the transmission is a very useful thing on off-road

The trunk is much larger than Duster
 
rENAULT DUSTER 681 000 r.
Driving
Independent suspension and tracked motor allow pretty vigor to ride both around the city and around the country highway. Outside the roads, of course, lacking Redea.
Salon
Not large, but not small, quite enough trunk.
Comfort
Not bad insulation, and the suspension is very short enough.
Security
Four airbags and ABS.
Price
At such a price, find a real competitor is difficult.

Great Wall Hover H5 748 000 r.
Driving
There is some inertia on the highway, and it falls in the turns rather strongly, but on the off-road car really very good.
Salon
Quite spacious and quite modern. I am glad and the large volume of the trunk.
Comfort
Noise insulation could be more serious.
Security
Two airbags and ABS.
Price
Pretty attractive.
Verdict
Renault Duster is undoubtedly good, especially if you appeal to the price of the car. However, no less interesting and quite attractive at the price and Great Wall Hover H5. Making a choice in favor of one or another car, you need to clearly understand that the first is initially focused on the city, and the second on the suburbs. And here it is already worth thinking where most of the time you are going to exploit this car, on the highway or away from it.
 

A source: Journal 5 Wheel [July 2012]