Test drive Great Wall Hover H5 since 2011 SUV

The Chinese made the new Great Wall Hover invulnerable to criticism

The new HOVER H5 with a 2.4 L engine and manual transmission guarantees only one more life you will find yourself in paradise. Do not count on more ... In the first two days, a test drive of a Chinese novelty, you think you will write a huge article and do it easily and quickly.

But on the third day, impressions are abruptly subsided. On the fourth you forget at all, what you arrived at, you don’t even remember the fifth whether you rode or walked. In the sixth in the morning you hand over the car to the representative office and silently sit all day at the computer unable to write a couple of offers. Until I understood what was the matter, I even thought that it was time to change the profession. Everyone arrived, signed up, the career of the car journalist ended, they will have to go to the spammers, the time is suitable, they just had the main figure and a full mess on the market.

Have you caught up with?
But then I understood. The evolution of Chinese cars has been going on one path for several years, to catch up with a clearly defined word. We wrote a lot about this, and finally a list of variations possible within the framework of a given angle was exhausted. Yes, they slowly and correctly catch up with developed manufacturers of machines, and it will not be an exaggeration to say that this process will last an arbitrarily long time. Perhaps they will be in the fairway of automotive industry all their lives. Therefore, an article about the next novelty of the Chinese auto industry can look in approximately the same way each time.

The new Great Wall Hover H5 with oblique Asian eyes knows how to ride, but not everything works well in it, but it is cheaper, and therefore everything says goodbye to him. The central locking is triggered sometimes sometimes you have to open the door with a key. One of the near -light xenon headlights does not shine. At night, you see how faulty backlighting of the button on the steering wheel blinking nervously, depicting a strobe. Something flips in the suspension: TsVPRK-Tsark-Tsark. The brake creak returns to the memories of the UAZ. The leisurely motor in 136 horsepower eliminates doubt at a critical moment for gas or not, because it is still useless: if you have not scored three thousand revolutions in advance, then at least touch the right pedal, even put the weight on it, and the picture outside the window Will not change. At the same time, the elasticity of the motor is not bad, and in the city you can easily go in the fourth gear. High -profile rubber gently eats irregularities, providing a rather smooth move. When parking, you can use the rear view camera. However, it is suitable only for the finish parking to see whether the bumper rested or not. This will also write a schoolboy, if you let him travel.


A pleasant decoration of the cabin is made not without love for the client


The disease of small numbers affects all automakers who have driven behind the style

The banality is returned
Let's try differently. In the car dealership, they will tell you that the new Great Wall Hover H5 differs from H3 with a more powerful 2.4 -liter engine and a fresh fashionable design. Do not believe. In fact, you get not restyling of a two -liter H3, but a living organism. Take at least the gas pedal. You can recall her as a meeting of the New Year. She gives out so many tactile and sound sensations that it can be compared with a cot, and with a rumbling of a cat, and with a file, and with a clothespin. She breathes, trembles and vibrates, like a girl in anticipation of a stamp in a passport. But, perhaps, it is even more surprising that her sighs and awe are not reflected in the dynamics. Does the new Great Wall Hover H5 have something that goes beyond the formula not everything is fine, but also inexpensive, generally normal? How to say. It was amazing to see a high-quality interior finish at the Toyota Rav4 and Honda CR-V level. The materials are pleasant, human, do not smell and do not annoy. Looking at them, you are already thinking: do not buy this car yourself? So we again returned to the banality of the banned journalistic feathers, which had been announced by journalistic feathers.


Control of the handout with buttons on the front panel


The rear view camera helps if there are no direct sunlight. Otherwise, she glare

Another attempt? Let's talk about the rear view camera. Perhaps this is the first Chinese car with such an option on our test drive. If this goes further, they will soon begin to put an air suspension, a panoramic roof and televisions for the rear passengers. True, this camera terribly glance at the slightest sun and does not display the guide lines that help to see the trajectory of proper parking. But for that kind of money ... Damn, now you understand how difficult it is to write such tests?


The trunk and the rear row are spacious. But the transformation is not imperfect to sleep

Confidence does not mean happiness
In principle, one phrase would have been enough for the Great Wall Hover H5: two people from the editorial office, including a technical expert, thought about buying. By the way, why did I do it? Let me think a little ... Perhaps I know the answer. It was the only car in my journalistic practice that was a means of movement. When I approached him, I did not think about the reaction of others. When he was driving, he did not recall either gasoline consumption (he is more than modest less than 10 liters), nor controllability (with his dynamics it is not needed). And when he left him on the street in the evening, he was not worried if they would steal. In fact, this is happiness. Yes, if you have a VW Touareg, you think about happiness, you may even be sure that you are happy. But really all that you have is only confidence. Right, you have no idea about happiness. And the owner of the Great Wall Hover H5 is absolutely abiding in it. He is deprived of anxieties and unrest, he has everything he wants, and he does not spend a lot of effort, energy and money on it. All car owners, from Korean to American, are in a living hell. Do not believe, go to their property and spend a nail along the hood. And you will understand how much voltage actually in them they burn alive in the fire. And the Great Wall Hover H5 driver will laugh in such a situation and, having taken the nail from you, will fun even more nearby. And instead of turning into painting, he will simply buy another Hover, it will cost cheaper. If on the street you see a person who leaves his car with a smile on his face and throws the keys to the urn, know this owner Great Wall, who has a ashtray clogged and he goes to buy a new one. I remember that this joke was told about the new Russian on Mercedes, but everyone understands that whatever this new Russian is, and it will be successful for his Mercedes. But the new Hover is the way to Nirvana. If you are enlightened enough for this.


Caution, technical details
The most significant difference between the Great Wall Hover H5 from the HOVER H3 engine. On H5, a gasoline Mitsubishi MIVEC 4G69 S4N with a volume of 2378 cubic meters is installed on the H5. See Sirius series. This is one of the best Mitsubishi engines with a system of change in gas distribution phases, which first appeared on Outlander in 2004. It is currently placed on Mitsubishi Grandis and Galant. Since 2011, the Great Wall Hover H5 has been collected with this engine in the suburbs (Gzhel). The use of a modern engine served as a HOVER H5 in the RF and the European Union market. And this is the only excuse for his lethargy. On the other hand, the unit is really very economical (fuel consumption during the test was less than 10 liters). And a very elastic fourth gear in the city becomes the working one itself, allowing to accelerate from 20 km/h.

Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov


 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [September /2011]