Test drive Great Wall Hover H5 since 2011 SUV
Deja-vu
Having stabbed a car with a truck, the Chinese received a unique crossover modern on the outside, but corresponding to the most hidden aspirations of retro lovers inside. our car
Somewhere I already saw this ... Having covered the hover salon along and across, opening the hood, I could not get rid of the feeling that not only went, but also ... repaired it. Firstly, everything is simple here and without excesses like on the Volga. Secondly, it is so spacious around the units that you want to turn something away, open, repair something ... Association with domestic technology enhances the dried spray of dirt throughout the sedimentary space, it penetrates through unconnected openings in the wheel niches. Rust on the brackets of the units (by car with a mileage of 3000 km!), Rubbing the rod of the steering shaft on the mudguard of the steering shaft How I am familiar with all this ...
But outside he is just handsome. From afar, you can easily confuse with the Japanese SUV, and going closer and realizing that the car is quite large, you will suspect some new-grown of the luxury class in it, it’s not a shame for the office of the oil company. Streamed muzzle, developed skirt of the front bumper, a stern door without a spare wheel is a typical city dandelion. But looking under the bottom of the car, you will be amazed. What is the SUV ... With such a mighty frame, a beam of the rear axle and a hard connection of the front to compete with professional all -terrain vehicles! Of course, I immediately wanted to try all this farm in business. And immediately!
Before starting operation ...
... Read the instructions that are familiar in domestic technique in the domestic technique. Having taken a book translated from the Chinese, you will feel a flash of nostalgic memories. After all, Great Wall does not hold us by the Belarusian and inequal, like most of the current manufacturers of consumer goods. Otherwise, why report that the longitudinal angle of inclination of the shkvorni is 2 degrees 30 minutes, plus or minus 45 minutes? Like, regulate more precisely, Russian comrade ...
Frankly, you do not expect such respect for consumers from the Chinese intellect from the Chinese, they, like our factories, are not given to the fundamental electronic scheme of the TV ... But the company of GRET-WLL is in the authority. Here, please, the moments of the tightening of threaded joints. For example, the lower nut of the front shock absorber with a thread M12 x 1.25 should be drawn to 90 N.M. It is unlikely that this kind of information will be useful to the Frenchwoman buying Peugeot, but our person will gratefully take note of the fact that the steering wheel pump pump pumps 7 liters of oil per minute, and the hover engine weighs 167 kg suddenly will have to be pulled out for overhaul?
In the bosom of nature While I was driving along the highway, I wanted to try to turn on the front bridge as a rule, on most all -tribeships with the Party Party transmission, this is permissible at speeds up to 100 km/h. But in time I remembered that in the hubs of Hover, antediluvian couplings without synchronizers would have to wait until a complete stop. Having finally moved off the asphalt, I slow down and push the lever forward, in the 4n mode. The machine becomes noticeably dumber in the turns the first sign of a rigidly connected front line. Now the lever to the right and the reducing gear is turned on, the motor howls at increased speeds and the hover creeps without analyzing the roads like a tank. The thrust of the 130-horsepower 2.4-liter unit is enough even at the turtle, and this is in a steep rise! The engine of the 4G64 model in its past, valress life stood on all-terrain vehicles, pickups and minivans of Mitsubishi, and is still used on Hyunde-N1 trucks of almost three tons.
But there are also factors that limit cross -country ability. Not every groove you risk entering the front, because when leaving it is easy to break a bumper hanging quite low. And in the slope becomes scary due to the high center of the masses and the suspension of the suspension of the suspension of the suspension and look at the upper wheel will run into some tubercle, the car will swing and overturning to the side.
In general, the all -terrain vehicle of Hover deserves the highest rating, especially when you consider that it is outwardly elegant, as a full -fledged SUV. Only, unlike these nonsense, it is equipped with a frame, which allows you to pull the car clipped into the swamp without risk to pull the sprayers.
Well, Hover is magnificent in the mud. Let's check now what it is on the asphalt.
Soaring over the road But they called something, translated from English, quite accurately. When you accelerate it carefully, Hover really soars. In the sense that it does not stick to the asphalt, as they usually say about the car sharpened for high -speed driving, but on the contrary, as if striving to break away from it. Almost in the Gazelevsky (as much as 3.7 turns from the stop to the stop), the smeared steering wheel allows you to constantly download the lirka right and right in order to feel at least some resistance of the tires with the side departure, make sure that you are not glossy on the air pillow, and is ready, when need to turn somewhere and go around someone.
The cotton brake pedal does not seem to inspire confidence that Chinese designers, carried away by the external simplicity of combining the body of one car with the units of another, have not yet been valid until the importance of such concepts as information content and the observing effect of the governing organs. The engine power, unlike off -road, is no longer enough here, and in order to stay behind the reservoirs briskly gaining move, you have to drown the gas to the floor, listening to the supersonal rumble of the exhaust. In theory, in the range of 140160 km/h you can get a front -wheel drive vases, but for the above reasons, a normal person will not be scary to develop such speed on the hover. As for the cruising regime and adaptability to long -distance travel, the Chinese is quite quiet, comfortable and acceptably controlled at a speed of about 100 km/h. Like a Volga ...
It is time to study the Chinese to study Chinese otherwise written on the marking signs of grants
In the back row of space, even tall passengers will be enough. And for the transportation of long -termers, the rear seat can be folded in parts
The yellow leather of the cabin makes the interior of the hover almost home
A feature of the trunk of Hover is a narrow entrance. But in the floor of the trunk of brackets for attaching children's seat
The reserve under the bottom is available even with a loaded trunk
The skin and shiny metal of the door look very good
Chinese axiom
Hovever, the most expensive and powerful car of the company was launched into serial production in 2005. On the body and chassis, he is almost identical to Isuza-Axime, which was released from 2001 to 2004 in the United States. The Chinese rejected the power unit of the last 3.5-liter V6 with a machine gun as exorbitant luxury, and used the budget motor from Mitsubishi with mechanics. The Chinese are still obtained from Korea, the assembly of the licensed engine is already established in the Badin on the motor production technique equipped with Korea.
The limit of his night dreams So in the salon of Hover the Volgovski spirit is hovering. The primitive plastic of the torpedo, which has already managed to grew like a hundred thousand a hundred, faded inscriptions on the buttons ... Yes, the keys of the Pskov factory that go to the OKU, and they look more expensive. The sweeping, with huge moves, the lever of the 5-speed KP vividly reminded the Gazelle, however, this is more of a compliment, because the curtains work very clearly, and it is impossible to confuse the programs. Planting behind the wheel is a kind of sitting almost on the floor, but the spaciousness is in abundance. At the back, too, mansions. But ... all this luxury in the form of leather upholstery, CD-chamber, hatch and other things does not fit with the overall level of manufacture of the machine, which is somehow remembered by Gafovo drops of Chanels poured in cabbage soup.
In a word, the Chinese cars turned out to be very specific. Such a modern on the outside and so archaic in fact, richly equipped and carelessly trimmed, perfectly conceived, but as if remaining unfinished, incomplete. After all, not only rare exotic lovers will want to buy Hover. Do you know how many Volga adherers are in Russia, and in other words, adherents of healthy conservatism in the automotive industry? And the centuries -old dream of the Volgar about the frame can find an embodiment in the Hovera. It was about such a simple car, convenient in repair on his own, he dreamed, looking at the trumped from corrosion of the 24th sneaker ... empty steering wheel, course stability plus or minus meter in each direction, the noise of the exhaust is so familiar to our unpretentious motorists, What has become the norm. And the ability to cut the front and leave of any dirt is generally happiness!
Another thing is that for $ 28,750, neither the former nor the real Volgar will buy it. But as the representative office of the company GREATET-WOLL, a decrease in the price of the top version of Hover to $ 25,000 assures the issue of time. And the planned assembly of hovers in Russia (considering Samara, Izhevsk and Kaliningrad) will also significantly reduce the customs component.
In addition, almost $ 2000 can be saved by abandoning the leather salon, hatch and electric driver's seat. Another $ 2000 will remain with you if you are satisfied with the car in the rear -wheel drive, however, this will be obviously flawed. Say, and $ 20,000 is a little expensive for the former Volgar? Most indeed such a price is not affordable, but there are those who have grown the level of domestic auto industry. They want the same condo machine as the Volga, but more expensive to drive a car for $ 7500, they are already indecent.
If we consider Hover from the point of view of a more demanding buyer who does not experience any gentle feelings for Russian cars, then the probability of choosing a Chinese instead of equal at a price of a Korean or even a Japanese seems ephemeral. Judge for yourself for the same money, you can take the Suzuki-Grand Vitar with a 10 liter engine that is incomparable in quality. With. more powerful, with a differential in the distribution and assembled in Japan itself ...
PER
Attractive appearance, comfortable suspension, high patency
AGAINST
Overstated price, manufacturing flaws, mediocre handling on asphalt
Great Wall Hover 2.4
common data
Body, number of places/doors
Universal, 5/5
Equipped mass, kg
1830
Length x width x height, mm
4620x1800x1775
Base, mm
2700
Front/back, mm track
1515/1520
Speed, km/h
170
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
eleven
Fuel consumption, l/100 highway/city
10/14
Engine
Location
The front is longing
Design
4-cylinder, gasoline in order
Working volume, SMZ
2351
Power, L.S. at rpm
130/5250
Torque, kgsm at rpm
19/2500
Chassis
Drive unit
on the rear wheels with rigidly connected front
Transmission
Mechanical 5-speed
Suspension:
with reptile stabilizers
front
Independent, torsioned on double triangular transverse levers
behind
Dependent spring
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Tires
235/65 R17
Anton Utkin, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [21/2005]
