Test Drive Great Wall Hover H5 since 2011 SUV
Great Wall presented a new HOVER configuration
Great Wall presented a new HOVER package with automatic transmission and diesel engine ... Recently, I strongly praise the Chinese. There is something for. They progress. Another 34 years ago on the decoration of the Great Wall Hover saloon was terribly watching. The quality of the aggregates left much to be desired. Electronics buggy. The configuration did not shine diversity. Now everything has changed. Salon at level. On the go, nothing falls off. Temperature, fuel sensors, tire pressure are shown exactly what should. The equipment reached the heights of perfection, and the prices remained at the bottom. How after that do not remember the Chinese fellow words? Especially sitting in the Great Wall with an automatic transmission and a diesel engine, which is ready to give to the buyer for 850 thousand rubles in full equipment.
What we lacked?
Do you know what I thought, driving around the wheel Hover H5? About Ulyanovsk Plant. It is terribly insulting. While we are made of cast iron irons an authentic SUV, the Chinese made a full-fledged car, comparable to Japanese SUV. Just think, Hover began to be sold in Russia in 2006 and during this time turned out of the ugly duckling in the swan with a machine gun, diesel, a rear-view camera, rain and light sensors ... What did we not have enough to do the same? Even the participation of foreign capital and management does not help us. Chevrolet Niva has been produced for more than ten years: where is the automatic transmission, where is diesel?
Koreans admit that today the technological gap between them and the Chinese are only about 57 years old. On this test drive, I have a Chinese car with a Korean automatic transmission and an American handout. It will take quite a bit of time and it will be completely Chinese. The import substitution program is launched in a complete growth.
Rear View Camera lacks realism there is distortion
Complete control electronic
Glass, unfortunately, while sweating. Air conditioning does not help
Dr. House and Goose in the Attack
But we turn to the disadvantages. If you forget about the progress, there is something to complain about. As soon as you sit in Hover, you feel that the knees go too high to the top. The dashboard and windshield are unusually low. At the same time, the zone of cleaning the janitors is pretty small, so there is always a desire to pull the neck and lower the head, as it does goose in the attack. Looking at the rear window, notice how original the algorithm of the washer's work is: he jumps the liquid only when the janitor stands. While the wiper brush is attached, the water has time to drain. The rear view camera is also not a gift standing on the central panel so that you have to hope much. From the sun he brings and generally gives a markedly distorted picture. The transformation of the cabin is associated with such titanic efforts that I could only decompose the passenger sofa, I was not enough for a reverse operation.
Caution, pit. The problem is in a huge turboyama. While the Chinese will bury her, the owners need to inform road heat
Welcome. The opening of the fifth door is made on fame wide and loading height does not strain
On the go, there are even more serious inconvenience. For example, wheels. Full tires disgusting. It not only swims through the winter asphalt, but also terrible on the road. The protector is quickly clogged with snow, and the spikes are powerless on ice climbs. Even worse than the turboyama. In this huge hole flies, rushing before his eyes, all your life from birth to the wedding. While the tachometer arrow will get up to two thousand revolutions and finally will connect turbocharging, you will have time to view several seasons of Dr. House. During this time, the desire to fulfill the conceived maneuver because of which you pressed on the gas would naturally resolve. Here is hidden a big mystery. First of all, I want to sin to the turbocharger, but he is American. Then you think about a slow machine, but it is quite workable, with five steps. Maybe a silence diesel? No, with its two liters of volume, it gives 310 Newtons of the moment already with 1800 revolutions. Maybe 150 horsepower is not enough for a two-ton SUV? It seems no, SsangYong with a similar motor smaller silenk has ... In general, the Chinese have something to think about.
Cynicism will be destroyed
Otherwise, some positive emotions. Hard all-wheel drive sent retirement. Now the rear wheels automatically connect the American rattage, which can be turned directly on the button with the button, and not only on slippery coating, but also on the bare asphalt. Magnitol issues much more attractive sounds than before. But, perhaps, the main thing is that the Chinese are still infinitely far from Korean arrogance and cynicity. Koreans began the same, but then they realized that no budget cars bring the greatest profit, but those for which you can ask more money. They say the food crisis in the world will happen when the Chinese will understand that the rice is only a side dish. God forbid them also learn about the insufficient efficiency of production and selling cheap cars.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova
A source: Journal 4x4 [June / 2012]
