Test Drive Great Wall Hover H6 since 2011 SUV
Hover H6 and Hover M2, or how we worked out the distiller
In the Peking-Moscow auto race, we agreed to participate not so much to look at the modern life of the Middle Kingdom, and to test the latest news of Great Wall: Hover H6 and Hover M2 crossovers. Did you hear about them? Nothing amazing: These cars are still unknown to the Russians. Because the first cars drove into Russia ... We, the participants of the rally! However, the word was driving too loud: unlike real distillers, journalists were replaced along the route. I got a section of Beijing-Chita, so about how new kids behave on the broken Russian roads, I can not say anything. This we will check when Russian tests of new products will be held. But impressions to draw up the first opinion about cars, it turned out enough.
Hover H6: the first chord of Maestro Doofel
Do you know the name Doifel? This guy painted the previous Mercedes-Benz M-grade! And now Matthias Doifel is responsible for the style of the Great Wall brand. And the crossover H6 is its starting point in a new position. A point that is no longer a clone of other machines, does not frighten the uneven color and phenolic smell. While we laughed at cars from the Middle Kingdom, they learned how to create modern models! At least externally.
Structurally, H6 is also not knocked out of the cohort of modern crossovers. Bearing body, independent suspension, front or four-wheel drive (with a rear coupling clutch by the electronics team). Engines Three: Two gasoline 2.0 and 2.4 liters and turbodiesel. All motors go along with mechanics (diesel six-speed), and automatic transmissions will be later.
Hover H6 is available on a new, stuffed with modern equipment of the Great Wall factory in Tianjin, where we visited quite recently. Agree that we live a newcomer looks better than the factory test site!
Inside the same passengers do not say not to believe! Mercedes-Benz M-grade Sample 2005. See ourselves: the characteristic location of the ventilation system of the ventilation system, a tachometer and a speedometer double-barrel, covered with a friend's visor ... Only the gearbox is controlled not by a subwoofer, but a familiar lever, hoarse on Hondovsky (recognize Honda CR-V?) Press.
In general, the interior is good for decoration, design and equipment. The driver's seat was pleased with a friendly profile, and the start of the optimal diameter with tides in places of grab looks as if it was done for a much more expensive car. The brightest interior spot is a large screen in the middle of the center console to which multimedia information is displayed.
From above Interior Hover H6: Please note that the display between devices shows tire pressure. Bottom ideological donors: left past generation Mercedes-Benz M-class, right at the current Honda CR-V
To the rear sofa, located slightly above the front chairs, you need to pride. Places a lot, the tilt of the back is adjustable, but the stuffing is harsh (many Japanese are also sinned). As compensation, the purebred sound of an acoustic system: they say that the music on the Great Wall supplies the Chinese plant, producing acoustics for a very, very famous company from Europe.
But the main user chip is a two-story trunk: the cargo compartment is divided with a rigid shelf, which will endure even heavy like. If necessary, the shelf is easily removed, and the spacious compartment of the correct form is released for baggage. And if the volume is not enough, you can lean the asymmetric sofa half of the sofa in the folded state rear seats form a smooth floor.
H6 pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the finishing materials in some place even a soft plastic! And also, looking at the Japanese car industry, the Chinese were fascinated by glossy black plastic and metal trim
Me-E-e-morally let go of the clutch, smoothly press the gas pedal, they joked colleagues, because to start on diesel H6, without staging, it was possible to be a little. This is partly to blame the long-term clutch pedal, which grabs at the very beginning. But the main merit of starting failures belongs to a 2.0-liter diesel engine, which clearly lacks the torque on the nizakh.
But! The engine is powerfully shifting already from one and a half thousand revolutions, and the wave of acceleration only after four thousand. And if you switch the transfer on time, you can even enjoy driving. And I don't want to remove the right hand at all with a comfortable knob gearbox lever with short strokes and a clear fixation.
On ideal Chinese roads, sometimes they managed to accelerate to the maximum 180 km / h. But the place where it turned out to check the passability of Khovera, colleagues found only in Russia, on the shore of Baikal ... Eh, sorry, I had to fly before!
Sixder is managed. Efforts on the Branca is enough, and the sensitivity is sharp exactly as much as a large crossover need a steering control explicitly to the European market! On the asphalt, the suspension does not annoy the rolls or insens. There would be European, less slippery, tires ... Then there would be a stock on the brakes, which is not enough now.
But there is a suspicion that the driver's collected chassis on large cords will be closed on the bumps, and the ringing knock of the stones and sand along the wheeled arches will force on extra noise insulation. However, at the insistence of the Russian importer (in the request of Russians, the Chinese react quickly) Great Wall can prepare execution for bad roads.
Movement in the column that inexperienced drivers are constant accelerations and braking. Not the most optimal mode to save fuel! But I could easily manage to maintain the average cost of 7.0 liters per 100 km
About a full drive I can not say a smooth account of anything, where it would be possible to test the operation of the transmission, simply did not come across. But there is no surprises to wait: Hover H6 Typical crossover (once again we recall about the coupling in the rear wheel drive), and the permeability limiters for it are both an electronic transmission circuit and geometrical data. One word parcoatnik.
Are Russians ready to pay more than 700 thousand per crossover from the Middle Kingdom? Judging by how Boyko diverges Hover H5, ready. True, the five is a full-fledged SUV ... Sixer must cost as much: for the basic, but traditionally generously equipped, version (front-wheel drive, 2.0-liter gasoline motor) will ask 699 thousand rubles. But the cost of other modifications is still unknown.
Hover M2: Chinese Reading Japanese Classics
The demand for small crossovers is constantly growing: after success SUZUKI SX4 / FIAT SEDICI, Nissan Juke came to the market, Nissan Juke, Kia Soul ... And the Chinese competitor, the baby Great Wall Hover M2 (from the nose to the tail a little more than four meters), appeared now, Although his twin named Coolbear is produced more than four years! Double? That is: M2 is an off-road version of the bear.
At the same time, Coolbear himself is a clone of Japanese Toyota BB. But Hover M2 is a bit drawn by the Chinese and from the Japanese progenitor is distinguished by a different decoration of the front and the launch of the rear optics. It is the same rectangular, with flat sidewalls, a high linte of glazing, but ... more friendly.
Four twins: Japanese Toyota BB (bottom left) evolved in SCION XB (centered) for the American market, then a Chinese Great Wall Coolbear appeared, which changed the expression of the face to become a hover m2 crossover
Dring for a comfortable handle under natural grip and I turn out in ... Toyota BB. Differences only in small details like silver plated climatic system deflectors. Hard plastic is fitted neatly, but the buttons are pressed less smoothly, and the levers are not shaking such a pedestropive as the Toyotovsky fellow.
For those who are not familiar with the Japanese prototype, I will note the main feature of the Chinese copied by the Chinese, it is made up of planes and direct angles. The overall impression of ergonomics: It is convenient to high in a comfortable chair, and choose the optimal position, even the huge bagel and is adjusted only in height, the driver of any growth will be able.
Bottom SCION XB, and from above the Chinese. In expensive equipment, the differences are greater: well-packed lover climate is controlled by the buttons, the salon is decorated with leather, and instead of a modest magnet lane Multimedia TV
In terms of capacity, off-road version of Coolbear is really cool! Take a look at the photo and recalculate the number of shelves and pockets: a long shelf under windscreen times, two shelves on the sides of the steering column and one from above two, three and four, as well as a rack from the passenger side five. Plus a full-fledged glove box, a container for trifles and a couple of compartments on the central panel ...
And behind? Even a basketball player in himself here. Yes, it will not just go out, but it will easily throw the leg to the leg and will not rest on your head into the ceiling of space and in length, and there is plenty of head. Other minivans will envy! Access to a small trunk (a little more than 250 liters) is convenient, but there is not enough grid separating the passenger compartment from the freight.
The instrument combination is located in the center of the panel and is made in the form of a large saucer, in which a pair of speedometer arrows and a tachometer runs, and the control lamp unit is docked on the right of this design.
Technically hover is not much different from the Coolbear model. With the only difference that the drive from the beater is the front, and the M2 is equipped with a coupling that moves the portion of the torque to the rear wheels if the front starts to be stopped. The rest is from Coolbear. Even the engine, 105-strong one and a half, leading its history ... right, from Toyota BB. And then it is time to remember the Matra: I do not believe!.
I do not believe that the motor of this Great Wall has Japanese roots. In all signs, the engine is really similar to Toyotovsky 1NZ. But where is the character? The working range is unusual narrow, the traction capabilities are modest, therefore acceleration is happening tasteless. And it is necessary to let the accelerator pedal, as the machine comes to the high-body large sailboat.
A typical city car was amazingly good for long-range damage. It is a pity that almost vertical windshield quickly shrinks moshkara ... But the visibility is excellent!
But in the devices Hover M2 is not bad. Neutral turning, transparent ramp effort, fast predicted reactions. Rolls are great, but they are logical and naturally so much that they perceive them as a warning signal is dangerous, it is better to slow down here. In full, I say that the handling of the smallest of the Hovers is asking for a firm four.
On the autobahn, EMCA keeps an excellent straightness of the movement, and during rebuildings it does not annoy the tightness, which is characteristic of many compact hatchbacks. Comfort is also at the level: and the smoothness of the stroke, and the suspension energy intensity is worthy of the assessment well for surprise EMCA not noisy and not shaking. And if you compare Hover M2 and Toyota BB, you can safely summarize: a copy of Verne!.
For full harmony with the car, I would like more attention to detail. In the meantime, the transfer of five-speed mechanics is not enough and clearly and clearly, the tires are scoffing early with the intended trajectory ...
Those who embarrassed hanging over the expensive jaw of the front bumper, hurry to calm down: under the bottom of the baby honest 190 mm of the road lumen! So you can go from the asphalt on the road. Provided that this is a country line or simply broken roads of provincial cities: we will not forget that the four-wheel drive here synthetic and does not like long-lasting stopping.
And now let's remember the price tag of Khovera again. For the all-wheel drive version asked 499 thousand rubles. At Renault Duster! And this name representatives of Great Wall are pronounced without constraint. It is clear to everyone that this car the French asked a bar for the entire segment for the coming years. Hover M2 is no worse and no better than another: with a good interior, worthy of handling and ... by the tower price.
Chinese car industry: did they learn to make cars?
Does the car really are so good? The colleagues asked me by reading this material. Let's see soberly: Hover M2 is a high-quality clone of Japanese Toyota BB, a car that is characterized by balanced consumer qualities by itself. The Chinese injected only in part of the engine setting, but the rest, including the interior and suspension, was copied at the proper level.
Hover H6 is an attempt by Great Wall to prove the world that the Chinese auto industry can not only copy, but also create their own products. And Sixer turned out really worthy! While the short-speed suspension is frightened (Eh, to check it on the broken paths of the Moscow region!) And the lack of stock on the brakes mentioned above.
We can also say nothing about the reliability of these machines. Judging by the reviews of the owners, Hover does not give any special problems. But! Until now, we were familiar with the unnecessary frame cars, and here crossovers, technique are more complex and gentle. Opened a question in terms of passive security: everyone knows that Russian norms are less hard than estimates on the EUROnCAP system.
And most importantly, it will not be possible to buy a car from China for a joke: for M2, considerable half-million rubles are asked for M2, and the price tags for H6 start with a mark of 700 thousand so much as they asked for Koreans. And for serious money, the buyer has the right to demand a serious car! On the roads, Khovers did not seem Chinese crafts. Let's see what will show operating experience.
Alexey Kovanov
Photo by Nikita Vasilenka and Irito
A source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.
