Hummer H2 test drive since 2002 SUV

Believe the corrected

Not so long ago, the Autotor Kaliningrad plant began assembling the Hummer H2, and we decided to find out how it differs from the present.

However, in the first place we were not interested in this. How did it happen that Makhina suddenly began to go under category B of 3901 kg? How did Kaliningraders manage to facilitate the car as much as 400 kg? Powerful thresholds, each weighing a kilogram of 80, in place, a trailed device too. Open the fifth door. The reserve is here, the sixth seat in the trunk is available. Due to what is such a relief? We are trying to find out from dealers. Silent. We conducted their own investigation, and it turned out that all of the above was considered additional equipment, the dismantling of which, before the final weighing of the car and allowed him not to reach the full mass of three and a half tons of some seven kilograms. Now any kettle, who has been passing the exam on a school six yesterday with sin in half, can quite calmly get behind the wheel of this monster and on completely legal rights to start horror on others.

But maybe everything is not so scary? Despite their frightening dimensions and mass, H2 is an extremely obedient and predicted car. On the American version of this SUV, my colleague and I drove more than one hundred kilometers, and now we could not find significant differences either in behavior or in the design of the domestic H2. The only thing that immediately rushed

in the eyes, the fact that the speedometer scale of our Hummer is digitized in km/h, and in the American in miles. We also noticed that the CD-raver here is able to accept radio waves in the European standard. And later, bypassing the car in a circle, they noticed another bar: in the left lower part of the rear bumper found a fog lamp with a proud inscription made in Russia.

This could have finished the story of the car about him and so much was written. However, it’s interesting that. Recently, Hummer has been paying quite little attention, they are already often found on our roads, and all so licked, incomparable,

on the cracks and strobe. Not cars, but business cards of their especially important owners. In our N2, the interest was clearly increased, since it looked not like a peacock, but like a real shirt-parish, passed fire, water and copper pipes: dirty, tired, but not defeated.

Every time we slowed down at the intersection in this form or stopped at a smoke break, people immediately appeared, who looked at us with frankly envy, from which pieces of dirt literally fell off. Those who were faster, were curious, asked if this warrior really could really something. We answered that it could only we need to clearly know what can and what is not, in order not to get into a mess. It is probably not easy to rescue from a captivity stuck h2. As they say, the cooler the jeep, the further go beyond the tractor.

We were lucky. All the obstacles that were planned to overcome on Hummer, although not without looking at, but overcame what a powerful engine contributed to, the possibility of turning on a low transmission and a self -locking rear differential. Significantly increase the off -road abilities of this car allows the tire pumping system. Laverner soil? It is not a matter of the wheel can be submitted. Is it time to return to a hard surface? Also not a problem. We take out a long hose with a manometer from the trunk, connect there to the air duct, press the key located side by side, and now the standard compressor shakes the wheel. Everything is simple.

It is not easy for a car only with fuel consumption. The appetite of the 6-liter 320-horsepower motor is atrocious. It is worth stomping over the gas pedal, as the route computer shows the instant fuel consumption of 90 liters per 100 kilometers. The average consumption is also impressive: 36 liters around the city, 10 less on the highway. In general, it is not easy to feed this mastodon, and a 120-liter tank is enough for a short time. Well, at least, you can refuel not 95th, but 92th gasoline. However, those who buy such cars do not particularly think about fuel expenses.

Well, the fact that our H2 really falls into the passenger category, we were convinced in the evening when we returned the car to the dealer. A girl of about twenty, as if on some Volkswagen Polo, cut off the new Hummer H2 just purchased for her. So, really, the corrected can be believed.

Technical characteristics Hummer H2

All -metal body., On the frame
The number of places 6
Equipped mass, kg 2909
Full mass, kg 3493
Dimensions (length/width/height), mm 4820/2063/1977
Base, mm 3118
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, from 10.2
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle 24.5
- Zagorod 14.4
- Mixed 18.1
Engine:
- Type V8
- working volume, cm3 5967
- Power, L.S. at MIN-1 320/5200
- Torque, N.M at MIN-1 488/4000
Transmission automatic., 4-speed
Tire size 315/70r17
Wheel suspension:
- The front is independent
- The rear dependent
Brakes:
- front disk, ventilated
- rear disc
Steering
Fuel tank volume, l 121
Price, $ 86 500

Text: Oleg Kalaushin
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [10/2004]