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Hummer H2 against .... Suzuki Jimny
Thick Hummer timidly hides the body fat in his career, only a small proud Jimny boldly removes the hills. Once, the editorial was called with a question: what an SUV can be bought, but only to be without a frame and reduced transmission? Such a topic is much more specifically. We answered: Take Hummer H2 or Suzuki Jimny. You could add a few more dozen models, but these are compromises, and H2 and Jimny are great extremes. There is one ambiguity: who is steeper on the off-road American hammer or Japanese chopsticks?
Six against one Here is this crazy topic along the course of the case we took up on the comparative test Hummer and Jimny. The GM representation gave us a black Hummer H2 with a chandelier on the roof, warning that the car in the park has long and, perhaps lives the last kilometers. And dealers Suzuki did not give anything, because they do not have Jimniki for the dough.
We sat we sat down with a semi-shy Hummer, while the guys from the online forum www.suzuki-club.ru did not agree to put a fighter from their ranks on a standard car. His name was Mikhail, he came to the place of compete on blue Jimny, and with him there were another five Jimniks of different degrees of tuning, one elevated UAZ and painted under the SAMURAI Open top.
The guys explained that their entire battered company at the cost of the mechanical part is laid in the price of the new Hummer H2. Trophic UAZ is needed to enslave, if Jimniki suddenly displays, and prepared by Samurai will check the appeal places to protect the standard car from injury. True, no one said, why did one of the owners of Jimny come with a hurried rifle, but everything turned out when the test ended.
Straight to the core of the planet
Under the terms of the battle, the standard Jimny must take the same obstacles as fully standard Hummer H2. At Hummer in the factory configuration, additional locking of the rear differential and class AT rubber. Jimnik is only on all-season wheels and with classic part-time. In addition, the American in the database comes with an automatic box, and Jimny on the mechanics. The sand, which was waiting for us, passion how to fuck clutch discs, just come on. True, the bulk agency is crying for excess weight, and the Hummer is two tons heavier than the baby.
Before the sandy career, we drove the column headed by Hummer, and with the go came to the obstacle in the form of a slope of the hill. More precisely, there were several slopes of different steepness and, most importantly, a different density of sand. Hummer drove away everywhere while we did not complicate the task and did not make cars climb up without acceleration and with a stop in the middle of the rise. Then then members of the Suzuki-Club and shouted: one-zero! Hummer Flying the foot of the hill with the persistence of a bulldozer and confidently approached the center of the Earth with the rear wheels, which put most of the total 3500 kg of weight. American express
Only our little friends rejoiced early. The next sandy barhan was bulk and towering at a large angle. Michael from Standard Jimny looked with sadness and refused to go. But Deng agreed, whose Jimnik was with a cropped front bumper, he had to look after several vain attempts to watch how the Hummer could be effective. The obstacle was quite overall, and the entrance to it was walking through a narrow sandy gorge. Mr. America, reversing a bottleneck sides, entered it as a train to the tunnel. And then, without losing overclocking, flew up, showing what the six-liter engine is plus inertia of a large carcass, plus an armored-made protection front. Only sand on the sides flew. One one. 
The third round walked on a rise, arched by a deep dirty rut. At the last test, two Mercedes GL (gasoline 5.5 l and diesel 3.2 l) are hopeless here. And while Hummer, like a meat grinder grinding tons of dirt, all Jimny is quite easy, one by one, weave to the top of the gauge.
What to suffer when you can drive around? Two-one in favor of Jimny.
Passed half a day. If you ever decide to repeat this experiment, take to eat and something for entertainment. We were looking for all new obstacles, and the struggle did not end. For the evening, Ivan Evdokimov, who was sitting behind the helm of Hummer H2, the ex-champion of Russia in Jeep Triala, so traveled that, having hinted at the end of the lift on the next sand hill, did not want to descend and repeat the attempt. Do you know what he did? Broke the top of the hill. Rolled back he filed ahead, rolled forward to ahead. Until the sand ended. He just stood it around the district with his thirty second wheels. Following him, Jimniki rushed up and again a cheerful string ride upstairs.
I AM STILL ALIVE
And then the driver Hummer surrendered. He was taken to Izmor. What is the Jimny team? They just warmed up. Even after the victory of victory, they found a series of brodes, then sought dirt, then the forest. Man with a nickname Sprinter on an adhesive apparatus with a snorkel and MT wheels
it was clearly upset by the lack of swamps. Dan on a typewriter with a cropped bumper has already broken all the plastic in a circle, but it did not even notice. Uncle Yura, who still found Lermontov during his lifetime, was ready to beat until the morning. And two enthusiasts on Samurai looked upset due to the fact that they were not allowed to reverse the frame and snatch the rear axle. Later, every other day when the test is already over, it became clear why I needed a firearm to the owners of Jimny: in the Suzuki-Club forum I read Dan's report about our event. He ended in words: In general, we won. I didn't even have to drop the gun. Still, off-road car journalism damn dangerous profession.
Expert opinion
Ivan Evdokimov
Judge of the Republican Category for Automobile Sports, Champion of Russia of Russia 2004 on the Jeep Triala, Bronze Media winner of the Championships of Russia 2003 and 2005, the Bronze Prize-winner of the Championship in Trophy Radadam 2000:
The result of the test I was predicted at once, as soon as he heard about the idea of \u200b\u200bholding it. Than the machine is easier and relatively more powerful, the better it goes with other things being equal in terms of the overall law of automotive sports, to the same extent referring to both Formula 1 and Trophy Raidam and Jeep Triat. The experiment fully confirmed this: and even where Jimniki could not drive, and Hummer H2 passed, remained an obstacle to a small typewriter almost always can be found any loophole. The advantage of a large heavy machine is only one carrying capacity and the ability to tow a heavy boat or other trailer. And the smoothness of the stroke on the bad road here Hummer H2 is little equal!
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova
A source: 4x4 magazine [July / 2008]
