Hummer H3 test drive since 2005 SUV

Hummer H3

Hello! We would wash the car
You have a cool unit !!! Only it will not work to wash.
– ???
Yes, he will not fit into the camera: the brushes will not close. It hurts wide
(From a dialogue on a car wash)
We passed some 15 minutes, and Voila! We manage to squeeze the Hummer H3 into the parking firmly caught by cars. Immediately recall: in some European countries, the so -called contact parking is practiced when it is not forbidden to packet slightly in the bumper of the neighboring car. There they teach this in driving schools ...
But not at all because you can compete in bad manners: just the problem of a shortage of free space in Europe is quite acute.
  From the thought of gathering a hefty Hammer bumper in the front, standing Lada becomes uneasy to cold sweat: the risk, as they say, is too much to get carried away and inflict a damage that is not compatible with further operation.
So you have to steal ahead during the parking lot, then, turning with the H3 brake pedal with great caution: it is worth it to squeeze a little and the huge nose of the SUV will swing with the amplitude of a good pendulum.
Having dealt with the task, you can relax. Perhaps we will not offer special entertainments on the street of the Hummer H3 on the street, in addition to listening to a primitive radio.
True, all attributes of the amusement for the same picnic will easily fit into the trunk of the car; In addition, the rear seats are easily laid out either completely, or in a classic proportion (40:60).
  But, damn it, how to get to the coveted barn? We will have to park the hefty hefty gurt of the fifth door only to open to the side and only completely, so you can get to it if it is spacious behind in the car.
The car’s interior as American hamburger seasoned with dietary salad: a wide average console peacefully gets along with small rotary handles on it, and hefty levers on the doors with narrow openings of these very doors, especially the rear.
In general, the salon is quite friendly and more gravitates to classical European forms. You will not feel the recruit of the American army in it, unlike H2.
A 3.7-liter engine with a capacity of 242 liters was attached under the hood H3. With. This hardworking unit was happy to drink official gasoline (in a city with a tight movement of at least 25 l/100 km), he growled strainedly with every overtaking and did not get along well with the Hydra-Matic automatic machine, which, which seems to be contraindicated by the driver on the accelerator pedal: Socrates himself would envy his thoughtfulness.
  But if you get the engine to the motor to high speed and at a decent speed, the Hummer H3 can shoot at a straight line, remaining in the memory of the drivers of passing cars with a huge black flying brick.
And yet it is nice to manage H3. How pleasant it is to control the truck in the civilian body. The reactions on the steering wheel are surprisingly accurately accurate, and all sorts of city troubles (it seems like that from the tram rails come from on the road) you can not notice the Hummer suspension without noticing them.
You involuntarily realize that you are practically not limited in the capabilities of your movements of a 231 mm clearance, overcame a 0.6 m deep and a handout with electronic control, and even in two versions with a decrease in a number of 2.64 and 4.03.
And as a reckoning a huge inertia of the body, transverse buildup at high speeds and, as is clear from our epigraph, difficulties waiting for where you are not waiting for them at all.
 
The convenience of the driver
eight
Ergonomics in Hummer is not bad in place, concise and quite convenient. You can only find fault with the not better visibility, and to purely American atavisms like one steering wheel switch overloaded with a mass of functions. But the latter, perhaps, will endure from the series, love.
 
The convenience of passengers
7
In H3, there is a lot of places. Therefore, it is unlikely that one of the four travelers will complain about the cramped. But the car receives penalty points for not the most optimal shape of the rear chair for long trips, and for the absence of separately climate control.
 
Trunk
7
A big box is good when you evaluate it from the numbers from the technical characteristics of the 835 liter model! But access to the trunk in a dense parking lot can turn into an adventure due to a hefty rear door opening sideways.
 
Economy
four
If you characterize the efficiency of the Hummer H3 briefly it: even in the twenty we could not meet. Excess points can only be set for the ability of the machine to digest 92 gasoline.
 
Comfort on the road
7
On the road, the Hummer H3 behaves, as befits a large frame SUV rides heavy, but confidently.
 
Cross -country ability
9
Want to plant H3?
Then go to the nearest swamp and drive the car there. Preferably, on the roof. Because the good geometric cross -country ability of Hummer reinforced by the ability to choose a reduced row of boxes, and block the rear differential for off -road. Well, in a swamp or a mud bath, H3, indeed, can save the wheels already painfully wide.
 
Note. The assessment is made according to the ten -point system.
The car was provided for the test by Atlant-M Baltika
Text: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
   
 

Source: Wheel magazine [March 2008]