Hyundai IX35 (TUCSON) test drive since 2009 SUV

Hyundai IX35 tests on the basis of domestic soil

The Russian practice of driving Hyundai IX35 ... The main thing that they do today in Hyundai and Kia and this is no longer a secret, increase the cost of the brand. Koreans understand: they learned to make cars, the buyer trusts them.

It remains to convince people to buy their cars at European prices, which is a little more difficult. We must climb out of the skin. Build, for example, a showroom in the center of Moscow. A kind of room where cars are not sold, but are as museum exhibits. And, of course, to display a fashionable IX35 to the market. The crossover, claiming to yes to anything if he caught up with the Japanese at a price. Now housewives of Russian megacities can abandon the annoying Toyota Rav4 and finally change the car wardrobe.

Hard territory
We took the Hyundai IX35 for a small dough on Russian roads and beaches. During the Italian presentation, there were not enough impressions abroad. On our asphalt, the diesel version no longer seemed as soft as it looked on the Apennines. Glating became more noticeable. On the uneven waves of the Volokolamsk highway, a vertical build -up also crawled out. On the comb of rural roads, vibrations on the body were found. In general, in the domestic surroundings, the SUV became 30 percent more restless, like many foreign developments that fall into our territory. With the exception of two or three premium brands


It's good when there is something to catch on the interior


The entire off -road potential of the crossover is reduced to three buttons

On off -road, too, was not bored. We chose an abandoned submarine quarry, where athletes on cross -country motorcycles usually train. Everything happened there according to the scenario classic for the crossover: to turn off ESP to work with a gas with a nose to overheat the clutch of all -wheel drive.


Choose between a two -liter gasoline engine and a diesel engine? Only diesel!


The suspension contained only a little comfort, sports, stability ...

Wait, I was heated
Getting on a crossed area, first you notice how small the roadlight is only 170 mm and how scanty are the walks of the Korean suspension. They are so modest that one of the rear wheels is constantly hung out, balancing in the air and forcing the electronics to continuously disturb the brake pads. After you begin to worry about the front bumper. Although for the crossover it is quite high, but the perky two-liter diesel diesel with a thrust of 392 Newton meters makes it exceeding the rational off-rock speed.


- the back row is obscured for two adults and one narrow teenager

- The eye is removable, but the shackle includes that it is already not bad

Having adopted to the geometry of the body and conspired with a daring motor, you go even more impudently, turning off ESP. You jump into the parapet and notice that the electronics are turned on yourself. She agrees to go into sleep mode, nothing more. Therefore, you try to hold the steering wheel straight and pressing the accelerator more tender.

Finally, having learned to deceive the sleepy ESP, deftly manipulating gas, storm sand ups. While the coupling of all-wheel drive, imitating cheap cinema passion, does not begin to whisper something like: my tiger, I am burning. Then you stop, turn on your favorite radio station and relax until the rubbing mechanisms completely cool. Classics of the parquet genre. The Russian test was hot and tough, but without unpleasant surprises.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov



 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [October /2010]