Hyundai IX55 test drive since 2009 SUV

Hyundai IX55. I am twice five

Change the name of the flagship crossover Hyundai from the sonorous Veracruz adopted in America to code IX55 for Europe and Russia continuous puncture. It looks like X5. That's how the manner. Say, I'm X, and not just five, but twice five. Or even fifty -five! The immodest designation sets off a slurred design that is entirely consisting of the same quotes, however, the main thing for the car is still running qualities, but here everything is in order. We were convinced of this, having made a march in the Kursk arc and vice versa on the Hyundai IX55.
 
Hyundai IX55 Carrying Body, Suspensions Independent in front of MCPHERSON and backward
If you think that in Moscow with an environmental disaster, relax and breathe deeper. The stolen exhausted metropolitan air is so, nonsense, but we do not have red snow and summer land from iron scale. But in the city of Zheleznogorsk, in ninety kilometers from Kursk, this is in abundance. The extraction of iron ores at the Mikhailovsky field, thanks to which the city was built, is open, everything around is covered with iron-containing dust and stained in brown-rusty colors, rusty gravel on the sidelines, rusty puddles. And with air, saturated with iron -beam dust, it is almost impossible to breathe fifteen after about fifteen, with an habit, the cough begins to beat.
 
If you sat in a puddle, it does not matter. In front of the IX55, three stationary towing brackets can be harnessed by the top three crow's tractors and drive that there is urine
The drivers of local Belazes have the main means of protection against dust, an ordinary gauze bandage or the simplest respirator, the indicators of the average life expectancy of employees GOK are better not to know. A huge quarry, at the bottom and terraces of which multi-ton-ton-toned excavators are swarming, very similar to Dante hell, in the circles of which the devil for some reason built a toy railway. Belazes from above seem no more than ordinary ants. Even a mordor from the Lord of the Rings of a Paradise place compared to the Mikhailovsky Mining and Processing Plant. Fortunately, not the entire Kursk region was launched under the bucket of an excavator.

The organizers (the Russian representative office of Hyundai) took no more than an hour to visit Mikhailovsky GOK, and our main refuge (perhaps even the smallest in Russia) was a FATEGE (in honor of it is a variety of winter -hardy cherries), where still expanse for famous Kursk Soloviev, and life quietly and leisurely streams along cozy clean streets. Only the M2 highway is a dissonance to local provincial calm, it is the main source of income of local traffic cops. According to it, we arrived in the veil, leaving behind almost five hundred kilometers not the most even federal highway.
 
Five hours on the road, almost half of the road to the Crimea, where tens of thousands of auto tutorists strive for the vacation season an excellent range test for IX55. I must say right away that we were not tired at all, we could calmly saw the large crossover from Hyundai to this perfectly for this. Excellent visibility, large mirrors, easily readable dimensions allow you to maneuver in the stream without problems. A comfortable suspension, spacious interior, powerful engine what you need for such travels.

The Hyundai IX55 is based on a Hyundai Santa Fe plate stretched more than ten centimeters, the McPherson racks in the front suspension and a multi -leaf behind, and five -five -five -five -five -handed racks resemble its predecessor, except that even more improvised. The giant confidently stands on the highway, small deviations from the course begin only in the deepest asphalt rut, and he does not notice small pits and tubercles at all. According to the moderately broken asphalt, it rushes like an ironed autobahn, without shaking or passing unnecessary information to the steering wheel. That surprisingly there is practically no swing on serial bumps, where the rear passengers of the direct competitor of Honda Pilot already dream of hygienic packages, the population of the IX55 galleries continues to calmly consume hamburgers.
 
The maximum angle of rise that can overcome the crossover 36 degrees
The initial purpose of the Hyundai IX55 for the overseas consumer could not hide the transverse rolls with sharp restructuring are noticeable, and extreme maneuvering is accompanied by loss of feedback on the steering wheel, though only for a split second. But playing checkers on the road is not to a solid car, but in normal conditions, that is, with moderately active steering, IX55 demonstrates a progressive increase in feedback on the steering wheel and excellent informativeness.

A sharp discharge of gas in a bend wraps in a predictable skid, the stabilization system (by the way, disconnected) does not work immediately, letting the driver feel the sensitiveness of the situation. ESP, inhibiting the right wheels, honestly pushes the unbelted crossover on a given trajectory, the motor is thoroughly strangled. And even after the car stabilized, there are no more reactions to gas for a couple of seconds. This is excusable, after all, IX is not a supercar.
The electronically controlled coupling of the rear axle connection is triggered smoothly, accurately dosing the amount of torque, so there is no sharp change in the behavior of the machine in the bend under the gas. The brake system uses 17-inch discs in front and 16-inch behind, in any performance there are a double amplifier and ABS with EBD. The braking is not accompanied by a sharp nod, like most Americans, only at the very beginning the pedal move is a little long.

Previously, the Koreans were afraid of the Russian diesel fuel. Now there is no. In addition to a modification equipped with a 24-valve 3.8-liter V6 with a gas distribution phase system, you can choose a performance with a three-liter turbodiesel six CRDI. The latter gives out 239 horses and 451 nm of torque. The gasoline engine (its deformed 3.3-liter version goes to the Hyundai Grandeur business sedan) is also not a mistake, it develops 264 hp. and 348 Nm. We went only on gasoline variation.

There are no mechanics to the engine to the engine, any equipment goes with a six -speed Shiftronic automatic machine, which has a manual switching mode. The engine is a painful, but tuned to economical box, and strives to switch to increased gear. Switching occurs almost imperceptibly, without jerks and irritating delay at the start, but the Kik-Dawn mode is clearly not at this unit, while you are taking a reaction to the kick of the accelerator, the hole between the neighboring trucks may close.
In such cases, the manual mode comes to the rescue. The engine briskly spins to the red zone on any gear, though it does not hang long, electronics, upon reaching the maximum speed after a couple of moments, independently sticks the following gear. If you do not bring to this and it is good to adopt the IX55 is surprisingly with a dynamic machine, in addition, the engine can be slowed down. As for the efficiency, I would have to learn from the same Americans, at an average speed of more than 100 km/h and a mileage of about 1000 kilometers, the average fuel consumption (and you can pour 92 gasoline here) did not go beyond 14 liters per hundred.
 
The bottom of the IX55 is flat, the owner will only have to protect the gap of the crankcase of metal skiing
One of the points of our program was a visit to a local hunting economy. On the sandy paths, spraying rare puddles, we quickly reached the forest dining room, but we never saw the deer, which we were promised to show, you won’t go too deeply in the forest on our parkingate.

The Hyundai IX55 has long, but prudently mowed upside down (the angles of entry/exit are 24.8/22.7 degrees), so neither high borders, nor a broken primer will affect the state of a plastic body kit. The suspension moves are not the smallest, its balance, the lack of swing and steering, which does not annoy the driver with a strong return on bumps, allow you to fly along the lane at least a hundred. The road clearance in 205 mm is also a good argument in the fight against summer cottage off -road, but the car is too heavy, the equipped mass is 2110 kg, and the wheelbase is too long for races on a leaks on the leaks, the angle of longitudinal patency is only 17.9 degrees. The declared depth of overcoming Brod is 500 mm, but I would go into the water, God forbid, will go into the unsteady bottom under my own weight.
 
The Infinity audio center includes AM/FM radio and a six -disc chainer who reads the MP3. The system is rested with a USB port and a linear audit under a mini-jack. IPOD connection is also
There is no demultipliter in the transmission, Koreans do not understand why it is a car that is unlikely to move off the asphalt, but there is the possibility of forced blocking the electronic coupling. True, on the unreliable soil, this is still a little to a little anti -wings system does not turn off. The complex site will overcome how it is not easy. If only by inertia with severe acceleration, after making sure of the absence of boulders and logs in the way.

Hyundai IX55 marks a premium segment, and in terms of equipment, it is quite consistent with such applications. In the maximum configuration, it has parking sensors, an automatic maintenance system for the level of the back of the body using pneumatic elements in the suspension, leather decoration of the salon, steering wheel, a full complex of electrical settings for the driver’s and front passenger seats, the electric drive of the steering column in departure and height.

A chair with good lateral support, a lumbar underpor and a large amplitude of adjustments gives the driver of any growth to choose the optimal position, while there will be enough space in the middle row. The control of the audio system is duplicated on the steering wheel, there are also cruise control buttons. A compass is built into an automatically obscuring salon mirror, in each visor, a mirror with backlight, and a spherical mirror for communication with passengers on the upper panel. In the central armrest, a glove compartment with a cooler, though only a cola bank crawls into it, there are many containers throughout the cabin, and a large bottle of mineral water can be put in the extending door pockets. Mirrors are tuned and folded by electric motors. As well as the hatch in the roof, the luggage door is equipped with an electric drive, it can be opened and closed directly from the key fob.

Thanks to the Smart Key function, the key should not be inserted into the ignition lock, it is enough to lie in the pocket, the anti -theft system and the central lock are activated by one pressing the button in the door handle. Passengers of the middle row, along with the front ones, can control the separate climate control using the remote control in the back of the central armrest, there is also a twelve-volt outlet and a small container.

The salon perfectly transforms the middle row pillows move back and forth, the backs change the angle of inclination. To get to the gallery, you need to pull the lever on the side of one of the pillows and part of the sofa will go forward entirely. For three adults, it will be too crowded from behind, but two men about 180 cm tall will calmly withstand a journey of several hundred kilometers, barely touching the knees to the backs of the middle row.

The giants will support the back of the nape of a beveled rear door. In the third row, IX55 is definitely more comfortable than in the Mazda CX-9, and only a little closer than in Honda Pilot. Take the old chest of drawers to the dacha. The gallery is folded in one motion, forming a flat floor of a huge trunk, and if you need to put a small refrigerator, fold the middle, then the family crossover turns into a cargo bus. If you need to choose someone on the road, the rear row is folded in a ratio of 50/50, and the average 60/40.

Direct competitors of the Hyundai IX55 are only two these are already mentioned Mazda CX-9 and Honda Pilot, and X-Fifth X due to its versatility is in a more advantageous position. Not everyone needs a pseudo -sports low -flying attack aircraft from Mazda with refined controllability and a real consumption of about 25 liters per hundred, absolutely helpless outside the asphalt and even in the city snowdrift in front of a supermarket at a price of 1,887,000 rubles. Honda Pilot pleases with their passenger capacity eight people will clog into it without difficulty, but a rather weak engine, archaic box and the same utter impotence on off -road, plus the pronounced American appearance and habits, even at a price of 1,471,000 rubles, can lead a potential buyer to take what -It is more quick, although not so roomy. Hyundai IX55 even in the basic configuration has almost everything (except the rear air suspension and hatch), comes to the fore. Cross prices begin at 1,644,000 rubles. So much is worth the basic 3.8-liter gasoline variation. The simplest diesel version will cost 1,660,000 wooden.
Text: Alexey Grigorovich
Photo: Alexey Grigorovich, Yan Segal and Hyundai
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru