Hyundai IX55 test drive since 2009 SUV
Large Hyundai IX55 crossover with diesel engine
The new Hyundai IX55 equipment with a three-liter diesel engine ... We have long been waiting for the IX55 equipment on diesel fuel, because none of the direct competitors and the same in our classification are seven-seater Mazda CX-9 crossovers, Honda Pilot and Subaru Tribeca does not offer a diesel engine.
For large crossovers, diesel is quite exotic.
My favorite motor
Three -liter diesel my favorite among motors. I am ready to reward it with the title of the unit of all times and peoples. Who tried such an engine in the case will never want anything else. Inexhaustible stock of Newton meters. A wonderful start from the bottom. Strength, calm, abuse of any kind of pleasure at the first request. If they give me an SUV with V8 gasoline, I will immediately sell it to purchase a package with diesel V6.
The diesel version lags behind the gasoline in acceleration, but by no means fatal
Let me remind you that the gasoline engine available to the Korean with a volume of 3.8 liters produces 355 nm at 4500 rpm, 260 liters. With. at 6000 rpm. Providing acceleration to hundreds for 8.3 C and maximum speed of 190 km/h. The IX55 diesel loses a little gasoline motor in power (minus 21 l.) And acceleration (plus 2.4 s). But it humiliates it at the gas station and gives an unattainable head start in the moment (plus 100 hm).
I'm not a tractor
However, Newton-meters in it are not the main thing. The Korean diesel has almost no tractor component. By the way, the transmission is tuned to asphalt races. Fans of to cite dirt will not like such a high -speed concept, but the crossover itself is not particularly calculated. He has other advantages: for example, there is no vibration noise.
The maximum moment of this diesel in 451 nm reaches 3800 revolutions. Low pleasures are not for him
A three -liter IX55 motor on heavy fuel should be considered exclusively as a replacement for gasoline in order to save. It is not worth looking for a primitive agricultural removal in it. He gives out the maximum moment at 3800 rpm. This provides him with enviable acceptance at speeds for 130 km/h, but deprives animal traction on the very bottoms.
This is probably the task of Hyundai engineers. Make a complete set that would eat two times less in the peak of gasoline. I checked this: 1112 liters are enough for a hundred kilometers even with the most rigid mode, and in traffic he does not eat anything at all. The woman at the gas station told me that she does not fill less than three liters and so that I would better buy a donut. That's exactly what I did.
The suspension is optimal for rough terrain
The rate on savings
For dessert off-road walk. All types of exercises available to the crossover were performed on four. Diagonal hanging, descent and lifting to the hill, mud baths, if still geometric patency were not spoiled by a long base! However, the size is an important marketing parameter IX55.
There are no serious differences from the gasoline version of the off-road. And on the asphalt it is only a little less frisky. Want to bet on saving without losing a lot in characteristics? Then diesel IX55 is suitable.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [January /2010]
