Test Drive Hyundai Terracan since 2004 SUV

Because it is necessary

Hyundai did it again. TERRACAN SUV did not have time, but even start out to be outdated, as a new, improved version of the model came to replace it.
 

Hyundai did it again. TERRACAN SUV did not have time, but even start out to be outdated, as a new, improved version of the model came to replace it. And so everywhere: this year the Koreans have updated the Santa Fe non-lacknik and an even more young coupe GK, and a year ago elantra, xg and cenntenial sedans were subjected to modernization. I'm not talking about new models that continue to appear with enviable regularity, Sonata of the next generation, absolutely new Tucson

 

So the most serious SUV from Hyundai has been subjected to some changes. Not too much, however, it is quite sufficient to refresh in memory of the impression of this car. On and okay. I put in the paragraph, I think.

 

The updated Terracan is much easier to distinguish from the predecessor if you know in advance where the changes should be signed. Please here's a new grill of the radiator in a small flavor and the same air intake on the front bumper. The bumper itself, as well as the plastic perimeter, is also new on the car, which was tested in the summer of 2001, the body kit was a bit different. And optics are also different. And the steps. And in the cabin of changes at least the dashboard and the central console. Massed.
 

Frame SUV is a product on an amateur. Lovers of framework SUVs. In order to be most assured, stronger. Sometimes sophisticated, sometimes prisoner and by the defendices. Yes, statives too! To raw wheels and landing higher. And to climb more complicated (landing is higher!). And get out, jumping. But without a parachute. And with the full awareness of our own dignity and wealth, as well as the feeling of life of life.
Well, except the above, the SUV should be quite large and roomy plus to be able to crawl around the rough terrain. How else? After all, it will have to somehow explain to the nearest surrounding, why the all-wheel drive all-terrain vehicle is much more expensive than ordinary passenger cars!
 
Terracan, for nothing that costs quite reasonable in jeellis money standards, has all the necessary attributes and properties of a true SUV. Rama is. Clearance is. There are big wheels. 3.5-liter gasoline motor with automatic. And the four-wheel drive is fully inventing! And although in the car's cabin, it seems like there is no one cute glaze of jeep-roughening additional transmission levers, Terracan is capable of much. All seriously, in addition to controlling the modes of operation of the transmission, it is simplified here to the limit. For all about everything corresponds to one small wheel on the central tunnel with two positions: Auto and Low. Auto Road Mode: When moving along the normal, human surfaces (asphalt), the top wheels are the leading wheels, but with the slightest slip of the multi-disc coupling with electronically controls, part of the Newton meters on the front axle moves. Hop and Terracan already on full drive! But if the road conditions from human turn into inhuman, then it is better to progress and in advance, putting the machine selector to a neutral position, switch to LOW mode. And then the four-wheel drive will become completely natural with the uniform distribution of torque over the axes, and a reduced transmission will turn on in the distribution.

 

Unfortunately, the summer tires in which our terracanish was wound, did not even allow the thoughts about any serious trials on the passability. Therefore, an off-road raid (I do not think about the same name from cockroaches here is completely nothing to do with it!) We replaced the journey through the urban streets. In the shrouded snow, a sludge and corks of the metropolis, a all-wheel drive SUV is always additional degrees of freedom compared to conventional machines. Neither the pits are not embarrassed with the sizes with OKU, nor the borders of the magnitude with the Great Chinese wall, nor wild routing animals with gastarbaters driving. The smoothness of course, of course, is not outstanding, but the energy intensity of the suspension from terracan is simply atomic. Right at least go to the crossway! But that is constantly felt, so it is the vibrations of unsophisticated masses, but, however, the owners of such cars on such trifles are accustomed to not pay attention. After all, it is much more important that the raspiest starts and the dead is very long, and regardless of the fact that at this moment it is under the wheels! It is necessary, of course, to make aware that the race on SUVs, as a rule, are limited to races in a straight line, and in the turns to play in the formula is not a trace. High center of gravity, you know, together with high-profile tires can cool any hot head

 

Of course, here it would be necessary to write about the fact that the ergonomics of the car's salon fully corresponds to cars of this type and does not have any special outstanding solutions (so it is) that the wooden interior decoration looks slightly pompous and not quite expensive (it is) that the trunk is great And it is convenient, and the rear seats are folded into some kind of proportion (so there is) and a lot of good things, but by no means bad it all already wrote about Terracan. The main thing is the car costs my money, and this is for many the most significant argument. Well, TERRACAN is new again!
 

The car is provided by the East-Auto.
During the dough, the car is insured by Rosno.
 
Autography
Hyundai Terracan.
Predecessor
Galloper (1991)
Prototype
Highlander (1999)
Premiere
march 2001.
Modernization
summer 2004.
Body
universal
Engines
2.5-3.5 L (105-200 hp)
Production
South Korea
Expected replacement
2007
 
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Evgeny Egorov
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [№88 / 2005]