Hyundai Terracan test drive since 2004 SUV
Who laughs the last?
Oh, it is difficult to earn respect and become your own in Russia when the creators called you a terrakan. And yet, in the new Hyunde it seems to be possible. Etymology is a dark business
Silver, to a mirror shine, polished alternate sample on the road near Moscow. Outside the window is frost, and the cabin is warm. A pleasant music pours out of the speakers. I notice that I have already developed a bad habit of not paying attention to snow drifts and irregularities through the frozen route. Ahead of a small village. Traffic lights. And what so sarcastically grinning that mustachioed gentleman in New Samara? And what are those two charming villagers in quilted jackets? However, it is understandable - not more than Schildik Terracan read. Laugh, laugh. I would give it dearly to see your amazed faces when I drive on the bare ice on this insurmountable hillock for any Samara, immediately after the intersection! I know that Terracan should be deciphered as terra (Earth) and Khan (master, lord). In winter Russia, I will report to you, such a loud interpretation is quite justified.
Sea containers, tanks and professional all -terrain vehicles 240 million dollars, 34 months of design and testing were needed by engineers of the research center in the city of Namyang to proudly declare to the world: and Hyunde now has the first independent high-grown. After all, Galloper is only a copy of Mitsubishi-Pajero 20 years ago. Koreans bought a license and mastered the assembly of a horse at the factory that had previously produced sea containers and tanks.
Not a single soul will confuse the current ruler of the Earth with the predecessor. Instead of the angularity and roughly chopped angles of the galloper - huge headlights with implanted linz diamonds, focusing a bright beam, predatory nostrils of the air intake on the hood, overlays on wheel arches and doors that give the appearance of solidity, a stylish spoiler above the glass of the fifth door. And also - highly profile all -resistant tires, wide comfortable steps. In a word, everything, as it should be with a real all -wheel drive.
An attractive design is, of course, good, but for what is $ 34,690? - the reader will fairly inquire. Galloper bribed that it cost $ 25,000. And in the terrakan, in addition, neither skin nor wood. Electric drives of the seats, an altimeter, compass - all for a surcharge.
But for the extra ten thousand you will receive a modern machine with a much more powerful and economical engine of the latest design, the basic equipment of which includes a pair of airbags, a constant all-wheel drive with a decrease in a number of gears, an on-board computer, climate control, electric windows and mirrors. As for the skin and wood - are they so important to the real rogue? Velor seats with a large range and number of adjustments are quite convenient and quite practical. And heating in them is built -in. However, by order you can arrange in the cabin and the leather-ruined kingdom. And yet, in order to answer the question - why we pay, you can’t do without interrogation with addiction.
Sports rod, or functional family man A lot of noise, little use - that was the couple of years ago, my impressions of the trip on the 100 -horsepower Gallop. And suddenly everything is exactly the opposite. Was it quieter? It became, and much. But the main thing, it turns out, the diesel all -terrain vehicle can be temperamental. I am sure that a 2.9-liter engine with a Ugro-Rale injection system is dreaming of more than one galloper driver. 150 hp, 34 kgf.m already at 2000 rpm. On the speedometer 140, and the Korean, know, accelerates. The steering amplifier now changes the parameters of the effort depending on the speed, and gas shock absorbers - just what is needed in quick turns. Both the rolls are small, and the frightening validity disappeared.
Of course, in comparison with a gasoline counterpart in a 20-degree frost, our terrakan warms up longer. Why in the first minutes of ten minutes the temperature in the cabin differs little from the one overboard. But you can go right away. Which, by the way, is contraindicated in the old 100-horsepower motor. Another new engine is economical, durable, but the vibration during its operation is still significant. Nevertheless, one hundred to one, if not for a tachometer with a red zone, starting already with 4500 rpm, and the SRDI nameplate on the front wing will immediately guess that there is such a temperamental diesel under the hood.
Although for the most avid opponents of the diesel fuel eaters there is a 3-liter 200-horsepower gasoline engine. With him, the car is almost a liter capacity record holder in its class. And the dynamics! 9.5 seconds to hundreds. Let the owners of Pajero laugh then - unless, of course, they manage to see the notorious nameplate on the rapidly retiring stern of your terrakan!
An enviable temperament is only one of the hypostases of the new Korean. It is no less important that it is very functional. The rear seats were laid out - and to the cottage. There are almost two cubes here. Few? Another 34 kg of long cargo can be adapted on the roof - there are already shifts there. Pockets, all kinds of containers for small things, tray, cup holders, sockets - and with this the terracan is all right.
True, there is honey and a spoon of tar in this barrel. In their homeland, the car is equipped with a couple of additional seats, and the dealers will not be imported to us. However, in the five -seater version, it is unlikely that anyone will complain for the lack of space. The doorways expanded, the wheelbase increased by 5.5 cm, width with a length of 7.5 and 2.5 cm.
But, in the end, not for highway races and not only to carry a mother -in -law with a dog to a summer house, you buy an all -terrain vehicle. Galloper, I remember, was known as a good horseman in rough terrain. Now we will move into snowdrifts, and everything will immediately become clear.
Options are possible No matter how you torment the terrakan on the off -road or on the highway, you know - for three years (or 60 thousand kilometers of mileage) a free guarantee. Any official dealer will give it to you. The price of the car starts at $ 29,490. True, this is a car with a diesel 100-horsepower engine, which, as you understand, does not correspond to the nature of the new product. The most speedable and richly equipped (this is already with leather upholstery and wooden inserts in the cabin) Korean all-terrain vehicle with an excellent 200-horsepower gasoline six and automatic transmission will cost $ 38,090. Manywash? And you will recall any classmate from three diamonds, a Mercedes-Benets, Toyota or even Isuzu that can boast of such an attractive price. There are no such. And yet, in our opinion, the best choice is a terrakan with a 2.9 -liter diesel engine. The latest doubts are dispelled when you compare such a machine with Mitsubishi Pajero with a similar 3.2-liter 165-horsepower engine. After all, they ask for such a rogue a dozen thousand dollars at once, and it’s better not to remember about the cost of service as long as possible.
Divide and rule Here you have the lord, I am sure, many will think, for the first time in the cabin. Neither a scepter, nor a power, that is, neither a demultipliter, nor a differential lock. Do not be alarmed - in fact, both are. Just do not look for a thick shrub that is familiar to any jeper that controls all -resistant causals. Instead, next to the handbrake is a small handle of the electronic distribution system of torque (EST). He turned it at speeds up to 80 km/h, and the front bridge obediently joined the work. There is a version of the terrakan with automatically connected by all -wheel drive. In this case, on dry asphalt, the car remains rear -wheel drive and only when slipping the moment, as it should be, is divided between all four wheels equally. And the rear differential on all machines is blocked with the slightest slipping of the wheels on the axis without the help of the driver.
Diligently laying the rut in the 20-centimeter layer of snow, the car did not even demand the inclusion of a lowering gear. For a large all -terrain vehicle, a rigid frame structure, with a dependent spring rear and torsion independent front suspension, is, of course, a seed. Here, however, is a test and more serious. A cool snow -capped climb - by the eye of the degrees of sed 40. Eh, in vain I did not use the demultiplier right away. Then he would conquer this slide the first time, and not stalled with all four paws meter before the peak of communism. I turn on the lowered, and after a few seconds we are already at the top. That's when the engine torque is most necessary.
I was finally imbued with respect for the terrakan when I fell into the snow on the snow in the snow, and the last five meters in front of the asphalt the car worked as a front (plastic!) Bumper, like a dump of a bulldozer. Nothing, got out! Although, in truth, he could have hung a car in a deep rut on the hug of the rear axle. With 205 mm, the road clearance under the rear beam and the large passages would not help. That laughter would be!
Hyundai Terracan 2.9 Crdi
general information
Body
5-seater station wagon
Equipped mass, kg
2100
Complete mass, kg
2590
Length x width x height, mm
4710 x 1860 x 1795
Wheel base, mm
2750
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
10.9
Fuel supply, l
75
Engine
Location
The front is longing
Design
diesel, 4-cylinder
Cylinder diameter /piston stroke, mm
97,1 / 98
Working volume, SMZ
2902
Compression ratio
19.3
Power, L.S. (kW) at rpm
150 /3800
Torque, kgsm (nm) at rpm
34 /2000
Chassis
Transmission
all -wheel drive, demultiplier, self -locking rear differential
Transmission
Mechanical 5-speed
Suspension:
with reptile stabilizers and two -pipe gas shock absorbers
front
Independent, torsion
behind
Dependent, spring
Steering
worm -type worker
Brakes:
front front, ventilated
The size of the tires
255/65 R16
Alexey Sergeev, photo Alexander Sadovnikov
Source: Magazine "Limousine" [01-02/02]
