Jeep Cherokee (Liberty) test drive since 2007 SUV
Jeep Cherokee or Mitsubishi Pajero Sport
We presented budget SUVs in the competition between Chevrolet Niva and Suzuki Jimny. Specific-real crossovers were compared when they took Porsche Cayenne and BMW X5. And today you have simple normal SUVs. In some ways, the middle class. They have where to put the luggage, and at the same time they do not eat 30 liters of fuel per hundred. Compare their idea of \u200b\u200bSavva Safonov. For a long time I could not understand its meaning. It sounds painfully ordinary. But if you think about it, this is exactly what a person needs. Normal utilitarianism for normal money. Nothing else. I myself am not ready to pay for the image, design, pile of fashionable electronics, some trees in the cabin and someone's skin on the steering wheel. It even yells from this. But to give an honest price for cross -country ability, a strong design and the self -confidence they generated in their abilities. Especially when these qualities accompany some kind of comfort, security and ergonomics. Due to the last restriction, the list of applicants is closed to Chinese and Russian products. European cars receive a discharge due to the price. Japanese and American remain.
MARGIN OF SAFETY
We will have to deal with Jeep Cherokee, which in the Limited (it is, actually the only one) and the diesel engine now costs 1,681,000 rubles and Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, for which in a similar, top, equipment will cost 1,569,000 rubles.
The Mitsubishi Pajero Sport body stands on a powerful frame, and its back suspension is a durable insoluble bridge. Jeep Cherokee does not have a frame, but there is no ordinary body: in its supporting structure, these two elements are integrated into each other, and are also welded for reliability. In the back in the suspension, like that of the Japanese, a whole beam of the bridge. We classify similar SUVs as universal for the presence of a reduced gear. Both competitors, of course, have a two -stage demultiper in a handout. And, of course, we chose configurations with diesel engines. The top of practicality is found, marked on the map, it remains to climb.
There is ergonomics! The screen is tall, the climate rounds are raised, and the air ducts are on the sides, but if you want to listen to music, sit in jeep
On the front panel of the jeep, the functions are simply set on each other. However, the climate circle is comfortable, seized
Do not forget the lock
I would like to start with admiration. So I will do it. How beautiful Mitsubishi Pajero Sport is off -road! A miracle, how he makes his way through heavy March snowdrifts, dashingly conquers the hills and fords. The road clearance and the shape of the front line are such that you can famously climb on any reasonable obstacles, and the motor craving and two locks in the transmission are so effective that you can go around all the careers of the Moscow Region and return home with pure boots. The declared depth of the ford of 600 mm is also not the last. I have already met this Japanese before, and his abilities are not a secret, but they surprise again and again. Especially the magic button that gives the command to block the rear differential. It is located to the left of the steering wheel, in the blind area. Some owners generally forget and sell the car about it, so by once this option and without using it. How much they lose!
There is more space here, but the item should be narrow and long, for example, like an inflatable crocodile
In the American, the gender of the trunk is raised above. But the upper part of the opening is wider: a small children's piano will enter without disassembly
Imagine a slippery mountain that you cannot even enter with overclocking more than a quarter. The rise is not just slippery, but also the Utykan with hillocks and pits on which the wheels are hung. So, by clicking on this button, you will get to the top as easily as if you were driving along the asphalt. Therefore, Mitsubishi Pajero Sport does not have an anti -wings electronics. After all, it is successfully replaced by a rigid lock in the rear bridge. This is the right move. All electronic systems were originally invented for asphalt work. Their subsequent breaking into the SUV was accompanied by such a creak that the owners brings their teeth at this time. They work well while you hold the steering wheel straight. It is worth turning it to a sufficient corner, driving along some insidious soil, for example, sand, and the engine is strangled, and the pads tightly grab the wheels. There are, of course, there are exceptions, but they are in a different price range.
Jeep Cherokee can remove the front bumper skirt, and then the entry angle will increase to 36 degrees
Mitsubishi Pajero Sport is one of the few now cars intended specifically for off -road. Means all expectations
The electronic anti -boom system is strongly interfered here
300 kg and 2 seconds
Jeep Cherokee has electronics. It turns off, but, alas, not completely. The system works even when a low gear is turned on, although the ESP OFF icon lights up on the dashboard. The only thing that can be justified by the anti-boom hysteria in Jeep Cherokee is the remarkable moment of the diesel engine that needs to be controlled at least. Looking at his characteristics, you understand how small the indicators of the Japanese opponent are. With a volume of 3.2 liters of Mitsubishi diesel, 343 Newton meters are able to issue, and the Jeep unit with a volume of 2.8 liters has a 460-nm silver. But there is no traction, they are sure of Chrysler. And therefore, Jeep Cherokee is able to pull a massive trailer in which you can load 300 kg more than that of the Japanese, and accelerates to a hundred faster, winning for almost two seconds.
However, all advantages are manifested on asphalt. He lost the off-road test due to obsessive electronic assistants and poor geometric patency: clearance only 189 mm, an entrance angle of 28 degrees (the Japanese has 215 mm and 36 degrees, respectively). Where Pajero Sport is still passing without fear and reproach, Cherokee is already scraping a belly. Is I ready to really say that Jeep loses Mitsubishi? Only under the influence of sophisticated samurai torture. Otherwise, I will say: the off-road is better than Cherokee. He has a much easier steering wheel. It is more convenient to maneuver with it on rough terrain. He is not afraid of deep fords, and although the permitted depth of the water barrier is only 480 mm, the air intake has a giant sump of water. Well, will the archaic Pajero Sport with its heavy steering wheel and the monstrous diameter of the turning compare with it?
Where is the steering wheel and brakes?
Transplanting Jeep to Mitsubishi, the first thing you are looking for a steering wheel and brakes. And when you do not find, you are already going without them. The drums that are on the rear axle Pajero Sport are supplied to the Japanese from Brazil. You can tap them on a samb or a marath, but stop them with a heavy SUV ... Perhaps not. The compact steering wheel for Pajero Sport is taken directly from Outlander XL. But he needs a steering wheeler to make it easier to lighten. The trouble is that the steering wheel of a larger diameter will fall into the knees of the driver Mitsubishi. So, we greatly lost the problem, this car needs a new body.
I again saved part of the truth in case of captivity to the samurai. Take your bamboo and listen: isn't it funny that Chrysler engineers have fought with longitudinal and transverse buildup? Not really? Another thing is more hilariously: after so many decades of the works, they suddenly told them that there was also a vertical buildup. But it turned out to be too much for them.
Alas, the samurai will not have to land in the vicinity of the editorial office. The conclusions are as follows: the Japanese with the prefix Sport King Off Road, and the legendary Jeep is noticeably stronger on the asphalt.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [June /2010]
