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About Jeep Commander, Nikolai Fomenko was preparing to say either advertising -correctness (what can be said about this car? This is the Commander. Well, perhaps all), or - with the characteristic editor of the autopilot of cardiac kindness and tearful sentimentality - only bad, diverse and only poor The murderously anti -American (well, what, in fact, could I expect from a car with such sizes and such pronounced features of Yankees?). So Nikolai Fomenko was preparing to speak to the Jeep Commander test drive. The test drive of the car showed that he, like our whole life, is much more complicated and diverse than nothing and what is just bad.
 
Commander is equipped with safety elements better than all Chrysler products. The National Road Safety Administration (NHTSA) appropriated Jeep Commander five stars in the Crash test on a frontal blow. Side airbags have a turning sensor and work not only with a lateral blow, but also when overturning the machine. The standard configuration includes ABS, ESP, Brake Assist, a overturning system and the anti-circus system. Gude Day, America, Ohhh! In American cars, the driver, the driver with a capital letter, is not. The driver there is some kind of misunderstanding, a clot of passive biomass. Hence the main advantage of an American car - so that a person in the cabin is about the same as at home on the couch. A little bit, a little T-shirt is torn, a little beer spilled, well, and a little sags with socks. One hundred percent American lifestyle. Everything for the comfort and relaxation of this very bite of biomass. So that the car is actively driving somewhere? God forbid! Americans are not designed for a frisky style. They go, not paying any attention to the actions of the driver. Now we’ll go left, ”the driver commands. When when? - asks the car. Well, right now, now. - And right now - how much? - Well, already, in principle, we drove a turn, okay. “Yes, and hell with him, my friend.” Here is such an approximately dialogue between the subject and the object of steering. If you still try to break the waywardness of the American car, then it will fall in a turn to the side. Something - a huge ass of the car, or its abdomen, or a hump - will outweigh. And there is nothing to be surprised here. What do you want from a soft machine in which shock absorbers are filled with liquid shaving gel? In any case, all those Americans whom I knew until now were full of garbage dumps. In terms of driving, of course.
Hood Bai, America, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhind On the other hand, such garbage dumps are a great American tradition. Why do NASCAR still go according to the rules of 1956? On monstrous karas that are practically not controlled? Yes, therefore, in order to leave the spirit of competitions where they fight, they smoke, where everything is unpredictable and the winner is always a mystery. If you give European engineers to work with these tachas for at least two weeks, Nascar will die. It will be a different race with other cars. The American automobile industry has about the same rules as in NASCAR. I lived in Florida, where we participated in Daiton, in the boarding house. The owner of the boarding house, a professor of philology, met me somehow on his new car. Typical American Bigmak on wheels. On such a machine, only Godzilla is transported. I tortured him all, why did he need such a car. Often to transport things? So no. Take it on it? Also no. Inconvenience (for example, from the leaves to periodically clean it) more than advantages. And he says: of course, you are right. But such cars are our American tradition. And you can’t do anything. The tradition is expensive and inspires respect. Against the background of such a tradition, even people who produce Porsche and Ferrari seem to be idiots.
 
Jeep Commander is, on the one hand, an American tradition. On the other hand, this is a buzz, a tradition. This is a great victory of the American auto industry. Including themselves. How much does H2 cost? This car is cheaper and better. This is an economical answer to Hummer. I had a version with a diesel engine. He conquered me. Elastic, but modern. Audye, I would say. This means that the engine is spinning quickly and without failures. A transmission works very accurately in relation to the elastic engine. In general, elasticity is inherent in this jeep in everything. But if you want to be sharper - the motor, and the transmission, and all, all together, will be sharpened.
 
There is no breathing in the brake cylinders. They paid attention - do the brake cylinders for Americans work with shortness of breath? You click on the brake pedal and get: one - a puff, two - a puff, three - a shchsh. We exhaled, but already in the fence. When you press the brake in any American car, you feel how it went through the pipes. This is not the mention of this.
Outside of North America, Commander is offered with two Quadra-Trac IIC permanent all-wheel drive systems with a new handout and Quadra-Drive II with high-control differentials with electronic control. Thanks to Quadra-Drive IIR electronics, it becomes possible to quickly redistribute the torque for both the front axis and the rear axle. Up to 100% torque can be transmitted to any of the wheels. Commanders and migrant workers. Commander is perfectly controlled. The control of neither Hummer nor Cherokee, even in dust, does not fall into the commander. Here, it seems to me, the driver as a factor is first taken into account. Commander, feels much more correct than some European SUVs that I regularly praise. This unit behaves like a frame. If you definitely hit the entrance to the turn, then you go like attached, which is just amazing for such a huge colossus. In general, everything is very folding in it. Suspiciously folding for an American car. It seems to me that it was not without any migrant workers. From German Tajikistan, for example.
 
Inside, Commander is a sluggish attempt to catch up with the first VW Touareg. For American motorists, such a salon is very rich. Unrealistically cool. We, ordinary residents of the capital of our Motherland, cannot understand what kind of black horseradish this is inserted in the place where a normal car usually has a TV and one of the eight of the rear front, side of the middle, side, and underground species. And American drivers from this crap, which is simultaneously a receiver, a cigarette lighter, and a massager, is crazy. But this car has three hatches, dear comrades! Three! Two loopholes for children of machine gunners. And a large hatch-for a dad-sniper or mother-rack.
Seven charming. Commander is a green car. No longer a warrior, but with a raid by a militar. It has the fencing of devices from strategic games on PC. Something from the machines that are served inside Battlefield or Quest. In short, in that direction. Commander by the creators, probably, was thought of as a means for walking along the Iranian border. In it, you really feel like an American soldier who has not yet drove into Iran, but is spinning somewhere around.
It hides perfectly in any reed thickets. It is clear that this car is not intended to climb into the swampy area of \u200b\u200bthe Lower Taimyr to meet the dawn there. In Russia, it seems to me that specific people will buy it. Of course, I will not. But it will not be those who acquire Hammers. Maybe these will be hunters and fishermen from the category no further than Dubna, to Dibunes and vice versa.
At the same time, Commander is not an offroide machine. And not figs for you to climb it, son. Where are you going on it - there are seven places! The trend to make seven -seater cars is a quiet horror. These are sobs for countries with an uncontrolled demographic situation. This is only not necessary, dear Turks, to make a revolution in Germany! Or my dear Algerians, please do not explode the Parisian metro!. Here you have a seven -seater Renault and travel on it with your entire polynomial family with all the money! I never understand this. To hell with your seven -seater buses! Give me an expensive wheelbarrow - I want to rush on it. That's all.
 
I don’t understand how it is seven people in the car? There is no price dependent. And what kind of smell is there? Grandmother's teeth, dog legs, why did you take the needles with you, dear?.
 
In Russia, Jeep Commander is recognized as the best SUV in a row for the second year in a row in a row in the nomination for the results of the competition SUV. The best SUV last year, Commander was recognized in Britain. Commander returns to the values \u200b\u200bfrom which the Jeep brand began - to functionality. On it you will equally confidently pass along the rural road and on the city streets, ”said one of the jury members. All this did not prevent the InSide Line publication with reference to its sources in Chrysler to report the removal of a car from the conveyor by 2009. Commander is accused of too much fuel consumption. The German ADAC automobile club found that owners of the diesel jeep Comander 3.0 CRD Sport AT save in the year 1920 euros (or 15%) compared to the Jeep Comander 4.7 Sport AT gasoline (the ADAC average mileage was 19,000 km).
He opened all the windows. But at five kilometers per hour with which Leningrada moved to the region, this did not help. And then his grandfather, screwed from above with the family ottoman, blocked all three hatches. Oxygen reserves approached zero.
Blackout.
End.
Final credits.

Auto.ru: setting up separate climate control in a test car causes some difficulties. If you decide to entrust the choice of blowing intensity to the computer and put the rotary switch in the Auto position, you will have to face the lack of clear fixation of the selected mode; In order not to accidentally put the switch in a strong or, conversely, weak blow (Hi and Low) mode, you need to monitor your actions. During movement, watching somewhere down the central console and it is not always possible to be distracted from the road.
Autonews.ru: Those who like to wallow with a sofa with a remote control from a TV on a beer belly will never appreciate this car. You can walk on foot. But people who love one large friendly company hut up to the car and go fishing, hunting, or in nature under the noise of the wind and the smell of barbecue, are unlikely to be able to abandon Jeep.
Automobile newspaper Klaron: the creation of real SUVs is an art. In its more than sixty -year history, Jeep has repeatedly demonstrated it. And that means, it is not by chance that the presentation of the new flagship of the company - Jeep Commander - took place before entering the Foreign Figure Museum of Fine Arts (Pennsylvania). But the fact that one of the episodes of the Rocky film was shot at this very place (I don’t remember which one in the account), as evidenced by the corresponding memorial sign, is already an accident. Although who knows? Perhaps not. The appearance of the commander is quite matching the heroes of Hollywood militants.
Buy a car: in Krysler is now played not only in the Indians, but also in soldiers. Commander is the first jeep in which almost a whole separation will fit. Denim suit and sneakers - Eh, I look wrong, completely wrong. Now, if I pulled camouflage, unloading and berets, it would be the most. And so I stand next to him as a ballerina who confused the entrance of the Bolshoi Theater and the checkpoint of the military unit. The jeep, for nothing that it does not smell like gunpowder and weapon lubricant, is very much like an armored car. Side square glass, like observation slots. Narrow wind - so simply placed almost at right angles. That the aerodynamics from this is not to hell. Why do the driver of the armored personnel carrier think about such subtle matters as the aerodynamic resistance coefficient? The main thing is that the fighting vehicle on the enemy would lead to fear.
Wheels: Close your eyes and imagine such a car. Strict forms, the predominance of rectangular elements both outside and inside; deliberately a rough grille of the radiator; wheeled arches that give Jeep a resemblance to the tank; A hard -opened powerful baggage compartment door, on the sides of which powerful handles sparkle chrome ... The new Commander Jeep is the faithful son of his brand. On such a car is much more confident you feel not on a smooth asphalt turn, but where the car wheel has not yet passed. And the one who sits behind the wheel of Commander will not torment himself with a question like it I need?. The answer to it should be received before the trip.
4x: At least his dimensions are not as impressive as a look. Large flat body panels, straight angles and small radii of rounding create the impression that Jeep is a full -size SUV, and after all, it is only five centimeters longer than Grand Cherokee, which you can’t say much about. Truly the running qualities of Commander open in the desert and on the highway - on the highway especially. It's nice, I will tell you, not too in a hurry, to go on the new Jeep on a smooth asphalt straight as an arrow. An empty steering wheel is only in a joy, and comfortable chairs have a complete set of adjustments and, together with the moving back and forth, the pedal block will literally force the most convenient position.
Jeep Commander
 
Diesel engine, V6
Working volume (cubic cub) 2987
Power (L. S. at about/min) 217 \u200b\u200bat 4000
Moment (nm at rpm) 510 at 1600-2000
The permanent drive is complete
Gearbox 5-st. Automatic transmission
Length/width/height (mm) 4790/1900/1830
Equipped mass (kg) 2170
Maximum speed (km/h) 190
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.0
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 10.5
Price in Moscow from 46,700
We thank for help in organizing the shooting company Daimler Chrysler Rus (495) 745-2600 and the Russian Automobile Federation.
Text Nikolay Fomenko
Photo Andrey Danilov

 

Source: "Autopilot"