Jeep Grand Cherokee test drive since 2010 SUV
Great Manita
Those romantic times have long sunk into oblivion when in the clubs of red-brown dust rushed with a laryngeal cry through the prairie horsemen in combat coloring. It seemed that civilization swallowed them, dissolving them in itself without a trace. But nature does not tolerate emptiness, and they returned. Reincarnation. Grand from the Cheroki tribe
The low guttural roar makes it very unequivocally makes it clear that this time we are dealing not with one of, but with him. He could keep silent. Even the half -gaze, the turn of the head, crowned with a luxurious crown from the feathers of the neck, is decided by everyone. Sharp muscular features, angular shapes without a shadow of flourishing and flabbyness, which over the years overtook many of the other tribes. Old fashion? No, this is the fidelity of tradition, this is an expression of complete self -confidence and the absolute correctness of the chosen style. Contempt for the desired and identical contemporaries, the emphasized individuality is another evidence of superiority.
There are few details to understand that the leader of the tribe is before us. Chrome-plated 3.5-inch exhaust. A new shape of the radiator grille. Massive cast 16-inch wheels with five knitting needles, absolutely not similar to the previous, an abundance of overheads and holes resembling a cut of Manchu nut. No susal gold on bumpers and side linings painted in the color of the body. And the real trifle is the inscription 5.9 limited on small nameplate. There are only three options for combat coloring - light platinum, white and beige metallic. And unusual gratings and air intakes on the hood, resembling gills. Yes, when such a huge, powerful and hot heart beats inside, the leader just needs to breathe deeply.
The hot heart of the leader
What is 0.7 liters? By the standards of many of our compatriots - so, a trifle, a slight help at a friendly meeting. In the case of a new grand, the situation is different. Only seven tenths, but how much it is! It is enough to touch the pedal slightly, and its body shakes the tangible on -board pitching. And as the rumor of the Grozny delights, such a very American bass rumble of exhaust. It was as if he warns others that he, the leader of the Cheroka tribe, went to the path, and it is not a sin to move to them, to move, or even get out of the road in general.
Only 0.7 on top - and at the disposal of the leader not 220, but all 245 hot horses, which is rapidly throwing him forward and accelerate to hundreds in only eight and two tenths of seconds. Well, who is stronger than the leader in the tribe? Who is in the tribe faster than the leader? There are no such, and it cannot be - for that he is the leader. And who is there like that below, looking impatiently, so squat and predatory, so aerodynamic-sustainable? Two three times - gas! A characteristic whistle of rubber polishing asphalt, and - take care of the heads, riders, a powerful slap from the headrest is not even an hour. So where did those squat gentlemen go that they impatiently shifted next to us at the white line?
What kind of pistche this was found, a skeptic grinds. The jeep, they say, is not a class, he is not a smooth asphalt to grind, and he does not come to his face in speed with all sorts of squat and rapid. His element where there is neither asphalt, nor to him like, for a long time lingering in the next champing puddle in the middle of a striped country. Let him show himself there!
Well, leader, how will you answer the malicious skeptics of extremes? We would go there, to a village, where a house with a stove at the edge of the forest, where it smells so warm and comfortable and tasty with fresh wood and smoke from birch logs burning in a furnace. That's just the road changed, and in some places under the thin layer of ice lurked an insidious half-towering clay bog of deep puddles.
Russian prairies
Half -meter heights snow beads across the sake of road do not make any impressions on the Grand, rubber Wrangler 225/70R16 HP cuts them without meeting resistance. The reduced one has not yet been turned on, the 4H mode and the first restriction on the checkpoint are enough. But besides loose snow, something else is on the way.
What is happening, Chif, is this small fossa, this modest bowl of cocktail from half -liquid mud with ice discourages you? Are you skipping in any way? No, no, here it is - the front wheels are slightly trembling, the front wheels begin to grit stubbornly into the smeared soil, and, scattering the red -haired ground and ice shu, although it is strained, but quite successfully overcoming the obstacle, still dispensing without a reduced regime. The Quadra-Trac system worked: at the first signs of Vyskaft’s slipping, part of the traction force transferred to the front axle, evenly four wheels earned evenly, and the clay near Moscow was tumbling in anticipation of greasy production.
The final test was waiting in the village itself. The last three hundred meters had to go along the virgin lands - to cross through a winding bugrist dam and a deep hollow with steep slopes at the frozen pond. Reduced with the simultaneous blocking of the center differential, Trac-Loc in the rear bridge, the second restriction and after all it has passed! Not without difficulty and effort - it seemed a couple of times that she would be prudently seized with her shovel, she remained in the trunk, all the same virgin clean. Q.E.D.
Silver wigwam Modern civilization entangled the Earth with a network of asphalt veins, gathered most of humanity in stone jungle, connecting places of permanent residence of people with good roads. Therefore, the car for this for this most of all is, first of all, comfort, speed, safety and efficiency. But many choose a jeep. And for them, he becomes rather an expression of image and lifestyle, freedom from imposed rules than the pressing need for daily combat off -road.
Such a car, possessing a number of advantages over ordinary ones, should not concede it in the city in comfort, in high -speed and dynamic characteristics and convenience of management. After all, at least two -thirds of life passes there, on the asphalt, where almost all conditions are created. The leader from the Cherokee tribe is also close to perfection.
The new Grand will be produced exclusively in the most complete set of LX, which includes the maximum conceivable amenities and options, mostly inherited from the predecessor. The comfort and practical luxury of the salon, finished with genuine leather of dark colors with inserts under a tree on panels, - all this, along with the above qualities, makes it a respectable representative car for every day.
Two computers monitor the condition of the car systems and provide information on the reserve and consumption of fuel, medium speed, temperature overboard, etc
And music! The sound of ten speakers of the built-in audio system with a CD player will easily share the pleasure of listening to your favorite music, even with those who, on the opposite side of the avenue, drearyly waits for a trolleybus or misses a traffic jam near the traffic jam.
A huge supply of engine power with a constant full-wheel drive of Quadra-Trac provides it with magnificent running qualities. In normal conditions, on a dry and hard road at least 95 percent of the traction force is transmitted to the rear wheels. As soon as problems arise under them, Wylskyft smoothly redistributes the force between the axes and - if you please get all the advantages of a full -wheel drive on the slippery snow -salt porridge of a large city or a short, but very insidious piece of a dirt road between the highway and a country house.
The back suspension was somewhat finalized, springs were replaced by springs, add -ons were made to the design, ensuring the stability of the horizontal position of the body. They do not allow the car to squat at full load or a sharp start from a place.
But the spirit of warlike Cheroki obliges a lot, and, as before, it is not easy to earn his favor. The scope of traditional dependent suspension, a highly located center of gravity in combination with the above dynamics and speed characteristics are obligated a lot. It is better not to make mistakes, but if your abilities correspond to this, the great manita will take pale -faced into his tribe.
The autopilot thanks the company Pioneer, (095) 213-8594, 212-1490, for the car provided for the test. For the period of the test, the car was insured in the company of RESO-Garantia, (095) 250-3600, 255-6834.
What awaits a new multi -liter irosis in Russia? To deal with this issue, we decided to talk with the current owners of Cherokee.
The presenter of the program morning star Yuri Nikolaev has long been traveling to Cherokee, but admitted to the autopilot that he did not feel any particular feelings for this machine. He just didn’t let me down for six years. This is what is exhausted. I can’t say that I really love him. I love Aurora. Do I know about the new 5.9-liter Cherokee? Of course. But I will not buy. Why return to the old? My next purchase can be Cadillac. Leading Muzoboz Ivan Demidov refers to his Cherokee approximately the same: a good car for me. Strong.
Not so long ago, Boris Zosimov, President of Polygram-Russia, acquired Cherokee, but reduced it to the role of the escort machine. Because, the president believes, reliable, unpretentious and not particularly expensive - in which case it is not so sorry to put it under the blow. However, it was not yet necessary to substitute. Zosimov is also not going to change the jeep to the new: it will be a pity to break.
As for another famous jeeper, Andrei Makarevich, his friends gave him Cherokee. The singer emphasizes that he himself would not have such an expensive purchase, that this jeep is not fashionable, but good and strong, and he did not even hear about the appearance of a 5.9-liter version.
As you can see, there are many people among the owners of Cherokee, somehow related to show business, and their attitude to this machine is something similar. Real athletes do not really complain him. I have this case with these jeeps, ”the president of the international yacht club Spartak Dmitry Gerasimov shares. - We went to hunt with friends. We had Wrangler, Grand Cherokee, and several ordinary cars. Both of them settled in one place. I decided to go around them, see what was the matter. And calmly drove to the Audi-80!
And Nikolai Fomenko, we did not ask anything. Thus showing a certain delicacy. The fact is that he was stolen twice. And if a miracle happened for the first time, and the police found a jeep, then, as Fomenko himself said, there are no miracles twice. Now he has Ford Explorer. By the way, in the list of the most stolen foreign cars in Russia, Cherokee takes an honorable 4th place after the BMW of all episodes, the 190s of Mercedes and all-wheel drive Audi.
Model/Modification Jeep Grand Cherokee V8-5.9 Limited
The manufacturer Jeep-Eagle Division, Chrysler Corporation
The US country (cars sold outside the United States are produced at Chrysler enterprises in Austria and Argentina)
BODY
Type station wagon
Number of doors/places 5/5
ENGINE
Basin type with distributed electronic injection
The location in front is longitudinally
Working volume (cubic cub) 5899
Number/location of cylinders 8/V-shaped
Cylinder x Piston stroke (mm) 102.0x91.0
Compression degree 8.7: 1
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 183 (245) at 4050
Moment, NM at about./Min. 472 at 3050
The number of valves per cylinder 2
OHV gas distribution mechanism
TRANSMISSION
The permanent drive is full with viscous and variable distribution of torque (5-95%)
Four -speed automatic gearbox with raising gear
The quadra-trac handout, a mechanical two-stage with a location of the center differential in low mode
Transporting number, norms/lowering. 1.00/2.72
The rear inter-axial differential self-locking type Trac -loc
SUSPENSION
The front dependent spring, mobile beam of the bridge on four levers with a reptile stability stabilizer
The rear dependent spring, mobile beam of the rear axle on four levers with a reptile stability stabilizer
STEERING
Type of steering gear with recirculation balls, hydraulic power steering
Transporting number 12.7: 1
Min. Diameter of turn (m) 11.2
The number of steering turns between the extreme provisions 2.94
Brakes
Front disk ventilated
The rear circular ventilated
ABS
Wheels
Tire size P225/70 R16
Five -spitting alloy wheels, 7JX16
Dimensions/about EME/Weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4498/1796/1633
Wheel base (mm) 2690
The track front/track of the back (mm) 1486/1494
Clearance, per./Ass. bridge (mm) 221/196
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 87
Equipped mass (kg) 1933
The maximum permissible corners
Entry (city) 36.5
Start (Grad.) 29.3
Longitudinal inclination (city) 22.3
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 200
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 8.2
Aerodynamic resistance coefficient (CX) 0.45
Economy
Fuel consumption (l/100 km)
city \u200b\u200b26.1
highway 13.3
mixed cycle 17.9
$ 59,000 molten price in Moscow
What else
One of the typical representatives of the new subclass, which can conditionally be called representative, is the new Grand Cherokee. In this nomination with it, Range Rover 4.6 HSE seriously competes. In terms of powerful and speed characteristics, comfort and saturation of various options, they are similar. And from the image point of view, Range Rover even surpasses something. Not anyone, but Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain goes to such a thing! One of the weaknesses of this car in Russia is almost undeveloped service and its high cost.
Ford Explorer 4.9 XLT, despite the decent technical characteristics and no less sophisticated filling, still loses. The transmission does not have a permanent all -wheel drive mode, and this is a significant minus. The dynamics are weaker too. As for prestige, Explorer is significantly inferior, although over the past few years it has been the best -selling model in the SUV class. Using the glory of a solid and solid car, it also determines the character of the owner: a solid approximate family of middle-aged, whose ambitions and the thirst for image are not too high.
Oddly enough, even the manufacturers of Grand Cherokee themselves recognize Toyota 4-Runner Surf as one of the main competitors. Despite the obvious difference between engines, 8 and 6 cylinders, respectively, expressed in power and dynamics, a car of this brand is very popular in the United States. Most likely, the main role is played by the price. It is significantly lower than the price of a grand or an explorer. In standard configuration, it can be classified as representative jeeps, but the manufacturer offers a wide selection of additional options and finishes. Sports and tightened species, good off-road capabilities of 4-Ranners, and he will undoubtedly find recognition from those who devote most of the time to the exits to nature and does not attach importance to prestige issues.
Andrey Timofeev,
Stepan Rybakov (photo)
Source: "Autopilot"
