Test Drive Jeep Grand Cherokee since 2010 SUV

Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Updated Jeep Grand Cherokee has retained a convincing appearance and imbibeble male character. We touched the legend on the roads of the Moscow region
Restricted Packronics, Porn Diesel Motor Rocky and Grass Sheet Under the bottom - We are presented through endless fields in the vicinity of the cashier. The asphalt has long changed the primers, but they eventually go to no. We follow the parallel full-flowed Oka for the barely distinguishable trails of rustic trucks and tractors. Our goal is the city of Ozers and Kolomna. Task - check the capabilities of the Jeep Grand Cherokee 2009 model year. We are not planning to experience an SUV on the strength of the SUV in the pompous modification of Overland. The Grand Cherokee has been too frivolous to us, the urban vestments are emphasized. The off-road potential laid into the design, however, provokes to exploits. The full-wheel drive system of Quadra-Drive II is capable of transferring up to 100% torque to the front or rear axle. There is a lowering range of transmissions and excess of self-locking differentials: inter-axis, front and rear. In short, Grand Cherokee is armed up to the teeth, and break out of sandy or mud captivity for him a couple of trifles. Another thing is geometric permeability: the angle of the entrance is only 23.3, the lowest rear gearbox, the spare wheel under the bottom and the already mentioned skirt, which, however, can be quickly dismantled.
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In the steep rise, check in the action of the help system during the descent and lift and remain impressed. Activate the system, we remove the legs with the pedals, and the 2-ton car freezes in the middle of the rise. There is a need to podger or slow down - please. The system is not deactivated in contrast to the analogues of most competitors.
Riding over the abundant bumps and lure roads on the Grand Cherokee is not too comfortable - announcing a strong longitudinal squabble. Sedoki turn into a similarity of the springs, performing the measured oscillatory movements along with the machine. These habits are the fee for the energy intensity of the suspension, which the Grand Cherokee is extremely difficult on the Grand Cherokee. But the truth lies in the fact that you don't want to go slowly at all. On the active drive, a 3-liter 218-strong diesel engine, which is a miracle, how good is: 510 Nm of peak torque are achieved with only 1600 rpm, and that says it all. If you do not sit on the belly, Grand Cherokee with such a daimler machine pulls out almost the swamps.
And what about behavior in the city and on the track? Compared to the predecessor, the chassis received explicitly more pronounced asphalt settings. On the ground-quality road canal, Grand Cherokee will delight the excellent smoothness, good course stability and almost limousized acoustic comfort. But it is worth going away from the city, the American will start the dance. The vertical routine of the body is ensured even with minor relief height differences. Another claim to manageability is tangible bodies. In the steep bodies of the saddles and the contents of the trunk throws from the side to board. First to keep the developed side rollers chairs. The finely fucking should be fixed, for which there is a mass of regular devices. Grand Cherokee steering settings are more oriented on Off-Road. The diameter of the reversal (11.8 m) for urban crowd is large, the rabbar for active taxation is not enough (3.15 turns from the stop until the stop). However, on the rustic highway, such plotics in management is only good: it is not necessary to periodically twist, adjusting the trajectory.
His American genus Grand Cherokee demonstrates primarily on the track. Cruising 150-160 km / h Diesel car holds flawlessly, but can go and much faster. Speeds are not felt, powerful brakes hesitated the car systematically and confidently, which also provokes to active ride on good roads.
Daughter drivers will delight relatively modest diesel engine appetite. In traffic jams and off-road, the flow rate did not exceed 15 l / 100 km. Approximately 13 l / 100 km was satisfied with the Grand Cherokee country highway, while the fuel consumption was not much dependent. That 120, that 150 km / h is all the same 13 liters with a little. Applying the flow to the passport 10.2 liters was only possible with intentionally sluggish ride in the Moscow Ring Road. The arrow of the speedometer was held at the same time at 80 km / h.
The perfect and reliable assistant of the draft diesel engine is a 5-range automatic. He goes through the transfers with barely noticeable delay, when the kikdaun willingly descend on one or two gears down. I want to nor the SUV even stronger - the transmission has a manual mode. We, however, resorted to it extremely rarely - the possibilities of automation and so more than enough.
Legend
In short, this American knows how to ride aggressively. With a sharp start, he breaks off and sheds the balm on the soul by the bold, inexorably increasing acceleration. Serious off-road skills associated with convincing acceleration and comfort when moving over long distances, perhaps the main arguments for purchase. The same who loves eyes will appreciate the appearance of the updated Grand Cherokee. The last restyling resulted in improving the interior trim, which received leather inserts on the front and door panels. Implantation in the interior of the tree and silver metal set premium tonality and please the eyes. At the same time, the Grand Cherokee is glad to be glamorous. The interior is resolved in coarse, emphasized by male stylistics. The chopped forms of the interior elements, the fragments of the rigid plastic front panel, grabbed handles on the outside of the front rack - as if the reminder of the distance 90s, when the ancestor Grand Cherokee was so loved in Russia with steep guys. The percentage of glamority since that time, however, has grown. The rear view camera, a whole set of parking sensors, hidden in the ceiling screen of an entertainment system, GPS navigation, an audio system with a tough disk on 20 GB, controlled by the electrical hatch in the roof - those nice excesses that raise the price of an American to 2,176,020 rubles, but form modern Image, distinguishing Grand Cherokee from classmates of competing clans.
Specifications Jeep Grand Cherokee
Dimensions, mm 4750x1870x1785
Base, mm 2780
Volume of trunk, l 978
Curb weight, kg 2135
Engine type Diesel V6
Working volume, cube. CM 2987.
Max. Power, hp / rpm 218/4000
Max. Moment, nm / rpm 510 / 1600-2400
Transmission Automatic 5-Range
Corner full
Max. Speed, km / h 200
Overclocking time 0-100 km, from 90
Fuel consumption (medium), l / 100 km 10.2
Tank volume, l 83.3

Vasily Sergeev
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A source: Magazine "Autopanoram"