Jeep Wrangler test drive since 2006 SUV
The end of all restrictions
Forty thousand almost forty thousand, my boss muttered (the editor -in -chief of the wheel magazine Maxim Baranov), putting the euro into rubles and evaluating the proximity of the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited purchase. High landing, solid clearance, soft move and a powerful 3.8-liter motor in the company of a machine gun that set of values \u200b\u200bthat always find admirers. At least until there are roads everywhere The design of the new Wrangler restyled version of the well -forgotten old Willys, which this year could celebrate its 65th anniversary. The light army SUV of the US Army was distinguished by the same lamps of headlights, seven ellipses of the radiator lattice, characteristic flat arches and, of course, an open top. But the modern Wrangler has one radical difference: this is the first model in the history of a car with rounded windshield. They say visibility has improved
Jeep Wrangler Unlimited is the first and only, in its kind, frame SUV without a roof. The first, in which four people can sit at the same time. The first jeep, worthy to be called a descendant of Willys model of 1941.
The creators of Wrangler had to invest a lot of works to lengthen the wheelbase of a two -door jeep more than half a meter and all in order to place a full -size sofa behind and make separate access to it.
In the not very wide wings of the rear doors, you can (in turn) start three passengers or fold the seats, thereby almost half an increase in the luggage volume. And you can not do this: a weighty 1,875-kilogram SUV is already with difficulty. And this is despite impressive numbers: 3.8 liters, 200 liters. With
Price In the minimum configuration from 1,092,000 rubles.
Ceiling. 1 333 500 rub. Under the hood of the new Wrangler, the V6 motor changed the in -line gasoline six of the previous generation, which was refused for considerations of efficiency and safety. The new V6 structure for a dozen horses is more powerful and tangibly compact for the frontal impact of such an unit less threatens to face the driver and passenger.
The outdated Wrangler design received the right to eternal life. And not only outside. Everything that came with the NTR of the last six decades here, inside, is carefully hidden and disguised; And everything is deliberately angular and the simple -round became a proprietary Jeep style. In general, the Wrangler salon will not allow you to forget about Willas and its front -line exploits
Wrangler is built on a frame, the rigidity of which increased by 100% compared to the previous one (the body added 50% in this parameter). The suspension is all the same unreasonable bridges, but the ESP stabilization system is available in standard configuration. The drive is complete. And the systems that control them are two, but more serious, Rock-TRAC (with a modified two-stage hand, forced locks of inter-cross differentials and an opening front stabilizer), is not available in Russia.
Wheels recommend: four-door Wrangler Unlimited with a diesel 2.8-liter 177-horsepower engine (from 1,179,500 rubles) Well, we will be content with a less off-road version of Command-Trac: with a handout and self-locking rear differential. Believe me, so as not to get stuck in the most difficult places, this set (seasoned with common sense), there is plenty!
A four-speed automatic transmission (with a 2.8-liter diesel engine, also available in Russia, is installed in pairs with a gasoline engine, a five-speed automatic is installed). The dynamics of Jeep Wrangler Unlimited on the asphalt is the case when acceleration by passport (10.6 s) seems faster than really.
The rolls in corners, swinging during acceleration, a large, non-resistant steering wheel and sluggish response to the gas pedal place everything in their places: a flat asphalt road is spelled out by Wrangler Unlimited in small doses.
Another thing is sand, dirt, swamp and any other coating for which the protector of Wrangler Unlimited can catch. Even an inexperienced off -road person behind his steering wheel will not be difficult to find a way out of the most difficult situations.
Long -flow suspensions help not to sit on the belly, minimal overhangs increase the corners of the entrance and congress, and ESP will delicately help out if it is overdoing at the speed and steepness of the depressed turn. Even in 4h mode (without switching to lowering and differential blocking) Wrangler Unlimited easily took a rather complicated rise in a slide along loose sand with a turn to the left. At the entrance to the turn, I went too far at speed and caused a slip of the rear external wheel. ESP immediately chopped off the fuel supply, Wrangler froze at the very tip of the turn in the middle of the rise. Then I did not let go of the half -drowned gas pedal Wrangler slowly and confidently climbed up the sand, holding an even minimum speed.
The original plastic roof Freedom Top (the top of freedom) consists of three sections, two of which are located above the front seats, and one more above the rear sofa and luggage compartment. Wrangler also has a regular swearing top of the Sunrider (Sun Horseman), which can also be folded (partially or completely).
If you switch to a reduced gear, the torque will multiply by 2.72, demonstrating colossal traction and the most that is off -road ambitions. True, all the obstacles that we were able to pick up for Wrangler took and without a lowering, limiting ourselves to all -wheel drive and ESP turned on.
It turns out really Unlimited?!
The car was provided by Olympus, an official jeep dealer
Text: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [No. 119/2007]
