Test Drive Land Rover Defender 110 since 2007 SUV

The last of the Mogic

Land Rover Defender Land Rover Defender
Land Rover Defender has been produced since 1983 in Variants 90, 110, 130, which roughly corresponds to the magnitude of the wheelbase in inches (from 2360 to 3226 mm). The main options for the body are three-, five-door and pickup. The most common engine is a 2.5-liter turbodiesel, in small amounts produced modifications with a 3.9-liter gasoline engine. The gearbox is only a mechanical five-speed.

UAZ 3153.
The progenitor of the current UAZ, model 469 is produced since 1972. UAZ 3153 appeared in 1996, its main differences: an extended 380 mm base and spring front suspension. The car is equipped with a 2.9-liter carburetor engine and a four-stage manual gearbox.

To the barrier!
A little utilitarian all-day all over the world remains a bit, and these latter from the M Rican are inferior on the asphalt space for more comfortable machines. Other business is off-road. Here they are still no equal. By the way, only in this discipline, the products of the domestic auto industry seems competitive. To confirm or disprove it, we compared the British Land Rover and its Russian analogue of UAZ, throwing towards the legend and trusting only the facts.
The Land Rover Defender 110 TDI worth $ 40 thousand and UAZ 3153 came across the battlefield of $ 40,000 and UAZ 3153, whose price is now difficult to determine: in a solid currency for the year it decreased from $ 10,000 to $ 4,000. They have different motors: a 2.5-liter diesel engine with a turbocharger at the Defender and a 2.9-liter carburetor engine UMZ-4218.10 at UAZ. In general, not at all classmates, but there is no domestic diesel engine in the manufacturing program. Transmission of Land Rometer is also different from the UAZ - there is a permanent four-wheel drive with a blocked inter-axis differential.
The first look at the elongated UAZ does not disappoint, but at closer looks, they get typical of our auto industry flaws. Low build quality and coloring, freely chatting switches - list just boring, just like looking at the road through the slots between the doors and the body. Defender on a background looks just brilliantly.
But if the driver still got into the Oaz salon through a narrow doorway, he will find that it is much more convenient to sit in it than in the lend rover. In Defender, the driver is located below, his legs are extended, he pressed his shoulder to the door itself, and the pedal node and the steering wheel are strongly shifted to the left. The ergonomics of the defineer is far from excellence, but the devices are well read, and the controls work clearly and do not require great effort. With UAZ, it is more difficult: the car created at one time by ordering the machine is difficult to turn into civil, even if you install a soft upholstery of the front panel and the semblance of the console.

On asphalt
Both cars are quite clumsy on the road, but the Diesel Land-Rover Diesel makes it easy to win the start from the place, overclocking and any other sprint disciplines. But the maximum speed of cars is almost the same, although the engine of the Englishman is noticeably more powerful. Most likely, the case in an impressive forwarding trunk with chandeliers that do not improve aerodynamics.
In the turns, you should be careful to the driver of the Land Rometer - the car is very cubed and reacts with a large lane at a sharp turn of the steering wheel. UAZ due to the tougher suspension is more willingly responding to the driver's requirements, and highway tires
K-153 have good coupling qualities on the asphalt.
As for the brakes, both cars are not particularly effective. Defender, whose cutting mass is almost 2 tons, with disk brakes require 55 meters to stay from a speed of 100 km / h, and the UAZ with drums is not enough at such a speed and 60 meters: to hold it on a straight intensive braking is simply impossible. In addition, after a long ride on the wet road of his brakes, the efficiency is almost completely lost.

On the primer
Autumn rains How it is impossible to best meet our plans. Tightly rolled, with shallow rings, the clay primer turned into an ideal light rink of light-red color, only occasionally separated by deep industries. To control UAZ on such a coating is not easy due to an insensible steering wheel, but the high energy intensity of the suspension allows you to overcome the wins, almost without reducing the speed. Defender in these conditions is best listened by the driver, but requires to slow down in front of large pitches - its suspension is soft for races of rough terrain.

... will be on the belt
This, of course, an explicit exaggeration is hardly the driver even on the all-wheel drive car will be fed from the past rain. Freshly speaking clay field. Being remembered about the limited length of towing cables, we decided to storm the raised virgin first to the solid road. Both cars coped with the first exercise without much difficulty.
The next passage of the left and delayed revealed a noticeable advantage of the lend-romete: with a blocked inter-axis differential, he moved without a strong slip, periodically burling on the hub and chirk bridge gearboxes on the ground. The Russian sacrifice diligently turned over the ridges and furrows, using the impressive moves of the suspension. However, the tire protector shine illuminated eloquently testified that the possibilities of the machine are celestial.
Uza the second swim was with great difficulty: especially complex areas had to be overcome from the second attempt, punching the rut. Successful for asphalt tires turned into helpless bald rollers, with great difficulty promoted the car forward. When trying to drive in the opposite direction, the car is stuck. Only with great difficulty, having hired back-forward, managed to get on the solid soil with its own way.
The third, the most desperate attempt was made in a purely domestic on Avos. Divide on a dozen meters, this perhaps, along with UAZ stuck on the ears. It took a towing cable to rescue the car. Evidence of the failed guard of off-road remains a full imprint on the cinema of the bottom of the car: beams of bridges, muffler and cardan.
Someone will surely ask, why did you need to climb into a deliberately impassable place by car, which is already barely overcome the less complex area?

BECAUSE...
Let's open a secret: the third car took part in the test - the third car is walking out of UAZ 31519, which, by the way, and performed solo on a towing cable. Without going into details, we will explain: this is a standard short car with a spring suspension, hard riding and 2.9 liter engine. No, it was not equipped with a secret weapon like bridges with wheeled gearboxes or self-locking differentials. The main difference was in tires: on the short UAZ, the Tires of the YAI-357a of 225 / 90R15 were mounted. Looking ahead, we can safely recommend that the owners of the Oazov, who do not want to lose their machines, but are looking for acceptable comfort on the highway. Outwardly, they resemble well-known I-245 (these are not the most weak tires from those that put on the UAZ), but, unlike them, have a radial framework.
And now the short thing UAZ did not mind the honor of the brand. With the second transmission included in the main transmission and reduced in the dispensing, it left a 40-centimeter depth of a wheelchair! Locking strips with gearboxes, supports of shock absorbers and both bridges, the car continued to move where it seemed impossible, including a plot where his long-grade relative was stuck and where the lend rover was stuck. However, is it all about tires and a short base?
Measures revealed one curious fact. If the diagonal hanging of the wheels of the defineer has come when the height of 650 mm is taken to an obstacle, the UAZ 31519 climbed the slide of 520 mm, then stretch began to turn the wheel helplessly when the height of the obstacle was only 390 mm! Contrary to the common belief that the spring suspension provides B'elian moves than spring, everything came out on the contrary. The culprit is a thick front stabilizer of transverse stability, explicitly made to improve the behavior of the machine on the asphalt.
By the way, the absence of blockages of inter-wheeled differentials is subject to a certain extent compensated by a long-weight soft suspension, allowing wheels not to lose contact with the soil.

Instead of output
In our comparison, it is difficult to be impartial, but, putting your hand on the heart, we recognize: compared with the predecessor UAZ 3153 lost a fair share of the sake of improving comfort, but did not reach the level of the defineer, which, in general, is also not a standard in this case. However, the British did not come with the principles and did not begin to sacrifice the automobiles of the car for riding on the roads with a solid coating. Among the unconditional advantages of the Defender - the quality of assembly, reliability, durability, powerful and economical diesel engine. Without going into reasoning on the quality of the assembly of the UAZ, we only give a list of the largest troubles that happened during the test: the pump pin cut off, the pulley of the hydraulic plug was collected, the nut on the valve pusher was unscrewed, and when it was installed, it turned out that the gaps in the MRM were completely absent. For the test of the brakes had to re-adjust the blocks. Land-Rover, however, also did not cost without malfunctions: Light bulb burned in the left headlamp ....
Is there one deforender of seven ozov? However, if you wonder this question, you probably know the answer.
The editorial board thanks the company Alan and Musa Motors, as well as the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant for the cars provided for test. Detailed information on sale - in the dealer prices.

UAZ 3153 Land-Rouver Defender 110
UU Body Uuuu.
+ Large salon volume + stainless aluminum body,
- Low quality manufacturing, no easy seats, maintainable
safety belts, poor quality riveted body design
coloring, uncomfortable access to the trunk, - the narrow opening of the rear door, uncomfortable
small doorways, an inurious location of the steering handles
glasses
Uuu driver's seat uuu
+ Comfortable seat + lightweight steering wheel, clear and lightweight lever
- in the standard configuration there is no gearbox
hydraulic steering, big moves - close (left) driver's seat,
gearbox lever, highly offset left controls,
located steering wheel, bad side vibration on controls
summary due to high line
glazing, speedometer is located
in the invisible zone
UUU Movement UUU.
+ Ability to turn off the front + traction motor, good dynamics
bridge, Moderate Body Rolls - Large Body Rolls
- Bad brakes
UUU Comfort UUU.
+ Good stove, comfortable seats + soft suspension
- noisy transmission and engine - uncomfortable seats, noise at high
drafts in the salon speeds
UUU off-road qualities uuuu
+ Big road clearance + big moves suspension, permanent
- limited movements suspension, no four-wheel drive
Inter-track locks, protruding - the absence of interstole blocking
down silencer, unstable job
carburetor on big slopes
UUU Operation UUUU.
+ Low price, simplicity of service, + economical diesel engine
cheap low-octane gasoline - high price, expensive service,
- Small mileage between that (4000 km) difficult access to the engine compartment

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
car UAZ 3153 Factory Danis (in brackets UAZ 31519)
General data: Number of seats - 9 (7); Curb weight - 1855 (1665) kg; Full weight - 2780 (2500) kg; Maximum speed - 120 km / h; overclocking time up to 100 km / h - 34.7 s; fuel consumption at 90 km / h and in Hz - 15.5; 14.5 l / 100 km; Fuel supply - 2x39 l; Fuel - A-76. Construction: frame with steel body. Dimensions, mm: Length - 4514 (4025); width - 1800; Height - 2020; base - 2760 (2380); Pitch in front / rear - 1445/1445; Road clearance - 220; The volume of the trunk - 1825/3166 (1131/2564) l; Radius of rotation - 7.3 (6.3) m. Engine: carburetor four-cylinder row UMP-4218.10, is located in front of the longitudinal; Working volume - 2890 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 100.0x92.0 mm; compression ratio - 6.7; Power - 63 kW / 86 liters. With. at 4000 rpm; Maximum torque - 193 NM at 2200-2500 rpm. Transmission: all-wheel drive, front axle - turned off, the inter-axis differential is absent, inter-wheeled differentials - free, front wheel clutches - with manual inclusion; gearbox - mechanical four-stage; Transfer numbers: I - 3.78 (4.12); II - 2.60 (2.64); III - 1.55 (1.58); IV - 1.00; s. X. - 4.12 (5.22); Main gear - 4.62; Disposal box: I - 1.00; II - 1.94. Suspension: dependent; in front - two longitudinal levers, Panar traction, transverse stability stabilizer, springs (spring); Rear - Spring. Brakes: drum with vacuum amplifier. Steering: worm. Tire size: 225/75R16 (225/90R15).

Standard equipment
Full-size spare wheel in a case, split folding seats of the second row, folding rear seats.
UAZ 3153.
Fog lights, plastic lining, kenguryatnik, hatch, folding back board.
Land Rover Defender 110
Power steering, heater / washer / rear window cleaner, baby missile, audio preparation.

SUMMARY
Defender is a wonderful all-terrain vehicle and, to some extent, a cult car. Due to the latter circumstance, the Buyer will have to put up with a high price and some inconvenience. Long UAZ with spring suspension on asphalt is exactly so better than its short predecessor, as far as worse on the off-road. However, it suffers from hereditary ailment - extremely low quality manufacturing. Maybe before cutting off the top of the boots, trying to turn them into sneakers, it is better to first patch all holes in them?

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
car Land Rover Defender (factory danya)
General data: Number of places - 9-10; Curb weight - 1980 kg; Full weight - 3050 kg; Maximum speed - 134 km / h; time of overclocking up to 100 km / h - 18.8 s; fuel consumption at 90, 120 km / h and in Hz - 9.7; 14.6; 9.7 l / 100 km; Fuel supply - 80 l; Fuel - diesel. Design: frame with aluminum body. Dimensions, mm: Length - 4598; Width - 1790; Height - 1963 (without trunk); base - 2794; Pitch in front / rear - 1485/1485; Road clearance - 190; The volume of the trunk - 1971/2690 l; Radius of rotation - 6.4 m. Engine: Diesel four-cylinder row, is located in front of a longitudinal, turbocharging and intermediate cooler; Working volume - 2494 SMZ; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 90.5x97.0 mm; compression ratio - 19.5; Power - 83 kW / 113 liters. With. at 4000 rpm; Maximum torque - 265 NM at 1800 rpm. Transmission: permanent four-wheel drive, inter-axis differential - with forced blocking, inter-track differentials - free, gearbox - mechanical five-speed, fully synchronized (including reverse transmission); Transfer numbers: I - 3.69; II - 2.13; III - 1.40; IV - 1.00; V - 0.77; s. X. - 3.43; Main transmission - 3.54; Disposal box: I - 1.41; II - 3.32. Suspension: dependent spring; in front - two longitudinal levers, Panar traction; Rear - two longitudinal jet thrust, the V-shaped centrally located lever. Brakes: hydraulic disk with a vacuum amplifier, front - ventilated. Steering: worm with a hydraulic and built-in shock absorber. Tire size: 245 / 75R16.
Anatoly Fomin, Yuri Nileyov. Photo by Vladimir Knyazev

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"