Ssangyong Actyon test drive since 2010 SUV
Ssangyong Actyon Sports: And no physical education!
Ssangyong Actyon Sports. From this set of words from English, only the last sports can be translated. All the others look mysterious and foggy like the Ssangyong brand itself. From the famous Austrian Mercedes diesel and box, frame and spring suspension. And Sports Shildik, who did not give us rest the whole test day. Acceleration! The diesel engine from the mournful lever turns into an angry tantrum and sends the car forward a tangible impetus. The speedometer arrow quickly passes the middle and with some laziness exceeds a hundred. Eh, I again did not have time to switch the transmission! The attack begun during overtaking was choked. But the reserve under the right pedal was enough to turn the engine at extra 500-800 revolutions, but such springs are not like electronics.
The arrow of the tachometer, not reaching the red zone, recoiled from the limiter and clogged in convulsions, demanding to slow down. I am reducing! I only decide to dive into a narrow pocket and immediately stop myself: on a slippery wet road and no less slippery rubber, maneuver is fraught with troubles. For a few seconds I try to recall that of active electronic systems, there is almost nothing!
A light turn of the same light steering wheel and the rear axle goes into a creaky, heavy, unenchanged skid. The car body rises to the left and vibrates menacingly, and the steering wheel remains empty as an army drum. Tenacious brakes with a quick -focused pickup vopped into four brake discs, and Ssang Yong Actyon Sports froze half a meter from a lamppost. Everything, finish. I know that he is to blame. I bought, like a small, on the cheeky FAS, on the cheekbones of the front wings, on the eagle gaze of the headlights breathtaking in shape and the sharp nose of the hood. I bought it for Sports wool. And I decided that this car was charged with an active ride. But this is not at all.
Actyon is exclusive in Korean. One hundred to one that such a car will not be in the neighboring courtyard. And on the next street. And even the microdistrict toy, forcing passers -by to twist their heads and point with a finger. Fun, because of which the back rows begin to buzz at the traffic lights at the traffic light, shaking the standing in front: someone looked around. Once again
No, he is not at all sports, this Sports. Vallye, thoughtful in reactions to the steering wheel, is heavy. And at the same time, the motor is good! From that series when the characteristics indicated in the TCP are much less than the sensations in the case. 141 horsepower, removed from two liters of working volume, the merit of direct injection and good boost.
The engine has a pronounced pickup in the region of 2000 rpm, which subsides closer to 3,000. Not an extravaganza, not a race, but starts, especially against the background of more lazy competitors. The thrust of 310 Nm is impressive slightly, because to spend it, shaking dirt or storming the slope, reluctantly. This is not the element of Actyon Sports! Everything that is above 190 mm is ready to spoil the front levers or shock absorbers of the rear suspension.
Competitors flaunt springs and are ready to practice freight functions. But here, Actyon grazes: a deep and wide cargo platform is not ready for overloads. The pickup load capacity of 786 kg is only two thirds of what are ready to take on the Ford Ranger and Mazda BT-50!
But I like Ssang Yong. As the songs of the aquarium once liked. This train is on fire, and we have nowhere else to escape in this sincerity took the soul, and we circled in the dance at the school evening. Rock and roll, but not at all the way Elvis imagined him. The pickupian is not at all the same as it comes to the Japanese or the Americans.
There is a lot of appearance here. Admit: from some angles of the sides Actyon are damn appetizing! There are no technical revelations under them: it brings up the body on the rifts, informing about insufficient rigidity, and in turns all hope for tenacious brakes: information on the steering wheel is zero. Reducing row, which is stably included only on the second attempt, and a noticeable inertia that provokes drifts (and demolition of the front axis) with active driving. Not much worse than most competitors, but they have no complaint about being Sports! But there is a famous brand and good carrying capacity.
And Ssangyong goes its own way. And he shows the salon in which the back is somewhat more spacious, and the front is much more interesting than in the same Ranger.
I am trying to follow the front panel line. Almost shapeless, she helpfully turns the middle console to the driver. There are few keys, but access is convenient for nothing that they are collected in circles or go at an angle to the vertical. This is the style of inexpensive interior: not rich, but with a claim. Not the most convenient chairs with the P-shaped headrests a la Saab, stubbornly do not want to keep the body in corners, have a wide range of adjustments, but only starting with the Comfort version. Winston Churchill said: the key to longevity is a daily portion of whiskey, cigar and no physical education. Ssangyong Actyon Sport did not obey and went to the horizontal bar to pump up muscles. There is coaching, design work has done its job: today Actyon Sport is one of the most memorable pickups in our market.
Only now with self -determination the car has problems, because she performs passenger disciplines only to heterns, off -road and completely avoids, and takes on board the cargo relatively slightly. And this prefix Sports. Why is she? We never understood
So far, few bought this falsehood: the Korean pickup did not find much recognition. So about longevity, let the conveyor and we don’t take confidence. Churchill was right.
Text: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [August 2008]
