Test Drive SsangYong Korando 1997 - 2007 SUV
Korean can all ... Almost
SsangYong's name does not speak a Russian man. Meanwhile, a small South Korean firm for forty years has been producing cars. During this period, a lot of know-how was accumulated in the production of cars of the wheel formula 4x4. The new Korando perfectly proved that Korean can really. This is how deciphered translated from the English name Korando - Korean Can Do. Beast of pleasant outference
Most modern jeeps are largely similar to each other and by and large are affected. Kararado is another. It is absolutely impossible to confuse him with anyone from the contemporaries. In any car crowd, it is a bright personality. Indeed, this newly from SsangYong is a big luck designers. Who would have thought that it was so boldly and elegantly beat the eyes of a cubic monster, leading its pedigree from the American Army CJ5 of the end of the Second World War and obtaining as a distinctive, stylish and original machine. Modern traditions of autodizain with a biological bias and the continuity of generations are combined in it very harmoniously. And although the features of a fighting ancestor inexorably appeal to the outward and all his appearance, he expresses the muscular militancy and determination, there is no stupid and coarse soldier aggression in it. Rather, this is the confidence of a powerful and friendly beast, ready to serve and protect. Single turtle-ninja.
The interior is made not without a claim for luxury and originality. In any case, little resembles a very spartan and coarse furnishings of the average so-called real jeep. Excesses, which are in pursuit of comfort, many manufacturers of cars of this class are also searched, is also not observed.
Very original symmetrical front panel. Dark gray matte plastic, soft even in appearance, in combination with the walnut finish of the front console and the same inserts in the door introduces comfort and very transparently hints at the relatives with Mercedes.
Eastern hospitality
About people took care not bad. A set of devices and controls includes everything you need, and the location of them is such that, even by the first time when the wheel of this car, you feel in a good familiar and habitual place. All at hand and exactly where you need. Hydraulic power steering, electric mirrors, windows, air conditioning or a very good stove (seasonal), a double cup holder, smoothly leaving on the microlift from the front console, as well as a magnificent visibility - all this ensures easy and pleasant management in almost any natural and weather conditions.
Seat adjustments are only two, but it is very comfortable, with a high back and keeps the body well. For a person, even more than medium-sized spaces are plenty. In the passenger part, the salon is also very spacious, and satellites will feel quite comfortable. The folded rear seats make it possible to create a huge luggage compartment, where trophies with successful hunting, fishing and garbage collection combined are successfully placed, and there will still be a place for various kinds of tourist equipment. Found, however, two troubles. The rear wiper control is needed to cast a long time somewhere below and to the left of the steering wheel. Maybe manufacturers, providing a car with excellent side mirrors, considered that the rear window on the overview is not significantly affecting and, accordingly, maintaining his purity in motion is completely not relevant?
The second annoying thing is the drive lever. It is a cable, with a very fuzzy neutral position and rear transmission. An inexplicable driver can create decent problems. The PPC itself does not cause any complaints. This is a product of the world-famous Borg-Warner company, similar to some Mercedes models.
By the way, the engine starts only when the clutch pedal is squeezed. Maybe the creators thus compensated for non-obvious neutral and eliminated the possibility of starting the engine when the transfer is enabled?
Let's go, or ...
The speed and dynamics for corando is just as natural as for a regular passenger car. A 150-strong 2.3-liter motor produced by Ssang-yong under license and technology Mercedes (in the original MB 111 E23), provides almost two-ton korando very good dynamic characteristics. In the time of urban streets, he feels easily and freely and from the traffic lights easily makes not only buses with trucks.
The engine creates a maximum torque on relatively low revolutions, so in combination with perfectly selected gear ratios, it is well picks up with small speeds even on higher transmissions. Exceptionally important quality for ripped urban rhythm.
120-140 km / h along a good highway Korano goes easily and naturally, the reactions represent something between the passenger car and the jeep. The road keeps perfectly, the steering wheel is informative and allows you to save good contact with it. I liked the brakes very much - the system allows you to accurately dose and regulate the degree of deceleration, and, that is especially nice, the ABS does not interfere in this process without real necessity.
Another interesting feature draws attention: the characteristic goat is practically absent. Ugubs and quiet quenching quickly and gently. In the turns of the Kararado, it is confident, the rolls arise very minor, and the intentions to break into slip is not observed. Of course, in the merit of a little more than many classmates, bases, broad ruts and long-term multi-dimensional pendants with optimally selected peer characteristics, springs and shock absorbers.
Ninja? .. Yes! Weather exceptionally favored. In the days of the dough in the capital, it was snowing, a nasty porridge was quas, Nature itself created excellent conditions for checking all possible modes of transmissions.
The electronic distribution control system allows transitions from the rear to four-wheel drive and back on the fly, the only condition - the speed at the time of connection the front should not exceed 70 km / h. This does not in any case relate to the full drive with a decrease: in the movement it is impossible, only in statics.
The transition procedure from one mode to another is simplified to the limit. Little Tumbers to the right of the steering wheel, just three positions. Click - rows by all four, click - pushed only by the rear legs. Click, click - again, all four, but slower and more stubborn - reduced. In this mode, the interstrate differential is blocked at the same time and both axes begin to work synchronously. And which transmission mode is involved - reports the glowing pictogram on the instrument panel.
Shoes on the paws of our turtle did not inspire optimism, but the test should have a finished look, especially when it comes to the contender for the proud title of jeep.
Supposed that good winter weather has to hold a weekend in solitude, in the wilderness, in a rustic house, we have sent Korando to the side of the Korando away from the highway, in the boundless fields, followed by an imaginary village.
Dexiciously dodged from the oncoming trees, the crash of small bushes, he overcame the forest belt, satisfied only with the 4H regime. Only choosing on the expanse of the Russian field, with an almost half-meter layer of loose snow and ice layers from the former thaws, Korando demanded how to switch to reduced. Despite the fact that the gear ratio on the reduced mode is relatively small - 1.87, the maximum torque of 220 nm is achieved on 3,750 revolutions, it allows the second-third gears to easily overcome a similar virgin.
As a result of our Exercises, the extensive field turned into a snowy arable land, where the furrows had a bizarre form of eights, loops and different other cunning zagun. That's why the riddle asked the local population!
But this seemed to us a little, and, pretending to the fans of the skiing, we found a lift on the sparrow mountains, going parallel to the slope. Three hundred meters long, with not less than a thirty-permanent bias, a width of a little more than two meters and a lifted on both sides of the slopes. On the way to the top I had to make a couple of stops, but only to remove the bitch of the trees from the road, then the car was quietly touched and continued to move. And so, slowly, but confidently, climbed to the very top. And all this on summer tires. As a result, there is no trace from skepticism.
That's how he proved that he was not a sickly town dweller, a ninja suit, but really a hard worker who can!
Autopilot thanks CJSC Parity, (095) 176-7525, 176-7827, for the car provided for a test.
Korando in Russia exactly eleven pieces. This figure, which the owner of one of these cars and the unchanged member of the pokatushek 4x4 Alexander Piculento, can be safely believed, because Korando owners, struggling with the terrible problem of the absence of spare parts, until recently they constantly supported each other. That is, they united into a kind of club, the purpose of which consisted simply to survive. In fact, as the experience of the members of this informal club showed, Korando is not such a machine that you need a lot of spare parts: the design is solid and simple. But the fact of the matter is that a person in such a jeep constantly pulls to experience all his capabilities: to participate in some competition or just climb into impassive dirt. And after that, the spare parts can really need. Now the torment came to the end: a firm that has been involved in spare parts and can get almost any of them for a week and a half.
However, all of the above belongs to the old Korando - the classic army jeep with springs, round headlights and binding seven vertical slots on the radiator grille. And the new one differs from him so variety that, according to the approval of the coordinates, there is no possibility to compare them with each other, and the thoughts change the old courageous jeep to a new half-one no one arises.
New Korando - a very little famous model in the world. He is still ahead. In the meantime, even the automotive press is clearly afraid that readers will not understand what car is we talking about, and prefers to call descriptive structures like the younger in the SsangYong family. Yes, what to say there, in England he has not yet come up with the name! Offered a firm to rename it to SsangYong Stampede (which can be converted enough like a fugitive). Koreans replied indignantly that they would not give up the proud name, and the dispute would end, unknown.
Model / Modification SsangYong Korando KJ 2.3
Manufacturer SsangYong Motor Company, Ltd.
Manufacturer Country South Korea
BODY
Universal type type
Breaking element of a spar frame with three crossings
Number of doors / places 3/5
ENGINE
Type gasoline with multipoint electronic injection
Locations stopped prolong
Working volume (cc.) 2295
Number / Cylinder Location 4 / Angle
Cylinder diameter x Piston stroke (mm) 90.9x88.4
Compression ratio 8.8: 1
Power, kW (hp) with rpm. / Min. 110 (150) at 5000
Moment, nm at rpm. / Min. 220 at 3750.
Number of valves for cylinder 4
DOHC gas timing mechanism
TRANSMISSION
Drive permanent drive
5-speed gearbox mechanical
Dressing box three-stage with lower transmission and interlocking central differential, electromagnetic control
Transmission number, norms. / Down. 1.00 / 1.87
SUSPENSION
Front independent torsion, on double swinging triangular levers with transverse stability stabilizer
Rear dependent spring, rear axle beam on 5 levers
STEERING
Gear Rake Type with Hydrauscitel
Torkemose
Front disc, ventilated
Rear disk, with parking brake drive
ABS Standard equipment
Wheels
Tire size 255/70 R15
Alloy discs 7JX15 ''
Dimensions / About EMA / Weight
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4250/1860/1840
Wheel base (mm) 2480
Front / Palute Pitch Rear (mm) 1510/1520
Clearance (mm) 190
Volume of fuel tank (L) 75
Dry / Full Mass (kg) 1755/2405
INJECTION
Entrance / congress (hail.) 28.5 / 35.0
The diameter of the reversal (M) 11.6
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km / h) 165
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (sec.) 13.7
Economy
Fuel consumption (l / 100km)
Highway 12.
Conditional and urban cycle 18
The price of a removed car in Moscow is $ 35,000
And what else
It remains only to congratulate compatriots. In the face of the new Korando, they found an exceptionally original and stylish car. To the one who still spends most of the time at the steering wheel on the asphalt, for whom off-road is not an end in itself, but an annoying interference on the way of implementing desires. Its exclusively extravagant and unusual appearance will probably have to taste to those who face both, and the care of their own image and healthy individualism is constantly pushing to non-trivial actions.
Fans and adherents of jeeps in the absolute Krado are hardly likely to do. But he, strictly speaking, does not claim to compete on an off-road with Land Rover, Mitsubishi Pajero or Toyota Land Cruiser. On the other hand, he is far from a beach or urban jeep. Most likely, his place is somewhere in the middle.
In recent years, many copies with the characteristic appearance of the jeep appeared in the all-wheel drive vehicle sector. Often the form does not quite correspond to the content, that is, it looks like a jeep, but a real ability is no more than the all-wheel drive car. But many do not need a very expensive car, where the opportunities initially are laid, which will never have to be implemented. Is it sometimes to overcome the road disappeared by snow, splashing capping or move to the forest cleaner for a picnic.
The Kia Sportage and Suzuki Vitara of the last generation well known in our country appeared much earlier than the new Korano and managed to earn certain respect from those who have happened to use them. Little-known Isuzu also receives feedback rather positive than negative. But these are cars, although very close in characteristics to SUVs, still more urban, for normal roads. If they are subject to off-road, it is very very relative.
Andrei Timofeev,
Stepan Fishermen (photo)
A source: "Autopilot"
