Suzuki Grand Vitara 5 doors test since 2008 SUV

It is incorrect to compare the crossover Toyota Rav4 and Suv Suzuki Grand Vitara

Before sitting in Toyota Rav4 or Suzuki Grand Vitara, make sure that you just have your car ... Did the absurd genius Danil Harms, who wrote the Pushkin and Gogol scene in 1934, which he actually depicted the perfect Toyota test drive Rav4 and Suzuki Grand Vitara?

In the free presentation, the action looks something like this.

Gogol (falls from behind the scenes on the stage and lies quietly).
Pushkin (it turns out, stumbles on Gogol and falls): Here is the devil! No way about Gogol!
Gogol (rising, goes, stumbles on Pushkin and falls): he stumbled about Pushkin!
Pushkin (rising, goes, stumbles on Gogol and falls): Here is the devil! Not again about Gogol!
Gogol (rising, goes backstage).
Behind Gogol’s voice is heard behind the scene: about Pushkin!
Curtain.

There are more letters in the original, but this is not the main thing. If you want to know the truth about the above Japanese cars, it is here. And that's why. Ivan and I took the cars and drove to the sink. I arrived later and saw that Ivan had already managed to wash his Rav4. When I knocked on his glass, an unfamiliar man looked out of the car and asked: what was needed? At the gas station, I went to the box office and on the way back tried to insert a gun into someone else's Grand Vitara. The woman sitting in her looked at me cautiously. Another time, in the parking lot, the RAV4 bought the alarm, and Ivan could not open it until the owner came up in the cap. Well, when the next day near the store I began to break into someone else's Grand Vitara, consciousness finally cleared up: their darkness, they filled the city!


Tsar Mountain.
Grand Vitara entered here very easily, almost without effort


I did not pass the exam.
In this rise, Rav4 drove painfully for a long time

If this continues, then they will become public transport. You get out of work and sit in the first compact Japanese SUV, because it makes no sense to look for your own. Perhaps this is the future. They will be allowed to ride along the highlighted lanes! Drivers will leave their business cards and notes such as: a request to be returned to the address ..., do not litter inside and season the tank.


Today to have Toyota Rav4 or Suzuki Grand Vitara in Moscow is like wearing the names of Ivanov and Sidorov. Moreover, they are almost all two colors wet asphalt and gray. I can’t imagine how their owners look for their property on the street. Maybe by smell?


There are a lot of them, and yet they are different. Toyota RAV4 on the decoration of the salon is much better than Suzuki Grand Vitara. Seriously, Suzuki against the background of Toyota is like emo, mowing under a ninja. A miserable sight: the plastic is cheap, the buttons are stupid. At the same time, he tries to look fighting. The front panel RAV4 is much more elegant and more convenient to use. Not as militant as that of a competitor, but more adapted for ordinary life.


Duelian motors are practically identical in characteristics, so the main difference must be sought in transmission. RAV4 has a nimble variator, constantly driving the tachometer arrow into the high -speed zone. He keeps the car in good shape, but at the same time, despite the notorious high turns, contributes to noticeable fuel savings. He would be perfect if he had not forced the power plant for the crossover to yell, like an airfoil coach. This concert is still tolerant in economical mode, but it is worth pressing the Sport and Salon button for acoustic comfort approaching rocket sopla. The creators of Grand Vitara did not bother with thoughts about fuel saving and modern technologies. They put an ordinary five -speed machine in their crossover. He is stupid during acceleration, eats immature fuel, but quiet and noble.


- Spacious overhead. In the back row the ceiling is higher than that of the opponent
- Family transport. Three passengers? No, two passengers and two glasses


Opponents also have noticeable differences. RAV4 rides like a passenger car, demonstrating good handling, but stumbling about bumps and often hanging the wheels. Grand Vitara will not be embarrassed by irregularities, in manners it is more like a good SUV, especially on off -road.

Maybe no doubt
To feel the difference between these two Japanese, you need to go to off-rock. We chose a test obstacle: a hill of a sand career. Its surface consisted of shaky, bulk plots and solid islands. I stood downstairs and watched for a long time, as Ivan on Toyota fought with the vicissitudes of the soil. The warlike RAV4 made all conceivable and inconceivable tricks: he broke into a desperate slip, strangled the motor with an anti -wings system, creaked with blocks, rested with a bumper and hanged the wheels. In the end, his electronic brain simply forbade the power unit to give out more than two thousand revolutions. Everyone got up. Ivan rolled down, and I rolled on Suzuki and just drove to the top. At this moment, what was called respect was born to me. Suzuki can, and there is no doubt about that! If you need cross -country ability, the choice is obvious.


Sliding passengers also have the opportunity to use cup holders. They even need it


You were not lying here. The secret of a good trunk is simple: a spare wheel. A lot of free space appears immediately


And the point here is not at all in the reduced gear that Grand Vitara has and is absent from RAV4. I went through the same obstacle, not including the reduced row. The secret in the settings of the anti -wings system and in the automatic box. Once again we are convinced that the variator is losing on the off -road. However, it is quite possible that the main reason lies in all -wheel drive: it has a constant Grand Vitara, and RAV4 has automatically connected. Strictly speaking, Suzuki Grand Vitara and not a crossover at all, but a universal SUV. But if before this test it was possible to think that it belongs to the SUV clan by a purely formal feature of the presence of a reduced gear, now we can safely say: compared to Grand Vitara crossovers, a real rogue.

Thus, the winner of this fight, we appoint a young man of emo, squinting under a ninja, with a poor interior decoration and a huge fuel consumption. Considering that in any case, the main problem for the owner will be able to distinguish him in a common parking lot from someone else's car.


Caution, technical details
An independent suspension provides Suzuki Grand Vitara worthy smoothness, and constant full -drive stability on a slippery road. In addition, the availability of an intericonsal differential blocking and reduced gear in the handout allow the machine to confidently crawl along the ground.

In addition, electronic system assistance systems (Hill Descent Control) are first available for special versions of Grand Vitara SE. All 5-door models, as well as a 3-door version with a 2.4-liter engine, are equipped with a triple all-wheel drive transmission with a blocked center differential of increased friction.

Toyota RAV4 received a new undercarriage variator of the Multidrive S with a manual control mode with seven fixed gears. The all-wheel drive system provides a drive to the front axle in all normal conditions, and the rear bridge, if necessary, is automatically connected using an electronically controlled coupling. VSC course stability systems, ABS and TRC and HAC/DAC system, together with the active control system of a torque moment, completely deprive the driver of the ability to use special off -road control techniques, the machine must do everything itself.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov

Source: Magazine 4x4 [March 2012]