Suzuki Jimny test drive since 2005 SUV

Suzuki Jimny JLX

This is just some kind of cartoon, honestly. So it seems that, seeing me, standing in the snow on the hub Jimny, it burns to the side, ridiculously crossing the wheels. Then he will jump, fall on the front paws, hiding a new chrome emblem into the snowdrift, and look from the post -clip - a kind of warily, badly.
 
But we will make friends. Necessarily. And immediately go to find out who ultimately set up Roger’s rabbit. But first - inspection. Jimny 2005 of the 2005 model year, in addition to the already shiny emblem, received from the creators a new design of five -spoke wheels, new fog -tulleys, new color solutions of bumper and the whole body (except the same stylized Bukovka S) on our Jimny - neither additional headlights In the bumper, not the color of some intricate, and the discs were ordinary, stamped disks.
 
But we were not upset - after all, the main differences between Jimny -2005 will not see from the street. They begin in the cabin. And continue in motion. The salon (rather a salon) meets me with new seats in the world of the world's smallest SUV. Honestly, it is difficult to figure out how they differ from the old ones, but most importantly - I like them. A little harsh, with intelligible lateral support - busily. Hands - on the steering wheel (it is also new, three -spokes, no complaints), at the wheel - a solid combination of devices dressed in silver edging. All in place, no problems. Maybe gloomy slightly, maybe a little too seriously. But not all the same jokes to joke.
 
1336 cubes under the hood of the updated Jimny are 80 liters. With. and 110 nm, and both in the zone of high revolutions. The VVT \u200b\u200bsystem did not add thrust below, therefore, you have to work with the clutch, connecting the head - instincts do not immediately train. The gearbox lever is now only one - the additional handle organically transformed into convenient buttons on the central console. I don’t need them yet - under the wheels of asphalt.
 
I pour into the city stream under the vigorous buzz. If any of you, dear readers, thought that 80 horses are not enough for a real SUV, then I, so be it, will give you some interesting facts from the world of numerology. Moreover, maneuvering, even in the conditions of the average urban tension, is not very difficult: the dimensions are - here they are, and mirrors, to put it mildly, are not small.
 
So, 80 l. With. For 1430 kg, Jimnina’s mass is approximately 0.056 horses (turn off the imagination is scary) per kilogram. Few? Ha ha! Even the most powerful Land Cruiser VX with a 238-horsepower engine wins our baby only 30% in the Energy Correspondence nomination! And the basic cruiser GX - loses even more - 36%! That's it. By the way, Jimny remains the only car in the market equipped with unreasonable bridges in front and behind (I'm not talking about UAZ, because for a number of reasons I just can’t call it a car). In theory, this should mean blurry reactions in corners and tangible fluctuations in the unsharged masses, but Jimny could not catch any such crime. The masses, perhaps, are unsubstantiated, but, apparently, very small - to match the typewriter. And as before the turns in the turns, this funny and frivolous little car sometimes requires a solid hand. At the same time, it is desirable that a clear head also leads with a firm hand. Because on the rear drive, the machine strives to wag its tail: the base is short! But on the off -road Jimny is playing and safe, like a puppy. On it I would like to burst into snowdrifts, throw snow from under the wheels - frolic, in a word. Did you play catch -up in childhood? A very similar feeling is a combination of light fatigue, inexorable excitement and blush on the whole cheek. Class! And not at all scary.
 
Of course, I know the old truth about a good jeep and the remoteness of the tractor. But, firstly, on Jimny you can hardly climb into a completely deadly buverter, and secondly there is no such snowdrift from which it would be impossible to get out. But we’ll get out, and again there will be excitement, light fatigue, blush or rush somewhere. Save Roger Rabbit. Or an ordinary Ryan - anyway.
 
Autography Suzuki Jimny
Still known as Mazda Az Offroad
Predecessor - Jimny/SJ (1982)
Prototype - Jimny Wide (1997)
Premiere - October 1998
Modernization - autumn 2004
Body - station wagon, convertible
Engines-0.6-1.4 l (64-82 l.
Production - Japan, Spain
Expected replacement - 2007
 
Text: Nikolai Svistun
 

Source: Wheel magazine No. 90 [04.2005]