Suzuki Jimny test drive since 2005 SUV

Hummer H2 against .... Suzuki Jimny

Fat Hummer timidly hides a fat body in a career, only a small proud Jimny boldly cut over the hills. Once they called the editorial office with the question: which SUV can be bought, but only to certainly with a frame and a reduced gear?
Such a topic is much more specific. We answered: take Hummer H2 or Suzuki Jimny. It was possible to add several dozen models, but these are already compromises, and H2 and Jimny are magnificent extremes. There is only one obscenity: who is cooler on the off -road American hammer or Japanese wands for food?
Six against one
This crazy topic along the way we took up the comparative test of Hummer and Jimny. The GM representative office gave us black Hummer H2 with a chandelier on the roof, warning that the car in the park has long been and may live the last kilometers. And Suzuki dealers did not give anything, because they have no jimnikov for the test.
 
We sat for a week with the half-dead Hummer, while the guys from the Internet forum www.suzuki-club.ru did not agree to put a fighter from their ranks on a standard car. His name was Mikhail, he came to the place of competition on blue Jimny, and five more jimniki of varying degrees of tuning, one lift UAZ and painted under Samurai, with an open top, arrived with him.
The guys explained that their entire battered company in the cost of the mechanical part fits into the price of the new Hummer H2.
A trophic UAZ is needed to get even if Jimniki suddenly disgraced, and the prepared Samurai will check the ambush sites in order to protect the standard car from injuries. True, no one said why one of the owners of Jimny arrived with a sheathed gun, but everything cleared up when the test ended.
Directly to the core of the planet
Under the conditions of the battle, the standard Jimny should take the same obstacles as the fully standard Hummer H2.
Hummer has an additional blocking of the rear differential and rubber of class AT in the factory configuration. Jimnik is just on all-season wheels and with a classic Part-Time. In addition, an American in the base is coming with an automatic box, and Jimny on mechanics. The sand, who was waiting for us, passion as loves to fade clutch discs, just come on. True, a bulk weapon cries excessive weight, and Hummer is two tons heavier than the baby.
We reached the sand career with a column led by Hummer, and on the move went to the obstacle in the form of a hill slope. More precisely, there were several slopes of different steepness and, most importantly, different density of sand. Hummer drove everywhere until we complicated the task and forced the cars to climb upwards and with a stop in the middle of the ascent. It was then that the members of Suzuki-Club screamed: one-zero! Hummer dulled the foot of the hill with the persistence of the bulldozer and confidently approached the center of the earth with the rear wheels, which were pressed by most of the total 3,500 kg of weight.
American express
Only our little friends rejoiced early. The next sandy dunes was loose and towered at a large angle. Michael from the standard Jimny looked with sadness and refused to go. But Dan agreed, whose Jimnik was with a trimmed front bumper, he had to watch Hummer to watch after several futile attempts to watch how effective. The obstacle was quite overall, and the entrance to it went through a narrow sand gorge. Mr. America, turning a narrow place with sides, entered it like a train into a tunnel. And then, without losing acceleration, he flew up, showing what the six -liter engine, plus the inertia of a large carcass, plus armored protection of the front. Only the sand flew around. One one.
The third round took place on a rise with a deep dirty rut.
On the last test, two Mercedes GL (gasoline 5.5 liters and diesel 3.2 l) were far from the latest in terms of the passability of the machine. And while Hummer as a meat grinder grinded tons of dirt, all Jimny is quite easy, one by one, flew up to the top of the swine.
Why suffer when you can go around? Two-one in favor of Jimny.
Half a day has passed. If you someday decide to repeat this experiment, take with you to eat and something for entertainment. We were looking for all new obstacles, but the struggle did not end. For the evening, and the Hummer H2, who was sitting at the helm, Ivan Evdokimov, the ex-champion of Russia in the jeep-trial, was so tired that, hanging at the end of the ascent on the next sandy hill, did not want to go down and repeat the attempt. Do you know what he did? He wiped the top of the hill. Ranked
he leaned forward, rolled forward a skid. Until the sand has ended. He simply measured him around the district with his thirty second wheels. Following him, Jimniki rushed and again rushed upstairs.
I'M STILL ALIVE
And then the driver of Hummer surrendered. He was taken by great. What is the Jimny team? They only warmed up. Even after awarding the victory, they found a series of fords, then they looked for dirt, then the forest. A man with a sprinter nickname on a lifted device with a shnorkel and MT wheels it was clearly upset by the lack of swamps. Dan on a typewriter with a cut bumper has already broken all the plastic in a circle, but did not even notice this. Uncle Yura, who still found Lermontov during his lifetime, was ready to fight until the morning. And two enthusiasts on Samurai looked upset due to the fact that they were not allowed to turn the frame and tear out the rear bridge.
Later, a day later, when the test was already over, it became clear why still a firearm was needed to Jimny owners: in the Suzuki-Club forum, I read Dan's report on our event. He finished the post with the words: in general, we won. I didn’t even have to comb the gun. Still, off-road automotive journalism is a damn dangerous profession.
Expert opinion
Ivan Evdokimov
Judge of the Republican Categories for Road Sports, Champion of Russia in 2004 in a jeep-librane, bronze medalist of Russian and 2005 championships, bronze medalist of the 2000 Trofi Raid championship:

I predicted the result of the test as soon as I heard about the idea of \u200b\u200bits holding. The easier and more relatively powerful, the better it goes, ceteris paribus, this is the general law of automobile sports, equally related to both Formula 1 and Trophy-Redam and Jeep-Lip. The experiment fully confirmed this: and even where the Jimniki could not drive, and Hummer H2 passed, there was an option for a detour of an obstacle on a small typewriter almost always you can find some loophole. The advantage of a large heavy car is only one carrying capacity and the ability to tow a heavy boat or other trailer. And the smoothness of the course on the bad road here Hummer H2 is few equal!
 
 
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [July/2008]