Suzuki Jimny test drive since 2010 SUV

You can get used to it

Nothing can stop the Russian person in the desire to ride a jeep, because this is not only a means of self -affirmation, but also a way of combating domestic roads. UAZ Patriot, Tagaz Tiger, Great Wall Suv G5, Suzuki Jimny new SUV worth up to $ 25,000 r is not fantasy!

Tagaz Tager
Ssangyong Korando called Tagaz Tager in his historical homeland in Korea. He did not enjoy particular popularity in a past life. What the Tagaz factory is counting on today, and it is not at all clear. However, a fact is a fact: there are a lot of tigers on the road now.
The design of the SUV is very eccentric, and therefore indifferent does not happen from love to hatred one step. The car turned out to be very niche. At the same time, the engineers of the Tagaz plant considered that they knew better Koreans how to design cars, and introduced a number of innovations that are now leaving the owners.
The complaints go both to the electric part and the aggregate. So, a mechanical gearbox that works in pairs with a 2.3 liter engine is obviously a weak link. Many copies have problems with synchronizers, and transmission begins to turn on with a characteristic crunch. The plant knows about the problem, issues remoteks, but dealers perform their warranty obligations with a creak. However, when such trifles stopped the Russian motorist?
We managed to take on the test almost new private Tagaz Tager with a base engine of 2.3 liters and mechanics. The engine of a modest volume accelerates the SUV quickly, without obvious failures or selection of torque. But the gearbox is puzzling with a giant free move of the switching lever, causing good nostalgia for AZLK-2140. Well, at least, the programs are turned on clearly and without unnecessary efforts!

1. The interior comes from the 90s, but the quality of materials and fitting parts is very worthy, not to mention ergonomics. The feeling that they saved you on you. 2. The bloused output of the manual transmission brings confusion into the control of the SUV, which, coupled with vertical buildup, gives rise to a feeling of jumps. 3. In the second row of seats, it is convenient only together, but on long trips to people with a weak vestibular apparatus should not go
Questions also arise to the torsion front suspension. It is obviously too weak, and this applies to both the elastic elements themselves and the shock absorbers. On an even asphalt, the car behaves well, but as soon as the coating spoils, a strong swing begins, while the front line literally falls on the ground. On the version with a motor of 3.2 liters the torsions are reinforced, so here the problem is not so pronounced. And there are no complaints about the automatic transmission with a more powerful motor for reliability.
Tagaz does not shine with the energy intensity of the suspension. If information about small joints and potholes effectively disappears in the bowels of the suspension, then on large holes Tager is given, passing hard blows to the body.
Having moved off the asphalt, it is better to immediately switch to a reduced series of transmission: there are clearly not enough lower classes, and burn the clutch of a couple of trifles. Despite the modest road clearance, the geometric cross -country ability is not bad, it is not easy to damage the bumper or thresholds.
A pleasant impression leaves a high -quality interior, the plastic does not shake and does not creak, the seats are easily transformed into two full -fledged sleeping places. Unless the trunk is very small, and you can’t go on long trips more than together.

 
Suzuki Jimny
You look at Suzuki Jimny from the side, and you can’t believe that this machine has been on the conveyor for 11 years. Not outdated either for a stroke! Yes, a small, yes, square, but quite cute car, and also an uncompromising SUV. Two unreasonable bridges are about Jimny with such Off-Road icons as UAZ, Land Rover Defender, Nissan Patrol and even with Mercedes Gelandewagen!
Firstly, you expect from the baby a terrible tightness, but it wasn’t there! Japanese engineers so filigree calculated the interior that the front passengers feel completely comfortable. Even with my height of 190 cm, albeit without a reserve, but the seat adjustments were enough. For the day of filming, we, together with the photographer, drove about six hundred kilometers on Jimny, and both were delighted with the friendliness and comfort of Suzuki. And this is despite the fact that I am used to my Nissan Patrol, and he is to Land Cruiser 100! The quality of materials is also surprising. There are practically no extraneous creaks, the interior is assembled in conscience, you understand the thing at once!
Thanks to lamb weight, for frisky starts from a traffic light of a 85-horsepower motor with a volume of 1.3 liters, even with a correction for thoughtfulness of an old four-speed machine. On the mechanics, according to the owners, you can completely nimble from the heart. In the city stream, he has no barriers at all, you can ride like on a motorcycle, almost in a row, you can smash literally to any gap. However, the risks here are motorcycle. Jimny often simply does not see, it completely disappears in the blind zones of gazelles and large SUVs. So, on one of the streets, literally through me, he tried to turn from the left row to the right of Porsche Cayenne. The weight categories are so different that any accident, except with Oka, will be fatal for the baby.


1. The machine is not amazing with quickness, but it is with it that Jimny becomes an ideal weapon for the city. 2. If you need to intensively accelerate, disconnect the air conditioner! While the refrigerator works, the temperament leaves much to be desired. 3. The interior, if you do not pay attention to miniature, is quite adult, no inferiority. 4. The dashboard pleases the eye with clarity, informativeness and laconic beauty. No flirting!
Only a pair of small road bags will climb into the gap between the fifth door and the back of the seat called the trunk. The rear passengers also will not envy the supply of space only in height. But, imagine, on Suzuki Jimny, and is drawn to travel! The fuel consumption disappearing is small, the course stability on the even asphalt is magnificent, and perhaps on large joints and potholes the cube begins to nervously dance and frighten passengers. The large unsharged masses of uncertain bridges and a short base are affected. But according to rolled primers and grader roads, you can fly at full speed. The only but Jimny noticeably rearranges on the washing board. And you always need to remember an increased tendency to overturning. Avoid steep maneuvers and fast driving on broken roads, although the baby literally provokes exploits.
 
Great Wall Suv
The attitude to any Chinese car is traditionally biased, and to such a veteran of the Chinese automotive industry as the Great Wall Suv G5, which is an approximate copy of the 1989 Toyota 4runner, and even more so. Remember from childhood how you call the yacht, so it will sail? So from a car named CC6460FMK20, you should not wait for revelations. With self -identification, by the way, an obvious problem. Even the employees of the state technical inspection point did not come up with anything better than in the column of the car of the car brand simply enter: a foreign car, and add a set of numbers!
Great Wall is going really faceless, but compared to UAZ Patriot or Tagaz Tager, this is perceived as a dignity. The buildup is moderate, the car filters the little things well, is very resistant to deep holes and holds the line perfectly. The exchange rate is locomotive.
The power unit, to put it mildly, is weak. 105 horses for dynamic driving are not enough, but in the city, thanks to the short first three gears, a lack of power is almost imperceptible. On the highway, you can confidently hold 120140 km/h, but you can forget about nimble overtaking. On a crossed area, on the contrary, you need to immediately switch to a reduced series of transmission, otherwise not to burn the clutch for long, and in a little male hill, alas, not to climb.
A weak point can be called the brakes of the pedal, it fails almost to the floor, it is impossible to block the wheels on dry asphalt, ABS will not be needed! There are complaints to the gearbox. The first gear is turned on through time, and the clarity of the scope is far from the ideal.


1. Great Wall is characterized by soft, plush seats and almost a passenger planting. 2. The devices are modest and inconspicuous, but if the tachometer is almost useless, then it’s worth looking behind the speedometer. On the highway, the SUV is unexpectedly fast. 3. The interior in quality is slightly worse than that of Japanese utilitarian cars. Differences lie in the study of trifles. 4. From the moment of turning on all -wheel drive to the real connection of the front bridge, eternity passes
Also on the off -road discouraged a delay in connecting the front axle. We managed to get stuck, while the executive mechanism executed the Kontut Roller command about the transition to mode 44. The Chinese car and electric drives are incompatible! To emphasize the picture, you do not need to go far. The lowered glass of the fifth door and on Toyota was a weak place, what can we say about Great Wall? The electric motor simply does not have the strength to shove the glass along an uneven seal, and the gap remains in the corners, into which the key flows freely with the key fob. And after the fords, the engine is frankly troit, the lack of waterproofing is obvious
However, not everything is so bad. The Chinese pleases with a high -quality and not creaky interior, good review, sound insulation and economy. So, as in the case of competitors, you can get used to it!
 
UAZ Patriot
No matter how the people scold Patriot for the features of the national assembly and low reliability, in the regions its popularity is quite obvious. Indeed, there is no other impressive in size, a spacious and passable SUV you can’t buy for fairly little money. And even the market for used SUVs is not a competitor: any full -size Japanese, American or Englishman is compared in value to the rogue from Ulyanovsk no earlier than ten years of operation.
Describe the beauty of the patriot is an ungrateful thing. The SUV turned out to be pretty, and he became familiar already on the roads pretty much. The novel has adopted and supports the domestic manufacturer with a ruble.

1. Ssangyong rexton chairs are very convenient and equipped with a mass of adjustments. 2. The interior is massively made, but the quality of the materials is low. On the bumps, the torpedo walks like a jelly, and the plastic creaks noticeably. 3. Wood finishing refinement of the owner. 4. The doors are massive, the car is high. You slammed you in the fortress, especially if you make noise insulation 5. The programs are shifted clearly, the SUV actively slows down the engine, but the handout is knocked out as in old UAZs
The first thing you pay attention to driving UAZ Patriot is a very high landing. The rest of the stream lives a floor below. Something, but there is enough monumentality. The SUV is very stable along the highway, especially if you need to move in a straight line and at speeds not exceeding a hundred. And having accelerated faster, you immediately note the increased dynamic corridor. The machine is taken for a walk within its strip, requiring constant correction by an empty steering wheel. In the corners of the UAZ, he is greatly fenced by his two -ton body; Informativity is complete zero, and it is not enough to return the steering wheel to the zero position with the hands of the reactive action.
On the broken Patriot coatings, the exact opposite of Tager. He flatly refuses to smooth out the little things, shakes like in a fever, on transverse potholes, tram tracks or a soil washing board. At the same time, the massive front panel swaying like a jelly. But the pits from which the hair stands on end, the suspension swallows with a bang, delighting with an enviable energy intensity.
The quality, of course, is also lame. For example, a hand -up box is already flowing on this copy, although the owner of claims to dealers regarding the performance of warranty obligations at least everything that has surfaced until recently, changed without difficulty.
The front seats are borrowed from Ssangyong Rexton, so the landing is quite convenient. Ergonomics are not bad, but there is a common feeling of cheapness and untidiness. However, it is worth recalling the old, kind goel, where everything is made of iron, how to find fault still does not want to go ahead a huge step. And, pleasant, the birth chips are preserved, for example, such as the tank switching tap. Yes, there are still two of them here: in case the enemies are first shot at a showdown or friends on the hunt, the second will always take out. By the way, Patriot transforms into the bedroom, which is also convenient for a real man. In short, here is the Russian spirit, it smells of Russia here
 
Summary
Choosing a leader from the presented quartet is easier, you just need to understand your priorities. The SUVs are so different that the one who liked one of the cars is unlikely to pay attention to something else between them of the abyss! We need a passable, roomy, brutal and maintainable car please, Patriot. There will be problems and will be, but it can still be repaired on the knee, as the fathers and grandfathers did. I would like to get about the same set of adventure and consumer qualities minus patency, but with great comfort? Please, the Great Wall SUV is a very balanced car with a bunch of punctures in quality, but at the same time friendly to the driver and rarely leads at the aggregate level. In addition, it is noticeably more economical than UAZ. If the dimensions of the SUV are secondary, and the quality and convenience of the interior, unusual appearance, lively character and passivity are at the forefront, then the direct path to Tagaz Tager. The technique is also not trouble -free, but spare parts will always be, let not the cheapest. But from the point of view of quality, reliability and cross-country ability, none of the above three can surpass the baby Suzuki Jimny, and for one or two people this is just a unique SUV, offering real Japanese quality at a reasonable price.
 
 
 
 

Source: Cars