Test drive UAZ 469/3151 1973-2003 SUV
From a tadpolate - to a frog?
Cargo UAZ-39095 got an enlarged cabin A tadpoole - a tail larvae of hairless amphibians (frogs).
Explanatory dictionary of S. I. Ozhegov
Ulyanovsk cars can be safely put on a par with a conveyor long-liver as Volkswagen-Zhuk. Is it a joke - the first UAZ wagon layouts saw the light in 1958! For a characteristic shape, a metal van was called by a loaf as a loaf, and the onboard truck was called a tadpole. Like it, 44 years even by human standards, maturity, and for amphibians - the era! And so, having awakened from a lethargic sleep, the tadpoles began to evolve.
One of the fruits of evolution is an all -wheel drive UAZ -39095 worth 120 thousand rubles. Immediately pay attention to an enlarged cab - this is called one and a half abroad. Thanks to the 340-mm insert between the doors and the rear wall, it was possible to place the folding shelf of 1780x510 mm behind the seats. You can spend the night on it - you will not be particularly discouraged, but everything is better than having crouched in the seat.
The passenger on the road there is likely not to relax, since the driver's chair is advanced too far ahead. Under the shelf on the sides of the motor compartment, two luggage niches with a volume of about 120 liters each took shape. In the cabin - ventilation hatch, adjustable seats, noise insulation has been improved. Twenty centimeters often talk about the passive safety of cars of the wagon layout to death - on the new car, thanks to a kangaroenet, this distance has increased one and a half times. It is less noticeable in comparison with the initial tadpoles UAZ -3303 an increase in length by 360 mm and a 230 mm wheelbase - the machine remained quite proportional. The increased base slightly reduced the parameters of geometric patency, but the remaining in most cases is enough with excess - where is where, and only amphibians can compete with amphibious UAZs. Another minus is a slightly worst maneuverability: the diameter of the turn along the axis of the outer wheel increased from 12.0 to 13.8 m. But the machine began to hold the trajectory, less red -less (sway from nose to feed) on irregularities, it has a more smooth move. The large base allowed the body to extend the body by 100 mm, and the loading height is reduced by 60 mm. At the front side, a lifting bench for four passengers is installed. The standard package includes an awning, arcs, two gas tanks of 56 liters and front wheel couplings.
This is an objective reality; Now - its subjective perception. Anyone who is close to UAZ can skip the next paragraph: he will not know anything new, rather surprise-because of why noise, hands why? But for someone who is still looking at this
the car, the information, I hope, will be useful - this is not written in advertising avenues. In order to avoid three -quarters of explanations about the lack of funds to launch a new model, I will not spread about the appearance - I will have my eyes and see. But about the red drums of rust on the body and cabin of a new, not yet sold (!) Car, I can’t keep silent. As well as about the doors skewed in the openings, which can be slammed only from evil. The engine managed to get the engine only during the help of the mechanic - the gas pipelines at the tap switching fuel from the tanks were confused. What, too, from a lack of funds?
I’ll say this about ergonomics - it is almost gone here. The usual criteria for evaluating the driver's workplace were simply unacceptable. The optimal angles of bending of joints, reach zones, information content, reactive action are all concepts from another world. Yes, what to say there, I never got the same to confidently turn on the first gear - more
part was touched with the second, fortunately, the 2.9-liter UMZ-4218.10 has good thrust at low speeds. SUVs also had to be postponed until better times - it was not possible to move the levers of turning on the front axle and a reduced gear! And the simple-hearted question of the photographer: Listen, the road is even, why are we jumping like that? - Hang in the air ... - Oh, you are cheap dope, I’m used to dissect on foreign cars! - exclaim the reader. - I didn’t see life, I didn’t sniff out gunpowder, I didn’t divide the hunchback!
I repent, did not smell and did not share. And to be honest - I do not want to smell and share! I do not want a trip by car to turn into a test of physical, strong -willed and professional qualities. I do not want to, before driving confidently, it was necessary to disassemble it and assemble - with my hands! However, we were never afraid of this. But the advantages are obvious - for that kind of money there is no other machine that can carry a ton of cargo where only the tractor will pass. And you can repair in any workshop. And if it was held for every detail with his hands, so it will not be more beautiful than the car - how not to love it to the child ...
P.S. I wonder how many years it will pass, while Vasilisa the Wise will turn out from the tadpoles, but even a pretty, working frog?
Text / Yuri Nechetov
Photo / George Sadkov
Source: The magazine "Driving"