Test Drive UAZ 469 1972 - HB SUV
See who returned!
Ulyanovsk Automotive Plant, known including the production of legendary army SUVs, returned to the conveyor already forgotten, but the most budget version of the UAZ-469 passing, gentlely referred to as the people of the goat And here is a landing of leading car journalists of the country landed at the homeland of Ilyich, so to speak, in order to familiarize themselves with the novelty.
As you know, all new well forgotten old. In the case of UAZ-469, this capital truth is true only in part. After all, the Hunter model, which came to replace the current novelty, did not differ in appearance from the progenitor. According to the management of the plant, the task was to put a car on the conveyor, which would have enough reliability at minimum cost. And the decision was asked by itself: to revive one of the legends of the 70s UAZ-469, and to coincide with his release to the upcoming 65th anniversary of the victory.
The bright sun, giant drifts (in front of our arrival in Ulyanovsk there was a strongest snowfall), huge shops of the auto plant, in which life boils several years ago a serious reconstruction was held here, German specialists set and established new equipment, the conveyor was finalized. Now the paint shop is pride of Ulyanovkov. And quite reasonable: man from the side at first does not even believe that he is in the Russian factory. There are almost sterile cleanliness around, everyone goes in white coats, at the entrance and exit are blown out in special chambers, so that neither the slightest dusting of the Sorinka will come here. By the way, the average age of employees is 29 years, which is gratifying: young people are not abundant.
And with the conveyor, three UAZ goes right in our eyes: black, dark green and white. We are distributed to the keys and welcome to the factory polygon! Your correspondent was a chance to ride on different models of UAZ, and I basically know his abilities and off-road opportunities. But when I saw the so-called track, which was to drive (I already mentioned about the preceding tests of snowfall), I wanted to get out and go to drink tea somewhere in the warm place. After all, the depth of snow exceeded the meter! Well, ok, it was not, we turn on the four-wheel drive and forth on the assault of a hard snow-covered off-road. And indeed, such a test was not a problem for UAZ. The car confidently in the virgin, scattering snow whirlwinds on the sides, even without thinking to show the slightest uncertainty.
Only in one place there was a confusion caused by the human factor. A young photographer sat down to shoot directly on the track, and getting up, slipped to my flying on all pairs on the Highway of the UAZ remained counting meters. I had to click on the brake, the goat fell into deep loose snow and sat on the bridges. Having a very impressive experience of both annular races and off-road driving, I have grilled a low row and began to rock the car. A few minutes and UAZ independently got out of the snow captivity. And on the full civil tires.
That, however, it is not surprising, because in terms of the road off-road competitors, UAZ is simply not. Is that Land Rover Defender is ready to throw a glove with a domestic SUV, but the price tag there is understandable, somewhat different. It is high passability and is the main trump card of the Ulyanovsk jeep, consumers for the sake of her even ready to close their eyes on not the highest reliability of Ulyanovsk products. Although, notice, its quality is growing, the suppliers have changed, new modern equipment appeared at the factory.
A separate conversation deserves the pricing policy of the company. The basic version of the UAZ-469 with a tarp awning costs 299,000 rubles, and the option with a metal roof will cost 320,000 rubles. The engine is offered only one ZMZ-409 with a volume of 2.7 liters and with a capacity of 112 hp Thanks to nicely selected gear ratios in the box, the UAZ goes with such a motor is quite smart.
UAZ falls under the government program utilization of old cars. Moreover, in the very Ulyanovsk region, a chocolate option was offered for local residents: 50,000 rubles from the federal government, 50,000 from the government of the region and another 20,000 rubles from the Sollers Management Company. Thus, the overall size of the discount reached 120,000 wooden! True, lucky only the first 500 lucky was the limit from the leadership of the region. For four days, all half ancient cars were implemented through the program. For comparison: only 300 UAZs are sold in the entire Ulyanovsk region.
SPECIFICATIONS
UAZ - 469.
Dimensions (mm) 4025x2010x2025
Wheel base (mm) 2380
Road clearance (mm) 210
Mass (kg) 1770
Ragge volume (L) 9301830
Engine operating volume (cm3) 2693
Max. Power (hp) 112
Max. Torque (NM) 208
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km / h) 130
Cf. Fuel consumption (l / 100 km) 10.6
Price (rub.) From 299,000
Ulyanovsk Moscow
material: Alexey Gusev
A source: Mkmobile Magazine [March / 2010]
