Test drive UAZ Hunter 315195 2003-HB SUV

From a hunter to a shepherd

The evolution of Russian jeeps
For some reason, the eternal craving for everything foreign manifests itself in a strange way, first of all, where it is not necessary at all. For example, in sonorous names. But where is it, there is just everything as always. For a mysterious reason, the choice of a name in a foreign manner, unfortunately, does not lead to simultaneously improving the quality of products according to the overseas level. But the variety, as you know, is only one. The first. And he is the last.

Who is what
DerWays 3131 Cowboy
The price of a tested car is $ 13,000
Max. Power 143 liters. With. at 4400 vol./min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b140 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h 14.0 s
 
UAZ 3151195-023 Hunter
The price of a tested car is $ 7800
Max. Power 133 l. With. at 4400 vol./min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b140 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h 15.0 s
A full-fledged test of domestic SUVs in itself was until recently difficult due to the lack of competing brands. There was only one company in his native Fatherland that produced serious UAZ jeeps. Of course, Simbir and Hunter have gone quite far from their 469th prototype, but the traditions of rolling imply the competition of brands, and such a case introduced himself.
There is no word derway in the English dictionary. The name of the brand is a connection of the first three letters of the name of the president of the company (tree) and the English word Ways (roads). The first private automotive company in Russia produces jeeps on the Circassian Automobile Plant built in a clean field under the city. About three hundred cowboys have already been sold.
Structurally, both cars are distinguished by the frame and the rear unreasonable bridges on the springs. UAZ Hunter has a spring bridge in front, and the cowboy is assembled on an elongated frame and suspension Aro Military (Crosslander 244). The front suspension of the Romanian cart is a spring with double levers. Derways is equipped with a five -speed KP and an ARO handout, and the Ulyanovsk SUV Arzamas box with a turned algorithm and a new small -modular handout with one lever.
The design of the frame and body of the UAZ, I think, is not necessary to explain, and the cowboy was surprised by the frame body, sheathed with hinged panels. The rear bridge of the cowboy is equipped with a differential lock.
Both machines are equipped with the ZMZ 409 engine, but the UAZ is equipped with a neutralizer of the exhaust gases, which is designed to drive the content of harmful exhaust impurities into the norms of Euro 2.
ASPHALT. DYNAMICS
A rather reserved and insufficiently painful four hundred and ninth forces it to twist it well both at the start and in each gear. At the same time, both the shepherd and the hunter are dynamically, confidently and equally accelerate, allowing on dry asphalt not to lag behind all kinds of cars. On a snowy or icy street UAZ with Derways with the front bridges turned on, they completely come out winners.
UAZ became noticeably quieter. Only a direct -precise exhaust rustle, accompanying each twisting of the motor with a completely noble remote hum. However, all the noises in the cabin are blocked by the buzz of an antediluvian military stove, which, with unpretentious simplicity, warmly warms.
DerWays is quieter than a competitor, however, here, too, a direct -precise exhaust rummages to the top. There are two heater in the cowboy, and their duet will not drown out even a good audio system sound.
And all would be nothing, but it is acceleration, or rather, the shift of the programs became the main disadvantage of our subjects. Moreover, both SUVs equally asked their drivers difficult tasks.
With a standard transmission inclusion algorithm, the efforts on the handle of the ARO CP arise that the first gear has to stick out with a run, touching, as in ancient trucks, first synchronizers of the second. With the same tank effort, all other speeds are also included. Honestly, I was always afraid to break the handle. Representatives of the plant assured that the boxes are better on other cars, but we evaluate what we see.
Compared to the Romanian unit, a KP made in Arzamas pleases the ease of turning on, the clarity of work and the lack of noise. But who came up with such an algorithm?! The idea is clear to place the first and back on one straight reverse when swinging is fast and unmistakable. But the familiar movement from the second to the third inevitably turns on the fifth speed developed for decades.
But all that needs to be mirroring even transmissions with odd ones, and the usual, correct movements, similar, for example, the statter zil box, will restore. Was it necessary to invent such a continuous rebus a question for the designers.
These annoying and, in our opinion, completely eliminated defects are the only serious shortcomings of SUVs.
ASPHALT. CONTROLLABILITY
We will not hide, the Circassian Gelendauger aroused particular interest. A full -size all -terrain vehicle with a lever front suspension demonstrated high smoothness and stable movement in a straight line. The jeep easily and without a trace swallows any irregularities. Around zero, the empty steering wheel is completely devoid of feedback. The position of the wheels has to be guessed, in addition, in turns, flat sides of the cowboy are tangibly roll.
UAZ stopped continuously scouring, eagerly obeyed the helm, although it needs to correct the original path, for example, after shakes on medium bumps and longitudinal irregularities. To the minuses of the steering mechanism, we include his family howl of different volume and tones, and to the pluses completely unexpected good information. The steering wheel itself, due to the weak frame and the disgusting quality of plastic, is absolutely not suitable for the SUV.
UAZ Hunter

He became tangibly better, but he had to go the second half of the way to the best
 
PRIMING. Dynamics and handling
Let's start with the UAZ as an eminent mud. We note only the latest changes in the behavior of this machine. The spring front suspension and small springs from behind practically saved the UAZ from the goat both on the asphalt and outside the roads. Dynamic overcoming obstacles is accompanied by tangible, but smooth tremors. Of course, the cowboy is softer and more comfortable, but the hunter swallows significantly large potholes, therefore, the faster you go, the more the bowl of the scales is inclined in favor of UAZ.
On the off -road, as on the asphalt, the cowboy is very fenced, almost following the inclination of the front axle. UAZ, having both strict bridges in front and front, shares these rolls in half. The front stabilizer also helps him.
Ready for the fact that the Ulyanovsk car will have to be caught on potholes, we were incredibly surprised by the remarkable manage of the hunter. You can safely call the behavior of the former goat clear and predictable.
The cowboy rudder revealed some approximation to the given rate. Usually a tight steering wheel periodically becomes no and the trajectory shifts somewhat. The obstacles that arose as a result of this, as a rule, are extinguished by a soft suspension.
The gigiper version of the passenger engine, which allows you to drive dynamically and save gasoline, does not have a supply of torque on the bottom. Reduced gear is not too good a way out. With the slightest overhead of the gas, an instant strong slip with inevitable instillation of the wheel follows. Both SUVs in this sense became quite asphalt, having lost an important part of all -terrain qualities. The Romanian rear bridge with locking helps, but DerWays has a low exhaust tract and a strange bottom protection, bent down after leaving the snowdrift.
 
DerWays Cowboy

Despite the straightforwardness, derways is more modern and more convenient
 
ERGONOMICS
How many wolf do not feed ..., and even more so a hunter for this wolf ... The utilitarian asceticism of the UAZ interior is not even upset, but a strange approach to what should be improved and what is not. It is difficult to unlock and move with two hands even standing in place of the main sign of the changed body, the sliding windows, inserted into the plastic frames. Old rotary were at least functionally suitable. At the same time, door handles with locks are convenient and easily unlock/lock.
All the new instrument panels we have seen frankly scared with their forms. The old panel (as in the photo) looks the most harmonious, although it has neither an ashtray nor a place for a receiver.
The seats in the car we got were equipped even by adjusting the lumbar backup, but all, without exception, who were sitting on them, wanted to raise the seat higher. This is impossible to do. Only forward. But the backs of the back row are separately adjusted along the slope.
The middle of the windshield is categorically lacking in warm air. The driver's brush endlessly draws unstable snow from this zone, and leaves it exactly before the driver's eyes. In this case, the window in the rear door is equipped with a cleaner and washer. UAZ simple external mirrors are lost at every claping door. The speedometer is blocked by the steering wheel with a steering wheel and a lever of the wipers, although the rest of the devices are read perfectly.
The doors are equipped with comfortable armrests, and the hood opening handle seems to cut his fingers and bends from the old canine can. And so everywhere. Without the caring hand of the owner or mechanic after the after -salary preparation of UAZ, it seems, it is not UAZ.
In this sense, DerWays 3131 cowboy demonstrates a more or less adequate concern for the buyer. The car is made from scratch, not clamped by the requirements of the military representatives, and yet ...
Successful seats, but with serious miscalculations for adjustment. Thoughtfully located domestic devices and controls (almost all VAZ) are convenient, although they are not impressive by appearance. There are plenty of legs, but the pedals hang high above the floor. In addition, the standard generator did not pull so many lighting devices included together, and the voltage in Borseth began to rapidly fall.
Unlike UAZ, DerWays 3131 welcomes visitors with wide doors with depressed glass, and its large chrome mirrors from a foreign manufacturer are not subject to wind flow and shocks.
CONCLUSION
Both SUVs are both the new domestic and our old in every little thing. Perhaps the DerWays 3131 Cowboy for half a head ahead of the last of the glorious family of the 469s. However, a small number of produced Circassian cars does not give us the right to finally distribute prizes.
There was even more compromises in the cowboy than in the hunter. Thanks to this, DerWays covers a larger sector of demand and has a chance to stay on the market.
UAZ in a fairly narrow segment has a serious advantage, due to the simplicity of the developed structure and the prevailing image. With the existing cost difference, Hunter will also find buyers, but there are fewer unpretentious connoisseurs of brutal iron every day.
If you follow the thesis in the heading of the material, then in the evolution of domestic jeep construction should soon come an era of SUVs-Events. Maybe this would be for the better, if you recall that the famous Land Rover Defender appeared as a swing tractor, which is why the name received Earthly. However, the Patriot is called the new UAZ presented to the public. Whether the Patriotic impulse will raise the Ulyanovsk all-terrain vehicle to the desired level will tell time and, to some extent, future tests.
 
DID NOT LIKE
   
Cowboy

Circassian-Romanian all-terrain vehicle car for real men. No girl with such a KP does not cope
 
Hunter

A long problem: all devices are visible except a speedometer. Only before the steering wheel was thinner and stronger
LIKED
 
Cowboy

Luke of bus type can be opened in any direction, or you can remove it completely
 
Hunter

The spring suspension made the goat go without jumping and in a given direction
 
HOW DO THEY LOOK
 
UAZ HUNTER first show of 1972. The new version of 2003 Design Albert Rakhmanov (UAZ)

DerWays Cowboy The first show of 2004. Design with the technical assistance of the VAZ. Designer Oleg Shapkin
OUTSIDE:
Compare the design and style of a military, and even a 37-year-old UAZ with the products of the first private automobile company in Russia, who declared itself only in August 2003, is incorrect. And therefore, just look at cars from a professional point of view. Perhaps the competition in our roads of UAZ products can be, perhaps, only the T34 tank, and even Mercedes. What are the emblems or expression of the eyes of the headlights! On the side and silhouette, this is an ideal illustration to determine the SUV and a utilitarian approach to design. Only the interchangeability (!) Of the lower halves of the front and rear doors is worth it. The puffiness of the sidewall is not devoid of characteristics, but due to the simplicity of its cross-section, the imagination of an ardent viewer in the middle of the last century can be taken to the images of the side Volga and Muscovites, and even victories. Later automobile fashion trends timidly sound in plastic bumers and pads of wheeled arches. Behind the picture is more definite, and if it were not for the painful UAZ rear lights with a pimpochka, then in the night and fog, the dark Hunter would look like a cult Gelandevagen. Although the design of cowboy was made in the early years of the 21st century, in its style it is Fiat Panda of the 1980 model. Today, the form and plastic of civilian SUV are practically devoid of utilitarian signs and the influence of simplified technologies, as well as sensual and complex, as well as class GT cars. And this is required by the market, not the whim of stylists. But recognition is present, and there are even original solutions, for example, plastic wheel linings and their transition to the bumper. But flat, as on the oka, side and drawn along the ruler, the connectors again take us to the design of the Jujarovskaya Panda, and this comparison will not withstand any cowboy.
INSIDE:
The interior of the veteran of the domestic auto -industrial industry looks like a parody. No matter how much it tighten it, it still resembles an armored personnel carrier scribbled for general hunting. Plus, still soldier's ergonomics on the principle: you can’t teach, you don’t want to force it. There is nothing more to say. This is not to say that the interior of the cowboy is pleasing, but at first glance it is clear that a professional designer was engaged in it. Plus, VAZ components and quite tolerable quality of the plastic panel of the instruments, which, unlike UAZIKOVSKY, can be discussed and professionally tested. The upholstery of the doors is whole according to the pattern and in its plastic is quite consistent with the appearance of the car, and the seats (serial configuration) will like many years of owners and fans of the Volga.
SUMMARY:
For such a not -a long life, a huge army of fans was formed for such a long life. Hunter for them. The cowboy style is determined by technological minimalism and low cost, and the buyer will most likely pay attention not to its functional design and tuning in the style of the New Year tree, but by sled qualities and comfort.
Patriot Will Be Soon
In an effort not only not to lose their previous positions in the market of inexpensive SUVs, but also to win the new, Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant for the first time took effective steps. In January, a new Eisenmann automatic painting complex was opened. Modern equipment provides a two -layer color in seven colors. The difference in quality is huge, given the previous manual technology. The robotic complex reduced the cost of manufacturing and increased the warranty on the body to seven years.
 
The main event was the presentation of the Patriot car. For the first time, UAZ saw the light not under the code 3163, but under his own name. Outwardly from the 62nd, it differs in the face. The factory workers almost do not announce technical details, although they planned the modernization program for three years in advance. In parallel, serious measures to improve the quality of the entire production are introduced.
The prestige of the UAZ is called upon to raise the new standards of the dealer network and the sales system. In a direct analogy with foreign cars, the UAZ is going to advertise, sell and serve all -terrain vehicles in dealerships, designed in the same style and having feedback with the manufacturer. The plant plans to compensate to dealers to half the costs of promoting the patriot to the market.
Text Evgeny Khapov photo Oleg Platov
 

Source: Cars