Test Drive Volkswagen Amarok Single Cabs since 2011 Pickup
Full offer. Test Volkswagen Amarok with "Automatic"
Volkswagen Amarok A bright representative of the pickups of the new wave. With a normal interior, passenger efforts on management bodies and a decent level of comfort. But amarok is not ideal. Among its main disadvantages: connected four-wheel drive (excellent opportunity to ride the nerves in winter), weak traction on the bottoms, tight grip, unreliable mechanical gearbox in the earliest series. Feel what is common between all of the above?
That's right, all the troubles of amider from his transmission. A six-speed mechanic did not allow confidently to move along the snow-covered tracks, demanded certain skills in the management, and also differed not to the best health on the machines of the first years of release. The devoid of these shortcomings automatic Amarok was already sold in Europe. Now the time is the time of the Russian premiere.
The 8-step zf unit with a double vibration damper was designed specifically for the Amarok model.
Amarok units update is the same case when it is in detail about the work of the box not a professional boring, but an exciting need. So, buyers of Volkswagen automatic pickups will receive cars with an eight-adjusted aggregate manufactured by ZF. This node should not be confused with a tague box with the same number of steps it produces AISIN. The first transmission of this transmission is uncertainty, and the eighth is already super long and is designed to help AMAROKU to drive passenger hybrids into the paint when calculating the fuel eaten.
Amarok with an automatic transmission is available only in a double-cab version and with the most powerful diesel engine.
A single box will automatically enter the shift type of drive. No, Amarok did not become an advanced, but the principle of the distribution of torque has changed. Now the Volkswagen Pickup is equipped with a non-connected, but constant full-wheel drive. In the automatic version, the torque rates the Torsen C differential, the same as on Volkswagen Touareg or Audi Q7 SUVs. What ultimately should receive owner version with a machine gun? Basic advantages I counted four: easy start, convenience on off-road in the absence of off-road driving skills, better efficiency and safer riding in winter.
Torsen C 40 differential torque distribution of the differential
There is another news this modernized engine for the 2013 model year. Engineers raised a two-liter fourth with a pair of superchargers turbocharging pressure and got a small, but pleasant increase in power and tractivity: now the engine produces 180 power forces and 420 N ∙ M torque at the same 163/400. By the way, mechanical machines remained at the same level it is associated with the more modest possibilities of the manual box for digesting the torque.
The test drive was held in the vicinity of Sochi, so it allowed us to evaluate not only the abilities of the car on the track and in the mountains, but also its behavior in the urban time. After all, the coming Olympiad turned the resort into a large-scale copy of Moscow: all the same construction and the same traffic jams. In the city of Amarok, he is rolled exclusively from the second transfer, and this is not surprisingly the first replacement here. A large number of steps does not force the car to be confused in them, and switching occurs so unnoticed that it is more pleasant to push in traffic than on the mechanical version. Moreover, the car completely hope the complete absence of Diesel's traction at the bottom now it is already concern not the driver, but gearboxes.
A large number of steps requires a special smoothness and the speed of their busting. With the first order, with the second, too, almost everything is fine, especially with amendment that it is a pickup, and not a sports unit
The increase in the eighth stage is incorporated somewhere at a speed of about 80 km / h and allows you to quite comfortably move even in the suburbs with a ribbon turning of accelerations and decelerations. Such an early transition to the upper gear in the name of savings. Fuel consumption at the amid machine with an automaton is declared at 7.6 liters of diesel fuel per 100 km of way. Although I have not seen anything like on the screen of the on-board computer. But this is not because the Germans decided to satisfy us, just on the off-road fuel consumption can be multiplied by two, and on the highway, the driver pickup simply does not let go of the gas pedal!
The maximum speed of 177 km / h is achieved on the seventh gear
Yes, yes Driver Pickup! We moved between off-road mountain dopes by a bit broken, but still incendiaryroid serpents. Amarok just Lotus among pickups! For hell, elevator kits and mud rubber I want a lowered suspension and sports tires! And ... stealing petals. Jokes with jokes, and the behavior of the amider on the asphalt is really impressive: you don't work at the wheel of this truck, and rest, and with pleasure. Three-spoke leather steering wheel with almost a passenger effort clearly talks about what is happening under the wheels, and 180-strong diesel is perfectly pulling, it is only more accurate to step on the right pedal. Behind the wheel of the same Ford Ranger or Chevrolet Colorado of such pleasure on asphalt not get.
There is in this transmission and a gym, which is included with a convenient non-recorded selector against the movement. True, much sense in this box management program I did not see
But still the element of such a car is where there are sharp stones under wheels, mountain rivers and skaters. After all, the four-wheel drive here is everywhere and always. Starting in the middle of the protracted lift ... now I will check the pseudo-peculiar pseudoponia! But not fate in the windshield only the sky, and he still begins with the second. I was even uncomfortable in front of the car for overcoming such a load on the second gear. But AMAROK is clearer. The first step of the pickup includes only when under the wheels loose soil, large stones or when the upward movement begins to resemble absolutely vertical.
But when congressing from the mountain, there is no sense from the first gear: use a reduced stage instead of the descent control system from the mountain, as on the same Chevrolet Colorado, will not work. Well, it is not necessary to have a perfectly configured electronics from the amider, and the speed of the descent is smoothly set to gas and brake pedals. By the way, in the process of the test drive, not only me, but also a feeling that the transmission is adaptive: depending on the mode of movement in the previous section, the same amarok lifting takes it on the first, then on the second transmission. But, unfortunately, the official confirmation of the adaptive abilities of the transmission could not be found.
The new machine allowed AMAROPU to pull a more severe trailer: now it is 3200 kg instead of 2800. But Ranger or Colorado will still compare more: 3350 and 3500 kg, respectively
In any case, the machine for this machine is unconditional benefit, if not to use Amarok in off-road trophy, where the hard lock center and the full reduced row have critical importance. By the way, the automatic version is also available optional locking of the rear differential, which allows it to almost not lose points under the conditions of the musese in comparison with the mechanical modification (the option applies to it). The rest of the Amarok remained the same as the same capable passingman, superior to the skills of the middle driver: the clearance is 230 mm, and the angles of entry and the congress of 28 degrees. Of the latest competitors, Ford Ranger has exactly the same indicators. And only in the deep Brode Amarok will give way to Ringer: the depth of overcoming is 500 mm against 800 from the Ford truck.
There are other news related to Volkswagen Amarok. First, in April, the production of this model started in German Hannover, and therefore, difficulties with the deadlines for the delivery of cars to Russian buyers will disappear. And secondly, a slightly improved configuration in the framework of the general trend in pick-up construction, the car has become even more friendly to ordinary drivers. So, the highlighting of turns appeared in standard equipment through fog lights, and among the options there is a package of light and an overview (rain sensor, auto-mixing of the cabin mirror, the darkness sensor and the function of switching on the light during unlocking and locking the car), the front parking sensor and the rear view camera (will be available Since spring). Rear side: the thread of its closing decreased due to the installation of a more powerful spring, and the lock appeared in the locking mechanism, the standard is standard for almost all models.
With the acquisition in the Russian automatic transmission of Amarok, it is quite capable of surviving the second youth and not to give up an onslaught of more recent competitors. After all, now the Pickup has become easier to control both on asphalt and outside roads (especially in winter). But the mechanical versions should not be written off: they are cheaper and better suitable for those who love dirt. By the way, about prices. The most affordable automatic amarok costs from 1,343,300 rubles, which is 86,200 rubles more than the same machine with mechanics. And the as much as possible amarok Highline will cost 1,512,900 rubles. This is approximately at the level of the value of comparable modifications of the Fresh Fordsky Ranger. The appearance in Russia of automatic amider means, first of all, two things: Amarok finally became a full-fledged offset on the market, and the market of civilian pickups itself is actively growing styling. We are waiting for Colorado and a new Mazda BT-50!
Dmitry Laskov
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A source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.
