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All-wheel drive VW Caddy Tramper

All-wheel drive VW Caddy Tramper cannot be called a real SUV, but maybe travel lovers will appreciate it? If you distract from dubious space-off-road categories, we have a good city car, passenger VW.

It stands perfectly on a straight line and, despite the high center of gravity, does not scare rolls during maneuvers. Behaves on the road reliably, confidently, correctly and mischievously. Driving greatly enlivens the coloring of the body and seats in a multicolored strip. All who saw this van smiled. Exceptionally good-natured looks from passing cars. Perhaps, on a universal warm reception, this rainbow Caddy will be compared only with Yellow Fiat Panda, at one time he gave three months in our edition. This is one of those cars in which there is already a good mood and do not need any special efforts to get it: take and enjoy.


Not a parquetor, but a car
The test car is equipped with a Diesel 1.9 L (104 liters p.). Motor is quite economical: I just forgot with him what kind of refueling. According to the manufacturer, the consumption is only 6.7 liters in combination mode. Six-speed gearbox. Front suspension independent. Rear from the continuous bridge with a powerful gearbox. Haldex Coupling connects the rear axle on demand. Just do not seriously hope for a four-wheel drive.

I tried to ride the rough terrain and quickly disappointed. Off-road in principle not for this design. The long base and low front socks are forced to accurately assess the geometry of each oncoming tubercle. The angle of entry is only 15 degrees. It is not even parquet, but a purely light characteristic. The angle of the congress is 23 degrees, the angle of the ramp (fracture) 15 degrees. Plus, the road clearance is far from perfect. You will go a little faster and either demolish the bumper, or in the garden protect the crankcase. By the way, the defense of thick iron is very good. But this is the only plus. The box is only mechanical, and the grip on the soft ground is lit by a hell with a flame. To drive in the sand. The anti-test electronics suffers the strongest autism. When you try to hang one of the wheels, I planted the car on the belly: I do not remember another such incident over the past three years. With the ESP enabled, one of the wheels cheerfully digs yourself a grave, so quickly that when I clicked on the brake, it was too late. Is VW confused all anti-bux technologies used in Touareg? No, just tramper is not an SUV.

 
The trunk is busy bed, camping furniture, refrigerator and awning. To spread the bed, you need to fold the second row and tilt the backrest of the front seats

Frankly sleeping
However, this car wanted to surprise others, namely the bed in the cabin. Together with the awning and accessories (two chairs, table and refrigerator) it takes the entire trunk. You look at this design and do not understand: how is it better than a flat floor formed by folded seats, where can I throw an inflatable mattress or sleeping bag? For me so much worse. In any car obviously lacks the place, especially in height. The lower you made a lay in the car, the more living space played. There is no smooth floor in the VW Caddy 4-Motion Tramper, and the designers gave the designers there something like the upper shelf of the railway wagon. Everything, it would seem good, but once again to climb, getting bored, and the place does not get a full-fledged residential, but frankly sleeping. Sit, play chess with a girl will not work at once.


Special synthetic insert in the side window for ventilation and against mosquitoes

European consumers on which it is designed not to claim. Caddy Tramper looks very harmoniously in Greece or in France, where the family on the weekend or taking the week of vacation is sent to visit several mountain gorges, waterfalls and other beauty, to koi in Europe no more than 100 kilometers anyone. He drove up to such sights, put the car in the parking lot next to other campers and walk all day, get impressions and smear the body, rejoice in nature. In the evening you can have a snack under the awning and go to bed, and the next day ride a boat or climb on the rocks.

Write me with milkry
Caddy Tramper Family transport for European recreation, which is not given to us. Russian traditions of using cars in nature are much different with them. We in most regions to the nearest tourist beauty to go very far away, and there are practically no places for the night in the car along the trails. Instead of riding on mountain bikes in the recreation program, a vodo-skewed incessity is. Before the morning, no one sleeps. A sleeping place is of particular importance for the next day after the holiday, when it is searched. Only a bed in the Caddy Tramper 1.1x2 m for two, and five plus button accordions fall into the car. Where will they settle? Under the tenet? But here is also closed, and there are only two chairs.

What are these games with beds and an awning? In Russia, Caddy Tramper tries to lose any other car with the best passability. Because for the sake of a simple pure piece of earth, it is necessary to call a lot. And throw a sleeping bag with a tent? Does anyone interfere with a tent? I am for Caddy Tramper within the city, and instead of kuts tourist accessories, it is better to brack the front panel in the striped, and then I will first sign out with a cheerful milk so that every morning on the folks to deliver aluminum bidons on small stores.

Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova




 

A source: 4x4 magazine [September / 2009]