VOLKSWAGEN TRANSPORTER KOMBI test drive since 2010 minibus
Pritsche in the tongue
The word Pritsche in translation from the German means a block. It must be assumed that the VW Transporter Pritsche got its name because of the sledgehammer profile characteristic of the on-board truck with the Dubble Cub cabin. Why, what do you think, the layman, not burdened with his own business, buys a minibus? To carry a numerous relatives and luggage. This is an exhaustive answer only in the case when a person is first decided to purchase a bead. It has long been noticed: once you have been borrowed in the Mikroven farm, many motorists are infected with a certain bus virus, because of which, having despised every easy trifle, they feel really comfortable only behind the wheel of a minibus. But, probably, the most-most drive can be felt by the wheel of a minibus and a truck, a kind of quasipacap. In the performance of Volkswagen, this kind of machine is called Transporter Pritsche.
Everything looks simple: the manufacturer took the front of the Transporter and stuck an open body with leaning sides to it. It would seem nothing outstanding. However, in urban traffic jams driving this machine, increased attention to you is guaranteed because this is not a typical VW minibus that has not become a typical minibus. The appearance of this Transporter for our roads is quite non -standard for our roads. In addition, the block is equipped with all -wheel drive.
The interior here is quite common for Volkswagen transporters. Everything is familiar. But behind, not individual seats, but a common sofa. The provisions of the back and seat for obvious reasons are not amenable to adjustment. But unlike PRITSCHE passenger pickups, everything is in order with a place to accommodate all sorts of little things like a first -aid kit, fire extinguisher, tools and other junk, accumulating in the trunk of any car. In a pickup, only a body is intended for storing all this belongings, which has to be equipped with special locking lids. And in the block, it is enough to raise the seat of the rear sofa and the load in the formed box that you wish. Another plus of bus roots, the ability to go from the front seats zone to the rear sofa without leaving the car.
But the main pleasure of driving this car. We launch a 140-horsepower turbodiesel and, when we squeeze the clutch, we understand that this is a car for brutal men. All six traffic jams switch with army clarity. Brown gear relations of the lower steps and a transmission with an automatic clutch with the rear-wheel drive sometimes allow you to step up and make a couple of traffic lights on creditors bewildered to smell a diesel exhaust of traffic lights. The relatively large dimensions of the car do not interfere at all: the sides and feed of the machine are perfectly felt through hefty burdocks of lateral mirrors, and the front hemisphere is controlled due to a high landing and a short hood.
At a more or less high speed, the machine clearly makes it clear that it always needs loading. An empty body at speeds of about 100 km/h guarantees jumping and swinging on the irregularities of the road.
The car does not jump from the trajectory, but you begin to understand that the nickname of the backbone was given it not only for her appearance, she really can have a soul. But as soon as at least half of the maximum passport 1.2 ton is in the back, the car calms down and carries its riders with proper smoothness. It is not even necessary to turn on the blocking of the rear inter -axle differential. In general, such a machine can be considered as an alternative to ordinary pickupu. She looks quite in group. In addition, representatives of Comterans, as a rule, are stronger than civilian all -wheel drive. And the price tag of 1 210 400 rubles finally puts the VW Transporter Pritsche in a row with modern pickups of other brands.
SPECIFICATIONS
VW Transporter Pritsche
Dimensions (mm) 5476x1994x1963
Road clearance (mm) 165
Mass (kg) 3000
Wheel base (mm) 3400
The area of \u200b\u200bthe cargo department (m2) 4.2
Carrying capacity (kg) 1211
Engine operating volume (cm3) 1984
Max. Power (L.S.) 140
Max. Twisting the moment (Nm) 340
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 12.7
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 158
Price (rub.) 1 210 400
material: Alexey Batushenko
Source: MKOMBILA magazine [August/2010]
