Technical characteristics of "Grand Vitara" will provide comfort on any road

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

When evaluating the capabilities of cars, it is quite common practice when some kind of under-jeep or parquet crossover is positioned as a real all-terrain vehicle, or an off-road conqueror. However, the reverse situation also happens. If you look at the technical characteristics of the "Grand Vitara", then they correspond to a completely ordinary, with good capabilities, off-road vehicle. And in appearance - a typical crossover SUV, in which the developers emphasize non-existent advantages.

It should be noted right away that the Grand Vitara, a Japanese compact SUV, is already the third generation of popular cars. When it was created, the authors, in addition to the tasks of updating the machine, pursued the goal of preserving all the previously accumulated advantages and advantagespopular car. The technical characteristics of the Grand Vitara fully confirm that the Japanese designers have coped with this task. True, they abandoned the classic version with a frame characteristic of previous Grand Vitara models.

This, of course, lightened the car and improved its handling. Instead of such a structural element, a so-called load-bearing body with an integrated frame appeared, which was not the only change that allowed the car to be evaluated somewhat differently. The new "Grand Vitara" in 2013 can rather be considered an all-wheel drive crossover, one of the confirmations of which can be an independent suspension of all wheels. However, such a vehicle must be recognized as having a good ability to overcome mud and broken roads.

Proof of this can be quite a decent clearance of two hundred

millimeters, as well as the presence of several locks in the transfer case, inherent in real all-terrain vehicles. In order not to be unfounded, it should be noted that for the Grand Vitara, the technical specifications provide for the following operating modes for the transfer case:

- self-locking center differential with the possibility of forced locking;

- forced blocking of the cross-axle differential;

- permanent four-wheel drive;

- additionally connected demultiplier (downshift) with locked cross-axle differential.

Technical characteristics of the "Grand Vitara" provide for the possibility of its completion with three different engines (gasoline) with a volume of two and four tenths, two, one and six tenths of a liter, developing a power of 169, 140, 106 liters. With. respectively. With these motors, a five-speed automatic transmission or manual transmission is installed. Depending on the configuration, the acceleration time to hundreds varies from 12.5 to 14.4 seconds, consumption in the urban cycle is not more than 10.6 liters, on the highway 8 liters.

Features of the body and suspension according to the current classification make it possible to attribute this car to crossovers, however, the technical characteristics of the Grand Vitara are more in line with SUVs. Despite such a slight discrepancy in assessment, the car is able to provide its passengers with a sufficient level of comfort when driving in any difficult conditions and allow them to get into inaccessible corners. When driving in the city and on the highway, Grand Vitara will provide the required safety, speed and maneuverability.