", And the undisputed leader in beauty, a version based on an excellent sports car, created to expand the boundaries of what is permitted ..." Probably a similar slogan would have been invented for a hypothetically possible crossover from a sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.
To begin with, it must be said that indeed, unfortunately, the image that you see in front of you on the screen is just a rendering of a photograph. does not plan to create its own crossover in the near future, let alone remodel in the style of Audi, production modelwhich is the Ferrari FF.
And so what we have.
1. Impression. I had a similar feeling when I first saw a city SUV made of an ordinary station wagon i, with an aggressive look, a rough, but at the same time attractive “off-road” body kit, which directly said: “Get behind the wheel, test me! I can drive so far off-road that you have to follow the tractor for a long time to get me out. " In fact, of course, there was no need to talk about any off-road properties of the car, but it looked very evil and advanced.
With Ferrari, everything was exactly the same, but should you trust your eyes? Maybe let's try to reason logically?
2. Logic and experience suggest that it is impossible to grasp the immensity and combine diametrically opposed concepts in one car.
, continued to develop in this direction and still goes side by side with motor sports. People already have a stereotype, "Ferrari" is synonymous with the words "motorsport", "victory" and "speed". Therefore, it will be very difficult to find buyers who could accept such a car and would like to purchase it.
After all, what they want from Ferrari will be completely absent from of this type model (let's call it X-FF for convenience).
Dynamic and speed characteristics due to high ground clearance and aggressive off-road tires will be lost forever. There will also be noticeable problems with cornering, the oversized suspension will prevent them from passing quickly and clearly. Ferrari's sense will be clearly lost.
this "all-terrain vehicle" can also be questioned, for obvious reasons.
Another reason why they cannot make a car for driving on gravel roads in a rally style is hidden in a complex, thoughtful, and therefore very demanding suspension on a high-quality road surface.
So who is this car intended for? Rather, there can be only two types of buyers. First- . The second is a very wealthy owner of yachts, private jets, mansions and a huge garage with a fleet of exotic cars of all kinds, who will buy "X-FF" just as another nice addition to his collection. The third option is not given.
What do you think, is it a good idea to create such a car? And would you buy it?
The Porsche Cayenne has become very popular. Ferrari management is watching with interest their successes and reflects on the feasibility of the appearance of a car of this class under their brand, in order to increase the company's profits. This five-seater car, within five meters long and two wide, will shake the whole world, if, of course, it appears and gives the company a large number of new customers.
On the Internet, you can find several variations on the Ferrari SUV theme.
Here is the first one, dated 2007, from the autoweek.com forum
Images from autoexpress.co.uk
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Little is known about the technical characteristics, exactly like everything else. The engine is already familiar from the Ferrari F599 Fiorano, albeit improved. It will produce over 600 hp. and 600 Nm of torque. Two thirds of the thrust goes to the rear axle. Such characteristics will allow, despite the weight of 2200 kg, to accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in less than five seconds and have a maximum speed of 300 km / h, and very few can - Porsche Cayenne from TechArt and Gemballa, and Cherokee from Hennessey. The all-wheel drive transmission will most likely be developed in conjunction with another automaker, possibly Mercedes. The cheaper option is expected to be built on the company's own platform - the rear-wheel drive 612 Scaglietti, coupled with a high-tech traction control system tuned for off-road conditions. And, of course, the car must have best-in-class handling. It will lean on the road with wide (315) 22-inch wheels.
Ferrari intends to outshine the competition not only with performance, but also with a price tag of around 250,000 euros.
Over the past twenty years, Ferrari has not tired of repeating that we will not see an SUV under the famous Italian brand. They say there is no need to dilute the precious image of the manufacturer of expensive and luxurious sports cars. But, apparently, resistance to market trends is about to fall. According to the British publication Car, referring to its sources, work has begun in Maranello on the F16X project, the first Ferrari crossover.
So, according to the designers of the publication Car, the crossover Ferrari will look like
According to preliminary data, the SUV will be significantly unified with the new large supercar, which will replace the current model and will enter the market in 2020. The crossover is expected a year later and borrows from sports car platform, basic design solutions and almost all units. Of course, it will be noticeably higher than passenger Ferraris, and will also have a five-door body, and even with rear doors swinging open against the course.
British journalists assure that the SUV will not have a V12 engine: a V8 turbo engine, which is now being installed on, will take place under the hood. And a hybrid power plant is also expected: until now, the only gas-electric model from Maranello has been the LaFerrari hypercar.
Ferrari GTC4Lusso
All-wheel drive is already in the company's arsenal: the GTC4Lusso model is equipped with its own 4RM system (Quattro Ruote Motrici), the device of which is significantly different from all other transmissions. A separate two-stage main gear for the front wheels is mounted on the front end of the engine. The role of the differential is performed by two packs of wet clutches, playing with the degree of slip of which you can vary the amount of torque transmitted to the front wheels. When the machine is moving in the first or second "main" gear, the first stage is engaged in the 4RM transmission, and the second is switched on when the "robot" is shifted to the third or fourth. With a further set of speed, the clutches open, and the car remains exclusively rear-wheel drive. Most likely, the same transmission will go to the crossover. It is clear that such a car will be powerless on the off-road, but the image in this case is more important than real abilities.
The Ferrari F16X will cost approximately 300 thousand euros and will allow the company to double its production (last year, eight thousand cars were produced). But the crossover from Maranello will turn out to be by no means a unique offer on the market: the serial Lamborghini Urus SUV should come out this year, and a little later it will appear Aston martin DBX. Even Spyker has announced its own SUV, although it is likely to compete with the larger Bentayga. In short, a real boom is expected in the elite crossover market in the coming years.
The race in new classes of premium and sports crossovers is gaining momentum: journalists have already run in the Lamborgini Urus, sales of Bentley Bentayga are not bad, Jaguar has already acquired the third crossover of the Pace family,
even Ferrari relatives got hold of their SUVs - Alfa romeo Stelvio and Maserati Levante.
Rolls-Royce Cullinan unveiled, Aston Martin is preparing a Varekai (based on the DBX concept) and even the unprofitable Lotus, an English maker of light sports cars, is seeking salvation in crossovers with its new Chinese owner, Geely.
Why did Ferrari not notice the frenzied demand for crossovers for so long and did not use a name that could sell by itself, even if you put it on a modified one? Lada Vesta, a Ferrari LaVesta Cross GT? Until recently, the chief of the Fiat Chrysler Auto concern Sergio Marchionne, and since 2014 the CEO of Ferrari (which, by the way, he brought into a separate structure), was categorically against the release of crossovers by a company specializing in racing and sports cars, and urged journalists to shoot him if they will see on the roads a crossover with a prancing stallion on the emblem.
Sergio Marchionne was famous for harsh statements, but according to Italian media, this categoricalness came from the president of Ferrari Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, who back in 1973 worked as an assistant to the founder of the Enzo Anselmo Ferrari brand, and later as the head of the racing team. It was during his time that the most successful years fell in terms of the number of victories in Formula-1 and constructors' cups.
In the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, Ferrari has been challenged to build a more practical, four-seater vehicle for daily safe use, even in harsh winter regions. Two models of car design were presented, which were supposed to fit the above tasks, and be recognized as a Ferrari.
One of them, from the famous Italian design studio Giugiaro, almost made it to the Paris Motorshow. The car with the code name F151, about which Luca Montezemolo "whispered" to the Italian media: "Marchionne wanted to build a truck, but I dissuaded him", is now in a private Italian collection without any identification marks and emblems, but judging by the tightly dark glasses, the interior was not designed.
The second prototype, from the equally famous Pininfarina, reached the assembly line in 2011 as the Ferrari FF. Although it also has a dubious appearance, as for a flagship supercar:
Whoever of them would not want to preserve the image and heritage of the Ferrari brand, deserved for the long history of the Ferrari brand, and the associations with Formula-1 and red breathtaking supercars that pop up with this name, it is already known for certain that there will be a crossover from Ferrari, and how regrettable it is, but it is Sergio Marchionne who will no longer see him. 
On July 25, 2018, at the age of 66, the head of FCA and Ferrari died in a coma in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Zurich, where he had arrived a few days earlier due to complications from shoulder surgery.
We must pay tribute to the outstanding Italian who took office in 2004 general director unprofitable Fiat, and in 14 years turned into a successful concern, having bought and carried out in 2009-2014 a merger with Chrysler, which is going through bankruptcy proceedings. During his tenure as chief of Fiat Auto, the value of the concern and its member structures increased 10 times.
The Fiat Chrysler Auto concern is now occupied by Mike Manley, previously CEO of Jeep and RAM. Jeep, by the way, is assigned the main role in the five-year development plan of the concern, developed jointly with Marchionne. And Ferrari's first crossover will be led by Louis Camilleri, former chief executive of Philip Morris International. Yes, this is a cigarette giant that has nothing to do with cars, and one can understand the fears of fans of the brand.
but in fairness, it is worth noting that Sergio Marchione also came to Fiat from the financial sphere, without experience in the automotive industry, and it is unlikely that Camilleri will make design decisions on the fly and decide which engine is better to install.
And before moving on to discussing engines for a crossover, I suggest watching a beautiful 3-minute video the first Ferrari Utility Vehicle, that very dubious, but in the video there is simply an epic four-wheel drive FF:
Back in 2011, Ferrari engineers taught their almost 5-meter and almost 2-ton shooting break to cut down on certain types of off-road conditions worse than the Range Rover. Only the crossover falls short ground clearance, the ground clearance of up to 145 mm is not saved by the optional air suspension.
And no matter how the marketers are perverted with the names and classes, trying to get away from the already excessive variety of categories, it is no longer so important whether it will be a crossover or a GT, a sports wagon or an all-terrain coupe, a SUV or CUV, a hatchback or a liftback, After all, with the FF, the company crossed an important milestone in history with the release of its first four-seater FUV, the Ferrari Utility Vehicle. And the fact that new SUV from Ferrari will replace, which at one time replaced the FF says that the crossover, in the modern broad sense of the word, Ferrari has long been.
This means that there is an all-wheel drive platform for the new flagship FX16 (the F16X index is found), and various chips, such as a fully-controlled chassis (steering system rear wheels) and electronically controlled magnetic (magnetorheological) shock absorbers, there is also an imitation of a differential lock to increase cross-country ability.
And yet, the Ferrari design and engineering school will have to not only solve new problems, such as how to raise the body and increase the interior space by building the largest and heaviest Ferrari, but also go beyond its world, overcome an important stage in its history and build the first car with four doors. Since 1929, cars have been created with two doors, or without them at all, and here on those, for some reason, two more need to be sculpted somewhere. Without such experience, they promise to do it in their own way - without a vertical rack between the doors, with the rear doors opening in the direction of travel. Whether it will be more like a Rolls-Royce or a Mazda RX-8 is not yet known, but this again leaves marketers with a reason to be creative.
But with the power plant, the world's best engineers will be creative. The best because the two engines in the Ferrari GTC4 Lusso have been winning titles for several years in a row best engines years in their categories in the International Engine of the Year competition.
With a couple of years in stock (they promise to show a pre-production sample in 2019-2020), you need to at least overtake the main competitor Lamborgini Urus with its biturbo 4.0 V8 and 3.6 seconds from zero to 100 km / h. Rear-wheel drive Ferrari GTC4Lusso with a similar 3.9 V8 engine shows a similar acceleration time of 3.5 seconds, but 450 kg lighter than the Urus.
If Ferrari follows the path of economy and close competition, further boosting this engine and fighting overweight, and if it can achieve better handling and similar dynamics, it will still not be able to show a similar price tag, for example, in Russia today, the GTC4 Lusso is worth 5 million rubles more expensive than the new Urus, which is sold for 15,200,000 rubles ($ 250,000)), and the all-wheel drive V12 6.3 will cost 24 million.
Despite the fact that this V8 engine has enough torque to briskly pull the extra half a ton of flagship space and comfort, the availability of such a basic version is questionable, as well as its advantages over the competition. The naturally aspirated V12 6.3 is an award winning engine in its own right, and while it propels the GTC4Lusso faster, it is not suitable for a heavy crossover. has less torque than the V8 3.9 bi-turbo, which is critical for heavyweights.
It would be possible to turbocharged the V12 to add momentum and overtake the competition, but given the orientation of the future model to the Chinese market and its electrification trends, this is unlikely to be done. Based on what is already in the Ferrari arsenal, namely the hybrid Ferrari LaFerrari 2013 with an electric motor in a block with an internal combustion engine, it can be assumed that the missing torque with an increase in mass will be taken from the electric motors in order to guarantee the wealthy owner of a prancing stallion a sense of superiority in milliseconds between traffic lights and impressive traction from the bottom.
Ordinary car enthusiasts and fans of the Ferrari brand still want to hope that people from Maranello will score on the price tag, come off in full and build something really new, beautiful and interesting, with an uncompromising filling, for proud selfies against the background of parked FUVs. And it doesn't matter what it will be called new body, because there is less and less difference between them, we just observe and wait for an intriguing and amazing car, the best of its kind, and wait for journalists and bloggers to share their impressions and emotions.
In pursuit of profit, or afraid to repeat the fate of Kodak and Nokia, missing something important, brands may lose their authenticity and integrity, but continue to delight and surprise us. It is hoped that the revenue from FUV sales will not only delight stockholders, but also lead to new achievements in the company's sports life and the hypercar class, as well as expand the boundaries of what is possible and bring to life daring experiments like the Ferrari F80:
The trend is really strange, every year more and more paved roads in the world, but more and more SUVs among cars. 
Maybe it's massive claustrophobia that makes drivers surround themselves with additional empty space to make them more spacious in traffic jams? Nevertheless, such brands of supercars as Koenigsegg, which is preparing a crossover in conjunction with the Chinese Qoros and with Spyker, can still surprise with their crossovers - here it really may not be necessary, well, very much an amateur.
And despite the total increase in the clearance of the car market, there are still keepers of brands of exclusively supercars - Bugatti and McLaren, who are doing well without crossovers and are comfortable where they are, although enthusiasts are already drawing options for them:
And look there, the times are not far off when we will see a 3-ton electric Bugatti flying at a speed of 500 km / h in a corn field.
At the end of the 20th century, SUVs confidently set off to conquer the premium segment, and the battle against luxury "cars" was going on on all fronts. A serious battle suddenly broke out on the field of sports cars, where SUVs took not only obscene power, but also their main trump cards - massiveness and cross-country ability. Charged jeeps from the States played the first violin. It is to them that our today's review is devoted.
1993 - GMC Typhoon
With the closest relative of this SUV, the Syclone pickup, it accelerates to "hundreds" faster than other Ferraris and is equipped with a turbocharged V-six. But it's one thing - a fairly light two-seater pickup truck, and quite another - when a frame SUV with the same engine and all-wheel drive has the same performance, the acceleration of which from standstill to 60 miles per hour does not exceed five seconds!
The car is built on the basis of the mid-size SUV S-15 Jimny, but it is rather difficult to confuse them with each other - after all, the Typhoon differs from its relative with a solid aerodynamic body kit made of developed bumpers, side skirts and widened fenders, which hardly fit 16-inch alloy wheels created exclusive to the Typhoon-Syclone range and shod with 245mm Firestone Firehawk tires.
The interior of the SUV was also trimmed to match the body design. All panels were tightened in black leather, a sports steering wheel appeared, and the seats of the regular seats were taken by anatomical Recaro buckets. At the same time, Typhoon has a rich standard equipment - it includes a radio tape recorder with a graphic equalizer (recall, in the yard in 1993), a CD player, an alarm with a central lock and immobilizer, a cruise control system, as well as traditional air conditioning and electric drives for side windows and mirrors. ...
In spurt 1/4 mile
in 14 seconds, slightly less than the Acura NSX supercar
Under the hood of the super SUV, as we mentioned a little earlier, there is a 4.3-liter V6 engine, "pressurized" with the help of a Mitsubishi TD04 turbine to 280 hp. from. and 475 Nm. The torque from the engine is transmitted to a reinforced four-stage automatic transmission THM-400 gears and a central differential with a viscous coupling, which distributes the moment between the axles in a 35/65 ratio in favor of the rear wheels. As a result, the dynamics of an SUV corresponds to the characteristics of sports cars and even supercars of those years, because a little over five seconds to "hundred" is the same as that of a Ferrari 348ts! And you shouldn't think that after 100 km / h a two-ton jeep with brick aerodynamics is "blown away". Testing Motor Trend magazine in a 1/4 mile spurt, the Typhoon flew along the track in 14 seconds, reaching 153 km / h at the end of the distance. And this is just a split second slower than the Japanese supercar Acura NSX and faster than the aforementioned Mustang and Ferrari!
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For safety reasons, the maximum speed of the car is artificially limited to 200 km / h. But you hardly want to go faster in an SUV with rear leaf spring suspension. Moreover, ventilated disc brakes at the front and… "drums" at the rear are designed to effectively stop the jeep. However, with the assistance of the ABS, they stop the Typhoon from 110 km / h in just 56 meters. Handling is also at its best - all-wheel drive allows you to screw into turns with a lateral overload of 0.79g (in those years, this figure was more familiar to supercars than to massive SUVs).
The reverse side of the medal is a sports suspension that is lower than that of other jeeps, which does not allow getting out on serious off-road - the owner of the Typhoon can only look at them from the asphalt. Like a real crossover, the Typhoon gives you a ride only on the dirt road. Another unpleasant moment for real Americans was the inability of a GMC jeep to carry a trailer. However, you must admit that with such "bad" dynamics and speed, a boat or camper attached to the back will become simply dangerous for the rest of the traffic participants.
In fact, the Typhoon became the first sports crossover - a powerful and dynamic car that can move confidently in difficult road conditions, as well as easily accommodate five riders and a lot of luggage in the trunk, but at the same time capable of competing both in dynamics and in price with the Corvette. After all, the Typhoon had to pay GMC dealers $ 29,500 - almost the same as for the Vett.
2000 - Dodge Durango SP360 Shelby
At one time, the master of American industry himself, Carroll Shelby, managed to work with all the concerns of the United States. Of course, we all know that Shelby is most associated with Ford, but there were times when he was invited as an experienced consultant when creating "something charged". As in this case.
The charged SUV was developed by the Performance West Group tuning studio, which built the Durango Super Pursuit concept for the 1997 SEMA show. The 5.9-liter Magnum crankcase engine has been revived with a Kenne Bell Blowzilla mechanical supercharger (Americans love impressive names!) 2200, bringing its power from the standard 245 hp. from. jumped immediately to 360, and the torque of the two-ton SUV was an impressive 558 Nm. However, the company did not limit itself to installing only one compressor: a new exhaust system welded from 2.5-inch stainless steel pipes appeared, a liquid intercooler was added and the engine control unit was re-flashed.
Paired with the motor, a four-stage automatic transmission, through the transfer case distributing the moment to the front and rear wheels... As a result, the dynamic characteristics of the car significantly improved: the massive SUV accelerated from zero to 100 km / h in seven seconds, and the speed limit was limited to 230 km / h.
The concept was appreciated by the Dodge management and was even given a blessing to release an exclusive batch. The Performance West Group rightly judged that the big name would increase customer interest, and turned to Carroll Shelby in order to get permission to manufacture cars under his name. The master of the American auto industry rode an SUV and was pleased with such an unusual project. According to him, in such a car, he himself would not mind taking his family shopping in the supermarket.
On October 4, 1998, the SUV was introduced to the general public under the name Shelby Durango SP360 (the latter index stands for Super Pursuit, and the number 360 stands for engine power). The "charged" Durango differs from its brother in a special painting in a rich blue Viper Blue color scheme (as you probably guessed, borrowed from the color palette for the Viper GTS coupe), and for completeness, the image is complemented by two white stripes, traditional for Carroll Shelby, and a new aerodynamic body kit with developed bumpers and a hood with false air intakes, developed by RaceTruck Trends. The finishing touch is Shelby Daytona's signature forged alloy wheels wrapped in a low profile rubber GoodYear Eagle is 285 mm wide.
The suspension of the SUV has also been significantly improved. Standard shock absorbers replaced with sports, Edelbrock brands, the ground clearance decreased by 75 mm, and ventilated ones were instructed to effectively stop the two-ton jeep brake discs Stillen with six-piston calipers. As a result, on tests in the Motor Trend magazine, the SP360 accelerated to the passport "hundred" in 6.7 seconds, while the SUV flew 1/4 of a mile in 15.2 seconds. This, of course, is not the indicators of the aforementioned Typhoon, but still impressive - especially in comparison with the usual Durango (16.6 in the "quarter", respectively).
By the way, it should be noted that the compressor was ... an option: after all, in basic configuration The SP360 was content with only a modified exhaust system and was not even equipped with a system all-wheel drive! But the cost of the car with "full stuffing" was almost twice that of the serial Durango ($ 55,000 against $ 32,000), and the "regular" Shelby could be bought for 44,000.
The interior of the SUV has also changed. If the standard Durango had eight seats in three rows of seats, the Shelby version lost two seats and received separate Cerullo leather chairs with individual electric adjustments, a massager and ventilation. The center console, finished with carbon fiber, was extended to almost last row seats, and a plate with the serial number of the SUV was placed on the dashboard. Of course, the equipment of the car included all the benefits of civilization - there was also a powerful hi-fi audio system with 14 speakers and a subwoofer, two TVs and even a cassette video recorder and GPS satellite navigation!
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However, many fans quite rightly believe that the Durango SP360 is not a real Shelby car. And they will be right. All parts installed on the SUV could be bought at any tuning store, and exclusive parts for Durango can be counted on the fingers of one hand - just a couple of plates and unique vinyl graphics distinguish the Shelby product from fakes "in style". SUVs were not even assembled at the Shelby plant: the batch from the factory was distilled into one of the tuning workshops, with which a cooperation agreement was previously concluded - she equipped the cars with a tuning package. True, the order of the SUV was carried out only through factory dealers and only in 1999, and all additional components were given a proprietary three-year warranty.
Dodge's marketers hoped to produce a batch of 3,000 cars, but in the end they made only 400 Shelby SP360s, and most of them were sold in the Middle East, where fast and powerful SUVs have long been loved. As a result, the program was never approved for 2000, and Shelby SUVs are now very rare and desirable for collectors. Star Coach, one of the licensed assemblers in 2000, offered at SEMA its own tuned Durango, assembled from the same components and called the Super Pursuit II. He never got an endorsement from Shelby, so he is not considered a real SP360.
2000 - Ford SVT Expedition Thunder Concept
Ford also tried to build its own charged SUV. It, however, was even less successful: their SVT (Special Vehicle Technica) division created a prototype that never saw the spotlights of car dealerships. The SUV was built around a full-size Expedition that shared a platform with a Ford F-150 pickup truck. By analogy with the serially produced SVT pickup truck called Lightning, the SUV was named Thunder. The package of improvements is almost identical to that of the pickup: the same body kits, the compressor "eight" from the traditional "Ford" Modular line with a volume of 5.4 liters, developing 360 liters. with., and an automatic transmission.
The main difference between the transmission was the use of the all-wheel drive system, which is native to the Expedition, with a front axle connected via a viscous coupling.
The SUV was equipped with 18-inch wheels, shod with Goodyear Eagle tires of a monstrous width of 295 mm, and for improved handling, shorter springs and preloaded springs, enlarged stabilizers appeared. lateral stability and gas monotube shock absorbers Bilstein. The dynamics of this "suitcase" is at the level of the mid-engined Porsche Boxster: acceleration from standstill to 60 mph takes 5.5 seconds, and a quarter-mile frame SUV weighing over two tons passes in 14.1 seconds. The Expedition was never mass-produced due to the demands of marketers, who only approved the Lightning pickup.
2006 - Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS
But much faster the problem of producing a charged SUV was solved at the GM concern, which at the Chicago Auto Show showed a prototype of a frame off-road vehicle Trailblazer with the prefix SS in the index, traditionally characterizing the line of charged cars chevrolet brands... The full-size SUV was equipped with a 6.0-liter LS2 lower V-shaped V-8, which was shared by the Chevrolet Corvette sports car. Together with a 245-horsepower engine, a four-speed "automatic" GM Turbo Hydra-Matic worked.
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The choice of buyers was immediately offered two types of drive: rear or full drive connected through a viscous coupling. But even with the latter, the SUV was almost never intended for off-roading: the sport suspension with lowered clearance, as well as low-profile 18-inch tires, affected.
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The SUV with the heart of the Corvette accelerated from zero to 100 km / h in 5.9 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 229 km / h. And on the notorious tests of the Motor Trend magazine, the SS passed the credible quarter mile in 13.8 seconds. The handling was refined on the Nürburgring Northerly Loop, which is considered an excellent training ground for cornering. The jeep went on sale a year after the premiere, but the total number of manufactured copies turned out to be small - the client did not try the new product intended only for the North American market.
2005 - Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
Jeep designers, with the support of specialists from the "All-Kraisler" department of Street and Racing Technology, did not stand aside from the general trend. The debut of a full-size sUV Grand The Cherokee with the SRT-8 prefix took place at the New York Auto Show.
The look of the experienced "muddy" was supplemented with 20-inch forged alloy wheels, other front and rear bumpers, as well as twin tailpipes exhaust system in the center. The place of the regular G8 was taken by power unit from the HEMI line. Previously, the motors in this series, featuring hemispherical combustion chambers, became famous in many racing series. Now only the brand that modern motors carry with pride has remained on the name - after all, the large volume has remained the same! It's no joke, the all-aluminum lower shaft "eight" has a working volume of 6.1 liters and produces 426 liters without any pressurization systems. from. and 569 Nm of torque.
It is paired with a five-speed "Mercedes" reinforced 5G-Tronic transmission, and the all-wheel drive system was simplified as much as possible - there was not even a downshift, and with the help of an electronically controlled viscous coupling, up to 50 percent of the torque, if necessary, was transmitted to the front wheels. Only a cardan shaft borrowed from a diesel modification of an SUV could cope with such a moment. The chassis was also modified for the power unit: they installed stiffer springs and Bilstein sports shock absorbers, and for better handling they installed even tougher rubber bands of the silent blocks. As a result, an SUV weighing over two tons "catapulted" from place to "hundred" in just 5.5 seconds and could withstand lateral overloads up to 0.92 g.
The car has received recognition in the markets of the United States and the Middle East, and many examples are found on our roads. The production of the charged SUV ended in 2010, when 14,921 vehicles rolled off the assembly line. But the story of the charged Jeeps does not end there. In 2012, the company presented a new generation of the "Indian", and with it showed the "charged" SRT-8.
Family Grand cherokee the new generation received front optics in the style of the Chrysler 300C, taillights supplemented with LED strips, new front and rear bumpers appeared. The changes also affected the interior - there appeared a touchscreen display with a diagonal of 8.4 inches on the front console, holographic panel instruments and a multifunction steering wheel.
Like its predecessor, the new generation car is built on the Mercedes M-class platform, but its body has been significantly reinforced. The number of welded spots has doubled (up to 5,400), arc welding has increased by 42%, and adhesive joints have increased by 38%. As a result, the rigidity of the body of the novelty has increased by a convincing pre-election 146%.
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Changes were made to the suspension: for better handling, the Cherokee received electronically controlled shock absorbers and stiffer springs, and the final chord was a sharper steering with hydraulic booster.
The engine has also been updated to match the chassis. For the first time, the new HEMI 392 unit (the figure means the engine volume in cubic inches - translated into metric units it is about 6.4 liters) appeared on the Dodge Challenger coupe, and a little later its modifications began to appear on other cars of the concern. The lower shaft all-aluminum V-shaped "eight" has become lighter and received an optimized variable valve timing system, a variable-geometry intake tract and a half-cylinder shutdown function, which saved up to 13 percent of fuel. In the version for the Grand Cherokee, the engine develops 470 hp. from. and 640 Nm of torque, which is transmitted through an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission with a torque rating of up to 1,000 Nm. The same transmission is used in their models. Range rover, BMW and Volkswagen, and the pickup truck became the first experience in cooperation between Chrysler and ZF Dodge ram 1500. Like its predecessor, the all-wheel drive system on the SRT is simplified as much as possible and has only a multi-plate clutch in front and an electronic locking of the rear differential.
In response to the active development and production of charged versions of the Porsche Cayenne, Range Rover Sport and BMW X5, the company is preparing a monster even more powerful than the current Grand Cherokee SRT. Rumors of its creation at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show were confirmed by brand director Michael Manley, but declined to comment. Unofficially, the super SUV will be part of the Hellcat family of extremely charged vehicles from the concern. Now it includes only the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat sedan and the Challenger SRT Hellcat coupe, equipped with a 6.2-liter compressor "eight". On Dodge cars, it produces 717 hp. from. and 881 Nm. It remains only to guess what dynamic characteristics the new jeepif it gets a similar engine.
The class of charged SUVs is currently developing at a rapid pace - now high-speed luxury jeeps are already being prepared by famous brands, among which the first in their history are SUVs, Maserati and Bentley, and a new Lamborghini SUV is on the way. Given the latter, the Americans, who have essentially revived the SportSUV class, will have a hard time.
