UAZ's armed with "automatic"

29 July 2019

UAZ Patriot with the "automatic" reached the final testing

The final part road test pre-production of SUV UAZ Patriot with automatic transmission started on July 29. The prototype SUV with automatic transmission were already over 150 000 miles on various roads of our vast country.

There is still the final part of testing pre-production samples and start of serial production of the first "two pedal drive" models UAZ.
The final resource test for pre-production of SUV UAZ Patriot with automatic transmission kicks off in Ulyanovsk, after which for two and a half weeks, our test will be over 10,000 km in seven cities, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Voronezh, Rostov-on-don and Krasnodar.

In each of the transit cities by the authorized dealers for all comers is planned to test the "automatic" Patriot. Especially the suffering (and interest tests two pedal drive UAZ, I must say, is very large – ed.) will be able to intercept a pre-production SUV with automatic transmission for hauls between stops. By the way, all available information for the final part of the endurance tests will be posted on a special website akpp.uaz.ru.

Resource mileage will come to finish on August 14. And almost immediately with the line in the River will start to go serial Patriot SUVs with the automatic transmission.

To complete the UAZ Patriot will be a traditional automatic hydraulic transmission brand model PUNCH Powerglide 6L50. This "machine" is a family of development Powerglide General Motors, but the production of gear boxes, will go on the conveyor Ulyanovsk automobile plant will become the company PUNCH Powerglide
Strasbourg, whose factory is located in the North-East of France.

TECHNICAL details automatic:
Powerglide 6L50 – traditional 6-speed automatic transmission with torque Converter.
This automatic gearbox has a higher margin of safety
peak power and torque are, respectively, 320 HP and 500 N•m. the automatic transmission packaged with modernizirovannyi petrol engine ZMZ ABOUT developing 150 HP and 235 N•m.
Powerglide transmission 6L50 even allows you to save fuel when driving on the highway with a constant speed of 90 km/h UAZ Patriot with automatic transmission consumes as much as 2 liters of gasoline less than the same SUV with manual transmission.

PS What can you say – "automatic" UAZ Patriot was expecting almost from the first years of production, not even the current model of UAZ-3163 in the mid-2000s, and even its predecessor UAZ-3162 "Simbir". Debt was the way to comfort, but as they say – better late than never. A test of the Patriot with the "automatic" will take place in Moscow on 6 August. Follow the news on the portal www.rim3.ru