UAZ stopped work on the second generation of "Patriot"

16 July 2018

The project is frozen for indefinite time

Constantly upgrading UAZ "Patriot". For example, in 2019, the SUV get a long-awaited "machine", a few days ago the permanent petrol engine ZMZ-409 cured from leaking oil. However, even with the led daytime running lights, alloy wheels and multimedijnyj systems with touch screens and regular navigation "Patrick" (so often name the owners) is fraught with long-obsolete platform: it fundamentally has not changed for 21 years, and at the time sported the best ideas. And though rumors about the development of the next generation of "Patriot" actively thumb for several years now, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" stated that the plant, in General, froze all work in this direction.

The reason for the closure of the project is simple — lack of money. What we lost with the transfer of "Patriot 2" for an indefinite period? Late last year the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great, who at that time helped wazuzu in the three-dimensional modeling, has unveiled a 3D model of a chassis perspective of the SUV. According to the plans of developers, he had to obtain independent front suspension double wishbones, and the archaic rear spring had to give way to spring.

Another long-awaited innovation, "the Patriot-2" was supposed to be permanent four-wheel drive: instead, it is now used rigidly connected front, from which at desire it is possible to find advantages from the point of view of operation on hard roads, however, in everyday use, such a scheme has long been considered obsolete.

You can still long to enumerate all that we ultimately never get. Yes, new engines and even a "machine" can be installed on current version of the "Patriot". However, all the sores, its design is already not healing even if you want.

Several weeks ago it became known that UAZ resumed work on the creation of the first crossover. The model with the assumed name of UAZ-3170 for the first time in the history of the plant get bearing body. Its units will be unified with the architecture of the "single modular platform", which was developed in the framework of the project "Cortege". In designing the new model brought together engineers FGUP US. When the body length 4.6 meters, the new product will compete with the mid-size SUV. The claimed ground clearance — 200 mm.

It is expected that the UAZ-3170 will launch in 2022. However, given the current situation, best not to count on any time. Thus a high probability that the development of "Patriot 2" UAZ refused to focus on the model of the UAZ-3170.