CHEVROLET CAPTIVA test drive since 2006 SUV

Is it far to the city?

They are similar: they are all crossovers, and we gathered them together. All this is that how much in the middle class with a large clearance.


It seems to us that the new Kia Sorento is not only a noticeable phenomenon in the market of medium -sized crossovers, but also a new word in this genre. In order to figure out what's what in the indicated segment, we compared it with two old-timers of the market: popular Nissan X-Trail and Chevrolet Captiva.

Chevrolet Captiva

Chevrolet on the move is perceived both more massive than its opponents, and more voluminous

Basin V6, 230 horses, a multi-liter-cylinder snoring, a traditional machine gun, and a lot of things here, a lot of everything: the generous hand of South Korea is felt both in the decoration and in the hodovka. Do not look for something in it except: Chevrolet is popular and balanced. Not for everyone, but for everyone. He is not perfect, but he is indisputable. Want the skin? It has skin. Want the acceptable quality of the finish? It is decent. Want the space for passengers? His carriage! Do you want more passengers? Take more: the third row of seats for Captiva is not just a reality, but such a reality that can be used in practice.

There is visibility, and traditional ergonomics, and a feeling of weight: Chevrolet is perceived on the move both more massive than its opponents and more voluminous. Want a motor? Please, there is also a lot of it in it: even more than the pendants, which allows the car and peck in response to the hard grabbing of its excellent brakes with an accurate drive, and sit down to please a powerful engine, and worship the turn, but, in general, withstands all active maneuvering.


The chassis copes poorly only with single irregularities, especially at low speed: when traveling railway crossings and similar obstacles to them. If you are lucky to get into a series of holes with a period of internal resonances of the car, then the soft suspension will also not be able to obey the unsubstantiated masses.

Both on a decent road, and on a rolled soil on Shevy you can go actively, and even quickly there would be a desire. Captiva can get into a small dirt, and she is not as unbearably difficult for her as, for example, Kia, but Chevrolet cannot avoid the artificiality of this situation. Yes, these sorties are tolerant, but undesirable, and the large radius of the turn will not add confidence on the forest path: Captiva is the road crossover. All that you buy in Chevrolet is a decent level: without sharp corners and sticking out the features. Without a claim to the advanced position, but also without failures. The main trump cards with V6 power and capacity.


 
Kia Sorento

Sorento is controlled on the asphalt best. This is a car for the city

Unih turns out! And they know what they do: they are increasingly entering the taste of creation. When you control the new KIA cars, you feel this pleasure from your own work as reliably as you feel the taste of the sun in grapes if the port was poured in Portugal. The shameful complexes of second -class workers were reset to those who can only hobble only in someone else's trace. The gesture is unbearably inevitable because it is impossible to repeat other people's movements gracefully: grace is a derivative of naturalness and strength, but natural, albeit not the easiest way for everyone, is their own.

I do not want to say at all that Kia somehow stands out in our comparison with its technique or design, but it stands out with its angle of attack during takeoff. She has recently just jumped to the train, and this is the main thing for today: Kia is now a par with all manufacturers who have reason to consider themselves strong and worthy. Which create good cars, and trends, and fashion and ultimately determine what is good. The rest is particular, but they are: Sorento in our comparison is the most modern, most fashionable and with the most pleasant interior.

The scope of passenger places, an excellent finish, a beautiful dashboard, the expensive nature of the operation of well-located handle levers here thought not only about technology and price, but also about the driver and its pleasure driving. Sorento is controlled on the asphalt best. This is a car for the city, only the steering wheel in parking modes should be easier. The diesel and the machine perfectly complement each other, and only at idle revolutions the motor vibrates significantly, causing discomfort if you remain without movement for a long time. The gas drive is very active at the beginning of the course, and this creates a feeling of greater power than it really is, but in fact, all 197 diesel horses work for conscience.

Sorento is less than others adapted to any road. It is contraindicated to move off the asphalt with the asphalt: the course of its suspensions is small, and the crossover is hung out even in the most harmless situations, and the transmission blocking mode is by no means omnipotent. The suspension, which was collected and dense on the asphalt, forces to practically stop where the X-Trail, for example, is easily moved, and geometric obstruction will make you worry about a plastic body kit where even Captiva calmly crawled.

Diesel, excellent quality, excellent handling, rich equipment and modern functions, such as broadcasting from the rear chamber to a salon mirror (debut just a year ago on Lexus). Sorento is the right choice for the metropolis.


 
Nissan X-Trail

Nissan is the most modest in appearance, but it is both the most universal and the most passable

Simple and reliable, like a soldier's boot. A kind of its (boot) publication is civilized, supplemented and improved for comfort and practicality in the city. Then they softened, they sawed it, and in the end it is convenient that it is pinched, and does not clarify the hill when you sprinkle on the city pavement, but it is still durable and will not fall apart, it happened to run through the puddles. Nissan in our company is easiest. Its interior would be easy to nail to board with some definition of the type of Spartansky, primitive, poor and whatever you like, but this would be incorrectly saved by the breed. Nissan is old, and scum for SUVs already in DNA. In Nissan X-Trail, he refuels with a sense of measure: a small number of modest, but high-quality and functional pieces.

On the off -road with his two -liter diesel engine, snorting as only the sparkling all -resistant diesel can grunt, it blooms. An impressive clearance and chopped forms are far from everything that X-Trail offers the one who likes the SUVs: it really can really travel where you really can’t break through the front-wheel drive low-profile even if there are brains. He is excellent with geometry and equipping the possibilities of transmission with a complete blocking of the clip of the selection of the moment should be enough for both hunting and fishing.

True, this cannot be said with the same confidence about the reserve of a place for passengers in the rear seats closely. On a broken primer, you can spray without raising your legs from the gas, but climb into the hillocks without pretending in advance, how much is a new bumper. The energy intensity of the suspension and comfort on bad roads at a good level. However, X-Trail does not spread on the asphalt. Yes, the rolls are more than that of others, yes, it pecks on braking and crouches on acceleration, but does not scare the condo reactions of the frame all -terrain vehicles and does not foam the flaws of the nozzle of the nozzle of the nozzle pot.

X-Trail The choice of pragmatists and those who appreciate primarily the utilitarian qualities of the machine. Nissan is the most modest in appearance, but it is both the most universal and the most passable.


 
Summary
We started this test not only to compare three different cars, but also to evaluate three different approaches and three different generations. Chevrolet Captiva (not to be confused with Opel Antara: this is not the same. Captiva is more authentic and the seven -seater) one hundred percent crossover. A car of Korean origin of those times when these cars have already completely reached the technological level of automotive America. It is simple and well equipped. Comfortable and quite universal. Very expensive. The main trump cards are spaced, comfort and equal fitness for both the city and the village. Nissan X-Trail representative of the old school and its purpose is more narrow. He inherited from his frame corporate brothers a serious attitude towards off -road to the detriment of asphalt discipline. The worse the road, the better Nissan. He can fly in the way where Kia barely crawls in a whisper, and he will not become where she will lose half of the plastic from the bottom. And the better and faster the asphalt road, the more Nissan grazes before the speed and modern standards of controllability and stability. Kia is the opposite. It is literally stuffed with all new and fashionable, starting with design and ending with the suspension. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe crossover in KIA is brought to the end: it is no secret that most SUVs and crossovers move only on asphalt, so why teach them to travel around the mud, worsening asphalt behavior and raising the price. Crossovers became less and less adapted to off -road, and now you can have a crossover that differs little from a car. From the SUV there was only what was valuable for a resident of the metropolis: a high landing, a sense of security and the opportunity not to pay attention to the condition of the road. But Kia has seven places, modern diesel, excellent handling, a salon with a premium claim in design and performed, and the latest options. You have the opportunity to choose: all crossovers are different, and each for their own audience.


 

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