Infiniti FX test drive since 2008 SUV

Infiniti FX50 test drive in the top configuration Sport + Navi

I like FX, and let our photographer claim that the current generation is like a flashed bulldog, in my opinion, FX has become simply exorbitantly aggressive. Although why is it prohibitive? Such machines should incinerate a look, hang over the helpless inhabitants and demonstrate superiority with all their appearance, the better, the better.
Better yet, when the appearance meets the internal content, and with this Infiniti Fx50 Sport everything is fine. A powerful engine, a well -tuned transmission and adjustable suspension are responsible for an aggressive bazaar or a message (this is more understandable).
However, about everything in order, first we look around in the cabin.
Dear plastic, soft leather, wooden inserts (the manufacturer claims that this is maple with a natural texture), however, not very exclusively, there are practically no differences from other representatives of the Infiniti lineup, even the daily Nissan Teana has similar elements. Nevertheless, the cabin is comfortable, and the owner is surrounded by a mass of pleasant electronics: a premium Bose audio system with a CD changer for 6 CDs for 6 CDs reproduces files in MP3 and WMA formats, a subwoofer is hidden in the dourse, and in the central armrest of a DVD player. A 9-inch screen for the rear passengers is mounted on the ceiling, to which the remote control and headphones are attached. True, this is the concern for the gallery and limited to them that they do not have not only their climate control, but even heating the seats, only an adjustable back, a 12-volt outlet and a armrest. FX car for the driver, only he and the front passenger are truly surrounded by care and attention. The intellectual air conditioning system with the function of ionization and cleaning of the Plasma Cluster (input separate climate control, though very good), ventilation and heating of the lower pillow and back of the front seats, all kinds of electrical settings of the seats (and in the configuration of SPORT with adjustable side support of the back and hips and variable length of the lower pillow). Electroregulation of the steering wheel by departure and angle of inclination, memory of the driver's seat for two provisions, hatch, central monitor with touch-screens and navigation on Navteq maps with a coating of Moscow, Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. It is not provided for managing all this farm of easily abstruse controllers, everything on the buttons and intuitively understandable. And there is also a turnout, beautiful, almost the same as in Lada Priora. But what is not, but I would very much like: there is no USB port, or at least the input of AUX, ancient tulips are hidden in the bowels of the central armrest. What to connect to them, the second DVD? But this can still be experienced, much worse that the heavy luggage door is equipped only with a closer, with fx fantastic abilities, a full -fledged electric drive from a keychain is simply necessary here with mud.
And now we are comfortable (with so many adjustments it will not work differently) and click the Start button. The key can be left in your pocket or stick it in a slot, but this is not easy, it is hidden in a blind area under the left knee, next to the stabilization switch and the control of the mirrors. The mirrors will still have to be configured, the visibility in the FX50 Sport is a little better than in the armored personnel carrier: it is clearly visible only forward, the swollen wings clearly indicate the dimensions, and it is better not to look into the embrasure of the tinted rear window, the more it is still constantly covered with dirt and a janitor Only a small sector clears is clearing. It is better to look around through four video cameras, the image from which on the central monitor is converted into a coherent panoramic picture. The level of detail can be increased by switching to the appearance of front/right side or feed/right side. Do not forget to constantly wipe the electronic eyes before getting behind the wheel, they are also instantly thrown with dirt, but if you are too lazy, you can navigate on parking sensors.
Despite the evil squint of xenon eyes, the FX50 Sport is as friendly as possible to the owner, for example, to put 390 horses in the city? You will not have: an adaptive 7-speed automatic is adjusted to the driving manner and allows you to smoothly move in the general stream without twitching. If the speed is not entirely zero, you can configure the cruise control so that the FX slows down, catching up with the running car in front, and it itself accelerates to the desired value when the road is freed. The steering wheel is not heavy, the force grows only with an increase in speed, the brakes are sensitive, but they do not require addiction, 184 mm road clearance and tight -up overhangs insure from damage by curbs, so the only enemy Infiniti Fx50 Sport in the city jungle of the driver. Another thing is on the highway: a frantic dog seven miles is not a hook is just about it, you will slip through the seven hundred versts, you won’t notice, the fatigue behind the wheel is not included in the complete set.
If you do not want to, you can not notice the quality of the road surface: the degree of broken asphalt FX50 Sport is not very interested. Unlike simply FX50, the suspension of which is configured for medium rigidity, the FX50 SPORT shock absorbers are adjustable. In the Auto position, the crossover is much softer than his closest relative reacts both to bedridled policemen in the city and the potholes and joints of a broken highway. But in sports mode, Infiniti brings to the driver the most detailed information about the road, and the steering wheel is poured with a pleasant weight. This SUV does not sin with transverse rolls in normal mode, and with a squeezed suspension turns almost into a sports car, who does not care about the hardest overtaking. Here, even the automatic transmission is more aggressive, and if in the usual switching mode they are almost not noticeable, as if the machine is equipped with a variator, then the translation of the selector to the DS position opens such acceleration horizons that you can safely meddle in any, even smallest clearance in the traffic flow. For particularly zealous drivers, there is a manual mode of boxes behind the wheel of long and narrow petals of gear from magnesium alloy, giving full power over the machine. The machine will never dare to disobey your order, and it will dutifully wait for the command to switch, even when the tachometer arrow sticks to the red zone. Quickly brake the engine is also not a problem, FX50 Sport does this with an excess, automatically aligning the rotation speeds of the crankshaft of the engine and transmission using the Download Rev Matching system.
The VDC stabilization system works very correctly, allows you to show off at the start of easy slipping, but in case of danger it quickly comes to the rescue, throwing up to 50% torque to the front axle and strangling the engine (by default FX50 Sport, an rear -wheel drive and constantly seeks to demonstrate it). Another difference in sports and a regular ficus steaming rear axle. The Rear Active Steer system turns the rear wheels in proportion to the rotation of the front and the crossover is screwed into the turn. Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity to test this lotion at the training ground, but in real conditions its action is noticeable where I usually slowed down before turning, the sport did not ask to reduce speed, writing out the arc like on rails.
In the FX50 Sport, the driver leaves fear of speed, at 180-190 km/h (fortunately, Radarov did not come across) to go quite comfortably, you begin to feel something unusual when the speedometer arrow exceeds two hundred, but there is already to the limiter, set for 250 km/h, not far. Moreover, there is no question of a deficiency of power, it is possible to accelerate sharply in any case. True, I did not hang much, I almost did not participate in traffic lights, I saw mainly no more than 150-160 km/h on the highway, as a result, the average fuel consumption for more than weekly exploitation barely reached 19.5 liters, which is for a five-liter. The V-shaped eight-cylinder engine is very good. But it is better not to stand in traffic jams: 35 liters per hundred in the city crowd for FX50 are not a limit.
On the highway, especially on such defeated ones as in Russia, the Infiniti FX50 Sport is almost the perfect car, it does not like only asphalt track, it cannot inhibit it due to widely arranged (rut 1 635/1 640 mm) at the corners of the base The wheels with a dimension of 265/45 R21 and constantly dancing slightly. And he also does not like off -road, however, if necessary, he can move around him in much the same way as the chicken is capable of flying, not far and not long. The clearance of 184 mm and short overhangs + a flat bottom allow you to make rather deep swims, but only on soft soil: there is no standard protection of the crankcase pallet, and there is simply nothing to screw an abnormal one. When reversing, it is easy to damage the control electronics of the rear axle, which without any protection is fixed in the back of the same Rear Active Steer system.
But this is not all, by turning off the stabilization system, you can slip as you like, it is honest, and it is not cut off for a lot, but a torque of 500 nm at 4,400 rpm is enough to burst at least on the roof, while the anti -industrial system not It really wants to connect the front axle, or rather, it connects it, but somehow weakly, as a result, from an Infiniti ambush, it is mainly ripped off due to the terrible slipping of the rear wheels. Nevertheless, after 15-20 minutes, such an annealing of the full-wheel drive cheerfully reports about overheating and the front end cuts out completely, at the same time the engine speed is pressed. It remains to stand in the middle of the field and wait until the all-terrain vehicle has cooled, using a pause to put some brushwood under the wheels, and then try to leave again. In this case, it will most likely be too late to give up to the mercy of the VDC, the stabilization system will simply scrape a little with wheels (though by all), but it will not give a gas at all. However, if you know in advance the habits of this SUV, several crossings to the summer residence will seem pleasant for a walk, and you will not remember the tractor. While the situation is more or less stable, it is worth going on even, but not the smallest gas, without disconnecting the electronics, so you definitely will not overheat the clutch of all-wheel drive ahead of time. But when a particularly unpleasant puddle appears ahead, stop in the most favorable place and check for stones / logs / other hard garbage. If everything is fine, turn off the stray and gas! Just touch the smoother smart automatic transmission allows you to quite accurately dose traction even on slippery clay. In short, the FX50 Sport is never Land Cruiser, frustrate properly along the grader in consolation, turning off the VDC unforgettable rally sensations are guaranteed.
 
What is how much?
Have you still not chosen between simply FX50 Premium AWD+NAVI for 3,300,000 rubles and FX50 Sport+NAVI for 3,400,000? Stop suffering and guessing on coffee grounds, well, what do you really feel sorry for the extra hundred thousand wooden? Be sure to take Sport, you will not regret it. But if the problem of choice is more global trouble, there are almost no direct competitors, except for the BMW X6. With an 8-cylinder 4.4-liter engine, two turbines, with a capacity of 407 hp. and 0.4 seconds the best overclocking (5.4 seconds against 5.8 C Fx50 Sport), it looks good, especially if you remember that its full -wheel drive system is similar to the one that is used in Honda Legend, and it costs not much More expensive than 3,772,300 rubles. But the Bavarians are boring and pedantic, like everything German. You can take a little higher, Porsche Cayenne S is also V8, 4.8 liters of volume, 385 hp, 252 km/h, acceleration to hundreds in 6.6 seconds. But you yourself will actually turn out below. And more expensive: 4,056,000 rubles, and real, explosive kayenes begin with another, much higher price bar. There is, however, one thing, a little from another chicken coop, but also with a sport prefix. Range Rover Sport V8 SuperchaRged the direct and direct rival of the Infiniti FX50 Sport is not, but V8, five liters, 510 clean -breeding English horses, 6.2 seconds to hundreds. True, the maximum speed is 225 km/h, but there are no problems in the mud where RR Sport will not pass, it is time to let the real authorized SUV. And the price of this SuperCharged 3 380,000 rubles. Here you have a reason to think.
 
Technical characteristics Infiniti FX50
Engine: 5.0 l (5 026 cm3), 32 valves, V8, cylinder block and an aluminum alloy block head, low friction pistons with molybdenum coating.
Gas distribution mechanism: double upper distribution shafts (DOHC), 4 valves per cylinder, distribution shaft with microphinic processing, valve lifting control system (VVEL) and a continuous change in gas distribution phase (CVTCS).
Maximum power: 390 hp at 6,500 rpm.
Maximum torque: 500 nm at 4,400 rpm.
Transmission: 7-speed automatic gearbox with manual switching function.
Leading wheels: all -wheel drive (AWD).
Maximum speed: 250 km/h.
Acceleration to 100 km/h: 5.8 s.
The front suspension: two -leaf, independent, with cylindrical springs, with hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers and a pine stability stabilizer.
Suspension behind: multi -leaf, independent, with hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers, springs and a reproach stabilizer.
Differences in the Sport Svit suspension: sports, with variable rigidity (CDC), the rear axis steering system (Active Rear Steer).
Front brakes: 4-piston calipers, ventilated disks size 335x32 mm.
Rear brakes: 2-piston calipers, ventilated disks size 350x20 mm.
 
 
 

Source: Drom.ru