Land Rover Defender 110 test drive since 2007 SUV

Land Rover Defender 110 Fire Test drive: exactly a tank

In the Land Rover family, rich and comfortable British, next to Discovery, Range Rover and Freelander models, Defender model looks like a reception child.

If the first two sons, who have become successful clerks, white collars, then Defender, as if to spite parents, chose a career outside the office and even outside the cities. He is a military or geologist, traveler or naturalist. His world is nature, its road is often only a direction along the compass.

At the end of winter, when the rosy wipers are looking forward to spring warmth, naively hoping that it, like a soldering lamp, will immediately melt the snow: lazily to cut an ice crust in places where a person’s leg does not step, we deliberately decided to take the Land Rover test Defender. His abilities are more than ever in the city at this time. Near the house and office, the eyes of a couple of parking spaces for a long time, by the will of fate littered with impassable snow and ice stones, have long been corrupted. Even SUVs with a reputation, where are the usual cars? But Defender, I am almost sure, will conquer these yard alps without difficulty.

He burned on aluminum
We are used to seeing a work horse-defender, dressed in dim colors. And this is not surprising: gray and black colors are optimal for a car born to knead clay and stones. But our 5-door Defender 110 was not such as Fire (a limited series), a brutal SUV is dressed in an expensive and bright tracksuit, like gloves and sunglasses. He feels in a close city traffic stream no longer, but his, and even dictating fashion trends. The original painting helped to lift his head in front of the most modern cars: the combination of orange (fire in the jungle) color of metallic Vesuvius on the sides and bottomless black color of the Santorini metallic on the roof, hood, and wheel arches.

In the best traditions of the design of sports cars, the contrasting theme of the exterior is also present in the salon of the SUV: an orange dashboard, like a fireplace in the London mansion, illuminates nearby chairs, covered with gray skin Alcantara in the center and black along the edges. On the headrests, like an emblem of an old family, a embossed Land Rover logo flaunts. However, the angular appearance, glazing with absolutely straight glasses, which, if necessary, can be cut independently from plexiglass, and an obvious kinship with the forefather of 1948 is issued in Defender a simple penny shirt.

Hold on to the steering wheel
Having acquired a bright appearance for impressive dimensions, Defender attracts attention. They do not look at him, as they are at the village and respect for the innate force and slanting the fathom in the shoulders. It looks harmoniously and confidently holds in the left row on Kutuzovsky Prospekt: \u200b\u200bdespite the only 122 leisurely heavy diesel horses under the hood, the SUV is quickly gaining speed of 120 km/h. Perhaps it is precisely this speed that can be called the most comfortable for movement on asphalt, although the speedometer of Defender is marked to an ambitious number 200.
Land Rover Defender 110 Fire test drive

SUV management is a separate story. Comparisons with cars or SUVs are unacceptable. Defender is a truck. Its large steering wheel, by the way, lined with skin with a stylish line, must be held with two hands, periodically releasing the right hand to switch the transmission to a 6-speed manual transmission. The car is frame, which means hard. He feels sharply the joints of the roadway to TTK, shifting a little with his whole body to the side of the turn. Do you think it is annoying? Not at all. It's fun! And when you go to the DEF with asphalt, the soul fills the feeling of deep satisfaction: you feel that the boundaries of the achieved are significantly extended. Dirt, stones, snow, ford all that you could trample on by tourist boots, now you can overcome on wheels. Of course, it is impossible without off -road tires, winches, shovels, circuits on wheels and cables rush into any whirlpools, but even in the civilian Defender can go up to 7 people with comfort in this car, while the weight of the trailer with luggages can be the weight Reach 3.5 t (Hummer with people on board).


Just a tank
Despite a lot of positive points, it cannot be said that Defender is a car without flaws. Such ascetic cannot satisfy all the needs of a person in comfort, I remind you that this is primarily an all -terrain vehicle. The noise insulation of thin doors is mediocre, so the roar of an economical low -speed turbodiesel does not even drown out an audio system (simple, by the way). Despite the apparent massiveness, the car is narrow, therefore, sitting on a rather close driver's seat, you will clap yourself the door along the rear pocket of the jeans. But lovers to put the elbow in the window will surely appreciate the proximity of the door to the seat of the lower edge of the window in order to serve the driver with an armrest. The stove for a long time is shifted by the engine and, in addition, is not capable of evenly heating the salon, which is why the windows are fooled. However, all of the above can be called disadvantages only in comparison with comfortable cars.

I instantly forgot about light discomfort in the Land Rover Defender salon, when, having parked at the entrance to the impassable snowdrift and leaving the car, I heard the opinion of the neighbor. The old man, shaking his head with satisfaction and, exhaling a thick cloud of smoke of cheap cigarettes, said with a cotton bass: like a tank!.

Car characteristics:
* constant all -wheel drive
* A 2.4-liter diesel engine develops a torque of 360 N ∙ m.
* 6-speed transmission. 2-speed hand-updress with a locking locomotive differential
* traction force up to 3500 kg
* Spring front and back suspensions with uncertain bridges
* Lonheron frame of the box
* power steering
* rear window with washer / cleaner
* folding average siden-divan (60:40)
* adjustment of the direction of light of headlights depending on the load
* Additional elements for luggage mounting
* The first transmission of the lowering row provides movement at extremely low speed, facilitating the touch on the off -road or when towing a heavy trailer.

The price of the test version is 1,315,000 p.


Author: Dmitry Lipkin


 

Source: Business car club