Mazda CX-9 test drive since 2007 SUV

There should be a lot of good car

Big Mazda begins to fool you from the first seconds of dating, and the longer you communicate with her, the more clearly you understand how much it is on your mind.
The obvious incredible
A black hat of tangled hair, pants stretched out on the knees with bubbles, a shabby jacket was worth us to stop on the side of the road, the boy seemed to grow out of the ground and stared at the car with eyes full of curiosity. And so almost throughout the highway connecting Tashkent with Samarkand. Not only the ubiquitous children, but also the venerable Aksakals looked at the CC-9 with undisguised enthusiasm. It is understandable: in the kingdom of non -casual Nexia, microscopic mates, subtile dams and like mothballed Soviet cars, she seemed to be a debilocated eastern queen.
However, for the first time when I saw nine among the modern cars at the Moscow Motor Show, I was surprised at least that boy. Only on a different reason. How skillfully she hid her large dimensions and serious in two tons under an elegant white suit! the weight. Mentally I applauded the designer of Riyuti Oy and his team. Mazda-SX-9 is 41 cm longer and almost a third of a meter above the year earlier than the sister of the SC-7, but, by golly, which of them who, until you look at the nameplate, cannot be broken down. Both beauties, fashionistas, athletes.
But if you look more carefully, there are many differences in relatives' clothes. The front wheel arches of the CX-9 are outlined, its window sill line is bent not so whimsical, the lanterns are larger and deprived of a bizarre central insert. The physiognomy looks more calm, classical thanks to a large chrome bar. And true: the eldest in the family does not fit look too abandoned and defiant, you must be more solid.
Divide by six
However, you are even more surprised at the magic of artists who made you believe that you are not so big in front of you when you find yourself in the cabin. How much space is there! Ahead extends a long, as if leaving the horizon of the hood, behind your back you find a hold of almost half the subway car. And the neighbor on the right is a wide and high tunnel sits so far that it seems that you can’t get a shout before it.
Such a spacious salon seemed to guarantee an immense sofa, on which even three Olympic swimmers will be able to spread their shoulders. No matter how! The seat is really a decent width and is comfortable incredibly, you want part of the back of the inclination, you want to move forward or backward. The remote control of the climate control next to us only the hand stretch out. Only this luxurious sofa is intended for two, because there is no belt for the average passenger on the versions supplied to Russia. Instead, a wide armrest.
 
      
The extreme left button in the row manages the trunk lid electric drive
 
      
Mazda radio with CD changer, nevertheless, in the boxing central armrest can be put with a dozen CDs
Only a driver's seat has an adjustment of the lumbar support
 
What kind of joke? I would understand the logic of components, be behind the sofa just a cargo compartment. Like, the nine is not a family arba, but a real business survey with two places for important people and a roomy trunk for their costumes and cases. But Mazda found a couple of folding children's chairs of the third row. Moreover, it is precisely what is the children's, on them an adult growth above 180 cm on a long trip will be hard.
And why was it necessary to fence such a garden, turning the car into a defectively six -seater? After all, there are three belts on the sofa of American versions as expected. Now, if people from the Japanese company talked with our drivers, then nine out of ten parents surveyed by boys would probably say that their children are very fond of sitting in the middle of the sofa and watching the road. But in the CC-9 there is no strap on this very place
 
         
For transportation of long -termers, you can fold the backs of the rear seats, the floor of the trunk is almost even
Even when using all places in the cabin, you can easily get to a convenient organizer with a tool
 
      
Climate control for rear passengers works efficiently, and it is easier to manage it
In the wide rear armrest, in addition to a pair of cup holders, there is also a tray for a small book and various little things
 
It turns out that this Mazda does not pull on the means of transportation of business class. And the point is not only in the number of places, but also as a decoration. Plastic torpedo and door upholstery tries to look noble -fired with all his might, but he speaks treacherously harshly. The tree of decorative inserts also clearly grew in a plastic grove.
But after all, family nine can be called only with certain reservations. For whom is she then?
Each according to his abilities
In fact, you should see you the most convenient, tightly covering the body of the seat, devices with red, exciting blood backlight and a three-spitting sports lamb, and the answer becomes obvious: the circuit is exclusively for the driver. Take a look, say, at the central console with the remote controls of climate control and radio. They themselves are simplicity, so that they do not distract from the process of fans of active drive. That's just one significant but: the driver must be a real American who, at a wheel almost from the cradle, loves to ride and experienced as the English virtuoso, who managed to turn around in the corridor, which was wider than the length of the car by only 18 cm.
After all, it is easy to control the Mazda, despite the presence of an automatic box, is not everywhere everywhere. Remember about it is not clear where the ending hood, stern and right side? Now imagine that such a carriage with tinted rear windows in a cramped yard you need to park exclusively with the help of lateral mirrors and your own experience.
It is difficult to understand why in a car that takes half of the street and costs two million, there is not only a rear view camera, but even penny parking sensors.
Do not rush, dear!
Fortunately, it was pretty that only in the courtyard of the hotel had to be twisted, and a fairly wide highway ran behind her gates. And Mazda and I, maneuvering between cars, hurried away from Tashkent. At the urban speeds, the SC-9 is really a good fellow. Her V-shaped six and automatic box is a glorious couple. It is worth lightly crushing the gas, and the car dashingly takes the move, and the machine crosses its six steps so smoothly that you do not notice the switching at all. Yes, and the nine practices the commands with the steering wheel quickly and clearly. It seems that I just thought to turn the steering wheel, and the car with a giant white shark has already gracefully sailed past the next Nexia. And all this is practically in complete silence and so calm that it seems to be 60 km/h on the speedometer, but twice as much, the CC-9 will remain equally obedient. No wonder she has such instruments such
Mazda bought me again, I, like a naive boy, believed her and once again got on the nose. Of course, the car holds high -speed straight line. However, if you accelerate faster than 100 km/h, he suddenly recalls that it was created for American highweacs, where it is not supposed to be often turned. The steering wheel in the near-mesh zone is noticeably empty, during the restructuring of the CC-9 allows itself to be tangled, and on the longitudinal and transverse waves to swing too much. Her behavior can not compare with the confidence of the seven that prescribes turns, like a train along the rails.
Although both have almost the same suspension design, spied on hot omzda-6MPS, the same full-wheel drive system with controlled electronics with a Toyod coupling, but only the settings are completely different. For us, the engineers did not make the slightest changes in the chassis of the nine, which appeared in the States two years ago. As a result, the car is a little smoother than the younger sister passes the bumps and unevenness, but in terms of controllability in everything is inferior. In addition, it also loses in dynamics. Yes, the Motor CC-9 is 39 liters. With. It is more powerful, but the extra 345 kg does not allow her herd to take a walk, and at a speed of 140 km/h you will think about it once again whether it is worthwhile to get out of overtaking. In addition, the box, even if the gas pedal is already in the floor, will not cross the step below the sixth.
And I gradually reduce the speed to comfortable 100120 km/h, while trying to understand why pay 1,713,000 rubles for SC-9, when such, in my opinion, is remarkably frisky, the militant SC-7 as much as 434 thousand cheaper? It is more compact, which means it is more convenient in the city. However, maybe I just have not yet grown up to the realization of the simple fact that a good car should be large, smooth, quiet and six -seater.
    
You and the hatch or without?
If it were not for the annoying absence of parking sensors, the only package could be considered exhaustive. Judge for yourself: 6 airbags, alarm, board comprehensive headlights, fog lights, rain, ABS and ESP sensor, leather interior, and the climate control remote has not only the front, but also the sofa passengers. Electric drives are equipped with windows, external mirrors, front seats and even a stern door. The audio system with ten speakers will surely delight the music lover, and 20-inch cast discs are unlikely to show up to anyone. Only for an electric hatch will have to pay 28,000 rubles.
 
 
Mazda CX-9 3.7
common data
 
Body, number of places/doors
Universal, 6/5
 
Equipped mass, kg
2040
 
Length x width x height, mm
5089x1936x1728
 
Base, mm
2875
 
Front/back, mm track
1654/1644
 
Road clearance, mm
204
 
The diameter of the turn, m
11.4
 
Speed, km/h
181
 
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
10.1
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
9.9/18.4
 
The volume of the trunk (6/4/2 places), l
267/928/1911
 
The volume of the fuel tank, l
76
 
Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
6-cylinder, gasoline, V-shaped
 
Working volume, SMZ
3726
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
277/6250
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
37.3/4250
 
Chassis
 
Drive unit
on the front wheels with automatic connecting the rear
 
Transmission
6-st. Automatic
 
Suspension:
Independent, spring
 
front
Type McEzerson
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, ventilated
 
Tires
245/50 R20
 
Car
from 15.94 rubles/km
 
+
 
Spectacular appearance; spacious salon; excellent smoothness; Good sound insulation
 
-
Double sofa; mediocre dynamics and controllability in suburban regimes; Lack of parking sensors
 
 
Andrey Koltun, photo of Maxim Goncharov

 

Source: Magazine buy a car [12/2008]