Mazda CX-9 test drive since 2007 SUV

Goose hunting

We lived with the grandmother
Two cheerful geese,
One gray, the other white,
Two cheerful geese.
Russian folk song
Mazda really looks like a goose. On a fat gowy, which in his youth, when he watched the figure, most likely called CX-7. The pilot was also fed well. It would be difficult to sound like that on a dry ration. But then the poor fellow seemed to fall under the press: boom-boom-boom and now there was a new goose breed with a square beak and flat wings.
 
To get to Russia, our geese-swans have traveled a long way. Having gained courage, they sailed (or flew) from behind the ocean. Pilot sailed through the Atlantic. A purebred American was invented for the United States, and produced in the same place, at a factory in Alabama. SC-9 at the time of the start of sales in our homeland has been sold in the States for more than a year, but flew from the east to collect a goose under Hiroshima.
What didn’t like our geese in America? As you know, the fish is looking for, where deeper, and a goose where they better feed. At a time when decisions were made on future sales of these cars in Russia, the market grew up with a rapid pace, and at the same time we never had a shortage of people who love more or two more. And if also cheaper, then, in theory, the line should have lined up. But the world economy launched the side of all the plans of the Mazdians and the Hondians. Agree, the tongue does not turn to call five -meter giants with anti -crisis machines. Nevertheless, Russia has always been a unique country where the war was to whom and to whom the mother is relative, so I won’t be surprised if the sales of these Glumadin do not fall much. But what is guided by a person, choosing a half-columin-prisoner as a car for himself as a car, we will try to figure it out today.
I know for sure: the same person cannot like both Pilot and CC-9 at the same time. For they are completely different. They differ as strongly as the German tiger differed from the Soviet T-34. Just as sugar sands differ from the ice of Antarctica. Just as the winding roads of Europe are not like direct American highway. Despite the fact that at the beginning of the article I called the Goose Mazda fat, its forms are still much more elegant than the Kubature of Honda. A distinctive feature of SC-9 smooth lines both outside and inside. When meeting with a pilot, as if you hit his forehead. More precisely, about the almost vertical dump of the huge grate of the radiator. Further, another blow to the front racks, the littered are clearly not as much as the nine. Absolutely flat roof, and behind it is a sheer cliff of the rear door of the trunk. Batc gaze with a stone fell from a cliff, but along the way he managed to notice gloomy vertical lights.
Inside is a similar situation. In the Salon CC-9, I get less for two reasons. Firstly, landing here is more passenger. Secondly, the design is not so sharp and faced as on Pilot. And thirdly, I do not have to look for my things: standard central boxes and pockets in the doors, here are all containers for storing things that Mazda can boast of. Although, in fact, this is, of course, a minus. In Honda, all sorts of compartments, boxes and niches are as much as you like. And in all three rows. So sclerotics like me I would suggest refrain from buying a pilot for the above reason. Well, if the memory is in order, then in Honda you can live by laying out everything from the toothpick to the iron in places.
Sitting behind the wheel, I realize that landing is convenient there and there. The chairs are quite soft, they don’t poke in the sides, they don’t squeeze. Not for the races of the shed! But the rudders were successful for glory. It’s nice to take the steering wheel in your hands. That's just to twist it on the pilot, as it should. Four revolutions from the stop to the stop. The steering is identical to American versions. Eh, America! Hence the lack of information, and a tangible void when moving in a straight line. On the CC-9, the tool is more precise, although it does not shine with particular transparency.
At the exit from the parking lot, I immediately experience some difficulties. He looked back, and there neither give nor take the New Afon cave. I can’t see the end-stroke. The light at the end of the tunnel barely breaks through both cars behind the middle racks are toned. Let's try to go on devices. And then a terrible blow befell me: there is no parknone on the CC-9! And this is more than five meters long! But the dealers are additional work. On Honda, this is a device, the benefits of which I may have realized for the first time in my life, fortunately present.
Today I am Niels, I will fly on the geese. At first on this strange, angular. Acceleration on Honda was remembered by a peculiar leap, which is more characteristic of front -wheel drive cars. There is no beast in a six -cylinder motor, lucky, without failures and grabbing. The five -speed gearbox switchs smoothly and without special brakes. The number of gears can be limited to one or two using the KP lever located on a convenient tide, or you can, by pressing a special button on its left side, leave only three overdrive in the game. Overcast is a useful thing.
But the holes must be afraid. Pilot knocks with its short -legged legs and, despite the high tire profile, shakes the riders thoroughly. Goose bird is waterfowl. Maybe that's why Pilot likes to swing in the waves? Having left for off -road trials, we found that this goose does not like this goose. The primer is strong vibration, the VTM-4 all-wheel drive system is absolutely parquet. Only in snowdrifts in the yards. Now we fly to CC-9. The sensations are similar. The engine is not fire. But still Mazda is more responsive to the driver’s actions. In short, the steering wheel is more informative, a slightly quick box (by the way, with an honest manual mode), less than the roll. The nuances, of course, but traveling on the Mazda is easier and more pleasant. And how she flies in a straight line! You forget about the dimensions, and about the huge mass. But not for long. Joints, sharp edges of the pothole, the seams CX-9 collects everything from the road. Payment for a sports bias and 19-inch discs.
On the off -road the same story. The wheels are hung on innocent bumps, forced pseudo -approval, like Honda, is not here, and the stabilization system does not turn off and helps, as it can, slow down the right wheel. Again, you can leave the courtyard, go down to the lake on the sand too. Well, what did you want? Neither the other car manufacturers have never these cars for SUVs and did not give out. There is a front -wheel drive Pilot in America. Here again, no matter how I go around these cars, what kind of false arguments I come up with in justification of their purchase, the main thing is always the same size. I, apparently, live with gigantomanes on different planets. Therefore, I understand them badly and I can’t realize why they are engaged in this goose hunting. Why does a city resident need a five -meter channel, even if he has three full -fledged series of seats? Ask, how often does he use them all? But the country, remember, is special. And people in it love more, even though you crack. And when also for only one and a half lemon, how not to take it?
Dmitry Krotov
 
 

 
 

 

Source: Motor magazine [March 2009]