Mitsubishi L200 test drive since 2006 pickup
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Every citizen periodically visits the guess that real life does not occur here in the city bustle, but outside the ring of megamolls, car dealerships and construction markets. That's just the radius of fantasy is limited either by the distance to the cottage or to the heliocard. Want to break out of the zone of influence of the metropolis? Buy a pickup. You will not have time to get a job of a newly acquired vehicle, you will feel a panic desire to escape from the city. Set aside business, grab friends or loved ones, purchase rampages for recreation, throw them by the side of the body. Leave only one care - where to stop ...
Regardless of execution, all BT-50 have a fabric salon, seats with headrests and armrests, are equipped with front pillows, manual gearboxes, a self-locking differential and heating the fuel system. You distinguish an affordable version of Direct by a black bumper and a radiator grille. The equipment of Spartan - electric windows, ABS, side pillows and radio are not supposed to. All this is in Touring, and the latest version exists both with air conditioning and without. The stylish BT-50 Active flaunts chrome (radiator grille, door handles and lateral mirrors), steps and a 6-disk CD/MP3-changer. Safety arches, polished rear bumper and stainless steel thresholds, fog lights and a decorative bottom protection panel are offered for a surcharge. 550 dollars will have to be laid out for metallic.
It is believed that they are incompatible with the city. The principle of the car is not a luxury embodied with peasant directness in pickups, nobody needs it in a megalopolis with its other values. But this is a controversial question. It is pickups, and not crossovers or SUVs that are so popular among citizens, perfectly correspond to the idea of \u200b\u200bSUV-a sports-funding car. A spacious cabin for four passengers, excellent cross -country ability, on board - a ton of cargo, for a hook - three more. Any pickup will take more and pass further, burning less fuel. Everyone himself can take and calculate what is more profitable: to keep a powerful SUV for all occasions or a stable from the city sedan and Spartan pickup? Already the automakers themselves came to a paradoxical conclusion: the buyer of pickups should not be sought in the village, but in the city. Here you have material evidence: brand new Mazda BT-50 and Mitsubishi L200. If you look at the registration in the passport-typical hard workers-farmers. But if you look at the face - two stylish, comfortable trucks. One is more glamorous than the other.
Mazda BT-50 is raised over the road and looks menacingly, but not devoid of charm. Massive staircase, long -flowing front suspension, bridge on elliptical springs - in a word, classic. In order to make sure of this, you don’t even have to look under the car-a steel spine and limbs BT-50 are visible both in front and side, in huge wheel niches. All doubts about whether the pickup will cope with heavy off -road, disappear immediately and forever. The lowest point of the body - a ribbed casing of protection of the cardan connection in the checkpoint - is more than 20 cm from the ground. At your disposal is all -wheel drive (with disconnected front wheels), a handout with a reducing nearby, blocking the center differential.
The salon in a good way is simple, not banal, thought out, has all sorts of comfortable things, finished with high-quality materials. However, having climbed into the chair, you are slightly upset by a passenger landing - the chair is not raised above the floor, as usual. And it is not possible to get comfortable with comfort in Senen, although it seems that the profile is not bad, and there are lateral support - the main adjustments are too discrete. And in pickups with a double cab, it is often closely rear passengers. Fortunately, in the BT-50 there is enough space there. Well, maybe the almost vertical back of the sofa can cause inconvenience to the riders during a long journey. The L200 design does not make sense. The basis of the car is the same classic, and the transmission is all -wheel drive, with locks and lowering nearby. But appearance! The front is not a front. This is a self -propelled arrogant face. The cabin is cut off from the body with a curved line. Because of this, the L200 in the profile slightly resembles a carriage-some curly golden monogram suggests itself on the back door. Fortunately, designer delights did not worsen functionality. The body has a high and strong side, and the back in the open position can withstand very large loads (the same advantages, however, has the BT-50 body).
Two batteries, front windows, heating the fuel system and heating the seats are placed on L200. Invite and Invite+ initial modifications do not include air conditioning, ABS, alloy wheels, dilated wheeled arches, heating and electric regulation of lateral mirrors, chrome pens and other decorations. In addition, the Easy Select 4WD transmission is used here (with a rigidly connected front bridge), while Super Select 4WD is placed on the senior L-200. The Intense version (average) is offered both with a handle and a machine gun, both on the top -end instyle. The last modification is characterized by a leather salon, 17-inch cast discs, an advanced system of course dynamic stabilization. Alas, the equipment table is made up in such a way that it is not entirely clear why you have to pay extra to the basic value, and for what is not. The salon at the L200 looks even more passenger, judging only by the interior - by the shape of a torpedo and a rather bold decoration. But the landing turned out to be a jeper. It won’t be able to fall apart - you will be knocked into the front console with your knees. But if you configure the chair as taught in driving schools (the back is almost vertically, the elongated hand touches the upper part of the rim of the steering wheel), then the claims are removed to ergonomics. And on the second row of seats in L200 you feel good. The sofa is moderately soft, quite large, comfortable, and the rear window is equipped with an electric drive - it can be lowered.
I will classify a rigid (even pickup) suspension to the minuses of BT-50. But Mazda wins the competitor with the dynamics of acceleration. Its turbodiesel is not a motor, but a strong iron hand that, regardless of the selected gear (if only the tachometer arrow was somewhere between the serifs of 1.5 and 3 thousand revolutions) is always ready to push the car forward with force. A rather strong shaking is transmitted from the motor to the salon, but only at idle. In the working mode of vibration, it is not felt at all, and the BT-50 itself rolls amazingly quiet-honest word, acoustic comfort will cause envy even among the owners of business class sedans.
Mitsubishi L200 has a different balance of pluses and minuses. The smoothness of the course is higher, the vibration is less, but in terms of noise, it is inferior - the noise of the wheel, and the crackling of the diesel engine are distinctly different in the cabin. The engine is weaker, however, sluggish acceleration lies entirely on the conscience of an automatic machine, which, with a drooping city mode of movement, stupid is unforgivable. But on light and medium off -road L200 it is much easier to lead. Automatic gearbox at low speed supplies all four wheels of the car always more than sufficient thrust. On a steep bumpy climb, where the BT-50 will require stops and switching to a low row to protect both the motor and clutch, L200 will calmly go further, and even with the load in tow.
Mazda BT-50 2.5 Diesel engine, 4 in a row
Working volume (cubic cub) 2499
POWER
(L.S. at about/min) 143 at 3500
MOMENT
(Nm at rpm) 330 at 1800
Rear or complete drive
Gearbox 5-speed, mechanical
Length/width/height (mm) 5075/1805/1760
Equipped mass (kg) 1800
Maximum speed (km/h) 158
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 12.5
Fuel consumption (highway/city, l/100 km) 7.8/10.9
Price in Moscow (price of the tested car) from $ 23,490 ($ 28 190)
Mitsubishi L200 2.5 AT Diesel engine, 4 in a row
Working volume (cubic cub) 2477
POWER
(L.S. at about/min) 136 at 4000
Moment (nm at rpm) 314 at 2000
The drive is complete
Gearbox 4-speed, automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 5000/1800/1780
Mass weight (kg) 1880
Maximum speed (km/h) 165
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 16.7
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 11.3/8.3
Price in Moscow (price of the tested car) from $ 24,990 ($ 31,490)
Text Ruslan Tarasov
Photo Andrey Danilov
Source: "Autopilot"
