Mitsubishi Outlander test drive since 2012 SUV
Mitsubishi Outlander test drive: modesty decorates?
Looking at the new face of the crossover, it becomes clear: Mitsubishi is sure that most customers choose the model not for external attractiveness. The first sales results in Russia have yet confirmed this hypothesis. The route along the roads of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Republic of Mari El revealed the moral of the newcomer.
With an unforgettable design, you can reproach a good half of cars from Japan. However, after the stylish and aggressive Outlander XL, looking at his successor is frankly boring. The corporate brown color completely pushes into an unflattering comparison with the brick, to which the designer’s hand sympathetically softened the face. The silhouette out of time Mitsubishi was a success: the third generation of the crossover in no way pulls on the debutant of 2012. To doubt the date of birth of the novelty is made by the fact that the car is deprived of the usual daytime running lights today. A penny element will appear after the technical regulation with the relevant requirement enters into force.
The third generation of Mitsubishi Outlander retained the external dimensions and the size of the wheelbase of the predecessor. The only difference, a centimeter is smaller, is due to the other design of the rear bumper. The aerodynamic resistance coefficient decreased by 7% and is 0.33.
For a rather big crossover, the back optics is surprisingly modest in size. In the main sections, only dimensions, stop-signals and a turn indicators fit. The fog lamp and the rear lamp live in the bumper, and both are in the singular. Full -wheel drive versions are not even given out by the nameplate a small sticker in the corner of the glass.
The boring appearance is in harmony with the low gray sky of Nizhny Novgorod, which is about to break into the rain. I hasten to get behind the wheel, especially since the interior artists recouped for colleagues. Inside Outlander has become more solid and more expensive. Perhaps the only dubious element of the console finish with black gloss. Marking the surface catches the reflection of the neighbor in the chair and moving objects outside the windows. The inserts of textured metal on the doors and the front panel look much more interesting.
The new engines inherited from the model with the prefix XL. They lost a little in power: 146 hp. For a two -liter unit and 167 hp for the motor 2.4. At the same time, due to a decrease in mass and better aerodynamics, all -wheel drive machines are developed 5 km/h larger and accelerate to 100 km/h 0.3 seconds faster than Outlander XL with similar power plants. In addition, they are 10% more economical.
A convenient steering wheel with leather trim is adjusted by departure and angle of inclination and carries the usual keys for managing music and cruise control. It is more difficult to find a common language with a seat. With a height of 186 centimeters, I would like to sit lower, but adjustments do not allow. The passenger has his own trouble. The pillow of the chair is overly littered. The safety belt is not an assistant here, and you feel more comfortable on braking, resting your knee on the glove compartment cover. At the same time, only two basic settings are available to the assault on the Ultimate settings: the length and angle of the back of the back. A successful seat profile does not spoil the perforated skin, holding perfectly in vihi and in slowdown.
Xenon headlights Proposal of the maximum level of equipment Ultimate. The absence of mechanisms for the movement of the lens in the horizontal plane and additional sections for illuminating turns compensates for the super -rusty bunch of light. The angle of view reaches 160 degrees, which, according to the manufacturer, is almost twice as much as that of ordinary xenon headlights.
Under the trunk floor there is a convenient organizer with compartments for a different road trifle. Alas, it is intended only for the owners of the instyle and Ultimate versions. The last equipment also flaunts the fifth door with an electric drive. But the extra 32 centimeters in the length of the loading platform are available to all customers. They were able to get out due to the changed folding scheme of the rear seat.
The rear passengers from the pleasant got, perhaps, only the comfort of a spacious sofa. It will not be crowded and three. Having got rid of the average passenger, you can decompose a convenient armrest with a couple of cup holders. On the long run, I persistently recommend using them for its intended purpose: other entertainments are not supposed to be a galley. The central tunnel is deprived of air ducts, and the twilight from tinted glasses interferes with the search for uninhabited windows keyboards.
Even on 18-inch wheels of a top version with rubber dimension 225/55, the car does not seem tough. Road clearance of 215 millimeters in combination with energy -intensive pendants allows you not to disdain any directions of Russian roads. The test route involved 30 kilometers of a forest road with rather large puddles and ruts. Outlander withstood the test with honor and even brought considerable pleasure, allowing not to take care of the choice of speed.
In the city line, the outlander is difficult to make claims. For a confident start from the traffic light, the dynamics of the basic two -liter engine is enough. The engine 2.4 The task of moving the crossover is easier, although it is not necessary to talk about any excess power. We will talk about this next summer, when a modification with a 3.0-liter V6 will appear on the market. Then, by the way, the Japanese promise to establish supplies of cars with mechanical gearboxes. True, it will not work to save money, waiting for such Outlander: over the year, the manufacturer will clearly have time to rewrite the price tags once or twice. As a result, a crossover with manual transmission is unlikely to be cheaper than the current 969 thousand for basic performance with a variator.
Mitsubishi specialists have corrected the variator work algorithm. Previously, with intensive acceleration of the power unit, he quickly reached maximum turns. This gave the impression of a slip of the gearbox, when the speed of speed clearly did not have time behind the arrow of the tachometer. Now the engine is slower, and the driver has a sensation of a rigid connection between acceleration and sound accompaniment. True, from mournful singing at maximum revolutions in gas mode to the floor, there is still no getting anywhere.
The climate control unit has changed three boring, but extremely understandable twists to the scattering of the keys in combination with a small display. The information content from such a decision suffered slightly. It also helps that the system puts in the road on the road also helps: none of the three crew members complained about an uncomfortable temperature or distribution of flows.
For overtaking with a trip to the oncoming lane, do not be too lazy to use the steering petals of the change of six virtual gears. Even on a 2.4 -liter engine, the transition by a couple of steps down will not be superfluous. Just do not forget to return the transmission to the D mode with a long press on the plus lever. Automatically this will not happen even after some time. As a result, pressing an accelerator at one and a half thousand revolutions on a tachometer and forcibly the highest gear turned on at least some visible reaction when the score of seconds goes to the second ten. Well, if this happens in its lane, and not after going to intense overtaking!
Soft plastic is surrounded only by the first row of seats: the sheathing of the rear doors is hard with a complete visual coincidence with the front ones. You will find a certain harmony with this solution in the uninhabited keys of electrical windows with an automatic mode only for the driver's door, the only cabin for outerwear for outerwear, the central tunnel without rear ducts.
A full -wheel drive transmission received a new 4WD ECO operating mode. He replaced the previous 2WD when the car used only the traction of the front wheels. Now the rear axle does not sleep, but is connected only in the case of slipping a constantly leading axis. At the same time, as our experiments in the sand showed, slippage should be quite serious. The other two provisions, 4WD Auto and 4WD Lock, remained in their places.
In the new Mitsubishi Outlander, the control control unit analyzes more data, which helps more quickly and more accurately to use the arsenal of transmission. If the predecessor provided indications only about the speed of rotation of the wheels, the position of the throttle damper and the engine speed, now the sensors of the torque, a gear ratio in the variator, the angle of rotation of the steering wheel, longitudinal and transverse accelerations, as well as the unfolding moment were added to them. The latter is borrowed from a more than serious source - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. A segment of slippery asphalt, which came across on the route, clearly demonstrated the habits of the outlander. After the demolition of the front axle began, the rear wheels are connected, and the machine continues to slip sideways. Of course, the stabilization system immediately intervenes in an abnormal situation.
The clipping key of the on -board computer is located in the blind area to the left of the steering wheel. Over time, you get used to clicking it without looking, but why not place it traditionally, on a steering wheel lever or a bagel itself?
Improved electronic filling is still powerless with diagonal hanging. This inquisitive mind of our crew checked, turning from asphalt into roadside sands. Of course, tires make a considerable contribution to the outcome of such adventures, and Outlander’s full -time wheels are not related to the clan of the imminent submissions. But the 30-kilometer segment of the forest road prepared by the organizers on the second day immediately rehabilitated the car in all respects. 215 millimeters of the road clearance and suspension, whose omnivorous we also noted on a broken asphalt, allowed not only to overcome the special straps without losses and problems, but, as one character with the propeller said, to cheat a little. The chassis is a clear success of the designers. Russian motorists will rightly forgive her a lot. The ease of gait is also facilitated by the diet that the car was prescribed. On average, each version of the novelty dropped about 5% of the mass (or 85 kilograms) compared to its predecessor. The savings were achieved due to the modernized suspensions, brake mechanisms and wider use of high -strength steels. Even the steering wheel trifle in the total mass of the car became easier to 300 grams.
The heating buttons moved to the central tunnel. Now they do not need to reach for them. Only a combination of devices informs about the mode of operation of the all -wheel drive transmission: the spinning puck has turned into an impressive size key without additional indication.
According to acoustic comfort, the third generation took a tangible step forward, but when driving along the highway I want more. The main part of the noise breaks through the wheel arches. Especially hard to sit behind. An additional speaker for them is the space of the luggage compartment. The extended curtain slightly improves the situation. At a speed of about 100 km/h and above, a quiet conversation of the front riders will remain a secret for the rear passengers. So that the gallery does not feel deprived of one has to increase the voice or turn around.
The base price of 969,000 rubles looks more than attractive. The eye is also pleasing to the fact that the variator is already provided here. However, the modesty of the rest of the set is incomprehensible. If you can live without a standard audio system and alloy discs, then without heating the seats and trunk curtains, right, somehow embarrassed. By plunging into the study of the price list, we find out that only two airbags are laid for all versions to be cheaper than 1,169,000 rubles! This, sorry, is simply indecent. The buyer will receive a full set of seven Eirbegov only in the Intense configuration with all -wheel drive. Judging by the list of equipment, it was her and the next hierarchy by the execution of instyle that marketers assigned the role of the most popular. The cost of cars with a 2.4 -liter engine starts at 1,309,000 rubles. There is another question for the compilers of the set. They attributed to the category of excessive luxury heating of the windshield in the rest zone of wipers. This chip useful in Russia is only included in the Ultimate set, available for 1,419,000 rubles. However, the results of the first weeks of sales show a huge purchasing interest in the car: at the beginning of last week, the number of orders was selected at 4,000, increasing by 300 new contracts per day. I have no doubt that the third generation of the Mitsubishi Outlander family on the shoulder to block the successes of the predecessor.
Source: Carclub.ru
