Test drive Mitsubishi Pajero (Montero, Shogun) LWB 2000 - 2003 SUV

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Riding a solid SUV has to think about the mortality of being and the vanity of life. From the height of the captain’s bridge, all the actions of drivers of cars, who in the crowd traffic jams cannot appreciate their road prospects for at least five buildings forward, seem inconsistent and reckless, like intuitive poketing of blind puppies. And the cold -blooded gzhiper will always be able to easily, accurately and self -confidently throw his colossus into the desired gap, because he sees a complete picture of the movement in the palm of his hand. Didn't you understand what exactly the SUVs buy for this?
The cars that you see in front of you are impressive and capacious, powerful and safe. Golden class of jeeps. They do not need a heroic scope and obviously not gentlemanly manners standing above on the hierarchical ladder of the dimensionless monsters of insatiable fuel eaters and your money. Even the length of a full-fledged SUV does not exceed, oddly enough, the size of a passenger business class: 4.80 4.90 m. Only the height, impressive wheels and a strict face make them look at them from the bottom up, ingratiatingly and with a wary: what if I am in which I am in what -He guilty?. In fact, jeeps in experienced, confident hands, like large trained dogs are obedient and peaceful. They are almost manual, the main thing is to behave correctly with them ... Here are our guests of the Chevrolet Trailblazer and Mitsubishi Pajero, who undoubtedly be able to fascinate others and delight the owner, almost one (impressive) class. But the fact that they are different breeds can be seen without glasses. Slightly self-confident Yankees with an invariable smile of a two-row smile and the legendary Pajor-san, the most friendly open cold samurai eyes, greet you: Hi! Arigate!
And you and you the same! Welcome to immense open spaces, wide fields, endless dirt! Vodka, Gorbatchov, Kharasho! You see, and foreigners are gradually mastering Russian speech, but at the same time they do not forget to throw jeeps to us massively. Not everyone, of course, but the middle of the middle class, not broken by defaults and managed to play on his favorite oil pipe, and not in the box. Who buys Pajero and Trailblazer? Fans of driving on city borders and potholes, fans of gardens and gardens removed from civilization for the supply of gasoline in the tank, or clean clerks that have reached sufficient heights at their hard and fraught with falls? Well, let's see, compare and draw conclusions.
By decoration of the Mitsubishi salon, the leader is not only in this pair of applicants for the hand and heart of the buyer, but also among most of the similar machines. High -tech decoration ergonomic and human -loving is thought out to the smallest detail. Plastic is super, seats class, bagel is just a song, skin with a tree. The buttons of the lifts of all (!) Steces with a double -sided automatic action. Poking his finger went down to capacity. He supported up. Repeated again. And why are others wrong? The color liquid crystalline display in the middle of the torpedo came from the famous three devices in the same place among the predecessors of the compass, a rollometer, an altimeter (aka altimeter). But now here is all musical and climatic information. Healthy? Yes, but the main thing is how to flatter the pride of the respected owner! A huge double hatch decorates the salon and spreads the space. And here he is quite a few and already spacious second row and a semi -children's third, compactly and quickly hiding on the floor of the trunk. The car has a few more greasy advantages: it is superheated, especially on idle, the motor does not even whisper, it purrs, but quietly, quietly, through a dream. Vibrations, by the way, are not. The review forward and on the sides is perfect, and it is better to control the situation from behind by panoramic and elongated in heights by bus side mirrors.
In all of the above positions, Chevrolet is inferior. He is good, but not so brilliant. Round empty plastic, chubby seats, narrow window openings, a very uncomfortable salon mirror under the very ceiling. The arbitrary scattering of heterogeneous buttons, the purpose of which is really remembered only over time ... But, I repeat, I have nothing against Trailblazer, I am just admiring Pajero. While the score is 1: 0. But this is far from the ending. It is worth you to ride both jeeps alternately, as all the gossip around the buttons-condenses go into the background. And for the first, shamelessly, like a raid tanker, the advantages of an American car are emerging. I, even slightly beyond the scope of this comparison, will say: the running qualities of Trailblazer on the hard coating are so outstanding that it is difficult for him and competitors to choose. Unless the BMW X5, which, however, is almost twice as much. The Chevy Kreni Kreni also grabs the wheels tenaciously on the outsarous soil on the serpenter primer, like a sled for a groove in a beobsleu. A sensitive and not American informative steering wheel, coupled with a pleasant right pedal, slightly burning the foot with its boundless capabilities, allow the rider to harshly keep a violent temple of the horses in the bridle. Even the brakes of the heavy collars are light and adequate, which is surprising for the American track and what cannot be said about Mitsubishi. There you first crush the pedal, and only after a moment Pajero pecks with your nose and slows down with flour. And Chevrolet, as if the parachute back is shooting back softly and effectively, squeezing the nose slightly, the car freezes instantly.
All the friends who were allowed to put the TRILBLAZER shredded, after a couple of kilometers began to scare away the MERSYUKI and bimer, who had no choice to leave the right from this projectile. So I don’t know who is more important than the beauty of the salon or the opportunity to tickle for myself and the surrounding nerves, but the account was at least 1: 1. Once again I repeat, I don’t know how often the owners of all -wheel drive cars in fifty thousand green ruin them on clay or snow virgin lands, but I owe such a mockery over every jeep. An autopsy showed that Japanese technique is more tolerant of the lack of signs of civilization. Pajero traditionally has huge passages of pendants and excellent geometric cross -country ability. And the TRILBLAZER, shod in poorly (from the point of view of bad weather), almost summer sites, so helping him on wet asphalt, left a couple of times deeper than the level of self-extinguishing, and Mitsubishi, stirring, dragged the poor fellow out of the debate. And all would be nothing, if it is not decorative Blazer thresholds that catch the ground with each bend through large irregularities.
But on a less extreme sand and a cheerful clay, both jeeps showed themselves very decently. Smeared to the top, frantically rotating with wheels, turning into brown slides without any protrusions and hollows, they completed the entire obligatory program and left a group of inquisitors quite satisfied. The conclusions beg themselves. Pajero III Aesthetic machine, famous for its off -road properties and the quality of study of all the little things. But the active, especially aggressive driver, Trailblazer, will undoubtedly give a lot of minutes to the driver’s buzz, for which it is not a pity to sacrifice some trifles.
 
Text Vladimir Smirnov
Photo Alexander Nozdrin
How do they look:
Nikita Rozanov
     

OUTSIDE:
Although the design of these two cars has been developed recently, their appearance carries many branded features of manufacturers, and from this everyone is easily remembered and well recognized. A careful attitude to traditions is a distinctive feature of both Chevrolet and Mitsubishi. And, for example, although the Blazer brand has been known for more than thirty years, the car looks fresh and cheerful. This is largely due to the commitment of stylists to calm and muscular forms, which, as you know, are less annoying and more tenacious than angular and thorny facets. In addition, Trailblazer monitors fashion and willingly perceives bright and sharp solutions from concepts. For example, the rapid silver horizontal of the radiator of the SSR conceptual pickup radiator quickly became a branded silver horizontal, which also carries the golden cross of the emblem on the new Blazer, and effectively divides powerful blocks of anterior lighting equipment into two floors. The new Pajero also borrows something from the concepts. For example, from off -road SSU, which in 1999 shocked the imagination of extreme lovers with cyclopic arches of the front wheels. But on the serial Pajero, their use looks clear, and in the form on the side the car even breaks along the window sill, as if tired of the constant overload of the veteran-carrier. However, this is noticeable only in comparison, when near, for example, neat and thorough Chevrolet. The off-road specialization is pronounced in both cars quite brightly: there are powerful expanding linings on the arches of the wheels and plastic protection of the body sidewalls. But all these details are painted in the color of the body, and this is a good warning for hot heads: attention! Decoration! (True, well done).
Results
Chevrolet Trailblazer solid and high -quality design, traditionally characteristic of SUVs of this brand. A perfectly balanced style in which extreme goes well with the fundamental reliability and thoroughness of the shape and style of the road car.
Mitsubishi Pajero easily recognizable style balances on a dangerous face of excessive severity of plastic, which in some cases even begins to destroy the shape and sense of integrity of the design.
INSIDE:
As it happens most often, inside both cars develop the same philosophy that external design obeys. Pajero also dangerously balances on the verge of destruction of integrity, and Trailblazer inspires the same feelings of calm and judgment as its outer appearance. The revolution is not visible here, but everything is convincing and even as if well familiar. Compared to this, the architecture of the Pajero instrument panel, although it is clearly associated with a robbed branded crystal of the Mitsubishi emblem, impresses a far -fetched and artificial solution. The bulk of the horizontal of the instrument panel is simply pierced by the vertical of the central console, and you are waiting for the creak from the place of conjugation. The rudders for all cars are solid and have four knitting needles, which Blazer are also decorated with 12 buttons: without tearing the hands from the steering wheel, for example, you can control the radio or spill the flight comprehensive menu. It’s difficult to say something new about the seats of American cars: indeed, and a cut, and a form, and a typical combination of artificial and natural skin, everything is traditional. The new, perhaps, is only the place of fastening the front seat belts on the back, like Cadillac.
Results
Chevrolet Trailblazer typical (in a good way) American interior. Everything in the usual places is very convincing, and as for the style and finish, we should not forget that in front of us is light, but a truck.
Mitsubishi Pajero The impression of the unconvincing design is intensified by the strange architecture of the instrument panel and the central console. Even the variety of plastic textures, decoration under expensive wood breeds and very high -quality sewing on the skin does not save the overall impression.
 

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