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Want to understand what Subaru outback is? Then you need not one, but three cars ... It is very difficult to stick a label on Subaru, and on his driver too. If we see a red Mazda, a naive girl, a nervous teenager or a younger old man sits in her.

It is better to stay away from all of them. And you do not need to hide from the black Mercedes R-Classe. An intelligent face will look out of it and first say: Good afternoon. Even if you drove through his hood on a motorcycle. People on Lexus believe in a magical circle, within which no one will stick, because their car is too beautiful. BMW guys go with the same confidence, but relying on human fear. Subaru is either too fast for someone to evaluate them, or, on the contrary, are so calm and confident that they do not even leave a mental trace. The Japanese play along with this disguise, constantly changing the design of Subaru, riding the car from clear clutch in appearance and in the interior.


The test took place on the Khodynsky field and on the Drive- Land (www.drive-lad.net) authrod, where there is an off-road, high-speed sections and turns

The only thing that is absolute confidence is is the owner of Subaru at any speed rides with a thoughtful face. No, he does not listen to the knocks in the transmission. He thinks. There is something about! Subaru has four types of four -wheel drive. It is necessary to constantly remember what exactly is on your car, for the subarist this is a matter of honor. True, today only one person Dmitry Filonov, director of the Subaru mechanics training center, is well versed in this. By the way, he outlined us with a picture of all -wheel drive Japanese abundance. Then we traveled to three of them, feeling the difference. Fortunately, the fourth type of all -wheel drive is on the sports version of Impreza and has nothing to do with the theme of our magazine.

Boil the coupling
The most understandable type of all -wheel drive is equipped with Outback 2.5 L with a variator. She has an electronically controlled multi-disc clowing. The discs in it are closed under the influence of hydraulics. Unlike other Subaru manufacturers, it puts the coupling not on the rear axle, but directly in the gearbox, and it works in the same liquid as the transmission. Hence her reliability. We all know how easy it is to boil the usual multi -disc clowing in the rear gearbox. A few minutes of a good axle box and you can drink coffee while it cools. But the volume of fluid in the automatic transmission is several times larger than in the gearbox, and this protects the Subaru coupling from overheating well.


The spare wheel is not included in the basic configuration. For it you need to pay 3500 rubles.

Play as much as you like with the most reliable multi-disc clowing in the world, but never try to reach the second type of Subaru all-wheel drive with Wi-Mufta. It stands at the Outback 2.5 liter configuration with manual transmission and plays the role of blocking. And the moment redistributes the usual differential, the manufacturer calls it conical. Several times I tried to use this term when conversations with friends (car journalists), but everyone thought that I was talking about horses. In fact, this is a simple part, most often used in cars as an inter -axle differential. So, back to the Wish-Muft. It has no electronic control. It works only on the difference in rotation of the shafts, which is why a little sleepy. A team called gas on the floor helps to wake it up. And when, having felt the buzz, you will begin to rape it on the off -road, it may break. Disks will weld each other, Dmitry Filonov scared me. For some reason, I warned him that I intended to still experience her for strength. Dmitry looked at me like a girl who decided to fill the non -freezing in a gas tank. I had to believe the word.


You can choose one of three modes: poor sport, incomprehensible sport and sport, what it should be


The most amazing thing on the Suba-Ru tidy is a flowmeter. It is so disguised that you understand his true purpose in a couple of days drive

The third type of Subaru is placed on Subaru Outback 3.6 liters with automatic transmission. It is based on the differential of the planetary type and is blocked by the multi -disc clowing already known to us (as on outback 2.5 liters with a variator). A planetary differential is needed to redistribute the moment in a ratio of 45/55. And the electronic multi-disc clowing was used not only because of its speed and reliability, but also for layouts, because, as already mentioned, the Subaru specialists learned to hide it directly into the automatic transmission.

Cracability is more expensive than pleasure
Thus, we have the cheapest, morally obsolete and not too reliable all -wheel drive on Subaru 2.5 liters with a mechanical transmission. At the peak, he is a super -free coupling on versions of 2.5 liters with a variator. And, as a humiliation for the latter, the most expensive scheme for a 3.6 liter engine with automatic transmission with a redistribution of the moment for more savory controllability.

All our attempts to plant outback and try to leave in order to somehow check the theory, ended in complete collapse. The test took place at a time when 60 centimeters of snow fell in Moscow in two days in Moscow. Strongly forced, we found a place where the cover was not higher than 30 centimeters. But here it turned out a wonderful feature of the Japanese station wagon. Outback is very briskly in the snow virgin lands due to the flat bottom, but with the slightest loss of the dynamics, he immediately sits on the rear levers. They are firmly anchored, and it is no longer possible to move the car from a place without tugboat.

Finally, at the training ground near Moscow, we found a suitable snowball. Three outback lined up in a row and rushed to conquer the top. The version on the mechanics stuck and stalled halfway. The station wagon with the variator, reaching the middle of the slope, got up, and then suddenly came to life and climbed up. Outback with automatic transmission just drove. The ESP remained on all three. But she prevented the car with mechanics from the start from the start, the car with the variator besieged halfway, and reached harmony only with the version on the machine. Then, when we got up and, in addition, turned off the ESP, all three went the same way. But for such universal-cheese and their average pilots on the off-road, there is usually one attempt, during which the majority falls into the full ass. From this point of view, the off -road round wins the Subaru Outback 3.6 liter with the automatic transmission, which means that we award the victory of the most difficult of the three schemes of the full -wheel drive: the planetary differential, blocked by multi -disable couplings.

The second round of the struggle broke out on the asphalt track. The best circle and the greatest pleasure in control showed a version on mechanics. It is difficult to cope with the variator on the gyrus of the short route, the connection between it and the gas pedal is thin and is low. And the most powerful outback with a machine gun, due to the foul front, simply flew out of the turn.

Total: Drive gives version 2.5 l of the manual transmission, and passability provides equipment of 3.6 l of the automatic transmission. Universal 2.5 L with a variator and a multi -disc couple either to a village or to the city. But it is precisely him that all these people with thoughtful faces most often buy.





Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [May /2010]