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Washers of sandy quarries

Do you like the energetic and dynamic ride style? Do you think that fate is different, would be a good car drivers? However, confess the active lifestyle - tent-kayaks ski, at worst, kebab in nature? Community Style Off Road You are not alien to you? And choose a car - so that all together and in one bottle ... Sleep-car is not the fact that the village, not all asphalt will overcome. And the massive sacrifice only scares its kind of surrounding - to feel all the subtleties of piloting you will not succeed.


Between wagon and sacrifice
However, there is a necessary car - this is a wagon of high passability. His recipe is simple enough: to take the usual passenger wagon with a full drive and the engine more powerful; change transmission ratios; If possible, add locks, or even lower transmission in the distribution; Road clearance increase to a reasonable limit; For the sake of recognition, to bind around the perimeter with a protective plastic belt, allegedly, by releasing the edge of powerful metal protection from under the bumper; The composition to serve reling on the roof and serve this miracle on large tooth wheels. Of course, it is not worth it to confuse such a car with a real saznodelnik, but he almost will not give up the parquetical in part, and there will be a hundred points ahead of any passenger car, while keeping almost all of its best quality on the highway. This all-wheel drive is more suitable for a fashionable abbreviation SUV - Sport Utility Vehicle, that is, a sports and practical car. Breaking on the second word, it will prefer and just pragmatics without ambitions. These are not waiting for mercies from nature, weather and road builders, but the classic all-terrain vehicle is too cumbersome.
Machines built according to such a scheme, not so much - automakers only felt the prospects of the class and began to master it. Get acquainted with his representatives closer:
Subaru Legacy Outback /\u003e Subaru Legacy Outback - 2.5 l, cost - $ 36.1 thousand; Volvo V70XC AWD Cross Country - 2, 4 L, $ 44.7 thousand; Audi-ollroud - 2.7 liters, $ 55.3 thousand.
All three samples in fairly rich equipment and equipped with automata.



National features
For cars, their creators are easily guessed. Subaru, as it should be the Asian, the most compact, its width is 110-120 mm less than that of colleagues-rivals. Wonderless door glasses look very stylish - and after all, that amazingly, do not let the water in the rain and do not whistle at speed! But partly precisely because of this C-rack solution * was pretty pressed the rear doorway.
The adjustment ranges are also calculated clearly not on basketball players - the driver with a growing 180 cm raises the steering wheel almost until the stop (unlike other machines, the speaker length adjustment is missing) and moves the chair away and down. Rear remains exactly so much space as you need to properly fit when the back is completely pressed against the back - you do not get drunk, but slightly slid down and relax - it will not work out. The third is there if you take, it is better a teenager. (It is not by chance, it can be seen, in the roof is made a trough-shampoo.
Salon - Rather, the brainchild of the technologist than the designer: it was made very well and carefully, but without delights. Got out of the car, soon you do not remember how it looks inside. Comfortable front armchairs, gently fixing the body with lateral overloads. Headrests, on the contrary, as if aimed in the back of the fist - probably functional in the accident, but not pulling. Probably because of the unification with the machines for the domestic market, the handbrake was on the right side of the tunnel - at the passenger. And the lack of blocking the selector of the automatic transmission when the ignition key is not inserted or the brake pedal is not pressed, for the machine of this class today is already puncture. Age, age ...
As the descendant of Vikings, it looks sharp and rustic. And look at the front - the width seems like a huge! However, why it seems: five cylinders in a row yes automatic on the side - so it typed 1611 mm of a gauge, where more. And what is this miracle? Locks of massive doors are so powerful and warned that they themselves slam them for the passenger - it would be enough to jump into the salon until the legs stripped. No, thanks ...
In the salon Volvo, I fell into childhood - and I assure most people to feel themselves in Cross Country, as if in a giant cave. It is not even in size, although there are five filthy men. Just many elements of the interior are unusually large-format and deliberately simplified, as if a pair of shocks from a block: if the central console is flat, like a wall, and a quarter of a square meter, if the button - then dawn, though three fingers, and if a lifestyle on the leather seat, then each stitch - a couple of centimeters. Spacious! Yes, and the inner mirror is under one to become - opens a panorama no worse than windshield, compensating for the misfortune of miniature outdoor petals.
But the anthropometric indicators of the giant are linked to the wise: only in the lower position of the seat raised steering wheel does not overlap the devices to the driver with the growth of just 180 cm, and at all the gigantic 43rd boot is barely squeezed to the accelerator between the brake pedal and the central tunnel. By the way, about the legs: find a reliable support of the left foot is difficult - the playground is similar to the washcloth hidden under the rug, the same soft and shapeless. Adjusting the seat in height, as if cheap small trays - pulling the handle, you need to jump on the seat so that the spring sucks it up. Good lever of the machine gun, but with the handbrake you will be careful with the handbrake - it hurts the garbage. However, no longer to complain about what - everything else is convenient and functionally - for example, the electric heating of the lower edge of the glass (in brushes), ventilation deflectors in the middle racks. Such a clear remote control of ventilation and heating is still necessary, and flashlights are stubborn in the housings facilitates facilitate landing in the dark.
Audi conquered the traditional accuracy of fitting body panels and glitter of polished metal: moldings, nameplates, lining - there is a glaze for having to cling. Immediately seen - pioneering and expensive thing. However, this is an entourage, and what about him? Very comfortable and practical car: Large doorways, just a huge interior - even sitting at a two-meter giant, you can throw the leg to the leg; High quality finishes of the interior, thoughtful to the smallest detail; richest equipment. Not to mention xenon headlights, an expensive audio system or parking sensors, here, for example, there is heating of all five seats that advanced curtains on the rear windows. What is there - the folding handles on the ceiling and even the hooks for clothes are equipped with microlifers! In general, almost limousine adapted for bad roads.
Disadvantages? There are also them, although in addition to high prices, others are not so simple to find. For example, a massive front panel slightly close the passenger's tibia. The dashboard seems to be first drawn by the designer, and then some scales in the pretty circles inserted - is it really necessary for the oil temperature pointer, in addition to the coolant temperature pointer, and the voltmeter? Yes, and with a speedometer, he was nervous: its nonlinear scale, besides with various-caliber numbers, complicated for perception.


For inventory and cargo
What about the tents and skis? For them, there will be places in any of the cars: each under a soft extended curtain is an excellent volume in a gramometer. Differences in several centimeters along the width length are insignificant. Subaru's opening of the fifth door slightly narrowed down the book, the audios are stronger than the wheeled arches, volvo deprived of these shortcomings, in addition he has almost a vertical door - convenient for large cargo. Under the Celest Ceiling, the metal lattice is lowered for passenger protection, and the German has a solid network drawn from behind the back.
Differences are more noticeable when transporting long. Subaru offers a standard set - cut, in the proportion of 40/60, folding backs and a rear seat pillow. Rear sofa Volvo is divided into three autonomous parts in a ratio of 40/20/40 - combine, as you want, and you can still remove the hindering segments of the pillow, extending the compartment. Audi offers only divided into a familiar proportion of the back, which, being thrown into the stationary pillow, does not want to form a flat site. If the transformation is partial, then the roll with the mesh sticks out in the middle, like a barrier, because it is fixed on one of the halves of the back.


Rallist, Cruiser and Ring
Before rushing to the pampas, let's see how our Trinity behaves on the asphalt.
The strongest impression of Subaru Outback has nothing to compare the sound of the opposite motor: on the forced modes it goes into a juicy roar with a characteristic cutoff. Of course, to compete with an atmospheric opposite with much more powerful rival turbochargers difficult - hot-hot lovers will prefer the three-liter six. On the other hand, the average fuel consumption Subaru is easily fitted at 10 l / 100 km - the pair of analogs is significantly more. What conquers Subaru - the deposit of reactions to the steering action and excellent feedback (affect, see, rally roots). The car is so obedient and is well balanced, which seems to be nothing, putting it by sideways, take a turn in Tommy Mykinen. And even some noisy perceive not as flaw, but as a sign of sportiness. At the same time, there is no hint - the outback carries the passengers smoothly and carefully. True, a manual gearbox is more suitable for the highest pilot - the slow vehicle makes nervous even with ordinary overtakers. In addition, the ABS is rude.
At Volvo Cross Country, the nature was American. A large car is very good when parking - the steering wheel is very light. However, by passing some critical position when maneuver, he is independently crucial until it stops - it is already dangerous. At higher speeds, the tightening disappears, but completely empty control deprives the feedback driver. In addition, little damping - the drilled steering wheel is not returned smoothly into a neutral position, straightening the trajectory of the car, but makes a few oscillations, forcing the car to write a snake.
Motor line is a maximum of torque it gives out a wide range from 1800 to 5000 rpm. There is no hint of the turboyama (the failure of the traction in the zone of low revolutions). The adaptive automaton switches smoothly, but in manual control mode, it is necessary to work with the probe - the delay is noticeable. At Volvo, this mode is most similar to the work of an ordinary manual box - the transmission is rigidly fixed and no switches are switched down in the kykdown mode, nor up when reaching maximum revolutions. The case of a rare modesty - Cross Country exceeded the producer declared maximum speed 200 km / h! The car turned out to be very quiet - which cost one and two-layer side windows. Through them, only the grinding of the rubber teeth of scorpions - Tire Pirelli, and from the side he is heard for the mile. Silence and slotting at speeds are quenched by sports ambitions. It and for the better - the brakes are quite powerful, but prone to overheating: after several intensive slowdowns, their effectiveness falls.
Two and a half hundred horses Audi-Ollrouds speak for themselves - gun! And large caliber. The feeling of massive solidity creates a suspension that holds the body from the rich on irregularities. Rars in turns are minimal, and the reactions are quite sharp. Such a combination, and even successor-tied to the transmission, a hard torque converter creates a sensation rather a ring machine, not rally, like, say, Subaru. It wants not to revenge on the tail in turns, but to prescribe them extremely accurately, the maximum use of the power of the engine, brakes and excellent coupling properties of Tire Pirelli P6. With increasing speed, the pneumatic suspension automatically lowers the audio body down, at moderate speeds, the clearance is restored. However, the road clearance can be managed manually, but it is more important there ...


... where the roads end
So we got to the sandy career - this is perhaps the limit of off-road, which is unreasonable to overpress on these machines.
Subaru Outback does not show the slightest propensity to the bucking due to the fair distribution of thrust - the symmetrical inter-axis differential divides the torque in the proportion of 50/50, and in the case of slipping wheels, one of the axes is blocked by an ussociation. Another Viscouft is at the rear differential. However, the combination of elegant painted bumpers and long sinks (the corners of the entry-congress are the smallest - only 18) makes it be careful on irregularities. The suspension elements are massive and durable, the distance to the bottom is large, the most vulnerable release. Luxury to it is 180 mm, but it almost does not depend on the load, thanks to the rear self-absorbing self-absorbers Self-Levelizer.
With the corners of the Volvo Cross Country full order, and the scratches on the unpacked bumpers are almost imperceptible, although laundering the grungy plastic from the dirt is not easy. A little worse is the case with a lumen: the same 180 mm and also under the release of the rear axle, but only on the email machine - the system maintenance system is supplied for a fee. But the Volvo in front is not some kind of plastic spray protection, but a four-millimeter aluminum stove! Thanks to the tires with developed primers, the car costs only the front-wheel drive for quite a long time - in the absence of slipping, almost the entire torque is transmitted to the front wheels. The rear axle is connected by a viscous clutch with a certain delay when the front wheels are already lying to jump into the sand. In addition, there is a TRACS anti-test device, which plays the role of electronic blocking of inter-track differentials.
Sleep-free audi-ollroid tires do not threaten the danger, but also the coupling properties on the ground they are low. On a good road, the torque shares equally between the front and the rear axle, and in the case of slipping, the distribution of thrust adjusts the inter-axis differential of the increased friction of Torsen. It helps an EDS electronic lock, a slow-moving axle wheel. The main trump card is Ollroud - the ability to change the road lumen. In the very top of four positions under the engine compartment, 195 mm is gained, and in the rest of the places and at all 220-230 mm. By the way, peeking in front and behind the edge of powerful protection - spectacular butafory: it's just thin metal lining on the bumper! Another advantage is a durable and rigid body, which in diagonal hanging, unlike a pair of other machines, is absolutely not pulled out, which allows you to still easily close the doors.

Subaru Legacy made his debut in 1989, nine years later his appearance was updated. Available with sedan or wagon bodies, drive - front or full. The outback appeared in 1997 (in some Lancaster markets) formally - an independent model, in fact, the all-wheel drive universal, adapted for bad roads. Branded trait - Opposite gasoline engines with a volume of 2.0 (varying degrees of forsing); 2.5 or 3.0 liters. Gearboxes - five-speed mechanical (except 3.0 liters) or four-stage automatic.

+ Reasonable price, informative steering wheel, accurate reactions on the road, juicy sound engine.

- Elevating operation of the machine, large sows, modest sizes of the cabin.

In the model range, not sedans are sometimes updated, and extremely popular universals. For example, to change the 70th series of the 1996 sample in 2000, there was only a V70 wagon that uses the shortened S80 sedan platform. A little later, a volvo v70xc cross Country Cross Country was presented. Unlike the usual V70, which is produced with a fairly wide range of engines, both in the front and in all-wheel drive modifications, the Country Cross is equipped only with a complete drive and a 2.4 liter engine. The gearboxes are five-speed - mechanical or automatic.

+ Good noise insulation, spacious salon, high level of comfort, abundance of trunk transformation options.

-Ninformative steering wheel, inclined to overheating brakes.

In 1997, he was debuted by the front-wheel drive sedan Audi A6. Then, an A6 A6 University, A6 A6, A6, and finally audi-alrhroad, appeared in the interval. Ollrode is equipped with only the most powerful engines - 2,7 liters petrol or diesel 2.5 liters, aggregated with a six-speed mechanical or five-speed automatic transmission.

Clear behavior on the road, high smoothness, powerful engine, efficient brakes, rich equipment, very spacious interior, adjustable lumen.

High price, non-optimal dashboard configuration.

SUMMARY
Each car stands for its money: if Subaru Legacy Outback /\u003e Subaru Legacy Outback is a provocation, almost rally car, combined for public roads, Volvo Cross Country - a comfortable liner for long-range warriors with family and a bunch of equipment, then Audi-Ollroud - Athlete gentleman.

In the roof of Outback, two transparent hatches are lifting and sliding.

Under the intake of pipelines is stubborn by branded opposite Four.

Warmless door glasses - a characteristic feature of most Subaru cars.

The stepped slot makes it difficult to control the movement of the selector - to the touch it is difficult to do it.

The rear seat is divided into three parts in the proportion of 40/20/40, the lattice is lowered to protect passengers from above.

For rear passengers - special deflectors in racks.

Volvo V70XC AWD Cross Country
The central console is flat and huge as a wall.

A simpler and clear ventilation control panel is difficult to come up with.

Rare layout solution - the row five is located across.

 




Text / Yuri Tile
Photo / Alexander Polunin

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"