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What Russian does not like quick ride?
Only one who is already deprived of the rights for such pranks! For those who are still in the game and is experiencing fate, as in Russian roulette, these attack aircraft sports crossovers with full drive, powerful motors and steep characters were born.

And to resist before temptation is impossible. So we are the people: all the time we walk on the razor blade and play on the edge of the foul, and therefore the car should be not only fast, charismatic and comfortable, but also safe. Although the last argument is always in the shadows: fatalism is also a trait of Russian.

Volvo XC60 T6 price, rub. from 1 990,000 Max. Power, hp 285 Max. Speed, km / h 210 acceleration 0100 km / h 75

Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 price, rub. from 2 633 796 Max. Power, hp 272 Max. Speed, km / h 230 acceleration 0100 km / h 6.7

Audi Q5 2.0TFSI Price, rub. 1 703 000 Max. Power, hp 211 Max. Speed, km / h 222 acceleration 0100 km / h 7.2

Infiniti EX35 price, rub. 1 825 200 Max. Power, hp 302 Max. Speed, km / h 231 acceleration 0100 km / h 6.9


Guardian angel
Volvo XC60.
Looking at the new XC60, the willy-unilietes penetrate with respect for the VOLVO designers: they have learned that, and they have learned to create beautiful cars, over the past decade solid getting into the apple! It also applies to the study of interiors. Obviously the concern's desire to get into the premium segment, but without fanaticism and inflection. The only options with which XC60 is stupid in the range, all sorts of sensors and radar, stitching, distance from ahead of the car and blind areas on the sides.

And, I must say, it was on this test that I had an episode, after which I was seriously regretted that I didn't go at that moment on Volvo. Before Toyota Corolla, which moved in front of me on one of the Moscow streets, something happened, and exactly at this moment, as for evil, I was distracted by a bright showcase of the second confusion store, it was enough for Mercedes Glk to overtake the Japanese sedanchik and defeated him a fila . GLK damage was less fatal, but it calms weakly. At Volvo, the accident would certainly manage to avoid, because the electronics is very warned, and the time won probably would have enough to stop the car. In general, jokes jokes, but with each of us this trouble can happen, and on this background, the Volvo policy aimed at the development of active safety systems no longer looks like a paranoia of a person suffering from managing.

Again, I was lucky. During our test, it was possible to travel on two modifications of Volvo XC60: with a gasoline engine T6 and Turbodiesel D5. Believe it, these are two different cars! If with the first Volvo is light and movable, literally boils over the road, then with the second yes, there is an acceleration, but everything happens through the power, coming a song on the throat. In addition, the torque stumbles about a thoughtful automatic, and often accelerated it too late, typical anecdotes about slightly inhibited scandins are immediately remembered.

Well, under the curtain a few words about the suspension. Traditionally, for Volvo, there is no it on the XC60. Claims do not occur only on the perfect asphalt, on the broken roads everything flies and does not work out the blows of fate. Repeat that not only XC60, but also XC90, S80, V50, and, slightly to a lesser extent, XC70, suffer from incontinence of wheels, XC70, so this is a distinctive feature of the brand from which, apparently, it is proposed to accept. Visi Mo, so that Volvo owners do not drive through bad roads, otherwise, how would they not come out.


The interior is first of all hands, and in the second functional


The instrument panel is simple and laconic, all useful information is displayed in the wells.


The navigation screen in the photo is turned off. Management is assigned to the remote remote

Pampas
Outside the asphalt Volvo XC60 feels good thanks to the impressive road clearance for this class, and the storms of the snowy virgin do not cause difficulties to have overall roots with Land Rover Freelander. However, more serious off-road car is radically contraindicated. When creating Volvo, designers did not even think about off-road expores and strongly limited the geometric patency with spectacular plastic body kit. Not in favor of the XC60 says the complete absence of auxiliary electronics.

Hooked
The legendary hanging central console, the Volvo chip, which appeared in a few years earlier on the S40 / V50, played a cruel joke with me. Assessing the convenience of the shelf formed behind her, I put a wallet there with all documents and forgotten it safely. For the next search for documents, a day was searched for a day in all test cars and would definitely not find if he accidentally did not remember how hid it.

Volvo XC60 T6.
Engine
Tibenzine, P6 Working volume, CM32953 Max. Power, hp For rpm.285 / 5600 Max. Moment, nm at rpm / min.400 / 1500-4800
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h210 acceleration 0100 km / h7.5
general information
Fuel consumption (Cycle), l / 100 km11,9 Wheel base, mm2774 Length, mm4628 Width, mm1891 Height, mm1713 Mass Extra / full, kg1872 / 2440

Fireball
Infiniti EX35
What will happen if we crossed the horns and hedgehog? You remember child joke: one hundred meters barbed wire! Here and with Infiniti Ex, resembling FX35 and carrying the G35 sports sedan genes. It seems like a crossover, but the ground clearance is like a car. 145 mm from the asphalt to the bottom of the illusions about off-road abilities are not born.

I'm close here! Even taking into account the absence of obvious flams in ergonomics, only a man of medium height without drops of excess weight can accommodate. A more powerful body machine will hide from all sides. The head risks to get out into the hatch on the roof can, is it a large-scale model FX for students of elite universities?

There is no practicality to talk about: On the second row of seats with decent spatial comfort, only children will spread, but where are the three children from a sophomore? By the way, the trunk is also one of the most modest in our quartet. All this is true, however, to evaluate Infiniti Ex from a utilitarian point of view, of course, it is possible, but it is not entirely correct. He is another for another: the car is built around the motor and for the sake of the motor. Only one who will not be able to realize the potential of 302 horses will continue to grow oldly and impracticity after the trip.

When the streets lies snow or asphalt with reagents, cope with EX is not as easy as with other participations of our comparison. Motor, disrupting the car from a place, like a gust of the wind, causes a feeling of natural disaster: Infiniti will drop with each energetic start. The system of stabilization in its struggle with demolitions and drifts allows tangible slides, and the steering wheel rushes out of the hands. It does not compensate for the slippery coatings of the engine's power and well-tuned, in a sporty collected suspension that makes the control of acute, and the reactions are fast. However, it's right all that is only until that time, until you guess to translate the car in the snow mode. His activation all puts into its places, making EXs simple and stopped.


The interior is kindly and ergonomic, but how closely here!


The machine breaks away Euphoria from the motor, stumbling and thinking


Devices beautiful and informative real interior decoration

Pampas
EX35 Frankly passenger car. PURE ESP highway settings explain complete defenselessness with the slightest diagonal hanging, even move through the snow brush, remaining after the harvesting equipment, is sometimes problematic. Bumpers are low above the road, and the clearance is such that even in the snowy courtyards all the time cling to the bottom in the rods. And there is no guarantee that you don't have to do fitness with a shovel.

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Hanging for the luxury brand punctures with the quality of the interior details imposed a print on the perception of the car. Against the background of the impeccable part of the GLK and Q5 details, on the test infiniti, we found a driver's ashtray that swamped in a discontinuous position and a falling off inner handle of the fifth door closing.

Aftertaste
Infiniti Ex Car for the driver, and therefore he left the most vivid driving impression. The machine is designed for dry asphalt highways, winding tracks and mountain serpentines. But, unfortunately, the ride on it happened in Moscow and the Moscow region on unclean after snowfall roads. This is the same as walking on the rink in pointes!

Infiniti EX35
Engine
Tibenzine, V6 Working volume, CM33498 Max. Power, hp For rp min.302 / 6800 Max. Moment, nm at rpm / min.341 / 4800
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h231 acceleration 0100 km / h69
general information
Fuel consumption (mix. Cycle), l / 100 km12.3 Wheel base, mm2800 Length, mm4635 Width, mm1803 Height, mm1600 Mass Extra, kg1905 / 2295

Diplomat
Audi Q5.
The last decade with the advent of each new Audi model evil tongues of lucky about the crisis of the designers genre from Ingolstadt so all the models are similar to each other. The new Q5 is no exception, no new features and finds in it are no, no matter, everything is familiar before boredom! Even compared to the two-generation of the Audi Allroad genre of the first generation, the car is easier, boring and landed.

The interior is also performed in the spirit of all other Audi: Compare with A4 or, for example, with A6. There are practically no differences, everything is familiar and comfortable as home slippers. A more impeccable salon for convenience and ergonomics than the Audi, not to find, and from goodness they are not looking for, why change something?

But the habits of the mini-crossover were puzzled. It seems that the reaction is clear and accurate, the machine is controlled by instinctively, literally the power of the view, as if it is a continuation of its own body, but the driver does not trust, an unconnected stabilization system does not allow you to enjoy a perfectly tuned chassis. It's a shame! After all, even the Limousine Audi A8L allows the cracked driver to create with him everything that the soul, and Q5

Pleasant toy The ability to set up the nature of the machine for itself. All is amenable to the adjustment: and the stiffness of the suspension, and the sharpness of the steering reactions, and even the sensitivity of the accelerator pedal!

Dense, even a bit of a virulent suspension may like the driver, but it is unlikely to like passengers with a weak vestibular apparatus on domestic roads shakes mercilessly. However, from the entire four, the Audi is able to dance on all the money on the cafeteria, a graving or a paved road, pleased with the verified suspension and clear handling.

Flame heart, two-liter turbo engine. What the most modest working volume is lucky very confidently, albeit not so temperamentally like the opponents. Unfortunately, a closer time for our comparison, the engine 3.2 FSI to Russia has not yet been brought. The seven-step automaton is lightning, in general without delays and thoughts, shoots the transmission of the magnificent transmission! And the main machine is not demanding demanding to the level of driver's skill, and you want to ride it every day, occasionally burning.


German is German, the interior has been worked out to the smallest things both in style and ergonomics


Audi instrument panel informative, but the numbers on the speedometer scale too much


Work preselective S-Tronic box is inimitable, the best transmission in the classroom!

Pampas
It is surprising, but traditionally long for all AUDI front OTOs on Q5 is designed within the framework of decency and is not a radical limiter of geometric passability. In addition, electronics, imitating interstole blocking, is not bad. The natural limiter on the off-road robot leaning the S-Tronic robot to overheating: the classic automatic out of the asphalt is preferable. But the plastic defense of the bottom turned out to be too fragile, only debris hung on a test car.

Hooked
Audi motors are famous for the increased consumption of engine oil. When I first discovered the trunk, immediately drew attention to a half-empty liter canister with synthetics. Soon the on-board computer brought a formidable inscription on the display that the oil level in the engine fell below the minimum and should be adding 1 liter. Keep your ear elder and take a stock with you, not in each village selling high-quality synthetic engine oil!

Audi Q5.
Engine
Tibenzine, P4 Working volume, CM31984 Max. Power, hp For rpm.211 / 4300-6000 Max. Moment, nm at rpm / min.350 / 1500-4200
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h222 acceleration 0100 km / h7,2
general information
Fuel consumption (Piece. Cycle), l / 100 km8.5 Wheel base, mm2807 Length, mm4629 Width, mm1880 Height, mm1653 Mass Extra., Kg1740 / 2320

White Beppiem
Mercedes GLK 350.
Slam the driver's door in the parking lot in front of the business center with a hard and clear weaponite clasion, you touch the staircase by the elevator on the fifth floor, hang a coat in the wardrobe, turn on the computer and waiting for its downloads to throw out the back of the chair, unwittingly looking at the clock and You think that in nine o'clock, in spite of everything, you will hear again how the heavy door slammed you, fit the tight outdoor pedal of the accelerator and, rotating a chubby steering wheel, cut off the familiar route to the house. And there if it will be at least a plug, at least free traffic, you will gladly wrap at a Glk odometer, a couple of tens of kilometers of positive emotions that increase men's self-esteem.

Soul! Interior as an antique dresser: solid corners and rectangular forms and no flirting in favor of wives, mother-in-law and girlfriends. Do not like it! But after all, to convenience, do not find fault, well, what instead of turn signals constantly turn on cruise control, and it is not easy to understand with a multifunctional joystick. By the way, it is absolutely not clear why after a positive experience with a stealless location of the ACAP selector on ML and GL, on GLK, he again took a place between the front chairs that it became less convenient, it is undoubtedly, moreover, you can now miss the transfer in two bills Lucky

The course of the car is weighty, it feels the severity of the present iron. Acceleration occurs assertive, but smoothly, without jerks and fuss. On Mercedes you can ride and quickly, and aggressively, and even get pleasure from it, but the desire to fuss will be held by itself, and the atmosphere is very fast enough.

If on the same Infiniti and Audi it is very difficult to stay from the temptation to break the speed mode, then on GLK you can travel all my life and never seriously exceed the allowed limits! And, by the way, despite such a nordic character, it was the GLK that was the most gone and predictable on Ice Hydshka, remaining extremely projected and managed at any speed. Electronics, if you disable it, corrects the actions of the driver only if it is already obvious that the sliding is unmanaged.

But I expected more from smoothness. The feeling of comfort is achieved by the fact that Mercedes ignores small irregularities, but on larger suspension it will still be sick. The most common irregularities of large cities of rubber laying policemen GLK crosses with an unsolonged rumble, even the passenger Mercedes this exercise makes better.


Rare case when ergonomics and practicality did not fall victim


The best instruments on informativeness, all ingenious simply!


7-speed automatic machine is very prompt, it is a pity that the selector is not installed on the steering wheel.

Pampas
GLK very confidently furrows the expanses of snowy virgin, climbing the slides and copes with diagonal hanging, limits off-road talents, traditionally, geometry. Road clearance is small, and developed plastic plumage is too vulnerable. By the way, for GLK is also provided and the optional off-road package is not entirely superfluous, as the experience of testing senior models shows.

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Stunning study of interior details. Even the more expensive Mercedes models of the latest generations have any noticeable flaws in the selection of materials or in their quality. GLK does not deserve the slightest reproach, and if parallel-perpendicular style falls in taste, then the more strong-quality salon is not found in the class.

Mercedes-Benz GLK 350
Engine
Type gasoline, V6 Working volume, CM33498 Max. Power, hp for rpm.272 / 6000 Max. Moment, nm at rpm / min.350 / 2400-5000
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km / h230 acceleration 0100 km / h6.7
general information
Fuel consumption (Piece. Cycle), l / 100 km10,6 Wheel base, mm2755 Length, mm4528 Width, mm1840 Height, mm1689 Mass Extra., Kg1755 / 2280

Outside
Pay more than one and a half million rubles and another year ago, the average-sized premium crossovers personified all the most of what each self-respecting businessman had to strive. To live outside the city, have a big family and, most importantly, engage in dynamic and promising business. That's what such cars needed. Today everything looks far away. Although crises pass, and how the average business will meet inevitable revival of business activity, to a large extent depends on the quality of his means of movement. Yes, and will meet, as in the pre-crisis times, by clothes. In this regard, the VOLVO appearance is most preferred, which is fresh and depart from the previous stereotypes. Although in place and letter V, which is well read in the composition of the face, and its rays are also dynamically scattered along the windows line on the side. Now this image complements the trapezoidal form of silver sleds, which decorate the volitional Scandinavian chin. Of course, also memorable headlights. Audi radiator facing shield is used in its style for a long time, and it unmistakably works on the image of stability, as, however, and the decorative Mercedes lattice, but in his appearance argues two starts: soft and plastic with hard and flat. One thing wins, then the other side, from which the image clearly loses its integrity. This will not say about Infiniti, which fits pushing exactly the unity of the shape, its plastics and details. It is even difficult to allocate something one of this ensemble that you can accept for the branded detail. Brand all! On the side of the Japanese car and the most non-functional for the category SUV silhouette, but I do not want to think about it. Contrast to this is a box-shaped side of GLK, where the shape strictly follows the utilitarian function. Rear is leading laconicism and elegance of Audi and the traditions of the luxurious rear Lights Volvo.

Inside
The driver start in the composition of the interiors of this class is responsible for the respective details: and the steering wheel, and the instruments become important carriers of signs of signature. So, on the pillow of the steering wheel, the Audi shield is printed, and the Volvo will recall the Literature of Volvo. There is also a pretty clur of seats, on the same topic and soaring console. Mercedes inside is also straightforward as outside. But whole. The Infiniti style is traditionally built on the details that are masterfully located on a symmetric and in a common unpaired instrument panel.

Summary

1 PLACE
Mercedes-Benz GLK 350
+ Very balanced car without explicit flaws
Design for amateur

2ND PLACE
Audi Q5.
+ Comfortable and thoughtful interior, good handling
Hard suspension

3RD PLACE
Volvo XC60.
+ Security question has been erected into square, verified style, excellent motor
Running suspension

4th place
Infiniti EX35
+ Very balanced car without explicit flaws
Design for amateur

Summary
You probably thought why we all brought to the question of deprivation of rights. Everything is simple: in Russia, as you know, the roads are not very good, signs are not very reasonable, and the markup is not visible everywhere and not always. And it is the charged crossovers that the best weapons of fighting with the second Great Russian will hit the roads, which means that you are deliberately fell! Well, it is impossible on Infiniti EX to fly 40 km / h, circling the pits and waiting, when the zone of the sign of the overtaking is prohibited. Patience sooner or later inevitably burst, and what will happen next, we will somehow tell about it in another material. EX35 provocateur, the most hooligan car in our test. And the most faithful way to transfer to the scooter for the next 4-6 months, the good summer is soon. The second in the ranking is definitely Audi Q5, he has blood colder, character is stricter, but the traction for flights in a dream and in reality is obvious, and the most pleasant speeds lie markedly above prescribed in traffic rules. The Volvo XC60 with the T6 engine confidently steps behind it, he pulls off the pilot with care and active safety systems, but it is too light to rise in nature, and it is eager for spanners, which is not found in the framework of the Russian Federation. So, someday anyway there is no no, no, they will sink and unscrew the gush to the failure of the engine shouting. Well, the rating is rated in essence, but very calm down the Mercedes GLK narrow, whose accelerator pedal, having a very elastic spring, is rare, and therefore the fuel consumption of the GLK is negligible for a 3.5-liter motor. A wonderful car in the country, where the presumption of guilt also reigns and the courts do not know how to make excuses. There is no power supply, but there are no provocations. All upside down.

Text Alexey Mochalov, Alexander Antonov
 

Source: Cars