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New Cadillac SRX

If you squat and jump, as well as ride with your eyes closed, then you will not find any differences in the new Cadillac SRX from the old. The first impression when looking at the new Cadillac SRX: why did they make a disheveled Opel Antara from a normal car?

They could come up with something not so frivolous, for example, an unaccounted Volvo XC90 or drunk VW Touareg, in extreme cases, the angry Lexus RX370, but it looks, of course, from certain angles. Say, if you approach the car in front, about three quarters, and, jumping, look half a meter above the ground. Or sit in the back, looking, looking directly at the rear lights. But if you decide to approach and look in the forehead, then you will be scared. Something like this is experienced by a man sitting in a restaurant and watching the girl he likes, seeing only a small part of her appearance, details like a hip line, neck, and wrists of his hands. He thinks: what a beauty, you need to send her a bottle of champagne! But when she turns Anfas, the fan is choked on an Omar and pierces a straw for a cocktail nostril, because he sees Sergey Zverev.

Royal and Iceberg
In general, the new Cadillac SRX is Marlene Dietrich, but still more Lika MS and Maxim Galkin. I think that the brain of the old people of such a cocktail is not able to withstand, so you will be more likely young. Or those who do not see the difference between the above characters. I remember the old Cadillac SRX. He was on our test. This car would have made up a good couple and businessman who was driven after the image, and an architect who wants to expose his design addictions, and a lady with a crocodile handbag and a mantle, but without specific classes, and a black rape with a gun and drug. He looked like Stels attack aircraft, and a sharpened iceberg, and electronic piano.


The top of the ergonomics and designer delighted by a liquid crystalline multimedia screen extended from the front panel. Convenient thing

It is a pity that he fell victim to an idiotic marketing that makes manufacturers make the design of all models without exception every three years. And not only outside, but also inside. It is better not to look at a new absurd front panel with disgusting climate adjustment. A bunch of buttons are scattered in random order, without any concept of taste and ergonomics.

The photographer closed his eyes
But something from the old Cadillac SRX in it remains, if not in appearance, then in the habits for sure. It is still quiet and comfortable here. And this is an unusually light and pleasant steering wheel! Taking it like using a good feathers, a pen, which literally floats over the paper. And how smoothly the suspension works! Not only softly lucky on even asphalt, but also does not stumble on the tubercles. I drove into frozen soil and instinctively prepared for hard torture in front of twenty -inch discs stood ice growths. Our photographer Alexander Man, with a deep trepidation of the cars and does not tolerate excess violence in relation to the mechanisms, pressed into the seat and closed his eyes. But Cadillac brought. In general, this hotel outwardly is far from metropol, but the pile of carpets is still the same fluffy and mattresses are softer than water. The smoothness at the level of the business class sedan is provided with active shock absorbers.


There is no blocking of a full -wheel drive clutch and there is no assistant during descent. There is only a function of turning off the stabilization system

One wheel all the thrust
Cadillac SRX was not just made more compact, but also reduced the volume to the motor. There was 3.6 liters, it became 3. In addition to the technology of direct fuel injection, the three -liter engine is equipped with a system for changing the phases of gas distribution. A new generation ELSD is now responsible for all -wheel drive. Together with the imitators of inter -long locks, this technology allows up to 100 percent of the thrust to be transferred to one wheel. However, on a more or less severe off-road, the driver has only the opportunity to turn off ESP. There is no locking of the coupling, there is no assistant when descending from the hill. However, the front bumper is so low, and the road clearance is so miserable with its 179 mm that there will be no desire to get into the mud.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [March 2011]