Test Drive Chevrolet Captiva since 2011 Crossover
Magic story about new Chevrolet Captiva
Capped Chevrolet Captiva has a chance to entertain a bored family man, offering him a diesel and a manual box as part of the magic session General Motors on the transformation of existing realities ...
South of Russia fabulous place. That only is the building with the inscription North Caucasian Nanotechnology Center, by which we drove from the airport. And the local hotel advertising is a solid hotel for serious people as if sued Pelevin's pages. Are they seriously or not? You can guess, but it's better to perceive from the very beginning as a fairy tale.
Lost youth.
You cannot call this new design youth drive. Just impossible
Outside roads.
Swollen low front of the parkelor kills every desire to try his strength
Cheap and quiet
There was a snake to go to Kiev and there are people. But when he took to his princess, the prince went to Nikita Kozhemyak. Only Nikita could defeat the snake. Three journalists including the author drove in the updated Chevrolet Captiva in the Krasnodar Earth and listened to the voice of Radio Cossack-FM radio from the speakers. Do you know what is amazing? We drove in a cheap crossover, and noise insulation in it was perfect. No extraneous sounds at a speed of 60 km / h, nor even at 120. The words of fairy tales sounded as clear as if we were sitting in the theater: Nikita Kozhemyak was a simple craftswoman. Seeing the prince, he goes to beat the snake refused. Then came five thousand orphans and persuaded Nikita to go to the cave. We, too, in some way drove in a similar direction, because on the way there were constantly tourist advertising posters of the Cave of a primitive person. Excursions, sometimes even with the sculptures of Neanderthals in full growth.
Many space, good selection of motors and gearbox, plus 19 inch discs and seven-seed version
Correction of Aura.
General Motors Parashchikov joined us to the new image of Chevrolet Captiva. The crossover is decided to get rid of a boring family flying and add it to drive and positive. The sun has almost gone. On the right was the Black Sea, on the left of the cliff, around the resort area with a sign of a romantic outlet sauna, billiards. The best way to entertain a family man, than to plunge it into the southern rampant, is not yet invented. The radio in the meantime continued to broadcast: Nikita began to fight the snake, and he says: why fight, let's share possessions. Nikita agreed. They shared the land, and when the snake began to divide the ocean, Nikita took and drowned him.
National Salonian. The front panel is completely devoid of any memorable features and overwhelmed with buttons.
In accordance with the new image of Chevrolet Captiva, the buyer must lead an active lifestyle, ride water skiing, windserph and water bike, swim under water, ride a mountain bike. We also offered all these entertainment, but we left in Abrau-Durso to tasting. Because how much parachute is neither jumping, the aura will not change the car. From reality will not leave anywhere. The fairy tale also tried to write good for children. And what happened? You see. The snake took up only when he was a princely daughter, and the strategy of Kozhemäki to restore order resembles excerpts from today's news forces. The appearance of Chevrolet Captiva tried to transform during restyling. The manufacturer has kovned with headlights, anterior grille, even new disks turned around. I wanted to get something in the spirit of an active lifestyle, but it turned out whether it was more than it was supported.
Jury benches. The average comfort passengers is provided, isn't it a pillow flat
There is an orgasm
And yet the orgasm is achievable. Not at the expense of inappropriate design, but using a diesel version with a manual box. Truly incendiary equipment. Discussing a fairy tale that sounded on the air, we distracted and drove into some mountain debursions, being kilometers 40 from the hotel on a deserted winding road. I left the third gear and, radiating delight, fited into the bends of the canvas repeating the profile of the gorge. Diesel issues 184 horsepower and paired with a six-speed mechanic accelerates a crossover to hundreds for 9.6 seconds. Then, when the next day I moved to a gasoline version with a machine gun, the emotions quickly fucked. All other configurations also lost with 2.4-liter, and with a 3-liter engine, and on mechanics, and on the machine. The CHEVROLET automatic box is quite modern, but far from sparkling perfection. The three-liter gasoline motor is not bad, it is able to overclock the crossover to 100 km / h in 8.6 seconds, but its advantages are fully manifested on the highway, during protracted ovengon.
Off-road we were not afraid of the road. Maybe it's not by chance? Restyling Captiva is decorated with too low plastic skirt under the front bumper. In the rough terrain it is a one thing is disposable. In addition, forced locking the coupling of the full drive is not provided, everything is done automatically. Good night, little Kazakhat, finished the leading evening children's show. Fairy tale.
Lena. The transformation of the cabin is the most infertility, but the trunk is fully applied by volume
CAREFULLY! Technical details
Chevrolet Captiva is equipped with an ITCC drive system (Intelligent Torque Controlled Coupling Intelligent Torque Distribution Management Coupling) Japanese JTEKT manufacturer. The same system is used on the latest generations of Toyota RAV4 cars and Opel Antara.
Its main components are the two couplings electromagnetic control and hydraulic multi-part. Thanks to electronic control, they change the distribution of torque between the front and rear wheels. The system has an instantaneous response to changing conditions of movement and prevents the emergence of additional load in the transmission, which may appear, for example, with a hard connection of the wheels of both bridges. Under normal conditions, Captiva is an ordinary front-wheel drive car, which means the open state of the rear axle drive clutch. But if the electronic system determines the need for its connection, then the coupling for 100 milliseconds will redistribute the torque between the front and rear bridges. Such a redistribution is possible in the range from 100: 0 to 50:50.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of the manufacturer
A source: 4x4 magazine [September / 2012]
