Test Drive Dodge Nitro since 2006 SUV

Directional explosion

You can see Nitro and is guaranteed to die from emotions at least in two cases: when this car suddenly jumps out on you walking from under the sign, the car, or the same feature draws in the rearview mirror. Here, accurately, the whole life takes place in an instant, as bad writers write. Moreover, this instant will certainly accommodate, in addition to fainting and microfarct, a retrospective kaleidoscope of pictures from now almost forgotten movies about rubber duckling or fever on the white strip.
Representatives of Dodge recommend calling this model, taking into account the rules of the English language about the open syllable - Naitro, and not Nitro. It is unlikely that the reinsurance from hypothetical confusion in the spirit of Bob Lutz, who knew, according to his own recognition, almost the entire slang in French, but still the disturbed appearance in the thesaurus of Canadian adolescents of the Ramobrose Lacrosse.
Perhaps there is another motive - to avoid unnecessary detonating, nitroglycerin associations. Is there a little in this imperfected from the worlds? However, a semi-promoted hint of a directional explosion, which should produce Nitro, clearly keeps in the mind of the Dodge marketers. Otherwise, how else to interpret the words executive director of Chrysler Group Thomas Hausha about the fact that the brave design Nitro is able to shake the market of medium-sized SUV?
In fact, the first thought, when Nitro randomly or deliberately bring his face, far from the topic SUV. Now the truck will move you - this is what it is called. This American truck: beautiful, powerful and merciless, as a terminator. Sport Utility In this case, it is possible to interpret except that the manner of a fool's fighter, sending rivals in the pit. Such Valuevsky physiognomy does not need even Kangurin. It seems that he has a bumper-chin with not plastic, but from cast iron. The same image works and a narrow headset (from the inside it seems that you look at the road through the boot). As for the huge ears of the side mirrors, they lack only broken cartilage for the stylistic effect. The similarity with wrestler dumplings would then be complete. In short, those who appreciate in SUV primarily brutality will be satisfied.
The fear of such a monster is fighting only by the method of horses. Need to approach it from the left side. The Nitro profile looks, firstly, much softer, secondly, not so high even on 20-inch wheels (depending on the version of the car is also extinguished in 16- and 17-inch lapties). Powerful Nitro Habius explains a lot on the road: it is quite stable and predicted in turns. Due to the relatively acute force for such equipment, 3.42 turns from the stop before the stop), has good maneuverability. By the way, the minimum diameter of the reversal of Nitro is 11.1 m.
Another subjective impression: this car can be any color, provided that this color is red. Probably since 1955, from the moment of the appearance of the Dodge La Femme, the Kozer Koker did not have such a value for the model. No wonder this shade of a sleek cherry is a good, winning and attractive - became company in recent years. At the press conference of journalists, even ink in the handles were the right red. Well, even though the red wine on the presentation dinner did not fit the trend, and gave the predictable result at the exit - the blue saliva, black g ... But, here it is - red wine. Black Nitro, continuing in advanced color, looks like a catatball. Anointed - like Land Rover Discovery 3 Challenge clone. White ... Well, white SUV is just a misunderstanding. The only thoughtful fate of such a vehicle is to undergo a stretching operation and become a Kirkorov or wedding limousine.
Dodge Nitro on off-road - actually the topic of a separate conversation. Only cars with a plug-in full-wheel drive NV143 will be supplied to Russia, which includes a handout without lower transmission. That is, I want - you can ride only on the rear wheels. And you need to rotate all four limbs. It is noteworthy that you can switch from mode to mode on the go and even at any speed. No stops, neutral and other old-fashioned jejit manipulations. The age of electronics, what you want, there was an explanation over us. Click on the button - you will receive the result: the torque is distributed between the axes in the proportion of 50:50.
Dry experiment - sideburn, gravel, light slope - showed that everything happens. Nitro rowed as head. Everything changed, it was worth complicating the conditions, having puzzled on a 30 percent rise with a conditional road surface in the form of a slider almost from the splashing clay. At a certain point (the dead is a completely appropriate word) of the lifting, we became clear to the learned recognition of the Chrysler Group engineers, that Nitro, of course, is not a real jeep and compare it with Cherokee wrong. We did not threaten the rack on the ears, yes we were not particularly afraid - Nitro security pillows are covered around the perimeter. But ditch on the sides were deep. From the shameful need to run over the tractor, only the skill of the partner, which turned off ESP and quietly, podging and using its own severity of the car deployed 180 degrees. We did not roll meters forty, and stupidly crawled together with clay, taking themselves as speculative, in Gogol spirit, conversations: would you go to that hill even some honest and right SUV?. They agreed on the fact that on the Bahu, we still do not go to Nitro, but for the country, albeit in the long suburbs, easily.
In the role of the country's cottage Nitro, by the way, has a number of indisputable advantages. First, it boasts the capacity of the railway container. The minimum volume of the trunk is 389 liters. With folded rear seats - it turns out almost 2000 liters. The baggage smallest is assigned to the salon slaves, of which the most affects the deep well between the front seats, covered on top of the sighter tray for the filler fish. Second dignity - the presence of Load'n'Ho loading site. This is a strong platform withsting a load of 181 kg (she did not even notice with my test jumps) and advanced by 457 mm. Extremely comfortable thing for the dirty Russian offseason, when the back of the car darkens faster than heroine armpits in Indian cinema. Finally, Nitro buyers with upholstery Yes Essentials (now very fashionable for the CHRYSLER Group models) can stop worrying about dirty implications from the shoes of your favorite tea, slumping divorces left by the dog, which was sick in a traffic jam on Yaroslavka, and treacherous traces from lipstick, appearing After a turbulent corporate party. A guarantee for a miracle-uphound manufacturer gives almost less than a guarantee against end-to-end corrosion. In short, even if you do not want to live forever and you do not need an eternal needle for primus, you still get it.
   
 
Dodge Nitro.
   
Gasoline engine, V6 / gasoline, V6 / diesel, 4-cylinder
Working volume (cube. Cm) 3700/3952/2768
Power (hp at rpm) 205 at 5200/260 at 6000/177 at 3800
Moment (nm at rpm) 314 at 4000/360 at 4000/460 at 2000
Corner full
4-speed gearbox, automatic / 5-speed, automatic / 5-speed, automatic
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4584/1856/1773
Mass Curb (kg) 1875-1970 / 1875-1945 / 1940-1995
Maximum speed (km / h) 190/202/182
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 10.3 / 8.5 / 10.5
Fuel consumption (medium, l / 100 km) 12.1 / 11.3 / 9.4
Price in Moscow from 30 900

Text Hassan Ganiev
Photo daimlerchrysler
 

A source: "Autopilot"