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Dodge Nitro arrived in Russia with 4 liter V6

True, he and old horses were enough with an excess, but then the case of principle. How quickly became the usual design of this fantomas! Even recently, he seemed to be bold, and now no one escorts the nitro with a look, except for the fans of the brand, who ached a new nameplate R / T.
Shanging his head about the doorway, which is no longer a hole in the birdhouse, I amger on the seat. Most of all, this campaign reminds me of a judicial tower for a beach volleyball pillow, it is so high that the legs of a low driver almost dangle in the air. Then he drove on the track and pressed the pedal until it stopped.
 
Even such a car is capable of exploits. But it is not created for them. And the point here is not in the suspension: it just does not have a lower transfer
Fountain of impressions sprayed me from head to head. And not me alone! Already at the speed of 100 km / h, the photographer left the car. He came out right on the move: A loved one of the German school could not stand the vakhanalia of American automotive thought. After 120 km / h, when Dodge began to flush the strip with an amplitude of one and a half meters, after the photo artist came out. Next Nitro was driving one.
He was good. Nobody is laid in the ear on the course stability, which is absent in it as a class. There were no perturbed shouts about the ship's ships and the bodies of the body. The paintings did not spoil the size of the pedal assembly, where the places are both in the children's bucket, and about the control buttons on the panel, half of which are not pulled out with an elongated hand.

 
The interior looks better than in a less powerful version (3.7 liters). Basically, at the expense of beautiful and unusually plump leather seats
Still, it is a pity that I moved to Dodge Nitro with Volvo XC90. Here Igor Gubar came out of his Hyundai Tucson, rolled on Red Fantomas and said: Not bad! The reference point is important for such a car.
Fate Terminator
The four-liter Nitro has an R / T index. This equipment also includes leather finishing and 20-inch alloy wheels. Plus some changes in the plastic body kit. The main thing is naturally the engine. What does it differ from the less powerful motor volume of 3.7 l, with which Nitro is cheaper at $ 600011 000, depending on the configuration? Cylinder collapse angle of 60 degrees against 90. Four valves per cylinder against two. With a capacity of 260 liters. with. at 6000 rpm against 205 liters. with. With 5200 rpm and torque of 360 nm against 314. Another important detail: 3.7-liter motor was installed with a four-stage automatic transmission, and the 4-liter appeared already with a five-speed. True, this is not a completely new engine, but a modified version of the 3.5-liter unit used by Chrysler.

 
This V-shaped engine is the fifth branch of the Motor Building
But Dodge Nitro R / T is the first car in my practice, which has no red zone in the tachometer. How much can you squeeze out of you? Several times I was chosen to the mark of 170 km / h, on which Nitro suddenly dropped the turnover and moved into a gentle mode. Ponastili fuses What is this fantomas, which is so trembling for its iron? Or is he, though it takes care of my security? Touching.
Does it make sense in buying a Dodge Nitro R / T for 1,300,000 rubles instead of the basic version? The difference in capacity is obvious. As you already understood, with such a chassis it rather harms, but it does not matter. Such machines are chosen by heart. And if you are crazy enough to buy Nitro, then go to the end. As the poet said, love to love so much, empty so empty.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova
 
 
 

A source: 4x4 magazine [October / 2008]