Test drive Ford Excursion 2000 - 2005 SUV
Tsar Mountain
Want to drive a truck and not open category C of rights? Want to have a bus and not open category D? Then buy Ford Excursion. According to our colleague who escaped from snow, rains and unstable financial climate in California, Ford Excursion passes past his house every five minutes. Passengers through darkened glass are not visible, and he cannot say exactly who is the main consumer of these machines in his city.
But it is known for sure that Excursion did not move out of the Russian roadside from the sunny highway. Before being in our salons, Ford Excursion crossed the polar circle - in Europe this car is sold only in Norway. And quite successfully: more than 500 cars are spent a year. They say that the Norwegians are very fond of dissecting a polar night on it long ago. With oil, snow and long nights in Russia, everything is in order - the time has come for Ford Excursion.
Kung Limited. The design of this monster is simple, like garden rakes: a staircase carrier, a spring suspension, unreasonable bridges. So it should be-the design of the Excursion is the basis of the Ford F-250 medium carrying capacity, which replaces the SIL-130 Americans. We have a kung with an autonomous stove on a diesel fuel on our ZIL and people hang a tablet. The Americans installed a normal body with leather seats and all pies on Ford F-250 and attached a modest Limited plate. Under all the pies, I understand the climatic installation with the remote controls spaced throughout the cabin, a radio with a 6-disks CD changer, adjustable front seats adjusted in all geometry with the geometry and changing the pedal. Radio with a CD changer and excellent acoustics (I note the absence of RDS-a typical American chip). But for the rear passengers there is a nest for headphones. There are all signs of a representative sedan, only collected on the chassis of a truck. In this regard, there are several questions for the manufacturer. For example, how are they not afraid to pass the air conditioner under the ceiling - will the condensation sharpen the roof metal in a year?
But nevertheless, the Ford Excursion is positioned as an SUV, and on the front console there is a 4H-4L switching handle. You can connect all -wheel drive on the move, but to switch to a reduced gear, you must stop and transfer the automatic transmission poker to the N. The front wheels in theory, in theory, turn on the differential lock automatically, but it can be done manually - it is sometimes more reliable. Five to six meters that need to be traveled so that automatic blocking works can become fatal for such a colossus. It seems that it happened to someone-in the tested car, the front bumper made of plastic is already pretty fragmented in the area of \u200b\u200bearrings for the towing cable. Based on this, we did not force Excursion on real off -road in the Russian sense - for example, in a dirty rut from the Kirovets tractor. If only because the Kirovts himself was not observed in the vicinity and there was no one in which case. And besides, it’s enough just to look at this car to understand: it is not for serious off -road, despite the huge torque of the motor and all -wheel drive with a reduced gear. Too large wheelbase and weight can play a very bad joke. Turning to a couple of good shots and the pleasure of our photographer in a sandy career, I realized - a couple of minutes and a helicopter will need to pull me out. 
This is not Africa. Yes, this is America. Ford Excursion is the same US symbol as chewing gum, a hamburger with cholesterol and bbw in white socks and sneakers. It amazingly combines the latest achievements of the automotive industry and the patriarchal way, bequeathed by old Henry Ford. On the one hand, the steering wheel, ABS, ventilated discs in front and rear, parking sensors and cruise control. On the other hand, a traditional automatic transmission poker, a compass in the center of the on -board computer, a phenomenal amount of stamping for any container with liquid and rather cheap plastic in the decoration of the cabin. It seems that the front panel generally lives its own life when Excursion is transplanted through the Russian field, plowed back during the food program of Mr. Gorbachev. And here is another typical American trifle. The jack of the jack and the cylinder key are located under the hood, almost on the radiator (that they, in such a trunk, are not a place 
found?). And next to them is an impressive inscription that prevents not too smart drivers that you need to grab these details with their hands carefully - they can warm up from the motor and burn the gentle driver's hands. But the final realization that this is a real American car comes to the driver and passengers later. Then, when Excursion Ring Roads slides into the curved lanes of Uncle Gilyai or to a clearance, tacked by the horses of the Tatars Khan Baty.
Strong but light. Firstly, this is an amazing lightness with which the power of the steering wheel works. Where are there European cars. His
indeed, you can rotate with one finger. And even the child will cope with this car with this car, squeezing the same Hamurgger into the other. Moreover, the radius of the turn, despite the small number of rulings of the steering wheel from one extreme point to the other, the Excursion is quite small. In all European cars, the steering wheel is more rigid, but the reactive force on Excursion is felt quite weakly. At first glance, this is a minus. From the second - a big plus. My wife, with the experience of driving a car for a little more than two years, categorically refused to get out of the steering wheel, after she drove to Excursion a little more than 100 km along the Moscow ring. Says a very easy to drive a car. 
Secondly, Excursion, like all American cars, is susceptible to rather strong pitching-like a sailor who went ashore after a half-year autonomous voyage, he smoothly and imposingly steps on land and rinses the driver and passengers who spread out in spacious seats and look at others Through darkened glass. This is a clear influence of spring dependent suspension, which Americans stubbornly do not want to refuse. In representative sedans, such as Cadillac, the body quickly comes to rest. And on Ford Excursion 
the supporting design for a long time sways to the beat of its own thoughts about the imperfection of Russian roads - a huge mass of unsaved body affects. He is also heavily experienced and minor troubles like a lying policeman that was spread out behind the gates of our editorial office on Vrubel Street. A tougher, small Focus swallows them since the summer. And in Excursion this frivolous, at first glance, the obstacle is given to every detail of the suspension, and it seems that the whole car is shaking with indignation. Despite the fact that the unfortunate cop has long been behind. 
Deep pump. Undoubtedly, the advertising slogan Ford Excursion - a symbol of your superiority - accurately reflects the essence of this car. You can not remember the use of turn signals during rebuilding, since everything is inferior to the road. But accept good advice: stock up on rocking pills so as not to lose all your superiority along the road. And in order to finally stand out from those who move along the road on cars, a couple of which can be placed in the Ford Excursion trunk, stock up
also its own oil well. In the day of the test, ExcurSion, without choked, erased 150 liters of gasoline. Subsequent actions with the calculator revealed the average fuel consumption - 28 liters per hundred. A rather serious question, who wants to feed such a car in daily operation mode? How not to recall Gulliver in the country of Liliputs: at first he was a beloved and very funny toy. But the country was small, and the reserves of the edible man of the mountain was cleaned there very quickly. For which they tried to elementarily kill him with the involvement of the army and reservists. But this is another fairy tale. Our Russian, about Ford Excursion is just beginning. Text Nikolay Kachurin, photo Alexey Ilyin
The car is provided for the test Prevox, (095) 370-5000.
Source: "Autopilot"
