Ford Explorer test drive since 2005 SUV

Russian field for American

He was next to us in the most pleasant days and in the most difficult cases, he survived with us many kilometers of unfriendly domestic paths. At the same time, he did not give up, his pioneer spirit did not flinch even once. And all his bridges are still working. A combat vehicle for civilian adventures. Workhide. Hello to you, Ford Explorer.
Finally, our Ford Explorer remained on the road in a very narrow company. One fine day, the streets became somehow wider and much more beautiful-they almost disappeared from the Kadannikovsky workshop for the production of genetic mutants.
 
And the whole thing is in the teachings of Darwin: all who are weaker (the option - deeper) must die first - for example, from a lack of energy in a hypothermia. Finally, a cleansing frost sank into Moscow, and everyone who could not start, one beautiful morning cleared our roads from failure areas of evolution. And on the other hand, which the creator created a car in a fit of a single act of creation, it is. In the meantime, we were lucky: salmon spawns precisely with red caviar, and Ford Explorer starts at minus 20 degrees of Moscow Celsius without any conversation. Judging by the evacuators stretching along empty roads, not everyone survived these moments. Even initially Scandinavian cars. But you never know what - suddenly there is poor -quality gasoline, the infidel oil was flooded ... But we will tap the tree, which is not inside our Explorer, so far it does not bother us.
 
At the beginning of the year, all these ten senseless days of holidays, sagging between the Gregorian calendar and Julian, are a good time to check all the pleasures of increased and reduced 4x4 modes. They experienced eighty kilometers from Moscow on the Nikolsky state farm field, when the main one and, as it turned out, the only road leading from the village blocked the trac that had crawled from the icy Mountain. The path stood there for eight hours, and if someone in the village at that time would have gathered, for example, to give birth, he would have to be tight. The machine operator Vanya on a loaf said that there is one road - through the field along the forest. You are smiling in vain, a loaf - she is UAZ ambulance - one of the most passable Russian cars. We believed him with difficulty and sat in the spacious salon of Explorer, peering around as red lights jump on the border of the forest on the endless Russian field. The lights soon became white. Then again red, then white again. Then they went out. The machine operator Vanya arrived on his loaf on the very bridges.
What to do, we switched our bridges and slowly and slowly began to go down the mountain to pull out the whole herd. Of course, frosty crumbly snow is not at all what exploers love: even at low speed, the car must be very carefully kept in the path that you consider the rut. And most importantly - do not rush anywhere. Step to the right, step to the left is shooting, because no one will pull out such a colossus except the tractor, and all the tractor drivers drink from Catholic Christmas, delighting the nicknames and schismatics. But this is how the all -wheel drive UAZ with Ivan drove off the rut. I had to pull under the virtual toothbrush of anti-Americanists who filled the Russian Internet zone, like the Leninist room of the Chapaevsky division. They pulled out lightly!
But they themselves didn’t dare to meddle further - the devil knows how to crumble under the tires of the old Boil our white snowball, opening the beast of state farm manure ...
 
So we tested Ford Explorer in all seasons: summer, Russian autumn, Russian winter and spring no different from autumn. And here is the conclusion: this is a real friend and assistant. Not always a ponto and brilliant, but not agricultural machinery - this is absolutely for sure. A real, not a parquet jeep is able to get out of any difficulty. But we are waiting for the new 2006 Ford Explorer, which will become the largest of the Ford-based vehicle vehicles. Starting next month, we will begin to study what is happening with the medium -sized SUV called Ford Maverick.

Text Igor Maltsev, photo Alexander Antonov

Ford Explorer V8
 
Gasoline engine V8
Working volume (cubic cub) 4601
Power (L.S. at rpm) 239 at 4750
The drive is complete
5-speed
The gearbox is automatic
Maximum speed (km/h) 160
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.6

Costs (23.11 - 01/22/2006, mileage - 2000 km)
Total mileage 9000 km
Moika 1400 rub.
Gasoline 5600 rub. (Four gas stations)
 

A source: "Autopilot"