Honda CrossStour test drive since 2009 SUV
Honda CrossStour - original crossover
Honda decided to move Porsche with the help of chimera, blind from Accord and CR-V ... Honda representatives gathered us at the hotel near Moscow and told how and why the new CrossStour crossover appeared. Less off-road! This is what the market requires, and the Japanese, like diligent boys, could not ignore such a call.
They took the representative of the Accord sedan and made a hatchback or, rather, a compartment. In general, something average. Then they lifted the 205 mm above the ground and added a full-wheel drive system from CR-V. Ready.
Conceptively, they were guided by the pyramid, the basis of which are quality, safety, ecology, and at the top of pleasure. Such a makar wanting to wedge between the BMW X6 and Porsche Panamera. Although it would be much easier for them to breed thumbnails or return the elections of governors in Russia. Nevertheless, the Hondians count on people aged 3638 with an income of $ 5,000 per month, 70% of which men. As the representative of Honda noted, these individuals will like the muscular side profile of CrossStour and its strong lower part.
In Russia, there is more clearance than the clearance. We have no 20 cm in life without 20 cm
The Japanese want to transplant half of future buyers from sedans. It is difficult to disagree with them. The sedan is one of the most ridiculous form factors existing in the automotive market. Naturally, they will get rid of them. Everyone will change them to Hetchi, then to the station wagons, and then, apparently, to buses.
Honda in the interior is always not enough not quite successful, but diligently
Holds the program
What, except for a bold marketing concept, can boast CrossStour? Several facts related to him are worthy of mention. He has a rather strong and at the same time light body. Winning stiffness is better than the BMW X3. The automatic gearbox is five -speed, which is not too cool at present, but the dynamics of acceleration is not bad. Electronics, recognizing the angle of rotation of the steering wheel, holds the current transmission when passing the turns, not allowing the automatic transmission to go on your own to the next step. The same algorithm acts when braking by the engine when departing from the high -speed highway. The coefficient of static stability of CrossStour is better than that of the BMW X5, Mazda CX-7, Nissan Murano. Sorry, sorry, I translate: Honda CrossStour is less cracked and screened, and also provides quite adequate feedback on the steering wheel. But here the Japanese are crazy: this, of course, is not the merit of the designers. It’s just that the new model is based on not a high booth, as the above competitors, but a squat sedan. The center of gravity is steering!
Do not kill
The new crossover is comfortable and safe. The CrossStour involves a special noise reduction system, the same as standing in Honda Pilot. Therefore, it is very quiet even at high speed. Already in the basic configuration of CrossStour to the maximum of food pillows. In this case, you can rely on Honda. They break 600 cars a year in Japan, and not primitively on the forehead. They even calculate which way the spare wheel will shift when hitting the back. Particular attention is paid to the safety of pedestrians. Fasteners of the wipers are broken off so that a person does not properly properly a stomach. And the hood is reinforced so that the pedestrian does not kill the engine when hit.
A handy man will be able to build a bowling platform here. Even I would be able to
A good research and experimental database helps to solve Skuruperdy issues. For example, the buyer may be sure that the costs of repairs of bumper will be minimal.
NO PROBLEM
There is a new product from 1,800,000 to 2,000,000 rubles. For a five -meter all -wheel drive crossover, it is quite competitive. Moreover, pleasure is guaranteed. Although at the presentation the test drive took a little more than an hour, I managed to make the first impression of CrossStour. Cracability pleased. We walked several kilometers along the snow rut at the temple of the clearance. This does not mean anything, if you do not mention that Pilot was constantly balanced on the verge of failure, like Stirlitz. At the end of the trip, Pilot drivers looked beaten, and we radiated calm and serenity. So choose what you like: problems or their absence? At the same price ...
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo Honda
Source: Magazine 4x4 [July /2011]
