Test drive Honda Legend sedan since 2006 sedan

For all cases of successful life

It will not be easy to explain to your second half why the large Honda is so attractive for the male body. In the end, she will have to take your word for: the new ice is much more than just an expressive appearance, a fashionable sports image and a life-an-automate.
 



Only for men!
The concentration of high technologies per unit of the car in legend reaches just the critical mass when a little more and the car will turn into a robot. And instead of traveling herself and carrying the owner, he will begin to dance, wave his hands and roam the stairs. Another Honda snow -white plastic android named Azimo went along this path. The latter, being shown at the Moscow car dealership, made a splash for me for sure. The future, it turns out, is not at all an abstract concept, no. Here it is, please: this very future specifically dancing under my nose among others chond! One must think, not much inferior to him in intellect.
 

I do not want to say anything bad about the beautiful floor, but I’m sure that most of its representatives simply do not want to delve into all technical wisdom, which Japanese engineers have an abundance legend. It will be quite enough for them that are listed in the first paragraph. But all this is in other honda, more stylish and practical. And what is this unique?
 

It is full of all sorts of typically Promuzhsky features that can be boiled in case of other very fats on occasion. If you start with rapture to tell that, they say, the intellectual system of the full-wheel drive SH-AWD during acceleration divides the torque in the ratio of 60:40 in favor of the front wheels, but with straightforward movement to the front axle, there is already 70% of the moment, and with active turns. The ratio changes to the opposite; Moreover, all Newton-meters designed for the rear axle can be supplied only to one wheel, a friend will listen to you with curiosity and ask a couple of clarifying questions.
 

And how will a normal woman react to a similar stream of consciousness? With interest in an intellectual word, he will be alert on the word system, grimaces on the full, yawn on the drive and, in the end, fall asleep on the abbreviation. And you, in order to wake the sleeping beauty, will urgently have to remember some life-affirming joke. But you also did not say a word about the unique system of active suppression of noise! Yes, and about the legends inaccessible to Russian buyers, active cruise control with the radar and the system for preventing clashes would not hurt to tell, right?

No, Icegend is a truly male product. Like a tie and Viagra. And don't even try to convince me!
 



Only for adults!
The large Honda looks predatory and assertively, but the machine is still lacking in the originality: against the backdrop of other chondes of our time, the stylistic of the legend seems very moderate, although, of course, it is not devoid of pleasantness. But there is little Japaneseness in it, on which, for example, Mazda left, for example. And the last generation sivik tearing the brain? This is super! Therefore, in comparison with the latest new products from Japan, the ice -free looks a little faded.

But on the other hand, this is a status car, right? The car for those who have reached a certain social level and have already managed to get a family. For those who successfully build their own business or have risen into the highest links in the business management of a stranger. In other words, for adults, but not yet old. And, I must say, stylistically the legend is very well balanced between innovation and conservatism. And, of course, in any case, this is a huge jump forward compared to the frankly dull car of the previous generation.
 

In addition, you see, beauty should not always blind. Yeah?
 

I sit down on the driver’s place and begin to touch everything, feel, iron and press. If the car was cheaper, I would be surprised at the quality of materials and assembly accuracy. But in a car worth seven dozen North American, there can be nothing different in a different way. A real car with real skin and a real tree. Where it should be softly soft there. Where it should be smoothly smooth. Where it should be roughly rough, damn it! Where there should be a microclimate control panel ... There is a round control of the control: the weather was hidden in the depths of the interface a la BaemVeshny Ai-Drive. Drink as it should be in the computer and find the right temperature. Or something more interesting, for example, a calendar or calculator. Or settings of the audio system. Honda. There is everything! Except perhaps the navigation system. In principle, it is provided, but the Japanese have not yet painted a map about our country. They promise, however, over time, this omission is corrected by the appropriate DVD-disk. In the meantime, the built-in GPS receiver is pretended to a banal compass.

 
   
Under the blue speedometer, a full -wheel drive system is located under the blue speedometer
 

Despite the interface with a fashionable wheel, there are still many buttons on the central console
 

The memory of the electric glass is designed for two drivers. The third, apparently, is superfluous
 
      
With a mobile phone, the car communicates through the bluetooth


Needless to say, the legend is maximum electrified and microlyph? When the ignition is turned on, the steering wheel moves closer to the driver, and the chair extracts one of two settings from the bowels of its memory. When the rear speed is turned on, the machine moves the ears: the right or left external mirror (to choose from the position of the corresponding switch) is redesigned to the rear wheel. And on the monitor, a television broadcast from the camera, located above the license plate on the lid of the trunk lid, about the relationship of two bumper: your honda and someone else's something, begins.
 



Only for drivers!
There is not too much space on the back sofa: with pretty shifted front seats, you rest your knees in the back. But, the interests are straightened ahead, you can get a job quite tolerably. Nevertheless, it is much better to take more logical places for Honda in front and enjoy the trip directly.

The driver’s chair (as well as his companion), being moderately soft, provides excellent side support. That it turns out very by the way the legend has tremendous stability in the bend! If you lay it abruptly, another point of the support appears at the car behind: instead of walking along the path of the least resistance and crawling somewhere where it is easier to twist with wheels, the Newtonians with meters collapse on the rear external wheel and begin to dilute the machine into a turn. You feel like invisible strings in the cordodic model seem to tie Honda to the center of the turn. But if you sort it out with kilometers per hour, you can find that the car goes into sliding with all its four. But, frankly, by chance, with such a speed, not a single normal person sometimes puts in a turn, sometimes it’s just not believed that the machine can maintain the ability to hold on to the asphalt when there are so many on the speedometer!
 

At the same time, you feel every centimeter of the road with your hands, and after all at low speed it seemed that there was absolutely no reagent on the steering wheel! Here the thing is: the higher the speed the more clearly zero. And in a straight line, the car goes and is completely incomparable. And also slows down.

 
   
On the doors, the curtains rise manually, and on the rear window using an electric drive
 

This is what a comfortable headrest with a developed slap looks like!
 

There is a narrow doctaa under the trunk floor


But the smoothness of the move for an amateur. She is not bad, no, she is her own. Subjectively, the machine is perceived a little harsh, but I think the honders will be satisfied. Although, of course, in this class and for this money there are much more smooth cars.
 

The legend is equipped with one motor is a 295-horsepower V6, which is enough for all cases of a successful life. The floor pedal of the accelerator is very lively: the car reacts to gas actions instantly, this becomes clear at the moment of the very beginning of the movement. But all further reactions to the gas are lubricated due to the fault of the light thoughtfulness of the automatic box: the reduced transfer of Honda leaks with a slight delay, but the transition from one transmission to another cannot be felt: the steps change surprisingly smoothly, and the sound of the engine is almost indistinguishable. In manual mode, the machine is made much more lively.
 



Only for attentive!
The legend says, but not that very loud, but quite moderately. In the general orchestra, the main batch is the quartet of soloists is the tires that diligently sparkle all road irregularities. Let me, but in the legend, Japanese acoustics came up with a multiple system of active suppression of noise, right? Yes, and she works, but, I admit, from the loud (or rather, quiet) abbreviation ANC I expected more. In addition, it is quite obvious that the system actively suppresses mainly aerodynamic noises. So the flipping of the wheels on the road did not disappear.
 

But still, the audio system itself is the most effective tool against unauthorized cacophony. In a legend, a good sound can be forced to shut up at all: aerodynamics, tires, and passengers. And if you lower the glass, then you can drown out the sources of noise, for example, a tram. With all his clanges, passengers and conductor in addition. The magical power of music is dispersed by nine speakers and one subwoofer. Plus, an amplifier in a glove box to rock all this acoustic good. The ice -free really yells pretty, in addition, the processor gives the real sound 5.1.

Perhaps one of the most valuable qualities of the Big Honda, this truly high -tech and sophisticated machine does not press pathos, as dear German and English cars like to do. The legend will become a worthy associate of an internally free and liberated person who has already managed to be a lot of things in his life, but continues to remain in good shape. Very male car!
    
Sound letters

The legend is equipped with a system of active suppression of ANC noise. How do these letters work? Microphones in the cabin catch an extraneous sound, and then the system synthesizes the antiphase signal of a kind of anti-sound that is broadcast through the speakers of the audio system (in order to write all this correctly, I needed a consultation with an acoustics specialist). In other words, the wedge is knocked out by the wedge. The system is disconnected, and, understanding this, I immediately decided to feel the difference. It does not become quieter, but somehow differently. It would be correct to say: the difference can be understood not so much at the hearing level as on the general feeling of acoustic comfort. That is, the car does not go quieter, but something more pleasant.
 
PER

Excellent controllability, excellent combination of engine and transmission, high -tech equipment
AGAINST

The only equipment
 
 
Honda Legend

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Sedan (5/4)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1864
 
Length x width x height, mm
4955x1845x1450
 
Base, mm
2800
 
Front/back, mm track
1575/1585
 
Trunk volume, l
452
 
Speed, km/h
250
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
7.3
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
8.9/17
 
The volume of the fuel tank, l
73
 

Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
gasoline V6
 
Working volume, SMZ
3471
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
295/6200
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
35.8/5000
 

Chassis
 
Suspension:
Independent spring
 
front
Double -leaf
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
235/50 R17
 

Car
from 0.63 $/km
 
 
Kirill Brevdo, photo Gleb Semerenko
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [19/2006]