Honda Pilot test drive since 2009 SUV
Honda Pilot
The Honda Pilot crossover, which looks like SUV and at the same time encroaches on the market segment where minivans reign. Give a piece of the road more authentic to squeeze more than one hundred forty! I asked for local forest spirits. Give a piece of the road more authentic to squeeze more than one hundred forty! I asked local forest spirits, traveling along the winding Karelian roads, ideal for the test of all -wheel drive equipment. Smooth asphalt here is replaced by soil interspersed with stones, and then suddenly there is a smooth clean straight line, on which you can disperse Honda Pilot to the maximum possibilities. Up to 150160 km/h the dynamics is even, but then slowly and slowly get to 170180, and now the record is 185 km/h.
I did not reach the permitted on the speedometer 220 km/h. To wait for too long until the arrow deigns to swing to the right to the right. Yes, another fellow traveler (the organizers of the test drive from Honda put their instructor in the car), when accelerating, fidgeted so much in his seat that he almost wiped the hole in the leather decoration.
On three cylinders None of our roads need such speed. It’s useless to me, but I wonder how quickly Pilot will reach the cherished mark. I assure you, very not soon. The engine is more configured to save than to drive. His work is taken to a family of eight people to the nearest lake. He knows how to work on four and even three cylinders. The declared consumption in mixed mode is 11.8 liters. During the test drive, we got at least 13.5. But you probably already understood how we traveled. However, some of the completely unnecessary colleagues got at least 16 liters. Such is the V6 gasoline engine with a collapse angle of 60 degrees, with a volume of 3.5 liters and a capacity of 257 liters. With.
In a straight line is good
The flat asphalt ended as unexpectedly as it began, about which the car immediately declared the front levers with a blow to the chipper. The independent suspension of all the wheels, carrying the body and the lack of a lowering transmission unambiguously enter the Honda Pilot into the category of crossovers, or, as evil people also call them, SUVs. Only with a slight clarification: in fact, Pilot cops well with bad broken roads. The suspension does not like only deep sharp holes. On the moderately broken road, the Pilot is comfortable if someone can please the constant longitudinal buildup of the body on a wave-like coating traditional for Russian tracks, plus the clinking during braking and acceleration.
After 2030 km of such a ride, you begin to hate Americans for whom the car was created. These God's dandelions do not distinguish comfort from slack. Or maybe they believe that the driver of a large car to make sharp maneuvers? That is, if I, for example, have five children, then I should not enter into a controlled skid? Actually, the approach is sound, there are other cars for drive. Well, it remains to say goodbye to youth and enjoy the course stability, it is not bad here. In a straight line, Pilot goes wonderful. Six will enter
Two wives and five children will find something to take on a long journey. And if the heirs manage to yell at least a little or fight, you can evaluate how quiet in Honda Pilot. It is used in it
such a complex to combat extraneous sounds that it becomes scary. In the configuration, Executive Pilot is equipped with an acoustic windshield. To eliminate vibrations, an electronic system for active engine suspension is used. And, of course, Active Noise Cancellation is in all its glory, generating an acoustic signal in the salon, opposite to the phase of noise exposure, allowing you to reduce noise level to 10 dB. The salon is spacious and convenient. The second row is specially made mobile. The third row is not crowded. The manufacturer especially emphasizes that the car is eight. So, six adults will be easily accommodated in it, and this is not a bad result. Pleasant and finishing. Different textures of plastics look beautiful and delighted at
touch, although they are all tough. The devices were simply delighted with me, I have not seen such a perfectly read speedometer for a long time. It is simple, understandable, huge and stands exactly in the center. Godzilla for Hijin
If the Japanese allowed the market conditions, they would make rectangular cars. In Japan itself, such a look is in constant demand. However, the presence of a large number of buyers in other countries forces Honda to take care of the design for Hijing (this is a slightly ironic word denoting foreigners of eccentrics living outside the Japanese islands). The Japanese do not know how to think in this vein, and therefore the Americans composed Pilot for them in the California Honda studio. However, the idea of \u200b\u200bLos Angeles colleagues also turned out to be simple. Pilot should look kondovo, that is, moderately rude and
reliable, like a protected laptop or a cloak clock. In some ways, the plan was a SUV or not a SUV, but definitely not a car for girls. You can also say that Pilot looks like Nissan X-Trail, which was very stretched, and then attached the muzzle from the spacecraft. I am sure that in Russia many will like this to the beautiful sex, which at our first opportunity is actively reaching for brutal SUVs. WAIT A BIT
I would love to finish the article with a spectacular chord of the previous paragraph, but it is necessary to put all the squiggles over th: the cost of the Honda Pilot will be 1,400,000 rubles. In the configuration Elegance and 1,500,000 rubles. In the configuration Executive. And the last: since the first acquaintance was strictly regulated, we will say about the work of the smart all -wheel drive Honda Pilot a little later, when autumn will properly let a tear. In the meantime, it is known that the locking of a hydraulic coupling at speeds above 29 km/h electronics automatically turns off, which is already alarming. After all, this means that the manufacturer does not provide for fast Russian driving without roads.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [September/2008]
