Honda Pilot test drive since 2009 SUV
Three crossovers-Honda Pilot, Mazda CX-9, Hyundai IX55
The seven -seater Mazda CX9, Honda Pilot, Hyundai IX55 are created for the USA. But we also love everything big ... I am writing this article, not knowing who to call the winner. Clarity will appear in real time, possibly at the very end of the text. Sprats in tomato
When I have any doubts, I usually consult Ivan Evdokimov, but this time he did not help.
Ivan, why do you need a huge crossover?
To go to the hypermarket.
Ivan, you're wrong. I was in Auchan and bought seven large bags with food and all kinds of household junk. He rolled the cart to the file part of the Mazda CX-9, loaded everything into the trunk, but the thought prevented the thought that at the first traffic light, the sprat with acceleration would enter the tomatoes, and the cream would flood washing powder. Seven voluminous bags are too few for such a trunk. They will fly from wall to wall, with each next blow destroying my reserves, upholstery, the nervous system of my wife and a beautiful spring evening. What to do? I could not buy another fifteen bags to score the cargo compartment completely. I had to unload everything back and stuff it on the second row, right on the floor. These megacrospheres are not suitable even for the simplest purchases. Unless to carry the furniture.
Honda disables an electronic collar in manual control mode of the automatic box
We will look for another application. It is probably more pleasant to cover the kilometers of the highway on a long -liner than to shake in a short car? Check. And we went to Volokolamsk. About 120 kilometers. Mazda CX-9 has gone all the way in the most predictable way. The suspension is harsh for holes in the canvas and in the rut can fray a little, but without surprises. He sat down, went, do not get used to it. You can’t even remember the five -meter of the car.
Honda Pilot as a cargo elevator that rushes between floors. What did I remember after the trip? Only heavy vertical buildup. Up down. Tiring.
Hyundai IX55 behaved more decent. No convexness-configurations of asphalt swooped him, they did not break him from the trajectory. If you choose a transport for driving on bad roads, it is the first.
Hyundai has everything that the crossover needs: both the clutch is blocked and the ESP shutdown (although it is not complete)
Honda lost on the highway. Arrange the first and second places yourself. CX-9 favorite of lovers to keep the car under control. IX55 for those who believe that the car itself will lay the right trajectory.
Flip Land Cruiser
Crossovers are powerful but heavy. Their acceleration and inhibition as a take -off and planting of the aircraft. Honda confidently gains 150160 km/h. Its speedometer in vain is drawn up to 200. The maximum that it can is 180, and then on the nerves; And most importantly, it slows down slurred. Mazda reaches 190 km/h, and then, despite the red lighting of the devices, drops momentum. The title of the rocket is only worthy of Hyundai. The most peppy acceleration, and confidently goes to 200 km/h, or even more. But the Korean slows down strangely, the pedal is long, and at the end of the cotton wool. If you want to slow down, do it on Mazda, and everything will turn out transparently and predictably.
Mazda is deprived of blocking the coupling of all -wheel drive. This interferes somewhat in critical situations, but not fatal
Pilot loses again. It is urgent to look for charms from him so as not to program the final result. Maybe he will recoup on the design and decoration of the salon? Honda artists did it in good faith. I even know for what purpose. They wanted to dump Toyota Land Cruiser. Secret from that without doing. How to fill up a two hundred Toyota? A good gigiper knows: locks in bridges, an animal dimensions, the best geometry. A formidable muzzle to drive this trick for the female. One visibility. Dust in the eyes. A long hood, wide seats, a hammmeric meter mess between the front seats. The moves are win -win. Brutality in its pure form, if you do not take into account the glass front panel, looking like an office table. And who did you want to deceive? This gray hard plastic and crossword puzzle buttons of climate control and multimedia, which are easier to just beat with a fist than to pick a finger: maybe the right one will turn on.
Once inside the Honda, the brand of the car can only be determined by the nameplate and another automatic transmission lever with too short stages, it flies past Drive. In Mazda, everything is different. Belonging to the surname is obvious, you do not need to guess. It is given out reddened devices, large circle climate and a convenient machine gun selector. Even with indifference to Zom-Sumy ideology, it is more pleasant here. And the Korean was completely surprised. Soft plastic, stylish interior, plus build quality. If he loses in the simplicity of the climate control algorithm, then the materials are far ahead. You see, I honestly tried to take the side of Pilot, but he is behind again.
Goussed Bugrs
The off -road will solve the dispute completely. First we play the Tsar Mountain. The hill is covered with slippery dirt and cut through the rut. Honda immediately sat in her with a belly. Despite the most impressive among rivals, the angle of entry (27.8 degrees), she has the smallest road clearance (200 mm) and, especially unpleasant, a relief bottom. A bulky absorber of gasoline vapor hangs, gas troops protrude, and a spare wheel hangs low. These are Honda engineers overdid: they wanted to align the floor in the cabin, and they raised stalactites under his belly.
Mazda has the most modest angle of entry of 21 degrees, but the road clearance is 204 mm and a flat bottom, so it climbed higher. Hyundai also climbed more confidently Pilot and, if not for the weak defense of the front, he would have drove to the very top.
Next went an uneven primer. Pilot, for nothing that it looks like SUV, did not give myself to accelerate on the lane. In the pits, he pecked with his nose so that he had to besiege. Again this vertical buildup. How does it tire on the highway and off -road! CX-9 passed the site somehow lightly, too shaking. It was a pity to rape her, but I had to. Only the IX55 did not notice Bugrov at all, the burning of them in one fell swoop. The impressions of acquaintance with Hyundai, received last year in Korea, were fully confirmed. He likes the village life.
The stabilization system disconnecting the stabilization system is equipped with all participants in the dough. Honda turns off both the ESP and the anti -wings system tightly. In Mazda, the anti -wings function in any case will turn on when reaching a speed of 16 km/h. You do not walk around in a controlled skid. In Hyundai, when turning off electronic assistants, the threshold of their triggering is simply pushed. At what speed they will begin to act again, the manufacturer does not indicate, because many factors are involved here not only acceleration. Be that as it may, namely, IX55 gave plenty of sullen in a rally style. At the rivals, the drive came out sour. Diagonal hanging overcome all three crossovers. So the anti -wings system is not perfect for off -road, but it works quite well.
Pilot and IX55, and the CX-9 does without it. That is why Mazda made so many unnecessary movements and buried wheels in the ground. We checked her on a sandy rise with a turn closer to the top. Although this obstacle was taken by all opponents, the question was not in the technical filling, but in piloting. Therefore, the lack of blocking in Mazda in experienced hands is not a hindrance. One trouble she does not have a front towing eye. There is nothing to pull out for. So learn carefully.
The main thing is that there are more children
According to the results of the off-Road walk, Hyundai won in almost all articles. The text is almost completed, and I recognize the winner of the test with you, as promised, in real time. You ask: why couldn't I think through everything in advance? It’s just that the whole test was not allowed to concentrate the obsessive thought: why build seven -seater crossovers with such a strange and contradictory set of consumer properties incompatible with life outside the United States? A full -wheel drive station wagon understand. A full -wheel drive minivan is also no question. But a seven -seater SUV? However, colleagues quickly explained to me the truth of life. You just have little children, they said. Take away at least three. And then you will understand what a seven -seater crossover is better than a minivan! Of course, both can accommodate in a huge trunk and a baby stroller, and things, and products for five days for three. And a box of beer. Both allow, if necessary, to put a grandmother or a nanny on the third row. But at the same time, the crossover leaves you, hopelessly family, at least some chance to feel like a man. And a woman behind the wheel, unlike minivans, gives a sense of security.
So, the test wins the IX55, a car with excellent interior decoration, tolerant of bad roads, gambling in skidding, with a beautiful engine that easily disperses it to more than 200 km/h, and a wonderful warranty period of five years. Only to high passengers is it not too hospitable for the adjustment range of the seats is small.
We give the second place CX-9. A harsh, but obedient car, in its habits approaching a car and does not forget about what a corporate identity is. And the comforting prize is conquered by Pilot, similar to heavy swings, unsuccessfully swinging the Land Cruiser chair.
Source: Magazine 4x4 [July /2009]
