Test Drive Honda Pilot since 2009 SUV

XXL or 14 for two

Honda Pilot and Hyundai IX55 both seven-seed, and both are only for the roads, although they look different. We dealt with their close characteristics and different characters.


A full-size seven-party crossover, for which it is not necessary to pay, as for a full-sized SUV, is a good opportunity to rise to the second floor of the road life without unnecessary spending when a conscious desire appears to abandon excess in the city of strength and passability. What to choose: Honda Pilot or Hyundai iX55?

Honda Pilot.


In it seven places and all of them are quite suitable not only to count them, but also to use them

At first there were motorcycles, then motorcycle racing, then Formula 1: By the way, already in the sixties formula 1! Then, in the eighties, VTEC for motorcycles, and from the beginning of the 90s and for cars, and the CLARITY hydrogen car today is always an engineering elegance, technological wit. In everything, which is neither touching and wherever see: at least on super-padded cars for English granny, even at ultrafast NSX for steep guys, at least on all sorts of Type R for the boys simpler, even on lawn mowers for gardeners. This is Honda. The company, where the ideology of the leading engineering line, close to Porsche principles, has connected with an incomprehensible Japanese for Europeans. And Pilot is completely different Honda.

This Honda from America and America. And there is very little in common with any other Honda, except efficiency. Again in America's conditions. It has seven places in it, and they are all quite suitable not only to count them, but also to use them. She is hefty, and it is not from those cars, externally resembling machines with great clearance, which are created for something other than American roads. Not bad, branched, as a network, direct, like an arrow, and uploaded as a conveyor.

A large car is not at all badly felt by the driver: it is easy to manage and gives an accurate picture of its dimensions in the parking lot. As a spacious city transport destination, Pilot will not cause any complaints. Inside a large stock of space, many compartments for small items and a very simple finish. In Pilot and the technique, everything is simple: a simple five-speed automatic transmission, a simple suspension without finding work of linkers, designers, testes and adjustments. This is a product. Product for money. Russia is not so small as in America, but still not translated. With an electrified rear door and without the protection of the engine and the bottom. Without xenon light in the basic configuration, but with the third near the seats. This is an effective urban transport: Hondovsky is reliable, and American is simple.



 
Hyundai IX55
Hyundai is now on the rise. High-quality machines in their circle are not only I 20 and 30, but also complex, dear and premium genesis. Qualitative even not the background of the Japanese. The high-quality car is also the IX55, if they climb and not pay attention to its ambiguous design and dubious proportions. The technique of our comparison with Honda is more than justified. With other Honda. If we are talking about Pilot, then the Hyundai technique used in the IX55 seems to be more modern. And at the same time, probably not so reliable. In our IX during the test, the electrical tuning of the steering column was faced. However, three years of warranty is not at all a little, but five years on the motor and transmission and more, so, it seems that the concern trusts his quality and is ready to answer for him.

Hyundai is tougher and much sports on the road. It resembles high-quality passenger cars. Manage them nice. The engine and a six-speed gearbox work perfectly together and can be much larger than the corresponding tandem on Honda, overclocking the IX55 to one hundred and and a half faster, thanks to the more advanced transmission (engines are very close, and Hyundai is even slightly harder). On the asphalt of the IX55 monolvodny car, and the drive on the rear wheels is connected only on a slippery road or when it is forced activation by the driver (at a speed of up to 40 km / h). And this is not the car on which you need to rush to move from asphalt: no protection against damage to the aggregates is not provided at all. But in the city of IX55, it is managed excellently at the level of the best asphalt crossovers of our days: here, Kia Sorento, for example. And heavily wins in our comparison of controllability. Hyundai and slightly maneuvering: smaller reversal radius. And the brake drive is more accurate, and the routine of the body, according to the standards of classmates, almost no. Rolls are present, but on the arc, the machine is reliably even at the tire clutch limit. In all, it is more in Europe more than american. Of course, in it and the irregularities of the roads are felt in more detail, but the overall level of comfort does not lose from this, since the more rigid car chats after bumps, and unsappressing masses when driving single irregularities behave much calmer than in Honda.

Inside the IX55, it is designed much more contemporary and more expensive, but in it and more closely than in Honda. In the cabin there are fewer tanks for a different kind of little things, but the driver's seat is ergonomic: this car, in general, will suit more active drivers.



 
Summary
Honda The choice in every sense is balanced, which will be correct for those who rarely accelerate more than a hundred and draws attention to the features of the car to a greater extent when buying, at refueling and on the service than when it is driving. Honda is spacious than the opponent and cheaper, perfectly equipped and allows us to consider the third row of seats as an opportunity for permanent use, and not only as a spare version of the service delivery. However, if the temperament of its potential owner is far from Nordic and forces it to be able to distinguish Ferrari from Pagani, Honda will upset with rolls, instability when braking and reluctance quickly change the course. IX55 is more expensive and takes more fuel, and the Hyundai brand is less respect. However, it is faster, its interior decoration is essential, the ergonomics of a driver's seat is more logical, and the design is modern. The transmission works as it is accepted in 2010, and handling corresponds to the concept of a crossover with all the advantages arising from it in the city, and not an SUV with all the problems at high speed.

 

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