Hyundai IX55 test drive since 2009 SUV

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


A full -size seven -seater crossover, for which you do not need to pay, like a full -size SUV, is a good opportunity to rise to the second floor of the road without unnecessary expenses, when a conscious desire appears to abandon excessive strength and patency in the city. What to choose: Honda Pilot or Hyundai IX55?

Honda Pilot


It has 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 a motorcycle carrier, 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 engineering grace, technological wit. In everything that wake up and wherever you look: at least at over -worthy machines for English grannies, even for ultra -suffering NSX for steep boys, even for all kinds of Type R for boys, even for lawmakers for gardeners. This is Honda. The company where the ideology of the leading engineering line, close to Porsche principles, was connected with the Japanese European incomprehensible to the European. And Pilot is completely different Honda.

This Honda from America and America. And in it there is very little in common with any other honda, except for efficiency. Again in America. It has seven places, and all of them are quite suitable not only to count them, but also to use them. It is hefty, and it is not one of those cars that look like cars with a large clearance that are created for something except American roads. Not bad, branched as a network, straight as an arrow, and loaded as a conveyor.

A large car is not at all badly felt by the driver: it is easily controlled and gives an exact idea of \u200b\u200bits dimensions in the parking lot. As a spacious car of the city transport purpose Pilot will not cause any complaints. Inside there is a large supply of space, many departments for small items and a very simple finish. In PILOT and technology, everything is simple: a simple five -speed automatic transmission, a simple suspension without delights, the work of components, designers, testers and adjusters. This is a product. Product for money. In Russia, not as small as in America, but still not sky -high. With an electrified rear door and without protection of the engine and bottom. Without xenon light in the basic configuration, but with the third number of seats. This is an effective urban transport: in Khonda reliable, and American in American.



 
Hyundai IX55
Hyundai is now on the rise. High -quality machines in their circle are not only I 20 and 30, but also complex, expensive and premium Genesis. High -quality not even the background of the Japanese. IX55 is also a qualitative car, if you close your eyes and not pay attention to its ambiguous design and dubious proportions. In technology, our comparison with Honda is more than justified. With other Honda. If we are talking about Pilot, then the Hyundai technique, used in IX55, seems more modern. And at the same time, probably not so reliable. In our IX, during the test, the electrical setting of the steering column was out of order. However, three years of guarantees are quite a few, and five years on the motor and transmission even more, so it seems that the concern trusts its quality and is ready to answer it.

Hyundai is tougher and much more sporty on the road. It resembles high -quality cars. It is pleasant to manage them. The engine and a six -speed gearbox work perfectly together and can much more than the corresponding tandem on the Honda, accelerating IX55 to hundreds of one and a half seconds faster, thanks to a more perfect transmission (engine indicators are very close, and Hyundai is even slightly heavier). On the asphalt IX55, a monopyted car, and the rear wheel drive is connected only on a slippery road or with its 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 off the asphalt: no protection against damage to the units in it is provided at all. But in the city of IX55 it is controlled excellently at the level of the best asphalt crossovers of our days: here, Kia Sorento, for example. And he wins greatly in our comparison of controllability. Hyundai is a little more maneuverable: a smaller turn radius. Both the brake drive is more precise, and the buildings of the body, by the standards of classmates, are almost no. The rolls are present, but on the arc, the car stands reliably even at the limit of tire clutch. In everything, he is more configured in European than American. Of course, in it, the irregularities of the roads are felt in more detail, but the overall level of comfort does not lose it, since the more stringent car chats less after the bumps, and the unsprown masses are much calmer when passing single irregularities than in Honda.

Inside the IX55, it is much more modern and more expensive, but in it is more closely than in Honda. There are fewer containers for various trifles in the cabin, however, the driver's place is more ergonomic: this machine, in general, is suitable for more active drivers.



 
Summary
Honda choice in every sense is balanced, which will be correct for those who rarely accelerate more than a hundred and pay attention to the features of the car to a greater extent when buying, at a gas station and on the service, than when it is driving. Honda is more spacious than the opponent and cheaper, is perfectly equipped and allows us to consider the third series of seats as an opportunity for constant use, and not just as a spare version of the official transportation. However, if the temperament of its potential owner is far from the Nordic and makes him be able to distinguish Ferrari from Pagani, Honda will upset the rolls, instability when braking and unwillingness to quickly change the course. IX55 is more expensive and takes more fuel, and the Hyundai brand is less respected. However, it is faster, its interior decoration is much more expensive, the ergonomics of the driver's seat is more logical, and the design is more modern. The transmission works as it is customary in 2010, and the controllability corresponds to the concept of a crossover with all the advantages in the city from it, and not an SUV with all the problems at high speeds that adhere to it.

 

Source: Cars