Test Drive Infiniti QX56 since 2010 SUV

Three times forty thousand

White flies flew, the first ice tightened the water it means that the demand for SUVs will increase dramatically. Typical phenomenon at the beginning of winter. And the choice is now bigger. What preferred? Healthy monsters immediately disappear due to price and difficulty with parking and control, and parquet jipics will leave wives and girlfriends. What to buy from thousands of forty dollars? Expensive for you? For us too. But what to do, a good thing costs good money
After some pondays, we took Mitsubishi Pajero (not the familiar, and the new Sport, released mainly for the North America market) and Infiniti QX-4 (Suite version of Nissan Pathfinder). And finally, the third in the company is a typical American Jeep Ford Explorer. All five-door, petrol, but two latter with automatic transmission.
It is quite difficult to compare such diverse machines, but we went intentionally to this diverse selection. Put the two almost identical on the appearance and technical characteristics of the car. The differences are now almost and no! So, the instrument shields are dissimilar, but emblems on the hoods are different.
So, let's begin. Let's try Sport. Naturally, Mitsubishi, and, of course, Pajero. And everything in one person. These cars are not so much on our streets. Before us is a rather squat SUV, which forms and dimensions are slightly reminded (here, the infancy of fate) ... Toyota-4Runner! A sufficiently convenient salon, unfortunately, leaves a rather plastic impression. Not all buttons and levers you find right away. They, as it were, hide from the eyes. A large, high person is not too cozy both in front and rear. Review limited low outlines. This is about sad. Now about cheerful. Sport prefix appeared here not by chance. And it's not even in dynamic indicators.
The silhouette itself is quite light, rapid, and the muzzle is in a good aggressive, combat. Perhaps this is not a winner-record holder, but healthy, without bad habits, an amateur strike. Landing behind the wheel here is close to ideal not relaxing, but mobilizing, sports.
Rerep on Ford, we initially returned to the years for twenty years ago, in good glorious times when the front sofa was solid on three, without interfering as a middle console with a sticking lever. And it grows (the lever, of course) from the steering column. Immediately remember the old police militants, where the brave cops chase behind the terrible local mafia.
Explorer is really a few archaic, although in his own way is kindly. Externally, after the update three years ago, it looks more modern. Front, especially thanks to a large-scale lattice, it is even similar to the EXPEDITION older brother. Spacious doors, rear (fifth) with separately folded up glass. The bottom of the sidewall, including wheel arch expansion, are lined with silver plastics. Primitive interior decoration, big rabble, but at the same time there are cruise control, and air conditioning, as well as many comfortable trifles, such as double visors.
In comparison with the grams of class visibility at Explorer, to put it mildly, peculiar. High glasses allow you to see even a plane in the sky, but a huge convex hood closes almost all the space in front of the car. Mirrors also pushed. Their size and form cause bewilderment: try something to see something behind! Perfectly flat flat seats allow you to sit on two rows and all: three ahead and, having sunbathe, Four behind. And in the luggage compartment, the lonely low bench of miniature sizes and stunning stiffness is longitudinally located. For whom it is intended unclear, but as a result, you can stuff a whole crowd into the salon.
Next to this shirt-4, QX-4 looks like a true intelligent. Infiniti externally increasing and neat, stylistically completed and at the same time mysterious. Front door knobs horizontal, and rear vertical. Under the headlights, two more fog in one over the other. Color exclusively metallic noble shades.
Inside, too, everything is in place. Almost aviation display, with a serious BOSE radio and multifunctional climatic installation. Unobtrusive ease of soft leather seats with electric and heated adjust to lyrical paw. It is even strange that this is a Japanese-American product, and not, say, British.
A convenient ergonomic steering wheel is supplemented with a cruise control directly from the ram. The best survey among competitors and well-felt dimensions allow you to move on Infiniti in a close stream no worse than on the car. Noise isolation here, too, at the height, silent at idle, the motor and on the working turns will not annoy your hearing. This, by the way, you will not say about other participants in the mileage. Mitsubishi is noisy in all modes, bringing a lightweight rumbling to a formidable roar, and Ford, quiet in the parking lot, when overclocked, bubbles with a semi-crumpled hoard, to which it is not immediately get used to.
But enough about the statics. It's time and ride. In principle, we did not open America. The whole Trinity turned out to be an American predicted. No wonder they are sold almost only in the new world. Overfit suspensions predetermine the valve and smoothness of the stroke. Here especially distinguished Explorer. After a pair of gentle waves on the asphalt, he does not immediately quench the oscillations, making two or three soft clips. But but on the road, it goes like in a smooth. Kochki do not feel at all. All obstacles seem to be drowning somewhere far below the bottom and gigantic wheels. Ford accelerates either not particularly willingly, although not to say that slowly. Pensive automatic box, as it were, reluctantly, even with a full gas, shakes its four programs, and the speed is still small. Surely up to hundreds need to turn thirty seconds? Yes! Only up to hundreds of miles, and this is one hundred and sixty Cama! We also noted the same thought in the brake system, and this is already dangerous. I do not know, maybe this feature of a particular copy, but I have repeatedly barely stacked with braking, and a couple of times I almost got the front cars on the traffic light. It seems as if the car weighs not two tons, but all four. Maybe we were given an armored version? It seems no. So at speed you have to be careful.
Now about Mitsubishi. Against the backdrop of most others, several ravenly, inaccurate jeeps this car stands out for its own, I would say concreteness. The passage of turns is performed quite predictable. The suspension holds the body with minimal rolls. When the front drive is turned off, the machine behaves typically for the classics, and the manipulation of the dispensing lever itself is well known to other PAJERO: the first position rear-wheel drive, the second is complete, the third lowered with the inter-axis lock. All switches are clearer than competitors.
A rather elastic motor with a typical high-impact mitsubishi with a liter volume allows you to stay in the stream in the first positions.
But what kind of jeep without bare in nature! To be honest, we didn't want to torture the brilliant new machines too much. But the instinct of the naturalist is overburden care of the potential private owner. I had to get out of the steep banks of the Moscow River, where the sand smoothly goes into clay, covered with a semi-dry autumn grass.
The first of the Explorer (researcher) the name itself obliges. To this Uchara if not the sea knee, then the river is exactly. No, we did not dare to swim (suddenly we will be drowned?), But along the edge of the Moscow River in the water in the water, we were driven by plenty. We crawl on the shore, turn the reduced transmission switch located on the torpedo. And when we climbed into a wagon, and when the defects overcame the deepest kola, we did not have any difficulty. For Mitsubishi's passability, also keeps well done, although not so hooligan, like Ford. We connect lowered using the famous Mitsubishi Super Select transmission, overwhelm the bumps and bumps frozen on the autumn wind. The highest of them still get to the suspension and thresholds. Although the thrust is also good, feel that in difficult conditions, all the power is used almost to the full coil. Infiniti at first decided and rightly sore it hurts, he seemed to us fry and refined. And then they thought, after all, this is a full jeep. So, forward. True, the inclusion of blocking in the Luxury version of Nissan is used not often. Painting the coastal field, you feel that the car, although durable, but the inchreak of the frame is not here, and the bends of the body warn us from the most risky maneuvers. Nevertheless, his path is more likely to the drifts of our northern winters and periodic ribs on nature than a regular fight against roads.
In conclusion, I will say that our entire Trinity is designed primarily for the American market with its own characteristics. The true Yankees Ford seemed to us very specific, Mitsubishi turned out to be the most familiar jeep, and Infiniti would be called an almost passenger sedan luxury on the chassis and almost an SUV outside the route.
Vladimir Smirnov
Photo by Alexander Nosdrin
 

 

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