Infiniti QX56 test drive since 2010 SUV
Comparison Infiniti QX56 and Mercedes-Benz GL
When evaluating modern full-sized SUVs, you have to rely on the sense of smell for example, as in the case of Mercedes-Benz GL and Infiniti QX ... Driving in large pro-American cars, I always heard from fellow travelers: why so many excesses? So much money, fuel, volume and unnecessary luxury? Who needs it?
Hard to say. On the other hand, if you do not fade, painfully choosing words and embarrassed, then you can answer without any difficulties. Firstly, a large car is always pleasing, just as ... In general, you understand. Secondly, the comfort that it provides when driving also cannot help but seduce. Thirdly, the picture is completed by a wonderful decoration of the salon, creating a relaxed atmosphere of rest and siberia. Try to convince me of the opposite. With the same success, one can argue with a well -fed lion about vegetarianism.
The central panel of the Japanese is much more accessible to the peripheral vision of the driver than that of Mercedes
All -wheel drive is automatically connected, but you can blocked it forcibly
Infiniti parking camera gives a faded image, but the angle from all possible sides
Deaf, suffocate or dramatically
The issue of size from the field of safety and survival. Small cars are more likely to use some trifle like buttons or to move around Europe to store. And when animals of customs reign on the road, either predators or elephants defeat. It’s stupid to scream from your Matiz in the voice of Elena Nightingale: gentlemen, you are animals! Better to buy for yourself Tahoe. The smoothness of the course is also far from excess, because people prefer to be affectionate and polite with them. As Khlestakov said: ... I admit, I would not have demanded anything else, as soon as you provide me with devotion and respect, respect and devotion. And the decoration of the salon is also the criterion from the main ones. If you calculate how much money citizens spend on the repair of their apartments, then the costs of a leather salon will seem to be miserable pennies. If you live in four unically walls are bad, then traveling all day among terrible plastic all the more. That is why people buy Mercedes GL and Infiniti QX.
Or is it enough to do the Volvo XC 70? Partly. You leave for Volvo and this is talking a lot about you. In particular, that you are not cattle and love a sweet life. You flanify on asphalt, after which it becomes even cleaner than it was, and it touches you. But if the driver of Infiniti QX grabs along the lane, then half of the houses will collapse, and in the remaining residents it will shake, suffocate or die with envy. This is the same important bonus that the volvadraist does not receive.
If you raise a multimedia screen above, it will be much more ergonomically
The designers of the central panel GL clearly did not think that they would use it on the move
The quality of the camera is almost HD, but the angle, alas, is one view of the back
Looked and bit
Let's move on to the nuances of comparing our elephants. At first glance, both are so brutal that talking about subtleties is stupid. However, there is a large scope for research. We are dealing with voluminous and powerful five -liter engines. How differently they live and work! The eight -cylinder unit does with Infiniti QX such that it is difficult to describe in technical terms. You will probably be terribly surprised, watching this outside, and certainly if you are inside. The impressions of the Kick Dawn are the brighter the stronger before this Infiniti Qx can lull you. This is exactly what will happen, because he is a terrible flatterer and hem. Although some, due to inexperience, consider it a daffodil and narcissistic Pezhon. In short, after five minutes of acquaintance you begin to think about him as a polished chest of drawers with a thick layer of varnish. You understand that he is good for you, and you are for him, and click on gas. The sensations are so unnatural that well, imagine that the furniture in your room was swept away, the billiard table dismissed the wings, the windowsill began to dance the boogies, the air conditioner roared and bit your hand, and the Luzhniki stadium blurted out the window.
Foam, caviar and three hundred thousand
Infiniti with its vertical front glass creates the illusion of a much more voluminous space than Mercedes GL. You might think that it ignores the correct aerodynamics and is running in low fuel consumption. Unfortunately no. In reality, he simply licks, wanting to get as many American votes as possible.
Serving the interests of the United States, the Japanese generally relaxed. What is it, when refinement of the chassis, only the comfort of the suspension and the lightness of the steering wheel? Nothing else is needed to please the overseas client? So it is, but only if the machine does not have a motor. But when under the hood there are more than 400 horsepower ...
When you press the accelerator in Mercedes GL, everything happens very quickly. However, you only slightly presses you into a chair and the world around does not turn into a crazy house. The motor of the motor decorously and nobly emerges deep inside the car, and then slowly, but confidently, comes to the surface, as if you are flying on an airplane. This is exactly what fills the three -hundred -thousandth price difference between German and Japanese products.
Mercedes GL from a completely different world. He does not let the foam and does not magnifies the caviar. Zaskii zero. On the contrary, it is not particularly convenient. He has a low windshield and a non -ergonomic central panel. This, if you want, is defiant. It looks like a girl who knows the price well and for a man’s request to cook lunch: go to a restaurant!
The dance of the skyscraper
Gopak on pedals is a sign of an immature driver GL. An experienced one time I want to ride more slowly and slower, and then standing and watching how the world is spinning around it. The highest point of development of the owner of GL: he does not seek anywhere, everyone who needs it comes. Nevertheless, at times it will be pulled on off-road, just for entertainment or once again admire the off-rock capabilities of German creation. Of particular praise deserve extremely effective blocking central and back. However, without them, GL rides through the mud as an asphalt, especially with air suspension. The Japanese cannot be in time for off -road. He twitches nervously, often strangles the motor and slows down the wheels from the supply of not shining intellect, but excessively zealous electronic assistants. There is no question of any subtle dosage of gas during the hanged wheel. If you need an SUV, you need to take Mercedes. The Japanese skyscraper in the field is a bad assistant.
Armpits, women and football players
Otherwise, the rivals are almost equal. Both are equipped with a full complex of active and passive safety. Electronic systems warn of an unintentional intersection of marking, the presence of cars in blind areas, about dangerous convergence with the passing transport. The salons are transformed approximately the same in both of them, although it is difficult to imagine the owner of such a machine night inside it. Parking cameras are a little different. The Japanese is extremely comfortable, shows a car from all four sides, but at the same time too foul resolution. The German gives out only the view from the back, but the image quality is an order of magnitude better.
If the internal volume is not important, which Mercedes at least feels smaller, and does not bother patency along with the culture of behavior that is lame in Infiniti, then you will have to smell. A serious person will always lead the nose before buying. Infiniti does not smell at all, he is too afraid to offend the client. The aroma of Mercedes is about the Spanish football player, but not a real sweaty spirit, but only in the sense that a woman in her dreams represents it.
Caution, technical details
Infinity QX56 usually moves on the rear -wheel drive this transmission mode is designed for asphalt. For a slippery coating there is a 4x4 mode (the front -wheel drive is automatically connected when the rear wheels are slipped and turns off as soon as slippage stops). Outside the asphalt, you can use two more modes: a constant all -wheel drive (the front axle is connected rigidly, since there is no center differential) and the 4x4 mode using a lowering gear. The seven -speed automatic transmission has a trailer towing mode. The car is equipped with contrast and anti -tuxe systems. There are no inter -long locks.
Mersedes GL500 4MATIC boasts a constant all-wheel drive, a seven-speed automatic transmission 7G-Tronic with a manual mode, an off-rock package with a 100% locking of central and rear differentials, reducing the transmission with the ability to include it while moving, protecting the crankcase and wide capabilities of clearance tuning. The anti -operating system (ASR) and emergency braking system (BAS) will help in a difficult environment, and ABS works even in Offroad mode. Automatic braking control during descent (DSR) with a switch and speed adjustment completes an impressive list of off -road options.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [October /2011]
