Jeep Grand Cherokee test drive since 2010 SUV
Jeep Grand Cherokee or Nissan Pathfinder with 3-liter diesels
Choosing between Jeep Grand Cherokee and Nissan Pathfinder, you are exhausted by the question: do you take fish to the Bolshoi Theater or go from the Bolshoi Fishing Theater? There are two cars on the market at the same price.
You look at the price list and see: in one they ask for two million with a tail and after another too. You are visited by a crazy thought: what to choose? Forget. No choice.
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Jeep Grand Cherokee began as a simple but well -equipped shepherd. He cost about 22 thousand dollars in the United States, with a carrier body had uncertain bridges and was equipped with all possible off -road options, including the front block, which today in full -time trim levels could not be found. Further, development went about the same way like a civilian car, but with a serious claim to off -road brutality. Well, then this Chumazon Ranger was brought with Mr. Daimler, and he received a fundamentally new platform in particular, an excellent, completely independent suspension. The introduction of the aggregate base from ML was an attempt by Chrysler to eradicate black PR. Too many people began to think that Grand Cherokee is suitable more for filming in retro -films, and it is better to buy modern cars from the Japanese. However, the Americans did not ceremony too much with the German inheritance: the engine, for example, stands almost under the windshield, while Mercedes-Benz Ml is lowered as low as possible. The crown of the image of the new Grand was an advanced interior decoration. Salon Sodran, so to speak, in the old Lexus. Not by direct copying, but more subtly ideologically. All their lives, the Japanese ran after the Americans, looking over their shoulder, and now the Yankees study the spirit of Lexus to stay in the stream. Will the impudent shepherd from the oil countries (main sales market) will drive the samurai rooted there? Why don't the Arab Sheikham and the Russian oligarchs transfer from Lexus to Chrysler? Somehow we ask ourselves this question, and today we are much more interesting to another opponent of Nissan Pathfinder with its gloomy finish and a harsh suspension. He is closer to the American for the price.
Entertainment.
Nissan Pathfinder, of course, is not a beach car. But he is able to delight his master
A turning point.
The geometric parameters of the American is better, but only in the configuration with air suspension. Otherwise, he loses
This model also has a curious fate. Nissan Japanese can not decide if the SUV frame is needed or not. For example, in the current generation it is present. She was not in the past. And in the one before was. But the next, which is on the way, will be removed again. The car, of course, has a lot of advantages, but it is sold in this form (restyled jokes do not count) from 2004. Alas, since then, the auto industry managed to take some new steps.
Walking dogs. The suspension moves are approximately the same, but in our time the work of anti -wings systems is more relevant
Cries and sobs
Both applicants for the throne have three -liter diesel engines. In my deep conviction, there is no better engine option for an SUV today. It is ideal by traction, having as many as 500 Newton meters, and he has a reasonable fuel consumption of about 13 liters per hundred. Acceleration at Pathfinder and Grand Cherokee is about the same eight more than eight seconds to 100 km/h, but cars are driving, of course, differently. Nissan bounces on every lying policeman and shakes on the potholes of the asphalt. Jeep forces bad areas gently and imperceptibly for passengers, as if walking along a vile carpet. The most relaxed and sleek, Grand Cherokee is not only comfortable, but also invariably breaks into the leaders. Turn on the sports regime, turning the puck on the tide of the central tunnel, pulls insurmountly and now I have already been involved in the popular Moscow game The neighboring row always goes faster. Farewell, rocking chair and meditation. Hello to sweaty everyday life with a sticky tongue.
Just like others. Why a tachometer to an automatic box?
Copypast. Land Rover infected Jeep with his puck
FORWARD AND UPWARD.
If Lexus appeared such an interior, I would not be surprised, but Jeep ...
The skin of a white bear.
White leather, black Kant in this configuration is just Range Rover
Ideal.
Transforming the salon is easy and pleasant
Nissan Pathfinder has preserved cargo genes and goes in a stream without childishness. The races are over. The adrenaline Sports button is useless to the Japanese. Playing on the driver’s seat, I felt a noticeable heaviness on the steering wheel, appreciated the tractor sound of the motor and drove like a trolley bus driver in the middle of the shift. The second trip was similar. For the third time I forced myself to annex, but stopped in five minutes. Nissan can go quickly, but for him it is unnatural. Clutch a kick-dowun, and he is tormented. Crying and gaining momentum. Accelerates and sobs.
FAPSI agents are resting
The insides of Jeep, although they give them a gypsies, but look more pleasant than Japanese and noticeably more fun. Nissan meets you with a gloomy black tint of the front panel, similar to a laptop turned inside out. There are a lot of buttons, and it’s hard to understand them on the go. I connected the phone and then tried to persuade Pathfinder for an hour not to copy my notebook, but he paralyzed the work of the cell and kept the boycott until I agreed. Even Fapsi agents do not work so rudely. Even worse with mobile connection in Jeep. You can connect with the American via Bluetooth. This is provided, but not with the help of a button, but following the commands read by a harsh female voice. For the first time he participated in such an attraction. Yes, by the way, a woman says not in Russian.
Pure style. Simplicity is Japanese
Four-wheel drive. The default is a car mode
Night on the panel.
When all the buttons are the same dark color, the chances of quickly find the necessary little on the go
Plane.
The seats are cynically deprived of even the appearance of lateral support
The third row.
Closely, but good prospect
Tough or soft?
There were even more differences on the off -road. Nissan is a simple frame SUV with the most ordinary electronics and reduced nearby in transmission. Road clearance 216 mm. Rides ingenuously and predictably. Jeep car with a load -bearing body, reduced by a number of gears and a bunch of surprises. Firstly, he has several modes in transmission snow, sand, stones, track. Having evaluated the work of engineers and programmers, I chose sports. The sand is best in the sand. In other modes you get stuck. Secondly, it has a pneumatic suspension in the Overland configuration. She is with oddities. It is necessary to raise the car only on a flat surface. It is worth crossing the wheels a little, as it goes into refusal and flashes helplessly with a light bulb.
Which of the rivals is a larger rogue? Grand Cherokee is better armed and uses the latest technologies, but at a decisive moment they can put a pig. Pathfinder is more primitive, but more reliable and predictable. Therefore, with short sorties to the off-road, I would choose Jeep, and for regular operation on off-road, Nissan is better than Nissan.
Exercises.
Outside the roads, Jeep looks like the king of the breed, you can’t write anything
Analog option.
Nissan works easier, clearer, without electronic crutches
Two manufacturers sell cars with completely different charisma and image in one price niche. One dreams of replacing Lexus, stuffed with off -road electronics, comfortable, but rides like a street racer. The other is reliable, calm, gloomy and indulges in fishermen and hunters in their passion to take more away. I am sure I do not need to appoint the winner. You already decided everything yourself. In extreme cases, you will be tormented to the end: hard or soft?
The choice of the author. What do I prefer? Naturally Jeep. Only no one is a word about it!
Organized waste. The Japanese could also get stuck, but he was just lucky
CAREFULLY! Technical details.
Nissan Pathfinder can automatically redistribute the torque between the axes. The movement on all -wheel drive can be carried out in three modes: Auto, 4n and 4LO. In the first case, the system distributes torque along the axes of the axis, depending on the condition of the road surface. In conditions of light off -road, it is recommended to switch to 4H mode. And for movement in difficult road conditions, the 4LO mode is intended. In this case (and in 4n mode), the distribution of the moment between the front and the rear axles automatically changes to a ratio of 50:50.
In Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Selec-Terrain complex allows the driver to choose to change the settings of the car under the conditions of traffic.
Selec-Terrain coordinates up to 12 different systems that control the power unit, brakes and suspension, including control of the throttle damper, switching the automatic gearbox ranges, gearboxes, an anti-bowing system and a dynamic stabilization system.
The driver can choose one of the five modes to obtain optimal running qualities on any coatings: Sand/Mud (sand/dirt), Sport (Sport), Snow (Snow), Rock (Stones), and Auto (automatic), of course.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [October/2012]
