Test Drive Land Rover Defender 110 since 2007 SUV

Test Drive Land Rover Defender 110 Fire: Exact Tank

In the Land Rover family, rich and comfortable British, next to the Discovery, Range Rover and Freelander models, the Defender model looks like a reception child.

If two first sons, which have become successful clerks, white collars, then Defender, as if they called the parents, chose a career outside the office and even outside the cities. He is a military or geologist, traveler or naturalist. His world nature, his road is often only directed by compass.

At the end of winter, when ruddy wipers are looking forward to spring heat, naively hoping that it, like a soldering lamp, will immediately melt the snow: lazily cast an ice crust in places, where the person does not steal the leg of a person, we deliberately decided to take the Land Rover Defender. His abilities are more in demand in the city at this time. Near the house and office have long been called a couple of parking spaces, the will of the destroyed by impassable snow and ice stones. Do not even risk to climb even the SUVs with a reputation, where are ordinary cars? But Defender, I am almost sure, will conquer these yard Alps without difficulty.

Ohgra on aluminum
We are accustomed to see the workhower-Defender, dressed in non-lard paint. And it is not surprising: gray and black colors are optimal for a car born to knead the wheels of clay and stones. But our 5-door Defender 110 was not one of the execution of Fire (limited series), the brutal SUV is dressed in an expensive and bright sports suit, like gloves and sunglasses. He feels in a close city transportation no longer superfluous, and his own, and even dictating fashion trends. Touch your head in front of the most modern cars. The original painting was helped by the original painting: a combination of orange (fire in the jungle) Metallic vesuvius color on the side and bottomless black santorini metal on the roof, hood, radiator grille and wheeled arches.

In the best traditions of sporting car design, the contrasting theme of the exterior is present in the SUV cabin: an orange dashboard, as a fireplace in the London mansion lights, standing nearby armchairs, covered with gray skin Alcantara in the center and black on the edges. On the head restraint, as if the coat of arms of the ancient genus, the embossed Land Rover logo is shown. However, an angular appearance, glazing with absolutely straight glasses, which, if necessary, can be cut on their own from the plexiglass, and obvious relationship with the forefatheman of the 1948 release, issue a simple shirt-guy in Defender.

Strong for the ram
By purchasing bright appearance to the impressive size, Defender attracts attention. They do not look at him, as in the village and respect for innate strength and oblique sashen in the shoulders. It looks harmonious and confidently keeps in the left row on Kutuzovsky Avenue: despite only 122 leisurely heavy diesel horses under the hood, the SUV pretty quickly gains a speed of 120 km / h. Perhaps, it is this speed that can be called the most comfortable for movement along the asphalt, although the speedometer in Defender is marked up to the ambitious figure of 200.
Test Drive Land Rover Defender 110 Fire

SUV management separate history. Comparisons with passenger cars or parcktails are unacceptable. Defender is a truck-all-terrain truck. Its large steering wheel, by the way, the skin-skinned with a stylish string must be kept by two hands, periodically releasing the right hand to switch the transmission on a 6-speed manual transmission. Frame car, which means hard. The junctions of the road canvase on the TTK he feels acute, a little disguised with the whole body away from the virage. Do you think it strains? Not at all. It's fun! And when you go to Defefe from asphalt, the soul fills the feeling of deep satisfaction: you feel that the boundaries of achievable significantly moved away. Dirt, stones, snow, the ferrod is all that earlier you can wrap the tourist shoes, now you can overcome on wheels. Of course, it is impossible without off-road tires, winches, shovels, chains on wheels and cables throw in any pool, but even in the Civile Defender is capable of a lot in this car can come to the comfort of a threatened land to 7 people, and the weight of the trailer can choose Reach 3.5 T (hummer with people on board).


Exactly tank
Despite the mass of positive moments, it is impossible to say that Defender car without flaws. Such ascetic cannot satisfy all the needs of a person in comfort, remind you that this is primarily all-terrain vehicle. Noise insulation of thin doors mediocre, therefore the rocity of the economical low-speed turbodiesel does not muffle even the audio system (simple, by the way). Despite the seeming massiveness, the car is narrow, so, sitting on a fairly close driver's seat, you have a challenge yourself a door on the rear pocket of jeans. But lovers to set the elbow into the window, for sure, they will appreciate the proximity of the door to the seat of the lower edge of the window is designed to serve as the driver of the armrest. The stove is sleeping for a long time and, moreover, it is not capable of hardly heating the interior, because of what the windows are fisted. However, all of the above can be called disadvantages only in comparison with comfortable cars.

I instantly forgot about easy discomfort in the Land Rover Defender salon, when, parked at the entrance to the impassible snowdrift and coming out of the car, heard the neighbor's opinion. The old man, satisfiedly shaking his head and, exhausted thick cloud of smoke cheap cigarettes, tangible with a saturated bass said: exactly tank!.

Car characteristics:
* Permanent four-wheel drive
* 2,4-liter diesel engine develops torque in 360 N ∙ m.
* 6-speed transmission. 2-speed dispensing box with inter-axis differential lock
* Traction effort up to 3500 kg
* Spring front and rear suspension with continuous bridges
* Box-section spar
* power steering
* rear window with washer / cleaner
* folding average seat-sofa (60:40)
* Adjustment of the direction of light headlights depending on the load
* Additional luggage fastening elements
* The first transfer of a lower row provides a movement at extremely low speed, facilitating the touch on the off-road or when towing a heavy trailer.

Price tested version - 1,315 000 r.


Posted by: Dmitry Lipkin


 

A source: Business Autoclub