Land Rover Discovery LR4 test drive since 2009 SUV
Potential difference
Auto-manufacturers love to create legend cars. After all, cars are best sold precisely in packaging from beautiful fairy tales Toyota and Land Rover have their own image traditions. We decided to get acquainted with their characters named Prado 150 and Discovery 4.
As you know, an ideal long-term advertising strategy systematically and persistently zombie the mass-consumer consciousness in any beautiful way. Moreover, to reality, he may not have any concern. As a result, the buyer will receive a doubtful value of the opportunity to enjoy joining legends. In the case of Toyota, tradition is formulated as traditional reliability and quality. At Land Rover, we have a premium SUV self -proclaimed to the impossibility of. It seemed to us not highlighted to compare the products of two approaches to the legendary auto building of Japanese and British. Perhaps the author of these lines was lucky, but he has happiness to communicate simultaneously with a couple of friends representing the warring parties. One of them is so obsessed with drinkers that a large photograph of his DISSO, framed in a romantically designed frame, takes a strategic position on his desktop. And this despite the fact that he did not hold any photo images of his wife, children, mother and other relatives. It is clear that in its presence even the name of the brand is supposed to be pronounced only with a breath. And it’s better not to remember in vain at all. Since the key phrase Land Rover turns a sane, consisting in a person’s life with a couple of diplomas of upper education in a typical representative of a totalitarian sect, ready to destroy the brain to the first countership. The familiar Toyokomanak behaves almost similarly. The only difference is that Toyota Land Cruiser and Toyota Land Cruiser Prado act as an icon in the Leninist room of his consciousness. There are no photos of the beloved Prado on its table, but with foam at the mouth to prove that on the asphalt, Toyota SUVs are better than the BMW and Mercedes praised sedans, this is always please. And at any time of the day or night. Once I had a wild thought to introduce these two madmen. At the moment when they were represented to each other, the author of these lines clearly understood what an officer should feel, pressing the Strategic missile launch button: I unleashed the third world! The reader, if you look forward to that a description of the bloody fight of two religious fanatics will go further, you will have to experience brutal disappointment. The apologists of Toyota and Land Rover all evening disgustingly peacefully drank beer and only condescendingly nodded in response to standard Toyota and Landru fuel slogans of each other. And they parted in general almost the best friends. That disgustingly calm meeting gave rise to an indefatigable desire to bring together Land Rover Discovery 4 and Toyota Prado 150 and to understand why the evening show failed.
It is enough to just look at the Land Rover Discovery 4 and Toyota Prado 150, like all of them, so to say, conceptual differences will be in the palm of your hand. The rectangular-chopped appearance of Discovery is replete with emphasized sharp lines. This impression is only slightly smoothed out by a peculiar form of glazing of the fifth door and head optics, as if stuffed with silver bubbles of round lenses. However, this is hardly a self -wound triumph of geometry is unlikely to amaze anyone. Outwardly, Discovery 4, in fact, is nothing more than serious restyling of the body of the previous, third generation of the model. But for a fan of photos of his car on the table, this is even good!
Speaking about the appearance of Toyota Prado 150, the new word can be used without additional reservations and explanations. As always, the exterior of Land Cruiser Prado is perceived as the light version of his older brother Land Cruiser. Of course, the obvious continuity of design with the previous Prado can be traced, but no more. The off -road image of the machine sticks out through the muscular stamping of the metal of the sides, visually massive bumers and the severity of the glazing contours. Even the block fara, that the front ones, that the hind ones, as if they were pumped with steroids so textured they bubble.
Since both Discovery 4, and Prado 150 are also positioned as serious crooks, both of them are equipped with three -liter turbodiesella, pneumatic control systems, blockers of all kinds of differentials and lowering transmissions. With one movement of even a female finger, you can seriously increase the already considerable clearance of cars or block the differential. Note that the English car performs the exercise to sit down and stand more briskly. It may seem that technically the machines are identical. But literally the first press on the accelerator pedal will place everything in places: Land Rover Discovery 4 is equipped with the latest 245-horsepower diesel engine, and Toyota Prado 150 with a quite ordinary turbodiesel with a capacity of 173 hp. For all operating conditions of Prado, the capabilities of the latter are enough for the eyes, but with the dynamics of Discovery 4, as you know, it cannot be compared by definition. What surprised was the efficiency of the English engine. By logic, almost 70-horsepower superiority should require increased fuel consumption must also be energy out of something. But no! Under identical conditions of operation of two cars (a trip along a suburban highway, primer, crush in city traffic jams, etc.), a more powerful Discovery motor at an average of 12.5 liters of diesel fuel per hundred kilometers, and the Prado onboard computer showed about 14 liters.
We make a reservation that we did not put the tasks of planting cars in the most deep swamp in front of us. But regarding the off -road capabilities of cars, the impression was that in most average situations they are worthy of each other. Land Rover unequivocally leads on the highway, not only in the category of dynamic indicators, but also from the point of view of controllability, as well as a general sensation of contact with the machine. You should thank for this not only a cunning suspension, but also an adaptive 6-speed automatic transmission. Toyota seemed simpler a guy not only on the go. Land Rover would not be Land Rover if his salon did not convince the car owner every minute that he was driving a pathos car. If the car is for you the main thing, the leather is a role, everything is most likely to buy Discovery without even starting its motor. The design of the salon looks, of course, Bagato, but he is an amateur. The simpler solutions of the Prado interior seem somehow more honest. And accommodating in his back seat, you find that the distance between your knees and the driver's seat is a little more. Yes, and about the legendary quality of Land Rover, who came to us for the Discovery 4 test did not fail to remind. The dismantling of the sliding curtain, as it turned out, was a mistake. When trying to put her in place, she erupted a bunch of spare parts. It was not difficult to cope with the wayward detail of the interior, but, as they say, the sediment remained
It is impossible not to mention the main prices for these all -terrain vehicles. In the Land Rover Discovery 4 Land Rover 4 with a 241-horsepower turbodiesel, you can order at a price of 2.6 million rubles, and the price tags of the Toyota Prado diesel 150 start with 1.8 million rubles. Is there a difference in the consumer characteristics of machines of almost a million rubles? Answer this question with one hundred percent confidence only fanatical fans of brands
SPECIFICATIONS
Toyota Prado150
Mass (kg) 2125
Trunk volume (L) 1041834
Working engine volume (cm3) 2982
Max. Power (L.S.) 173
Max. Twisting the moment (Nm) 410
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 175
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 11.7
Cf. fuel consumption (l/100 km) 10.4
Price (million rubles) from 1.8
SPECIFICATIONS
Land Rover Discovery 4
Mass (kg) 2486
Trunk volume (L) 2802560
Engine operating (cm3) 2993
Max. Power (L.S.) 241
Max. Twist the moment (Nm) 600
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 180
Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 9.6
Cf. fuel consumption (l/100 km) 11.2
Price (million rubles) from 2.6
Source: MKOMBILA magazine [August/2010]
