Test drive Land rover Discovery LR4 SUV in 2009
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Do you think that in Scotland is more useful, 510 horses under the hood of the updated Range Rover Sport Supercharged and 250 mm of ground clearance Land Rover Discovery 4?
I have to say: both parameters are useless, but size does matter!
Range Rover Sport wins not only the dynamics of how the royal interior
Anyone entering from LHD Europe in the wrong UK, inevitably experiencing shock, trying to overcome their rusted driving instincts. And if the straight and circular motion to understand difficult, but possible, that's a surprisingly narrow countryside lanes, designed, apparently under the riders get used extremely simple. And most importantly, it becomes immediately clear why England was the birthplace of the legendary Mini
Acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h is only half the battle, because the car is necessary also to stop. Problems with the brakes is not uncommon among the fast and heavy SUVs. Checked: Range Rover Sport from 140 km / h to 0 fine precipitates
A winding path, so narrow that two oncoming cars are leaving very tightly, leaping left side of the pavement on the ground, and occasionally catching roadside bushes. Hurry, herd of five hundred and ten horses peacefully dozing under the hood, and outside the window flashed amazingly monotone combed and rolled up in barbed wire meadows with grazing sterile phlegmatic sheep. The idyll of the Old World. A sharp turn toward the passenger car suddenly appears, and in the same direction, as an evil, I catch a cyclist Braking late is one thing you need some miracle to squeeze into the remaining gap at the Giant Range Rover Sport Maneuver maybe they diverged forced to turn gray all around, including the ash- white old lady, follow me on RAV4. Counter machine was persistently pushed to the side, and the left mirror Range Rover Sport gently folded on the back peacefully pedaliruet cyclist. He did not move. Needless to say, I was in a couple of centimeters from the acquaintance with the local justice.
Nevertheless, it is precisely on such narrow paths that the mighty v8 should be observed, which responds to any stroking of the accelerator pedal with temperamental, but mildly jump forward. Without a fuss, but without hope for others: overclocking until hundreds for 6.2 seconds for albeit with the ground, but still the chest is a very good figure. The heavy SUV is very tenaciously held by the road, the rolls are small, there is a feedback on the steering wheel, there is a feedback, at the outlet of the turns, I want to argue and argue, without fearing the lack of a braking path before the next bend of the Driver CAR cloth? Yet no, but the spirit captures! It was this, the asphalt side of the off-road life engineers paid special attention by adding a special Dinamic mode to the Terrain Response system. The most tangible difference between the new Sport from the old, in my opinion, is more confident, elastic and energy-intensive fee. The car has become collected and acquired in comfort.
Already in the evening, at dinner, I asked a direct question to the chef designer of the company Land Rover Jerry McGovern, moving in everyday life just on Range Rover Sport Supercharger: Can it at least realize the colossal power of his SUV somewhere? He posted a look, stood up a long pause and squeezed out sincere recognition: I know a couple of places where you can disperse safely, without fear of camcorders. Poor people who create magnificent cars and I want to go home!
Patency for the Land Rover Sacred Cow, it will not be offended by handling
With off-road even more difficult, it is simply not here. More precisely, it is, but all the congresses from the asphalt are blocked by fences and barriers, and even arrange a photographing on the grass is unrealistic. Here in such extreme conditions and would have to taste the habits of new products, if there were no agreements with local farmers and landowners who generously allowed us to ride on their own unconfalined pieces of foggy albion. Outside the overall road roads, Range Rover Sport from a highway car is reborn into a full-fledged SUV, the main thing is not to climb into all the grave. The track was very sophisticated, without discounts and extra precautions. There were also cool descents into the water when the car literally falls into the river and beats the muzzle about the water, there were brodes, it was even a swamp in which some crews needed helping the cable English car, say? Perhaps, but with Russian character and for Russian expanses, whoever spoke! By the way, it was because I forgot to mention the diesel Range Rover Sport: All Sport immediately evaporates and only Range Rover remains.
In parallel with the Range Rover Sport show, the British showed the world and the newest Land Rover Discovery 4. In essence, we have the evolution of the 3rd series: external changes to the minimum, but in technical terms the SUV moved to the full program. The most important thing and interesting are the motors, and it is here that diesel comes to the foreground. Disco is inherently more practical, utilitarian and off-road, and if you choose between a 5-liter undeading gasoline V8 and the newest Turbodiesel 3.0 kerosene looks more preferably. I apologize, I said the utilitarian coffee toward! Fully removed interior is truly magnificent, rigid plastic parts and corners went into the past, now all lines smooth, fitting the parts is impeccable, and the main thing car is perceived very expensive, the shadow of the feeling that they saved on you.
It would be naive to assume that it becomes more powerful and luxurious, cars with green oval will retain previous prices. New price rose by an average of 20%
Ergonomics is familiar, except that the ranks of the buttons of the minor functions are now managed through the central display. The Terrain Response washer moved to a more logical place, and now you don't need to muck on it, distracting from the road and unnaturally bending your hand for manipulations. Otherwise, good Discovery, which is just wonderful.
Despite the abundance of the winged metal in the design, Land Rover weighs under three tons, but the ease that the biturbodiesel thrust gives, fascinates. Together with a six-speed automata, the stream of energy is practically inseparable, and the lack of mad jerks perfectly harmonizes with the impulvagement and smooth reactions. Well, the fuel consumption can not but rejoice: exceed the line of 15 liters per hundred is extremely difficult, regardless of the piloting mode. More precisely avalange.
As for off-road, everything is used here, and the difference in the new and old firmware Terrain Response can be felt, only transplancing from the car into the car.
Rolling on the cool ravines of the Scottish province, the instructors then persistently proposed to turn on the stones mode, then evaluate the function to the primary inertia when the car dives down the mountain, and Hill Descent Control has not yet realized that it is time to control the movement for a bias. And in the meantime, nostalgic Iron SUVs managed by the power of mind and will. But yesterday, and this is a new reality.
A source: Cars
