Land Rover Discovery LR4 test drive since 2009 SUV
Revaluation of valuables
What do you think in Scotland is more useful, 510 horses under the hood of the updated Range Rover Sport SuperchaRged or 250 mm of the Land Rover Discovery 4 road clearance?
I will say right away: both parameters are useless, but the size matters!
Range Rover Sport conquers not so much dynamics as the royal interior
Any person who gets from left -handed Europe into the wrong Britain is inevitably shocked, trying to overcome his rusted driver's instincts. And if it is difficult to deal with a straightforward and circular movement, but it is possible, then, then to the amazingly narrow suburban paths, apparently, under the riders, it is extremely not easy to get used to it. And most importantly, it becomes immediately clear why England became the birthplace of the legendary mini
Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h is only half the case, after all, the car must also be stopped. Problems with brakes are not uncommon among fast and heavy SUVs. Checked: Range Rover Sport from 140 km/h to 0 besieges perfectly
A winding path, narrow so much that the two oncoming cars are led back, jumping off the left side from asphalt to the ground and occasionally clinging roadside bushes. There is nowhere to hurry, a herd of five hundred and ten horses peacefully dozing under the hood, and behind the window there are monotonously flashed amazingly combed and wrapped with barbed wire of the meadow with phlegmatically grazing sterile sheep. Idyll of the Old World. A steep turn, a passenger car appears unexpectedly, and in a passing direction, like evil, I catch up with the cyclist to slow down late, you need one miraculously squeezed into the remaining slot on the giant Range Rover Sport Malevore. The white old woman who followed me on Rav4. The oncoming car was persistently pushed to the side of the road, and the Range Rover Sport's left mirror was gently folded about the back of a peacefully pedaling cyclist. He did not even move. Needless to say, I was a couple of centimeters from acquaintance with local justice.
Nevertheless, it is on such narrow paths that you can feel the agility of the mighty V8, which responds to any stroking the accelerator pedal with temperamental, but soft jump forward. Without fuss, but also without hope for others: acceleration to hundreds in 6.2 seconds for albeit firmware, but still a chest is a very good indicator. A heavy SUV is very tenacious behind the road, small rolls, there is a feedback tangibly on the steering wheel, I want to sprinkle and sprinkle at the exit from the turns, not afraid of the lack of brake path before the next bend of the Driver Car canvas? Still not, but breathtaking! It was this asphalt side of the off -road life that engineers paid special attention to adding a special Dinamic mode to the Terran Response system. The most tangible difference between the new Sport and the old, in my opinion, is more confident, elastic and energy -intensive tread. The car became more assembled and acquired in comfort.
Already in the evening, at dinner, I asked a direct question for the chief designer of Land Rover Jerry McGovern, who moves in everyday life just at Range Rover Sport Supercharger: can he at least somewhere to realize the colossal power of his SUV? He pulled his gaze, withstood a long pause and squeezed out a sincere confession: I know a couple of places where you can fearlessly accelerate without fear of video cameras. Poor people who create magnificent cars and I am to Russia, I want to go home!
Credit for Land Rover Holy Cow, it will not be offended by controllability
With impassability, it simply is not even more complicated here. More precisely, it is, but all the congresses from the asphalt are blocked by fences and barriers, and even to arrange photography on the grass is unrealistic. In such extreme conditions, it would be necessary to tasting the habits of new products, if it were not for the agreements with local farmers and landowners, who generously allowed us to ride their own non -ambient pieces of foggy albion. Outside of public roads, the Range Rover Sport from the highway is reborn into a full -fledged SUV, the main thing is not to climb into all heavy. The track turned out to be very sophisticated, without discounts and unnecessary precautions. There were also steep descents into the water when the car literally falls into the river and beats his face on the water, there were fords, there was even a swamp in which some crews needed the help of a cable English car, say? Perhaps, but with the Russian character and for the Russian open spaces, whoever says anything! By the way, it was precisely why I forgot to mention the diesel Range Rover Sport: the entire Sport is immediately evaporated and only Range Rover remains.
In parallel with the Range Rover Sport display, the British showed the world and the latest Land Rover Discovery 4. In fact, we have before us the evolution of the 3rd series: a minimum of external changes, but in a technical plan, the SUV is shift in the full program. The most important and interesting are the motors, and it is here that diesel enters the forefront. Disco, inherently, the car is more practical, utilitarian and off-road, and if you choose between a 5-liter hopeless gasoline V8 and the latest 3.0 kerosene turbodiesel looks more preferably. I apologize, I said the utilitarian demon was bewildered! The completely redrawn interior is truly magnificent, the hard plastic parts and corners have gone the past, now all the lines are smooth, the fitting of the parts is impeccable, and most importantly the car is perceived very expensive, there is no shadow of the feeling that they saved you.
It would be naive to assume that becoming more powerful and luxurious, cars with a green oval will retain their previous prices. The new price has grown by an average of 20%
Ergonomics are familiar, except that the rows of buttons are now the secondary functions are now controlled through the central display. The Terrain Response puck moved to a more logical place, and now you do not need to squint at it, distracting from the road and unnaturally bend your hand for manipulations. Otherwise, the good old Discovery, which is just wonderful.
Despite the abundance of winged metal in the design, Land Rover weighs three tons, but the lightness that Biturbodiesel's thrust gives is fascinating. Together with a six -speed automatic, the flow of energy is practically inextricable, and the absence of frantic jerks is in perfect harmony with the imposition and smoothness of reactions. Well, fuel consumption cannot but rejoice: exceeding the bar 15 liters by a hundred is extremely difficult, regardless of the piloting mode. More precisely, maneuvering.
As for off -road, everything is familiar here, and the difference in the new and old firmware Terran Response can be felt only by transplanting from the car to the car.
Closing the steep ravines of the Scottish province, the instructors persistently proposed to turn on the stones mode, then to evaluate the function that extinguishes the primary inertia, when the car dives down from the mountain, and Hill Descent Control has not yet realized that it was time to control the movement under the slope and in the meantime I nostalgic Iron SUVs controlled by the power of reason and will. But then yesterday, and this is a new reality.
Source: Cars
