Test Drive Land Rover Freelander LR2 since 2009 SUV
From her first person
We conducted a unique experiment and offered three diesel crossovers to tell themselves about themselves Car journalists are usually written about cars. At first glance, it is quite logical. And what if you give the opportunity to express the cars yourself? Let's spend the experiment and provide the word for three dressed in white styles: Land Rover Freelander 2, Volvo XC60 and Mercedes-Benz Glk.
It is not easy to come in a man in the age of metrosexual
Fabric and inside
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce an officer of the Armed Forces of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Flylander the second, from the clan Land Rover. Alas, or fortunately, but I didn't snuff powder in military conflicts, like my uncle defense, did not conquer the jungle Sumatra and Sakhara's sands, like the other my relatives. I serve at the headquarters, so the asphalt Oxford Street me is much closer and clearer. It is not worth it, however, think that I am from those metrosexual gentle that filled the crossovers segment recently. If you need to get into the wilderness, then it is quite forces. Take a look at my beloved bumpers and solid ground clearance. Yes, and the snow-white twentieth only underlines the beautiful shape. Solidity, confidence, honesty. These traditionally inherent in the British quality officer are easy to find in me.
Take a look at the salon! Yes, against the background of my today's rivals, I can see ascetic, but sit in the chair, and you will understand what is all the salt of this interior. All at hand, everything is intuitive. And what if the steering wheel is a beginner, and our life will depend on our mutual understanding? The large button is always easier to find than the next item of the confusing menu. What is landing! Vaughn, the ordinary stock of shirts and mobots look at the wheel not worse than another commander sit high, the elbows lie on the armrest and the windowsill, the fingers are easy to find buttons on the leather steering wheel. And in the back comfortable: let the platoon of the royal morpes and do not transport, but three civilians will easily fit. Yes, and for ammunition, sorry, there is enough luggage.
IN MOVE
Each fighter from our generic Solikhalla is always ready to show not only the skill useful skills, but also impeccable manners. With nothing that my diesel heart is not called silent, in the cabin it is practically not heard, not to mention the absence of vibrations. And how I know how to whistle! If the driver fell good to me, then God, I can keep the queen on my turbine. Well, the Grozny Ryk is if they ask very well by pressing the gas to failure. Private Shiryaev criticizes my brakes: they say, it is not easy to regulate the braking effort, as if wata under the pedal, but at our first meeting in Spain he was pleased. Maybe it's in winter tires? In bad ammunition and the most brave soldier will not do anything.
Please note how I am delicated with my passengers. Under the wheels of the pit, paving slaves, longitudinal and transverse waves of asphalt, and I only gently weening my fellow travelers. And this is in 19-inch shoes, learn! Do you think a fee for such manners will serve as helplessness in high-speed devices? Oaky! True gentleman, especially the officer, must be comprehensively developed. Yes, I'm routing. High growth, nothing to do anything. But how my wheels confidently cling to asphalt! As if Giri hung on his feet. This is our family quality inherent and elder to call members Land Rover.
But with what I have trouble, so it's with cards. On geography at the Military Academy, I, prize, I dreamed more about the girls. I can not write down the names of the streets in Russian, I can't have any new junction of Moscow, I often mistaken. Yes, and fashionable electronics did not master. Even the USB input is not. A shame, of course, but I have an excuse I am the most important age in this test. But the sound from the alpine audio system I am not worse than the premieres of the royal opera. Especially good I manage jazz. This music corresponds to my character. The same versatile and deep in its sense.
Greed is not good. Greed is what always works
Fabric and inside Let's talk about affairs, gentlemen. In my opinion, you, I am sure, I realized that I was not from those who throw words to the wind or devoting themselves to nonsense. I am a financial consultant. My task to protect the financial interests of the client, his safety and peace. In my work, the appearance is at no less important than the diploma of the prestigious university and work experience. Judge for yourself: I am inferior to me, I look at me with respect, I will immediately recognize Mercedes-Benz in me, although I am not so authoritative as my senior ML and GL partners.
Loyalty to traditions plays his important role, because behind we have 125 years of successful customer care. It is enough just to sit down in my sheltered gentle-skinned chair to understand it. The angular visor of the instruments covering simple and very clear devices, the wriggling groove of the ACP lever, the only multifunctional sweater, the traditional control of the tempoomate, as we call the cruise control, all this does not change decades. The beginners seem to be inconvenient, requiring addiction, but trying once, it is already difficult for them to refuse. After all, these solutions are checked and grapened by time. Well, where else will you find so comfortable devices that do not work out with the steering wheel? The key to success is the ability to recognize your mistakes and make proper conclusions from them. There are errors and I have: the trunk is no more than that of another golf-class hatchback, and on the rear sofa is closely, and the back is too littered back.
Mercedes-Benz was always famous for their concern about the driver. Therefore, the concern for the financial welfare of the client in unstable post-crisis conditions is part of my work. This helps me my special equipment. The thing is that I am a special series representative. So we call the configuration, in which a special set of options is selected at a special price. For a moderate fee you will get everything you need. Well, or almost everything. Of course, I have no big discs, nor navigation, no rear view camera. Even the chair back and forth you need to move manually! But there is a leather interior, heated front seats, two-zone climate control, front and rear parking sensors, electric fifth door. And to pay for such a serious set you will have to just 1 710,000 rubles. Is not a tempting transaction?
IN MOVE
My relationship with the client is primarily business. We can become good buddies and even friends, but I always keep the distance in my work. Therefore, my steering wheel may seem empty, and the operation of the automaton is not focused enough. But it is rather the foundation, I do not tolerate fuss. By the way, the machine no longer have a DRIVE position. By default, I switch transmissions in an economical mode, and when you press the button I turn into the sport. To knock me down from the outlined course will not be able to any road, no matter how threatening to me with people and cords. At the same time, the client continues to live his life, not even realizing that the track under the wheels.
People make mistakes from which I am trying to protect them. That's why you can not turn off the stabilization system and the transmission independently switched up, even in manual mode. Sometimes I still do not have enough profes-nently alert their elders. Get at least the rear-view mirror. They are too small, but still spherical in them almost nothing is visible. And they get dirty too quickly.
I used to get the most benefit out of any situation, because the money, as we know, do not sleep. My diesel engine of 2,1 liters produces 170 liters. With. less than that of the other participants of the test, but it speeds up I did not worse, and subjectively alive and British soldiery, and Swedish blondes. And with fuel economy I have everything in order for more than 12 liters per 100 km never rose, and in fact an Englishman and a Swede, on the other hand, less than 12 liters are not drinking. Drink addiction as they do not understand.
Models of fools? this stereotype is stupid, like all stereotypes
Fabric and inside Hey! It's time for a real star. This means that before you tall blonde with unexpectedly high IQ. No doubt you have already appreciated my good looks. But good, I'm not just outside. Look in the salon. Do you often manage to see such an elegant combination of leather, wood and aluminum? No wonder that I shone at the Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow. However, I, as befits a star, set an example of caring for nature: synthetic leather and wood. They do not cause allergic reactions, so the Swedish Association of Allergy and Asthma awarded me the title of the sterile vehicle.
And as you are stylish and at the same time successful solutions Interior designers like floating center console and climatic man? For the new season, I updated my wardrobe after a slight restyling. Among the new things the new central display, which now shows all the information of the climate and audio systems, navigation, and all the car setup.
IN MOVE
I am not in vain praised my IQ. Such a number of modern electronics is not easy to master and send a representative class, not to mention cute young crossovers. On the wrists mirrors of the rear view of the radar system of scanning the blind zones BLIS. Moreover, the light indicators that light up when approaching the back of the machine are not located in the mirrors, like competitors, and in the corner of the door glass inside, they can be seen by side vision, even when you look straight. But my special pride is active cruise control. At speeds from 30 to 200 km / h I know how to reset the speed when approaching ahead of the reaching car, and if the companion will slow down enough smoothly, then I can independently stop completely. If the stop lasts less than 3 seconds, then I also start the start. Otherwise, you will have to click on the recovery button of cruise control or click on gas and I will again take the management of yourself. There is also a Queue Assist system or creeping cruise control, which allows me to move up to 30 km / h to move in traffic jams, accelerate, brake and keep the distance. But my main pride is City Safety. At speeds up to 30 km / h I will stop at the event of the danger of the accident, even if you did not activate any cruise control. And this system is absolutely all of my XC60 sisters even in the basic configuration! Do you think I take too much? Throw, in Sweden feminism has long been the norm of life.
But for what I am not created is for rural life. These terrible journalists forced me to climb on a steep and dirty hillside. Of course, I desarmed: He climbed the leg, it would still be, a little skirt of the front bumper did not tear up. After all, I'm not too much because I want to climb on the villagers. Just the heels put on the beauty and effect, and they immediately in the dirt immediately. Oh, these men! And the next day I was on the racing track. He worked like Camera-Car from my trunk photographer made shooting for the Adrenaline rubric. I had to activate the Advanced mode of its electronic controlled Four-C shock absorbers. These shock absorbers seem to be a good thing, but journalists are unhappy: they say, too tough me in any mode. And what to do, the harsh life of the star causes.
Summary
Well, our heroes spoke, now it's time and tell me a few words. They are different, so each of them finds its customers. Freelander is a real colonel, even if there are not so many spars, like Discovery. It is simple, but is understandable and reliable. With it, you can drive around the city, and to move on the light off-road. Behind his wide back, any woman will feel safe, and men will find a friend in it, whose shoulder can be rearred in a difficult moment. GLK real Mercedes. If you do not like his removal and coldness means, you have never had Mercedes-Benz. After trying once, it is already difficult to refuse from the machines with a three-beam star, and a special series makes this purchase not only pleasant, but also profitable.
But the main star of the test for me is Volvo. The electronics level of the electronics, stylish, not to the detriment of the comfort, the interior, the best motor and the reference sound of the musical system. I fell in love with this car. The main thing is not to forget that the XC60, despite the common platform with the Freelander, is primarily a passenger car.
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