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Correct Mazda CX-5 against the beautiful Citroone Aircons

Mazda CX-5 and Citroen Aircons differ from each other as a soldier from a marquitter. When choosing between them, pay attention to the design, effort on the steering wheel and the softness of the suspension ... Most of today's crossovers are so ugly that they save us from a painful choice between the creations of Raphael and Leonardo.


We come to the car dealership, where we look at the works of modern automobile design made by the hands of Lady Gaga and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. If I want to buy something decent, I should look towards the VW-Audi concern, which in recent years has become attractive simply because I did not shy away from the side from side to side. Well, the lovers of the beautiful today remain one way Citroeon. In terms of appearance, AricCross wins Mazda CX-5 with his opponent. Yes, there is an opinion that the CX-5 is pretty. This is so, but only from a strictly defined angle. It is worth going around it from all sides and make out in detail, charm disappears as quickly as the aroma of a fake bergamot. Citroeon, on the contrary, is good, from where you look: and lying on the asphalt into the insole drunk, and running past in the sneakers, and hanging on top by helicopter.


Variator suffering.
The Frenchman does not allow the off -road to feel confident


Azart.
Mazda with its classic automatic transmission gives a few minutes of delight until the coupling is overgrown

Beauty requires
I am writing a point in favor of the Frenchman not only because of appearance. Inside, he is also better. Here you can pat me on the shoulder and in a friendly way to remind me: he has an interior from Mitsubishi ASX. I know, but Citroeon added something. Very little. Little things. Slightly changed the color and texture of some details. Little corrected the shape of individual elements. And it began to play. You look at this interior and feel the fluids of the nascent flirting. First, this car winks with emblem on the horn, and then playfully smiles at the rim of the steering wheel, especially for this equipped with a glossy insert in the lower part. And, when he already understands that she has taken possession of your attention, it takes the ears of the petals of manual transfers, ready to hear a compliment. She is sweet, sociable and unusually alive. The slanting wells of devices are like daring sunglasses, three rounds of climate regulators as bright beads. A finished image that does not require excuses. Explanations are needed by the interior Mazda because he is unwilling and boring. Just do not reproach the Japanese for this, they are not fools, and not hesitated to score your head with terms like ZoM-Zum-Karakuri-Skay-Activa. But what do these concepts do not mean without presentation, press release and colored booklet? Citroeon speaks with you in the Language of the flirting, lowering the words. Everything is clear.


Runway. If it lits, you can drive as close as possible to the water, but only if there is enough space for overclocking


Without a sneak. The Frenchman is good from any side


The right angle. Our photographer is invariably flattered by our models, a very kind person

Wlying childish
To compare the Mazda CX-5 and Citroone Aircons, we were forced by the rapid growth of the new segment of sneakers of crossovers up to 4.5 meters and a motor volume of not more than two liters. The number of players in it increases year from year to year. Prices are approximately the same. What are the selection criteria? You will burden in the table of technical characteristics and freeze: there are 150 horsepower at six thousand revolutions and there is absolutely the same. In one independent pendants and in the other. True, they differ on the go. Aircross ride is sweeping, impudent. He floats between the cones, forcing you to twist the steering wheel to a big degree, sometimes even with an interception. He introduced me into a state that I would call me imposing childhood. Then I moved to Mazda. As if flew out of the club and found himself in the barracks. It seems as if they took me by the shoulders and squeezed a little from the sides. CX-5 rides on the snake much more clearly. The chassis is sporting. The steering wheel requires minimal angles. The car is ideal. Having felt such a serious difference in the chassis settings, I even recorded Mazda in the favorites of a duel with a sinful thing. But he hurried. Although the Japanese really received a point in the asphalt stand.


Plagiarism.
The front panel design in places naively tries to be like BMW


Impression. Devices look modern, but boring


Will not help. Blocking a full -wheel drive clutch is absent as a class


Armenian salon. This is what they called a package with white skin in the distant nineties


The palm tree will fit.
The central section is formed separately

Minus to everyone
In the sands of the Moscow Region CX-5, I went more confidently AricCross. At first. The fact is that Mazda is equipped with a classic automatic. The variator shoved the variator in Citrooen, and on the off -road he, alas, does not like the best assistant of large loads. Where it is necessary to give up sharply, he suddenly begins to protect himself. We drilled the sands for a long time, but in excursion mode. Then they could not stand it and rushed to compete who will perform a safer in the beach race. Three minutes later, Mazda got up. I have never seen a clutch of all -wheel drive to overheat so quickly. Citrooon also did not act much. I drove without enthusiasm. But always and everywhere, without stopping. Electronics guarded his vulnerable variator and did not allow raising speed above two thousand. Honestly, both opponents disappointed me, so I recorded in this round glasses equally in minus to everyone.


Who has longer. I completely agree with you: two exhaust pipes are always cooler than one

If you followed the course of comparison, then you understand that there is a draw. Having won the design, the Frenchman lost in the sports standings. The Japanese, not shining with either an exterior or interior, compensated for exercises at the asphalt training ground. At the same time, both lost off -road. Who to give the main prize? When I was already going to the representative office to give one of the cars, suddenly everything in me rebelled against Mazda. Why on earth should I ride in a quasimodnaya SUV, which can not stand and three minutes of the axle box in the sand, when there is a beautiful outside and inside Citroeon, which can be left on the parking lot in front of the beach? I respect the CX-5 for a sports chassis, but I can’t stand the heavy steering wheel and pickers from cracks in the asphalt. I like a relaxed, more comfortable Aircross driving manner. The French added a little to Mitsubishi ASX, but got to the very point. For Mitsubishi asx, I would not give a voice.


Pure flirting.
The front panel of Bodra, talkative and playful


Devices.
Energetic perirable style


Four-wheel drive. Any parquet regimes are available


General carriage. You don’t really go for a lot here, but not crowded. Only a little flat


Transformation. The flat floor, as always, deserves the maximum 5 points with us

CAREFULLY! Technical details
Citroone C4 Aircons has a Mitsubishi Outlander XL platform (analogue C-Crosser and Peugeot 4007) with the same base of 2670 mm. The length of the car was reduced from 4646 to 4340 mm. The road clearance changed a couple of centimeters per minus (195 mm), and the car itself became 45 mm lower than the full -format original. The drive here is also the front, the rear wheels are connected if necessary. As a checkpoint either a variator or a five -speed mechanics. The road clearance is sufficient, the overhangs are short plus. The main transfer and power unit does not have protection, and the suspension has a short move. To connect the rear wheels, an electropated multi -disable clutch is used. The switch next to the lever gearbox provides a choice of three modes: 2WD, 4WD and Lock.


Capable. Inside is 150 horsepower. Acceleration to hundreds in 9.8 seconds


Behind. Aircons has the same power, but it gets to 100 km/h in 10.9 seconds

In Mazda CX-5, to increase the moment on the bottoms and achieve high efficiency, the degree of compression was raised to a size, which is more characteristic of racing agaragates. And in order to defeat the detonation, I had to change the length of the exhaust manifold, make recesses in the pistons and put the device for a change in the duration of the opening of the valves. The machine combines the advantages of the variator and double clutch boxes can be blocked in the entire speed range in all six gears. This gives a feeling of direct connection with the wheels.


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [November/2012]