Test drive Mazda CX-7 2007-2009 SUV

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Mazda CX-7

At first, everything in this car causes bewilderment and even irritation. A decent equipped mass and a hard suspension make each pebble on the road feel. Swift, as if in a sports car, the tilt of the front racks reduces the possibility of viewing, as well as the narrowed window neckline of the rear doors.
But all questions disappear ten minutes after you find yourself on a high -speed highway. The key to solving this unusual car speedometer car. Where normal machines have a number 50, Mazda CX-7 has a hundred. Well, where the clock is noon, and on an ordinary car is a hundred, there is two hundred with a tail.

Small speeds seem to not exist for this machine, especially since it is not so easy to consider on the speedometer. Therefore, not in everything comfortable and slightly sluggish in the city, in traffic jams, the CX-7 instantly comes to life on the highway. And it lights so that it will not seem a little. On the maximum 180 km/h comes so fast that you do not have time to notice. So if you are used to rushing, this car is created for you. Under one condition, the experience and skills of driving a crossover are necessary. The capabilities of the CX-7 and the temptation to use them are too great.

Another trump card is a high landing. In combination with excellent accelerated dynamics driving this car, you become a real king of roads. It’s a pleasure to maneuver in the stream on the Moscow Ring Road. A 2.3 liter turbocharged engine responds to each gas pedal with such enthusiasm that I involuntarily want to add more. Wherein

the brake dynamics is in no way inferior to the accelerated, but the machine for its equipped mass of 1800 kg and the high and voluminous body is just excellent. By the way, in this high-speed mode, a hard-minded suspension is also in this high-speed mode.
By the way, the seven uses the same power unit as on sports models Mazda3 MPS and Mazda6 MPS. As a result, acceleration to hundreds of only 8.3 s. In addition to this, an automatic six -speed sport at gearbox has a manual switching mode, which allows you to most fully senses the dynamics of acceleration.
Special praise of aerodynamics. With all due respect to the now fashionable crossovers and parking lots, not to mention large and solid jeeps, they usually fit into the air flow at high speed. More precisely by whistling. But the point is not even cacophonic

this even excites and entertains musical accompaniment. Large and high cars for the masses clearly uncomfortably feel in the air stream, and this sensation over time is inevitably transmitted to the driver. The CX-7 is practically deprived of this drawback, thanks to the form of the body, which is still unusual for machines and thereby sportingly bent front racks, which at first causes deaf irritation. At the maximum speed with the cabin, silence, and the air flow does not discard, but carefully flows your car so that sometimes there is a feeling that you are no longer driving, but soar above the ground.

But you, fortunately, are still on earth, and not in heaven. And a rapidly falling down shooter of the fuel pointer in the tank instantly returns you to the most prosaic issues. Perhaps if 60 go to the city, and on the highway does not exceed 90 km/h, the average consumption will be declared 11.5 liters. But where will you find such lean

drivers? And the speedometer on the seven is very inconvenient for low speeds. So in the end, less than 14 liters per 100 km does not work out in any way, if you believe the on -board computer. But this, if you figure it out, is not such a large figure for a car with such a mass and a turbocharged engine.
A few words about intra -tower amenities. The designers also tried to save the time of the driver and passengers, so the rear seats, for example, are folded in one movement. The floor length after this increases by one meter, and as a result, even a bicycle can be placed in the luggage compartment.
In general, the cabin is very spacious, including thanks to the mowing windshield and a huge space above the torpedo. The inevitable sacrifice of this design is small triangular windows in the front racks. This, of course, is a purely decorative element, since it is almost impossible to consider through these openings something on the go. The restrictions on the review of the tribute to modern design and one of the non -replacement minuses of this machine, however, drivers are already accustomed to this feature of the modern automotive industry. So the pilots of the airliners do not complain about

a limited review, here are the high-speed capabilities of modern cars inevitably approach the sky-high indicators, and the Mazda CX-7 is one of the most striking examples confirming this trend.
Pros: spacious salon, good handling, good accelerated dynamics.
Cons: high fuel consumption, not a good review.
Competitors: Land Rover Freelander, Mitsubishi Outlander XL.

Length/width/height: 4.675/1.870/1.645 mm.
Base: 2.750 mm.
Equipped mass: 1.802 kg.
Engine volume: 2.3 l.
Power: 238 hp at 5000 vol. min
Maximum torque: 350 at 2.500 rpm.
Maximum speed: 181 km/h.
Acceleration to 100 km/h: 8.3 sec.
Average fuel consumption: 11.5 l/100 km.
Price in the Sport: 1.260.000.000. Rub. (as of 05.2008).

Photo by Natalya Burtovaya.