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What Russian does not like fast driving?
Only one who is already deprived of rights for such pranks! For those who are still in the game and experiences fate, as in a Russian roulette, these attack aircraft are born at all -wheel drive, powerful motors and cool characters.

And it is impossible to resist the temptation. We are such a people: all the time we walk on the blade of razor and play on the verge of a foul, and therefore the car should be not only fast, charismatic and comfortable, but also safe. Although the last argument is always in the shade: fatalism is also a feature of a Russian character.

Volvo XC60 T6 Price, rub. from 1,990,000 max. Power, L.S. 285 Max. speed, km/h 210 acceleration 0100 km/h 7.5

Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 Price, rub. from 2 633 796 max. Power, L.S. 272 Max. speed, km/h 230 acceleration 0100 km/h 6.7

Audi Q5 2.0TFSI Price, rub. 1 703 000 max. Power, L.S. 211 max. Speed, km/h 222 Acceleration 0100 km/h 7.2

Infiniti EX35 Price, rub. 1 825 200 max. Power, L.S. 302 Max. speed, km/h 231 acceleration 0100 km/h 6.9


Guardian angel
Volvo XC60
Looking at the new XC60, willy-nilly you are imbued with respect for Volvo designers: something, but they have learned to create beautiful cars, in the last decade there are continuous hits in the apple! The same applies to elaboration of interiors. Obviously, the desire of the concern to get into the premium segment, but without fanaticism and excesses. The only options with which the XC60 is stuffed in the assortment, all kinds of sensors and radars, disagreeing, a distance from a walking car and blind areas on the sides.

And, I must say, it was on this test that I had an episode, after which I seriously regretted that I did not go to Volvo at that moment. In front of Toyota Corolla, which was moving in front of me along one of the Moscow streets, something happened, and exactly at that moment, as for evil, I was distracted by a bright window of a second confusion store that the Japanese sedanka overtook the Mercedes GLK and defeated the file part . GLK damage turned out to be less fatal, but this calms down weakly. The Volvo accident would probably be able to avoid, because the electronics is very warning, and the time won would probably be enough to stop the car. In general, jokes jokes, but with each of us a similar nuisance can happen, and against this background Volvo policies, aimed at developing active security systems, no longer looks like paranoia who suffers from a mania of persecution.

Again, I was lucky. During our test, we managed to travel on two modifications of Volvo XC60: with a T6 gasoline engine and a D5 turbodiesel. Believe me, these are two different cars! If the first volvo is light and mobile, literally soars over the road, then with the second yes, there is acceleration, but everything happens through force, stepping on the throat. In addition, the torque stumbles on a thoughtful automatic machine, and often accelerate late, immediately recall typical jokes about slightly inhibited Scandinavians

Well, under the curtain a few words about the suspension. Traditionally for Volvo, it is not on the XC60. Claims do not arise only on ideal asphalt, but on broken roads everything rummages and does not work out the blows of fate. We repeat that not only the XC60, but also the XC90, S80, V50 and, a little less, XC70, so that this is a distinctive feature of the brand with which, apparently, it is proposed to come to terms with incontinence. You see, so that Volvo owners do not drive bad roads, otherwise no matter what happens.


The interior is primarily beautiful, and already in the second is functional


The instrument panel is simple and laconic, all useful information is displayed into the wells


The navigation screen in the photo is turned off. Management is entrusted to the remote control

Pampas
Outside the asphalt, Volvo XC60 feels good thanks to the impressive road clearance for this class, and the assaults of snow virgin lands do not cause difficulties, the general roots with Land Rover Frelander are not difficult. However, more serious off -road to the car is radically contraindicated. When creating Volvo, the designers did not even think about off -road exploits and greatly limited the geometric patency with a spectacular plastic body kit. Not in favor of the XC60 speaks the complete absence of auxiliary electronics.

Hooked
The legendary hanging central console, the Volvo chip, which appeared a few years earlier on the S40/V50, played a cruel joke with me. Assessing the convenience of the shelves formed after it, I put the wallet there with all the documents and safely forgot about it. For a subsequent search for documents, they went for a day searched in all test machines and certainly would not have found if I did not accidentally remember how I hid it.

Volvo XC60 T6
Engine
Typebenzine, p6 working volume, cm32953 max. Power, L.S. at about./min. 285/5600 max. moment, NM at about./min. 400/1500-4800
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h210 Acceleration 0100 km/h7.5
common data
Fuel consumption (funny cycle), l/100 km11.9 wheelbase, mm2774 length, mm4628 width, mm1891 height, mm1713 Equipment weight/full, kg1872/2440

Ball lightning
Infiniti EX35
What will happen if you cross terrible and hedgehog? You remember a children's joke: one hundred meters of barbed wire! So with Infiniti Ex, resembling FX35 and carrying the G35 sport sedan genes. It seems that it looks like a crossover, but a road clearance is like a passenger car. 145 mm from asphalt to the bottom of the illusions about off -road abilities do not give birth.

I'm cramped here! Even taking into account the lack of obvious flaws in ergonomics, only a medium -sized person without a drop of excess weight can accommodate. The car hugs a more significant body from all sides. The head risks getting out into the roof hatch, can this be a large -scale FX model for students of elite universities?

There is no need to talk about practicality: in the second row of seats with decent spatial comfort, only children will be placed, but where did the three children get the children from? By the way, the trunk is also one of the most modest in our quartet. All this is true, however, of course, it is possible to evaluate Infiniti Ex from a utilitarian point of view, but this is not entirely correct. It is different for another: the car is built around the motor and for the sake of the motor. Only one who will not be able to realize the potential of 302 horses will continue to oldly grumble about cramped and impractical after the trip.

When snow or asphalt lies on the streets, it is not as easy to cope with the EX as with other fates of our comparison. The motor that breaks the car from the place, like a gust of wind, causes a feeling of natural disaster: Infiniti skills at every energetic start. The stabilization system in its struggle with demolitions and drifts allows tangible slides, and the steering wheel is torn from your hands will not relax. The engine power does not compensate for slippery coatings and well-tuned, in sporting assembled suspension that makes control of sharp, and reactions are quick. However, all this is true only until you guess to put the car into snow mode. Its activation puts everything in its place, making ex simple and flexible.


The interior is kind and ergonomic, but how crowded is it here!


The automaton violates the euphoria from the motor, stumbling and thinking


The devices are beautiful and informative of the real decoration of the interior

Pampas
EX35 is a frank car. ESP purely highways explain complete defenselessness with the slightest diagonal hanging, even moving through the snow parapet that remained after cleaning equipment is sometimes problematic. The bumpers hang low over the road, and the clearance is such that even in the snowy courtyards you cling to the bottom in the ruts all the time. And there are no guarantees that you will not have to engage in fitness with a shovel.

Hooked
Offective for the luxury brand, punctures with the quality of interior details laid an imprint on the perception of the car. Against the backdrop of the GLK and Q5 parts impeccable in working out, on the Infiniti test, we found the driver's ashtray that jammed in the ajar position and the falling inner interior handle of the fifth door.

Mossy
Infiniti ex car for the driver, and therefore he left the most vivid sledged impression. The machine was created for dry asphalt highways, winding paths and mountain serpentines. But, unfortunately, it happened to travel on it in Moscow and the Moscow Region on roads unforgivable after snowfall. This is the same as going to the rink in pointe!

Infiniti EX35
Engine
Typebenzine, V6 working volume, cm33498 max. Power, L.S. at about./min.302/6800 max. moment, nm at about./min. 341/4800
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h231 Acceleration 0100 km/h6.9
common data
Fuel consumption (funny cycle), l/100 km12.3 Wheel base, mm2800 length, mm4635 width, mm1803 height, mm1600 weight. Equipment, kg1905/2295

Diplomat
Audi Q5
The last ten years with the advent of each new Audi model, evil tongues are gossiping about the crisis of the genre of designers from Ingolstadt so all models are similar to each other. The new Q5 is no exception, there are no new features and finds in it, no matter how you look, everything is familiar to boredom! Even compared to the ancestor of the first generation, the first generation genre, the car is simpler, more boring and mild.

The interior is also made in the spirit of all other Audi: compare with A4 or, for example, with A6. There are practically no differences, everything is familiar and convenient, like homemade slippers. A more impeccable salon in convenience and ergonomics than Audi, do not find, and they are not looking for good from good, why change something?

But the habits of the mini-conservation were puzzled. It seems to be clear and accurate, the machine is controlled instinctively, literally by force, as if it is a continuation of its own body, but the driver is not trusted, the non -closed stabilization system does not allow enjoying the perfectly configured chassis. It's a shame! After all, even the Audi A8L limousine allows the sophisticated driver to create with him whatever you want, and Q5

A pleasant toy is the opportunity to configure the character of the car for yourself. Everything is adjusted: the rigidity of the suspension, and the severity of the steering reactions, and even the sensitivity of the accelerator pedal!

A dense, even slightly dentisted suspension can like the driver, but it is unlikely that passengers with a weak vestibular apparatus on domestic roads are shaking mercilessly. However, from the whole four, it is the Audi that is able to blow all the money on the country, gravel or the paved road, delighting the verified suspension and clear handling.

A fiery heart, a two -liter turbo engine is even for the most modest working volume very confidently, albeit not as temperamental as the opponents. Unfortunately, the 3.2 FSI engine closer to our comparison has not yet been brought to Russia. The seven -speed machine is lightning speed, at all without delay and thoughts, the magnificent transmission shoots the programs! And most importantly, the car is not demanding on the level of driver’s skill, and I want to ride it every day, occasionally lighting.


German is German, the interior was worked out to the smallest detail both in style and ergonomics


Audi dashboard is informative, but there are too many numbers on the speedometer scale


The work of the preselly box S-Tronic is inimitable, the best transmission in the class!

Pampas
Surprisingly, traditionally long for all Audi, the front overhang of the q5 is tailored as part of decency and is not a radical limiter of geometric cross -country ability. In addition, electronics imitating inter -axle locks are well tuned. The natural off-road limiter tendency of the S-Tronic robot to overheating: a classic machine outside the asphalt is preferable. But the plastic protection of the bottom was too fragile, only fragments hung on the test machine.

Hooked
Audi motors are famous for increased flow of motor oil. When I first opened the trunk, I immediately paid attention to a half -empty liter canister with synthetics. Soon, the on -board computer brought a formidable inscription on the display that the oil level in the engine fell below the minimum and it was necessary to add 1 liter. Keep your ear and carry a reserve with you, not every village sells high -quality synthetic motor oil!

Audi Q5
Engine
Typebenzine, P4 working volume, cm31984 max. Power, L.S. at about./min. 211/4300-6000 max. moment, NM at about./min. 350/1500-4200
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h222 Acceleration 0100 km/h7.2
common data
Fuel consumption (funny cycle), l/100 km8.5 wheelbase, mm2807 length, mm4629 width, mm1880 height, mm1653 Equipment weight, kg1740/2320

White Hippo
Mercedes GLK 350
You slam the driver’s door in front of a business center with a hard and clear weapon clashing, you can clearly check the stairs over the elevator on the fifth floor, hang your coat in the wardrobe, turn on the computer and, in anticipation of its load, lean back on the back of the chair, involuntarily looking at the clock and looking at the clock and You think that in nine hours, in spite of everything, you will hear again how the heavy door slammed behind you, you will press the tight floor pedal of the accelerator and, rotating the chubby steering wheel, you will cut the familiar route to the house to pain. And there will be even a traffic jam, even free traffic, you are happy to wrap a couple of tens of kilometers of positive emotions that increase male self -esteem on the odometer of GLK.

Sincerely! The interior is like an antique chest of drawers: continuous corners and rectangular shapes and no flirting for the sake of wives, mother -in -law and friends. Do not like it! But you can’t complain about the convenience, well, except that instead of turn signals you constantly turn on the cruise control, but it’s not easy to deal with a multifunctional joystick. By the way, it is absolutely not clear why, after a positive experience with the steering wheel location of the automatic transmission selector on ML and GL, on the GLK he again took place between the front seats, which became less convenient, it is undoubtedly, moreover, you can now miss the program in two accounts !

The car’s move is significant, the severity of real iron is felt in everything. Acceleration occurs assertively, but smoothly, without jerks and fuss. You can ride Mercedes both quickly and aggressively, and even enjoy it, but the desire to fuss at itself will pass, and very quickly this atmosphere.

If at the same Infiniti and Audi it is very difficult to resist the temptation to violate the speed mode, then you can go through GLK all your life and never seriously exceed the permitted limits! And, by the way, despite such a Nordic character, it was GLK that turned out to be the most gambling and predictable on the ice of Khodynka, remaining extremely predicted and controlled at any speed. Electronics, if you turn it off, adjusts the driver’s actions only if it is already obvious that the glide is uncontrollable.

But from the smoothness of the course, I expected more. The feeling of comfort is achieved by the fact that Mercedes ignores small bumps, but it still grazes on larger suspension. The most common unevenness of large cities of rubber lying policemen GLK intersects with an unprecedented roar, even cars Mercedes do this exercise better.


A rare case when ergonomics and practicality did not fall victim to the style


The best information on information content, all ingenious are simple!


The 7-speed automatic machine is very cramped, sorry only the selector is not installed on the steering wheel

Pampas
GLK is very confidently plowing the expanses of snow virgin lands, climbs hills and copes with diagonal hanging, restricts off -road talents, traditionally, geometry. Road clearance is small, and developed plastic plumage is too vulnerable. By the way, for GLK, the Off-Road option is not at all superfluous, as the experience of testing senior models shows.

Hooked
Stunning elaboration of interior details. Even more expensive Mercedes models have any noticeable flaws in the selection of materials or in their quality. GLK does not deserve the slightest reproaches, and if the parallel-perpendicular style is to the taste, then there is no more solid salon in the classroom.

Mercedes-Benz GLK 350
Engine
Type gasoline, V6 working volume, cm33498 max. Power, L.S. at about./min. 272/6000 max. moment, NM at about./min. 350/2400-5000
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h230 Acceleration 0100 km/h6.7
common data
Fuel consumption (funny cycle), l/100 km10.6 wheelbase, mm2755 length, mm4528 width, mm1840 height, mm1689 Equipment mass, kg1755/2280

Outside
To pay more than one and a half million rubles and even less than a year ago, the average-sized premium crossovers personified all the most and most of what every self-respecting businessman was supposed to strive for. Live outside the city, have a large family and, most importantly, engage in dynamic and promising business. That's why such cars were needed. Today everything looks far from so rosy. Although crises pass, and how medium -sized business will meet the inevitable revitalization of business activity depends to a large extent on the quality of its vehicle. Yes, and they will meet, as in pre -crisis times, by clothing. In this regard, the most preferable is the appearance of Volvo, which is fresh and departs from the previously prevailing stereotypes. Although in the place and the letter V, which is well read in the composition of the face, and its rays also scatter dynamically along the window sill on the side. Now this image is complemented by the trapezoidal form of silver slide, which decorate the volitional Scandinavian chin. Of course, also memorable eyes-fara. The Audi radiator shield has been used in its style for a long time, and this accurately works on the image of stability, as, indeed, the decorative grille of Mercedes, but two principles argue in its appearance: soft and plastic with hard and flat. One or the other side wins, from which the image clearly loses integrity. This can not be said about Infiniti, which fights on the spot with the unity of the form, its plastics and details. It is even difficult to single out one thing from this ensemble that you can take for a proprietary part. Everything! On the side of the Japanese car and the most non -functional silhouette for the SUV category, but I don’t want to think about it. The box -shaped side of GLK looks contrasting for this, where the form strictly follows the utilitarian function. The laconicism and grace of Audi and the traditions of the luxurious rear lights of Volvo are leading behind.

Inside
The driver’s beginning in the composition of the interiors of this class imposes liability precisely on the corresponding details: both the steering wheel and the devices become important carriers of signs of signature. So, the Audi shield is printed on the steering wheel pillow, and in Volvo its shape will again remind Litera V. It is immediately noticeable and the pretty cut of seats, on the same topic and a soaring console. Mercedes inside is as straightforward as outside. But whole. Infiniti style is traditionally built on details that are expertly located on a symmetrical and generally unpretentious instrument panel.

Summary

1 PLACE
Mercedes-Benz GLK 350
+ A very balanced car without obvious flaws
Design for an amateur

2ND PLACE
Audi Q5
+ Convenient and thought out interior, good handling
Hard suspension

3RD PLACE
Volvo XC60
+ Safety issue erected in a square, verified style, excellent motor
Sloped suspension

4th place
Infiniti EX35
+ A very balanced car without obvious flaws
Design for an amateur

Summary
You probably wondered why we all brought to the issue of deprivation of rights. Everything is simple: in Russia, as you know, the roads are not very good, the signs are not very reasonable, and the marking is not visible everywhere and not always. And it is precisely charged crossovers that the best weapons of struggle with the second Great Russian misfortune, which means you have obviously hit! Well, it is impossible to weave 40 km/h on Infiniti Ex, going around the fossa and waiting, when the zone of action of the overtaking sign is prohibited. Patience will inevitably burst inevitably sooner or later, and what will happen next, we will somehow talk about this in another material. EX35 provocateur, the most hooligan car in our test. And the most sure way to transfer to a scooter for the next 4-6 months, since summer is soon. The second in the ranking, of course, Audi Q5, his blood is colder, the character is stricter, but the craving for flights in a dream is obvious, and the most pleasant speeds are noticeably higher than the prescribed ones in the traffic rules. The Volvo XC60 with the T6 motor confidently follow him, although he envelops the pilot with care and active security systems, he has too easy to rise in nature, and longs for space, which cannot be found within the Russian Federation. So, someday, there is still no, no, yes, you will sin and unscrew the trigger to failure under the heartbreaking crush of the engine. Well, the rating is completed in essence, but the Mercedes GLK, which is very calm in zero, whose accelerator pedal, which has a very elastic spring, is rarely pushed, and therefore the GLK fuel consumption is negligible for a 3.5-liter motor. A wonderful car in the country where the presumption of guilt reigns and the courts do not know how to make acquittal decisions. There is a power supply, but there are no provocations. Everything upside down.

Text Alexey Mochalov, Alexander Antonov
 

Source: Cars