Mini Countryman John Cooper Works test drive since 2012 crossover

Nissan Juke vs Mini Countryman

Small fashionable crossovers with a large margin of horsepower. The full implementation of ladies' dreams ... The other day I went to drink tea in an institution called a good republic and, instead of listening to pleasant music, unexpectedly came to the lecture of the founder of this club, who explained to the girls how to live correctly.


If you want to marry someone, just imagine that this has already happened, in all details. Frankly, I thought such lecturers transferred in the middle of the two thousandth. But no, they live to this day. He forced all the ladies to write his innermost sighing on balloons and drove into the yard to let the balls into the sky.

It is generally accepted that cars are created by designers and marketers individually or in cooperation. Allegedly, they have been discussing the future model for a long time and come to consensus. Or, conversely, some of them come up with three boxes, and other chick shreds the idea to the desired market condition. But this approach has long been outdated. Such things are indulging today, perhaps, only at AvtoVAZ or in some countries of the CIS. In developed industrial societies, and I clearly understood from a lecture in a good republic a car is created by girls in their dreams. The young lady sits at home and dreams: I would have a guy on a large fast horse. And when the number of such dreamers reaches a critical figure, the German plant immediately spits the novelty say, ML 63 AMG or VW Touareg W12.


Desires.
All that the Nissan driver wants to quit the steering wheel and run away to drink coffee


Possibilities.
The Mini pilot will ride until the evening, then it will come the next day

A bedroom with a microphone
In the same way, Mini Countryman and Nissan Juke were born from female fantasies. Let's start with the first. It seems that he has in the pedigree of an old English small -leaf? But it is like saying that the United Russia party has left the masses. The hypothesis would look much more plausible that the Mini created Italian fashion designers to sell it as an accessory for one of their Haute Couture collections. And it was like this: one day, when the girl’s dream of a guy with a large horse was fulfilled and they began to live together, he gave her BMW X6. At first, she rejoiced at the generous gift, and then, when the euphoria was scattered and it became obviously the inconvenience of this colossus, she began to redraw the future: I want another machine, also with all -wheel drive and fashionable, but smaller and prettier, and it was more convenient to park. And when the number of dreaming girls with donated X6 exceeded the statistical line, Countryman appeared.

The history of the birth of Nissan Juke is somewhat different. One student was tired of traveling on Daewoo Matiz, and she began to imagine that she already had what she wants. This is a wonderful machine, it is not scary in winter, and it can climb on the curb, but it is small and fast to pass through the cork at a reasonable price and with a small expense. A guy from a good republic said that in this way he received his club fantasizing. He is right, it works. But in the automotive, the mechanism is different. The world car concerts have long been hung with the microphones of the bedrooms of young girls in order to act ahead of schedule, and not to chase the departing train. Here's how the girl who survived the craving for Daewoo made Nissan take Juke.

To the boundary of fear
Any other explanations will not give anything and only prevent the essence of Mini Countryman and Nissan Juke. Well, imagine that I will now begin to describe them in the traditional way. Search for technical differences. I will find that Nissan is equipped with a gasoline engine, and Mini is diesel. And the sense? Their power is the same 184 and 190 horsepower, respectively. Acceleration is also 8.4 and 8.3 seconds to hundreds. Maximum speed 200 and 205 km/h. Even the number of Newton meters, which usually serves as a clear guideline in finding differences between gasoline and diesel units, equal to 240 nm. If we want to at least somehow distinguish them, we must go to the training ground. Which we did.


Theater.
All that is in Mini is the decoration, the practical meaning of which to attract maximum attention


Why is it? Designer tachometer for girls


Guess.
This is the passer -by -person speedometer for the scales

Asphalt, orange cones built in the line, and the desire to bring the rubber to the pig squeal, this is what two 4x4 Club test pilles had to work with. I started with the English village. The hard Countryman flew between cones like a bumblebee of no extra movement. The clarity is perfect. Then we started a moose test. The speed is maximum. I could not even feel to what limit it could be raised, because I reached the boundary of my fear, which I no longer dared to go.

Then I go up with a confident gait to the Japanese frantic hamster and ... almost immediately I fly out of the track. I try more, more and more. I fly out again. The steering wheel has to twist twice faster, but this does not always help. The speed is noticeably lower. All that I wanted to do at the wheel of Juke is to go out and put the cones twice as wider. Then I did so, but the pleasure of driving was not increased. In the end, I just threw Juke in the middle of the site and went to rest. In Nissan, it was necessary to sit down to mini, but not after.




Stole.
Somewhere nearby there was a helicopter with a dispersed panel ...


1+1.
It will not be easy to make love here


Glove compartment. I have not a single idea about what the owner will carry here. Another mini, only small?

I thought it was Libra ...
Tired, we sat near the cars and silently realized how good a native of the British islands was good. Then we moved on to photography of salons. And after a while, a passerby approached us, looked at the interiors of the cars and addressed the question: where is the Mini speedometer? Here he is! I tell him. Here? Surrounds. I thought it was Libra ... Yes, it is. The Englishman conquers only impeccable handling on the track. Otherwise, a continuous misunderstanding, to which you will have to get used to it for a long time and painfully. All buttons and devices are made so that the drops do not look like buttons and devices. In addition, comfort in Countryman as in a fashionable vinyl jacket with a hard-resistant collar crashed into the neck. There are lovers to look good to the detriment of convenience, but I'm not one of them. Nissan, on the contrary, can be compared with a comfortable vest. It is much softer and more pleasant on pits and tram tracks, and this is somewhat reconciled with the fact that his appearance was copied from a dog, in which the ears were tied with a bow. True, there are other versions that are much more offensive. In any case, doctors do not recommend looking at this for a long time.


Not all at once.
There are functions on the front panel, the meaning of which will reach you in about a week


Variations on the topic of devices. Juke, take off the woolpiece


Sport in stock.
The default is ECO mode


Camera. Small but decent

It was very difficult to choose the winner of this test. Ivan Evdokimov generally refused to express his opinion. I, although I understood that the victory was definitely for Nissan, also decided to endure from voting. Girls should decide here, and they like Mini Countryman more, and no arguments in favor of Juke have a decree. Although at the same time small Nissan on the streets is an order of magnitude larger than large (relatively) mini. Is it really the whole thing in those miserable 200 thousand rubles. The difference in price?



Does not hold.
The sofa is flat, there is almost nothing to catch on


Full. In the trunk there will be canists with gasoline. In sports mode, he eats 16 liters per hundred. His competitor 13

CAREFULLY! Technical details
In Nissan Juke, the ALL Mode 4x4-I transmission is available only in the top version with the 1.6 Turbo engine and the variator. Twisting the moment is brought to the rear wheels personally, by closing friction clutch in multi -plate couplings. The control unit analyzes the information of a number of sensors and distributes the updated moment in order to improve controllability or patency parameters. In a turn, a larger moment is laid for an external, loaded wheel, and on the off -road, which currently has the best adhesion to the supporting surface.

Mini Countryman is equipped with a front axle with McPherson racks, a multi -link rear suspension and an EPS electrical control system that changes the degree of amplification depending on the speed of movement. To optimize active safety indicators, all models are standardly equipped with a dynamic monitoring system of the DSC course stability, which includes an anti -lock brake system, an electronic system for distribution of EBD brake force, braking control system in CBC turns, an assistance system for braking and a assistance system for starting on the slope. Additionally, the DTC traction system (standard for Mini Cooper S Countryman) and the function of electronic locking of the front axle differential are offered.





Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [October/2012]