Test drive Nissan Almera Tino 2000 - 2003 Minivan

City traveler

Almost all manufacturers, creating a modern small but roomy city car, come to the same formula - shorter and higher. So it turns out a mini-wen. And depending on how much shorter, higher and more spacious, it will be either micro or compact (ZR, 2000, No. 7), or a full -size car. One of the latest new products in the popular compact class is Nissan -Almer Tino, for which I went to low lands.
This is how the name of the Netherlands is translated - the country, in the capital of which the European representative office of Nissan is located. Having stooped on the outskirts of Amsterdam, I finally find the desired address and I get a pretty trailer with a beautiful navigation system BirdView - a bird's eye. Now I'm with geography on you.
Having passed several kilometers, I catch myself on the feeling that the engine works somehow unusually - the selector on the floor (by the way, quite short), like a regular machine, and there are no characteristic rips of revolutions when switching gears. I recall that only the unacceptable cuneiform CTV variator is attached to the two -liter motor. In calm traffic modes, he maintains engine speed at 1500-2000 rpm almost independently of speed, increasing them only with sharp acceleration. The connection of the motor with the wheels is quite rigid - there is almost no sensation of a rubber cardan inherent in small engines with an automatic gearbox, when the tachometer shooter walks along the entire scale, and the car rode and driving. There is also a sport mode here - in this case, 3500-4000 rpm become the norm.
On the embankments of the embankments of Amsterdam, Tino maneuvers and parks surprisingly easily easily easily: the dimensions, like the hatchback of the golf class, and the review due to more vertical landing and great glazing is much better. The rear racks of the body are quite wide, on which light blocks are located, but large mirrors are corrected. But the invisible hood had to be used to.
At the wheel of Almer Tino, the sensations are more likely passenger: there is not a long front panel that looks like a countertop and a sliding glass that is somewhere far ahead, nor extending branched, with miniature windows, front racks. A soft comfortable chair with a wide pillow has an unhurried calm ride, but when landing each time I crush a side roller on the back, although I do not differ in obesity. By the way, with medium growth, the lowest adjustment of the chair and the upper - the steering wheel turned out to me. So tall drivers may have some problems with the choice of landing, but not because of a low ceiling - I measured about 120 mm above my head. The stylish front panel is crowned with a functional unit uniting a navigator, an audio system and instrument shield. The latter is comfortable, but the selection of flowers strains eyes: on a light gray field-dark gray dials with white numbers. The mirror control unit and the headlight corrector left for the left and down - neither see nor feel. Another drawback manifested itself in the evening: in an inclined windshield, a bright navigator display was reflected in all its glory.
On a deserted asphalt site, some pier was convinced that with rapid maneuvering, the amplifier is slightly late and a jump in resistance occurs on the steering wheel - you usually do not notice this, but with a sudden detour of the obstacle, this may interfere. The suspension is tough, in any case, at an empty car, and it is tangibly shaking on the bedridle. On the other hand, it provides, despite the largest body height, minimal rolls, the lack of buildup, as well as quite clear and quick reactions on the road. Powerful brakes are very good: firstly, there is a BREAK ESSINIST, which increases the effectiveness of emergency braking, and secondly, it is almost imperceptible to operating ABS.
As it should be compact, but still Van, Tino has large doorways, an even floor and a high spacious salon with many transformation options. The number of the latter reaches 24, mainly due to three separate seats from the back, which can be separately folded, rearranged or dismantled altogether. Under them are two Town boxes, a couple more voluminous boxes under the front seats and, of course, many small shelves, pockets, messages in front of the panel and on the doors, and on the backs of the front seats - folding tables. Considerable attention is paid to safety - two front and two side pillows, branded Nissan active head restraints, pretensors and restraints of seat belts, and anti -suggests in the doorway. Finally, he looked into the voluminous trunk - impressive. It is a pity, under his floor there is only a doctrine, although there is enough space for a full -size wheel.
In Russia, Nissan-Almer Tino will appear this winter and will cost about $ 20 thousand.

SUMMARY
Compact van Nissan-Almer
Tino is a universal car for everyday driving in the city (especially with CVT variator), and for the transport of voluminous household goods, and for long -distance travels with a large family. But is he affirmed any large family? ..
Nissan-Almer Tino was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in the spring of 1999, and a year later his release began at the Nissan Motor Iberik in Barcelona (Spain) at the Nissan plant. A compact class mini-ven is based on a common platform with an almer and is equipped with 1.8 or 2.0 liter gasoline engines, as well as a 2.2-liter turbodiesel. With the most powerful gasoline engine, only the endless CVT variator is aggregated, and with the rest - a five -speed manual gearbox. For some markets, a 1.6-liter gasoline unit is also provided. It is produced in the Comfort, Ambient and Luxuri trim levels.

Nissan almera tino
General data: number of places - 5; equipped mass - 1550 kg; full weight - 1920 kg; maximum speed - 180 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 12.6 s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 7.2; 12.9 l/100 km; fuel supply - 60 liters; Fuel is unhealthy gasoline AI -95. Dimensions, mm: length - 4264; width - 1750; height - 1608; base - 2535; The track in front/back - 1525/1500; Road clearance - 150; trunk volume - 440/850/1030 l; The turning radius is 5.2 m. The engine: gasoline, four -cylinder, in order with distributed injection, four valves per cylinder, two camshafts, located in front of it cross; working volume - 1998 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 86.0x86.0 mm; compression degree - 10.0; Power - 100 kW/136 l. With. at 5800 rpm; The maximum torque is 175 N.M at 4800 rpm. Transmission: front wheel drive; gearbox - unacceptable cuneiform CVT variator; The gear number range is from 2.33 to 0.43; h. X. - 1.59; The main program is 5.47. Suspension: in front - an independent type of mcesson with a reptile stability stabilizer, collected on a subframe; Behind - dependent, with two longitudinal levers and the mechanism of Scott -Rassel. Brakes: hydraulic, disk with a vacuum amplifier and ABS, in front - ventilated. Steering: rheck with an amplifier. Tire size: 205/55R16.
+Large doorways, a spacious salon with many transformation options, a good review, comfortable chairs, a convenient CVT variator, a beautiful navigation system (sorry, does not work in Russia), good dynamics, minimal rolls and tag of the body, effective brakes, three -year guarantees.
-Atally stiff suspension, the delay in the steering wheel amplifier, hard -to -read devices, high requirements for fuel (unhealthy 95th gasoline), spare wheel -doctae, small glove box, invisible buttons of door blocking buttons.
 

Yuri Nechetov

A source: The magazine "Driving"