Test drive Nissan Murano 2003 - 2007 SUV
In love eyes
For such an expensive and powerful SUV, designed to partially perform and functions of a business class sedan, he is perhaps even too beautiful. But this will not scare away the buyer without complexes: let them look after and envy! Speaks like Pava ...
How smoothly it goes! No, not in vain Nissan who has been improving his variators for a year. To achieve the same comfort with a regular automatic, we must try very hard. And for a lot of money.
We go calmly, we are in no hurry that, however, allows Murano to easily break away from the stream. The feeling that a silent electric motor is under the hood. Together with a perfectly absorbing pendant and a long enough, like Maxima, the base gives a pronounced effect of complete isolation from the outside world.
But in the Kik-Dawn mode, the variator will not confuse with anything. Having imprinted the gas pedal to the floor, you see how the tachometer arrow goes to the right, but this does not suddenly affect the dynamics of the car with the wheels of the wheels. Is this a failure? No, failures are only on ordinary machine guns that spend time thinking about the driver’s team really wasted. Here it is also not necessary to regret the on -second hitch, the on -board processor did everything correctly: at first he increased the gear ratio to the maximum 2.37, allowing the motor to quickly dial 5000 rpm, on which he pulls like a beast, and only then drove the ratio again to a minimum, synchronously with speed growth. It is such an algorithm that provides the best acceleration time. And almost the same economy as with mechanics. But it is not possible to check this for Murano is not possible for the model only is equipped with a variator.
We do not advise checking it for cross -country ability, driving a car in a swamp. One has only to look at the muffler in the middle of the base, and it will become clear: it is possible to plow soft snow, but the clay clod is unlikely. Will come off. But according to the scalp after the rain, we rolled out the laundry. The OL-MOUD all-wheel drive, a full-wheel drive system, is excellent, and the wheels are scooped up, almost not having time to stalk. And many SUVs will envy many SUVs forced blocking of the Intersose clutch. And yet his element is asphalt. On the snowy Murano will be the king, and prescribing the turns on the dry, will give in only the expensive and powerful, sharpened driving cars.
However, the main thing in it is not running qualities, no technical data have something to answer. They do not have only such an ability to like it, brought by Japanese designers to an unprecedented acuity among all -terrain vehicles.
The muffler resonator hanging under his belly is clearly not good
Biography pages
Murano made his debut in the spring of 2002 and leads a pedigree from the Skyline middle class sports model. On its basis, two FF-L and FM platforms were created. On the first, with a transverse engine, the Altima sedan, the minivan Kuest and the Mineron Murano were made. On the second (the engine longitudinal) infinity-FX.
Initially, the new crossover was intended exclusively for the North American market. Although, despite the presence of two Nissan factories in the United States, Murano is collected in Japan itself. In 2004, the model was presented in the Japanese and European markets, and in the homeland Murano is also offered with a 2.5-liter engine.
Most of the release falls on all -wheel drive configurations SL and SE, and only in America there is a version of S with front -wheel drive. In 2003, 52 thousand Murano were sold in the USA and Canada (50,000 planned), and in 2004, 62 thousand.
You can’t take your eyes off It was not without reason that he was called the name of the Mediterranean island, which lies next to Venice. Local craftsmen own the secret to make an amazing glass of glass, which is called Murano. Take a look at him. A radiator grille curved in a radiant smile, muscular hind wings with crawling lanterns, pointed like a blade, silhouette and three years after the debut of Murano attracts a look like a magnet. And the blowing a stern door? And the triangular window of the sidewall? Yes, put a nearby competitor to Tuareg, with a reservation washed in the spirit of the 80s, and there will be no doubt about the leadership of Nissan in terms of design.
Someone, self-eating, will call such an adventure an adventure, a solid person who is able to pay for a car of this class does not want to go to the office on a rocket ... In America, there were more people than planning. In Russia, similar ideas about car beauty remember the ladies of gray dealers who sold up to hundreds of Murano per month.
Only our car is not one of the fact that the wheel along the Moscow streets is a version adapted for the European market. The most noticeable difference (of the three hundred!) Long stamping on the back door: Cow a license plate in a narrow hole, as in Americans,. And also added spoilers on the front bumper, deflectors in front of the wheels, a suspension shield, optimizing air flows. That is, specialists in aerodynamics worked on the machine. And it was why this in the states above 112 km/h you won’t accelerate (in any case, officially), and, say, in Germany you can openly drown under 200. By the way, it is now the limiter is set, we remind of gray machines it works. at 190 km/h.
In order to adapt the car to a long movement at high speeds, a radiator was added to the engine oil system, and soundproofing significantly increased. Even the wipers installed low -noise.
From the fact that you can’t notice the naked look, the change in the geometry of the suspension, other shock absorbers, more heat -resistant brake pads and other little things from what usually includes the list of improvements to a more dynamic driving style.
Knowing humming
Inside, Murano is impressive no less than outside. The Japanese interior style called the sculpture in motion. The main element is the combination of devices in a separate case. Not built -in, but screwed from above to torpedo. Such a shield is perfect for the Murano style, emphasizing the particular importance of taking off his testimony for the true pilot. In unison, the steering wheel with a T-shaped shiny ornament also looks. There is something in it from the helm.
Three-Mahovichi climate control control is available for adjusting blind
Colored tags on the display when working, television shows the trajectory of reversing with this position of the steering wheel
There are more than enough space in the back seats. And the backs can be tilted separately
By the way, these inserts are not plastic for aluminum, but are made of real winged metal hand. And in general, here it is noticeably more good than in versions for the American market, the texture of materials looks more expensive, the plastic has become softer, the faceted forms gave way to the licked. But how otherwise Europeans are spoiled by good salons, you won’t blow cheaply in fifty thousand.
The maximum volume of the luggage compartment of Murano can be brought to 2311 liters
The pedal node can be moved back and forth by a special key at the end of the driver's seat
But what remains purely American is the lack of cigarette lighters and ashtrays. Here, as with the variator, the company knows better what should be in the car and what not.
Infinity of variations
The designs of variators, that is, gearboxes with a smooth, unacceptable change in the gear ratio, are known since the Middle Ages, but the real use in technology, including in the first cars, found a hundred years ago. The usual cuneonomic, which is now appeared in 1958 at the Dutch DAF-600 development of engineer Van Dorene. A stray transmission with sliding pulleys and two reinforced rubber belts transferred a craving from a motor with a capacity of only 20 liters. With. With higher loads, the belt became disposable.
Today, rubber and Kevlar belts are much stronger, for example, on serial scooters they pass up to 55 liters. with., there are three times larger on snowmobiles, but in car variators exclusively metal are used. The most common is the design of the same van doorna not pulling, and a pushing belt from steel plates, strung like beads, on two steel tapes, indicated by the abbreviation VDT.
For the first time, this appeared on Subaru-jack in 1987. In 1992, Nissan accepted the baton, equipping a compact march with a variator. The power race, or rather, the torque transmitted by the belt, began Honda. However, her record of 14 kgsm and 125 liters. With. In Siviks and HR-V, in 1997, Nissan was beaten by a 2-liter engine for examples with a variator developed 18 kgsm (140 hp). 234-horsepower Murano with VDT variator, calculated at the time of up to 32 kgsm, went further forward.
If we buy, how much? The start of sales of Murano in Russia is scheduled for autumn, but there is still no clarity with prices. Gray dealers in 2003 gave the novelty for $ 53,000. Tuareg with equal in power V6 and much more boring appearance cost seven more expensive. But now it is obvious that raising the threshold of the availability of Murano above $ 60,000 means to leave him a rather narrow niche of the demand of those who buy a car under the influence of a mental impulse: they saw and fell in love. Recall that Lexus-RX300 is a higher car than Nissan, they offer status for $ 56,90066 100. So the probability of buying Murano, say, for $ 65,000 will rush to zero.
Or maybe Nissan will set the price of about $ 45,000? Then sales can exceed 3,000 cars per year. Naturally, at the expense of competitors. In addition, he will touch his own. Put Murano and PasFainer near the showroom nearby, but at the same price, and some of the visitors will instantly forget that there is such a parameter as cross-country ability.
Most likely, a golden middle will be chosen, and Murano with a Tuareg will be divided in half as much as the money. Do you just need a car? Then to the Germans. And if you want to look at her in love with the Japanese years after the purchase.
PER
Attractive appearance, powerful engine, smooth work of the variator, high running qualities on the highway
AGAINST
Limited cross -country ability
Nissan Murano
common data
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (5/5)
Equipped mass, kg
1790
Length x width x height, mm
4770x1880x1745
Base, mm
2825
Front/back, mm track
1630/1625
Speed, km/h
200
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
8.9
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
9.5/17.2
Engine
Location
Front transversely
Design
gasoline, V-shaped, 6-cylinder
Working volume, SMZ
3498
Power, L.S. at rpm
234/6000
Torque, kgsm at rpm
32/3600
Chassis
Drive unit
on the front wheels with the connection of the rear
Transmission
Standed variator VDT
Suspension:
independent, spring, with stabilizers
front
At the racks of McEferson
behind
Mollycent
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Tires
225/65 R18
Anton Utkin, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [12/2005]
