Test drive Nissan Murano 2003 - 2007 SUV

WHITE ENVY

An ordinary motorist can’t get rid of an old prejudice in any way: they say, since I bought a car for ten thousand, then for ten - and ideally for all eleven - I have to sell it. Most automakers indulge this prejudice in every possible way. Moreover, they themselves cannot get rid of illusory ambitions to spit into eternity and build a car for centuries, which sham -uping old men will be inherited to descendants along with the family silver and portrait of the main root of the genealogical tree. But there is no trend without exception. Nissan Murano, according to Nikolai Fomenko, is not for centuries, but today. But today it is difficult to find a car, more worthy to remember with pleasure about it tomorrow.
Cars and mobile phones are not in vain united by a single morpheme (that is, the root). Already now the same thing happens with cars as with mobile phones - they go into the category of disposable objects. Today you bought the most expensive phone, and tomorrow you can safely throw it into the garbage chute. Nobody needs it. Everyone has the same devices and even more fashionable, faster, more complicated.
Modern technologies are distributed at the speed of the virus. And nothing can be done about it. The day is not far away when manufacturers begin to produce cars with removable, as in phones, housings. There will be platforms that can be covered with anything depending on the mood. Futuristic quirk, will you say? Fantasy played? There is a little, but still from the facts not to be brushed away, like from a fly: the time of car-legend like Mustang, Corvette, Miura is leaving. Nobody needs eternal needles for primuses.
Nissan feels like no one else. Today is on the Whatman, tomorrow on the conveyor is a worthy production credo. They came up with, drew, did, the public liked it - they were allowed into the series. I did not like it - the sketches were passed through the chopper of the papers, the designer staff was worsed, the iron was cut with a grinder
GRAY MATTER . What is the strength, brother, such an approach? The fact that any concept, as a rule, causes childhood pure of the heart of motorists. And Murano, even if our gray dealers tried to dispel this illusion a little, even a few years after the debut looks like a fresh concept of automobile enthusiasts. They can still seduce the audience of some provincial auto show. Sophisticated motorists, however, know what the weakness of models that have passed the quick evolutionary path from the concept to the serial model. And therefore they seek out - as usual, they are sniffed, fearing to buy a swamp, buyers of backing japanese smell of dampness - technical deficiencies.
I hasten to publish my own verdict. In the class of so -called parquet jeeps of category B Nissan Murano, an unconditional leader. This is an amazingly balanced device. Surprisingly. Oddly enough, this is for an American car entering the colony until recently exclusively smuggled. In general, the first and main task of the designers is to make a balanced car in which everything, starting from the door hand and ending with some calipers, is made wisely. Murano, albeit originally intended for demand and fun for Americans, was made in Japan. So the minimum and conscience of the manufacturer are felt well.
Japanese city. Without a doubt, Murano is a typical citizen. If you go on a trip on it, then the route should be approximately like this: Munich-Celn. But not the Moscow-Karelsky Isthmus. His suspension was not invented for driving in the Selpo, overcoming virgin spaces or a very swampy area. As soon as the car has to go to the off -road section - in my case, his role was played by the lawn of the Tushino airfield - it becomes clear that the car is hard there. This is obvious - it is enough to carefully listen to the experiences of the suspension.
And further. As soon as I stopped on the grass, the icon with a winding track was immediately displayed. To make it clear right away - we, of course, would not have thought of that - that the car entered the risk zone. In short, for private farmers and collective farms, a request not to disturb the applications. Unless, of course, they do not want to spend more time under Murano than under another agricultural machinery.
However, Murano behaves very worthy on the asphalt even when it has to be active quite actively. It is low and due to this keeps the road well. He has small swinging when passing turns. You can enter them with open gas and go out without fear of physical and, as a result, psychological breakdowns. He is obedient in management. Financing of developments on the hydraulic power, in particular, and on the steering mechanism as a whole, thank God, was carried out not by the residual principle. Typically, cars of this price category have a sharp imbalance between engine power and steering wheel behavior. Most often it happens like this: you have already twisted the steering wheel to the side, and the car continues to move straight. Murano does not suffer. It is difficult to call it a sharp steering wheel-I do not really understand the meaning of such a definition-but in the chain of the head-thoughts--a gyprefield-the last links, believe me, not the weakest.
Pleasant impressions of the motor and brakes. The engine is viscous, similar to the American in the best sense of the word. But the main thing is that the brakes are adequate to the motor. It often happens that the engine is furious, and the brakes are lying, which can not cope with this rage in any way. Here is a complete openwork. Although, maybe at a different power-and something five hundredth or six hundredth asks for the hood of this car-my delights regarding the brakes would be more modest.
Thanks to the variator, Murano becomes akin to an electric car from the Central Bank. He is moderately nimble. It is enough to press the pedal, and the car will accelerate confidently, and as if infinite. But as it is provided for by its designers. That is, not a single meter per second faster. No matter how you have managed, nor imitated sports body movements and manipulated with the lever of the gearbox. By the way, the manual regime here is a thing, of course, decorative, enriching you with drivelings. The manufacturer did not pursue direct sports goals, but simply paid tribute to fashion. Well, okay. But fuel consumption is noticeably lower than with a conventional checkpoint. Facility is not stupidity, as one friend, king of the network of gas stations, used to say.
Murashka on the skin. The remarkable work characteristics of Murano allow me to attribute it to real male devices. But according to the design of the interior and exterior, decoration, ergonomics and other secondary signs, it is difficult to determine the gender of the car. And it's even good. This means that he is able to give consumist happiness to all categories of users.
The role of angry Zoil is more consistent with my nature than the role of the compiler of the panegyric. But in this case, my nit -picking to the insides of the machine - from the category of extremely subjective. Well, not at all in Murano landing. She is a pronounced commander here. I prefer to sit low, almost on the floor. This is serious for me. In Murano, I lowered the seat to the limit, but still sitting high, far, by the hood, I look. I do not think it is convenient. But here is absolutely for an amateur: to whom - almonds, to whom - the guzka is fatter.
But the front racks in the car can be infinitely watered with bare. It is no secret that in such cars, due to front racks, the most terrible things often happen. You can easily not notice a transverse vehicle that has already entered your territorial waters, but you do not see it, since it floats in the dead zone. Here the racks are far away, as if they are not at all.
As a newly made, although an irregular user of Nissan Primera (the car replenished the family fleet), I will say joyfully and cheerfully: I am already familiar in Murano. The display practically repeats the design of Primera. BirdView navigation navigation is also from there. The issues of ergonomics are resolved about the same. Regarding the convenience of the rear view camera, which is also in Primera and which some complain, I can say one thing: the habit is given to us from above. Either you have been knocking your whole life with your ass plaster from the facades, or you never do it. Either you feel the car with a coccyx or a towing. The third is given only in the form of parking sensors or rear view chambers.
I could not yet arrange a winter test with its immersion in snow, saline and mud in Moscow baths. I will arrange - I will share the conclusions and portions of bile. But it is undoubted that it is needed. It is needed at least as a game or decorative element. There will be something to show a beloved girl, if there is nothing more to show.
I note, along the way, it is not very clear why there was no other video equipment in the tested Murano. Places for the DVD player and monitor are not provided at all. But this, I believe, is a matter of marketing. And by the time the Murano sales in Russia and television broadcasting will be covered, and the World Wide Web will be entangled, and they will provide a modem connection.
I looked at the bottle stand-not only the Coca-Cola bank will fit here, but also the bottle of strong-and thought that the car was already equipped with a package for our roads. But then at the checkpoint selector a sticker with a crossed cigarette was discovered - no smoking. And immediately it became clear that the car was still American. Naturally, there is no ashtray, no cigarette lighter. But nothing. I am sure when Murano goes to Russia, we will be provided with a decent package, where there will be an ashtray, a cigarette lighter, and a hookah.
After all, we are worthy of this. We loved Murano gray for a long time. It is time to love him white.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photo Andrey Danilov

We thank for help in organizing the shooting of Nissan Motor Rus, (095) 961-2131, and the Russian Automobile Association.

Nissan Murano 3.5 SE
 
Gasoline engine, v6
Working volume (cubic cub) 3498
Power (L.S. at rpm) 234 at 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 318 at 3600
The drive is full with an automatically connected drive to the front wheels
Gearbox 5-speed, automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4770/1880/1745
Wheel base (mm) 2825
Equipped mass (kg) 1870
Maximum speed (km/h) 200
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.5
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 12.3
The cost of the tested car is $ 64 300

Author: Murano is not equipped with an ordinary automatic machine, but by the Xtronic CVT variator (Continously Variable Transmission) - this is the first car in the classroom, equipped with a unavailable transmission ... Murano variator was generally not adapted to long drive with maximum load. After two extreme accelerations and a pair of six-kilometer shots along the dinema at maximum speed, the electronics cut the engine speed to 4000-4500 rpm-most likely, this is due to an overheating box. Looking under the bottom of the car, we found that the bottom cover of the variator is made in the form of a radiator, the air for which directs a special aerodynamic screen. To tear this shield on the winter road is a couple of trifles, and then it is easy to get to the replacement of the box.

Cars: it seemed that the Muscovites were weaned to be surprised at the tinted block, like sunflowers on the luminary. I am sure that this machine can be treated with osteochondrosis-mobility of the cervical vertebrae of Murano returns no worse than the therapist-manual. Even the fighters for social justice on the short -ows of the creeping Volga easily give the left row - they probably want to consider from the side ... neither give nor take a visit to extraterrestrial civilization! Indeed, after all, Nissan had not yet been flying to the planet of large crossovers, densely populated by competitors. Here are the stylists and stood up: it seems that they created overflow of Murano surfaces in the same way as a patient ancestor turned a piece of obsidian into a massive chopping.

Gazeta.ru: Of course, this car for aesthetes with children. There should be two children. The point is not that these specimens are placed in Murano at least standing, at least lying, at least on a bicycle. The matter is in paternal pride and calm for the happy future of the next generations. Children can be safely thrown into leather sun loungers behind the driver and take them anywhere - even to school, even to the children's room of the police. You can not be afraid that the children will suffer mental damage, seeing in the window of street-players from Bibirevo. Because Murano will be over all this and faster than all this.

www.carview.co.jp: Since the Murano model was created on the platform of a passenger car with front -wheel drive, the suspension is also in the image of a car. In order to compensate for the inevitable SUV car, the raised center of gravity, the suspension is made more rigid. At the same time, since the primary return of the steering wheel also has a muffled character, while driving along an uneven road, the steering wheel reacts relatively clearly to each small push. This is so, but is the pleasure of even posture of the car, including when driving on an off -road in 4WD mode, is it not worth it? Of course, compared to a well -made machine -like station wagon, the car is a little rude in control. But this can be said about Toyota Harrier, and even about imported machines of the SUV category.

Road & Travel Magazine: Outstanding along and across, with a beveled physiognomy and shiny headlights, crooked arched wings, huge cast discs, Murano stands out even in a crowded parking lot. And in this, according to Nissan stylists from the California design studio La Jolla, and the essence of their fantastic plan is. In Nissan, this is called sculpture in motion (Sculpture in Motion) - a concept that combines the best characteristics of an SUV with a high commanding planting and embracing the asphalt of a sports sedan.

www.autobuyguide.com: We liked Nissan Murano during the first trip on it. And it happened with us: the more we drive on different cars, the more we like them. Murano with its powerful engine and smooth move turns a car trip into pleasure. Murano, according to the sensations, is as fast as a sports sedan. In any case, it is faster than the BMW X5 3.0. CVT variator is responsive. And Murano is controlled perfectly. A collision on the edge of the curb near the corner of the house did not knock us out of the rut. We find that Murano goes and is controlled better than Honda Pilot, for example, many other SUV medium -sized category.
When choosing a name for a car in this case, they did not resort to the help of a computer, throwing endless options with a meaningless assortment of letters onto the mountain. Murano is the name of the island in the Gulf of Venice, where the center for the production of colored glass is located. Murano glass is famous for both design and manufacturing technology - Nissan Murano has the same properties, - Nissan explain their choice.
The Murano model was developed in the California designer center La Jolla and was originally intended only for the North American market. For several years in Russia, the car was sold exclusively through gray dealers. From this year, Murano will be sold through the official representatives of Nissan.
The target audience Murano is young people aged about 30 years. From the press release of Nissan: Murano is no less individual than its owners are people with free thinking, taking everything from life. They choose Murano because it emphasizes their individuality with an architectural design, in addition, it is inherent in uncompromising functionality and dynamism.
For those motorists to whom the luxury of the SE set, Nissan has prepared a limited company - only 100 cars - and, of course, an exclusive circulation of models called Nissan Murano Arte Cabernet. The peculiarity of the finish is in the color of the cabin to the color of the wine of the known variety and body in the rare tone Twilight Grey. The exclusive package also includes genuine leather, remote key, immobilizer, hatch ...
Nissan Murano leads from the legendary Nissan Skyline R32. It was on the basis of this model that the rear-wheel drive FM (Front Midship) and the front-wheel FF-L (Front Engine, Front Drive) platform were built. It is on the basis of FF-L, designed for the class of full-sized cars, that Nissan Murano was created.
The full-wheel drive system with electronic control of the Murano model, which is the further development of the All-Mode 4x4 system, was first used on X-TRIIL.
To adapt to the requirements, road conditions and tastes of the European market, about 300 changes were made to the Murano design. They touched in particular the design of the rear of the car, interior and suspension finishes. Mechanical changes are made taking into account higher (rather than in the USA) average speeds on the roads of Europe.

 

Source: "Autopilot"