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Toyota Highlander vs Nissan Murano

Two Japanese middleweight crossover. Which of them will wins not the question. But how fast he will do it? There is nothing easier than choosing between Murano and Highlander. We look at the characteristics. If you want more, even more as possible power, then Toyota has more on 24 horsepower.


And you have either unmeared money (and in this case you need Porsche Cayenne Turbo), or there is no car at all and you do not cry every year over the receipt from the tax service. Because Murano's modest, having lost in advance by the number of horses, gently stacked in the tax threshold of 250 liters. with. And if you are a purely rational person, then you can not read further. And if not ... Well, try, but I warn you: with each next paragraph you will understand less, who won this duel. And at the very end, confusing is irrevocable.


Toyota made a high big crossover. Nissan smartly squat and semi-service

Zero-two seconds on Underwood
Despite the advantage of power and the same torque characteristics, Highlander loses Murano in overclocking 0.2 seconds. Do not think that I mock. Here is not just zero-two seconds. In the case when we compare Nissan and Toyota, it is a lot. Feels like eternity. Murano is very dynamic. He does not even have a sports regime in the transmission. Because there is enough full-time settings. And Highlander, if not translate the automatic transmission lever to the sport position, will puff as garbage truck.

The reason is simple. A five-speed typewriter of the time of Ilf and Petrov, some Underwood, serves as arrogant, pompous from its own importance of the Toyota crossover. The fashionable and cheeky Nissan is equipped with a fast and light stepless variator, which, of course, closer to the computer. It not only saves gasoline, but also noticeably shrust when overtaking. What can look incredible for those who are familiar with variasts caliber smaller, but this is an established fact.


Riding on two or three wheels is hard
Nissan diagonal hanging overcame easily

All cars can be conditionally divided into those that can 200, and those that are painfully difficult. We do not advise anyone to check it on the road, besides, we have already done it yourself. For Murano 200 km / h far from the limit. Highlander on the passport gives only 180 km / h, and on the road with a great difficulty a little more.

Former policeman on bdsm.ru
The advantage of Murano in the dynamics is realized not only on the asphalt. The designer crossover Lycho lights up on the ground just give. Slightly push the pedal, and it flies appears, in which Highlander just sighed. This is what we really did not expect in this test, so it's the fact that Toyota asks for help and cries where Nissan is doing without even blinking the eye. Despite the overweight Highlander compared with the competitor, it is heavier than 355 kg, we did not doubt its off-rho-roval abilities. As a result, disappointment.


Murano fully won the opponent with a sand duel, just did not meet a little time ...
Highlander in the sand brakes like a real brake

So it should not happen. We remember that the permanent four-wheel drive, namely, he has toyota, always wins. Usually a car with an electronically connected clutch, that is, Nissan, can not anything. He either immediately gets up, either rides for a short time. Highlander summed up and overweight, and too hard electronic collar, which instead of imitating normal interclause blocking, imitated the pit, handcuffs and a strain shirt at the same time a former policeman, dismissed at his own request, and now frequent SAD-MAA sites. On his background, Murano's electronic assistant works like Kasparov. He is very smart and does nothing superfluous. Helps in the right place and at the right time. Plus, Nissan has a nicely operating coupling. At Toyota in the center of a certain self-block, but, as practice has shown, with a not very distinct algorithm.

Smoking constantly
Wonderful actually car Nissan Murano. At least it seemed to us so while he unexpectedly did not stand in the midst of the sands. I even thought: didn't we loaded it too much, got carried away in the desert? Still, a parquetor ... But no, everything turned out to be easier. He inspired us with his charisma, that we completely forgot about his toy clutch. No matter how admiring you the boldness of the car with an electronic-connected full-wheel drive, and the old truth will always remain fair ride to the first break. And he wants to smoke constantly. The coupling does not like to work for a long time it trite overheats. As one friend my friend spoke in the morning, I am not for conscience, I am for joy.

So, Toyota Highlander first disgraced, and then, fighting in the sand, got out and proudly went all day. Nissan Murano flushed in the rays of glory for a few minutes, and then the paint was shame on all the remaining time. This scene in the sands became a turning point in the duel of two jacodmites. Further Murano went down the rolled. Ward charm slept.


- Toyota rear row is spacious than a competitor
- White leather, of course, not for off-rho-rods

Eyebrows on the windshield
Suddenly it was discovered that in Murano it is impossible to sit. The driver's seat cushion does not have a separate adjustment in height. You can imagine: navigation, premium audio system, leather, glass roof everything is there. And one small button that decides, sitting comfortable you or as under the narch, no. It was very expensive to put. As a result, I found only two ergonomic positions. First knees to the chest, the neck is stretched like a goose. The second eyebrows rests in the windshield, the steering wheel presses into the crotch. Ivan Evdokimov, by the way, did not agree with me, the landing in Nissan seemed good apparently, so he put his head on the glacial on the move several times. While the bone is not broken and blood does not bloom out of the artery, our technical expert smiles.

I would also suffer if it were not for a tight and slippery steering wheel. It requires much more effort than Toyotovsky, and is covered with such a strange material, as if smeared by Salom. If it were not for a painful suspension ... because of it, the cracks of the asphalt, the pits and the tubercles, how to poke into the body of Murano needles, forcing it to shudder. The bad, the capricious and fighting Russian road favors the Highlander and caresses it as a native, but clearly dislikes Nissan.

What do you think?
What car you choose? Dergana, with a rude heavy wheel and your eyebrows on the windshield? Or comfortable, spacious, comfortable? I would think about Nissan, because I love dynamic cars and I like it when the crossover does not sit in a sand rut, and cheerfully jumps out of it. What the difference does that he overheat the coupling in ten minutes and stands up. I'm not going to stick in the appearance of the dunes for so long. All that is needed from the PARTNER, migally fly a heavy area and get into solid. And praising Toyota with his mythical constant full-wheel drive can not even. Who then needs her reliability?


Real American interior. The only large-scale slip speedometer is not in the middle
A very convenient windows control unit and mirrors are located right at hand.

At the same time, I am not finished creatin to buy a car, from which the driver remains abrasions on the head. Therefore, I definitely like Highlander more. After all, he has a trunk more, and the front panel, unlike Murano, is made much ergonomic climate management functions and multimedia are looking for easily and without any problems. Buttons and regulators of the desired size. Only for these phytulki will have to overpay 300 thousand rubles. Still back to Nissan.

OR NOT?
I intentionally did not want to make clear conclusions. In the end, the task of the journalist to give the reader food for reflection, and not to impose his point of view. But, you know, I could not restrain. I tried my best to keep quiet that Highlander is better, but I could not: No reason to prefer his Murano!







Caution, technical details
From a technical point of view, the main difference between the subjects is not even a type of transmission, although it is very important. First of all, if we are talking about off-road qualities, we are talking about weight. More than 300 kg of difference approximately 15 percent. So with the same wheel size, we get much more problems with Highlander on weak ground (sand) and in the rises. A little greater clearance of Toyota partially helps compensate for lack of more weight in a rut, but there is little in the sand. But the present four-wheel drive and the hydromechanical automatic transmission can very long fight with severe conditions of Russian roads, unlike the easy and cheap variator and the Nissan visco-coupling susceptible to the rapid overheating during significant loads. Although this is compensated by the impeccable work of electronic protection, which does not give an inexperienced driver to kill the transmission, but simply stopping the car. So lovers to look around the beach sand will have to choose something else both cars for this are not suitable.

Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova

 

A source: 4x4 magazine [August / 2011]