Nissan Frontier test drive since 2009 pickup

To me free rein

That's why they survived. Once a pickup was considered a utilitarian car, and now a leather salon, climate control, good behavior on the asphalt. Rather, a large and prestigious 4x4 car, not a truck.
Sorry, I did not introduce the recruit: Nissan Navara.
The luxury pickup, as a new product was presented, became the fifth officially sold in Russia by the all -wheel drive of this Japanese brand. The head of Navara borrowed the basis of the chassis and interior from the PasFainer presented last year. Of course, the pickupian is much, almost half a meter, longer. This made it possible not only to make an impressive cargo platform (they say, the largest in the class), but also leave enough space with rear passengers, which such cars rarely boast.
Maneuverability? Well, yes, she suffered a little. But such an apparatus is not for everyday city driving (only scare a small -leaf!). He is prepared to carry a yacht or carry a quadrocycket, hunting a huge trunk to hunt, which can be washed from a hose, will come in handy everywhere. And if anyone is embarrassed that he is open, so Navar can be ordered with a hard roof with a hardtop (from the English. Hardtop).
The interior is the top of the luxury for pickupa, and for an expensive alternate, to which Navar is logical to attribute, focusing on the price tag, quite decent. You can rotate to an unregulated armrest between the front seats, short seats and a cigarette lighter located far from the driver. However, I do not smoke.
All these charms themselves are pleasant, but when you leave densely populated territories (and we agreed that they buy pickups for that), you ask once again the question: what does it have? A friend asked me about this when he found out that Navara and I went to the next province. I'm telling
The main drive is the rear; The front is connected hard. There is low
So...
Car on the frame, rear suspension of spring
So
There is a forced blocking of the rear differential.
Thank you, I understood.
Actually, I have not finished. Navars also have other useful causals. For example, the same as the patrols, the rapid heating button (it is also a cold climate): if you press it, the engine holds an idle 1400 rpm (only in the position of the box of the box). You begin to especially appreciate it when, having freezed like a tsutsik, you start a stumpy iron horse and, holding out your hands to the deflector, wait for warm air. Was it with you?
I will also take the arsenal of funds in demand outside the borders of megacities. Much more often under the numbers 2 or 3 on the selector, manufacturers understand not precisely the second and third, but the first two or three. Agree, for a tractor designed for a three -ton trailer, there is a difference.
Your humble servant traveled without a trailer, for which the diesel pickup was thanked with a modest fuel consumption. The average for seven hundred kilometers amounted to 10.9 liters, and with measured driving (about 100 km/h) on an unloaded highway even less.
Speaking of traffic modes. Navara suspensions are dense, I would even say tightly logical for a truck that can take 755 kg on board. The empty machine shakes on short waves and shakes it on serious potholes. True, the rolls are small in corners.
Accustomed to limited smoothness of the course, without noticing it, you begin to gain pace. If you do not look at the speedometer, drivers of cars can lose their mental balance.
And here is my countryside: not very large pits, not very slippery dirt, not very deep puddles. For normal alternate, not a problem; The SUV will pass, but it will be sorry; Passengers do not push here. Here you can not arrange serious tests for cross -country ability, but you can get a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe car.
The first race: with the front bridge turned on, on a low, but without a rear locking is easy! Now the same thing with the lock is u-u, but it will pass without a driver at all, if you get into the right track. I tried it on one rear bridge, but with the locking of the inter -normal differential it did not work out slowly, I didn’t try to accelerate: what kind of good, it will turn across the track.
In general, when solving the typical tasks of the traveler, Navara works as an ordinary all-terrain vehicle (we do not consider the trial and extreme off-road). The dimensions are felt primarily on steep and slippery turns (here you need to be slower). When you go along the rut, the downhole fixed on the thresholds willingly collect dirt, so you have to get out of the plague of the car carefully.
In general, I liked the pickup: it holds tenaciously on the highway, it goes well on the road, a considerable load will pull. True, if my will, I would have dismissed the suspension a little for the sake of smoothness, I think the pickup is enough 120 km/h. Do you think not enough?
Nissan Navara compromise between a utilitarian car and an all -terrain vehicle. Interesting as a second car for travel and trips on weekends.
+ Good economy, rich equipment, high traction capabilities, the presence of a rear differential lock.
- low smoothness without load, limited maneuverability, insufficient brightness of reverse lamps.
Nissan Navara
The Nissan-Passfirer made a debut in the summer of 2004. It is produced with one and a half or double cabin (the first option is not officially supplied to Russia).
Engines: diesel 2.5 liters (174 hp).
Gearboxes: 6-speed mechanical, 5-speed automatic.
Set options: se, le.
Price: $ 36 79042 690.
Test car: automatic 5-speed gearbox, LE equipment, $ 42,690.
For the same money
Chevrolet Trailblazer
$39 999-45 999
A typical American with a row gasoline six volume of 4.2 liters and an automaton. A car with air conditioning (without climate control) and a hatch in the roof can be bought for $ 40,000.
(ZR, 2002, No. 11)
Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7
$ 33 60037 900
The car was no longer a young in design as a spacious version of the vitar of the previous generation. Today, XL-7 is sold in parallel with the new Grand Vitara.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Alexander Budkin
 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"