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Nissan Navara and Nissan Pathfinder - a bicycle that did not fit
Love nature, travel, ride kayaks, bicycles and other snowboards? You need an SUV! Or a pickuper or is better an SUV somehow for baggage is calmer. No, yet the pickuper will enter more. Minute, we’ll figure it out! In the last couple of years, pickups have become incredibly popular on the Russian market. Moreover, unlike the same America, we have not so much a utilitarian vehicle as a more affordable alternative to classic SUV. However, it is necessary to notice that before the advent of Nissan Navara, pickups in our country sold the most workers: Mitsubishi L200, Ford Ranger/Mazda B-Series, not to mention the Great Wall Deer G3. And then the famous Japanese manufacturer of SUVs brought a light truck on stage, which is not only equipped as a decent SUV, but also rides no worse, and his body will take half a ton for a sweet soul. The question is, half a ton of what exactly, Navara is not positioned as a utilitarian truck, but as a car for people leading an active lifestyle, not sensing sports, adoring picnics, trips to nature, fishing/hunting, mushrooms/berries. In addition, very original, do not want to have a boring car, like everyone else. Although what can not be called boring or dull, it is Pathfinder, which is considered basic for Navara. Moreover, he provides the owner with exactly the same set of opportunities as the pickup. Or not even? In fact, what to prefer to a person who, with friends, tents, kayaks and bicycles, is chosen a couple of times a year for a week to the lake, and almost every weekend is just in the forest or fishing. At the same time, it does not necessarily force categorical rivers or storms mountain ranges on a Mountain-bike at a price of a half-rumor. This is an ordinary person, not an athlete-athlet, although you might think about them. In short, we collected the equipment, took the Nissan Navara pickup and the Nissan Pathfinder SUV and went to the autumn forest for the final picnic this season.
And my friend's friend A few words about our cars. The Nissan Navara presented a couple of years ago is a classic representative of the middle class of the early 21st century. Our specific instance is armed with a 4.0-liter gasoline V-shaped six-linked six-liter six. p., 5-speed automatic gearbox, all-wheel drive, seven-seater salon and an excellent Infinity audio system. We immediately agreed that, according to legend, four people should go in each car, that is, we do not put the third row, and we do not remove the second, except partially. By the way, at Pathfinder, it develops in a proportion of approximately 40:20:40, and lowering the central part, we get two separate chairs placed on the sides of the sofa. On Navara, the proportions are different 40:60, while not the backs are leaned back, but the seats pillows rise, opening access to the rolls covered with a net. There is a meaning in this action only if you need to shove in the salon something not very neat that you would not want to put on the sofa, and at the same time not so rude as to throw it into the body. I put two kayaks there when I drove into the store for barbecue meat. And and then only because our pickup was not equipped with a roof over a cargo compartment. Otherwise, our Navara can be called a typical representative of the young kind of comfortable pickups. An excellent 2.5-liter turbodiesel is boiled with a 4-speed automatic transmission and an honest partiem. The selected set includes air conditioning and blocking the rear inter -axle differential. Comfort, dynamics and good handling are included in standard equipment. Moreover, the dynamic characteristics of the cars were not striking, which can not be said about the consumption of fuel. The gasoline Pathfinder has broken over 300 kilometers of more than half a tank about 17 liters per 100 km, and diesel Navara, without losing for a second, only a quarter, with an indicator of 11 liters per hundred. The commendable lag in the indicators was aggravated by the fact that the 95th costs noticeably larger than diesel fuel: on the dough day 20.2 and 18.7 rubles per liter, respectively.
Main! Vira!
Let's move on to equipment and loading and unloading. According to legend, we go to the suburbs, a hundred kilometers from the city, for the entire weekend, to relax with comfort, not forgetting about a certain active pastime. Therefore, the list of necessary was supplemented by several desired positions. In short, we took two triple tents, a set of camping furniture of three armchairs and a table, a complete set of dishes, sleeping accessories of various kinds, including voluminous self-suppressed rugs and winter sleeping bags, two baids of vyun-k, spinning rods, grill, coal, ax, ax, ax Machete, a chain saw, warm and light clothes, a plaid, a bunch of little things and, after some hesitation, a bicycle. And what, maybe someone will want to drive into the village for kefir? When all the assembled was dumped in front of the cars, a decent mountain turned out, the dimensions of which did not promise light loading and fair wind. Moreover, according to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe test, the equipment was supposed to be loaded in full at first in one car, after that in the other and calculate the dry remnant of what did not fit, making a verdict.
In Pathfinder, moderately long items can be immersed, adding only the central part of the back of the second row of seats
Behind the fog The road to the place of camping took place along a typical route for such an occasion to adjust to Moscow. First, short dashes through the city, then trampling in suburban traffic jams, fifty kilometers of a narrow highway with road tracks and endless villages, a kilometer of larynx, as many forest roads, a few directions and we are on the spot. The city, the highway and the even rolled lane did not reveal a clear leader among our heroes. The SUV is slightly easier to climb, more confidently going to overtake the city and ahead of the Moscow Ring Road. In traffic, it loses all the advantages in power and dynamism, which is understandable. In the forest on a longer Navara, and its dimensions differ from SUV only it is more difficult to squeeze between the trees. It turns out that with dynamic driving on bumps, the front suspension of our loaded heroes is no longer so confidently holding a blow. On Navara, it is less common, but on Pathfinder it was more often heard how the levers rudely fall on the chipsters and, not meeting reciprocity, indignantly thumps about the limiters of the move from the other side. The rear suspensions, especially the spring at the pickupa, look at this fuss silently and down, and nevertheless, it is better to move on the off -road slowly. The road clearance of cars within the base is almost the same 238 and 236 mm for SUV and pickup, respectively. Under the front suspension, both are 254 mm, under the back of Pathfinder 235, and in Navara 230. The differences are insignificant, it is important only to remember that the outbuilder from the load will decrease from the load, but the pickup does not. But the truck has the rear overhang is longer! And the tongue turned out to be such a magnificence by a truck to call
Tea with trunks Without adventures and without reduced, which, by the way, is forbature, namely 1: 2.596, we get to the coast of one well -known river near Moscow and, quickly turning the camp and drinking coffee/tea with trunks, take on the kayak. If you need to pass a couple of hours before the arrival of guests or plumbing, buy a kayak and try to assemble it. Do not forget to get a patch and read the instructions three times. They say that experienced people even girls cope with the assembly in 20 minutes. But the first is exciting ...
Most of the equipment to the place we brought in a pickup. The body included kayaks, and camping furniture, and two 75-liter backpacks, and a 100-liter baul, a trifle of type and hammock, something also a bicycle with a front wheel removed. As it turned out later, the wheel could not be removed, but I was afraid to scratch the body and beat the bike on the side. The dimensions of the Navara cargo platform are 1510 mm in width and 1560 mm in length along the floor, 1488 and 1496 mm, respectively, along the internal edge of the side. The height of the side is 475 mm. The width between the wheel arches is 1130 mm, and the width of the opening of the folding side is 1430 mm. This board, by the way, turns into a convenient table and at the same time easily withstands a load of 200 kg, verified. The packaging with a kayak lies in the pickup body both along and across. The bicycle diagonally, and the wheels have to be stuffed under the shedding of the body. A heap closes with a net on top, which clings to standard mounts. These fastenings allow you to put Navara fat plus to any assessment, and not only in comparison with SUV, but also with other pickups. The cargo fixation system is called C-channel and is a kind of rails, to which double hooks are attached, moving along the guides laid along the bottom, along the side and front sides.
When trying to shift the equipment in Pathfinder, it turned out that the kayaks can be put only across, the cargo heap overlaps the review, rising to the ceiling, and the bicycle remained on the street and asks to the roof. We had no special mounting on the relings, it was not very good, however, having thrown out of the trunk everything that we so difficult in there, we folded the central part of the back of the second row of seats and put our miserable bike between the sofa back. The wheel had to be removed, because in height the bike was not placed either. Some of the light, but not small things had to simply throw at the top of the mountain of equipment. The grid was notable to fix the net, since the eyes located below the windows line were hidden by backpacks and sleeping bags.
I don't want to go home
The autumn day ended quickly. The barbecue was delicious than ever. The flask with smuggled Georgian cognac was empty in three doses, the tea cooled down home. But I don’t want to leave how to leave, oh well, we’ll shake yourself! Our small test demonstrated a certain superiority of pickupa over the classic SUV in terms of the ability to take on more. Who doubted, you will say, nevertheless, I will continue if you are not going to take three kayaks or things similar in dimensions at once, and for bicycles and light volumetric things you have special luggages on the roof, then the pickup will have no advantages. Especially when you consider that a pickup with a roof over the body and a pickup without it are two big differences. And without a roof, it is impossible to leave it for a minute, especially in the outback. But then he smacks with distant expeditions, where without special preparation of the car and you should not meddle. However, this is already the topic of another study, and our picnic was a success, and we attached the bicycle, did not abandon, put in the pickup!
Igor Gubar, photo Victoria Ilyinskaya
A source: Magazine 4x4 [DECARY/2006]