Nissan Note test drive since 2005 minivan

Fresh breeze

This novelty is capable of committing a real revolution on the market. Will he be able to? Let's wait for the prices.
 



From good boys and girls
This happens with everyone who firstly saw a pink lake. Neither photographs, nor the stories of friends, nor television pictures can give the effect. The man who first appeared in the capital of Senegal, looking at the fantastically implausible color of the water surface, will certainly exclaim: but it is really pink!
 

So I could not tear myself away from this car. No, I haven't drove anywhere yet. And he only opened the door, sat down, pushed the chair under his 185 cm, went out and climbed into the back seat. Fantasy! They did not deceive from the knees to the back of the front chair another 20 centimeters! Yes, it cannot be. So that there was such a salon in a typewriter built on the basis of the baby Mira. Yeah! This miracle reflection, probably, has a microscopic trunk ... No, naturally, they are scoffing at me! Opening the fifth door, I found there ... a baby stroller. Walking.
 

God sees, I was preparing for this meeting. I read a moderately glisten (they are all like that) a press release that talked about how they created a car. How, issuing the task of his young subordinate, designer Nissan Tiji Toyota (this is not a joke and not a typo, but the name of the project leader) formulated his only car for a young, not too rich family, with a spacious salon and, if possible, a sporty character. Already, you know, it smacks of some utopia. And then it went even funnier.
 

A year and a half before the release of the laptop, Nissan experts interviewed several hundred ... adolescents. To find out how they see the perfect car of their parents. Guess with three times. Fast? Powerful? Beautiful? All by. The main thing is that you can sit normally on the back sofa! Both the boys and the girls took out long -legged dads who pushing their seat back until it stops back. After all, you will neither sit behind them, nor play sticking out like a bottle in a cup holder!
 

And Nissan designers undertook to solve an impossible problem. They pushed the Mill base to the maximum possible 2600 mm, minimizing the front and rear overhang, and, most importantly, came up with a 160 mm sliding sofa.
 

They did it. Yes, yes, I saw with my own eyes, felt with these hands. The most amazing thing is that, moving the sofa to the stop, I could sit behind myself! Without much comfort, of course, but I sat, and did not suffer in the manner of one of the heroes of Queen Margo, who was forced to try on Spanish boots. At the same time, the trunk turned out to be quite a family volume of 437 liters.
 



Signor Gon was pleased
In truth, I was in a hurry to check the capabilities of the salon that I somehow did not immediately remember the appearance. But in vain. Another question is that it is more difficult to achieve maximum efficiency of using the internal space or draw a small bus attractive in appearance.
 

And again, Toyota and his colleagues did. It turned out, it turned out, and business: family, from the mischievous of the miracle headlights with cheerful glass eyebrows above them, a fervently upset back of the roof and arshny boomerangs of the rear lights. Only three strokes, and by definition, the family van himself unexpectedly began to resemble a little broin, who, smiling sweetly, sniffs his eyes as if to arrange some kind of skoda.
 

You can argue about the radiator grate in the Murano style, if a cheerful guy is so cool. But it is quite obvious that it is impossible to confuse the laptop with any microvian. Which did not fail to note the recent chief of Nissan, and now the head of the entire Franco-Japanese alliance Carlos Gon: the car turned out both practical and emotional at the same time. You can't say more precisely. Moreover, it is curious, the whole laptop, entirely both outside, and inside, and in character.

 
     
In the text of the Tekna, the steering wheel and the seats are sheathed with the skin

Pay attention to an impressive atlase pocket in the lid of an unusually capacious glove box


Here, for example, the front panel. As if nothing special at first glance. There are no luxurious materials, no particularly fashionable design solutions. A familiar lupo -eyed console of the air conditioner from Mira in a semicircular tide in the center of the torpedo unexpectedly began to resemble a ridiculous face. The panel of the devices is also without special frills. And again, at some point you will recognize in a usually boring combination of a speedometer, a tachometer, an indicator of the level of fuel and the display, the surprised face of some eccentric robot from a forgotten cartoon.
 

Now pay attention to the glove box. Really interesting? Its cover is made in the form of a vertical tray for atlases or magazines. But you have not seen the main thing yet. Open the lid ... by modern standards, he simply bottomless the damn dozen dozen cans of Cola. How they managed to make the box so deep, the mind is incomprehensible.

 
   
      
The back of the sofa can be folded separately

Folding the front back, we get a triple cornice with a loading platform 240 cm long

Strong and very convenient shelves of a flexi-boat with a bilateral pile-plastic coating allow you to organize a secret niche in the trunk or transport dirty things


He is the same in the back seat. Fighting at first a super -like landing, the ocean of the place above the head, the laptop gradually opens up its seemingly bottomless bins: ordinary pockets in the doors and binaric, for toys and books, in the backs of seats, cup holders and traps, hidden containers and hooks for clothes and baggage, sockets, sockets, sockets. tables and other and other.
 



Sports if possible
However, I was pleasing to the passenger compartment of the novelty, I still hit the road. To find out how believable is another bold statement by the creators of the laptop. After all, they promised that the car, no less, would give its owner the pleasure of driving. Moreover, it was also condescendingly noted, they say, compared with the volume of work on the interior, setting up the chassis under the requirements of the demanding Europeans did not represent much difficulties.
 

Honestly, I would not be surprised. However, road habits were still not too sports. Rather, the same mixture of equal shares of practicality and emotions. Yes, a completely new 4-cylinder gasoline engine with a volume of 1.6 liters accelerates the laptop quite vigorously and fun up to a hundred in just 10.7 seconds. Yes, on narrow and winding, like snakes during molting, mountain serpentines in the vicinity of Marseille turned out that the laptop can obediently enter the most difficult turns, excessively rolls in turns, effectively slows down and willingly gaining speed. Nevertheless, I would not call this Nissan a real driver. To do this, he, perhaps, does not start boring, does not excite the blood, does not put each next turn to pass faster than the previous one.
 

However, if it were not for such categorical statements by Japanese designers and English chassis tuners, it would never have occurred to anyone to scold the control of the laptop. He holds the road perfectly at speeds above 160 km/h. And for which first of all it would be worth praising for silence in the cabin. The muffled roar of the motor comes here, as if through a thick cotton blanket, even at a turn of a crankshaft of five thousand, you can talk with a satellite without raising a voice.

At first, it seemed, however, on such an ideal background, aerodynamic noises stand out somewhat in the area of \u200b\u200bthe front racks, windshield and roof. But it turned out that the strongest northwestern wind was to blame, that he blows on the Mediterranean coast of France from the southern spurs of the Alps. This very windbreak found in the laptop and another weak point sensitivity of a relatively light and high car to the gusts of the side wind at high speed. However, a day later, Mistral calmed down, and Nissan again became obedient to Tikhone.
 

In Russia, in any case, in the vicinity of the capitals, where so far most of new cars of foreign brands are sold, there are no such strong and permanent winds, which means that there are nothing to worry about future customers. True, Russians roads are quite different from the perfect asphalt in the south of France. And we, quite likely, will appear another feature of the laptop, which in the vicinity of Marseille remained in the memory of a barely noticeable roughness. The fact is that the rear suspension of the car was quite clearly shook on the irregularities of those that with great difficulty I managed to find.
 



The promise of Mr. Lee
In general, the machine turned out to be really outstanding pretty, spacious, comfortable, dynamic. She certainly became a gust of fresh wind, mixing the established ideas about the classes. This is a family car that does not look like a boring Baul carrier. This is a small machine with an incredibly spacious salon. This is finally quite adequate dynamics with at least a 1.6-liter engine.
 

In addition, the basic laptop-compront is very decent equipped: two airbags, ABS with an emergency braking amplifier and electronic brake force distribution, a sliding rear seat, air conditioning, a central castle. However, for success in the market, even the most ingenious car needs, first of all, the same quality profitable price.
 

How much will the laptop cost is still unclear. The Nissan’s representative office promises to publish prices before the debut of the car at the end of March. What will they be? The only hint was allowed by Chris Lee, a company planning manager of the European branch of the company: we believe that the laptop should cost at the almer level, because it is more convenient and spacious than a golf car. Well, if comfort with a 1.4 liter engine will be sold for $ 15,000, this car has every chance of becoming not only the most popular microvian in Russia, but also to take buyers from many European and Japanese superminations.

Just do not forget the person suggests .... If Mr. Lee is wrong and the laptop will cost more, buyers in Russia will receive just a very interesting car. With the revolution, you will have to wait until.
    
Eight options

Unlike Europe, where two diesel engines are also laid, in Russia the machine is sold only with two gasoline engines of 1.4 liters, 88 liters. with. and 1.6 l, 110 l. with. The latter, in addition to the mechanical box of Renault, can be equipped with the latest Nissan development with a 4-speed automatic. It will be possible to buy a 1.6-liter version in any of the three traditional Comfort, Tekn and Laksori performance for the brand. The most economical (5.37.9 liters per 100 km) the option of lapt-1,4 will be offered only in comfort and laxori and only with the manual transmission.
 
BEHIND

Spacious, convenient salon, good sound insulation and dynamics with a 1.6 liter engine
AGAINST

Unimportant visibility forward due to massive front racks, noisy back suspension
 
Nissan Note 1.6

general information
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1107 (1131)
 
Length x width x height, mm
4083x1690x1550
 
Base, mm
2600
 
Track, mm
1470/1460
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
10.7 (11.7)
 
Speed, km/h
183 (174)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
5.5/8.5 (5.8/9.3)
 
Fuel supply, l
46 AI-95
 
Trunk volume, l
280/437/1332
 

Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
4-cylinder, in-line, gasoline
 
Working volume, SMZ
1598
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
110/6000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
15.6/4400
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
Mechanical 5-st. (automatic 4-st.)
 
Suspension: in front
Independent type of McExeson
 
behind
Elastic transverse beam
 
Steering
rheck -type with an electric power
 
Front/back brakes
disk/drum with ABS and EBD
 
Tires
185/65 R15
 
 
Alexander Melnik, photo Nissan
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [03/2006]