Test drive Nissan Pathfinder 2005 - 2007 SUV

All photos of Nissan Pathfinder 2005 - 2007

I can dig

The new Nissan Pathfinder, illegitimate and entrusted, fell into our inquisitive hands. We, of course, would like to climb much more in the wilds and hit the SUV into the mud, having experienced its cross-country ability. But they did not feel sorry. I think most future owners of the tracker (Pathfinder should be transferred like this) will also not be subjected to cars to tough off room: their car is even more sorry. In general, I will not dig in black soil with asphalt tires today. Although this off -road SUV is capable of a lot. If you forget about pity, of course.

Full-wheel drive Nissans with a crossed area have always been on you, except for purely road sportsmen, like Skyline GT-R. Absolutely off -road Terrano, ultimately all -terrible Patrol these devices do not even think of following the present fashion for general parquet with its unchanged attributes, including a supporting body, a completely independent suspension of all wheels and God! Almost a passenger transmission without the slightest hint of a demultiper. However, Nissan has a successful X-Trail. And now the fourth Pathfinder ZhP is also added. Although what does it mean added? The name is not new: it was invented for the North American version of the Terrano SUV, and subsequently received an independent status: the second generation of traces of doubles in Europe no longer had (not counting the luxury Infinity QX4, which was also intended exclusively for the States). Yes, and Pathfinder himself, if it fell, then by roundabouts bypassing official dealers.

Paradoxically, the All-Mode 4x4 electronic-controlled transmission on a new machine is the result of the evolution of the all-wheel drive system, which first appeared on the notorious Skyline GT-R Sport Communist Party. There are no differential locks so useful for the SUV, but there is an imitation of them: a little wheel begins to slip electronics immediately, and Newton-meters run to another wheel, more mundane. Accordingly, instead of aimlessly chatting with pins in the air, the car moves forward. According to the Japanese, the All-Mode 4x4 is a quick and effective tool against tedious diagonal hanging. (Lord, no matter how boring this world would be without television advertising!) All one additional levers are controlled by the whole single handle about four positions. Two modes can be used on solid and fast rear -wheel drive coatings (economical rear -wheel drive) and AUTO (automatically connected full), and the other two are designed to take mud baths 4n (constant full -wheel drive with a hard connection between the axes) and 4L (reducing transmission with the disabled system stabilization). Seriously!

Pathfinder car with the frame of the Lord, please listen! With the frame design of the body. Made according to the American recipe, he has a native brother Navara. Both cars are produced in Spain, but the pickup is still a few easier: it has a hard rear bridge and a simpler transmission. The ranger has a completely independent suspension: this is so that European car battleships are well self -awareness.

Believe me, Europeans are simply obliged to be satisfied! Pathfinder is perceived as a very perfect product. It is felt that this car is not a passenger, but at the same time it is not felt by a heavy and clumsy machine. He has a harsh, but extremely elastic, without the slightest hint of discomfort, suspension; The steering wheel adequate in force and very understandable reactions in response to any manipulations. Very well. But the new diesel is even better! He pulls well and spins quite actively.

And he is quiet like a duck! Yes, and the machine does not fuss here in vain: a solid torque saves the box from unnecessary switching. As a result, we have a sharp start, if necessary, and the vigor of the spirit during accelerations at speed: you can sneak without problems. And you can also inhibit: the two -ton colossus stops simply and clearly. As you want. Well, or like that. By the way, at present, for expensive Russians, Diesel is the only possible option. A powerful gasoline four -liter six is \u200b\u200balso promised, but much later.

My personal passion for SUVs in all their manifestations makes you see in a stylish ranger of an almost written handsome man. The same ideas are exploited here as in the overseas bulk of the Nissan Armada Aka Infiniti QX56. But if hefty pro -American machines are almost a kitsch, then the more moderate and brought design of the Pathfinder body is close to the ideal and filled with world harmony. And the color is extremely successful atypical metallic-hack. A fit, moderately aggressive and extremely functional SUV here is a dominant impression.

However, the functionality of the trace is not so much an impression as the truth of life. There are seven seats in the cabin, and what is valuable! The designers learned how to hide the rear seats as follows: being folded, they do not give themselves away, turning into a natural floor of the trunk. Where, in case of it, they are extracted in a simple way. Here, in general, all seats are distinguished by amazing guttability: each can be folded in its entirety or broken by a folding back. The front passenger chair also folds: now in the salon without losing the closing of the trunk door, you can shove an almost three -meter squiggle! The Japanese calculated: there are 64 options for transforming the salon! In expensive LE, how our car is equipped with a separate condee for the rear passengers, which is controlled from the second row of seats. Mom is blowing, don't grieve!

And dad also do not grieve! Pathfinder absorbed a fairly newfangled stray, some of which are not so much necessary as such as they are pleasant on their own. Well, for example, a non -contact access system: the car feels the approaching the owner by the key in his pocket and she helpfully unlocks. You also do not have to poke a key in the steering column: the car starts with a rotary handle as on a gas stove.

The interior style is mandatory allastic and chrome-orders. And the steering wheel here is completely from the sports Nissan 350z! A large display should serve navigation, which in Russia yourself understand. But beautiful! And on the monitor, when turning on the rear, the color landscape of the camera’s brushes located above the license plate crawls out. No, you just look: the earth is really round! And he squeaks then Parktrika smashed something. We slow down.

So what are you, a trace! Sunny! A large and stylish, ultramodern machine with good makings of a rogue in the best sense of the word! I am sure: this frame will forever find its way on the off -road. And even a little at once!

Autography

Nissan Pathfinder III

Pathfinder II predecessor (1996)

Pathfinder Armada platform

Premiere January 2004

Body wagon

Engines 2.5-4.0 l (174-249 l.

US production, Spain

Expected replacement 2011