Test drive Nissan Pathfinder 2005 - 2007 SUV

The power of suggestion

This car can easily convince that it is more and more expensive than it really is. If only ... you yourself want it.
 



I give the installation
The breath is even and deep. You are relaxed and calm ... Remember how, in the late 80s, half the country treated all kinds of psychics for free? Generally accepted medicine is not far behind. One so -called placebo effect is worth it. The patient is fed with drugs with abstruse names. They assure this, they say, a panacea from the disease. The patient is recovering and does not know: he is treated with an ordinary chalk.
 

I don’t know how to name the effect due to which the passfider can break through in our market, only some of its abilities are definitely akin to hypnosis: he convinces of his power no worse than Chumak or Kashpirovsky.
 

Faced with him, the nose to the nose in the parking lot, I was amazed at how much this angular-brain athlete turned out to be big. I was surprised that with the launch of the motor, xenon headlights themselves lit up. Bright white, which has already become firmly synonymous rather than a prestige than security, the light burns constantly. So conceived.

Having gone outside, he noticed, as others were emphasized, others were polite. No one, obviously, is not aware that this smashed is actually not so great. It is significantly smaller than the patrol and is by no means as much as it seems (23 cm longer and 11 cm higher) is more than the dandy of the X-trail.
 

Deliberately serious, almost every feature radiating power and pressure of the body shape is the secret of such an illusion. To whom this colossus is trying to imitate, it is understood immediately: the largest of the Nissans Armada. Officially, they are not delivered to us, but thanks to the gray dealers, this Gulliver has already managed to gain popularity in Russia.
 

I drove at all nothing. I slowed down in order to look around. And suddenly my thoughts found confirmation from the unexpected side. Behind, as if from under the ground, Blazer jumped out in a blue-white police uniform. After a few seconds, a nimble lieutenant was already standing at our car: guys, will we look at the car?
 

Do you refuse ... Exactly, this is an armada! Just as if a little less, he was said by his partner captain, clearly advanced in the Nissan lineup. The servants were not interested in either the documents for the car or the fact that we stopped in the wrong place. The Hypnotizer PasFainer seems to have completely powder their brains.
 

But they have not yet looked inside ...
 



Do not touch
A modern, very stylish salon, at first glance, looks expensive and can boast of original details. Yes, judge for yourself what is worth only one steering wheel with a wide vertical knitting needle. Or the central console with an abundance of buttons and handles. Neither give nor take the information stand of some interplanetary station from the Hollywood blockbuster.

 
 
Connecting the front bridge and the work of the hand-boxed box is the handle-brand in the lower part of the central console
 
  
The folded back of the seat is good when transporting long -meters
 
With this layout of the cabin, the central seat can be used as a dining table


In the picture, all this fascinates. But who told you that the props of the illusionist can be touched with your hands? Not even an hour, the created show will collapse with this art. And the longer I settled inside, the more I noticed notes of savings where I was just surrounded by the illusion of an expensive style and convenience of the salon.

So attracted to me, the helm is sheathed with the skin, optimal in thickness and diameter, but for some reason it is regulated only in the angle of inclination. In any of the two long, but shallow glove boxes, it easily fit with a couple of dozen CDs, but there is nowhere to put a folder with documents. And the main majority of the elements of this kingdom of Haytek turned out to be cheap hard plastic. Alas and ah ... at least do not touch anything with your hands, in fact.

 
   
In the ceiling console there is a score. And an additional shield is advanced from the anti -linen visor
 
Under the floor of the trunk, a set of tools. The reserve floor is below


True, there are more places in the cabin than in another minivan. And the ease and abundance of transformation options quickly made you forget about cheap plastic.
 



Miracles and no fraud
I pull by the handle impressive, like a garage gate, the rear door. A click and glass crawled up. Through the opened embrasure into the trunk, it is convenient to throw light, not overall things. The handle, which opens the entire door, is a little to the left. Judging by the numbers, there are more bins for this gate than on a half -cub. In fact, even more. After all, the volume was measured along the window. Almost twice as much cargo will fit to the ceiling.
 

But the main secret lurks a little in front of a pair of seats, hidden flush with the floor. Just three seconds, and the salon became 7-seater. Moreover, an adult up to 180 cm tall can easily sit on the third row. Tell me, who is now surprised by the abundance of seats and hiding places? Your will.
 

The PasFainer, meanwhile, also has wonders in stock as cards in the sleeve of an experienced master. For example, separate chairs of the second row. Each of the three folds. The side tilt of the backs is also adjusted. And there is no less than 64 transformation options.
 

However, universal all -terrain vehicles buy not only for spaciousness. Let's see what the trace of the war is capable of.
 



Offer doubts
In a diesel loudly rumbling with a motor, the passfire is swimming along the streets. Eh, disperse the scam! For some reason, I want to shout to the driver Cr-V sitting somewhere below.
 

At first we were still not tank in traffic jams on Kalanchevka. Going around the boiled gazelle, I had to take the stern, and I almost crushed Matiz standing behind. It is enough for the future owner to get into a similar situation during a trial trip, and the dealer will easily convince him of the need to install a rear -view camera with a monitor on the front panel. The PasFainer has this for a fee, of course.
 

Accustomed to a rather tight clutch and not the most clear, long moves of the 6-speed KP, I began to notice other nuances. And why did I doubt whether the strength of a 2.5-liter diesel four would have enough for the abundance to drive more than a more than 2-ton high-grown? Enough. Thanks to the huge, 400 Nm (more than that of a 3-liter patrol), which twisting the moment in the very first straight cars dispelled all my doubts. From two thousand revolutions, he flies like a stone released from David sling right into the Holiath forehead. True, it is noisy and at four thousand, the spurt begins to sour. And the limiter will work at five. Diesel after all.
 

On the winding highway near Moscow, I was waiting for decent rolls and impressions, and received very clear by the standards of large universal crooks dangled into a turn and the ability to turn on the verge of slipping. Only an unexpectedly stiff suspension did not please. It seems that for the sake of controllast she was pretty clamped. So that even small potholes inside are felt stronger than in other middle class sedans. Not to mention the direct competitor of Pasfainer Prado, licking the same bumps as the ocean liner of the wave. On the other hand, even her vaunted air suspension will not help Toyota so quickly to go here.
 

What is the secret of Nissan? The machine is based on a design with an integrated frame. Independent, with powerful springs and stabilizers, the suspension on double triangular levers and the river steering mechanism with a fairly short gear ratio. Although the suspension moves are really shorter than it is accepted for universal crooks.
 

That is why the PasFainer managed to be so fast in corners. But, alas, like most Europeans (a car is assembled in Spain), he can quickly drive on smooth roads. Potholes and bumps at high speed of the trace are contraindicated in the feed strings to dance. When such troubles are found in the bend, only the lightning work of the stabilization system, immediately brakes the necessary wheels and slightly holding the engine speed, will help to straighten the car into the turn.
 



I'm not a jeep, I am different
However, I hope you are not going to participate in the asphalt rally on a universal alternate? But the trips to a broken primer are probably planning. A small, but along and across the promotional, a sandy quarry on the shore of the Moscow River should arrange all the points above the I in my acquaintance with the passfider.
 

A steep descent after the congress from the asphalt for a while makes him doubt: maybe he is still exclusively a city jeep? There are like a low -footed bandwidth, how many colored plastic on bumers. But a more picky examination calms. The motor compartment is closed from the bottom with a metal sheet. The details of the transmission are pulled to the bottom. Road clearance impressive 23 cm under the map. In addition, the hope for all -wheel drive with a serious (2.6) reducing and, albeit electronics, and not hard, but still blocked differentials. And in the technical characteristic, the angles of the entry/congress and longitudinal patency 33/25/24Os are indicated. This is better than most SUVs, and not much worse than a patrol (37/31/27O). Okay, you convinced me, a ranger-san. Go.
 

PasFainer acquitted my hopes. I could only press the gas pedal, twist the steering wheel and wonder how easily a large car passes all the proposed obstacles. Having grown up, I rushed to the storm of one very cool velvet. And after a few meters, having believed in the omnipotence of the car, he almost broke off the footboard on a steep legend. The base is oh-hoo what is 2.85 m. Of course, a real gigip would overcome such an obstacle, passing the slope a little obliquely. Or I would completely order a car without ups and with more toothy tires. But such guys will most likely buy the car of the decisions. In the same way as all external snobbery will not help the PasFainer become popular among fans of Armada. They will not cross the diesel car (they do not offer another motor for another engine).
 

Who is the newcomer designed for? On all other admirers of universal crooks? But diesel nissan is more expensive than the suppressing number of gasoline competitors. However, having reluctantly parted with the ranger, I already seemed to understand that this hypnotist had a murderous trump card in stock. Just imagine, you go to the car dealership and hear: I give the installation! PasFainer is cooler than Pajero-3.5 and explorer-4.0. The breath is even. You forgot that in similar equipment they are $ 2.5 and 4 thousand cheaper. Do not even remember the 249-horsepower prado. You just like the PASFINDER. Turn on the xenon light of the headlights and ...
 

Well, if anyone is not amenable to suggestion, I am not to blame.
    
Before the appearance of a gasoline version

In the fall, a passfident with gasoline (4.0 l, 269 hp) of a motor should appear in Russia in Russia. In the meantime, the price of the basic equipment of XE (6 pillows, ABS, ESP, light alloy wheels, stereo system, climate control, electric windows and mirrors, front seats heating) begins with $ 44,800.
 

The SE version is $ 2200 more expensive. She is good, first of all, the third row of seats. For $ 48 700 diesel SE can be bought with a machine gun. The top LE ($ 52 050) involves leather finish, hatch, bixenon headlights, footboards, bums and mirrors in the color of the body, air conditioning for passengers of the second row.
 
PER

An impressive, stylish appearance, spacious, with wide possibilities of transformation of the salon, a painful diesel, a reliable all -wheel drive system, generous equipment
VS

High price in optimal equipment, inexpensive decoration materials, insufficiently comfortable suspension
 
Nissan Pathfinder 2.5

general information
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (7/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
2202
 
Length x width x height, mm
4740x1850x1775
 
Base, mm
2850
 
Trunk volume, l (7/5/2 places)
190/515/2091
 
Speed, km/h
175 (174)
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
12.3 (12.5)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
7.6/11.8 (8.3/13.2)
 

Engine
 
Working volume, SMZ
2488
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
174/4000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
41,1/2000
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
on the rear wheels, with the front bridge connected and lowering (2.6)
 
Transmission
Mechanical 6-st. (automatic 5-st.)
 
Suspension
Independent, spring, on double triangular levers, with reptile stabilizers
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
255/65 R17
 

In brackets, data with automatic transmission
 
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

A source: Magazine buy a car [09/2005]