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Restyling Nissan Pathfinder and Navara

Against the background of the appearance of a new, even too new Nissan Patrol, we almost missed the updating of brothers smaller Nissan Pathfinder and Nissan Navara. But no, they didn’t miss, here they are ... Only a very picky eye will see the external differences between the previous and modernized Navara and Pathfinder.

Well, the front bumper has become rounder ... And the rear, on the contrary, angular. Some icon on the door of the SUV appeared, and like the headlights are xenon. The radiator grill looks harder. But in general, both cars look much more well -fed hamsters.

In addition to the bar-punching of the appearance of the Nissan, the Nissan was pretty attached to the interior, reflecting the external fullness of the rich, without quotes, inner world. They replaced the materials where they could, with more expensive ones in appearance and touch, built the luminous panel of devices on top versions, for them they inserted a new audio-navigation complex with DVD and a 40 gigabyte hard disk. To install a decent sound, real profiles of Bose were allowed. Massachusetts masters turned Pathfinder and even Navara with its tiny booth in pleasantly sounding musical salons.

Small Schilda, on the door of Pathfinder, means that a new diesel six appeared under the hood. We already wrote it about this motor with index of V9X for Infiniti. The most interesting features of the collapse of the block of 65 degrees and the use of a special high -strength cast iron with oriented carbon, which is lighter and stronger than the traditional black pryst. The engine is surprisingly quiet and elastic. He jokes with another novelty of the seven -speed automatic transmission. On the go, the 3-liter Navara with a machine gun is ready to plug other passenger cars over the belt. With the manual transmission, it would not be sad than such a quick diesel to twist well from zero.

After the pickup, I moved to Pathfinder with a forced 2.5-liter four, familiar in the 2005 model, and a mechanical box. Only once stalled ...

Diesel/handle quickly got used to the combination. The old man is good until 190 forces! And the six -speed transmission is just right for him. To the fifth gear is short, but it is not difficult to sort out the mechanism is clear. The sixth long, increasing, on it, the fuel consumption of an average liter of up to 7 per hundred on the highway can be kept. It is very nice to ride this engine with this box and off -road. Three -liter, of course, will be more often pulled, but the automatic is slightly conceals the sensation. With a 2.5-liter diesel engine, a car with a manual transmission through the crossed terrain definitely rides better.

Restyling prices Navara and Pathfinder begin at 1 279 450 and 1,439,500 rubles, respectively. At the 3.0-liter versions, by the time the article was written, the price list has not yet arrived, but it smells my purse, these additional half a liter will stand across the throat.

Author: Igor Gubar, photo Nissan


 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [July /2010]