Test drive Nissan Patrol LWB 1998 - 2004 SUV
Taming of fire
Wise with diesels is today fashionable. Nissan did not stand aside, introducing a patrol with a new three-liter diesel engine, which has a unique M-Fire (Modilated Fire) technology. The Japanese play with fire. Night ... stuffiness, airport, Cairo, Africa! A well-fed mustachioed border guard, whose stars on the uniform of which are enough for three of our colonel generals, does not want to let our group go to the country. The meeting lady fusses, signs some pieces of paper, leads an even more stellar boss behind the sleeve. Subcoms are mercifully and neglected in passports - welcome to Egypt! Tomorrow we will be presented with the updated Nissan Patrol Gr/›Nissan GR patrol. The main novelty is a three -liter diesel engine that replaced its 2.8 -liter predecessor. By the way, we would need to find out why the engine is reduced by the torque of the engine, which is designed for a short -term machine. But all this in the morning, and now to sleep - in Moscow it probably is already lighting.
Morning ... A warm stake from the refrigerator and a sweet, like molasses, local tea for local music. A short briefing of the noble Spanish Jeeper Ramon Vila (for the next two days he and his team will be teachers and guardians in one person in one person). Now on the road. Before lunch - two hundred and gakki kilometers of asphalt. For warm -up.
The short -income patrol is called by a sign of Russia behind the windshield. Let's start with him. A diesel mutograph comes to life under the hood, but at first he can not try. The host of Terrano is barely crawling. His behavior quickly becomes clear. The first half of the journey is a solid population. And the speed restriction here is a necessary thing. Ichaks, goats, tractors of Belarus - real nonsense in comparison with the local children who literally rush under the wheels at each intersection, unequivocally illustrating their requirements, rubbing a finger on a finger. Not riding, but fidget. But there is an opportunity to understand one of the character traits of a new motor. He is lucky from the bottom and so confident that sometimes you forget to switch the program. For atmospheric diesel, this is the norm. For a boost engine, there is an undoubted dignity that is by no means often. Extra forty percent of the torque compared to the predecessor make themselves felt.
Everything, the tightness of the cities (auls, village or what they have there) was left behind. The presenter infuriates the pace. The murmur comes to life more than briskly (by diesel standards) of a heavy -grinder stoker. The dependent spring suspension is quite comfortable, and in the turns the patrol does not seem too wax. The radio in a joyful voice reports that colleagues Russians crushed the snake. Yeah, here she is. Well, not a fig to yourself - a hose! What are the crocodiles here?
Day .... The heat, the shore of a brackish lake, a canopy-time, lunch. Clouds of flies dive on your kebab. Clear business, there is nothing to eat in the desert, but here is such a feast. So they flew from the whole okrug to feed. We also refuel and, having built in a column, move from the asphalt to the sands.
Sands today in quotation marks. Under the wheels, a rather dense and flat surface from something compressed-focused. The coating is quite slippery, and the people are not averse to launch Nissan. The lesson is funny, good, to catch the car is not difficult then - it reacts quite adequately to the steering and operation of gas. And here is ditches and a comb. If you yawn and burst there, the sensations, of course, are not pleasant. A short -busy car is trying to go out, tossing the stern. But the suspension is still coping with his work. It seems not so simple to break it off. The sun sticks to sunset, and where is the hotel here?
Evening ... tents in the middle of the desert, tent, pillows, hookah, belly dance, exotic! Before the planned contemplation of the moon in the telescope, we will try to illuminate some technical issues.
The engine is a three -liter in -line four with turbocharges and intermediate cooling. The combustion chamber is unrequited, that is, the injection is direct. The highlight of the new engine is M -Fire technology. Three whales on which it rests: adjustable (depending on the mode of operation) air supply through one of two inlet valves, a recirculation system for spent gases and late fuel injection - after passing the upper dead ground. So constructively, the engine is not so simple. It is already impossible to achieve high characteristics, fitting in strict environmental and economic norms, without technical tricks today. The company claims that the new motor combines the advantages of direct diesel engines (efficiency, small ejection of nitrogen oxides) with soft work, low noise and vibrations that are inherent in ancestral diesel engines.
The reason for the reduction in the maximum torque on the short-shooting was explained by the fact that a short transmission did not pass through the transmitted torque (apparently, it was not possible to equip a unit or unit into a short base). The reduction of the moment should pass painlessly, since the short patrol is much easier.
Morning ... desert, cold -handed, hot delicious local cakes, briefing with pictures on the topic of how not to ruin the car. Today we are promised off-road in full.
A long -playing patrol with a machine gun rushes through the desert in a caravan of his own kind. Periodically - special exercises demonstrating Nissan's off -road capabilities. The assault on sandy dunes, descent from the slope (watching down is much worse than going), riding the potholes where necessary, to maintain the contact of the wheels with earthly fence, turn off the rear stabilizer. Instructors briefly set out the tactics of driving, telling which transmission mode to choose, and - go. Not everyone and not everything succeeds the first time. The expectation of stuck, complicated by heat, sometimes delayed, and ... asphalt under the wheels replaces the sand just in time.
Is something so sluggish? So this is a machine gun, a villain, adapted to driving in the desert. No, it will not work, we will change the character. After a couple of tens of kilometers, the box is inferior to pedagogical influences, begins to respond vividly to the work of gas. That's better, returning, the course - to the pyramids! Evening ... heat, dust, pyramids, merchants of souvenirs, police in unimaginable quantities on foot and camels. The last opportunity to see, feel, feel, try and comprehend the completed in the car.
It seems that the patrol, despite the representative appearance, the abundance of chromium outside and the skin in the cabin, does not want to run around the fashion of skipping. He remains an alternate, but not by parquet stylization for it. A powerful dependent suspension, quite simple, according to the scheme, a transmission without an interdessual differential, disconnected rear reptile stability stabilizer, blocking the inter -long differential from the driver's place - do not want to make dirt? This gentleman is also trained in good manners: very good high -speed and dynamic indicators, moderate appetite, worthy of comfort.
And what about the new engine? Emotions are entirely positive: it is confidently pulling in a wide range of revolutions, quite alive, unproned (M-Fire knows its business tightly), but, like all modern, electronically, motors, somewhat detached from the driver. To match him the automatic box: smart, working very softly, but rather independent. This is probably why a car with a manual box liked. Managing a patrol with it is a more lively and fascinating process.
And finally, information for those who have a desire and opportunity. In Russia, a patrol with a new engine, mechanical or automatic boxes will be sold, but only long -border. Everybody!
Nissan Patrol
General data: number of places - 7; Equipped mass - 2490 (2425) kg; Full mass - 3080 (2980) kg; maximum speed - 160 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 15.4 (16.9) s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 8.8 (9.0); 14.3 (13.9) l/100 km; Fuel supply - 95 liters. Dimensions, mm: length - 5010; width - 1930; height - 1855; base - 2970; The track in front/back - 1605/1625; Road clearance - 210 (215); trunk volume - 668 l; The turning radius is 6.1 m. Engine: four -cylinder, in order, diesel, with turbocharging and intermediate cooling; working volume - 2953 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 96x102 mm; compression degree - 17.9; Power - 116 kW/158 liters. With. at 3600 rpm; Maximum torque - 354 N.M at 2000 rpm. Transmission: drive to all wheels, front - connected, without an interdose differential, the rear - differential with forced blocking; gearbox - mechanical five -speed (4 -to -Automatic); Transporting numbers: I - 4.26 (2.78); II - 2.46 (1.54); III - 1.49 (1.00); IV - 1.00 (0.69); V - 0.85; h. X. - 4.00 (2.28); The main program is 4.37. Suspension: front and back - dependent spring with stabilizers of the peretial stability. Brakes: front and rear - disk with an amplifier and ABS. The steering: type of screw-shared nut, with an amplifier and a damper. Tire size: 265/70R16.
In brackets - with an automatic gearbox.
Igor Solidov
Photo by Igor Solidov and Nissan
A source: The magazine "Driving"
