Nissan Patrol LWB test drive since 2004 SUV

"When the bumps were big ..." The test drive of the Nissan Patrol Gr car

The farther, the less understandable the desire of many well -known car concerns is to have a real, harsh SUV in the production range. Firstly, the crooking structure with a multiple margin of strength of the work of the work in production, which does not contribute to the availability of such a car. Secondly, it is not necessary to count on mass demand in Russia and several other underdeveloped countries due to the limited solvency of the bulk of the population, while the rest of the world already has a developed road network and weaned to move in directions. Thirdly, the so-called luxury versions, the number of which is steadily increasing, initially cast doubt on the fact of the fight against serious off-road. That is, the cars have all the abilities for this, but the likelihood of a luxury of the hem-bearing for any noticeable OFF-RODA is inversely proportional to its reference: the cooler, the less often. For that matter, then today's pseudojips of the parquet, to which there were a great many, for all their security, have much more chances to be outside the solid coating than real rogues.
Hmm, so do not reach the analogies with an analogy with jeeps-dinosaurs, supplanted from the surface of the planet with a more numerous and successful family of small crossovers. Which, however, is not too far from the truth today, a considerable part of such machines is made more like a tribute to tradition and support for a cult name. And it’s a pity, because so far some will swing in full swing in the sandboxes, trying to portray something superpowered, recognized geniuses of the genre to comfortable urban highways. Yes, they can, but they can, what else is needed? From this point of view, the last generation of Nissan Patrol GR today refers to the dying tribe of the true conquerors of the off -road. Moreover, at the turn of the century, Patrol remained incorruptible did not succumb to the temptation to change the gloomy archaic iron to ultra -modern electronic imitations, and did not lose the proven construct for the sake of brilliant pounds of external attributes. Simply put, remained himself. Or almost remained if you take into account a slightly rounded body and a new three -liter turbodiesel with direct fuel injection.
However, the roundness of the new Patrol neither at first glance nor upon closer examination seem to be incorrect with square traditions. Rather, the car simply became more modern, while preserving the courageous charm of the predecessor. Still, the power of the prevailing image of the model of the body contours gives rise to immediate associations only with developed muscles. You can blame Nissan as much as you like that he did not want or could not radically update the cult model, making it completely unlike competitors-classmates, but the main trump card in the form of the continuity of generations and recognition of the car remains in the hands of the Japanese. Even the back door, which is a swing gate of two ships of different widths, was without constructive intervention. Despite the claims to insufficient visibility, especially in damp and dirty weather. Also tradition.
The salon of the new Patrol, as it should be today, the large SUV in the highest configuration, is close to the impeccable. Still, almost $ 60,000 is laid out not only and not so much for outstanding off-road characteristics, for that kind of money everything should be fine in the car. Wide and comfortable leather chairs with electric drives, a two-zone climate control for a driver and a front passenger, a hatch in the roof (special emphasis is made on its dimensions more than that of LC100), chrome and wood in the decoration of the monumental front panel, steering wheel and door handles. Plus heating of everything and all seats, windshield, rear -view mirrors, and in addition, the standard liquid engine heater. The presence of living space in the Patrol salon is somehow indecent here here with excess in all directions. Only passengers of the third row of seats will be able to complain about the tightness, but their appearance is exceptional, while the folding seats themselves, in a non -working position, recorded along the sides with belts, can cause much more discomfort than the complaints of riders there. Not only that, with their presence, they eat a significant part of the useful volume of the trunk, they also do not differ in reliable fixation from the first meters after the start of the movement, the belts are weakened, and the Patrol salon is filled with a completely solid blink.
A three -liter turbodiesel under the hood of Patrol is nothing more than a departure from six -cylinder traditions. Now it is a row four with a direct (with pressure up to 1,500 bar!) Fuel injection, changed by the geometry of the intake manifold, turbocharged and intermediate cooler. In general, an electronic diesel, but a diesel with minimal noise and vibrations (thanks to two balanced shafts at once), in addition, rather peppy in combination with an automatic gearbox. The motor is not bad, and the machine does not allow to miss the speed above or below critical values, in addition, the thrust on wheels, which is vital in the crossed terrain, is always present. You sit like in a tank, Patrol and rushing like a tank, in front of only a mighty horizontal hood, under the edge of which the asphalt tape disappears somewhere far below. Perhaps everything, even the frank flattery of the speedometer, laid the arrow for the mark of 180 at a passport maximum jacket of 160 km/h. You know that the device plays plays out, but still nice. Moreover, the reactions on the steering wheel are deprived of off -road spreading, and the sluggish resistance of the brake pedal is accompanied by a completely predictable deceleration. However, the dynamic capabilities of Patrol, especially when the stabilization system turned on, is better not to abuse hard springs and shock absorbers of the long -ruble can provoke a completely unnecessary shaking and even bouncing of the body. The only way to avoid unwanted goat to turn off (this is possible at speeds up to 20 km/h) the rear reptile stability stabilizer. Its left thrust has a telescopic structure, and after dissolution allows you to painlessly cross the front and rear bridges to large corners. Relaxation appears in the management (albeit without failures in the near -Stolium zone), the validity of the body becomes more noticeable, but a strict reaction to unevenness disappears.
A little story
The Nissan Congress on the off -road happened in 1951, when the first passer of Patrol, a harbinger of the future permanent and immortal cohort, came off the assembly line of the company. This harbinger, I must say, was not much different from the bulk of the off -road experiments of that time, and was one of the variations on the theme of the legendary American Willis. The same light frame, the same simple dependent pendants, the same connected front bridge and an open body with a simple tent coating due to its simplicity and unpretentiousness, the car received a constant residence in the Japanese self -defense army, and at the same time came to the liking of commercial structures. However, the first Patrol already had a significant difference from its overseas prototype, and the difference continued to be a kind of business card of Nissan SUVs under the hood of the car for many decades, but a in -line six. Since 1958, in addition to the open Patrol, an SUV with an all -metal body, which received its own name Carrier, began to be produced.
For two years, both cars have been produced in parallel, but the ever -increasing popularity of crooks among the civilian population of the Japanese islands forced Nissan to be concerned about the release of a more luxury version. Such in 1960 was the Patrol of the 60th series, which was immediately offered in two (long and short) versions of the wheeled base, and the long-shot could have an eight-seater salon. The engine according to the already established tradition of the in -line six with a capacity of 125 (and after modernization is 135) L.S., the maximum speed of 125 km/h, a three -speed gearbox and a handout with a decrease nearby.
The next change of generations Patrol occurred in 1968, when the car, in accordance with modern trends, became larger and acquired a different, more friendly interior. This combination of consumer qualities was recognized as so successful that without any radical changes, it lasted until 1980. Then, without lagging behind the trends of time, Nissan supplied his creation with new gasoline and diesel sixes, and to replace a three -stage transmission proposed a fully synchronized 4 manual transmission. And again, a condo SUV with a primitive spring suspension hit the point and today continues to be popular. For example, in Spain, where a cheap license Nissan with the Patrol 260 index is still leaving the conveyor and has sustainable demand. The global modernization of the model happened three years after the start of production, in 1983, and already in 1988 the famous Nissan Patrol GR of the next generation was seen. A car notable not only with its remarkable off -road abilities, but also by the appearance of perestroika in a perestroika in a perestroika in the midst of a Soviet space. His intra -Japanese version of Safari reached our places much later, when the people in their most mass have already been savvy in the concepts of functionality, ergonomics and the like, while the first Patrol seemed to be real celestials. Again, luck, again for many years of mass production, the appearance of Patrol GR of today's sample happened only at the turn of the millennia ...
But the Patrol potential is fully revealed, as expected, off -road. Monumental spar frame, dependent spring pendants, forcibly connected all -wheel drive without a center differential, and again forced blocking of the rear inter -normal. In order to avoid misunderstandings, the Patrol intelligent anti -lock system when blocking the rear differential is disconnected, occasionally recalling a squeak of a buzzer about its disability. Inclusion in the work of the front bridge occurs tough along the old fashioned way, blocking the hub reducers using a standard span. Now it remains to translate the finely vibrating lever of the handout to position 4n and forward, outside the asphalt. Here you can both independently choose the optimal trajectory, and give it to Patroll traction efforts does not pay any attention to the mud that instantly clogged at all an off -road tread of the Bridgestone Duler, and continues to crawl confidently where there is at least a theoretical opportunity for this. The main thing is to have time to use a low row in the transmission in time. The disconnected stabilizer demonstrates all the long -terming rear suspension, and even the hanged wheel (for this should still try) cannot become the final of the battle blocked inter -channel differential and 354 Newtonometers will pull out Patlo even on the slugs of civilian tires smooth from mud. Shameless sand, blurred clay lane, large puals on gravel serpentines, ice and liquid dirt on frozen soil, descents and ascents, a deep track and a freshly spanned field for two hours, this Patrol managed to overcome such a number of specialists that many of its namesakes and classmates could not meet for the entire service life. And everywhere he came out as an absolute winner. It would be rejoicing here, but for some reason again I recall a gloomy tendency to use serious off-road potential not for its intended purpose, but as an element of prestige. Although we still have to go to normal roads and go
Stay alive
Tree sticks! The first, still very young and flexible, eloquently indicate their appearance on the road that there was no vehicle for a long time. The second, which are rather thick trunks of the ruts of birches, also do not contribute to advance forward. But now, now, now there is still now a rustle of the needles on the hood and bumper, a crunch of trunks breaking under a three-ton body, a screech and gnashing branches, scratching lacquered sides, all these sounds of wildlife in a chic leather salon of a large jeep are not quite natural. However, here we are, on the dirty and deep rut of the primer lost on the slopes of the Baikal Range. Fact. Previously, it was necessary to think, now it remains only to move forward. For some reason, a well-known expression is recalled about the connection between the steepness of the jeep and the range of the campaign behind the tractor. So, by the way I had to
Yeah, the power lines are already loomed ahead. There is clearing, there is civilization. Rasha diesel, plaintively crushing a warning about the blocked inter -coil differential of the rear axle, Patrol is selected on the clay slurry of the clearings. We need to take a couple of photos. I get out of the cabin and almost in the ankle plow in a sticky brown dirt. Damn, how is it back now, getting into the leather-dererial decoration of the luxury salon? Neither rugs nor at least any rags on the floor are provided for such cases. An hour ago, Patrol, who returned from the car wash, is least least of all shares my fears, continuing to rip off the dry grass along with the upper layer of soil, leaving deep ruts behind. And he does this not to a toothy tread, but a high -wing tires clogged to a state of slugs. Praise to the moment! Twisting, of course.
The rise along the lap pillars continues. Yuz, sideways, with a constant risk of falling into a rut and sit on a frozen underlying surface with bridges. Lastards of dirt fly in all directions, loudly drumming along once (maybe in a past life?) A body polished to shine and sticks on the glass. Dirt is replaced by loose earth, and now Patrol wheels are hidden in a cloud of dust. Higher. Higher and further, to the natural end of lifting a viscous sandy slope of a steep cliff. Here I have to see how Patrol takes off to the very top, closing half of the sky and almost knocking out a camera with a lifting front bumper from my hands. And stops, allowing you to evaluate the angle of its rise. I swear that if it weren’t for the rather thick trees on the top of the cliff, a stop halfway would hardly have happened this rogue had every chance to climb up. But now there is a descent and a deliberate demonstration of suspension moves. You need to see the green faces of those who were inside Patrol while its body has been tilted to the side several times. It seems that another centimeter and the car will simply overturn. And all because raising the foot for a spectacular picture the first time does not work out the disconnected stabilizer completely dismissed the rear suspension, and to tear the wheel from the ground you need a really extreme angle of inclination of the body. Well, Patrol was still able to raise the wheel. Nice. Then he started easily and continued the journey among the trees. Below, everything is lower, now with access to a bumpy gravel. Hooray, road! Interpoless differential is unlocked, now you can move faster. Descent rotation lift. On the speedometer 140 km/h. Lying, infection, but still we go quickly. Very quickly, hoping for an informative steering wheel and the immunity of the suspension to this kind of irregularities. Now it is clear why these thugs fly along the roads and without them, even for decency without reducing speed.
May be enough? Everything is already clear, it will not be possible to plant Patrol today, on forest and country roads in the vicinity of the Baikal tract, such places will have to be sought on purpose. But we have neither a tractor nor the support group. Let's get back to a clean, plowed field yesterday? Before the appearance here and it seemed to us a real off -road. It’s good there, there is space and there is no narrow gravel path. There you can, not paying any attention to the deep ditch, move to the arable land and glow plenty of the Titanic Earthlows, turned out of the planet’s surface with the giant plow of the Kirovtsa. Or not? It seems that we just want to deliberately plant Patrol.
Well, it's enough. In the end, even in the city it will be necessary to get to something. Yes, and the owner of the car will be useful. As he himself is expressed, for life. Here, to someone, as one is just for life, to another to stay alive
Technical characteristics Nissan Patrol GR:
The body is five -door
The number of places 7
Length, mm 5010
Width, mm 1930
Height, mm 1855
Wheel base, mm 2970
Road clearance, mm
210
The engine is diesel, with direct fuel injection, turbocharging and intermediate cooling
Location of the engine in front, longitudinally
The number and location of the cylinders 4, in a row
Working volume, cubic meter. cm 2953
The number of valves 16
Max. Power, l. With. at about./min 158/3600
Max. moment, N.M at about./min 354/2000
The drive is full, with the front wheel drive and the rear differential lock
Gearbox automatic, 4-speed
The dealership number of the demultipliter 2.2
Minimum turning diameter, m 12.2
Equipped/complete mass, kg 2335/3080
The volume of the luggage compartment, l 670/2290*
Maximum speed, km/h 160
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, sec 16.9
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
city cycle 14.3
country cycle 9.0
mixed cycle 10.8
Tank capacity, l 95
* With a folded rear seat
 
Vyacheslav Startsev
Automarket magazine+sport
 

A source: Drom.ru