Test Drive Nissan Patrol LWB since 2004 SUV
DUEL? DUET!
The greater the jeep, the further go behind the tractor the golden rule of anyone who even revelop the capabilities of his all-wheel drive friend. But even with a cacwalking tractor, but without a solid cable will have to be disadvantaged. Spring dishthele with risky snow allowed us to completely taste jeep joys, and at the same time check the qualities of towing and evacuation skills. And Ford, and Nissan are not newcomers on this field. Which of our competitors will perform in the role of repka, and who will become a grandpa, will show the test. Who is something
Nissan Patrol
Price tested car $ 64 100
Max. Power 245 liters. with. at 4800 rpm / min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b190 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 10.8 s
Tug cable
Price of a tested cable $ 00 007
Max. Traction force 2 t
Max. Number of jerks 15.
Length of the cable 5 m
Ford Expedition.
Price tested car $ 61,400
Max. Power 260 l. with. at 4500 rpm / min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b190 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 10.7 s
Is it often multiliery and well packaged all-wheel drivers fight the elements for which it was originally created? Well, what if, say, the enemies all the ways to retreat were cut off, or directly faster in a hundred times? Or a bad ours and I say will pass possessing, and makes you climb where I really didn't drive Makar ... Are there any hopeless with electronics and weighing for three tons representatives of the all-wheel drive elite on a cunning our roadless mess?
Both of the car presented on the test well acquaint themselves to our readers. With a close price and full mass, approximately identical litter, power and comfort, our experimental differences have fundamental differences.
Restyled Nissan Patrol remained a true adherent frame design with a dependent suspension, while the frameman Ford Expedition acquired both in front, and behind an independent lever suspension with the possibility of installing the pneumocamer. The Nissan transmission allows you to hardly connect the front axle, has reduced transmission and rear differential lock. For greater articulation of bridges, the rear stabilizer may be dissolved by the electric drive.
The updated Ford appeared in the prestigious EDDIE BAUER in the prestigious version of EDDIE BAUER is equipped with a full drive system that connects the front axle with a multi-disc clutch, reduced transmission distribution and an anticillate stabilizer. Expedition bridges are not. Both jeep are equipped with machine guns and a rich set of electronic options.
The dynamics of asphalt
The launch of the Ford Expedition engine occurs somewhere far in front, and after the starter's efforts there is a quiet buzz in the bowels of the body. Vibration in the cabin is practically not transmitted, and at idle the operation of the motor is guessed only by revived shooters. Nissan is slightly noiser, and its off-road suspension of the power unit is noticeably tougher.
The exam called the pedal to the floor, our competitors handed over the same way. The difference lies in the fact that the Expedition, driving from the place, as a diesel locomotive, accidentally torn away from its composition, then he dies somewhat, and at the tops from the mad acceleration there is no trace. Such a jerk allows you to leave almost all competitors on the stop line of the traffic light, but overtaking from a speed of 80 km / h should be planned with the same diesel care. A well-known and quite acceptable sound of a two-shoe low-speed Triton engine is similar to the noise of a large fan and changes the timbre in accordance with the shifts of the gears that occur smoothly and is also somewhere deep under the floor.
Patrol does not leave on the asphalt of bold black stripes under the leading wheels, but its overclocking is more evenly. The change of gear into the ACP is clearly felt. Rightly clear boundaries of the ranges allow, for example, confidently appreciate when overtaking, in advance, when the machine will transfer the transfer down. Whatever spoken, and I like this behavior of the lack of a lack of a motor-box. The outlet of the engagement engine to the top is accompanied by quite sharp. However, the Japanese never really hid the sound component of the successful production of horsepower. It is clear that the five-liter jeep holder is unlikely to take care of fuel economy, but it was nice to mention a completely moderate appetite of both all-terrants.
Brokes both SUVs great, and here it is necessary to make a Ford compliment that no longer requires to stop the second pitch.
Handling asphalt
An independent Ford Expedition suspension definitely did its job! Huge and heavy in sight of the car follows the movements of the steering wheel, like a kitten behind a bows. I can not even believe that behind three tons of weight. The suspension is superbly swallowing irregularities, and rolls are small. In general, the five on asphalt discipline.
By the way, dimensions are well felt in a huge jeep. At least, in a close lie, it was possible to fit into the space correctly, four centimeters exceeding the width of the car. The front wipers appeared strangely, cleaning the surface, the windshield missing to all edges.
We will not open America, if we say that the real element of Nissan Patrol is far from the asphalt. The dependent suspension with continuous bridges is reliable and unpretentious, however, to the subtlety settings to it far. Riding in a straight line to Nissan Patrol is accompanied by a small continuous infringement. You quickly get used to it, but, transplancing into a car with an independent suspension, detect extra driving movements. In addition, Patrol climbs. Its suspension capable of to withstand the assault of the huge obstacles, it is overly rigidly repeats the irregularities of the road leaf. Overview forward is great, but a smaller rear door sash does not have a wiper. It is necessary to be content with only the right half of the image in the central mirror.
To the barrier! The solid coating remains behind. Under the wheels dirt, water and turning in the water in the water. Tires are approximately the same. Ideal conditions in order to find out who? We turn on everything that can and climb on your own risk. The tractor, by the way, is not observed nearby.
Both cars are completely tolerable overcome the first 200 meters. It seems that the place for the competition is chosen unsuccessfully, but here the Ford, overcoming the snow-covered road, suddenly gets tightly. Giving up to the middle of the wheel Snow stuck under the lowest motor protection, thus deluded expedition coated clutch. Rook in there and here? It was not here! Only polished wells under all the wheels. It is impossible to dispense the thrust on the oven jea. Here he is a victorious jerk from the traffic light! I had to rivals to unite efforts and become allies.
The first evacuation took place relatively quickly and was produced by Nissan at the limit of the strength of the standard cable moment of its division coincided with Ford moving, and after three minutes we were again Mesili Snowballs. The fast ride on the soft snow on Nissan Patrol demonstrated all the advantages of the present all-terrain vehicle. The energy-intensive suspension allows you to rush, almost without disassembling roads.
The Japanese easily fonts a 40-centimeter layer and where there was not enough inertia, continued to crawl, like a snowmobile buran. In this case, the blocking of the bridge has never needed. Handling on a rigidly connected front bridge is approximate. However, with minimal skill, making amendment to the lazy steering reaction, it is possible to fit into the planned trajectory. Renting back, jumped on the crude left glass from behind, but the error when choosing the trajectory of a soft landing does not threaten. He will choose! We thought, and he was always chosen.
Ford Expedition was more willing reacting to driving movements, and allowed successful raids away from the rolled road. The American smoothly sailed over the snowdrifts while there was at least some kind of speed. However, the inability to leave him from the very created situations played a cruel joke.
Black begin and lose ... on a small slope, in a well-rolled place, our expedition suddenly sailed from the trajectory and drowned already in the present snowdrift. The reason for the care turned out quickly. Now the snow stuck not only under ski protection, but also into the space between the front wheel and the mudguard. Moreover, the last meter of swimming greatly pressed this wedge. With twisted wheels, it's no useless to stronger from the site ... And the cable is not ...
Digging the snow blocker by the Ford Balcline, went to the rope expedition. After two destroyed fakes in a beautiful package, this desired piece of dirty-white parachute, produced by an unknown plant by unchanged technology, was found in the store. The red checkbox has lost over the years, but citizens, look for it! Inexpensive and inexpensive, it will endure.
Nissan rolled the track, closed, pulled. Good Ford stands hard. It looks like a repkah, though the colors of the other. And the snow under it already resolved. It is necessary to pull and pull into the mountain, almost on ice, and the cable is short, because twice the two-tonnet, and the cars are three-tonnicels ... And the light day increased, but still not summer. They left the blocking of the patrol bridge as the last remedy against its own instillation. They twitch first slightly, then slightly stronger, then another. If only the tractor did not drop ...
The ability of Nissan to dose the craving gram and decided. For the tenth time, Ford has shredded, and on the fifteenth five-hundredth shot, reluctantly crawled into the mountain, leaving in the snow a grand imprint of the Niza Ford Expedition. In this symbolic moment, an understanding of the time why the Japanese car industry won America, and not vice versa. So, with a score of 2: 0 ended off-road test.
Comfort and Summary Of course, Ford is largely modern and comfortable. The seating of the third row is even spacious second, and the seats are removed in the floor so that a smooth surface is formed. And the reserve is hidden under the floor, and the glass in the rear doors opens. And it costs cheaper. He has a new torpedo and impressive appearance. The European buyer will be unusual to the selector handle, growing from under the steering, but it is the little things.
The main thing is that a large American jeep can confidently move only on roads with any, but solid coverage. And in the class of cars, which my child dubbed the word off-road, in this dough won a little old-fashioned and almost $ 3,000 more expensive Nissan Patrol. Wins because it stands in one row with a weave, deform and gelem. And for this, his increasing fans will be forgiven on the front seats and a non-master steering wheel, and their children are lack of space for foot in the third row and harsh suspension. Nissan on the shoulder any off-road, and it was always enough on our expanses.
However, this is my alignment of winners. From the point of view of the cable, everything can look completely different.
P. S. Going to such adventures, do not forget about a two-billing rope warranty return.
Nissan Patrol
In serious tests, the road off-road king is a unconditional leader.
Ford Expedition.
He is good on the asphalt, but the spring dishthele was not quite on the teeth.
TOW ROPE
The presence of a moisture end in the trunk of any jeep is tantamount to a real chance for salvation.
HOW DO THEY LOOK
Nikita Rozanov
Nissan Patrol.
Premier Showing of 1997. Updating the design of 2003. Nissan design under the guidance of Shiro Nakamura.
Ford Expedition.
The premiere of 1996 is a new version of 2003. Ford design under the leadership of Chris Bird.
OUTSIDE:
These are border guards. In the sense that the style and design of the two eminent world brands is located behind their style and design, the territory of another design, the design of utilitarian and functional begins. For example, non-vermexifillated silhouettes of the Military Defender and Hummer first generation are visible. Therefore, the look of the Japanese SUV SUV, and in some places and straight, and there is nothing to look for nuances where it should not be. However, we have individual transport, and therefore the design is still not deprived of artistic, which is especially noticeable for the American. Branded awareness at a sufficiently high level, and the face of everyone is complemented by the features and details of the corporate style. For Ford, it is a rubber cladding, pocked in a small grid (the same is even in the baby Fiesta), and, of course, the emblem ellipse. And the brutal chrome-plated structures help to know Nissan, of which the frame (Raming!) Facing the lining with a teas-saucer sized emblem. In view of the fact that Expedition is and just a rear-wheel drive, off-road topic in its appearance is not particularly wound. What can not be said about Patrol, which even flares the relief under the front bumper, resembling salazzas for safaris. The picture on the side develops the same philosophy. Ford is decorated with silvery and slightly flirty cloth nose of plastic protection, sliding the body around the perimeter, and Nissan shows the embossed muscles of the wheeled arches and ... everything. Reflammation from the back is built on infertility receptions of the type of exhibited outwards and swinging and unsystematic rear doors of Patrol. Expedition has all this simply.
INSIDE:
Inside, you immediately remember that Expedition on the American classification is also a truck truck. In this regard, the composition of the instrument panel, and its parts are simply canonic for the design of commercial vehicles of new light transport. In addition to only light skin and the kocherg of the audio selector ACP. True, the cozy launo of passenger traditions is still quite stylish and dynamically drawn door upholstery panel. It is impossible to say that the internal space of Patrol is solved quite differently. But, for example, the protrusion of the central console beds is almost like a passenger PRIMERA, and from the placement of the unit of instruments in the center of the designers just distracted. Rules, of course, solid, weights, plump and four-spin, which fully corresponds to the magnitude and weight of the cars themselves.
SUMMARY:
I will not say that this couple cars on an amateur. Most likely, they are for energetic and filled life. Difficult or easy I do not know, but the fact that for special, for sure. If you live this way, then both cars for you. The rest of the nuances.
The text of Evgeny Hapov photo Alexander Nozdrin
A source: Cars
