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Nissan-Pikap Navara 2.5 TD 4WD Nissan Pickup Navara 2.5 TD 4WD
The history of Nissan pickups has 64 years. The last model Nissan Pickup, recently presented at the Azsterdam car dealership, is already the 16th generation! Modifications are produced with a two- and four-door cabin, with a 4x2 and 4x4 wheel formula. They are equipped with 2.4 liter gasoline engines and 2.5 liters: atmospheric (only for rear -wheel drive modifications) and with turbocharged. About 80% of pickups sold in the European market are equipped with diesel engines.
Honestly, I doubted whether the story of a new pickup would be relevant - after all, meetings with cars of this type on Russian roads are still in packed.
And in the hands - a convenient steering wheel, under the wheels - an asphalt tape of the highway, winding, like a real mountain serpentine, fifty kilometers from Prague, where the Nissan’s European branch arranged a presentation of a new car. In the salon of coolness, the windows are picturesque landscapes. It seems that promises were justified: Nissan Pikup - a car not only for daily routine work, but also for outdoor activities ...
All pickups provided for dating were equipped with turbodiesel. There were options with double elongated cabs (King Cab), where behind the backs of the front seats there are more luggage space and even there are narrow folding seats on the sides. True, sitting on them is very crowded. I got the most comfortable four -door Navara pickup with a five -seater cab. I immediately note that in it on a narrow rear sofa is crowded, the distance to the front seats is too small.
But in front of the chairs with special support for the spine (novelty of Nissan), a tall person of dense physique feels comfortable, although the seats have only two ordinary adjustments. You can also change the angle of inclination of the steering column.
At idle speeds, the characteristic noise of the diesel engine is well audible in the cabin, but on the move its sound softens, it becomes quieter. 104 liter engine. With. It accelerates a pickup weighing 1.8 tons rather sluggish - up to hundreds for 17.4 s. While we got to the autobahn to the winding serpentines, Nissan managed to disperse to 150 km/h. He confidently keeps the road, only the noise of the diesel becomes annoying. But at a cruising speed of 100-120 km/h, the level of comfort is almost like on a passenger car or an all-terrain vehicle.
There were fears if Nissan’s rear springs would be about a ton about ton too hard with an empty body. However, of the three spring sheets, only two are constantly involved, the third enters the work only with large loads. So at the junctions of concrete, however, in European is a European, food only trembled vigorously, without delivering, however, special discomfort. The front suspension - on transverse levers with longitudinal torsiones - significantly softer.
On the asphalt serpentines, Navara proved himself very worthy. And the point is not even in the speed of turning, where the pickup is not to compete with cars, but in the obedience of a heavy car. Nissan's turning is close to neutral, he willingly obey the steering wheel. The steering hydraulic power control provides an excellent feeling of the road - the force on the steering wheel increases with speed growth. The four -channel ABS with sharp braking allows the tires at first to squeak a little - to slip slightly and only then interferes with the driver’s work, and very delicately, not annoying it with itching on the brake pedal. At high speeds, tires with a developed universal tread of the tread begin to whistle in a bend, as if warning a driver, although the clutch supply is still quite large. It contributes to the appearance of this whistle the rear differential of increased friction, striving to equalize the speeds of the wheels.
The transmission of the all -wheel drive pickup is performed, as well as on the Nissan Patrol GR/›Nissan GR and Terrano II, with a hard distribution of torque without an interdessual differential. So on the asphalt - only rear -wheel drive. True, it is possible to translate the lever of the handout from position 2H to 4H on the go. However, the recommended speed at all drive, which can only be used on roads with a low clutch coefficient, is no more than 50 km/h. It will be possible to turn on the demultipliter only by stopping.
Riding at a fast pace is quickly boring. The large course of the clutch pedal (though by no means tight) and a long gearbox lever seem to be prompted: they say, it is much more pleasant to move in a more power manner, which has been fully confirmed.
With a calm rhythm of driving, it was infrequent to wield a lever. The secret is in a successful characteristic of the torque inherent in the Nissan turbodiesel. Achilles’s heel of many turbo engines is a failure in work at low and medium rotation frequencies until the turbine gained speed. On Nissan, a turbocharger provides a very wide range of effective operation - from 1250 to maximum 4250 rpm. Twisting more than 200 N.M is preserved in the interval of 1500-3750 rpm! The peak of the moment at 245 N.M falls on 2000 rpm (60 km/h in the fourth gear). At revolutions over 3500 driver will delight the quiet whistle of the turbine. However, a tangible pickup is not felt - we recall that the supercharger is adjusted to achieve the largest torque at low and medium speeds, and not maximum power indicators.
Having studied the on the eve of the design of a car with a powerful frame, a strong suspension, and the protection of the engine crankcase, I did not doubt the success of the successful mini-run on ground roads and testing in a sandy career. Having accelerated on a narrow rocky path, you feel like Nissan’s wheel with a real athlete, a participant in a rally-raid, sort of Pierre Lartig, who chose a pickup (though American) as a combat horse this season. The suspension, even on fair potholes, works without breakdowns; The car holds the road perfectly, is not inclined to skidding. However, my enthusiasm was diminished quickly. On bumps, a hard suspension can shake the soul from the riders. In addition, he was convinced: on a slippery coating, stopping a heavy pickup is not easy. However, it was worthwhile to die ardor, go slowly, and again the control of the pickup was a pleasure: the sound of the engine was almost inaudible, the car ceases to be shaking ...
The organizers of the tests loaded 500 kg of ballast into a couple of pickups. Surprisingly, despite the rather high center of gravity of the cargo, the cars did not become particularly rolling in corners, they did not scare drivers a tendency to tip over. The Nissan suspension, designed for 860-1190 kg of cargo, depending on the modification, still worked without breakdowns, becoming more comfortable.
The classic of Russian poetry denied the possibility of combining a horse and trembling in one harness, but the creators of Nissan-pikap managed to build a car that combines such contradictory qualities: the endurance of a farmer workhorse and the sports appearance of a car, on which it is not embarrassing to drive along the city streets, high carrying capacity and a high carrying capacity and Comfort inherent in all -terrain vehicles or cars ...
The prices of the Nissan-Pikap in our market have not yet been officially announced, but the cost of all-wheel drive competitors from Japan has already appeared about $ 25,000. Agree, it is unrealistic to purchase a solid all-wheel drive all-wheel drive. Therefore, pickups are becoming more popular, because in most countries of the world they are ranked for trucks and taxed much less tax on sale than cars.
+ High level of equipment and interior decoration, excellent handling on asphalt and dirt roads, clear work of ABS.
- somewhat sluggish acceleration, an uncomfortable rear seat, the absence of an inter -axial differential - the inability to move with all -wheel drive at high speed and on roads with a high clutch coefficient.
 
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
General data: number of places - 5; equipped mass - 1800 kg; Full mass - 2680 kg; maximum speed - 145 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 17.4 s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 9.4; 13.1 l/100 km; fuel supply - 60 liters; Fuel is diesel. Dimensions, mm: length - 5040; width - 1820; height - 1710; base - 2950; The track in front/back - 1525/1505; Road clearance - 210. Engine: TD25TI diesel, four -cylinder, in order, with turbocharging and intermediate cooling, two valves per cylinder, placed in front longitudinal; working volume - 2494 cm; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 92.9x92.0 mm; compression degree - 22.3; Power - 76 kW/104 liters. With. at 4000 rpm; Maximum torque - 245 N.M at 2000 rpm. Transmission: constant rear wheel drive and connected front -wheel drive; Without an interdessual differential; with demultipliter and differential of increased friction in the rear bridge; gearbox - five -speed mechanical; Transporting numbers: I - 3.580; II - 2.077; III - 1.360; IV - 1.000; V - 0.811; h. X. - 3.636; The main program is 4,875; Reducing gear - 2.020. Suspension: front - independent on double transverse levers with longitudinal torsiones and stabilizer of the anti -resistance stability; The back is a dependent, unreasonable beam on the springs. Brakes: hydraulic with a vacuum amplifier; Front - disk ventilated, rear - drum. Steering: rheck with a hydraulic wrap. Tire size: 255/70R15.
 
Standard equipment
Immobilizer, central castle, electric drive of external mirrors and windows, steering wheel hydraulic power, four -channel ABS, chrome elements of front lining and bumpers, wheeled niches, overall free -wheel hubs in front wheels, rear differentials of increased friction, alloy wheels, tinted glass, tinted glass , radio antenna and speakers for the audio system, velor finish of seats and door facing, backlight in the cabin for reading the map.
 
SUMMARY
Nissan Pikap will most likely be a wealthy man to show off next to the cottage, for whom an active lifestyle is a kind of lifestyle, and at the same time - a stringing owner. And in a purely city company, a pickupian can find application as an official car, if a relatively bulky one and a half such as a gazelle is big.
 

 
Sergey Osokin
Photo by Nissan
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"