Test drive Nissan Primera sedan 1996 - 1999 sedan

Parsing on the roads

The rarest free days ... So I want to lie in bed, master a new toy on a computer or just read. But it was not there! The child is to school! From school! I want to go to the store! Mother -in -law must be taken by another bunch of junk to the country! And these fitness clubs, the pool to take a chance to object - the punishment will follow immediate and terrible. A visit to friends or with them to a restaurant seems to be not a sin in a good company, but you are driving. Your precious half, although it does not drink, as a rule, is nothing stronger than juice, but considers a taxi to use a taxi by personal insult. You are her taxi. Personal driver and guard. Service and sponsor in one person. And extremely rarely - a lover.
Dear, do you want your own car?!
I want, but something like that ...
This one looks stylish. Arctic White, with anti -winged, thresholds and low characteristic bumpers - it is not like serial faceless relatives in the family of standard sedans of the middle class. Graceful extravagance without cutting eyes of aggressive ambitions. Typically Japanese style, fitted for European tastes.
Outwardly, the car looks very compact, so the inner scope is a pleasant surprise. The normal living space of the middle class sedan, no infringement of passengers' rights. Two in the back seat are located very freely, if necessary, there is enough space for the third or pair of human cubs.
Opening the trunk lid (aka the fifth door), the volume was struck even by us who saw the species. He is huge. And if you fold the backs of the seats and remove the removable rear shelf - it is more than enough for countless packages, bundles, boxes, which are the inevitable consequence of the short tour of my precious half over the shops.
A light smile on the lips of the companion gives rise to the hope that the external examination satisfied her. We ask inside. Several light turns of the adjusting seats, and it is comfortable in the driver's place. The steering wheel, as expected, is adjusted in height, although it still had to resort to the help of the male in order to pick out the stopper handle from the nest. A handwheid attempt created a risk of losing a manicure and actually what it was done on. The lips begin to pout, and the pre -impressive grimace is crooking a charming face. Thank God, covered in genuine leather, with sports ledges, the steering wheel saved the situation. The mirrors electric drive, easily found on a torpedo under the left hand, opening in two positions of the hatch with an electric drive and a protective opaque curtain, the electric windows returned a good mood to the capricious lady. Especially the placement of all devices and streams -cupchers of control - everything is close, in sight, easily reaching, does not require any effort, the hands themselves find these pumps. The branded audio system with CD-changer was the last straw that removed tension, and now the face is already expressing complete complacency.
The key is in the lock, the immobilizer built into the body is triggered, and only the position of the tachometer arrow indicates the working engine.
Approximate behavior
At the start, the modernized sixteen -valve SR20DE engine with a double -wry head behaves quite consistently declared characteristics. R -time, the first, immediately followed by the second, and those who just stared at the satellite from neighboring cars are far behind. We have time to notice that among them were not only Lada and trolleybus. The accelerated dynamics is wonderful - at the start, the new Primera makes it good to feel what a overload is at 0.94G! In high gears, the car still behaves less briskly, resembles a regular standard sedan. The maximum torque in this engine is achieved at very high speeds - 4800, which means that with low speeds in high gear there will be no sharpness. This is not bad, because it will not allow my precious friend to be especially twisted in the stream. It is possible to accelerate sharply during rebuilding only if the second transmission is transferred, and she does not like unnecessary body movements. In a high -speed highway mode, a similar property of the engine, on the contrary, plays an extremely positive role.
The programs are turned on easily and clearly, the lever is short, the transfers are located at the optimal distance. Even in the absence of great experience, you need to try very hard to confuse the first one from the third, and the second with the fourth. The pedals miraculously found themselves exactly where the feet are located, the distance between the pedals and from them to the floor does not create any inconvenience, if these very feet were shod in high -heeled shoes or in massive winter boots with a tread of the M+S type.
On the descent from a large stone bridge with a clear excess of speed along the extreme left row, we go around a dense crowd of various cars tending to the city center. At the peak point of a steep turn, some centroting trends begin to be felt, but slightly discarded gas immediately puts everything in its place. A rigid independent suspension with a short course helps to keep the car on the road, but the lips of the autoamazins still crooked with displeasure, since the specificity of such suspension gives rise to frequent tremors in the ass that comes from large cracks and irregularities in the asphalt - small suspension swallows without a trace. However, in this minus there is even a certain positive aspect: out of fear of quickly giving up such a glorious car, her mistress will be more closely at speed.
Monkey with a grenade
We go to the operational scope of the highway near Moscow. The road situation made it possible to disperse the car to 160 km/h briefly, which it did without visible voltage - the power supply affects, and in the range 130-150 km/h allowed to perform several overtaking. It should be noted that even at high speed the feeling of the road did not disappear, on the contrary, the higher the speed, the denser the car is pressed to the road and clearly reacts to the movements of the steering wheel. The only thing that caused another grimace of displeasure was the noise that appears in the cabin about 140 km/h. It was quite difficult to determine its nature, maybe the so -called all -season rubber was to blame, maybe the exhaust system of a powerful motor, but in the end it does not matter. Krudni slightly a magneto volume hilt - and the problem is solved.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky in one of his miniatures compared a woman while driving with a monkey holding a grenade in his hands. You will never know where it will fly. If, God forbid, it will turn out that there will not be possible to avoid accidents, the energy -absorbing structures of the body and Airbags, which are included in the standard package, will be as much as possible to protect our girl and her satellites from troubles. Given some features of the ladies' driving style, a wish was born to manufacturers to complete Primera GT, in addition to frontal ones, also with such pillows.
Summing up these pokatushki, I want to say that Primera GT deserves a high rating. Despite the very serious and binding data of the semi -sports car, she proved a high degree of predictability and security in behavior. Whether at good speed, in braking or on corners. Not a very experienced driver, she will forgive mistakes.
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!
The verdict of the likely gift, expected with some inner trembling, was not long in coming. Honey, please pay, and quickly! After all, we are tomorrow in the pool, and before that we need to buy something ...
Timely and skillfully selected gift to the neighbor makes life truly beautiful. Here again, the trill of a cellular and familiar voice reports that its owner with a friend and her children, taking our dogs, go to the country. And casually like this: there will be a desire, drive up.
As many as two days of freedom! Life is Beautiful and amazing! And where is my notebook, by the way ...
 
Primera accounts for about a third of all Nissans sold in Russia. Over the past ten months, the official dealers managed to sell 1257 cars in Moscow. Moreover, at the beginning of the year, according to Yuri Samoilenko, the head of the Nissan Representation, trade went slowly, nor shackles, or from the summer, the buyers suddenly became very activated.
But all this is not so interesting, because it refers to ordinary examples. As for the sophisticated version of GT, which is discussed in the article, then it has just appeared. And the buyer is exactly one so far. Already paid the car and is now waiting for the execution of his order. This is Vladislav Fateev, deputy director of the famous company Expostroymash. Naturally, we became interested in what explains its rather unusual choice.
In fact, I went to the salon for Maxima, ”Vladislav honestly admitted. - But he opened the door, looked out - and immediately got sick. Boring, gray, monotonous somehow. And then they began to persuade me about Gateshka. Well, I thought, rolled - and took it. All the same, after all, not for long. I see no reason to ride the same car for more than a year. She bothers you wildly. I'm just very free to buy a car. An example will be my fifteenth, although I have been driving since 1990. There were all sorts-Renault-25, BMW-318, VW Passat, all Soviet, Toyota Celica. Volvo has recently broken and you won’t remember everyone.
Why GT? I love sports cars. But two cars are a lot for me. I need that on the same one can ride and engage in business. In order to put someone in the back seat without tension, so that he does not take offense at you. Primera GT combines all this. And then - for $ 30.5 thousand. You get a car where there is everything - a powerful motor, an electric package, etc. If I took the Audi A4, I would have received an absolutely naked car for that kind of money.
Friends, however, say to me - do not mix people, are you sitting in a suit and tie in a sports anatomical seat? Well, I’ll sit down.
The autopilot thanks the company Jenser-Service, (095) 219-4558, 218-4386, for the car provided for the test. For the period of the test, the car was insured in the company of RESO-Garantia, (095) 250-3600, 255-6834.
Model/Modification Nissan Primera 2.0 GT
The manufacturer of the Nissan Motor Manoufactoring (UK) Ltd.
Producer-producer England
BODY
Type hatchback
Number of doors/places 5/5
ENGINE
Basin type with multi -point electronic injection
The location in front is transversely
Working volume (cubic meter) 1998
Number/location of cylinders 4/row
Cylinder x Piston stroke (mm) 86.0x86.0
Compression degree 10.0: 1
Power (kW (L.S.) at about./Min.) 110 (150) at 6100
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 181 at 4800
The number of valves/cylinder 4/6, Dohc
TRANSMISSION
Type is a mechanical five -speed
Front -wheel drive
SUSPENSION
Front independent multi -link on cylindrical springs
The rear independent multi -link on cylindrical springs
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster
Brakes
Front disk, ventilated
The rear disc
ABS electronic 4-channel with 4 sensors
Wheels
Tire size 195/60 vr15
Alloy wheels, 6jj x 15
Dimensions/about EME/Weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4430/1715/1410
Wheel base (mm) 2600
The track front/track of the back (mm) 1470/1450
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 60
Dry/complete mass (kg) 1267/1745
Dynamic characteristics
Lobic resistance coefficient 0.29
Maximum speed (km/h) 218
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 8.8
Min. Radius of turn (m) 5.76
Economy
Fuel consumption (l/100km)
city/highway/Combinir. Cycle 10.9/6.4/8.1
The price of a waste car in Moscow (Genser-Service car dealership) $ 30,000
 
What else
In the last year or two, some automakers clearly trace the tendency - in the lineup there is practically necessarily a car created on the basis of a serial model, but has an exceptionally bright personality. This is especially true for Japanese concerns who built enterprises in Europe and sell their products in the European and American markets. And the desire to contrast something competitive to existing analogues from other automakers for these companies is natural.
For example, Volvo S40/V40. Even the basic models (not to mention modification T 4) are not inferior to Primera GT in their characteristics, and even surpass it in some indicators. For example, in the field of active and passive safety. This is the famous Swedes ridge.
The newcomer in our market - Seat Toledo is also approaching the Nissan Primera GT in its technical capabilities, but clearly loses in design. The Spaniard has a fairly ordinary appearance and is unlikely to satisfy self -expression lovers.
But the last hit from Honda - Civic 1.6 16V can make serious competition: more than the engine volume of the engine, more than the working volume of the engine, has been removed. Accordingly, the machine turned out to be more economical, but no less temperamental.
But the price of all these cars in the Russian market fluctuates depending on the configuration within $ 30 thousand with a slight spread, depending on the prestige of the brand. And the issue of choice can ultimately solve considerations more emotional than a practical nature.
Andrey Timofeev,
Margarita Annenkova,
Dmitry Novokreshhenov (photo)
 

A source: "Autopilot"