Test drive Nissan Qashqai 2007 - 2010 SUV

Nissan Quashqai+2

When I see Qashqai, I think how easy it is to deceive the girl with advertising, do not even mix vodka with champagne. But Qashqai+2 is another matter. At first there was a X-Trail. Then he was flattened and chopped off the sides, shortened the springs and put narrow seats turned out to be Qashqai.
They came up with such an advertisement for him that half of the Moscow girls-managers lined up in a queue of a length of a year. Fiction: they were already satisfied with the fact that they were listed, without even having time to ride and understand how the car was going and whether it was convenient inside. On this Nissan one could stop. All prizes are collected, people are fighting for the right to give money before others. But the Franco-Japanese Alliance (by the way, with the participation of Russians) continued selection. They decided to attract many more families and party members. Qashqai was swelled from the inside, again stretched to the size of the X-Trail, added the third row of seats and returned its former softness to the springs. So the Qashqai+2 was created. Now, if you call Nissan and say that they do not have what you need, you will be wrong.
This is only in appearance, he is a cheap Japanese SUV, but in fact he has a wheeled base like a premium volvo XC 60 and Mercedes-Benz GLK.
With the same face, but another
I was sure that it was just Qashqai, only seven -seater, and was brutally mistaken. He sat down, drove and understood a completely different car. In one interview, the head of the Old Qashqai project mentioned: we made a hard suspension and added weights to the steering wheel, everyone loves in Europe. I know, traveled. He jumps on every lying policeman. But Qashqai+2 is a completely different matter. A soft, comfortable car, albeit with the same muzzle. I understand that people are different, someone likes a hard chassis. Blows in the spine is so invigorating. If you do not like leather linen with spikes inside, then Qashqai+2 will give you pleasure from driving as a normal person understands him. The novelty has a light steering wheel, convenient, pleasant and forgives mistakes in management. If you flare up, and this will happen, and sharply pull the steering wheel to the left and right, +2 will not move. Need to turn? He will do. But the provocations will pass by the ears. The suspension does not whip in the ass on the major irregularities of our polluted and crushed asphalt trams, and thanks to it for this. The body is rolled, but the center of gravity is low and the rolls do not scare in corners, you can even hooligate on the bends, because the skid comes out predictable, easily adjust. I traveled along Moscow streets and rested, from time to time reviving myself to a variator sound. It looks like a motorcycle and runs boredom at once. I have never been so gloriously riding Nissan. The only thing they missed was with narrow chairs. It’s normal in summer, and in a down jacket, alas, closely.
Qashqii was flew by 100 kg, the wheelbase increased by 135 mm, the total length is 211mm, and the height is 38 mm. Luggage places have become 90 liters more, a loading height is 13 mm less, a 224 mm luggage opening. It remains to remove the third row of seats, and we will get the perfect Qashqai with an ideal trunk
Where did they get children from?
I also moved on the off -road, because the laundry of the novelty has more than the five -seater Qashqai, 200 mm. I remarkably whistled the field with shallow, but wet and insidious snow. If you keep the steering wheel straight, you can go far. Owner, I envy you, you bought a beautiful car. But who are you? And what kind of company got into your salon? Impoverished managers threw off gasoline to get to the office? Why are there two more children with them? Did you take with them on the way to school and kindergarten? Fairy tales! If not for the third row, the car would have become easier, and the trunk is more spacious. And so every weekend you will listen to a sleepy voice in the tube: buddy, are you in the country? Throw my and mine, but throw it, a hook no more than a hundred kilometers or what am I about, Qashqai is female. This son will annoy to mom: let's take five scumbags from our school. I promised to throw them a sultry party. Well, ma !!!
 
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 
 

 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [June /2009]