Nissan Teana test drive since 2008 sedan

Japanese assembly. The number is limited

Less than a month ago, Nissan management announced that Teana will be produced at the company under construction near St. Petersburg. Very in handy translated from the language of indigenous Americans, the name of the model means dawn (or beginning). What will turn out to be a debut for a Japanese company in Russia, largely depends on this business class sedan.
 

A year ago, the wheels first were driving Nissan Teana. During this time, the car changed its status: at first it became simply popular, then so popular that they wanted to collect it in Russia.
 

Now Teana is equipped with gasoline motors with a volume of 2.0 to 3.5 liters, coagged with a four -speed automatic (engines 2.0 and 2.3 l) or variator (3.5 l). There are three equipment options, but the body, unlike, for example, Ford Mondeo, is only one.
 

Business Setan of non-trivial appearance and with comfortable settings sample of the Nissan company design.
 

It is easy to verify this, assessing at least the appearance of Tilda, which at the end of the year will take the place produced in England Almera.
 

This design can be called unusual, since the machine clearly differs from all classmates-competing, which sparkle with elongated headlights and a relatively small radiator grill.
 

Teana is not so. The front light elements, of course, are not round in shape, but not strips at all, oval large glass. The falling line of the roof and short overhangs indicate the swiftness of their owner, and the chrome radiator grille of the Mercedes type hits the eye with its sparkling coating.
 

The headlights and the radiator grille make a visually long hood even massive all the more so that the back of the car is not such. The trunk line is generally difficult to single out: it seems to be a simple and logical continuation of the rear window.

 

In the Teana salon, a stylish design solution and comfort of the head of the leader have been woven. Boodplain inserts, black leather, large information display and the Fine Vision instrumental panel are brought to associations with the Infiniti premium brand.
 

Comfortable seats are not familiar with the princes of sports landing, but they know how to relax the driver and surround it with comfort. The four-spoke steering wheel is too big for obtaining sports status, but it is pleasant to the touch and can even have a cruise control buttons. In our configuration, the place on the steering wheel remained vacant.
 

Teana can change your idea of \u200b\u200bparking. This, it turns out, is not so difficult when there is a rear view camera Nissan. This Divais even has a more affordable Primera.
 

When you are going to go forward, the screen is transformed into an excellent display with bright and extremely understandable designations. All information is located and is very easy to read, and its search control does not cause any problems.
 

After pressing the button on the left, a curtain that obscured the rear window was stirred under the wheel: protection from the sun and from unnecessary glances.
 

Prices
The most affordable Teana with a 2.0-liter 136-horsepower engine and a 4-speed automatic costs 811,938 rubles. The basic equipment includes: front-line pillows of the driver and passenger, ABS, EBD, Nissan Brake Assist, climate control, electric package, heating seats, adjustable steering column, audio system, and on-board computer. A sedan with a 2.3-liter 173-horsepower engine costs from 893,420 rubles, and with a 3.5-liter engine and a variator of 1,178,738 rubles.
 

On an even asphalt, the term ship is most suitable for Teana. Nissan suspension is soft and very comfortable. The sensation of speed is dull, and the fifth point will not be discomfort either on a flat surface, or on a defective asphalt of unevenness, you skip almost imperceptibly.
 

But the wavy track for Teana is not the best coating. On it, vertical swinging becomes too noticeable, and at high speed it is simply unpleasant. The car is almost bouncing to the beat of bumps, and passengers with it. In such conditions, it becomes quite real to feel the ceiling.

With sharp maneuvers, comfortable settings could not but affect. No matter how the Nissan engineers assure the Driver orientation of the sedan, this is hard to believe. Yes, a clear informative effort is felt on a sharp steering wheel; Yes, the behavior of the car in civilian conditions is predictable and understandable, but there is still not enough stability and confidence.

 

Sharp restructures turn around with the essential rolls of the car and delay in reactions, and if you overdo it at a speed in the turn, you may first demolish, and then (if you do not fall into resonance with ESP) and skidding.
 

The law-abiding motorist of the 2.3-liter engine is enough for the eyes, and the four-speed hydromechanical automatic machine will pleasantly surprise the dynamics with smooth switching and the absence of jerks.
 

Although these duties are assigned to the variator. However, amateurs to drive along the ring or highway Teana will like no less: with such a power installation, the sedan easily accelerates to 200 km/h. And at the same time it holds the road perfectly.
 

Teana has every chance of staying popular and further, but the main competitors are also going to collect d/e class sedans in Russia. How to divide the market collected in Russia sedans we will find out closer to 2009.
 

The car is provided by the ADR, the official dealer of Nissan


Text: Dmitry Medvedev
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 118/2007]