Nissan Teana test drive since 2008 sedan

Battle for the crop

Not a single car in the modern world is done without looking at the market conditions, or rather, to the target audience. It is she, without knowing it, that sets the vector for car progress. Designers, engineers and other people who create cars only fulfill the desires of consumers. First of all, consumers from the USA, Europe and Japan. And then - everyone else. Our country is not yet included in the civilized customer club, and the Russian target audience from the outside still looks slightly crazy. But the crazy demand for foreign cars forces the West to seriously look at the Russian field of sale.
Actually, the target audience in Russia is already there, and the vast. These are all those who have long dreamed of transferring from hopeless domestic cars to foreign cars. In the calculation of such a abyss of consumers, plants for assembling available tricks are built, logs are invented, adapt to local production of not the first freshness of asters and golfs. There is also a more wealthy target audience for which fives of BMW and the second Hammers gather in Kaliningrad. Demand for cars of other classes is satisfied with imports and is heated by an extensive advertising campaign. Remember what advertising automobile videos were recently put into rotation on Russian TV. The Swedish Volvo in full propagates the intellect of the brand new S80. Japanese Nissan - superior to the expectations of Teana.
 
The V6 NEO VQ35DE engine with a landscaped phase regulation system and the Xtronic CVT-M6 variator are optimized under each other and provide Nissan Teana's really cool and smooth acceleration. But if you pamper yourself constantly with this acceleration, fuel consumption grows many times. On the S80, an eight -cylinder engine is placed for the first time. It was borrowed from the SUV XC90, and the main advantage of the motor is not so much the number of horses as a flat characteristic of the moment, low weight and very small value of harmful emissions.
Bread class. Formally, both cars taken for this test drive in the maximum configuration belong to the same class and can compete with the most popular business departments in our country. But in reality there are more differences between them than similarities.
Teana, made by the entire Euro -Asian market, does not leave the impression of a typical Japanese machine. The developers seemed to be transferred the entire creative process to computer brains: they scored detailed data on the target audience in Exel, up to the last day of the tax return, caused a table of styles tested on the American version of Nissan Maxima and Japanese Teana predecessor, loaded the characteristics of the front-wheel drive platform and their engines, then dragged the whole economy in the Teana Keygen window and printed the result-a burning, ardent car with the eyes of the headlights widely opened on the world. I will not say that Nissan designers surprised something. With an example, a trick, I remember, was a success. And this novelty turned out to be too rational and cosmopolitan. And there is also a suspicion that one of the Japanese managers still secretly loaded the plugin to the destruction of Korean competitors in the source codes.
 
The new S80 is also the result of optimization. But what! It is felt that this car was licked: they put on the pedestal the former eighty and, without taking his eyes off the 1999 masterpiece, sculpting a new, very similar. The idea and character remained, but in some elusive details of the Novik, it became ten times more modern, faster and more elegant. Yes, and the power base for it is more powerful-there are front-wheel drive modifications for typical volvodravians with a strengthened 2.5-liter motor, and there are a 4.4-liter beast rowing with all four paws.
I idyll to choose from. The inner world of Teana was created on the exclamation of oh, look! And so, in principle, he turned out. The salon is spacious (especially in length) and unusually arranged. Wanting to please the buyer, the Nissanists provided a lot of intriguing things. The driver’s chair helpfully drives away for convenient landing and automatically adapts to the key number. In the passenger’s chair, massage and a retractable footbear for the legs are built -in. On a large display in the central console (which, in general, you will not surprise anyone), they deduced a color image from the rear view camera, marked with target designers. The feature is very sensible, because you can not see much behind the massive TEANA stern, moving in reverse, according to an old driver's habit, in an embrace with a passenger seat. Again, in our Teana, a regular equipping was provided with an electric drive, an intelligent chip key that does not need to be poked into the ignition lock, bixenon headlights with a backlight function in AFS turns, 17-inch cast discs, a lot of all kinds of automation, and even such a trifle as a trifle as a trifle The backlight of the armrests. Given the modern 3.5-liter V6 and the advanced box, for a price tag of $ 45,000, very good. Yes, in the lowest configuration Elegance 2.0 is not all this, but it is offered a third cheaper.
 
On the contrary, at first it does not cause surprise to be surprised at its contents. Everyone has already seen a spectacular soaring console. Otherwise, Volvo as Volvo. The good half of the booklet is devoted to the safety and protection of the health of passengers. Only lotions for the brake system working together with adaptive cruise control, how much-one ensures that you do not hit someone in the ass, the second reduces the braking distance, the third compensates for the lack of vacuum in the amplifier, the lack of vacuum, The fourth predicts sharp brakes and brings the pads to the discs, the fifth squeezes the pedal if the driver in an emergency cannot hold the brake, six and seventh for a long time, we finish-ABS and something else. Climate control is equipped with advanced filters, air quality control and developed anti-allergenic ventilation functions. There is even such an option as a heart sensor. The Volvo personal automobile communicator will tell you whether the doors of the car are open, whether the alarm is turned on, whether people are sitting in the cabin. Add an active chassis operating in three stiffeners, all -wheel drive and transversely located compact V8, which when a collision itself is killed on asphalt, and does not kill passengers, and you will agree that even $ 80,000 for such a packaged car is not so so. expensive.
So far, for the Nissan Teana, the palette of the deposits is not too generous. The choice of colors for the body is limited by three metallics and three pearl colors. The salon is either beige or black, both for leather and velor versions. The Scandinavian novelty can be painted in one of thirteen colors, and for interior decoration the configurator offers eleven different options from fabric, ordinary and perforated skin.
Tops or roots. Despite the significant difference in the power of the engines and setting up the chassis, you get the pleasure of moving both in Teana and in the S80. Nissan is lucky with the comfort of a typical Japanese luxury. The steering is dull, but transparent. The irregularities of the road do not announce at all. Noise insulation, if you do not open windows and hatch, just excellent. It is especially worth saying about overclocking. The dynamics is impressive, but the acceleration process in any circumstances proceeds very, very smoothly thanks to the unavailable xtronic variator. Engineers have achieved excellent work from this mechanism. There is no need to wait for the pieces of iron to do something with each other to give a portion of acceleration when you have already pressed the gas. A car is touching without delay. With the average acceleration, the arrow of the tachometer takes off to the mark of 3500 and holds there until you gain the desired speed. If you drown the pedal sharply, the engine will immediately obediently quarrels at 5500 revolutions and powerfully accelerate Teana. And with a cruise control, the engine seems to be shut up at all. Quietly bursts at 1500-2000, and the on-board computer is trying to surprise you with an insignificant fuel consumption.
 
The Swedes turned out to be hot. The car along the road goes more collected, the steering wheel is pleasantly heavier with speed, in vihi it allows you to feel the nature of the coating and evaluate the strength of the clutch. And the sound V8 is worth it! The uterine low gurgling in a moment turns into an elastic steel tutti. At high speeds, the Volovskaya eight does not publish a sports cod, but the voice of any other car next to the S80 will seem to you a strangled cry of the prayer for mercy. And this engine with excitement drags the car-p-a-z-z, d-in-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. The machine is a little stupid, but a high torque is helped out on the motor shaft and all -wheel drive. In the first phase of acceleration, the Volvo S80 accelerates tangibly more intensively than Teana and goes into a separation from a competitor.
However, if you estimate another dynamics - the dynamics of sales, then the picture will probably be the opposite. The technological Nissan has more chances to find a mass buyer in our country. But the Swedish flagship, probably, will have to be tight - only fans of the brand. Everyone who can buy a car for $ 80,000 will hardly believe that Volvo finally became a premium brand, and the S80 is more beautiful and luxurious than an e-class. No matter how advertising show ...
Tighten. What impression will make on you Teana depends on the color of the finish. In this version, as in the photo, you get a strange combination of gloomy ingenuity surfaces and dark voids. But the light salon looks much more advantageous - the eye immediately grabs and enjoys the ideas that Japanese designers sought to realize. The torpedo is as if he was chopped with a horizontal katana blow, and the central console spectacularly protrudes into the salon. In order to reach the control buttons of air conditioning and an audio system, do not succumb to forward - everything is at hand. And to start the engine, you don’t have to clap yourself in your pockets in searching for the key - turn the valve under the right steering wheel switch, and the entire Teana system will come to life immediately. Chairs with a wide range of electro-regulations and memory are convenient-though they do not provide some outstanding fixation of the hips and shoulders. The instrument panel is simplified. There are complaints to the buttons that are under the console (drowned and too removed), as well as to the left of the steering wheel - they have to look for them to the touch. The gallery is arranged more thoughtfully: the seats buttons are built into the wide armrest, and the sofa itself is characterized by a comfortable back.
Relax. In dark colors, the salon of the new S80 looks not bad, and in such a performance, with perforated skin on seats, light upholstery and dark lacquered inserts, it generally serves as personification not like Scandinavian luxury, but chic in general. And this is despite the abundance of plastic panels. The forms are simple and organic (does a hilly landscape shape remind you?), The materials are impeccable, and the sound of the Dynaudio audio system, designed specifically for acoustics of the S80, the Danish manufacturer of the high-end, is generally the best of what has ever been supposed to be supposed for the state of business class cars. Ergonomics is almost perfect. The unobtrusive, which does not overload the driver’s work, which does not overload the work of an on -board computer. The Swedes also eliminated one of the problems of a soaring console - in the S40 buttons, for example, they were made small and knocked in a heap, which required a sniper dexter driver, but here everything is in place, there is no need to change habits. Between the front seats, an intricate but not bulky design is installed, which serves both a convenient armrest and a spacious storage for any small things.

Text Ruslan Tarasov, photo Andrey Danilov

We thank for help in organizing the shooting of Nisan Motor Rus, (495) 961-2131, and the VOLVO representative office in Russia, (495) 745-9780.

  Nissan Teana 3.5 V6 CVT
 
Gasoline engine, v6
Working volume (cubic cub) 3498
Power (L.S. at rpm) 245 at 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 330 at 3600
Front drive
Gearbox Variator
Length/width/height (mm) 4845/1765/1470
Equipped mass (kg) 1589
Maximum speed (km/h) 210
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 7.9
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 15.0/8.4
Price in Moscow (price of the tested car) from $ 43,990 ($ 44 990)

Volvo S80 V8 4.4 AWD
 
Gasoline engine, v8
Working volume (cubic cub) 4414
Power (L.S. at about/min) 315 at 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 440 at 3950
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed, automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4851/1861/1490
Equipped mass (kg) 1505
Maximum speed (km/h) 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 7.4
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 18.7/8.6
Price in Moscow (price of the tested car) from $ 74,900 ($ 82 500)

 

A source: "Autopilot"