Test Drive Nissan Teana since 2008 Sedan

Sedan of the Rising Sun.

The word teana in the indigenous inhabitants of America means the sunrise, which is generally symbolic, because many of our compatriots this name was heard today for the first time
 
The penultimate generation of Nissan Maxima in our country remained a certain symbol of the presence of a certain status and a success indicator: if you have such a car - it means that you are going well. But the time dictates its conditions, and competitors, without looking at the former merit, crowded the age sedan not only from the top of the winners, but in general from the leader group. It's time to leave, the venue of the business class, the place is called up to occupy another sedan - Teana.
 
This sedan is a close relative of the North American version of the Maxima crossover Murano and a 350Z sports accumulation, you can't call it a dark horse. By the way, pre-warning angry attacks to the designers of Nissan about the similarity of the TEANA feed with a similar part of the Mercedesian S-class body, it is worth noting that the large rear lanterns and an outstanding up lid of the Japanese sedan's trunk is already at least the fourth year - residents of Southeast Asia For the first time, they were able to assess his merits back in 2002. So dust your critics will have to cool.
 
Although four years - the term is considerable, especially if we talk about autodizain. Last December, the sedan has already managed to update a little. However, looking at Nissan, the man in the street will not see anything supernatural and super-corrosive in his appearance - a typical Asian front face with large, slightly diagonal headlights and a massive chrome grid of the radiator, traditional for auto-grade profile and proportions, almost the only one strongly released in the exterior Designer element - already described aft. Nevertheless, thanks to a harmonious combination of these, it would seem that, universal and faceless, in essence of their details of the TEANA body as a whole looks quite relevant today.
 
Naturally, Asian motifs appear in the interior design. Its stylistic, if you want, architectural performance is completely opposite to modern European trends - combined with a solid, almost even windowsill front panel by special design research is not burdened, but the cockpit looks just great. Add here an excellent assembly quality, expensive plastic, inserts from polished wood, chic skin on electrified seats, excellent radio tape recorder with CD changer, cruise control, bixenon headlights and a full set of active and passive safety systems ... for a business class of a similar one Set, you see more than enough. True, tree, skin and most of the other equipment are available only in expensive versions. In the same place, by the way, you can find and at all exotic options - for example, a super-complex massage chair with a backup for the legs. What is there exotic? Almost nothing, if not to take into account that the amenities are for some reason are addressed exclusively to the front passenger, where, according to our tradition, a wife is usually driven or, as a last resort, a security guard. Apparently, Asian bonsses, on the contrary, prefer to sit next to the driver. Although the other explanation is also possible - the rear sofa is also equipped with such equipment. And indeed, there is very convenient and without it, but there is a tape recorder control panel, heating and rear curtain control button.
 
However, the comfort of Teana in a static position does not go into any comparison with the comfort of dynamic - this car is sharpened to maximize passenger care in any situations and on any roads. At low and medium speeds, the suspension literally swallows most of the irregularities, transmitting a minimum of vibrations on the body. The car is reliable, obedient and predict that it turns, it would seem, the usual movement from point A to point B to a certain semblance of a calm walk through the park. But for such an amazing smoothness of the course at the average speeds, you still have to pay. For a sedan, similar to a test TEANA, equipped with a 3.5-liter V6 and a branded sequental variator, the exchange of the third hundred on the speedometer is not a problem (may the zealous guardors of traffickers for liberty for liberty). The car makes this operation easily and easily, in a matter of minutes devoured a kilometers of space. However, if the surface under the wheels of Nissan has a noticeable ledge of a longitudinal bend, a trip from a pleasant and unjustious journey turns into a rather rigid confrontation of a person and a car that a priori requires maximum college and self-control. Too sensitively reacts this sedan even on the slightest changes in the road situation. Moreover, the speech here is not about banal potholes or ruts, but about the quality of the canvas in general. Have you ever been to the ocean cruise? There sometimes strongly shakes. Similar sensations, Nissan Teana passengers are also experienced in a big wave. Its machine is quite assembled, but to repay the harsh vertical oscillations that arises completely at such a velocity suspension is no longer able to.
 
And if it only adds emotions to passengers, then the driver in this case, at least begins to experience some inconvenience - reducing the efficiency of the brakes and the informativeness of the steering on the descents is inevitable.
 
Output one: reset the speed, and then Nissan will again become an obedient and diligent assistant, calm and confident, as he should be by definition. And what is the ultra-fast conquest of space, then TEANA is not intended for this, its main trumps - comfort and security, which, in fact, will be waiting for his future admirers from him, especially ready to pay for it.
 
Text: Vladimir Lodine
 
 

A source: Mkmobile magazine [21.08.2006]