Nissan Teana test drive since 2008 sedan

You live passenger!

The replacement of the pretty well -being on the market Maxim Thana will from time to time will torment his future owner with a temptation of reincarnation from the driver to the passenger.
 
Try to remember how often did you have to drive your own car as a passenger next to the driver? And in the back seat? Ah, you have a S-class! Sorry, sorry ... Then you, a man, - what can you say? Contemplative transportation prefer barrancogrus and pedalitoptication? Oh, I understand you perfectly - I myself am the same.
 
Having landed on the presentation of the Taina, which took place in St. Petersburg and his Leningrad region, I easily lost the steering wheel to my colleague. Still - after all, there is so much tasty for the passenger! I will definitely tell everything in the most immodest details - literally after eighty -two lines. However, you do not need to be either a driver or his companion in order to begin to get impressions of the car. It is enough to see it - and immediately confuse with some kind of infinity.
 
Those who are well familiar with the pro-American luxury products from Nissan are allowed to be a little to be a little to be ill with Lexus-LS430. But only in front - the bend of the back of the roof, flowing into the trunk line, already blows with might and main. However, the novelty is new only in Russia, and in his native Japan has been known since 2003, when no one has heard about the new Passat in our area.
 
Wakes up with dawn!
 
Taina was built on the Nissan FF-L, which served as the basis of the sedans of Altim and Maxim, as well as the crossover Murano and the New Minivan Preshage. She made her debut in Japan in February 2003 and for a long time was sold exclusively in Asia. A year later, with a little, Thana appeared in China - the car was assembled at the Dong -Feng factory. As a European model, Thana lit up at the Kiev International Motor Show and now she reached us. Russian Theanes are produced in Japan at a factory located on the island of Kyusu.
 
In other markets, the Thean can be called differently: for example, in Australia - Maxim, and in Hong Kong - Sephiro. In China, the local spill is called Tian-Lee, which means something like a beautiful sound of nature. In general, the word of Thean in the language of American Indians means dawn or beginning. By the way, in Korea, Reno-Samsung produces SM5 and SM7 models, which are also a slightly redesigned theater.
 
Home Sweet Home
 
You can talk for a long time about the interior of Thean, arguing that the concept of the salon is to create an atmosphere of a comfortable and modern living room ... But it is still better to climb inside and see it with your own eyes. The photos are quite eloquent: indeed, the interior design is something shocking.
 
Two horizontal features, two vertical ones - and a spectacular front panel was obtained, on which two uterine wood boards and a central console with a separate climate control unit and a musical center crowned with a 7 -inch color display are neatly laid with stylish nuances. Another board adorned the central tunnel, on which the selector of the automatic transmission was established.
 
 
A 7-inch display is broadcasting a rear view camera located above the license plate
 

Six -cylinder machines in the Laksheri configuration system.
 

The instrument panel is laconic to extreme
 
In general, there are enough wood here - they are finished with a heap of doors and steering wheel. And everything would be super -marked if the wood did not turn out to be so frankly synthetic. Here is a linden, so to speak, wood. This is not striking - visually more and more. But it is only worth, pah -pah, to knock on it - and that’s it, the deception is revealed. This is especially contrasting with other interior decoration: plastics and skin involved in the interior of the Thean, the true embodiment of high quality.
 
The steering wheel with convenient thickenings on its leather part and the control buttons of cruise control claims multifunctionality, but why do not the reins of the audio system come here? Weird. Incidentally, the sound of an audio system, even in its most expensive interpretation - with a glove of the gloves with a chainer into six especially favorite disks - seems as plastic and matte as a wooden decoration of the salon.
 
Massage for Ottomanak
 
Now the promised goodies for passengers. Machines in the maximum configuration of Laksher with a 245-horsepower engine of 3.5 liters and the variator are equipped with the adultery front passenger armchair with support for the legs called through an electric drive, and this is a business class so a business class! The seat does not have a height adjustment (like a driver’s way, by the way), so it is important not to overdo it with a brisk squeeze and not to print outstretched legs to a torpedo. For a full buzz, the chair should be pushed back as much as possible, but then it will be impossible to sit behind a wiped front passenger.
 
 
Sunglasses will not fit here. And a pince -ne, alas, we did not have at hand
 

Front passenger chair with massage rarity for business class cars
 
 
In the central armrest, the heating buttons of the sofa heating, an audio station and folding the rear curtain are hidden
 

Even if two sabonis are sitting in front, there are enough comforters of comfort with excess
 
If you push the Ottoman armchair forward, then there will be so much space from behind that it is even difficult to imagine such a supermodel that could not throw my foot on the leg. On the other hand, there is no massage ...
 
Oh, massage is something special! The seat suddenly comes to life and begins to tap a curious guest out of his embittered. Four vibrating kulak, which rest on the sides or on the shoulder blades, swell alternately in the back. It feels that someone is very ill-mannered, speaking from behind on the couch, strokes with his feet with all his might. The sensations are at first creepy, to be honest. Although, probably, an amateur. I could not stand it for a long time and eventually found myself behind the wheel.
 
Tearing and trampling
 
First of all, Thana surprises with an almost complete absence of noise. At idle, understanding whether the engine is working exclusively by the tachometer. But even when driving in the city of the engine, it is practically not heard - even in Kik -Dawn mode, the voice of the motor cannot kill a calm conversation. Aerodynamic noises come to the fore on the highway - especially if you open the hatch or glass. First -class, business -class soundproofing!
 
A car with a 3.5 -liter six, paired with a variator, is surprising not so much the dynamics of acceleration as such as with a responsiveness to work by the accelerator: pressed on the gas - and you are ahead of all. The coherence of the actions of the tandem motor -korok is close to the ideal - switching is very furious! At the same time, the engine does not stupidly hangs the tachometer with an arrow on his comfortable figure, but pretends to be a hydrotransformer, constantly playing with speeds.
 
There is also a manual mode: inaccessibility is divided into six fixed gears, rather sensible: the ikstrot is absolutely adequately responding to all the levers, instantly and at the same time very smoothly changing virtual steps and even allowing the engine to slow down. By the way, more affordable versions are no longer equipped with a variator, but by the most ordinary 4 -speed automatic - even without manual mode.
 
Although sometimes it begins to seem that two and a half hundreds under the hood for a front -wheel drive sedan is too much: you just aim at the highway to overtake some slider, turning it on to the oncoming lane while adding gas - and the steering wheel begins to deliberately bolt in your hands, interrupting the direction of choosing a direction for your discretion. We have to carefully. By the way, despite the front -wheel drive, the torn operation of the gas in the bend can provoke a light absence of the rear axle - and this is when the stabilization system is turned on. In general, in my opinion, the theater is more likely to be a straightforward movement on a good road.
 
And then not for anyone: for example, on the humane, in principle, the Scandinavia highway, where most of our route passed, there are longitudinal waves on the road surface, on which, when overthrows with the change in the trajectory of Thean, it begins to swing a sort of Sheremetyevsky longboat. In general, in gentle turning at decent speed, the car holds very confidently, even if the road is not very smooth: the car ignores all minor irregularities (the next!) - everything is in order with smoothness. But on the notorious waves, one should still not especially be zealous, it is better to slow down. Moreover, the brakes here are simply excellent.
 
Automatic three -meter
 
The prices for the Thean begin at a psychologically attractive mark of $ 29,990 - this is a basic machine with a 2 -liter engine with a capacity of 136 forces. The Theana is in the top version with a 3.5-liter engine and a variator, 17-inch wheels and an armchair with an Ottoman costs almost one and a half times more.
 
It is quite obvious that Kamri will be the main competitor for her, a fork for which is from $ 30,900 to $ 43,200. The main minus of Toyota in her extreme popularity - the ordered car will have to wait at least seven months! So if living theaters appear on sale, then, of course, Toyota Zhdunov will have a serious reason to think about buying Nissan - a truly interesting, truly Japanese car, with a very extraordinary interior and curious gadgets. Which, however, can be dispensed with.
 
Four and hatch
 
In addition to an expensive luxury version with a 3.5-liter engine ($ 43,990), there is aata and more accessible on sale. However, the basic eleganes ($ 29 990) is unlikely to be in great demand - after all, two liters are not enough for a large sedan on the machine. A reasonable minimum sees a machine with a 2.3 -liter V6 (173 hp) in the Laksheri configuration for $ 33,100, in which, in addition to the frontal, side airbags, coupled with inflatable curtains, plus disks made of light alloy. The same car in the premium configuration (ESP, a non -contact access system, a rear view camera and adaptive bixenon headlights) costs $ 3800 more. The options for all configurations include a hatch with an electric drive for $ 1000.
 
PER
Stylish interior, magnificent combination of engine and transmission (in version 350JM), interesting options
 
VS
Unstable behavior on wave -shaped asphalt
 

A source: Magazine buy a car [13/2006]