Test drive Nissan Terrano II 5 doors 1996 - 2000 SUV

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The plane landed at the airport of the famous Lourd - they come to the local source to the poklonenecatoliki around the world. Thunder clouds hung over the snowy peaks. The weather did not foresee anything.
 
I must say that our appearance at the airport was a complete surprise for Nissan representatives. The business is that in connection with the holidays of the Embassy of European countries in Russia, they did not work for two or three days. And our traffic, in principle, broke, about which the Moscow representative office of Nissan reported to the headcontator.
 
But where ours did not disappear - we still received visas. And they did not have time to report this. Nissan should be given long to employees - they withstood fate with dignity.
 
Immediately found additional cars, rooms in the hotel, etc.
 
On the site in front of the station building stood several new Terrano II. Choosing the car is brighter and especially unequaling it, we threw things into the trunk and set off. We had to drive part of the journey in the field, and then climb the mountains.
 
Meanwhile, the clouds scattered.
 
The new Terrano behaved on the highway just like a car. The acceptable modified diesel was very quiet and did not annoy even at high speeds. He allowed confidently to go at a speed of 1150V160 km/h, which is quite enough for an SUV. Quickly flying the laid kilometers by good car, we began to delve into the mountains. Suddenly, quite unexpectedly, a pointer arose in front of the car that we would get to Spain.
 
Neither the checkpoint nor people in the form was observed. We checked with the legend. That's right, only a sign that we took the map as a pedestrian crossing turned out to be a border designation.
 
I must say, nothing has changed much. Only some cars had a different color. And dear to us farther in the Pyrenees, now the Spanish. After a few kilometers, we turned a narrow path for good. True, the sign indicated that it was bilateral. But how dwarfs would be traveled here, it was possible to imagine with difficulty.
 
Turning on all -wheel drive, they climbed on. The asphalt is over, the road is all in potholes and in the extras. And Tutoba was engaged that the suspension in the new Terrano is also new. It became tougher, and the car stopped from side to side, which is often characteristic of SUVs.
 
After a half -hour climb, we went to the mountain lake. According to the program, here we had to enjoy the nature and take a picture. Now you could look at Terrano properly.
 
The block facts on the new model are replaced by the now popular option 2+2. The front bumper has become a little already, reducing the front overhang. Now the probability of catching when climbing a hill has become less. The rear bampee has changed. Previously, with a spare wheel removed from the rear door, he did not look very pretty. Now the car isodely good and with a spare wheel, and without it. On the 5-door version, now there are wide sidebags that protect the doors and wings from stones and branches.
 
Honestly, the silver color that has already become traditional does not really go Terrano, because.
somewhat violates the proportions of the car. For example, I like it more when the moldings are black.
 
But this is a matter of taste. In any case, the car turned out pretty. Although it is not very different from its predecessor.
 
From the press release it became known about other innovations. The new diesel engine received a turbocharger and prolonged cooler. This made it possible to increase the power to 125 liters. With. and torque up to 278 Nm. Now you can put an ABS on the car, the work of which, by the way, has been very much.
 
The designers took care of the safety of the car. According to Nissan representatives, the new systems II more reliably protects the machine from unwanted invasion, and the new immobilizer is hindered.
 
In the press release, nothing was said about the modification of the suspension. But as managed to find out from the engineers, she still carried out the work of her. The stiffness of springs and shock absorbers was increased. The geometry of the suspension has been somewhat changed and a more powerful reptile stabilizer has been set. These changes have favorably affected both controllability and general comfort. The salon has changed a bit. A new fashionable upholstery, inserts of wood plastic and somewhat more adapted for movement outside the road. In general, everything is in place and also pretty well.
 
Journalists who climbed over cars and fed -called were offered to swim on the canoep to a mountain lake, shoot from a bow and ride a mountain bicycle.
 
I preferred to ride a new car a little more.
 
By evening, everyone gathered in a 5-star hotel. It works only in winter and lovers of rock lover live in it, for whom there is everything that is supposed to - lifts, steep slopes, a mandatory sauna in the basement and an veloric view from the window.
 
At a short press conference, before dinner, as always, they talked a lot about the successes of the previous model of the alleged successes of the future. Nissan sold about 60 thousand Terrano II only in Europe. The figure is quite prime. Now the plant in Spain is ready to produce 120 thousand new cars a year.
 
After dinner in the fresh air, the journalists were announced a death sentence: a rise at 6 a.m. and Vogora. The Russian team still had nothing - the difference is 2 hours, we have 8 in the morning, but the rest was clearly liked. But if we take into account what was to be done in the mountains of about 50 km at an average speed of 10v20 km/h and then not to be late for the plane, such an early rise is justified.
 
In the morning, sleepy journalists did not imagine what they had to do. As soon as we went to the track prepared by Nissan to check the off -road qualities of the car, the dream of everyone as a hand was removed. The time was the time to think more about a new car, but about how to get whole. Imagine - from one -in -the -vanity of the mountain, with the other an abyss, the depth of which does not even want to pretend. And the path is so narrow that the wheels go almost along the edge of the cliff. When asked how the Nissan decided on such dangerous trials and even a seal of crazy journalists, the company’s employees answered simply: we are not afraid that someone is a bocadne, everyone wants to live. Test-Drive was interesting. In some places, a blurry mountain road is the test. In one place I even had to use the cable. But Perekoin was too big needle, and when Terrano descending, he buried in the ground. Some journalists tried to get an obstacle. And they almost succeeded, but there was not enough adverse properties of rubber, although the supply of power of the engine was sufficient. But it is clear that Nissan put on his cars not in the most off -road tires, but the bottle of it and on an ordinary road and outside it.
 
Yes, I almost forgot. For the last test, Terrano was given to us in a short-drawn 3-door version. The car, by the way, is more advantageous in all respects. And it looks more cute.
 
A kind of off -road stronger. But back to the track.
 
Nissan, as always, thought it over with special care. In addition to the mountain, in places wet, roads, we managed to fade along the snow, or rather, along the snow corridor. I had never imagined that there could be so much snow. In some places, the height of the snow cover reached 4 meters.
 
There was also a mountain river, on which we also drove.
 
We can say that the new Terrano does not fall into the category of beach cars. This is a normal full -fledged -resistant, which can be used in the city. The only nuisance was the grated pesticled shaking along a bad road. The fact is that Nissan used Velur's seats for upholstery. This is beautiful and quite practical. But for the city. Velura has very high frictional properties, so that a poured shaking, sticking out clothes, begins to rub their back. But this flaw, as you know, is easy to accept.
 
The last funny moment Test-Drive was the sink. Two techniques from compressed pressure were waiting for us on the bridge. They fantastically quickly washed all the cars. On dirty on normal roads, it is indecent here.
 
Savva Simonov
 
 
 

A source: Motor magazine [No. 6/1996]