Nissan X-Trail test drive since 2007 SUV

Eternal values

When idle stormy youth remains behind, the strong floor, as a rule, less often dissolves the tail in an attempt to attract the attention of females. And he spends money not on himself, a loved one, but tries to convey it to a family nest, clutching tightly in his beak.
This maxim, in our opinion, is perfectly confirmed by the two Nissan SUVs of the X-Trail and Murano model.
From a technical point of view, both cars have a lot of similar engineering solutions and even common nodes. But what do you think, which one characterizes the condition before marriage, and which after? The answer is obvious: Nissan Murano is more suitable for a man, not a burdened family. In his assets, a bright appearance that allocates the car in the stream. Murano accelerates dynamically and is well controlled, so the driver can afford a sharper driving style, because he still does not need to worry that the child in the armchair in the rear seat can be grown or rocking. Well, the higher price is one while you are alone, you can afford an expensive toy. Another clear sign of a bachelor car is a powerful subwoofer hidden in the trunk in an embrace with a spare wheel. By the way, both cars are equipped with BOSE musical systems, which are better than those that other manufacturers put on the conveyor. What pleased the amazing coherence of the work of the pair of engine engine. Murano for the first time among cars of this class was equipped with an electronic control variator. His work deserves the highest praise by Nissan engineers: a car without the slightest delays reacts to both adding and discharge of gas.
Interestingly, the Nissan X-Trail costs exactly the same variator, but there is no work clarity there. Perhaps the variator does not have enough torque, which has a 2.5-liter X-Trail engine by almost 100 nm less than a 3.5-liter Murano engine? Another paradox: although the X-Trail engine is 60 horses weaker and has a working volume of a liter less than the Murano engine, it has a great appetite. However, the driver of the X-Trail has the ability to save a combustible transmission of the machine provides for a choice of one of three modes: the drive only on one axis (front), forced inclusion of all-wheel drive and automatic mode, when the electronics connects the rear wheels when the front slipping. But the owner of Murano does not have the opportunity to ride with the drive for only one axis. In addition to the multi-speed transmission, X-Trail boasts a few more pleasant trifles: there is a radio with Bluetooth support, which eliminates the need to purchase a separately kit for a mobile phone separately, and a more advanced triple computer, and access system using an electronic chip keys (Intelligent Key).
All these new items appeared last year, when the second generation of Nissan X-Trail saw the light. At the same time, the car became more conservative even the devices returned from the middle of the front panel to their usual place, in front of the driver. Thus, the model was finally positioned. The car is made qualitatively and in the latest technology, but it looks discreet. It will be bought by a dancing person, who knows for which he paid each of the spent rubles, and not throwing money down the wind for external effects. In a word, a real fan of family values.
Alexey Khresin
Author photo: Yan Segal
 

A source: MKOMBILA magazine [February/2008]