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Extreme cars

Denis Gladysch Successful developer during working hours and a fan of extreme sports on vacation. We invited him to choose any of the two cars: Nissan X-Trail and Nissan Pathfinder, hoping that Denis will indicate that it is better for the role of a car for a businessman. Our hero decided on the car, as it turned out later, he chose it not for trips to work
Denis Gladesh, financial manager of the management company Utkina Wood Balance.
There is no personal car at the moment a personal car.
Denis chooses between Nissan X-Trail and Nissan Pathfinder.
About myself
There is no car yet. I had many cars: German, Korean, domestic ... Moreover, both jeeps and cars. Which one to highlight? I think a good option Kia Sportage: a good SUV for your money.
I love SUVs and have already chosen a car that I like. More than others, Honda Element is pretty to me. But there is one problem: unfortunately, this car is not officially supplied to Russia
About sport
Since I am engaged in extreme sports, I like the cars appropriate: provided for this kind of occupation. Element is just one of those. I am engaged in kiting, and before that I was skating. True, he had to abandon his time for another sport of kite at all!
A car for an extreme love? She is obliged to be able to transport boards, and it should be convenient to wash from the hose. For example, Patrol seems to me from the Nissan line most suitable. It is frame, reinforced, and it seems to me that it is ideal for off -road!
About cars
X-Trail outwardly seems more interesting than inside. After all, he has a filling from Qashqai, right? The steering wheel is the same, a similar interior decoration, a dashboard, a variator, but, in principle, in the second generation it was successfully updated: the salon became more pleasant and much more comfortable.
Will he be a fellow traveler of extremal? No I do not think so. Firstly, I would like more space: I’m not sure that Kite will fit here! You can transport it on the roof, but the board is killed from this. This, as they say, is from the evil unless, of course, you can’t put the board in a special trunk
Secondly, I do not really trust it with a full-wheel drive system. I believe that there is nothing more reliable than a hard connection of bridges! And here the front axle is engaged in the X-Trail Electronics Car is more urban. For these conditions, it is more adapted; Actually, its main value is manifested in the city.
I like Pathfinder. The main thing: with a traction, smoothness and the presence of a real frame, and not integrated into the body, as is often the case. Yes, and in itself the patcher is good: a large, serious, moreover, all -wheel drive here is real. Do I need to count how many kite will fit here?! It is only strange that, despite the third row of seats, inside it seems less than outside.
Yes, if you compare the two nissans, then the asceticism of the Nissan Pathfinder is more to my liking than the X-Trail style. Honestly, pleasantly surprised by Pathfinder. This is a very good car, I definitely changed my attitude towards it! Perhaps it should be compared even with Patrol: it used to seem to me that only he was a real SUV in the Nissan line. It turned out not!
Specifications:
(manufacturer data)
Nissan X-Trail
Nissan Pathfinder
 
Type of body
Universal
Universal
 
Engine volume and power, l (l., At rpm)
2.5 (169/6 000)
2.5 TD (174/4,000)
 
Maximum torque, Nm, at rpm
233/4 400
403/2 000
 
Acceleration to 100 km/h, with
10.3
11.6
 
Maximum speed, km/h
185
175
 
Fuel consumption (city/highway) l/100 km
12.0/7.7
13.2/8.3
 
 
Cars are provided by the ADR by the official Nissan dealer.
Text: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin

 
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [September 2008]