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Kia Sorento against Nissan X-Trail. To each his own
Nissan X- Trail. Price: from 1,154,700 rubles. On sale: since 2007Kia Sorento. Price: from 1 199 000 rub. On sale: since 2009
Kia Sorento in our market is a newcomer. All the more interesting to compare it with the already seasoned representative of the compact SUVs Nissan X-Trail
Test pillets
Oleg Kalaushin, 40 years old, automobile journalist, driving experience 22 years, personal car - Renault Logan
Igor Kuznetsov, 48 years old, automobile journalist, driving experience 31 years old, personal car - Nissan Qashqai
Kia Sorento from 1 199 000 rub. The new Kia Sorento has a supporting body, which is 70% consisting of high -strength steels, lowered by 54 mm center of gravity for better handling on public roads, a multi -leaf rear suspension, as well as a reduced gear number in the steering mechanism. Plus, the dimensions of the car also increased significantly.
Driving
On the highway and in the city the car is quite good. But on a serious off -road, you should not meddle on it.
Salon
Pleasant to the eye and convenient to the body. The quality of finishing materials at the level, and the performance did not disappoint. For the same time, the car is quite spacious.
Comfort
I was very pleased with the level of sound insulation. Not bad and standard audio system.
Safety
According to the results of Crash tests, Euro NCAP, appropriated Sorento 5 stars.
Price
It is quite attractive.
Nissan X-Trail from 1,154,700 rub.
This SUV is popular not only in Russia, but also in Western Europe. The ALL Mode 4x4 system used in the car provides the optimal distribution of torque between the axes, which allows the X-TRIIL
without any problems, overcoming quite serious off -road, putting a car on a par with serious SUVs. Driving
The car is equally good both on the road and outside it. However, its maximum potential is revealed precisely outside of public roads.
Salon
Convenient, quite spacious, I especially liked the organization of places for storing little things in the luggage compartment.
Comfort
At a completely acceptable level, although noise insulation is not good enough.
Safety
6 airbags, ABS and ESP system in the basic configuration.
Price
It is quite consistent with the dimensions and capabilities of the car.
For comparison, we decided to take cars with diesel engines. And the point is not that the street is a global financial crisis on the street, and diesel fuel is cheaper. Money with money, but, it seems to us, if a person decides to take a car for all occasions, then this car should be aggregated precisely by diesel. The first cause of the torque, which diesel in diesel engines with minor engine volumes is still greater than in gasoline engines. And how valuable a sufficient torque is on off -road, we hope that it is not necessary to explain. The second fuel consumption, which directly affects the margin. In which case, it is possible to drain a little fuel away from civilization at the Kamazist passing by. Well, the last argument in favor of a diesel engine is that in their dynamic characteristics, modern cars with engines operating on diesel fuel are not much different from those that are burned in their cylinders exceptionally high -octane gasoline. And by noise, they are almost equal.
In general, on one of the surrounding spring days on the country track, Kia Sorento 2.2 TDI and Nissan X-Trail 2.0 DCI met on the country track. The newcomer had 197 horses under the hood, the favorite of the public could boast of only 150 liters. With. However, this did not bother us at all, because the dynamic characteristics of the cars, judging by the performance characteristics, were almost the same. So, ceteris paribus, the consumer will not notice the difference in the dynamics of these cars.
But with a full-time rate, it is impossible not to notice that Sorento is more than X-Trail. No wonder the Koreans fought to ensure that the new Sorento became larger than the previous model. He became more even classmates. Of course, the X-Trail is not lost against its background, Nissan is also not small, but the fact that it is still inferior in external dimensions is evident, as they say, without roulette. Affects the general perception and design of Sorento. Its more applied forms do not give a clear perception of dimensions, which visually makes the car even more. X-Trail against its background resembles a chest of drawers. Although he has places where designers probably had to resort to the help of patterns. But, apparently, at their disposal there were much less patterns than the team of Peter Schreer. The name of the latter, by the way, is named the new corporate style of the entire KIA model line. However, who likes what. Even in the ranks of our test group, opinions about which car looks more spectacular are divided. Therefore, we will leave without comment.
But the fact that the interior is more interesting for Kia, we will not deny. It contains quality, style, and comfort. Nissan is also quite well tailored from the inside, but against the background of Sorento it looks more modest. And the place in it, whatever one may say, is still smaller. It is especially great on the second row of seats. Of course, a huge hatch visually somewhat expands the boundaries, which extends from the windshield to the trunk, but no matter how spacious above, the legs are still more comfortable in Sorento. And the organization of the trunk is more effective in X-Trail. To get into the underput, which is also available in Sorento, Nissan is much easier, it is drawn up. But in order to climb into the far corner of the bins in Sorento, you will have to rest your knees into the bumper, and it does not differ in sloppy weather in slopping weather. As well as the whole car as a whole. An amazing thing, but when driving approximately the same roads to the site of the meeting of Sorento managed to get dirty
much stronger than X-Trail. Apparently, the wheels of larger diameter and the absence of the threshold affected. The latter, by the way, is also an option on Nissan. And we also noticed that the fuel consumption of cars was approximately at the same level and amounted to about 12 liters. Which clearly does not correspond to the declared manufacturers. Then once again we specially resettled the route computers and went along the route with a column. The result is the same. However, this is not so bad for Kia fuel consumption of him the same as that of the X-TRIIL with the volume of the motor and the power is much smaller. We also noted that Sorento on the track is still more comfortable X-Trail. And first of all, according to the acoustic component. Apparently, the best sound insulation affects. Otherwise, both cars behave on the highway, as befits compact SUVs: a slightly blurry steering, light fervor in corners and pathological dislike to the transverse seams. The last characteristic, oddly enough, is more related to Sorento. This is especially true for the rear axle more or less serious irregularities on the road to a greater extent for some reason surrender in it.
On the off -road, the cars showed themselves very well. Of course, we did not go to the wilds, but the snow field into which the frozen lake turned into, showed that the light off-road was not alien to these machines. Moreover, the Korean was practically not inferior to the Japanese so much less advanced in terms of electronic locks. The maximum that the driver of Sorento could afford is to block the Intersose differential. Nevertheless, this allowed the machine to briskly pass obstacles. The insoluble task for him was only diagonal hanging. In this situation, the car rolled helplessly with the hanged wheels in the air.
The X-Trail in such a situation for its right to further move forward fought to the last, creaking with the braking wheels. However, some areas were too tough for him. But we attribute this to the fact that, unlike winter tires that stood on Sorento, the X-Trail was in the demi-season shoe, and sometimes she did not allow to speak off-road in the language that it understands.
Our verdict
So what to prefer in this situation, especially when you consider that the cost of cars is approximately the same? It depends on what you need. If a fairly impressive crossover with the maximum level of comfort and acceptable dynamics on the highway, we would choose Kia Sorento. In addition, his design is closer to city entourage. Well, if you are in dire need of compact, but a full -fledged SUV, then you most likely need to keep the way to the Official Nissan dealer. The X-Trail is from those cars that does not disappoint on the highway, and does not save on the road.
Author: Oleg Kalaushin
Photo: Igor Kuznetsov
Source: Magazine 5 wheel [April 2010]
