Subaru Forester test drive since 2008 SUV

Hello and goodbye

Forester made himself, holding apart, a station wagon with a high road clearance and a driver character, he is a good ten years in high esteem of those who are not sweet for a little a little jeeps. Ales! As if tired of identity, the new forester became like everyone else.
Remember to the touch
There was no grout. Why, with my eyes closed, I can say exactly where and why any of its levers and button. And the same plastic is hard, in some places not very pleasant to the touch. Yes, today it is customary to be more refined, the materials of the finish are more no more. But I feel the details tightly and accurately fitted. I know that they are guaranteed not to creak on the most murdered road. The same three -spoke steering wheel, the same neat round visor visor, rectangular grates of air ducts.
Unless in the center the deflectors are now slightly lower, and the radio is higher. So, perhaps, more convenient. The handbrake from the passenger chair moved closer to the driver. A lever of a mechanical box is familiar under the right hand, a little behind as usual, a lever with a lowering word, with your eyes closed, you will easily learn it: this is a foreman, an old acquaintance. But if you open your eyes
In fact, the salon has changed much more than it might seem to the touch. First of all, there is a sea of \u200b\u200bair. I am sitting above the previous centimeters by ten, but to the ceiling still a place with a fist. It is not so easy to reach the handle of the right front door from the driver's seat. The shoulders have become much more spacious. Yes, the finish remained simple and concise. But the dashboard was revived by blue scales, doors and torpedo decorated stylish inserts for aluminum. They did not stint on the perforated skin of the seats.
And from the couch Forester, even seems to be a big jeep. This used to be knitted with his knees. Now, even behind the tall, up to 190 cm by an uncle, another one will easily fit: for the legs they chopped as much as 10 cm.
 
       
The devices have become more elegant and visual. But the place of the temperature indicator of the about the oxide fluid was not found. Instead of it a control lamp
 
      
Cup holder, chairs heating buttons, boxing dozen CD all this was on the central tunnel of Foreter and earlier
Electric leather chairs are expensive. But active head restraints do not require
The mirror control panel is still in the blind area from the bottom left of the steering wheel. Nearby, the ESP shutdown button do not confuse!
 
And he is now from the fashionable
Significantly more forester and outside. Having waved as much as 11 cm, he became one of the highest among the SUVs. Yesterday, just a passenger station wagon with an enlarged clearance turned into a jeep with serious roof rails and powerful muscular wheel arches.
It was before that the Japanese only slightly retouched with a change of generations. It seemed that the angular universal seemed to be not dealing with a changeable fashion. Now, as if understanding to survive, everyone is easier to like and everyone, he wants to keep up with her. So, only proven design ideas are needed: in addition to the stocky, jeep -shaped silhouette, it is a bars, stylish, frowned headlights, crystal lights. And there is no more reason to consider a forester with a white crow.
 
    
From the sofa pillow, you can put forward a convenient table with the cup holders
To carry longs, you need to fold part of the back. The mechanism works impeccably
 
   
The trunk is rustic for decoration, but a couple of large suitcases will easily swallow
 
Even the doors without a framework, before the business card of all Subaru, not just sunk into oblivion. Otherwise, the designers could not increase the hardness of the body during a lateral blow. It is also fashionable to convince everyone of their infinite security. It is only surprising how Forester did not fall below to the ground. Absolutely against fashion, the clearance grew a couple of centimeters under the protection of the crankcase impressive 22 cm.
Just physical education
However, after all, they only met a Forester for clothes. And they always appreciated primarily for talented sledge qualities. And barely setting off, I recognized the old friend of a harsh clutch, accurate, clear gear shifts, a characteristic aspiring with an increase in revolutions. True, under the hood, a 2.5-liter four in 172 liters, known to the fans of Outbek, was registered. With. Before the foreman did not have this.
The car is large, but it became even easier to maneuver in the parking lot. And all thanks to the low line of windows, huge mirrors, almost not interfering with the viewing of the racks. In addition, the diameter of the turn was reduced by 20 cm due to a larger corner of rotation of the wheels.
In addition, it is much more convenient to start in a hill on a new forester. As before, a manual brake does not necessarily work as a lifting system. The pads only bloom softer, and not at the very end of the adhesion pedal. And then the motor gives me confident traction from below, peppy grabbing to 3500 revolutions. Forester is perceived by a frisky liver, ready to enjoy life and delight his master.
And I, of course, are a little more aggressive, recalling what pleasure the previous Forester could give, as we were sometimes blaspheming, passing the turns in the side skins. Dissolve a little gas, increase the radius that is a drive that you don’t forget how everything is pleasant in life so when, when in a familiar to the crack in the asphalt, the turn was fused by 80, I didn’t wait for a catch at all, here many cars allow you to drive like that. But not the current Forester. Here is a slope on the turn, the concrete of the cheeks yes, it is now so that it only holds on. Shock absorbers choose a move, and we find ourselves at the chipper with one jump. UV-F-F-F of all of the former sports, only not triggered to the last ESP remained.
It turns out a very strange attraction of acute sensations. If you go into the turn quite quickly, having strewn with the button, the machine slides academic, all four. Even on the limit, Forester remains obedient. But one must be prepared for large rolls, for far from as fast as before, the steering wheel. The main thing, before, the driver of Subaru could be allowed by few models, on the arc to adjust the desired angle of drift. Now it will not work. After all, the ESP is on all versions without exception, and the electronics are configured so that even if you turn it off, the system of dynamic stabilization is not released until the end of the reins. She herself will choose the right gas supply at the output for you.
This, of course, is no sport. Maximum physical education: massive, for an ordinary consumer. Quickly, correctly, safe even to the limit, but without the slightest rally.
But Forester had new talents comfortable suspension and solid sound insulation. According to the paving stones along the tram tracks, he carries his crew of very gently light wheels of wheels, not the slightest shaking. Not only silk European highways, but also ordinary roads near Moscow do not cause the slightest reason to blame Subaru. Yes, and in a straight line you can ride very quickly. The point is not that the engine allows 170180 km/h turbo-froster and was not a soft-proof before, but that in the cabin at high speeds it has become much quieter.
The correct calculation. For today
Speaking in truth, and no one needs it in mass doses, this sports. That is why Forester has become more family, more convenient, safer, of course. They love them. As a basic 2-liter engine loves, which is five-five more popular than powerful hopeless and turbo options. Indeed, for the notorious dynamics, 100200 thousand rubles have to be overpayed.
Meanwhile, the 2-liter Subaru will carry its owner from point A to point B. And if necessary, can move off the asphalt: good geometry and the right permanent all-wheel drive will climb into a hill where CR-V or RAV4 manage to tear off the wheels in Sprinking under the helpless chatter of pseudo -bonds.
Well, just convenient, just reliable, just a family is not enough? Let not be so fast, but one hundred percent Japanese. True, it costs more expensive than competitors from Honda and Toyota. Previously, high prices were easily justified by the very drive. And now?
Today there is no shortage of parking lots. Trimmed inside abduct and simpler, captivating almost professional abilities outside the asphalt and harsh, overlords of autobahns and steep turns. Forester was with them for a long time, and as if nearby, managing to go his own, parallel course. Now he is like everyone else. And finding a spark in it is getting harder. It is very deeply buried.
Ordinary consumers and connoisseurs
With mechanics and a 150-horsepower engine, the price of a foreman starts from 923,600 rubles. Such a machine is equipped very decently: climate control, an electric package, a complete set of safety tools, metallic. Additional 31,500 rubles. It costs a 4-speed automatic transmission. You can also add 39,200 rubles. For MP3 Magnetol, light alloy wheels and xenon headlights. The 2.5-liter version has all this already in the database, but such a car costs as much as 134,100 more. It turns out that only one more powerful motor will cost 95 thousand. The price of a machine with a 2.5-liter turbo engine starts at 1,167,500 rubles. And for 1,303,600 you will receive a leather interior, an electric drive of the front seats and a hatch, a launch system without a key.
 
 
Subaru Forester 2.5MT (2.0at)
general information
 
Body, number of places/doors
Universal, 5/5
 
Equipped mass, kg
1495 (1500)
 
Length x width x height, mm
4560x1780x1700
 
Base, mm
2615
 
Track, mm
1530
 
The diameter of the turn, m
10.6
 
Speed, km/h
184 (185)
 
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
10.4 (12.7)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
6.9/11.2 (7.3/12.8)
 
Trunk volume (5/2 places), l
450/1610
 
The volume of the fuel tank, l
60
 
Engine
 
Location
The front is longing
 
Design
4-cylinder, horizontal-opposition
 
Working volume, SMZ
2457 (1994)
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
172/6000 (150/6000)
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
23.4/4400 (20/3200)
 
Chassis
 
Drive unit
permanent
 
Transmission
5-st. mechanical (4-st. Automatic)
 
Suspension:
Independent, spring
 
front
on double triangular transverse levers
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, ventilated
 
Tires
225/55 R16
 
Car
from 9.00 rubles/km
 
+
Smoothness; tracted, lively motor 2.5 l; impeccable quality of assembly and tuning all -wheel drive; reducing gear; excellent visibility; spacious, comfortable salon
 
-
Overcharge; simple interior decoration; mediocre dynamics of version 2.0AT
 
 
Sergey Devyatkin, photo of Maxim Goncharov

 

A source: Magazine buy a car [12/2008]