Test Drive Subaru Tribeca since 2007 SUV
The new Subaru Tribeca does everything well and right, but ...
The new Subaru Tribeca as a music machine at the Bar of the Texas city of Austin. For whom he is standing there and what plays, who put it and why? When such cars are brought to Russia, they are lost in estimates. Can I generally talk about them seriously? Judging by the name, this subaru is made for artists from the quarter of the same name in New York. But they could not accept it, because the new Tribeca greatly brings to Chrysler Voyager. Apparently, the firm was going to attract ordinary inhabitants. For example, from the same Austin.
Already when the Japanese softened the suspension of the new Impreza, it became clear that the fans of the brand are no longer interested in Subaru. The firm needs money and sales volumes, so the time of housewives, owners of vegetable shops and women's aerobics are coming. These people are also disassembled in cars. But in its own way. They have a different value system than suubarists. And the comfortable chairs of the new crossover for them are more important than the sharp steering wheel.
This is a minibus! To understand the basic truths about the novelty helped a short trip from the dealer to the editor, the benefit between us is the whole kilometer four. First, it is not an SUV, and secondly, it is far from what we used to call Subaru. Most of all due to the features of landing and strongly littered windscreen, it really looks like an American minivan. Yes, the low center of gravity and the dynamics of the 3.6-liter opposite make a good athlete from it, but who drives us on the minivans?
The appearance of a conservative American is absuriently combined (more precisely, it does not combine) with space on the front panel beard. I have seen such incomprehensible eclectics in Dodge Nitro, where the hot design of the exterior suddenly goes to the arctic cold of the interior of the cabin. Here, the external solidity is replaced by a kitch in the style of techno outside the conservative, and inside the avant-garde. The brain does not have time to cope with such a wisdom designer formula and does not allow to fully relax at the wheel. Or, for example, climate switches are three hefty lamb. You don't need to tweer and press them. They respond to swing. First, funny, then it is a little nerving.
So, we will not dissolve the snot, distracted by the little things, and at once they immediately freeze all 258 horses. Engine H6 3.6 L is the most voluminous in the Subarovsk gamma. But this is not the only advantage. It is also characterized by a low level of vibration and excellent balancing. It is almost not audible on low revs. But even with such a vigorous engine, it is better to ride in the sports mode of automatic transmission, because the usual algorithm for the operation of the machine is too breaking. Why not do the sport basic, such as, for example, in Honda CR-V, where the machine without tip allows you to turn the engine up to 6500 revolutions per minute? True, Subaru advertisers wrote about their automatic transmissions that it is a transmission that ensures the fulfillment of any of your desire. Do not believe. I guess a lot, so nothing came out.
Matchast: Subaru Tribeca
The benefits of manual labor Check the quality of the suspension and steering control I always helped me a close left row on the Leningrad highway. We leave for the asphalt by Pokali in the dark, when the chipper is almost not visible, and if he managed to maintain the stable position of the spirit between carrier under 150 km / h and blinking distant lights, it means that this chassis is something else. And when we turn to the sidewalk with wet armpits, I want to send a sweaty shirt to marketers to the marketers let them be filled, maybe in the process of manual work something up to them and comes.
I did not get anything pleasant from ride on the new Subaru Tribeca in the left row. The steering wheel is very long, and the effort on it is always the same and does not give sense of complete control. The suspension does not completely go into comfort, it is energy intensive and keeps good roads well, but it is not good for active taxi. Course stability is also not the strongest side of it. Especially on uneven asphalt. But in general, everything is fine, no emotions ...
Only in Austin
You can stop and look into the trunk. In appearance, it will seem unusually small. This is because of the boxes hidden under the raised floor. This organizer will fit and quite conveniently survive the long-distance travel is the most different cargo. Where will we go? I see only one route to a small Texas town Austin. To drink non-alcoholic beer, listen to the musical machine.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photos of Alexander Insurance Baranova
A source: 4x4 magazine [May / 2008]
