Subaru Tribeca test drive since 2007 SUV

Subaru Tribeca Car Test drive, 2006

Tribeca is the abbreviated name of several chic streets in New York. By analogy, in Russia the car of the same name could well have the name Subaru Rublevka or Subaru Arbat. At the first acquaintance, the car is similar to a young girl from a very rich family, which nature has not gifted with innate beauty, but dad's money allows you to skillfully mask all the shortcomings and emphasize dignity. And only with closer communication you understand that it is not like that, she does not disdain to play football with the boys on a snowy field, and will never let down in a difficult situation. And in the form, as it turns out later, there is still some kind of highlight, which, despite the appearance that does not correspond to the standard of glossy beauty, still allows you to fall in love with it.
Let a slightly funny appearance slightly violate the overall integrity of the presentation of the car, but the originality, the unlike other machines of the clear trump card of the Tribeca model. This Subaru is more like a SUV, but a hypertrophied bite family minivan or even a station wagon. When you sit in the salon, you are surprised at a rather low ceiling. But on the highway you immediately feel the advantage of a low car growth. It seems that the car simply bothers into the road surface, and it is simply impossible to embarrass her or knocking her down from the course. At a speed of 190-200 km/h, the driver receives exclusively pleasure from maneuvers, there are no cranes and swinging the car. By the way, the maximum speed of Tribeca according to documents is 195 km/h, and a traditionally opposite motor with a volume of 3.0 liters and a capacity of 245 hp. Allows you to achieve it without squeezing the last juices out of the car. In general, the dynamics of this SUV leaves the most pleasant impression, you do not feel like a statist on the highway.
The classic all -wheel drive Subaru has more than once a considerable number of compliments, but anyway, every time the car on a snow -capped road enters a steep turn like along the rails it pleases and is a little surprising. Let recognized grands like Toyota Land Cruiser be able to compete with patency, but this was not the goal of manufacturers. Anyway, when you get out of town, on some abandoned field, in order to leave it, you need to make an effort on yourself, because it is so pleasant to plow the snow-covered virgin land with four eighteenth-diameter disks. Yes, and accidentally a bump or fossa, the suspension will swallow almost imperceptibly for the driver.
But if, according to their sports achievements, this master can upset only the most zealous critics who hoped to see Ferrari, dressed in the skin of a compact SUV, then with the inner world everything is much more complicated.
Apparently, the dad’s money still ruined the child a little, and she stopped paying attention to other people.
For the idea of \u200b\u200bdesigning a salon, developers can only say thanks and put a solid five. The futuristic, even slightly alien design of all important elements of the interior makes the machine even more unusual and attractive. That's just the practical side of the question, the engineers seem to have treated less zeal than aesthetic. Firstly, it is not clear how on an SUV, albeit not the largest, maybe such a small glove compartment. A folder with an insurance policy is hard to fit into it, and some useful little things for a suburban trip will not fit exactly.
And the climate control knobs? Perhaps it would be more logical to make them completely spinning around its axis. The fact that they turn only on a very small angle creates certain inconvenience. The same goes for the touch screen. The choice of buttons in which you can poke your fingers is clearly small. But to switch the track or radio station is real only from the radio or using the switches installed on the steering wheel. In addition, many front passengers were sincerely upset that there are very few adjustments on their seat: only back and forth and the corner of the back.
As it turned out, on a long trip, landing is sometimes not the most important thing. A very useful thing, especially if you have small children or annoying friends, this is a DVD player. Just understand how exactly it is necessary to manage it, it is not easy if there is a menu on the disk, then it cannot be left further. Perhaps the remote control is intended for these purposes, but on the test car this interior element so necessary in this situation could not be detected.
And yet, not being the standard of the car, Tribeca immediately has it, promising to become a best friend who can support almost any endeavors. Well, whether it is worth paying for such fidelity to 63,180 dollars here, as they say, everyone chooses a woman, religion, and road.
 

 
Nikolai Kavvozdkin
Autonews.ru

A source: Drom.ru