Toyota Tundra test drive Standard cabin since 2006 pickup
Absolute rogue
Traveler Vlad Minin is familiar to our readers on his exciting trip from Moscow to Klyuchevskaya hill in Kamchatka on the absolutely standard Mini Cooper S Countryman. A year and a half passed, and we again had an occasion to meet, because Vlad drove the whole country again. This time from east to off -road. And this time the car was more serious than Toyota Tundra, which was tuning in the Performance Cars Devolro studio. We talked and climbed the mountains. A giant tundra on a lifted pendant and 35-inch wheels gently rolls along the Novorizhskoye Shosse. A mighty V8 with a volume of 5.7 liters cheerfully accelerates the car, despite the huge weight and wheels with great rolling resistance. Even Land Cruiser and Escalade remain somewhere below. At the sight of a power bumper with four spotlights fixed on it, the transport flow instantly parted before us. Here it is, it turns out, what a feeling of absolute security.
Well, tell me, where was you, what did you see?
Over the year and a half, I crossed all the Alaska at the snowmobile and all of Russia by car.
You wanted to cross Bering Strait on a snowmobile? Planned to equip it with pontoons to improve buoyancy
Yes, but it turned out that it is very difficult to organize such a trip. After all, I would have to cross the state border, which cannot be made unaccompanied by power structures. And when they calculated how much their services would cost, it turned out that my budget would not pull this. But the idea of \u200b\u200bthe expedition on the snowmobile remained, and I decided to cross all of Alaska.
Was it difficult?
Incredible! The temperature is -50, the strongest wind, the toros also had to force the river.
Without pontoons?
Without! You give a larger gas and fly forward over the river, hoping that the other shore will be gentle and it will be possible to climb it. So what to do? Behind hundreds of kilometers of real hell, and you cannot return there. But it is not so difficult to move on water as on ice, if you do not release gas, then everything will be fine, but the ice is insidious. Once I failed
Have you been saved?
Well no. He called the rescuers, they circled over me, but I asked them not to intervene until I understand that the situation is hopeless. The wormwood formed exactly at the hitch of a snowmobile and trailer, but several hours of ordeal and I got out.
In Russia with love After Alaska, a trip to Tundra probably seemed easy walk?
Honestly, after my trip on a motorcycle through West Africa, I am no longer afraid of anything. At least, I know that they will not eat me (laughs) in 6 weeks drove 10,000 miles.
What was the idea of \u200b\u200bthe trip?
There were two ideas. Firstly, in villages and small Siberian towns, I gave local schools stationery, notebooks, books. I was struck by how it surprised people. It seems that there they have long ceased to believe that someone could do good disinterestedly. And at the same time, there are still no bitterness in people, that's what pleases! Well, the second goal is the collection of material for the photo exhibition Russia today. History in faces. I was looking for ordinary Russian men, real heroes, for whom difficult work, sometimes in extreme conditions, is life.
Meanwhile, we move from the highway to the side of the road, and Vlad directs Toyota to the storm of a huge pile of land. It seems that only that caterpillar tractor, which erected this mountain, visited us at its top. The car soars upwards, in the windshield nothing but clouds and the sky, the eight rumbling, and Tundra calmly climbs up. At the top of the hill, the car freezes, and Minin examines the surroundings.
Was the roads difficult? I ask, although after such an assault it is already clear that there are no insurmountable obstacles for this machine.
Not too much. Basically, I was driving along country roads, although there were small rivers, and swamps, and careers. But my speed on the lane rarely fell below 100120 km/h, so the car got it. Additional headlights fell off, the defense bent, the silencers were torn off, but there were no technical problems.
What are the most vivid sledges?
My childhood dream came true, I rolled on Blaza! I also rolled on a walking excavator, unless, of course, the word applied to it rolled (laughs).
On the water like dishes
Having taken a photo on the top of the earth mountain, we go down and go to the cross route, which is located opposite the pyramid, but due to repairing the bridge, the path to it is blocked. Tundra crawls along a narrow path, falls young trees with a powerful bumper, periodically hangs two wheels, but stubbornly rushing forward. Moreover, it is completely not noticeable that the monster from Devolro is experiencing some difficulties. Many scold Tundra for an excessively soft frame. It really shows how much the body is shifted relative to the cabin, but all the doors and windows open! This is the case when the correctly selected rigidity of the frame for twisting increases the crossing of bridges.
Finally we rest against a small stream. A couple of seconds for thought, and the mighty roller rollers are already chasing a muddy wave in front of them. That morning, we could not find any serious obstacles: slopes, clay shores, streams, leales all of them for this machine that seeds. And from behind the steering wheel you do not feel the true power of the car. Just leaving the salon and seeing what kind of buyaks you just broke through, you understand all its potential.
What are the plans now?
In August, I will pass all over America on an old muscular car, in the fall I will go on a trip around the Cigarette high -speed boat with a capacity of 2000 liters. s., Well, next year I want to try to go around the whole ball on the KAMAZ. Now the negotiations with the Chelnin residents are now. I want to take them from them a Dakarovskoy technician, convert it so that it could live in it for two weeks autonomously, and drive through all continents. At the same time, in large cities I will get up with a camp, show films about Russia, introduce local residents with our culture, history, nature.
It seems to me that Vlad will succeed. He is an absolute rogue: it will pass everywhere, overcome all obstacles, withstand any trials.
Toyota Tundra 5.7 Crew max devolro
With all its monstrous form and outstanding cross -country ability, this pickup was not subjected to such a big tuning. The initial data of this machine are as follows: the standard body, the length of the wheelbase is 3701 mm, the 5-seater four-door Crew Max cabin, the flagship engine V8 I-FORCE volume of 5.7 liters, which issues 381 liters. With. and 544 Nm. In the Performance Cars Devolro studio located in Miami, the car was increased by 6 inches (14.7 cm) clearance. It was possible to achieve this by installing new racks in front and spacers for the rear springs. Pact stability stabilizers became thicker, and the place of standard wheels took 20-inch discs with 3512.50 dimensions put on them. To increase the range of the machine in the center of the wheelbase, an 180-liter gas tank was put. Standard bumper was replaced by power, and two powerful eyelets on the back, and the Warn electric win with a traction force is 4500 kg in front.
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