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Powerful Volvo XC90 against strong Lexus LX570
Powerful Volvo XC90 PAY against a strong SUV Lexus LX570: Saving in pleasure. Do you need a sucos SUV when there are cheaper, but better controlled premium crossovers on the market? Before the crisis, many simply had no choice, the situation obliged to ride a defiantly expensive SUV, even if I didn’t really want to. Now modesty is in fashion, and it is quite possible to transfer to a decent crossover. It's time to figure out whether the difference between two types of cars in cross -country ability is so great in order to endure the sock habits of a heavy SUV, and not enjoy the controllability of the crossover. Or maybe these almost cars are not only practical, but, sometimes, and more passing?
Body vs frame
Once I was surprised by the abilities of the BMW X5. In the forest there was a area of \u200b\u200bforest rut. X5 accelerated and slipped through it, because the bottom is flat, and the motor is powerful.
And then was the diesel Land Cruiser and, puffing strainedly, confidently stuck a belly.
But let them leave them alone. Take as a Volvo XC90 as a powerful gasoline eight 4.4 liters as a SUV, and from the SUV camp Lexus LX570 with a 5.7 -liter engine. A noble couple, given the fact that a modern citizen exist in such types of machines only because he is zombies and fell under the influence of advertising.
Volvo XC90 True crossover. Independent suspensions of all wheels carrying the body and lack of low transmission in the handout. However, he has a powerful motor and good geometric cross -country ability. The entry angle is 28 degrees. Only a long base is embarrassed, due to which you can sit on large changes in soil. It is also a pity that there is no way to disable ESP, because of which you have to choose straight routes, without active taxiing. Lexus LX570 Classic SUV. It has a frame structure, an uncertain rear bridge and a reducing gear. Plus, a very powerful motor and two murderous options: a hydraulic supplier that increases the entrance angle to 31 degrees, and the CRAWL Control system, something like a crucrent for off -road. It is impossible not to say about the large moves and articulation of the suspension, which actually exclude the hanging of one of the wheels.
On a leaky raft
We only argued before the test. In theory, a lighter crossover with good geometric patency should be more frequent and easier to go through rough terrain than a heavy SUV. But it was impossible to suppress a deep -killed mystical protest against the parquet fraternity. All the same, the SUV affects the deepest strings of the human nature, and the craving for him of a Russian person is irresistible, even if the capabilities of the SUV are not involved in real life and by 20%.
The editors agreed that for the average user, the main argument in this dispute should not be cross -country ability, which greatly depends on the skill of the pilot (some also work miracles on the monood), and endurance. In the classic, grandfather’s design, SUV is akin to the truck: the frame structure and the unreasonable rear bridge mean greater strength. It is easy to feel on frozen dirt. Lexus LX570 goes confidently along it and maintaining the desired smoothness. First blows from the soil are transmitted first to high -profile wheels with a good damping effect, then into the frame and only then, greatly losing in the dynamics, they come to the body, so that the driver almost does not feel them.
The entry angle is easy to increase to 31 degrees using hydraulic suspension
The angle of the congress is only 23 degrees. This, of course, interferes with off -road
Volvo meets bumps with low -profile rubber, which is strictly perceiving any blows, and immediately transfers them to the supporting body. The driver is bad and scary. It seems that the SUV will be scattered and will have to walk, without navigation, through a cold forest in suede moccasins.
VOLVO geometric cross -country ability is not limited to front overhang, but a long base
More trunk is longer the rear overhang. The capacity is higher
Of course, there is also the reverse side of the coin: SUV looks at the world through a thick layer of cotton wool. This is perfectly outside the road and disgusting on the asphalt. The day before, I listened to a children's radio feeding: it’s bad to be a storm on a holey raft in the open ocean, even worse, when the British ships firing you with cannon cores, something like this, I moved behind the wheel of Lexus on Novorizhskoye Shosse. Our luxury SUV flatly refused to watch the course clearly, and I was covered with heavy thoughts with my head. All this tragedy unfolded at an unreal speed of 100 km/h.
Material: Lexus LX570
Material: Volvo XC90
Village transport?
The confidence that SUV inspires on the road is deceiving. Do you think that you can always ride like a sheriff, twisting the steering wheel with a finger of one hand, and the other shaking off the cigar ash? Hell no. On the asphalt at speed you will remain calm, only clutching both hands into the steering wheel and rolling out the red pupils from tension! Many conduct Dancheligodes in this state. Look at the stream of cars, and you will notice that there are people who do not even notice this outlandish transformation that happened to them for a long time and irrevocably.
From the point of view of a sound person (which there are almost no more), the Lexus LX570 is a typical village transport, designed to carry the director of the state farm -lowering in the fields and primers. If someone thinks differently, he is just an amateur or never tried to compare this SUV with other cars. The Volvo XC90 SUV with the V8 motor, not inferior to it in dynamics, convenience, comfort, decoration, seriously surpasses in handling and course stability. Volvo is good not only in the city and on the highway, where it is much easier to cope with it, but also on light off -road. Although with the word off -road again I want to talk about Lexus. He is not afraid of anything. On it you do not need to creep around the field, look back and feel the path. He tells the owner: Davi for gas! On offside down, this car is amazing. Only I do not know a single person who would use LX570 for his intended purpose. From morning till night, these beautiful SUVs, for some reason, are plowing Moscow asphalt, and then sleep in garages. Lexus takes a girl to feel more confident, or a banker to look more solid. One of them knows how Crawl Control works and why does it stand on this machine?
Show -off or brakes?
No matter how beautiful Lexus is, and VOLVO wins in this rapeuel. KhS90 show -offs are not much smaller, and the pleasure of driving on asphalt is an order of magnitude more. Overtaking, complex turns and maneuvers in the stream are given better on the Swede. And he slows down, unlike the opponent, adequately. After the Volvo crossover, there is no desire to sit in the universal SUV Lexus. And this despite the fact that the Swede is by no means a standard in its class. So think tightly before looking down at the SUVs.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [March /2009]
