Going to a rally Moscow - Astrakhan, we have brought together two dozen cars, crooks and long to decide, any comparison test vehicles will need to spend on the road and I get to the place. After consulting with the chief editor and the guys from the expert group, I decided to talk about a trip to the Audi Allroad, Subaru Legacy Outback and Volvo Cross Country. Despite the fact that all three machines are well known to Russian consumers and have already passed picky consumer testing on the pages of numerous national publications, our case seemed unique. Judge sami.Pochti three thousand miles to the mouth of the Volga and back have to do for the neglected road maintenance, but favored by Girls Dancing federal roads. Can be very useful here are quality cars - the comfort, dynamics and control. But upon arrival at your destination rally participants expect adventures in the Kalmyk steppe and on the roads left God and the people of uninhabited islands, scattered liberally between the fairway and sleeves in the lower reaches of the great Russian river. Sand, forest trails and wild "pier" hairy river island is the best mimic the maximum off-road, in which dares to go looking for adventure on his bumper the owner of any of the three vans terrain, caught in our full-fledged SUV trip. Let's start with the exterior of the competition. As usual, it will be thoroughly investigated and evaluated by Professor Rozanov, I will only remark that has long been a fan of station wagons in general, faster - in particular, a unique and truly, without any quotes, universal car, with which, and are all three members of our tests - and even more so. Aesthetics comfortable wanderings lives in the guise of each of these machines, and I find it difficult to make any one more appreciated. If you do not set ourselves the task crazy to choose a most beautiful woman, the most elegant suit and a very comfortable home from the list of roughly equal offers, you can breathe easy and live in harmony with yourself - you know a lot about practical shopping partners, colleagues and members of the household to take any of the These three cars with approval. And Subaru's highly appreciated by supporters of reasonable expenses and the Japanese automotive industry, Volvo - the Swedish fans angular "suitcases" who have lived at last to the Great Scandinavian round of the revolution, and Audi - well-off residents of capital cities, not thinking himself without a German car in the garage and smack report that no Mercedes, BMW or anything similar yet not released. Relatively more difficult task of the interior - in fact on the road and out of her demands for ergonomics are different from each other. But let's be realistic and admit to yourself that, despite its great opportunities, most of the time the owners of these cars spend in the depths of the big cities of the civilized and protected housing estates, occasionally climbing on real roads (owners' Reyndzh-Rover "and UAZ - "goats" Please do not roar with laughter, this is only in your mind is off-road terrain in which your car gets stuck, while others are not even there doedut!). However, always appreciating the work of the highest score ergonomists Volvo, and this time give them the extra half point. Cross Country, unlike Audi and Subaru, it does not copy the "one to one" interior "of donor» Volvo V70, and a few elegant touches - a convenient handle for the front passenger in the center console especially - emphasizes the exclusivity of this particular machine. In Allroad and Outback are all very convenient, but no different from ordinary wagon A6 and Legacy are not there. I am sure that some practical elements of decor, gently reminding the owner that he is in the exclusive vehicle for all occasions, not just in the most expensive version of the basic urban wagon just would not mix. In terms of technique and to compare estimates are less difficult to declare. Even though, as in Ingolstadt, and in Tokyo, and in Gothenburg on these mechanisms have worked best engineers, the gene pool of the gold car! Which of the engine preference? 250-strong V-shaped "Six» Allroad with two turbines - the most powerful engine in our test. And if the 0-100 km / h in 7.7 seconds, V max - 234 km / h you, for whatever reasons, are not impressive, the 350 newtons of torque arriving at 1800 rpm is the crankshaft in a minute, can not fail to respect even in the off-road diesel engines admirers! Subaru and Volvo, on the background hum of turbines Audi, look like their classmates, "smaller" - "just some" 220 and 210 "horses". Modest and dynamics with the maximum speed - 8.9 and 9.0 with, 210 and 200 km / h. Moment is enough for both cars (282 Nm at Outback and 285 Nm at Cross Country), but the Subaru boxer engine comes at a relatively high peak - to 4400 rpm. No matter how you tried to electronic aids, and off-road to this peak can only be reached through the slip. True, as soon discovers that the "Japanese" almost half the price of "German", you understand that from time to time you can afford and pobuksovat. At the very least - a few years to contain wage tractor with a satellite phone ... All three transmissions - automatic (the Allroad and Cross Country - 5-speed with manual shift, the Outback - a 4-speed with the function of cutting off the possibility of forced to include a higher gear). At this relative similarity ends and begin serious differences. Four-wheel drive from Audi with a longitudinally mounted engine - it's always His Majesty the Torsen, simple, like all brilliant, limited slip differential, always provides the optimum torque exactly the axle, where the best conditions for adhesion between wheels and road surface. Function Block interwheel falls on an electronic system EDL, running through the brakes and engine control unit. On roads and peresechenke suggesting that the car rides, not crawling, climbing, the behavior of the transmission can be evaluated on a solid top five. Subaru in all his mechanical version of the successful use viskomufty as inter-axle lock, but we found a very good machine with no lowering of the series (the latter available only with the "pen"). And thank God - because of heavy loads, inevitable in the Big Off-road, viskomufty has an obvious negative - in this highly overheated not cheap piece fails and requires replacement. In the field, not restored. But on the Outback with automatic transmission as blocking the "center" is applied dry multi-plate clutch, a process which is controlled by an intelligent circuit hydraulics. Suffice it to say that a similar scheme used by the factory Subaru World Rally team in the differential active "combat" vehicle Tommy Makinen and Petter Solberg, has proved to be extremely reliable and adequate. Volvo - «polnoprivodnik with varying degrees of success." As usual V70 All Wheel Drive, Cross Country in ordinary life is "almost 100 percent" front wheel drive car. The rear wheels are included in the job only in the case of slipping the front, and the more they are stalled, the more time the motor is sent back. The Swedes have long studied the needs of the Scandinavian-wheel drivers who are major consumers of their products, and came to the reasonable conclusion that a calm and thorough Viking-loggers do not need to be based on a rally car. Volvo to help his master in the difficult and slippery minute timed backup connection axis, and in most cases the person behind the wheel will not even notice the changing nature of the machine. However, in regimes close to critical "change of vision" by not so well and quietly, as from the recognized authorities of all-wheel drive - Audi and Subaru. Behavior of the machine becomes a little more nervous and a little less predictable, and that puts the AWD from Volvo in third place compared to the "German" and "Japanese." Not for nothing now, the Swedes agreed to cooperate with their fellow countrymen from the company Haldex, and now all cars will be equipped in Gothenburg Scandinavian clutches successfully used in the same Audi with a transverse engine. The trouble for all three transmissions - inability to dispose of in advance and fixed point. Axle locks work only after a small but slip one of the axes. Slightly twisting the wheel - and lay down on his belly. In the loose sand and clay furnace better on any of these cars not to go - guaranteed to stop and exercise or with a shovel or a tractor. Reasonable off-road as well you can afford, though not carried away by a parody of the Camel Trophy - remember that even the much more advanced, full-fledged off-road vehicles only need to storm the barriers that are impossible to overtake the party, even if the hook will not one kilometer! Speaking of suspensions, then again, I want to note the breadth of the approach of German engineers. Skate Allroad - adaptive air suspension with the possibility of a step change in clearance ranging from 14 to 21 cm! The upper limit of planks set Audi, inaccessible even to some far parquet SUVs! Subaru and Volvo have the same clearance - 20 cm, however, when driving on normal paved road, when a German express train travel along the ground, two of his classmates are still in the same height. In fairness it should be noted that not the smoothest of the Russian "issues" need "14 inches" occurs much less frequently than on the German autobahn, but the Bavarian wagon full work out really invested in it a lot of money. In the "city - the village of" Riding on the Allroad - and fast, and not - will take great pleasure in the driver! Subaru - stable, predictable, docile and harmless, like everything else that goes with the civilian automobile assembly line Fuji Heavy Industries. By driving - no complaints and comments, except one. Even with a strong desire, you can not completely turn off the system Stability Program - under certain conditions, it is automatically activated and will choke the engine and the wheels slow down faltering. Therefore, neither take turns "fan", or use the slip as an assistant on some types of terrain you will not succeed. If you just get used to it, it is no problem with riding a Legacy Outback would not happen again. Volvo to only one complaint sled - too soft and neenergoemkaya standard suspension. Because of a few loose damper settings (frankly want to hang up in the mode bar quenched fluctuations in polpriema, not two!) Have to constantly catch the car on the line, wasting too much excess energy to the management of expensive comfortable car. However, the minimum investment in the suspension (assuming that the right set of springs and shock absorbers will cost thousands of two quasi-European ones) are not strongly udorozhat Cross Country. At the same time guaranteed to relieve him of the grounds for criticism during the ride. Spend some money on the easy tuning - and it is unlikely you will change your favorite Volvo in the Audi or Subaru. Similarly, as a potential consumer Allroad will not bother visiting the dealership Swedes or Japanese - when a person is going to spend on a car 70 000 Euro, it is not interested in any 'average' family Volvo, or free by the standards of suburban celestials Subaru. And if the fashion for "just like jeeps" will decline, at this price and the consumer sector of the market in the Audi does not remain competitive. As for the Legacy Outback, then also the range that is certified with us, I recommend to pay attention to the Canadian car assembly. Among them there and sedans. The Canadian version is very well equipped for winter operation - the harsh climatic conditions in our countries are quite similar.
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