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Bam-bam-hullabaloo! No, Pilot in order, we just rush by Karelian roads, built probably in the middle of last century and then never knew the repairs. And it's busily crunching it in the trunk? Oh, it's just a lunch-box, carefully packed representatives Honda in a wicker basket. It's time to stop and snack on the shore of a picturesque lake. Kill three birds with one stone: dinner, enjoy the scenery and cross-check of the new crossover from Honda. When it comes to fighting Trying to play it rough I will take you twenty rounds I'm just too tough, too tough The Rolling Stones. Too Tough beautiful! Slender pines, mirror smooth surface, the sand, almost vertical wall of rock a little further and ... Honda Pilot. Munching a sandwich, and I think to myself that, oddly enough, the crossover is harmoniously integrated into this primeval landscape. Especially good Pilot combined with all sorts of mountains and Kamenyuki - the same angular, with sharp edges, it was as if carved from a monolith. I recall the words spoken by the representative of Honda's presentation: "Working on the design of Pilot, we were inspired by the look of the laptop Toughbook Panasonic". And, although similar. There is both something outdoorsy setting, kondovoe to view. You know, as they call Toughbook line of laptops computer scientists? "Rugged". Well, the road of Karelia - a great place to check whether all like a laptop neubivaemy new pilot. Lunch is over, but rather on the wheel! Interior continues the theme of Pilot toughbook. This is a deliberately awkward, with sharp edges, monumental. The center console - a real block. "Vizmesh in hand - maesh vesch!" No wonder that it easily accommodated and climate control, and "music", and a huge cave of information display, and control lever five-step "automatic" and the imposing air nozzle, and a bottomless capacity for things. Putting into it, such as a telephone or a pack of cigarettes, then have to get them to climb up there with his feet, armed with a flashlight! Various kinds and volume of boxes, cup holders, shelves and drawers - a feature interior Pilot. They are everywhere: at the door, on both sides of the front, center, in a seat in the trunk, and God knows where else. Special attention - the center console. In closing the box-like arm will fit a bucket of potatoes. Is there and jack AUX-devices and 12-volt socket (it seems to connect that same torch, if something is lost). But that's not all. There's also a huge bay with a sliding shutter. When coming up with design, hondovtsy looked at the laptop, there is a source of inspiration were, perhaps, shutters! If the chairs were not equipped with ISOfix, then the baby might well have been put here, after removing the cup holders and peregorodki.V configuration easier (Elegance) chairs with fabric upholstery and steering wheel - plastic, for vehicles of that class, of course, strange. Paying the 100 000 rubles and get a complete set of Pilot Executive, salon dressed in the skin, and an additional vehicle acquires such nice options like sunroof, powered front seats with memory for driver, power liftgate, parking sensors with rear view camera and the shutter on the second row of seats . To sit comfortably. Adjustment range (even in the mechanical version of Elegance) is sufficient for tall drivers. I liked that the front seats well supported by the shoulders. Over 100 km of broken asphalt Karelian I never rigged seat. Landing is not as high as in most SUVs, which allows better feel and mashinu.Ponravilsya wheel. Cross-section and size, in my opinion, optimal. Three translucent dial instrument panel with red needles perfectly readable, even though they look a bit like a child against the background of all this adult neotesannosti. Bam-bam-hullabaloo! I stared at the dairy equipment. Again caught a major pothole. Broken asphalt Karelia does not relax. Potholes on the Pilot better to go around. Honda engineers are not telling the whole story, just say: "Pilot - no SUV!" It's true. Suspension practically passenger - stand McPherson front and back Short-mnogorychazhka that perfectly clear when hanging out. The combination of breakdowns on uneven with sharp edges and swing on the gentle waves of particularly heavy toll on the rear passengers. Once back, after a couple of tens of kilometers, I realized that feel forgotten feeling from childhood - I was swayed! But seat belts in the second row of three. Three and the last. Pilot is positioned as an eight-. But if the middle row is really comfortable, even three, if you sit in front tall people, then "in the trunk of the" three guy will be close. Two - still all right, but the third is clearly unnecessary. Yes, and access to third row is difficult. But adding them, you can get a huge luggage compartment. And how pleasant it is plenty of space to owners of conventional sedans. Stop. What does the sedan, you ask? It's simple. The fact that marketers see the Honda Pilot owners who went to the usual dynamic sedan (Accord for example), but who lacked the aggressive appearance and great interior space. It is emphasized that the Pilot does not obdelen.Konechno dynamics, fast new crossover from Honda will not name, but 257 power output 3.5-liter V6 is quite enough for moderate overclocking two-ton giant. Another engine for the Pilot is not provided. V6 paired with a five-step "machine" works poamerikanski calmly and slowly - setting the AKP (as, incidentally, and suspension) for the Russia remained the same as for the overseas market. In response to prozhatuyu floor the gas pedal should still welcome a nice acceleration, but with a noticeable delay. You can, of course, pressing the overdrive, to take away from "box" a couple of upper stages, but especially it does not add playfulness. A Pilot flies in a straight line adequately, and the long wheel does not prevent. Smoothly, quietly, comfortably, without jerks, jerks and bustle. Spurred the engine, suspension and transmission are barely audible for a good sound insulation. Helps in this and know-how, Honda - Noise Reduction System Active Noise Cancellation, which reproduces the sounds of the speaker audio system at the time of protivofaze.Vo "Roadside Picnic" which I described at the outset, we decided to see what a Pilot off road . You know, the NBA was like a big white centerline, a player Boston Celtics - Bill Lambir. Great, but could not jump. It was said that he could not jump over a stamp album. Pilot something like this basketball player. Appearance is a serious, big wheels, body faceted. I'm just too tough, as they sing Rolling Stones! But in the mud in the mountains so it is better not to climb. Transmission VTM-4, like suspension, apparently this is not calculated. Diagonal display at the rear wheel too quickly unloaded off the ground, and here comes into play VSA. But it podtormazhivet wheel one-track, allowing the dig. Developers were right - no SUV, but a large and aggressive-looking avtomobil.Nu that, if confirmed in absentia Pilot assigned him the title of "rugged"? As the amount of points, perhaps, yes, looks crossover vengeance cries about it, picks up the interior, the huge size command respect and confidence in their abilities, motor and gearbox are not surprising, but not annoying. Suspension and four-wheel drive rustic? Thus spoke the same: "No SUV, but only a crossover." See the difference? By SVEDENIYuRespublika Karelia is situated in the north-western Russia, is part of the Northern economic district of the Russian Federation. By the size of Karelia takes the 5th place among the republics of the Russian Federation on the territory comparable to Greece or Bulgaria, and four times greater than Switzerland, Denmark or the Netherlands. In the west Karelia borders on Finland in the south - the Leningrad and Vologda regions in the north - from Murmansk, in the east - from the Arkhangelsk region. In the north-east of the country washed by the White Sea. The western border of Karelia coincides with the state border of Russia and Finland and has a length of 723 km.V Karelia live four indigenous people: Karelia, Finnish, Russian and Veps. Karelia - one of the most beautiful parts of our country. Surprisingly addictive and good northern nature with pristine lakes, mountain rivers and waterfalls, virgin forests and bottomless blue sky. Body and bezopasnostV basis - the body of modern Acura MDX. Front - almost identical. Further difference is due to a greater wheelbase Pilot and a rear suspension architecture (Pilot uses a simplified version of the all-wheel drive transmission - VTM-4, also set by the American pickup Ridgeline). The body consists of 52% of high-strength steel. It was tougher in the static predecessor by 41% in torsion - 15%. Using technology ACE (Advanced Compatibility Engineering) allows maximum absorb impact energy in a collision. Front of the car is loyal to the pedestrians. And all three rows of seats are equipped with side airbags. There is a machine and active head restraints, and fixing ISOfix on the second row and the right seat of the third. Roominess salonaEta diagram illustrates how grown in size and new Pilot at the expense of what was possible to increase interior space vehicle. Engine V6 3.5 SOHC VCMMotor Pilot in common with powertrains Honda Legend only the engine block. Engine Legend much more technological, has two camshafts on each head and develops 295 hp Motor Ridgeline is similar to the parameters is also equipped with i-VTEC, but its arsenal is not the original system of VCM (Variable Cylinder Management), and the Pilot it is. VCM allows in certain modes automatically turn off the cylinder (2 or 3), thereby reducing fuel consumption. ProhodimostNesmotrya fairly large angles to the Congress and out, and the geometric cross-Pilot is considerably limited long wheelbase (2780 mm), small for this type of vehicle ground clearance (203 mm) and absolutely nevnedorozhnoy suspension (McPherson - front mnogorychazhka - back) with very short strokes.