We took the test drive at once a few Lexus LX versions. Updated Lexus LX: Cut the king go off the road

It is believed that 90 percent of the Lexus LX owners will never move from asphalt. And in vain. They would have appeared more reasons to admire and be proud of their car. Because with all its image of the model for very well-secured people, this car remained one of the few today's real SUVs.

In fact, it is capable. It is enough just to be slightly exceeding the reasonable degree of pressing "gas" pedals and brakes, as you feel all the power and speed of support from the insisting electronics. If not to move this invisible trait, the chassis will reliably stabilize the car, so to speak, "mechanically". Someone believes that the possibilities of addicted rear suspension long have been exhausted? You probably did not try on the move Lexus LX.

I can do that too!

And now I will imagine what you had the opportunity to leave asphalt on this car. And even country roadwhere his "hydropneumatics" eats most of the irregularities. And even move away from the field rut ... Let's say in the snow. What for? Perhaps just from eccentricity, and maybe in the case. Not all oil and gas fields, as well as forest dealers are laid asphalt paths.

When heavy wet snow exceeds the height of the "ankle", that is, the tire profile, the capabilities of a permanent full drive may not be enough: the car is delayed by all the "body", the system icon is warning in the instrument panel currency stability and control traction. Disabling these systems and blocking the inter-axis differential improve the case, but if it does not help, we turn on the downward gear. This is done through the neutral position of the selector "Machine". Now you can confidently "plow" the snow-covered field - until it is smooth.

On projection hUD display (Head-Up Display) broadcasting information on windshield Before the driver, you can output the current speed, the navigation system elements, the name of the reproduced audio process. Those who consider unnecessary duplication of information can turn off its elements or HUD completely.

But I'm interested in a small oppiest, in which I "Okunal" test Toyota Land Cruiser Prado and Hilux. Both of them, in general, coped with this "scar" on the ground, overcoming and descent, and the rise, and actually inflection with diagonal hanging. But then there was dry autumn, and the slopes of obstacles were relatively solid. Right now…

... So there are, the slopes and the bottom of the ravine are covered with a good layer of wet snow. There is doubt: risk or not risking? It would be reasonable to grab to participate in the test of the second car, also "armed" with a full drive, but not having numerous electronic "helpers". But how would he lead himself in the field? And I would have managed to cope with the heavier "Lexus" if he bodies in the arms? Eh, the tractor would be more useful here ...

But I decide to start risky exercises without helpers and for the beginning of the "dip" lx at the very beginning of the ravine, where the depth is small. Here it is behind, it seems that the car practically did not notice him. The next descent is in the place of deeper. The same result. I choose even deeper place. Parktronic is stealing, reporting that the front bumper was obsessed with an obstacle. With difficulty, I choose from the car, it seems he hung up diagonally. Not, rear wheel It was not broken from the ground, and it can be seen how important the suspension is. And the bumper, despite the parking sensor signal, does not concern snow, although very close to it.

From the outside it seems that the car is located at an unthinkable angle, but in fact it is not so. However, and this angle would be enough for any crossover to get stuck here before the tractor arrival. In the case of "Lexus" I offer "automation" to take it upstairs. And turn on the Crawl Control mode by selecting the lowest of the "creeping" speeds. This mode is available when activating a lower row, at the same time Lexus is automatically lifted to the maximum possible height.

The car is powerfully twitching, moving short shoes. It seems, with every such impetus, it compacts heavy snow with waste tires, punching himself a rut. No, perhaps, the first speed would be more useful if we moved along the huge boulders. Here I was remembered by an off-road expedition on the tall, where such boulders met. Perhaps, in those Japanese conditions luxury SUV Could make competition English, to say his good word. In the snow, it is clearly possible to move quickly. On the second "crawling"? No, there is probably the third and even fourth!

Navigation system The Lexus LX does not affect the quality of graphics, but it is capable of fixing in its memory the track passed - even if it is not known for the details of the area. So do not be afraid to get lost in a clean field: Calling from the memory of the traveled route, you can always get back, following strictly on it.

The SUV turns out to be upstairs, and I'm going to send it down at an even coolest slope without any oops. Only for this you need to turn around, and for some reason it does not go. Ah won it! Everything rear glass Closed with green coniferous branches. It turns out that in the excitement of overcoming, I did not pay attention to the Parktronic warning signal and rested back to the young pine. Fortunately, in the young: thick branches softened contact with the tree, and there were no traces from it on the details of the car. Moral - Do not get carried away!

It is a pity that photos do not reflect all the complexity of the obstacles chosen by me. This test should be removed on the video, moreover, it skillfully, to be visible and the steepness of the slopes of the face, and the depth of spring, severe snow. And also the ease with which Lexus LX copes with these misfortunes. And, in "automatic" mode!

And in "manual"? I disable Crawl Control and from five available modes "Multi-Terraine Systems" I choose "Dirt and Snow". Now the traction is completely in my hands, it is necessary only as much as possible to dose. On the descent, the car slides in the direction, the coupling properties of the tire lacks so that on such a steep slope to get clinging for the wet snow. Theoretically, it would be possible to resort to the assistance of the assistant during the descent, but no, it is necessary ... the rise? The car confidently moves up, periodically throwing snow from under one, then from under another front wheel. Is it really flowers for him? At the last moment, further complicate the exercise - I stop at the slope. Slides down? No, miraculously keeps ... and rides from the place, continuing to get out of the hollow!

It is important to stop here, to breathe, lead to the norm of the pulse and reduce the volume of the composition "We Are the Champions". Because there are several more places ahead of us, where the assistance of the tractor may well be needed. Or maybe not only it.

In deep snow I descend to a small sandy outline. The car looks very picturesque on her shore, perhaps it is worth returning here after washing to make a beautiful staged frame. Or maybe still not worth it, because it is not easy to get up on the snow-covered slope. Even very difficult! The Crawl Control system completely "Bastuet", not wanting to move the car upstairs even on the lowest gear. I take the management of myself - and only with significant slippers tear off. Still, heavy wet snow is a cunning and strong opponent.

And he is alone! We go with the "Lexus" to steep river shores, for which you can climb and descend, using both the Crawl Control system and "manual" control. It is remembered, crossovers Mitsubishi Outlander Sport and Acura MDX with "advanced" systems of a full drive, but more dry seasons have fallen out here. "Lexus" is clearly more complicated. But he has a device that will allow me to finally determine the steepness of these very slopes in degrees. Only here I'm confused in the Media system menu and I can not call this most Multi-Terrain Monitor, simultaneously showing images from all the camcorders around the perimeter of the body, and the Krenomer. Most recently, here just just that, he highlighted automatically, and now it was killed somewhere. It's a shame ... nothing, resort to the services of a non-standard device. Below, at the river, I have a car so that my krenomeer mounted on the floor tunnel showed "zero". The oxide on the slope, the steepness grows up to 15, then up to 17 and brief up to 18 degrees. Under the wheels - sand in the snow. Crawl Control copes with the exercise without difficulty, with the selected third speed.

But that slope flew to the shadows. Another track turned out to be cooler, the device demonstrated 20 degrees and was ready to add, but the "climbing" had to be accidentally interrupted. On the sun-oriented bias, the snow was adapted, the wet clay was exposed, and the clutch winter tires Michelin was not enough, the SUV stopped the rise and began to dangerously ridge back, threatening to collapse from the break on the right ... No, dear Crawl Control, it's better to try to accomplish the descent, because if I can't prove that you did not cope with the management.

Prices for updated Lexus LX in Russia begin with 4,999,000 rubles. This amount will cost the purchase of the All-wheel drive version of Standard both with 5.7-liter gasoline and with 4.5-liter diesel engine V8. Diesel versions of Executive, Executive 1 and Executive 2 will cost, respectively, at 5,756,000, 5,881,000 and 6,017,000 rubles, gasoline Premium +, Luxury +, Luxury 21+ and Luxury 8S + are estimated at 6 154,000, 6,484,000, 6 498 000 and 6,540,000 rubles.

In general, electronic "helpers" on the roads found me before - for example, at Toyota Land Cruiser. 200 and Prado, Lexus GX, as well as models of other brands. I had to meet with those cars on which the manufacturer traditionally refuses to install such systems, as if wishing to make a compliment to the driver - everything that he can overcome will be exclusively his merit. It is interesting, it increases self-esteem, but ... put your hand on the heart, I still tend to the advantages of electronics.

Why do some people still buy SUVs? In general, the answer is obvious. Why other people buy huge cars of the Lux class, also understandable. But how to explain the association of two "opposites"? Probably, only the desire to surround yourself with luxury everywhere, even where it seemingly unthinkable. Lexus LX masterfully combines incompatible elements, while remaining almost one of the standards of comfort, it is not without pride, allows you to calculate myself to the full conqueror of off-road. Let's hope that in the next update, it will retain this unique combination, and will not be slide towards those for whom comfortable movement around the city and the highway represents the only value of the car.

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If in the design of the updated Lexus LX, the desire as far as possible is distancing from Toyota Land. Cruiser 200, previously not very peculiar to the luxury version of "Kruzka", then in terms of "iron" everything is still. The main difference, as before, is the pneumatic elements in the suspension instead of "plebeian" springs that provide good smoothness, but cannot change ground clearance. The range of this change is 15 centimeters (the lower position is to facilitate access in the parking lot), while the articulation of the suspension (roughly speaking, the height of the obstacle to which you need to call in one front wheel so that the diagonal hanging starts) reaches almost 60 centimeters. Such a "distortion" characterizing the ability of the SUV to maintain contact with the support surface, not one of the competitors cannot boast, and so that this dignity does not turn into excessive valve in turns, stabilizers transverse stability Made disconnected using hydraulic machines. The principal suspension scheme does not change for almost twenty years, since the big Land Cruiser, after the "younger" model Prado transferred to an independent front twig, leaving the back of an archaic continuous bridge. In immunity, a separate frame remained, on which all chassis units, body and force aggregateMoreover, it was the eight-cylinder engine that was largely "to blame" in the abandonment of the front axle. And now both "two hundred" and LX are equipped with exclusively "eights", albeit different. For example, gasoline aggregates belong to one UR family with direct injection, varying inlet tract length and chain drive drive with variable phases, but on the Toyota sold in Russia, 4.6-liter 1ur-Fe is raised, and a more powerful 5.7-liter 3ur-Fe. But the first turbodiesel used on Lexus LX (and not in all markets, but only in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East), differs from "Toyotovsky" only at 272 liters. from. against 249 liters from. and pressure pressure. 4.5-liter Biturbo 1VD-FTV with variable geometry Turbine and the Common Rail system is one of the first V8 in the world, working on heavy fuel, and in economy it is significantly inferior to modern "Downsayzing" diesel engines, but greatly exceeds gas engine. Before, if before, seeing Lexus LX, it was possible to say for sure that his owner does not save on the fuel, then from all over it was forced to doubt it. The diesel version could have an even more modest appetite, if it was equipped with a new eight-speed "automatic" AISIN WARNER TR-80, which lexus LX570 received. Almost the same boxes are used on Audi Q7, Volkswagen Touareg. and others, but they have a torque restriction, and he has 650 nm against 530 nm at Lexus 450D gasoline motor. Therefore, there is an old AB60F box of the same manufacturer, not so advanced with a smaller range of gear ratios (5.64 against 7.16), but more "omnivorous" and not doubting in their reliability. Full drive in all modifications, as before, heads transfer case With a chain transmission, a demultiplier and self-locking interstitial differential Torsen, by default, 60 percent of thrust transmitting to the rear axle. The role of blocking inter-wheeled differentials, like most modern SUVs, play brake mechanisms, "boning" on the electronics command of the buxering wheels.

Five centuries ago, people were confident that the land is flat. 50 years ago, everyone thought that the SUV will be muddled. A month ago, the financiers predicted that the barrel of oil would not fall below 30 dollars ... Yes, the crisis is not best time To buy expensive equipment, however, contrary to the logic of the sale of the premium-segment cars are less than others. And often grow! For example, over only December last year, more than 700 SUVs Lexus LX were sold. New Cadillac Escalade. I found about the same shoppers for six months. Excellent starts! And only a veteran Infiniti QX80 turns on the spot: 771 Sold by an instance for 12 months of 2015.

Diesel Lexus? Already reality. Sales of modernized sales start in Russia sUV Lexus LX 450D, under the hood of which 4.5-liter turbodiesel V8 is installed. To emphasize the importance of such a new clothes called by a refined appearance and an improved interior. As well as the introduction of the whole populads of systems active security. The flagship of the off-road line The Japanese presented there, where the luxury SUVs meet more often than Taxi cars ... in Dubai.

A little more than half a century ago, the then head of our country with a high rostrum called "to catch up and overtake" America for all economic indicators, and at the same time, and this is a trifle! - Build by 1980 communism. Communism, which is obvious, was built and was not, but we already, in fact, caught up and, it seems, soon run away - in any case, in terms of the LEXUS brand.

What are the children of some parents who appeared at the same time endowed with uniform characteristic features, What is there - very similar externally? Sisters, brothers, twins? No, it's Toyota Land Cruiser 200 and Lexus LX570.

Superior is all the same LX, but with a seriously tuned exterior. Home "Fishka" - gigantic, monstrous grille of the radiator! Yes, it's hard to believe in it, but they managed to make it even more.

Stylistically lattice LX Superior repeats this in the new flagship sedan Ls. It consists of a huge number of faces and intersections of surfaces. For LX I do not pass, however, it is done in LS so that with each version of the lighting, the machine with such a grill looked differently - at dusk, with bright sunlight, in the evening, at night, in the morning, in the rain, snow, etc. The light is refracted on the edges of the lattice and, accordingly, it looks different each time.

The next point is low body kit. LX with him looks as severe and brutally. And it causes light nostalgia on tuned SUVs in NFS Underground 2. In the game they also had very low inkles. But naturally, for this beauty you need to pay practicality. With low bumpers frame SUVWith legendary passability, turns into the most ordinary urban crossover. About the adventures on an offrophide on such LX can be forgotten.

Technically Superior - Ordinary LX with a frame, continuous rear bridge, hydropneumatic suspension and old school atmospheric V8 volume of 5.7 liters and with a capacity of 367 liters. from.

And, in fact, this is a very age model. Given all the restyards who survived this car, and they were already officially two - in 2012 and in 2015, the current LX is produced since 2007. 11 years!

The version of Superior, by the way, on the scale of external changes could well be for restyling. But Lexus presented it simply as the maximum complete set of an existing SUV, leaving the design of versions easier to rest.

So, 11 years old - extremely serious age for any car. As a rule, the sale of the cars raised with retirement on the retirement of their life can be described as follows: the sluggish interest of the public, frantic discounts and stocks, just to convince someone to acquire the morally obsolete iron, the transition of even the most loyal customers to competitors ... Lexus himself I got into this trap with the LS of the previous generation, which lasts on the conveyor approximately as much as the current LX is currently produced at the moment. With one difference: if you do not take into account the sale at the level of statistical error, you can see that Ls is not needed literally to anyone, and LX for 2017 was implemented 5400 pieces. And this is an indicator of tremendous success for a 11-year-old SUV with a serious price tag.

The main advantage of this car is how it rides on Russian roads. And she goes amazingly. During the test drive, I did not meet any pit, even the deepest, unclean and harsh, which could force the tandem frames and pneumatic suspension to tell you that this pit on the road was still. By soft moves and comfort on bad roads LX - one of best carswho exist in the world at all. Grader, gravel, and just a bad asphalt in the walkers and waves - at speeds up to 100-120 km / h, the turning of the road surface will not be disturbed. Also, it is impossible not to note excellent noise insulation.

Hydropneumatic suspension has a variable stiffness, and for driving around the city it is better to translate it into Sport mode, because in Comfort or Normal mode (the suspension hardness settings they differ from them, even though it is difficult to notice) risks are risks - rolls, especially if you have moved to LX A more passenger option may even scare.

As a gearbox on a gasoline version LX, an 8-speed hydrotransformer "automatic" is used. And on diesel modification LX450D 6-speed box. I really like how this car rows from the spot. When you let go of the brake and slightly press gas, everything is so smoothly, so air, and most importantly - silently, what the feeling that you are not on the car at all. At least, not by car with almost six-liter V8 under the hood, but on the "green" electrocare, rather. Interestingly, there is no such effect on the diesel version. That car is much harder to touch.

Interior

The Superior salon is practically no different from the standard LX, if for the differences, do not consider aluminum lining on the pedal. Two new types of veneer appeared: from the authentic Japanese shimamokaya tree and from a matte walnut.

Continuing the topic of interior decoration with wood: I will not get tired of scolding LX for unheated wooden inserts on the steering wheel. Considering that the rim of the Baranki consists of a tree by more than 50%, it turns out that heating the steering wheel, but it is no matter how. Of course, in everything you can find positive side: Sitting behind the wheel and leading a huge SUV with two fingers, you fully match the image of the owner of life. True, no one knows what you do it from the cold.

The back row is convenient and spacious. The chairs are separated by a functional armrest, which is located climate control control buttons (it is 4-zone in the machine), heated and seat ventilation. There are adjustments of the tilt backrest and foot space.

From the flaws - not a single USB connector from behind. Considering that the car survived the last restyling relatively recently, in 2014, it is very strange that the slots for gadgets were not added.

Of course, a 220-volt socket in the trunk protrudes in the role of a weak excuse, however, it is designed to connect, for example, the grill, having left for a picnic. And use it for charging the gadgets of passengers of the second row is uncomfortable. In the case of a laptop, the wire stretches on top, through the heads of other passengers, and the cable for charging the phone of standard length to the socket in the trunk is not elementary.

Returning to the chairs and "stuffing": the second series of Lexus LX, despite the heating, the ventilation of the seats and the presence of screens in the top versions, alas, not enough luxury. Do not get me wrong: I don't approve at all that it is uncomfortable for 7 million rubles in the flagship SUV for 7 million rubles. Exactly the opposite: This SUV is phenomenally comfortable. And the smoothness of the course and quality of noise insulation, especially on russian roads, easy to make a fight classic cars Big Chief - Executive Sedanam.

That is why the lounge zone suggests. Of course, not in basic configuration, and as an option, the separate seats of the second row with a fixed central console between them and individual electrically regulations for each of them in LX would be in demand.

However, I will venture to assume that in Lexus aware of the essence of the problem. And even in the current generation of LX changes is not foreseen (Superior version is obviously the last chord on updating an elderly SUV), let's look at the interesting concept car, which was introduced at the end of 2017.

It is called LF-1 limitless. And it can be regarded as a vision of designers and LEXUS engineers, which should be the flagship SUV in the future. True, the concept, according to the release, is not a real SUV, but a crossover, and the height of the roof is only 160 cm, and in general, it is merchandise and looks like x6, but it does not matter. Do not pay attention to the tricks of marketers and flirting with a new audience. We all perfectly understand that the flagship of the SUV segment of Lexus is a frame SUV, and otherwise cannot be. The main thing is the other. The main thing is that this car is in.

And inside we see split seats of the second row with a console and many screens. Of course, of course, sports buckets will go to the series, but a hint of how the LX development vector in the next generation is given.

Upgraded Sough-Roam Lexus LX. Price - from 4 999 000 rubles.

Lexus LX 570 / Lexus LX 450D

• Length / Width / Height / Base 5065/1980/1910/2850 mm
• Radag volume (VDA) 701 L.
• Curly / full mass 2585-2815 / 3350 kg
• Engine: gasoline, V8, 32 valves, 5663 cm³; 270 kW / 367 hp at 5600 rpm; 530 N · m at 3200 rpm / diesel, V8, 32 valves, 4461 cm³; 200 kW / 272 hp at 3600 rpm; 650 N · m at 1600-2800 rpm
• Overclocking time 0-100 km / h 7.7 C. / 8.6 C.
• Maximum speed 220 km / h / 210 km / h
• Fuel / fuel reserve AI-95/93 L / DT / 93 l
• Fuel consumption: urban / country / mixed cycle 20.2 / 10.9 / 14.4 l / 100 km / 11.2 / 8.5 / 9.5 l / 100 km
• Transmission four-wheel drive; A8. / four-wheel drive; A6.

Good sit

But I was warned about the cunning of the veryans. The surface looks dense, but it is almost a bit of disturbing the "fertile layer", how many are tightened into your capture. I called Multi-Terrain SELECT system, matching work electronic assistants and brake mechanisms- I started with the "sand" and graduated from the "stones and mud". Useless! The newly new AUTO intelligent mode helped. Naturally, long blocked inter-seed differential And the downstream row is included - but what is the sense?

Or maybe lift the body to play with anchor? Fortunately hydropneumatic suspension 4 Wheel-AHC allows you to do this. When we got up, polite pneumatics lowered 150 mm - for the convenience of entering output. I press the button: LX lifts the front axis by 50 mm, and the rear - by 60 mm, increasing the already solid 225-millimeter ground clearance.

Lexus, as if a camel, surveyed from his knees, and I watch the process due to cameras of a circular review. From now on, Multi-Terrain Monitor not only gives a panoramic overview, but also looks under the bottom. And the front camera is completely swivel. Thanks to this, the picture on the display is always a horizontal and the driver better feels the position of the car. But the use of this movie is now zero.

Fortunately, the cellular communication takes here: I called - and the help is in a hurry.

New firmware

And how well everything began! On the Raby Avenue, Dubai False for all brilliant-large-scale and gorgeous-sickened local people greedily accompanied by the running strips of LEDs in headlights and a huge falseradiatic grille, which is about to swallow the car ahead.

Restyling? The manufacturer insists that it is " new model" Truth is somewhere in the middle. LX aggregates still rest on a powerful frame, and in the appearance of the machine, the sample of 2007 is guessed, and its upgraded version of the 2012 sample. Nevertheless, untouched parts on the steel body remained, little reminds of the same car and in the cabin.

In one of the versions, the interior is made in the amazing combination of beige leather and matte walnut. I have not seen any more worthy and stylish finish in any Lexus. At the same time, according to the long-standing samurai tradition, the seat cushion, for nothing that it is with a new profile, short. Yes, and the adjustment of the lumbar stop is absent - and this, alas, cannot be corrected by electric regulations for ten parameters.

Age imposes technological restrictions, so LX failed to equip door closers - despite the fact that they are in the arsenal of the main competitors. The multimediasystem management requires addiction, and the Joystick Remote Touch does not have no yes and mischievous by the right menu item - it is not easy with him on the go.

In Japanese cars even high level It is often felt by a slight inconsistency of some solutions. So now it seems to me that the climate control unit designed the laboratory x, the Multimedia worked experts y, and the Brigade Z was treated on the interface of the riding functions. Separately everything functions excellent, but the sensations of the whole lacking.

However, these quits are blocked against the background of pleasant news. For example, the CLIMATE CONCIERGE CLIMATE CLIMATE CONCERE CONCERE CONCIER CONCRESSES CONTROL WITH CONTROL WITH WARNING AND SEATURE VENT, and the sensors in rear seats: If there is no one in the second row, then why waste energy in vain? Very by the way, and a ten-lean color projection display, issuing among other things navigation tips on the windshield. A different decorated front panel boasts aluminum clock and a 12.3-inch display, which can broadcast different images for the driver and for the front passenger. The seats of the second row provided the electric drive shifting them forward-back by 89 mm, and entertain the travelers of the monitors high definition With a diagonal of 11.6 inches and the Mark Levinson audio system, forming analogue of the home theater version 5.1.