Топ Гир 14 сезон 6 серия «Range Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser, Suzuki Jimny»
Обзор серии. Специальный выпуск в Боливии: Трое ведущих Топ Гир отправляются в Южную Америку в леса Боливии. Они используют подержанные внедорожные автомобили, купленные в Боливии менее, чем за £3500 каждый. Участники начинают путешествие на берегу Амазонки, где они оказывается в джунглях без вещей и раскрывают друг перед другом свои фобии: Ричард боится насекомых, Джеймс – высоты, а Джереми – ручного труда. После длительного «ничегонеделания», ведущие Топ Гир наконец получают свои машины: Range Rover, Suzuki SJ413 и Toyota Land Cruiser. Машины привозят на плоту, который оставляют недалеко от берега. Команде Топ Гир необходимо передвинуть плот к берегу. Джереми начинает прокладывать путь через заиленные участки реки. Вместе с Ричардом они вытягивают Range Rover. Вытянув машины с плота не совсем аккуратно, ведущие сталкиваются с проблемами уже на старте. В первой части задания участники рубят лес и сражаются со змеями и насекомыми. Во время этого занятия в двигателе Джереми было сломано несколько крыльев вентилятора, что заставило его позже прорубить дырки в капоте для дополнительной вентиляции. Кларксон пытается ехать вдоль небольшого оврага, но терпит неудачу. Мэй хочет помочь коллеге с помощью домкрата, но это окончательно сносит машину в овраг. Поэтому Ричарду приходится тянуть обе машины своих напарников на место старта. Следующее задание, которое получает троица Top Gear: сделать свои машины способными пересечь реку, включая нестандартные для этой цели материалы: тампоны Tampax для водонепроницаемого бака с топливом и презервативы Durex для сухости двигателя. Ричард совершает переправу без проблем. У Джереми глохнет двигатель, Мэй пытается ему помочь и также застревает посреди реки. Выбравшись на сушу, команда Топ Гир едет в гору по чрезвычайно узкой дороге под названием «Death Road». Из-за страха высоты Джеймс полу-серьёзно угрожает снести голову тому, кто хотя бы слегка его толкнёт. Джереми сталкивается с большой опасностью, пытаясь разминуться с машиной на узкой дороге. Край дороги начинает осыпаться под колёсами Кларксона. Но Ричард и Джеймс не бросают коллегу в беде, и все трое успешно завершают задание. За несколько миль до конца путешествия дорога приводит участников к песчаным дюнам. Это побережье Тихого океана Caleta Los Verdes. Но трое ведущих Топ Гир и тут находят приключения на свою голову.
Toyota Land Cruiser review
The dependable gun dog of Car World for over six decades. Capable and trustworthy, the mighty Land Cruiser has been the Pavlovian off-road purchase for everyone from dune-bashing Sheikhs to Welsh sheep farmers for as long as, well, as long as we can remember. But where pretty much every other car in the class has got with the times, succumbed to button-free dashes, monocoque chassis architecture and soft-touch materials, the Land Cruiser is selfishly abstaining from a full-blown and thorough 21st-century overhaul.
The current model is the same as the one introduced in 2009, just with minor refinement tweaks and functional aesthetic changes that don’t give a hoot about making the thing pretty. It’s still a body-on-frame chassis with a solid rear axle but there’s now a new workhorse ‘Utility’ spec complete with steelies, minimal options and an interior you can wipe down with an industrial sized anti-bacterial, multipurpose kitchen wipe. That’s the bottom rung of the ladder, hitting the road at £32,750. But you can wade through the ‘Active’, ‘Icon’ and the confidently-titled top-spec ‘Invincible’ trims that’ll have you knocking on the door of £60k. Which is where you quickly question the LC’s credentials and quality against its competitors.
Even so, that doesn’t make it any less of an icon. Where Germany has the G-Wagen (now G-Class) and Britain had the Defender, Japan has the Land Cruiser. Just like its peers, it has almost unimpeachable off-road abilities. This has made it the favoured four-wheeled flavour of the UN. Why? Because they never break; there’s a reason why the outback is littered with the carcasses of old Land Rovers and not broken Toyotas. Even being built to Toyota’s high standards (and the concept of a 25-year service life) some of the plastics don’t feel worthy of the car’s near £60k price. They’re fine in a cheap Prius, but not here. So if plushness is something you’re looking for in an off-road seven-seater, the Disco may be your bag. If you’re willing to sacrifice that sacred reliability, that is.
Road Test: Toyota Land Cruiser 3.0 D-4D LC5 5dr
Let’s get straight to the point — if you live somewhere in the world where tarmac roads are hard to come by and you measure annual rainfall in metres, then the Toyota Land Cruiser is the car for you.
Here in the UK, of course, tarmac isn’t in short supply, and so the Toyota Land Cruiser isn’t terribly well suited to our particular market. But the Land Cruiser is now sold in 188 countries around the world, and the vast majority don’t really care about what it’s like on the road. So Toyota has bucked the recent SUV trend by focusing on off-road ability more.
The proof lies in the very traditional body-on-frame construction, which is fantastic for the muddy stuff. Further evidence of this philosophy can be seen in the length of the new Land Cruiser. It has the same wheelbase and rear overhang as the old one — most cars these days grow quite a bit from one gen to the next, but if you make something longer, it won’t go up hill and down dale as well.
The flip side to all this is that the Land Cruiser is a bit rubbish when it comes to on-road manners. The new Land Cruiser has a 4-cylinder, 3.0-litre diesel engine with 171bhp and 302lb ft, but in nearly 2.5 tonnes of car, it’s not powerful enough. It’s OK once you’re up to speed on the motorway, but overtaking anything is tedious. The Land Rover Discovery with the 3.0-litre TDV6 weighs 2583kg but has 241bhp and 442lb ft — enough said. The Land Cruiser’s refinement isn’t a patch on the Disco either, because if you so much as breathe on the accelerator it rattles away far too much for a modern diesel.
The ladder chassis doesn’t do anything to enhance the pre-industrial feel either. Even on this top-spec LC5 with rear air suspension, the Land Cruiser’s ride is poor and never settles down. There are three suspension settings, but you can’t tell much difference between them. And none of them is comfortable. Over a bumpy back-road, the Land Cruiser is constantly fidgeting and doesn’t iron out any of the surface imperfections — the Discovery is like a magic carpet in comparison.
It’s not involving though. You don’t expect an off-roader to make you feel like a driving god, but you never feel intimately caught up in the process of getting anywhere.
Which is odd, because when you’re off-road, the LC takes on a whole new personality. All of a sudden, you’re at the heart of the action, able to feel exactly what the car is up to. It keeps you right up-to-date as to what is going on at the wheels. Tiniest slide to the left on some mud? You immediately notice and correct. It’s all surprisingly intuitive and really shows where the Land Cruiser is happiest.
The engine also comes into its own here, because the low-down torque allows you to simply crawl forward and clamber out of tricky situations. Following the lead of the Disco, there are various settings for the engine and gearbox depending on what is required. There’s Multi-terrain Select with four different modes to choose from (mud and sand, loose rock, mogul and rock), in addition to which you get a crawl mode with five speed settings for clambering over rocks or descending a hill slowly. Toyota has also fitted a centre and rear diff lock. There are even four external cameras so you don’t have to get out to see what you might be about to hit.
The switches could be more logical though. Some are controlled on the steering wheel, others are hidden away behind it, and yet more are low down on the centre dash. The Disco’s set-up is far clearer, and the rest of the Land Rover’s interior is similarly better. Overall, it simply feels more modern and more worthy of your 40-odd grand.
As in the Disco, you get seven seats as standard on the LC5, and unusually the rearmost ones are electric. These are totally automatic to fold or raise — even the headrest stows itself at the touch of a button. You could get a pair of adults in there for a short journey without having to amputate, but the boot behind is pretty tiny with the seats up.
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Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota Land Cruiser is an off-road and SUV vehicle built and manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota. Land Cruiser is the longest running production model line since 1951, the SUV earned reputation for better off-roading, reliability, adaptability different types of road and etc. Land Cruiser is a competitor to Nissan Patrol.
Land Cruiser has a compact version badge as Land Cruiser Prado but retains the drivetrain, former passenger-type J150 still in production along the newer J300.
The model has two distinctive type either Jeep or passenger-type. The Jeep model has three generations the current model is J70 produced since 1984. J70 purposely build for off-roading, also can be seen some government organization. The passenger comfort type introduced in 1968 to present, the latest model is the J300 introduced in 2021.
Engine started an inline-6 up to J100 (comfort-type) and current J70, newer generation now replaced with V6 or V8 engine, the current J300 now uses a V6 with an additional of twin-turbocharged. Drivetrain uses a 4WD in all generations.
A smaller Prado was also produce as an alternative version.
Appearances [ ]
- In Series 25 (Old Top Gear), Jeremy reviewed the Land Cruiser alongside the Mercedes G-Wagon and the Range Rover. Jeremy pointed out the many buttons for the drivetrain. In the end, he favours the Range Rover.
- In Clarkson’s Car Years, the J80 Land Cruiser appeared in an archive clip from the Original format. The clip describes which becomes dominant in the market.
- In later last episode, Jeremy was seen dropping off the children on school. He also described why he hated to drive SUV.