Toyota Rav 4: Step to Excellence
The first RAV4 in 1994 created a real revolution, opening to the world a new class of “SUVs”. The machines of the two subsequent generations developed in an evolutionary way…

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Mitsubishi Carisma: Reasonable Sufficiency
We have already met with "Mitsubishi Carisma" more than once, including in group tests. The car, well-known in our country, has been produced since 1995, and during this time it…

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Mazda 2: City Toy
Bright and cute "Mazda-2" reminded toy avtomobchik. Made of soft plastic, with a whistle in the bottom - twenty years ago, my youngest daughter loved to play that way when…

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Nissan spread its wings

Among the middle class cars, a very serious competitor has appeared, which can take away buyers not only from the Opel Vectra or Peugeot 406, but even from the traditional leader – Volkswagen Passat. Moreover, many people say that even the BMW 3-series and the Mercedes C-class will lose some of their customers, especially those for which the “social status” of the car plays a minor role. This is a new Nissan Primera. Yes, it was the Japanese, who was always considered a modest middling, decided to spread his wings and challenge the legislators of the genre. Continue reading

Toyota Land Cruiser: Unsinkable Off-Road Cruiser

The Toyota Land Cruiser-100 has been produced since 1998 and is still in great demand in Russia. And it is not surprising: after all, by the totality of the qualities of the “weaving” it still remains, perhaps, the best heavy all-terrain vehicle. And, as experience shows, for the secondary market, “Land Cruiser” is also good.

In the category of prestigious off-road vehicles, the predilections of our customers are not the same. In the mid-1990s, the people admired Range Rover, then Gelendewagen became a hit, after it BMW-X5, and today Cayenne has mastered the bohemian minds. Continue reading

Nissan 350Z: Ninja with Z sign

Most of the mass cars “Nissan” – “Primera”, “Almera”, “Micra” – are proper names. But an exclusive, a real ninja, in which a generation is already content with an index of numbers, supplemented with the letter “Z”. Maybe because it serves only to satisfy the driver’s passion and is not used for economic purposes …

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Nissan Teana, Toyota Camry: Russian Basyo
Let not in the basics, that is, the tournament, not the most powerful versions of the cars come together, the fight is expected to be interesting. Indeed, as in sumo,…

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Nissan Terrano II. Buy or not?
Remember the movie "Guest from the Future"? There, a bad space pirate suggested to our pioneer to give the magic device melafon, promising to donate Zhiguli for it: “Imagine you…

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