Autosfeer 4x4 test day
 

The cars we drove, in order from good to bad

Range Rover Sport Supercharged: superb sound, great handling for such a heavy car, rapid engine response.

Mercedes ML350: very good handling, good engine, could use a bit more torque, superb interior.

BMW 330xd: lots of torque, excellent chassis, needs more steering feedback.

Lexus RX400: luxery, fantastic interior, lots of power.

Range Rover 2.7biturbo diesel: needs more power, rolls a lot but is the most refined car I’ve ever been in. Feels like nothing else (floats)!

Land Rover Discovery 2.7biturbo diesel: rolls too much in corners, feels heavy. Comfortable ride.

Hummer H3: Absobloodyfuckinglutely horrible! I think the powerband (or how do you call it in english) was broken. We couldn’t rev past 3000rpm. It must have taken at least 20 sec to go from 0-100km/h.

The one I would advise: Mercedes ML320CDi (more torque then the 350).


Two video's I've uploaded of when we were driving the Range Rover Sport Supercharged. I warn you, the quality sucks, there's no sound. But they're pretty small so you're not wasting bandwidth.

http://users.telenet.be/p997s/Range%...rcharged-1.avi

http://users.telenet.be/p997s/Range%...rcharged-2.avi



Range Rover Sport Supercharged
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Land Rover Discovery 2.7 biturbo diesel
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Hummer H3
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Lexus RX400 hybrid
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BMW 330xd break – 325xi
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Mercedes ML350
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Audi Q7
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Audi A4 Cabrio 3.0 TDi
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The rest of the group
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The list of the cars that were present and could drive alone:
Yamaha Quads
BMW 330xd
BMW 530xd
BMW 325ix
BMW X3 2.0
Honda CR-V 2.2 i-CDTi
Hummer H3
Hyundai Tucson CRDi
Hyundai Santa Fe 2.2 CRDi
Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0 CRD x2
Kia Sportage CRDi
Kia Sorento CRDi
Land Rover Discovery 2.7biturbo diesel
Range Rover Sport Supercharged
Range Rover 2.7biturbo diesel
Lexus RX400H x2
Mercedes ML350
Nissan Murano
Suzuki Grand Vitara 1.9 DdiS
Suzuki Jimmy Cabrio 1.5 Ddis
Toyota RAV4 2.2 D4-D
Toyota Hilux
Volvo XC90 D5
Volvo XC70 D5

The cars we could drive but with one of the car importers next to you:
Audi Q7 3.0 Tdi & 4.2Fsi
VW Touareg 2.5Tdi & 5.0 Tdi
Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7

The cars we couldn't drive, but were taken onto an offroad course:
Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7
Nissan X-Trail
Nissan Pathfinder
Nissan Navara
Land Rover Discovery G4

Who organised such event with many cars from many different manufacturers? That's for sure interesting. Was is set in a nice area allowing some offroad too?

YOu are lukcy you got the Supercharged! I was so depressed when some days ago I could test a RR Sport and got the fucking useless 2.7 diesel :D

That's an impressive list of cars you could choose out. And you've taken some good choices for the test drives. Maybe next time you should also try out one of the quads, that's pure fun :D

I could say that this were heaven :shock: , dude you lucky SOB :lol:

Thanks for the report, i would like to hear more about the bmw 530xd :D

thanks for the pics

The event was organised by a car magazine (Autosfeer) that's a part of a medical magazine for docters (Medisfeer). It's from the same organiser as the events I posted about earlier.

berline-breaks day

coupé-cabrio day

We had to stay on a 15km road that was described in a road map. As allways, they had selected a wonderfull scenery. The roads were really twisty but not too crowded and with lots of long corners. The roads were full of holes but I suspect they chose those on purpose. An SUV is perfect for those roads! Sadly there was no offroad part involved. You could go offroad but then someone else was at the wheel. And me and my dad prefer to drive ourselves.

I can't tell you much about the 530xd since I didn't drove it. But I did drive the 330xd which was excellent. I took it above the 530 because it's lighter. The 330 has a superb chassis that soaks up smaller bumps magnificently. A stiff but not a harsh chassis. And a fast responsive and very powerfull engine (231hp 500NM).

I would like to have driven a quad. I've never done that before. But if I had done that I would have had to skip on at least two cars since you had to wait quite a bit for the quads. They allways waited for all the quads to be occupied before they left in a group.

The thing I'm really looking forward to is the next coupé-cabrio day next june. The Maserati PR guy told us he'll be present. I really hope so, I would love to get my hands on a Grandsport.

Oh and one more detail. They wrote down the check-in time and check-out time and the person who was driving. The average time was about 25min, me and my dad allways managed something like 20min :D