This is a new video made by the coleagues from Dacia Duster Trails & Technical. It’s another versus video, this time between a Dacia Duster and a Land Rover Defender.
The Landrover Defender is a 2016 model and has a 2.2 engine made by Ford with 128hp. Its tires are Kumho Road Venture MT KL71 with their pressure set at 1bar. The 2015 Dacia Duster has an 1.5dci engine (made by the Renault and Mercedes alliance) With a software update he is now sporting 130hp. The Duster is using Remolded Winter W760 tires at the pressure of 1.6bar.
The duster is going in first, he has no dedicated low gear, just a first by design low first gear, this is why he is trying to push with some inertia while trying to climb as much as possible and doing several attempts.As you can see, the ground has an initial lateral incline and this makes the car slide sideways on the back wheels. If the back and front wheels no longer use the same lane, made by the front wheels, they will need to push deep snow on both axels and not just the front one. This can make both ends of the car unstable and force the Duster driver to reajust, slow down and thus be forced to try again.
The winter tires are not digging deep enough to reach under the snow, this is also why they loose inertia and also they have problems clearing a path in the snow. With every single attempt the Duster is going up the slope more and more, but in the end he decides that enough is enough and he leaves the Defender to go on.
Initially the defender pushes in deep snow, then he uses the Duster lanes quite well to regain speed, but you can also see that he also has an early lateral incline. All it’s fine until he reaches the end on the snow lanes, he is still pushing but looking like he is going to fail.
But now his advangates come into play, he has more weight, so its heavier than the Duster and its MT tires dig better. That’s why they reach better soil under the snow. Once that happens you will see the defender regain traction. Soon after the back wheels enter the first weels lane, the car only pushes snow with the front wheels and this helps a lot, as you can see the last part of the climb.
The Duster easily climbed after the Defender. The defender’s tracks helped him avoid any snow pushing, so that was enough for him to climb. Also the lanes help guide the car on a good trajectory while the inetrtia is better mantained. This is only the first part of the duel, stay tuned for the second part. Enjoy and share!
While shooting the offroad drive along Audi Q5, we had some uninvited guests; a Suzuki Jimny that has some modification alongside 3 ATVs. By the time they got to the hill where the offroad driving took place, we were on the top of the hill. The drone was in the air. So I had to take some pictures of the valley.
After that we had to the base of the hill but not before some drifts from the Audi. The owner is an experienced offroad driver and the best way to enjoy driving a car outside the road is to make the wheels spin very fast.
At the base of the hill we tried going up on some different trails, or to be more specific, on some very steep hills with no trais. The dried ground helped very much and the cars did a good job. Nothing unexpected there. The Audi was slower on the hills, mostly because the driver was very careful and the car has automatic gearbox. When he switched to the Duster he drove it like it should, in situations like that. For the Jimny it was very easy, the car was the lightest. It didn’t had the best tires but with its reducing gearbox it seems like the hills were plain fields.
Both cars had no problem with these hills, I could say the Duster was at the same level with the Jimny. The Audi was a little bit slower but as lomg as it reached the top, I like it.
This was very fun to do. Where there is more people, cars, ATV, there’ more fun. Right now it’s a bad situation in the country and I’m starting to think we should take a break from these offroad drives because of the corona virus. Untill then here is the link to the videos related to this article.
The European auto industry it’s starting to take a step back, with several manufacturers announcing the closure of the factories or the restriction of activity. The main cause is the coronavirus epidemic, which has led to a crisis of key components for cars manufacturing.
After Lamborghini announced the stop of production at the factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Ferrari announced in turn that the production plants for Formula 1 and series cars will be closed until March 27.
The Italian company adopted this measure due to the fact that the resources were consumed and, because of the pandemic, they cannot refuel. “This decision was taken by the company for the safety of the employees and follows a large number of preventive measures already implemented by the company to guarantee the highest health standards, in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
More than 6,000 employees at the Ford plant in Craiova enter technical unemployment on Thursday. The company suspends activity at its main factories in Europe due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The period of technical unemployment begins on Thursday, March 19 and lasts until April 5, depending on the evolution of the current state. During this period, employees will receive 78% of their salary.
The Dacia plant in Mioveni – Arges, has been suspended since Thursday.
Production will be suspended for three weeks. “From tomorrow, from 7:00 until 5 April, the factory closes, as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus. We will return to work on April 6. Until then, disinfection is done in the factory,” announces union deputy leader Ion Iordache DACIA employees will be paid during this time with 85% of the salary. According to the SAD leader, the employees will receive during the suspension of the activity and meal vouchers.”
The Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group was the first to announce production cessation, after several Italian suppliers, including Brembo and Pirelli, closed the gates.
In Spain, the second most affected country in Europe, the Renault group has decided to temporarily suspend work at the Palencia and Valladolid factories. Nissan’s alliance partners also stopped production at the Barcelona plant.
At SEAT, the Martorell factory suspended production indefinitely, with 7,000 workers being sent home. According to the unions, the resumption of production will not happen earlier than six weeks.
This video got a lot of attention in the online world and it’s my channel’s number one. The idea behind was something I had in mind for a long time.
The Idea
While I was making some efforts to clear the snow from my driveway in a Wednesday evening, I decided to send a message to my old friend and school colleague, Julian. He is the owner of the Audi A4 Allroad. We were in the same class from the 1st class all the way to the college. And after we spooke on the phone, the plan was made to make a video.
The offroad run
On a cloudy and foggy Saturday afternoon we set out to reach the highst point on a hill next to Putna. At the base the snow was gone but as we went up things got more complicated. Both cars had difficulties going all the way up the first hill, the Duster made it further than the Audi, but it had to go back and try again.
The Audi got a good momentum but quickly lost grip because of its All-season tires.
At the second try, the Duster made it to the top but the A4 had some difficulties and I decided it should try a different route. On that route the quattro system showed its power.
And we’ve made it to the part of the hill with a thick layer of snow and tried to go up, first with the Duster, with its higher ground clearance and shirter front bumper then with the Audi.
Getting better and better
With every try, the trail got better and better and both cars went up more and more. At the end, the Audi even got further than the Duster. The most important aspect we noticed was that the quattro system didn’t let the driver accelerate like on the Duster and the A4 had a slower speed when ascending. This system is far more better than the one Audi Q5 has.
Even so, I really liked how the A4 made it up there and waiting for another offroad ride with the car, this time equiped with better tires. It would be unstoppable. Maybe next winter.
Link to the full video:
In the part 2 of the series, I’ve compiled some sequences with the climb and also the descend from the hill, where the Audi had to be pulled just a little bit. The position was very bad for the front bumper and any forward-backward movement would made it hit the ground.
Pulling was the only chance it would go up in reverse and in order to do it even faster, we also used recovery boards.
The whole thing was done in over 2 hours. The day began to fade as we reached the main road. It was an amazing experience and I am sorry I didn’t took advantage of every day with the snow. Now it’s gone and until the next one we have the mud and the hills 😀
Many of my subscribers said that the video I made against the Audi A4 Allroad wasn’t so fair because the Audi had Allseason tires and much lower ground clearence and kept on telling me to put the Duster next to an Audi Q5, because they are from the same class. So I did. One month after the A4 video I managed to find a Q5 owner that was willing to come on an offroad drive.
For that I am very grateful to him and all the other guys who helped me during the shooting of the video. It really was an amazing experience. And just sat behind the camera and went up and down the hills by foot. Exepting one time when I was carried by an ATV while filming the cars that were coming behind me.
A day before the drive it rained almost the entire day and I was hoping it would stop by the time we set out to go. Not only it stopped, there was windy and sunny and almost all the moisture was gone from the terrain. So the trails weren’t how I wanted to be. A little harder so the cars would have to be forced a little bit:D. Anyways, it was perfect just the way it was.
And we set off to climb the hill but not on the usual trail, like I did agianst the Porsche Macan, but on a random route choosed by the Q5 driver. Both car went without any problems even though it seemed tricky at a first glance. On the second trail the Audi lost some of the grip because of the lower ascending speed and the driver had to accelerate harder in order to get to the drier soil and go all the way up without having to try again.
Next, we found a suitable spot to test out the diagonal crossing and see how the car behaves when is suspended on 2 wheels, on oposite sides. I wasn’t sure about the similarity from the two differential systems and for my surprise, they had the same behaviour.
Just like the Duster, the system from the Audi Q5 sends the power to the wheels that have the less grip. In this case, the extra weight on the Q5 seems to be a disadvantage.
At the third trial we went up, the Q5 owner stopped at the middle of the hill to see what wheels will start spinning fast, considering the fact that all had the same grip. In this scenario there was better grip on the right side wheels and those were spining with lower RPM than the left ones, that can be seen in the video.
That ended our third round and that’s when 3 ATV’s and a Suzuki Jimny arrived at the scene. But that is the subject of another video:D. I am giving you a spoiler picture.
After taking a few shots with my drone we head back to the base of the hill and shot some clips on the move, with me on an ATV and all three cars behind me. The drone also followed from above.
After that we set out to go home but the guys wanted to try more difficult trails. That is the subject of Round 4 of the test, when the Audi owner drove both the Q5 and the Duster. The first one with much more attention 😀 .
He has a lot of experience in offroad as you can also see in the video. It’s more obvious while he drives the Duster because of its manual gearbox and higher ground clearance.
Write your opinions on both cars in the video’s commenting section.
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