Oh, screw that dash panel. It's too much without it.
Are you recording this?
[T]: Sasha, stop pulling!
Syop it, Tigran. People would think we're high again.
Today, Lada Niva is the best off-road car in the world
Today, Lada Niva is the best off-road car in the world. (c) Lada Niva owners
So what do we do with this '14 now? I mean, it's cool and people are waiting for a review but it's so in the way now.
[S]: I'm slowly putting it down!
[T]: Are you fcking kidding me! Careful, man!
No, why? Fail, you guys. At least there will be something interesting in the video. The car's not lowered yet, and the jack can't get down there already.
Hi, everyone! Loud Sound atelier here. Today, as usual, we have an unusual review.
Why unusual? For one, we're having two cars in one review.
For two, we're going to compare them. We decided to compare a Russian off-road to a German off-road.
And since they both are in the Loud Sound atelier, we're going to compare the audio of on Mercedes GL.
Btw, did you know that Germans do not pronounce the letter G as [dji] but rather as [gae].
We're going to compare the sys that's in Mercedes GL. We have a Focal powered SQ 3-way in there.
Alpine amp, stealth sub etc.
We're gonna compare it to a brutal 3-way powered by stage acoustics. Unfortunately, we lack a sub int he Niva for now.
We'l compare basic parameters of both cars to find out which one is better 'cuz you can't just tell it from afar.
Let's start under the hood, shall we. 40 years old? This one? Is this a car or a museum piece?
[T]: Not really.
Sounds like these are common in horror movies.
Okay, under the hood we can see the spare tire. It' good. I bet you can't see a spare under a GL hood, can you?
Next, please, note the proofing. Not only is it noise- but it is also thermo-proofing.
Here it's just noise, no thermo-proofing.
So it's safe to say that Niva noise-proofing is a bit more progressive than that of Mercedes Benz.
The next thing you know is that you know nothing. If, God forbid, anything happens you won't be able to do anything but to visit the dealership.
Here, however, any Russian car - especially Niva - owner can and must constantly spend time fixing it.
Show how you close the hood on a Niva.
Let's go for a break here. Now we swiftly move forward to the looks.
It's obvious which one's exterior design is better. This car's design was developed in this century. This one's - in the previous century.
It must have been so successful that they have decided to not change it. They restyled it a pinch, added a couple plastic details and called it Urban.
Here, on the other hand, we have a totally fresh design. We could draw a parallel with a Geländewagen. That one was designed last century, too.
Well, GL is a car for those who, first, didn't have enough money for a Geländewagen,
and second, who were smart enough not to buy one.
This car looks more modern while this one is pure classics.
Let's now check out the optics. We have two specially trained people who turned on the lights simultaneously so that we can see it right away.
Here we see perfect rings. Dare I say, Angel Eyes. But gotta say these are not stock but custom lights.
The factory can't do this yet.
Here, however, we have some debatable design. Some weird LED strip. This is xenon. Blink. It's got curtains. It's bi-xenon, I guess.
Your turn, Tigran. Whoop! These are LED. So Niva is a bit more modern.
Let's check out inside. And to start, let's see the welcome lights. Can you turn off the atelier light?
For starters, here is a very nicely lighted inscription reading Mercedes-Benz.
Plus this nice lighting pointed to your feet.
And Niva... Oh, it has one, too. This car warns you. First, it lights up the area for you not to step in mud, and it warns you that you are going to ride a Lada.
I think it is obvious whose open door lighting is better, isn't it? Let's do a face to face comparison.
The doors on the Niva are closing perfectly well.
[T]: It's 'cuz the other one is open.
Wait, so if you close that one, this one is gonna close worse?
[T]: Yep.
In the Mercedes, if you don't close the door... it closes itself.
Another thing - right, Tigran? - that could possibly break and demand repairing.
This sign here sats Bluetec. Do you know, Tigran, what that is?
I think only Mercedes-Benz dealership managers and some owners only know what Bluetec technology is.
[T]: As far as I know it's some sort of economy mode. Something like eco-mode.
[with this sort of economy eco-mode]
Okay, admit it. Noone knows what Bluetec is. ...And now Mercedes experts are flooding our comments.
Note the muffler endings. There are two of them, chrome plated. Very pretty.
What do we have here in Mercedes? Bananas! There is no exhaust pipe on the Mercedes.
Where does it put the exhaus gas? Do you know, Tigran?
[T]: It's all under the bumper.
This Mercedes doesn't have an exhaust pipe!
I want to sit in the Mercedes first. Well, I actually want to sit only in the Mercedes.
The first thing you notice on sitting in Mercedes, like in any other car, is that you ar enot comfortable 'cuz the seat is not set for you.
For some reason, only Mercedes are unwilling to move the seat adjustment control to the seat. They are here, on the door panel.
So once you've sat, you can't adjust it right away or you have to stretch out really far. You need to close the door and then adjust the seat.
Now you are facing a very difficult challenge. You will have to get to the rear seat.
Btw, it's not that bad. Can you reach the door? Okay.
Let's try and do the same with the Mercedes - try and close the front door sitting at the rear seat.
[T]: Okay.
Okay!
In the Niva, it all went really well.
[T]: Nope. No can do.
So what? Do you call this a comfortable car? You can't even close the front door sitting at the rear seat unless you get out and close it?
When getting in a Niva, you don't need to lean all the way to the door cover or anywhere.
There is this thingy here that helps you bring the seat to the position you need very quickly.
No need to wait for the motor. Pull - and there you go.
The scroller, however, is on the right which is really a mystery for me. But still it works faster.
We have the Command system here. Nothing like this in the Niva and we gotta note it.
But we have an enormous number of various buttons. Which is also noteworthy.
Note how HACV is controlled.
We have a scroller, a button here, a 'plus' button here, a 'minus' button over here, an air conditioner on/off button.
Direction, windscreen fanning button, rear glass heating, and this scroller is pretty much the same temp regulator.
Control panel in the Niva. Things are way easier here. These are all the buttons we have. 6 buttons total.
Plus this button and this one. The later II'm going to cover in a moment.
So this ont turns on the corner lights. Easy.
Then comes the button the purpose of which I just found out from Tigran. It turns on the rear wiper. And it's not just a button It has two positions.
If you press it deeper it sprinkles water on the rear window. But it doesn't work in all Nivas.
In fact, it works over the first year. After that, I'd say you don't use it because it may hydrate not only the car's rear window but also anywhere inside.
Then comes the heater. Easy peasy. It has two positions: on and very on. And off, for sure.
Rear window heating, for lights and two ass heaters. None for the rear seats, unlike Mercedes. This is a con.
As for the rest, I think this is a lot easier, a lot more compact. Even a blond would understand this.
But a blond wouldn't be able to move all the arms. This one moves okay. This is not air recirculation as they call it in foreign cars,
this is merely a shutter to the outside.
So in this position the air from the outside comes in, and in this one, it's closed.
This arm, a lady wouldn't probably be able to move without chipping a nail.
[5 minutes earlier...]
Fck! Ouch! Shit! I chipped my nail!
This one... Well, safer not to touch.
This thing -- those to have seen Russian classics must'e seen a little tap, usually over there,
Anyway, this thing usually broke pretty quick. It let the radiator's cooling liquid into the heater's radiator
[T]: Don't. You'll break it.
When this thing breaks - not 'if' but 'when'! - they just put in a water tap in this duct
And they just let the cooling liquid to the inside. Sometimes there's this nice odour of anti-freeze inside.
So how does the HACV work? It's a lot easier here than in a Mercedes. No scrollers with half the alphabet on 'em.
Here, in order to enable the AC, we need to turn on the heater's fan. Turn on the AC
and then do something to this scroller. Tbh, I don't know what to do with it.
It shows turn up and down but I don't know how it works. Do you?
[T]: It only works when you turn it up.
Yes, but how does it do it? Does it do something to the anti-freeze or something?
Wait. It just hit me only now. There is a conditioner here. Here, it says A/C.
Anyway, you scroll this thing, and if the conditioner is not working, it's gonna start working.
Of course I can. How can I not find the window raiser.
No way. Wait. I will wind it. Really? Here?
[T]: And the mirror adjustment controllers are there, too.
Mirrors, too? Was this originally like this?
[T]: Yes. Just like they don't have armrests originally.
Handy. The gearstick is very convenient. You don't need to lean far to get it.
Plus, you can set the gear scheme whichever way you want it. You can rotate it all the way. So if you have some gearbox troubles --
Okay, let's go on.
Gotta note, Mercedes has no stick. With a Niva, however, you can get a fully developed 5-step gearbox, plus a reverse.
In Mercedes, they got rid of the stick completely. There's nothing there. Cup holders and an ashtray.
Niva also has cup holders so you can drink coffee. It has a cigarette lighter so you can light a cigarette.
[T]: But you can't plug in anything.
Just the lighter? So no Euro?
No ashtray but you can shake your ash off right here. See how convenient? You can just vacuum it at a carwash.
Or sweep it all off on the carpet, and then vacuum or just clean the carpets.
Since both cars are off-roads, let's see what each of them can do.
What this handle is for, we can see. There's a special instruction in Russian here.
The stuck it there on the factory. The front one blocks/unblocks the differential,
The closer handle turns on a higher or a lower gear.
Differential control here. Just butons and some pictures. Not understandable. You have to pull out the manual and read it.
And we don't know where it is. So I think Niva has it better.
It has a manual, and two handles which a real man can only move anywhere. Here, some buttons. What's what? Who knows?
Driving around the city on a lower gear is an unforgettable experience. It starts really cool, and then the tough part starts.
You're kicking it down, really down, and yest ou only have 40 km/h on your speedometer.
And the engine is working like hell.
[T]: Nay, I used to leave home every day turning on the 5th gear, then I'd kick in the lowened gear and go.
Tigran used to ride lowened ger 'cuz when a Niva rides one, it wins any drag racing. But only the first 10 meters (35 ft).
It jumps forward so fat that poele around start panicking.
[T]: It comes over any car before 70 km/h.
70, okay. Even a GTR? Here we go. Here come anecdotes.
Look. You get to the start, you pull the stick to one. By that time, GTR has already finished.
Let's go to the Mercedes.
The steering wheel and the control panel. The main thing the driver sees. We have buttons here to control speakerphone and multimedia.
Voice assistant, computer controller We also have speed switches under the steering wheel, and cruise control.
We found whole two buttons ont his wheel. But they do the same thing. They beep. The claxon button doesn't do tha, tho.
This is Niva's evolution. Nivolution.
But when something happens on the road when everyone does this-- Here, you can't do it, can you?
The dash panel is lighted whte, very nice, realy pretty. Look all great.
This dash panel is standard, right? They put the same ones in Lada 2114. We have one here. Oh, screw the '14 dash. It's too much w/out it.
Not the panels here. This is natural wood. Walnut I think. You don't know it?
As far as I know, German cars always have wooden panels. They barely have plastic. These edges only.
All the rest covered realy nicely, looks very rich, very pretty.
A lot of wood. Wood here, wood here.
In Niva, we have lots of plastic.No wood, lots of plastic. Dash, glovebox, control panel, deflectors, arms, buttons - all is damn plastic.
However we added some wood Tigran added a lot of wood. We're about to show you.
Now this car has more wood than the Mercedes does. So much wood.
We're gonna have a battle now. We'r egonna check whose trunk lid goes up faster, the Niva's or the Mercedes's.
I need to push a lever and go open the lid, and Tigran only needs to pusha button.
Are you going already? Oh, you, cheater. Okay, let's do it by three. One, two, three.
Come on! Simultaneously? It was, btw.
Let's try closing now.
[T]: One, two, three!
[T]: You didn't close.
No way. I did. Niva wins.
Note that we have a third row of seats. And in this respect, Mercedes is definitely a loser.
Usually, the rear passengers are annoying. Here, you have twice as many rear seat passengers.
Look! The logo is lit up. I didn't know that.
Niva has a lighted logo on the radiator grill, too. Take away your phone, you're blowing the cover.
Note, Mercedes shutt off all the lights 'cuz we're not using it. Niva will do it only when the batteries die.
And now it has some batteries...
Now let's show you the stereos. We'll do comparative telling. We'll show you one thing here and then go show it in the other car.
We have completely different approaches, different approaches and different objectives. I think you'll find it interesting to watch.
Let begin with the HU. HUs, rather. Niva has Alpine 92 with a processor, time delays, well developed crossover,
And it's an advantage as compared to the Mercedes 'cuz we can use this HU to control a 3-way sys.
We can set the frequency, the slope steepness and all the other stuff from right here, the driver's seat.
The HU in Mercedes remained the stock one, and the signal is processed by one Audison Bit One.
Bit One is an upgraded Bit Ten with an extra channel and richer settings.
Here we have - pretty much like in Niva - Bluetooth, iPhone, aux plugging options.
Here we aldo have a disc option. So we can watch a movie or listen to music CD or DVD which we wouldn't be able to do with that Alpine.
Out of pros, we have more sourse options, we have a screen but we cannot control the system without extra devices such as laptop.
The only loophole is we can buy a remote control for the processor and set some of the parameters there, plus turn on presettings.
The front pillars are covered in real alcantara. We have K2 Power speakers comprising a 3-way.
The tweeter and the mid are in the pillar, and the mid-bass goes to the stock spot in he door panel.
In the rear doors, we have a 2-way, powered also by Focal but of Performance series. We have tweetera and mid-basses in stock spots.
Which makes it for 3 bands in the front and 2 bands in the back.
Let's take a lok at Niva's arrangement. Everything here is a lot more rough. No alcantara and stuff.
The shape and the size of the podium were only dictated by the size and the quantity of the speakers.
Here we have Deaf Bonce MX-80, Alphard's newest very loud mid-bass speakers.
These are a very loud copy of Momo 410. And we have P.Audio, pure top notch Thai horn tweeters.
These are very loud and very high quality. The only their flaw keeping 'em back is their enormous size.
Here, noone took care of the rear passengers. But even if they did, this is not the best car to instal rear stereo.
AvtoVAZ didn't care as much as not to make these panel in single piece but for these caps which as far as I get are not even clip-ons but screws.
[T]: Yes, they are screwed in.
There is this thing that looks like a soft decor clap on piece. But it's not a clap-on, and it's not soft. It's the same cover.
This is a single piece that serves as an armrest and from what I get, the mudguards are fixed on the arches that come from these.
So your arm rests on an external arch.
Under the cover that comes off ike this, you see amps for which Tigran took pains and provided cooling. You can see a cooler if you look in there.
There are two Alpine PDX series installed, very mall, very powerfull yet quite high quality for D-class amps.
Their trademark is the small size which makes 'em very convenient to install. Put your hand as a scale.
One is a 4-channel, the other one is a 5-channel which allowed us to arrange the whole system with little crossovers.
The only cross is int he rear 2-way. The front is all wired channel-on-channel, plu a separate channel for the sub.
The sub here is installed behind a very neat panel. It is one of Focal Performance series.
The cone is made of linen. A very interesting device.
It's not cheap but it's very good. I remember it surprised us. Played really great for a sub its size put in stealth.
We managed to keep the trunk completely stock. Nothing hints you that there is a stereo installed in there.
I'd say the stock loks remained here, too, but we have this pedestal. We should put a 1 on it, like the 1st place.
We haven't installed the sub yet. After we do that, it wouldn't look so stock. Let me put it differently. There will be no trunk.
[T]: Nope.
Let's take a look at this arrangement. It's different. If there we saw two amps and a Bit One processor placed nearby,
here, the batteries occuy three times that space. Two of 'em here, AGM both. Plus one under the hood.
And for the amps, we have Magnums. Not Alphard Magnum but just Magnum, Deaf Bonce DB-200.4 D-class amp, very powerful, by Alphard.
And our fav GZ EA2235. Tigran installs it for tweeters almost all the time but he can't memorize the name.
Wait, did yo just dust these while I was filming? I think I'm not even gonna edit anything out of this review.
They are gonna troll you for not having cooling. And I am. Right now. You know you're gonna need a cooler.
In summer, when it's 35°C (95°F) outside, we'll see than. Now you may not need it with this cold outside.
I mean, it can hardly warm up the inside of the car.
You know what's the trick with Niva?
[T]: It's either to hot or too cold.
For one leg. I'm serious. I was driving a Niva to Moscow, and when you turn it up to make it hot inside,
the right leg feels like it's being blowtorched, and the left one freezes. And if you turn it off, everything freezes.
The arrangements in these two systems are totally different in terms of character, and quality, and volume.
You understand those were two different objectives set here. And sure,
aesthetically and maybe from the viewpoint of acoustic accuracy and staging, Mercedes would sound better,
but if you speed it up to 200 km/h and want to kick the music up and enjoy it, you won't be able to do it
because systems like that, especially original ones, suffer a lot from the lack of volume.
Here, that problem is off the table. There's enough volume to crush your teeth when inside the car,
and enough setting for a dacing picnic party.
It's all a matter of taste. I can see comments being flooded with loud system advocates saying SQ sucks,
and SQ advocates saying these are too loud, too poorly arranged. People say lots of stuff. Well, those are different things.
Unfortunately, we failed to understand how GL is better than Niva so I called my pal Stas from 'KlyuchAvto' dealer's
who helped me shot the E400 review. I texted him this car's VIN, and here's what he texted me back.
I don't know if it's gonna make the scale turn in favor of this Mercedes but here's what it has:
Active parking assistand, rear seat headrests are taken off to improve the visual properties, automatic 7G-tronic
Front and rear mudguards, daptive shock absorbing system which adapts to speed and pavement type to improve the driving experience quality.
an injector, pneumo-aimatic, road sign detection system.
Window deflectors allow you to smoke without the ash flying back in your face.
Cameras al around. - Bumpers painted the color of the body.
AMG-pack. - Shadowline black door handles
Intelligen Light System - Spare tyre under the hood.
Bixenon lighting with variable light distribution system, dynamic light angle control for highway driving in stiff fog, adaptive turn lighting --
A jack under the hood.. - Third seat row with electric tilt drive.
Increased comfort seats made of combined artificial leather and artificial fabric.
Command online. - Inbuilt carputer that showes outside temp and voltage.
[T]: Where am I supposed to plug this crap?!
Calm down, bruh, it's okay. It's just once you buy an iPhone 7, yo have to carry this around.
Okay, to play this system, let's turn on Sektor Gaza (Russian punk rock band) in Tartar.
Needs tuning, huh? Okay, let's play.
As we can see, Mercedes's noise proofing is no salvation from installs like these.
Here we go.
Turn off that crap!
Okay, this was a creepy review. We told you briefly about both cars and systems. Hope you found it interesting.
This turned out to be an unusual review of two cars at a time. Hope you liked it.
You know the drill. Bye, everyone. Live LOUD!
Note that if I don't stop he engine now we'll suffocate a lot faster than if I didn't stop the Mercedes 'cuz the latter has Bluetecwhich I think is just 'bout it.
[T]: Well, we started it in here.
And you're all still alive. I guess it's working.
Let's try and get a ride.
That's it. This was a Niva test-drive.
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