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Path to Rzhev

The first weeks of the car owner are interested in its speed, gasoline consumption and suitability of the trunk, after a couple of months it is beginning to worry more serious questions - for example, the questions of the lifestyle of this car.
We argued here with one colleague, which does not have anything to do with cars, as it goes mainly in the back seat of Audi S8, they say, why the neighborhood of Moscow - what is good? And then there was a statistical and ideological rift between those who travel simply on the soft sedans of the type A8, and owners of such cars as Allroad. One walks in a suit or black denim rags from Italian designers, and the other in everything from Barbour - velvetian pants, a jacket-stool and even shoes. One does not like to go beyond the city and if he drives, so only to his friends - young governors for giving, which can be safely called estates and estates. Another loves to ride around the neighboring monasteries, churches and not destroyed by the estate of the previous generations of Russian aristocracy. Personal spectacle.
And in general, Allroad is a car for those who like to breathe fresh air, and not a cigarette smoke of Moscow clubs. For those who know exactly that the world of nonpumeric roads begins behind the ring.
Allroad car is not the first month on a long-term test in the autopilot editorial. Initially, we were interested in the technical characteristics of this car. And we are detailed, as if the mechanic in the garage, recorded such excitemental details, as the presence of an emergency speed machine on the alloy disk. Day after day, the consumption of fuel consumption and sad, when the smart electronics did not give the wheels to slip through native channels. After all, how - we are accustomed to stop, and she does not want. Along with Allroad stated an unjustified increase in gasoline prices and pondered, and where are the money now go, if they were taken from the patrons? In general, they got acquainted closely. True, still fingers sometimes sculpt the switch button to the manual box mode, which sometimes creates inconvenience on the road. But soon your hands get used.
 
And now we are more interested in the stylistic aspect of Allroad. Starting with the fact that there is a very high-quality acoustic system Bose on an off-road car. It is in aggregate with a good sound insulation and a quiet powerful engine with a volume of 4.2 liters allows on noisy streets and empty highways, in the dark alley and on the cottage bed to listen to any music that humanity came up with, and not just a group of Leningrad at full capacity. On this apparatus you can hear John Cage, whose plays without notes are played here in Moscow.
 
By the way about music. We have all the time for that simple, essentially the idea that for each type of human activity, separate types of machines are intended. That is, for business and decent places - one, for the weekend - others, for sports and active entertainment - third. And if possible, it should not be necessary to ride the SUV size with H2 and with large wheels into some elegant place. For example, where the latest concerts of John Cage are played. (Cage just went to the Word.) Because everything is already aware that it is not necessary to dissect Semifredo's restaurant on the jeep, as well as towards restaurants simpler. Even in the cinema, if the cinema is located in the city, do not. But somewhere in the super-duper mega center - please. Everything will be quite in the American spirit, although, with the filing of counter-footagandors, America is now the concept of crucial. But we know with you ...
 
So, Audi Allroad is a real real compromise between styles. Because the same machine looks decently like on a business meeting (with some features of your personal style) and forest paths. That is, ALLROAD is such a tank in the Thrake. Your among others.
 
In addition, my colleague who does not know how to steer the car itself, but it really loves to read our magazine, began to make hints - they say, well for allroad to the mother-in-law to transport largests. I had nothing to say for that, because I never drove on the roof of the board and mattresses. And in general, at one time changed Saab 9000 Aero on Subaru Outback only to have a decent road clearance and the ability to quickly and safely ride. To get acquainted with Central Russia not only by false regulations of television. And least I thought that I would have to go to the mother for this car. In addition, she lives in Rzhev itself, about which I know only a dying rhyme that everyone died there.
 
But the colleague has already started, and I had to go, at the same time working out the passage of the Moscow-Riga route on the Audi Allroad car. And although kindness advised to load the car with something useful, such as potatoes, we decided that Allroad would not fit stylistically with potatoes, as well as with other agriculture. Therefore, the maximum that we came up with, the grandson's summer things were thrown into the trunk and went to a 230-kilometer campaign.
At the same time, the M-5 route is divided into several sections, which fully fit into the universal concept of Allroad. The first part of the Moscow-Volokolamsk route (100 km) is an excellent multi-row road where you can accelerate almost to any speed, which is only capable of the engine. In this case, the changeable clearance can be reduced to the lowest mark, and the air resistance will become completely insignificant. And speed, and safety above. In this section, the car is low, smoothly and quickly. With her do not even try to be attenuated by zezganny nines, whose drivers usually make up the most nightmarish part of humanity.
In Volokolamsk, we decided to make a cultural break and visit the Yaropolec - the estate of pots (Pushkin's mother-in-law). Here the Chernyshev's estate is in poor condition. But you can evaluate the fantasy of the then Moscow Mayor of Chernyshev - as his Perso in turks and Novorusky design. Everything is completely bad: when the mayor died, his widow - at that time one of the richest women in Russia - decided to convert the drama army to the church. Aesthetically stunning result You will see from the window of your ALLROAD, just do not fall into the sediment.
 
In a small expedition, you know and love your edge, we needed an increased road clearance, and we clicked on the cherished magnification button of the clearance. By the way, the first time such systems were observed by us on the subaru machines in the 80s, were still surprised by an elegant solution to the problems of roads and pares. Since then, Subaru for some reason refused to variable clearance, but Allroad bloomed with this idea.
 
The M-5 track site from Volokolamsk to Shakhovskaya Station (another 54 km) is marked by a sharp narrowing of the canvas, and here Allroad starts working in another quality.
Due to the narrowness of the road, the car for overtaking has to jump out of the row and dramatically gain speed. The 300-strong engine copes with this task easily. On the question of what is more expensive to you - a wallet or life. But the ability to high-speed maneuver is not only cheap Ponte boys in leather jackets. This is a real help for survival on Russian roads.
 
Soon the suburbs of the track ends, Tverskaya province begins. "You will realize that in vain swear on the roads of the Moscow region, which in the memory turned into the autobares of Germans. The coating deteriorates sharply, the road comes down to the width of two machines, and the beacon allows you to feel like a red boom train driver. If there are wagons going to meet (and there are an infinite amount here, then only Allroad maneuverability allows you to get away from a murderous trailer, which on the descents dangles for Tir'am with an amplitude of half the remaining road. In winter, it is generally the road of death, and it is necessary to leave here only to people prepared or quite fearless. For the rest there are ALLOD.
 
But since we are still going to the task of colleagues, then the next 75 kilometers overcome confidently. We enter the resort area of \u200b\u200bSosnovy Bor, on dry and uneven tracks of which it is easy to get to the Volga on such a SUV as our test. By this point, the tank is already beginning to be allowed. To refuel Aby where we do not advise you - the car is sorry. Is that trying at the entrance to the city, next to the police post.
Well, hello, mom, and where are the dumplings?
Igor Maltsev text, photo Alexander Antonov
 

Source: "Autopilot"