Chrysler sebring sedan test drive since 2006 sedan
Beauty in American
This company has been making cars with a bright design in recent years. Chrysler 300C excellent reincarnation of the classic American sedan. Nevertheless, the stylists did not dare to play the same scenario in a more compact class. Moreover, the new Sebring, which was acquainted with Washington, plan to sell widely in Europe. Cars of the former generation were also delivered to the Old World, however, the American sedan did not achieve much success. What will be the fate of Sebring 2007 of the model year? The fact that it was built on a new platform, whose rigidity of the bending body increased by 60%, and to twist by 70%. Which offers the driver a higher landing for as many as 65 mm, and not a silhouette resembles a sedan, but a more sports five -door hatchback. Will these efforts to be finying Europeans evaluate?At the very white house
The impressive motorcade of President Bush shifted unusually slowly outside the hotel window while we had breakfast. We also have a responsible and interesting day. In the American capital and Virginia, we will ride at all American Sebrings at all. Two -liter gasoline and diesel machines were presented to journalists from Europe (alas, other motors will supply to Russia) with a manual gearbox! Much more exotic than the presidential motorcade! The path is considerable: even in a straight line is almost 200 miles, more than three hundred kilometers. For everything about all half a day. The speed is strongly not recommended to exceed, so the path will take at least four hours. 
Sitting down on the driver's seat, I immediately understand a high landing, this is when my head is in the ceiling. However, if you lower the seat to the stop, everything is fine. But this is for my modest 176 cm, and the drivers are not uncommon above. However, even if a tall driver is stripped, he will certainly have problems with visibility: the roof hangs like a baseball visor. The sun now does not interfere, but you have to look at traffic lights, practically lying on the steering wheel. The low rear window, combined with three head restraints, narrows the review, and a third of the area of \u200b\u200bthe excessively highly located inner mirror reflects not the picture from the back, but a beautiful ceiling ceiling with individual illumination on LEDs. Okay, the side mirrors do not fail. The multimedia system in which the USB-connector was first installed for the first time deserves. For those who are a burden with a computer, I will explain: this is a connector where you can stick and anything with the same connector. The computer will determine what it is and how to work with it. The entertainment complex of Sebring allows connecting external information drives, and in the machine itself there is a 20-gigabyte hard drive that can be filled with navigation cards, music and even photos! Watch the latter on the screen with a diagonal of 6.5 inches, in 65 thousand colors with a resolution, inaccessible display of the camera or even a pocket computer!
Non American American
A cold diesel thaws quite loudly, but soon subsides. By the way, under the plastic cover with the inscription CRD, well-known Volkswagen TDI with pumps. Until recently, he was perhaps the best passenger diesel engine, today it is just good. It pulls perfectly from 1,500 rpm, and it is easy to move. It will still serve in Europe, but in the United States since 2007 it will no longer be allowed new toxicity standards of the most tough in the world. A high lever of gearboxes with a large chrome knob lies in the hand, but the central armrest is too high: including even gears, you touch it with your elbow. The duty exercise exit from the lane to a busy street is easier to do than it seemed. Acceleration in the first and second gears is impressive, but then Sebring loses agility. It seems to be not too heavy, but huge 18-inch wheels are not easy to promote. But, having gone to the cruising 6570 miles per hour, you can evaluate excellent rolling and smoothness.
Diesel Sebring slowly wraps miles along highway. The mechanical gearbox is cruise-control is not a hindrance: on the sixth after 80 km/h diesel pulls like a young elephant, even steep hills do not reduce medium speed. Having imbued with the unhurried rhythm of the American highway, at first I feel not too confident on the narrow rural paths. But after a dozen turns, I calm down: a strongly dumped steering wheel hides information about the road, but quite adequately informs about the angle of rotation of the wheels. The chassis, as it turned out, reacts quite normally to solid lateral accelerations. In general, at Sebring you can go along the narrow paths of Virginia much faster than local rules allow. This is a jump! Right in front of us, a couple of tens of meters across the road, a spotted deer flew in one fell swoop. Against the background of a bright autumn forest, he looks completely unrealistic as if cut out of Disney cartoon. Although the deer test ended safely, it is better to slow down the pace. Moreover, the final item is already not far.
There it became possible to saddle Krysler with a two -liter gasoline engine for a short time, in which 16 hp. more. That's just the horses, apparently tired. It’s hard to touch the place, some kind of overclocking, and even the transmission of a manual box is turned on compared to the diesel engine fuzzy. Cruise control on this machine nonsense! In a shortly cool rise, the car loses speed and in a tiny loophole of the mirror, a chrome grille of the radiator of the next poppy or kenvort grows in front of our eyes. It is strongly impossible to believe in 156 horsepower and 190 N.M of a two -liter gasoline engine. In addition, constant switches for low gear demonstrate: at increased revolutions, the motor is by no means quiet. This Chrysler Sebring is too weak! 
Riding American? It is calm, leisurely, without unnecessary maneuvers to move in space and be sure to do something else. Drink coffee or stake, chew a sandwich or hamburger, talk on a mobile through Hands Free, endlessly set up and switch radio or make makeup. For such a life, Chrysler is suitable. The cup holders between the front seats with heating or cooling. You can keep the coffee hot endlessly or stretch the process of melting ice in soda for a couple of hundred miles. By personal choice and in accordance with the mood. This is probably also important ... The Crysler Sebring family sedan has everything necessary for the American market. But Russian motorists, oddly enough, are much more picky ...
Translated into Russian
Sebrings will be supplied to Europe primarily with a 2-liter gasoline engine or turbodiesel. And with applicants for the souls and wallets of Russian drivers, versions with engines 2.4 and 2.7 liters (see table.) Will have to get acquainted separately. I hope that the disadvantages of pre -production cars will be fixed, and the dynamics of machines with large engines will be noticeably better. After all, they have to fight with strong competitors. Moreover, in Russia, Sebrings will not be sold, as in their homeland, for 20 thousand dollars. The official price will become known in late January.
Anatoly Fomin
A source: The magazine "Driving"
