Test drive Mercedes Benz S-class w221 2005-2009 sedan
Falling departure
Once every seven years, he changes a costume for a new one. And at the same time a watch, a tie and shoes. He is the very embodiment of the business protocol ... Preferably in a personal meeting
Firstly, keep in mind that it is important to choose such a machine not according to the glossy pictures of the catalog, but looking at it firsthand. What are you terribly busy? Still, try, cut an hour for this sleek handsome ...
But he does not at all look artificially elongated by a completely proportional silhouette. Rarely, one of the creators of representative machines manages to avoid the similarity of their long -drawn versions with a dachshund. But the designers of the Mercedes Ben not only skillfully disguised 520 cm of the length of the machine, the main thing they made the new flagship much more solid than the previous one.
Moreover, the length, in comparison with the machine W220, increased by only 4 cm. The main effect was given by the design of A la Maybach, but with a certain raid of the sporting of the front. Unlike a few frivolous predecessor (so much so that many people only think! They took W220 to drive without a driver) this indisputable staff.
And for many non -alternative. After all, the BMW seven will emphasize the dynamism of the owner’s thinking. Maybach will show your demonstrative luxury. Rolls-Royce is more suitable for aristocrats and pop divams. And in the field of finance, metallurgy, oil production, whatever one may say, the most protocol car with a three -beam star.
I think bargaining is not appropriate here!
And again, given the wide selection of colors and textures of the finish, it is advisable to order a S-class personally. For the tastes of the head of the transport service can differ significantly from yours. The black, dark blue and dark gray body is suitable for the business style impeccably. Silver is also good, but too much became familiar in Russia on cheap cars. Dark red, beige and white in any case. Accordingly, the skin in the salon select black or color the gray basalt. One of the three shades of nut veneer which will like it more.
The German system for choosing options will seem to you curious why refuse something, albeit not too necessary, if this does not affect the time of the supply of the car? Save? Why, if you have already laid your transport service in the company's budget. Even if after five years the car is not sold, but simply to write off, everything together, taking into account the driver’s salary, will not exceed the quite acceptable $ 100,000 per year. Naturally, we order everything that is in the list of equipment, for some reason called additional.
Separate climate control sitting in the back seat. But why do they need two whole sockets a question ...
Separate and barely protruding windows buttons are not very convenient
Adjusting the seat keys in the form of a chalk on the doors. Here are the buttons of the memory memory, heating seats and locking doors
The keyboard control keyboard is built into the armrest -trimmed with a tree
The rest of the worries will take on your subordinates. You just have to command where to take, and bask in the comfort of a chic salon. The space in front of the rear seats allows you to lay out the latter in the form of sun loungers and rest, as in the first grade of the aircraft. Massage in the seats is dual -mode: softer and stronger.
Communication with the driver is minimized by almost everything you need to turn on behind. You have your own climate control, TV and DVD cinema with two screens in the front head restraints. It is convenient to put glasses with Chateau Petrus in 1974 on folding tables made of polished wood or put contracts for millions of dollars. Is it that tight separate windows buttons are inconvenient every time you are mistaken: down or up? Doors blocking not only from the driver's seat, but also the guard is right. Why can't I lock the car myself? Everything happens ...
About the poor chauffeur, put up the word Of course, we will put up, because otherwise I would have to ignore the technical features of the new S-class. The ergonomics of the driver’s place, running qualities to tell about all this to the buyer himself is just as inappropriate as the device of the boiler equipment of the hotel Negresco in Nice to those who intend to stay there. It was difficult for me to get used to the image of an oligarch, and the driver was simple. I take off the costume from the Ermenzhildo Zenya and, dressing in no less strict from the Bolsheviki, I get behind the wheel.
So, the first thing that catches your eye, colleague, steering wheel selector automatic transmission. It is much more convenient than the floor that was on W220. By maneuvering in cramped, you will be lightning speed from the drive to the reverse, gently moving the lever with a little finger. In the parking lot, press the end. You get off by accident, it’s not scary on the go, the box will simply switch to the neutral.
Song Song! 18 adjustments! Turning on the massage and squinting your eyes blissfully, you will probably remember the adjusted once and for all at the factory, the UAZ was really in reality, and not in a bad dream? By the way, to sleep in the car, waiting for the owner, an important part of our work. Tilt the back lower, block the doors ... warmly, cozy, quietly. When it will be necessary to feed the car, the secretary of the chef will wake up on the phone here he is built -in. Like the TV. The habit of hiring a DVD disk with a fresh film will have a mandatory for you.
To the left of the light switch is the key of the night vision system. A little lower the lever of the parking brake
The phone keyboard is designed for the driver. And he still does not need a pipe, we are talking, without taking his hands away from the steering wheel
This is much more convenient: without taking off your hands from the steering wheel, now you can transfer the machine to the parking mode parking
The team system for the first time with the menu in Russian has become easier to understand. And if you don’t understand anything, put in the car of any of the systems of your office for young boys the brains of even the smartest gelding are no more complicated than electric -swing. Electronic strays on our driver's unit are more than on dummies. I don’t know how you are, but I don’t remember slowing down before the ABS is triggered, and I let the leading wheels into the boxes only when I want to. It is not necessary to admit for me either. Maybe the German Chancellor will take a hysterical young lady in the drives, and we, in Russia, have a professional selection.
The cruise control of the Dister is useful for family travels in Europe, but smoothly and comfortably, only a living driver can take an important person on our road, who can predict the insane maneuvers of those insane who buy their rights. The novelty, dedicated specifically to the W221 premiere, a night vision system, including infrared headlights, a television camera in front of an intra -tiring mirror and a screen, sunbathing in place of the speedometer. If it is a bit to finalize it, in order to turn on regardless of the headlights, it can come in handy, but exclusively in an extreme situation. To get away from enemies in complete darkness, like a terminator, this I understand. You will laugh, but the Germans were all overcome only to ... politely ride with near light, but as quickly as with distant.
We will open a small bar in the rear armrest and raise the glasses for the driver, whose skill allowed them to fill them!
And in general, much in the S-class is useful only in an emergency. 300 out of 388 horses, which, basically, is asleep unnecessarily under the hood, will help someday leave the chase. But in the usual mode of the ceremonial exit, we accelerate slowly, slow down smoothly, in the turns we go, as if with a truck loaded to the ceiling. That is, we do everything so that the owner sitting from behind can pour champagne at any time.
But, alas, when stopping at each traffic light, an impetus of returns is almost inevitable. After all, a voluminous engine and a tight hydrotransformer fight the brakes even on idle, burning springs and silent blocks of the suspension and causing their collection after complete braking. For the standard of a representative car, it is somehow unsolvable. But the Daimler-Coisler cannot eliminate this egregious flaw and does not seem to want to. We puff, several times with a masterfully pressing and releasing the brake to a fraction of a millimeter, so that at the time of zero speed the suspension remains in statics. Otherwise, the owner will think: my driver is bad ...
And this is only the beginning The S-Class Mercedes-Benz cars, leading the genealogy from the 1951 W187 model, were traditionally equipped with the most powerful engines. In recent years, the company has significantly expanded the list of engines for its flagship. Any of eight engines were placed on W220: from a budget 3.2-liter diesel to 612-horsepower V12, and with three of them the car could be taken in a full-wheel drive version of the firmician. The new S-class has not yet been so generous for offers of dealers only for rear-wheel drive cars with a 3.5-liter V6 (272 l.), 5.5-liter V8 (388 l.) Or 5.5- liter V12 from Maybach with a capacity of 517 liters. with. Basic prices, respectively, 82,000, 105,000 and 166,000 euros. The all-wheel drive C-class cars so demanded in Russia will appear in the summer, and then cars with AMG nameplates should also be expected.
BEHIND
Impeccable compliance with the image of a representative car, high prestige of the brand, comfort and safety
VS
Lack of all -wheel drive modifications
Mercedes Benz S500L
general information
Body, number of places/doors
Sedan, 5/4
Equipped mass, kg
1985
Length x width x height, mm
5206x1871x1473
Base, mm
3165
Front/back, mm track
1600/1606
Speed, km/h
250
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
5.6
Fuel consumption, l/100 highway/city
8.5/17.4
Engine
Location
The front is longing
Design
gasoline, 8-cylinder, V-shaped
Working volume, SMZ
5461
Power, L.S. at rpm
388/6000
Torque, kgsm at rpm
53/2800-4800
Chassis
Drive unit
On the rear wheels
Transmission
Automatic 7-speed
Suspension:
Independent, pneumatic with stability stabilizers
front
on transverse levers
behind
Mollycent
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
Brakes
disk, ventilated
Tires
235/55 R17
Car
$ 1.85/km
Anton Utkin, photo of Maxim Goncharov
A source: Magazine buy a car [23/2005]
