Test drive Mercedes Benz S-class w221 2005-2009 sedan
Test drive on the S-UREV
Until recently, the S-class was available only for journalists, and now the ice started: the first open doors of the Mercedes-Benz S-class went to the Panavto. We were interested in this event, since it is not easy to represent such a novelty, it’s not for you to hang balls and put girls, this is a machine for serious people of big business and government, so you need to carefully and with respect. At the appointed hour, we were given a personal S-class sparkling purity, accompanied by a personal driver. The new flagship Mercedes slightly changed its shape, prestigious posture, borrowed from Maybah, extended muscles of the wheel arches, each bend, each detail is of solidity and monumental elegance. The driver in a respectful inclination helpfully opened the door, and we fell into the holy saints of the S-class salon. An impeccable product of evolutionary convergence, S-class embodied the best finds and solutions and brought them to perfect quality and a balanced ratio. Standard product for electronics and comfort. The body hugs a multi -contouring chair, 18 electrical adjustments, including side support, optimizing position depending on the road situation. Appearing for the first time in an E-class, the seats were much more modest. There are four massage modes, lumbar support, ventilation and heating impeccable embodiment of the idea of \u200b\u200brest on the road. The car starts without a key, recognizing the driver on the card. Eight -cylinder S500 Creative machine. The updated motor gives 388l.s. (The previous model had 306) and allows you to accelerate to hundreds in 5.4 seconds.
So, we will get acquainted. Mercedes chose the intellectual concept of governing bodies with instant access to frequently used functions. In order to figure it out, you do not need to read the Talmud for operation, the interface is extremely simple and, most importantly, Russified. Really we finally waited for the 60th anniversary of the victory over the Nazi invaders Mercedes began to speak Russian. By your preference, you can control the radio, a television receiver, a CD/DVD-disk player, a phone and a navigation system directly from the steering wheel, or you can use the improved Comand system. The round Comand controller is located right under the left hand in the place of the abolished handle of the gearbox. Automatic 7-G-Tronic, along with the electronic gearbox system, Direct Select has received a fashionable residence permit on the steering wheel. In order not to hold the weight when managing the Comand joystick, a support is provided, under the lid of which the phone keyboard is hidden. The Comand menu affects the screen, which, to our surprise, can also turn to both the driver and the passenger. 
In general, the S-class is close to the cosmic autopilot system: you sit down and rest, and you will be teleported as an invaluable load with strict control over all life support systems. What is one security system, which includes emergency braking system Brake Assist Plus, a preventive PRE SAFE passenger protection system with an additional convenient parking function, near-acting radar and Distronic cruise control. Two radars of the near and one long tracking control the road situation. The Brake Assist Plus system itself calculates the necessary brake force, and when the driver presses the brake, it is realized exactly as much as the electronics calculated, not a gram more. If the collision cannot be avoided, Pre Safe comes into effect. In the air compartments of the chair, the pressure rises to increase the distance to the door, the seat belts are pulled, the back of the chair is brought to a vertical position, and all windows are closed. In our opinion, in the next S-class, a catapult will appear on the logic that will shoot a passenger and lower it on a snow-white parachute to a car filled with foam, protecting the car from deformations. Airmatic did not do without advanced pneumatic suspension. Using a button, you can choose a comfortable or sports mode, guess what we have chosen. There is safety, which means that you can safely press the gas, the driver in the back seat is somehow strangely puffed up, but he kept a respectful silence well done, that’s what it means to train if my wife also lowered his eyes when I squeezes the gas to the floor. At a speed of 120 km/h, the machine itself improved aerodynamics, reducing the clearance by 20 mm. A power increase of 26% feels the liner passed the taxiing and goes to the finish line. We take off, gentlemen, 240 overboard, and in the cabin there is silence, caressing the ear exhausted by decibels. Yes, s beast in the guise of a slender lani. 
For a long time we searched a place without cruel traffic jams to try out the Cro-control of Distronic, which had a bastard +. Three radars are watching, and you are sitting and do not even touch the pedals, no at all. The machine, maintaining the distance, slows down until a complete stop and takes overclocking after the moved stream. The chair is massaged, the music purrs, the car rides, everything happens by itself. It remains only to relax. It is a pity, it was not possible to test the Night View Assist system of night vision. Here is a miracle of hostile technology! One click is enough for the speedometer to turn into a horizontal scale, and a black and white image of what is happening in front of the car is loaded in its place. Thanks to the infrared chamber, the driver can see a pedestrian or a parked car 50 meters earlier than the light of Xenon reaches him. Knowing this, we all looked at the speedometer and could not believe that we were looking at the monitor, and not at the real shooter. The driver diligently waited for us to try to try out the comfort created for passengers. Yes, yes, and passengers have a place like in Maybach, by golly. Between the seats of the second block Comand. We felt like large bosses that should smoke a cigar and slowly look at the quotes in a laptop, simultaneously aware of the Dow Johns index.
There is a change of generations of a new S-class, a new attitude to customers, worthy of the ideology of Mercedes, everything is extremely tactful and verified, gifts are given, treated, a driver in white gloves and a cap, a personal control manager of a di-dime, The previous S-class model won a third of the world market of representative sedans, this is 500 thousand cars sold. We think this promising debutant will beat the record.
