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BMW 850 CSI and Mercedes Cl 600 are the two best coupe of the two best German trucks. This resemits ends.
It is possible to compare the numbers to the dive: the Bavarian engine is 5.6 liters, and the stuttgartz - 6 liters and power per 14 horses above; The first 300 kg is easier and by 0.6 seconds is quickly gaining a hundred; and the second is 2 cm long and the valves are twice as much - 48, however, the flow rate of 1.4 liters is higher, but at the same time the smoothness of the stroke is better, but the stability is worse in this comparison as little as in The fact statement that Ivan Ivanovich is a bit older than Peter and wears longer hair, but the last is more cold and slightly wider in the shoulders.
But both cars brought to the goal of the publishing house Kommersant, and the first look at them finally beat the hunt to compare and determine the worst and best. Pleasant silver Mercedes with prosperous rounded lines and large, honestly opened headlights - and predatory, squat, with a bevelous nose Bimer at all without headlights (they rise above the hood, only when he looks at the next victim in the dark).
INSIDE
Daimler-Benz has many secrets. For example, sitting in her sports seems to be a compartment in a sports, at first glance, a chair (even the power of the hugs of the saddle with a chair can be adjusted), you feel yourself looking at the leather sofa in a relaxed atmosphere of a small office. It turns out even somehow not very interesting: left the office, I sat down on the street to another office and went to the third. The whole difference - in stationary offices of the chair is not regulated so thin, as in the mobile.
However, the BMW 850 from the inside does not look like a car. Salon, in Mercedes, which is a single comfortable, though a slightly cold-blooded space, here with obvious intent is divided into two independent cabins - passenger and driver. The life zone of each is limited to the seat-holding seat, an unusually high central tunnel, anterior panel and a very thick door. Well, of course, what a conversation, the chair can be moved anywhere in any way as you like to tilt and all that other things, but the feeling of space is strictly according to your sizes, nor a centimeter is larger, still saved. And if, for example, suffer from claustrophobia, it is better not to sit here. Or it is necessary to console the thought that you are still in front, and not from behind, where something is located, with your form, but in no way the resembling seat.
Experienced people argue that the unpleasant sensations take place in three days of active ride. But in general, this car is not even for two. In the BMW 850, you must ride one, "said the owner of the dark blue eight, who has already changed four of the same. - No women. Second place - for a tennis bag.
IN MOVE
The next secret of Merc is revealed on the go. The solid firm simply inflated everyone. Everything, as it should be in a rapid compartment: Two doors, dizzy overclocking, instant switching of an automatic box for reduced transmission, if you press the pedal until it stops. But the problem is that absolutely I do not want to do it all. And I want to go calmly and solid, and only journalistic doubt makes accelerate, slow down and twist the devices.
The CPU 600 is actually almost different from the usual six hundred. Well, in short by 5 cm. Well, ingestive rear passengers. That's all. The choice of such a car is not talking about sports inclinations, but only one thing: a person will ride without a chauffeur itself. And nothing addictive spirit in this car should not be. There was a person with us who rode her not two days, as we, and several years. Talked. Acceleration? Fine. Slows down? It is better to nowhere. Winter riding? Fine. Summer? Also excellently. Technical problems? No. No emotions.
But the car itself is in every way trying to fill the unusual lack of service personnel. Takes the role of silently standing behind a lacquer chair, ready to rush to fulfill any orders of the owner. I wanted to open the trunk - he immediately proves from under the silver livery specifically a cooked handle for this case. We go backwards - immediately puts forward two metal Osa, facilitating orientation. And barely sit down in the chair, it creates you under the right side, so that, God forbid, I did not have to reach, the end of the seat belt. By respectfully waited with a minute, removes the belt back, not daring to insist more. A good servant can appear at the right moment, but not be intrusive.
And the BMW 850 is able to be intrusive. With each convenient case, demonstrates its character. It must be bored. To do this, next to the lever of the speeds, there is even a special button, pressing which limits the power of the motor 80 percent. But it helps little, the possibility is still too great. You can easily go, for example, around the city all the time on the second gear. And it is possible on the third - with the same result, just as soon as possible. Facial jerks ahead and lobby, sharp rebuildings, accelerations and braking turn into your duty. Without it, it is impossible - such a car. And if someone does not like, let it not go to the BMW 850. It happens such a car incompatibility. One of my client chased by car, threw out several times and refused her, "said the director of the company Bavaria. - Not that it is worse, and I'm better. Just it is not him. And I like to ride on it, and that's it. Like to always be the first.
With BMW, they say people who traveled on it for a long time, gradually grow together. The longer, the stronger. And penetrate her ideals. And the ideal is only one - speed. And the owner, together with the car, serve him meaninglessly and fanatically.
- Here you have 380 forces. What's next? I asked the owner of the car.
- Like what? First, remove the catalyst is plus 10 horses. Then put a special issue system - ten more.
- And all this limit?
- As everybody? Then, if it turns out, buy Maclaren with a Baemwash motor: there is now in Germany one thousand marks ...
And now imagine that someone in my spiritual warehouse cannot ride on Merc. Nonsense, you will say, there is no such thing. But the expression of the Fan Mercedes did not meet and will not meet. Just because it is one of the memorable elements of a prosperous life. Cliche. Where will you spend money? - Anglicin asked who won a million in the lottery. Is it really incomprehensible? - With a hidden mock replied the winner. - Cottage on the seashore, yacht, young wife and coupe CL 600.
OUTSIDE
It is interesting to look at everything that happens through the eyes of a pedestrian. This was done in the XIX century one classic of Russian literature:
... The knitting needles mixed into one smooth circle. Only shook the road yes cried in the fright who stopped a pedestrian - and she rushed, rushed, rushed! And Won is already visible away, like something dust and drill air.
Model / Modification BMW 850 CSI Mercedes-Benz Cl 600
Manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Daimler-Benz AG
Manufacturer Country Germany Germany
BODY
Part type of coupe
Number of doors / places 2/2 + 2 2/4
ENGINE
Type petrol with multipoint injection gasoline with multipoint injection
Front location longitudinal front
Working volume (see cubic.) 5576 5987
Number / Cylinder Location 12 V-shaped 12 V-Fig
Cylinder diameter x Piston stroke (mm) 86x80 89x80.2
Compression ratio 9.8 10
Power (EEC) (kW at rpm) 280 at 5300 290 at 5200
Power (DIN) (l. P.) 380 394
Moment (EEC) (nm at rpm) 550 at 4000 570 at 3800
Number of valves / cylinder 2 4
TRANSMISSION
Drive on the rear wheels on the rear wheels
Six-speed manual transmission 5-speed automatic
SUSPENSION
Front independent independent
Rear independent independent
STEERING
Type of Rake Gear, with Hydraulifier Screw Ball Nut, With Hydraulifier
Torkemose
Front disk (ventilated) disk (ventilated)
Rear disk disk (ventilated)
ABS standard equipment standard equipment
Wheels
Tire size
front 235/45 Zr 17 255/60 Zr 18
rear 265/40 ZR 17 255/60 ZR 18
Dimensions / About EMA / Weight
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4780/1855/1330 5065/1912/1478
Wheel base (mm) 2684 2945
Front / Pallet Pitch (mm) 1554/1562 1614/1587
Minimum reversal radius (M) 5.75 5,95
Dry mass (kg) 1975 2240
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km / h) 250 250
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (s) 6.0 6.6
The cost of unacted, thousand DM 151-170 197-220
Order of the order execution 2 months 4 months
 
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Alexander Kalugin,
Dmitry Novokreschenov (photo),
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A source: "Autopilot"