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Dragon & Mermaid
How is Alexander Dolsky? Hello, Poland! How many years I dreamed of this meeting and the heavens of the lack of light, and the chokes of old candles. And the fire dragon and the militant mermaid. Cadillac Escalade / Escalade Hybrid someone resemble these characters of Krakow and Warsaw. The Bronze Dragon, set at the foot of the Wovel Hill in the center of Krakow, exhibits the queue from the flame every 5 minutes, or 288 times a day. Fire-drying dignity with a built-in gas pipeline such a load is nicking. Here would be a Caddy Escalade similar to the line of uninterrupted gasoline supply! And so almost 100 liter tank will be allowed by a shock pace. Cork 28.5 l / 100 km and on the most economical tracks 90 km / h is reduced only to 20.4 l / 100 km. But the 6.2-liter V8 quietly urchite on the turnover is barely above the idle, on which the system of shutdown of halves of cylinders should be opened. Escalade Hybrid does not feel flawed due to truncated by about 6 liters of fuel tank. Atkinson's 6.0-liter cycle, the 6.0-liter eight will be satisfied, twice as smaller by the VS V8 fuel of the fellow, devoid of support for the pair of electric motors, which at low speeds give a breather of the DVS and help him with intensive acceleration. If everything was so easy! Basic Escalade Hybrid My12 by 107,000 rubles. (Equivalent of about 3500 L 95th) more expensive than the top version of Platinum with a classic power plant, to which, among other things, convenient retractable steps are attached, the front seats not only heated, but also ventilation plus heating steering wheel. The last feature for the saving nickel-metal hydride batteries Hybrid taboo. But it's nice, damn it, in a frosty day to take for a warm ram! Is there any such official Caddy dealer, who would sell and served gasoline-electric Escalade from Kazan and east? Joke with a fraction of a joke.
Comparison of acceleration dynamics is also not in favor of non-small 200 kg of heavier hybrid. Yes, and sound accompaniment is specific. The American bulking of multiliery V8 with intensive acceleration has evaporated somewhere, but when slowing at low speeds in the cabin, the trolleybus sound of the electro-hydraulic drive of the brake system is heard, which is not too knit with the formidable type of Escalade. In addition, the Poles did not pay attention to the huge green hybrid signs. Cyclopean, 22-inch chrome plated discs with BRIDGESTONE DUERER H / L Tires Another thing! In the views aimed at them clearly read the question: how much does it cost? We were more interested, whether the wheel will fall away with Krakow to Warsaw. The puncture is happening, the Hybrid crew leading an implacable fight with excess weights, it would have to rely only on a sealant balloon. But landscaped Escalade, despite the greater mass, is played in the efficiency of the brakes. Only total hydraulics efforts and traction electric motors translated into the generator mode provide the desired deceleration. According to the informativeness of hydro and electric power plants (HYBRID) steering wheel parity with a plus sign: reality exceeds the expected from 100% of the Americans. On the contrary, the suspension with high-tech magnetic shock absorbers is not able to cope with the unsappressing mass of the giants. Premium smooth stroke? Forget. On the transmission direction again obvious differences. Yes, the rear differential-self-block standard, but the usual Escalade is constant in the choice of 44 with the separation of thrust between the axes of 40:60, and the Hybrid with its multi-mode distribution can be super-monomic rear-wheel drive, and giving hopes for supergoing due to lower transmission. True, in fact, there is little sense from her. So what to choose? How do you not remember the dreams of the heroine of Gogol's marriage: if Nicaro Ivanovich's lips do not put Ivan Kuzmich to the nose, but to take any disconneness, what a baltazar baltazar stop! The dragon and ecologically oriented mermaid separately are not perfect, but their duet has nothing to give a symmetrical answer.
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