Honda S2000 test drive since 1999 Cabriolet

This crazy, crazy drive

We are not that we undertook to compare them, no. Honda is no longer a newcomer in the exclusive market. We just wanted to emotionally talk about the beautiful, but not without a share of practicalism. These works of automotive art absorbed at first glance incompatible things outbound imposing elegance and a devilish hard suspension, expensive finishing materials and reactive acceleration, static comfort and dynamic comfort. And they, of course, are not for everyone, they are for the elect, for elite individuals.
BMW Z4
Where is this Bangle? Where is this damn designer? Where? Give him here! Close this bearded physiognomy, I will kiss it! Finally he did what everyone liked! I hope that the manifestation of some familiarity to this revolutionary figure will forgive me for one simple reason: everything that was done under the leadership of Chris to Z4 and after is very controversial ... But wait, are there too many emotions? Just the Bavarians made a new class. And all. Why scream something?
But try not to shout here when you just left Z4 from the yard, and the surrounding viewer turned around the whole street and said: not a horseradish for himself! And I felt a special, close to the emperor. He drove slowly along Chapaevsky Lane the longest in Moscow, rode, tely -shaped bouncing with a hard suspension on the lying policemen, rode, almost not clicking on gas, so as not to attract excess attention, and still through the system: that neither a look, then a rambleb. The climax of sadomasochism was pleased to me. And ten minutes before that, climbing, in half, into a odorous leather interior through a unicellular door, I cursed the very presence in this world of cramped pontal cars with wide rapids. But this is only because I am a thick, and an extensive stomach prevents me from taking shape gracefully. In the cabin covered with a cloth roof, I remind you of a hamster. I sit like in a hole and in my cheeks I feel a shortage of space. So, what is next? We sniffed pleasantly, looked around normally, felt expensive. Two leather chairs, separated by a tunnel-barrier, over which a low stylish lever dominates a 6-speed manual. A wide shelf of torpedoes made of expensive rough plastic under an elephant skin. The slope of the windshield is so large that the upper frame with an anti -loner visor is literally 10 centimeters from the forehead. The panels of the crucial speedometer and tachometer drowned in the body. The digitization is small: to make out something, you need to strain. Climate control, audio system, DSC shutdown button, folding the roof button to lay out, a small glove compartment ... both seats are equipped with e-retro-regulations. Something is missing? No, just sitting somehow uncomfortable. And the fault of this clutch pedal is to blame for this: you press it on the floor, and it seems that at the same time you take out your boot to the left headlight. He went to Leningradsky Prospekt and drowned the pedal to the floor to the second. The basements of the lower reaches were shook drum membranes, gaining ascending. Cars in the stream turned into chess figures, between which it is convenient to maneuver. And then the turnover limiter suddenly worked sharply. I significantly poked my forehead in the edge of the glass and decided to do without an active drive in the city. And to finally calm down, threw back the roof. You go to yourself, smoke out into the street, glow with a radiant smile.
The leisurely and subgent movement to Z4 around the city almost did not cause inconvenience. Almost, because: the first is still shaking significantly. The second from periodic accelerations begins to ache, the neck is not too well -established. And the third steering wheel, despite the electric power, is incomparably harder than in a civilian car. And the real adrenaline explosion Z4 forced to survive on narrow highways near Moscow. The incomparable buzz rose on it under the loud roar of a 3-liter six, shaving recklessly into the turns. The sixth gear, fifth, fourth turn. And further, forward and forward, like the chips at the training ground by going around the low -proceedings and running away from the oncoming ones. For each of the four wheels, the precisely calculated load is placed, reliably pressing them to the asphalt. If the turn turned out to be too sharp, and the speed of entering the on -board computer considered it unacceptable, the DSC besieges the car. To do not violate Ordnung. Unobtrusive. On an attempt to go through a turn in a controlled drift with DSC disconnected, the car reacted inadequately to the share of a moment, I suddenly did not feel under the wheels of the road. It is most likely to blame for this, the same electrical power. The steering wheel is sharp, tight and seemingly very understandable, but occasionally a kind of emptiness, an unpredictable failure, is found in it. How to explain this? Something like play, but not backlash. And in this situation, it is no longer a car that, in general, did not run away from the trajectory, namely the steering wheel. To grope at the gearing point of the steering gear with a rail. But there are no equal on the straight line Z4. Only your 200 km/h on other great fellow travelers act like a red rag. They urgently need to prove to themselves that they can also. They turn on the headlights, throw it after, throwing vasiki, gazika and other husks on the cuvettes. And then you just have to remove the leg from the gas. Let them! Overtake and calm down.
Honda S2000
A slightly flattened predatory muzzle with wide wings, a back, resembling a corvette, strict nozzles of exhaust system. Insides. Womb. Cockpit. By tradition, a good smell sniffed, warm. The leather chairs looked around with excellent lateral support, in contrast, by the way, from Z4. There, in corners, you have to rest against something all the time. Continue. Leather chairs with mechanical adjustments. A small lamb circle, almost vertical. On the panel on the right and left of it, the control of the audio system and the climate are symmetrically located. Everything is convenient and without a special claim. Thin black skin of the front panel. On a high average tunnel, a metal short lever of the box. The semicircular shield is electronic. A long scale of a tachometer marked already up to 9 thousand revolutions, a digital speedometer. Everything is simple. Simple, but does not look cheap at all. The sides of the tunnel and the inserts in the door are upholstered with a soft cloth. Yes, it’s cramped. And if you stretch your legs? So, there is nothing to do long here. And no electronics control buttons. Everything for the drive, everything is for victory. The ignition is turned on with the key, and the engine is launched by pressing the large red red button. Big red button is the transition to another dimension. Gau! The decibels roared. 240 hp and 6 steps to achieve the near cosmos. The perforated stylish pedals have a small stroke, but very sensitive ... Listen, here I am writing all this, and I think why? Indeed, and so long ago, everyone understands that Honda S2000 is primarily a crazy, the only hurricane 2-liter engine in the world, only for the sound of which you can sell the soul! This is a complete absence of electronics, a classic rear -wheel drive, the most acute management and a fierce pendant ... let's go. The passenger and I threw back. Mum! Already 6,000 revolutions are in second gear, and we all accelerate. With a raised top, everything is felt 20 times sharper! 8000 revolutions! The ears were laid from the engine and wind. The share of a second, the third gear stuck impeccably. And everything is new. A hard Z4 suspension already seems to be a fairy tale. I would like to yell in unison, because the whole body is full of adrenaline. And we are Orem together, like children who first got on the American slides. At least, it seems to me that I do not hear myself or a passenger. But, judging by how passengers turn around in a trolleybus, pedestrians and policemen are heard of us. I had to sharply besiege. The brakes are beyond praise.
You forget about the indecent rigidity of the suspension after a pair of purely passed turns. What the hell is comfort with such excellent controllability! But with a great desire to disrupt the S2000 in the skid, even on dry asphalt. Only neatly. To do this, you need to wait for the demolition of the front axle in the bend, and then sharply drop the gas. However, the car is so understandable that the correct position on the road is restored almost instantly. Everything is very acute. And then again crazy pickup and rushing towards the wind in half with a roar of a powerful sports engine.
Instead of a resume
While we had the BMW Z4 test in the editorial office, I have repeatedly heard the following from men's workers: good, bastard, how good! I would now jump into it, opened the roof, cut out music and with a beautiful long -legged girl FAU on gas! What does it mean? This means that in this version, good, banal and time -tested men's show -offs prevail, and only then sound, drive, speed and wind. And this is not bad. It is perfectly! A person should strive for the beautiful, otherwise he is not a person.
How do they look:
   
OUTSIDE:
Despite the fact that at the mention of the name of the chief designer of the BMW, Chris Banlla is already jerking out of many, the new Rogster maestro, and even in comparison with the Honda, differing in several patriarchal contours, looks just wonderful. I emphasize that Japanese patriarchate is relative, and, soloing, four -year -old S2000 will give many heads and will not leave indifferent to many. However, it is difficult to determine the fact that you are in front of Honda, because there are no primary stylistic features of the company. The Bavar, on the contrary, carries his branded heritage, like a banner in an attack. In addition to branded nostrils, even the head of the headlights gives kinship with the last generation of the 7th and 5th episodes. Alas, on the side of the Honda is simply none, and the BMW silhouette, on the contrary, is spectacular. This is really a triumphal benefit of an unforgettable Banglla, whose know-how called the flame of the surface in Z4 is very to the place. There is no Honda wheel pattern in memory, and such discs can be put on any car. And in BMW this drawing is an integral part of the compositional plan of the entire car. And these discs are very stylish. What else does a modern open sports car need? Spectacular view from behind. Here rivals are almost equal. But the Japanese relatives have two exhaust pipes and more folding in the shape of a safety arc, but take a look at Z4, and everything falls into place. A little paraphrasing Pushkin, it remains only to say: Ah yes Bangle, ah yes bitch son!
BMW Z4 stylish and assertively; Everything perfectly corresponds to the capabilities and functions of a small relatives.
Honda S2000 good dynamic proportions are not a reason for success and victory.
 
INSIDE:
The interior design of an open car is a specific thing, because in shaping and the selection of materials here, aerodynamics and dust resistance, as well as safety, intervenes here. For example, binding security arcs on a Japanese car are elegantly integrated with high head restraints, and in Z4 they stick out in several foreign elements. True, this is perhaps the only miscalculation of Banlal, and the interior is generally original and in a good way and at the same time classic. A wide lining works on this image in the entire length of the panel, which evokes nostalgic memories of the times when the devices in the car were mounted on a metal panel painted under a tree, and someone of the British tradition of using a wooden array. Retro is also visible in the absence of a T-shaped central console, which would neglect the sensations of tightness. In Honda, this cannot be avoided, but the lack of free space does not burden, but only enhances the driverships that BMW has blurred: throughout the instrument panel and even on the doors, handrails, windows and opening handle regulators are playing playfully. The steering wheels are made in the same way, and the plastic spokes of the Bavarian car only increases the feeling of decorativeness, and the severity of the helm of the Japanese women works on the function and tunes exclusively in the working mood.
BMW Z4 high -quality, very modern and stylish solution, completely adequate to the outer design and the purpose of the car.
Honda S2000 is functional, and therefore looks a little rustic, but what details, and how they are made!
Text Nikolay Ushanov photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

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