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Californian stories
Beverly Hills 90210, The O.C., Californization Series about beautiful and complete adventures The life of Californians has always been popular with the audience. A completely unexpected trip to the presentation of Jaguar XKR-S convertible turned into an adventure TV series. Episode I. Meeting in the desert
Snow-white body Jaguar XKR-S ruptured unexpectedly cool desert air. The coast with his turmoil life, expensive boutiques, golf lovers of advanced years, immigrants from Mexico and Asia, gangster quarters and sleepy suburbs remained on the other side of the mountains. Only a man, a woman, a car and the road here she is freedom.
What are you sick of 60 miles per hour? Under the hood 550 l. p., The road is free, no cameras nor ambushes! For complete happiness, she lacked speed.
Nothing speaking, he pressed for gas. The womb braze of the compressor V8, passing as the revolutions increase in the cry, exploded the silence of the desert. 120, 130, 140 miles per hour, the arrow of the speedometer rapidly flew to the right. 140 mph This is 224 km / h! The advancing on the Mayan era of White Jaguar will promise to be fun at least white Jaguar will not let me be bored. The truck of local aborigines was rapidly approaching ahead.
Perhaps it is better to lose, but still insisted, in their pair, a man clearly answered for prudence.
To slow down this XKR-S was able to whit no worse than accelerate. And did it as impressive as much as efficiently. Passengers hang on the belts, the arrows of the devices instantly rushed to the left, the carbon lip of the front bumper almost relates to the asphalt machine bought the tires into the asphalt, like a wild cat with his teeth into the body of the victim. And after a couple of miles it became clear that the driver was worried not in vain: the border guardian Guardians who went to meet the Ford Crown Victoria at the sight of Snow White Jaguar, turned into the floor, turned through a double solid and sat down in a couple of tail.
It seems I got! Interestingly, he himself saw our poles or was there a call from the local resident? He already regretted that he had succumbed to her incitement.
Do you know how to behave when they stop? Hands on the steering wheel, stay driving, show the documents on the first requirement. And yes, we are only mile from the border with Mexico, so be ready to show your passport, her calm in this not the most pleasant moment just gave her charm.
But he was not driving for the wheel: the hands nervously dug into the steering wheel, the breath was frequent, and his heart jumped out of his chest. Ford mocking slowly grown in mirrors. Are gliblue beacons included? Is it a hum of engine or howl siren? Will they take us for drug dealers, because before the border with Mexico a little more mile? In his head drove troubled thoughts. And here the border guards are already hanging on the rear bumper, but there is no order to cuddle for the sideline. Yes, and turn on the chandelier, it seems not going.
Wow seems to go! Never Stirlitz had never been so close to failure, fed from the driver's heart.
But what is the torture to ride the pervolored 60 miles in a straight line, like an arrow, the road, brought as if from the movie! On the road, on which our XKR-S could show everything, which is capable of, and on the speedometer of the damn 60 miles!
Episode II. Feline concert After 20 miles of this torture in the mirrors, a small blue point appeared, rapidly approaching a white coupe with an honorary escort. The driver of open XKR-S has not yet known, what an ambush will be waiting for him, so I gave my cat to release claws.
Now they will take someone, gloating the driver of the white coupe. But he did not have time to finish the phrases, as Crown Victoria saw in the cabriolet and pressed on the brakes. Deciding that two this is too, the guard of the border turned to the first secondary road, and the two cats went to the singer of speed.
Pedal To Metal, as the Americans say, and the desert is filled with sounds with no comparable voices AJ-V8, the motor, which is rightfully proud of each in JLR from a simple engineer to Ratan Tata. Voices moving from bass to a tenor changing mood, living and passionate.
Damn how I love this car! In his voice sounded genuine delight. He opened the window to better hear the song of the coupe and the convertible, which they sang in two voices with each overtaking. The first starts, spinning to the limit turnover and taking an increasingly womb, which turns into a slightly hysterical war, which does not allow to hang a pause after a moment that is not allowed to hang a pause after a cabriolet after a moment. So pair they rushed towards the wind of the desert.
Episode III. Take off allowing!
The US roads are not created to combat turns, but to enjoy the speed on a straight line. True, it is not necessary to get involved, and the siren at the Ford police can sound and on your soul. But our heroes were lucky again: they not only changed the snow-white coupe on a convertible of the same color of purity, but also found a place where their hooliganism can be turned into a good sense in chaos.
270, 280, 290 km / h, he announced every new height with excitement. The wind with a desperate whistle tried to cut off the client hooded hood. The edge of the take-off strip is rapidly approaching: seven thousand feet, six thousand, five! Her hands were relaxed on the steering wheel, the blue eyes focused in the distance, where the US Air Force officer was stood with the finishing flag, which denoted the starting point of braking. Still, a woman driving, especially behind the wheel of such a car, it's damn sexy.
And now the steering wheel on itself and almost vertically upwards, just like the F-18 of the Blue Angels pilot group, which lost to the WFP's wildcats of WFP Naval Aviation Base in El Centro. But, alas, XKR-S is very fast, but still a car, and its aerodynamics works to press the car to the ground, and not help her take off. Therefore, she pressed on the brakes.
Episode IV. MHI
Tuchi, all day breaking through from the mountains, by evening they won the peaks bizarrely made from the giant boulders and from anger hit all the stocks of water, which had accumulated on the way from the Pacific Ocean. The road rose all the above, the window was becoming colder, the rain was intensified. The visibility fell, felt.
Skutko! Just Stephen King!
I hate him, some kind of Chernukha! She cut off.
Soon the joke about the MGL became a reality: Jaguar drove into a low-hanging cloud, and the world around disappeared. Visibility fell to 1015 meters, two cars were still visible in front, but the third has already disappeared in the MGL. Like any normal person, he dropped speed, while drivers of huge pickups continued to steer at the maximum allowed 75 miles per hour. They rose so much spray that the convertible was poured with his head. It seemed that another second and MGLU would have a silhouette of a monster or a maniac with a chainsaw. The head was clogged with thoughts about idiots on pickups, Stephen King, the gloomy of nature, but for a second he did not think about how his Jaguar stands on the road. Despite the fact that the asphalt was filled with water, the car did not allow to doubt himself. XKR-S confidently turned, slowed down and accelerated when a very slow truck grown ahead. Three minutes later they emerged from the cloud, the rain intensity began to decrease, and the ride became much more pleasant.
San Diego After the rain was fresh, and fleeing the ocean sun blocked the sky into a variety of shades of yellow. The roof is lowered, droplets on the hot hood dried, and the XKR-S appeared before the aborigines in all its glory. But his passengers were clearly not delighted. The navigation system too late gave the team, because of which the solemn entrance to the hotel was delayed.
I did not meet worse navigation! In the afternoon, it brings, at any time of the day, slows down, do not understand the junction, what Congress we need, and prompts are late, no matter how to set up! Lifting the place behind the wheel of a woman, a man began to pour the negative on the car accumulated in traffic jams. Throw! If not navigating, we would not plot and have not seen such a beautiful sunset, women always have their own special look at the world.
Epilogue
Time passed, emotions lay down, but the memories remained. XKR-S Convertible, like any other Jaguar, causes a lot of positive emotions that cannot even defeat even the outbound shortages that he also has, like any Jaguar.
I fell in love with XKR-S back in Portiman, when the Algarve's turns attacked the turns of the Algarve, when he squeezed all the juices on the motorway when he checked the brakes and self-preservation instinct on the serpentines of Southern Portugal. And now my love has become only stronger, because the brake pedal finally became tough, and my nerves are no longer straightened at each slowdown. Tim Clark, who was responsible for setting up the engine and transmission, believes that in Portugal, the brakes on the machines are already tired, because they had to work in the most severe conditions, and our group was the last. Then serious claims were only for the brakes and the lack of effort on the steering wheel at legal speeds. In Portugal, the steering wheel poured pleasant severity only at speeds above 150 km / h. In California, there were no such claims. This is somewhat strange, because, according to the same Clark, the convertible suspension is identical to the coupe.
Usually open cars have a calmer character, but XKR-S Convertible, I am sure, does not save on the track. The clamping force of the cabriolet is even higher than the coupe, and the balance is closer to the perfect 52:48. Another different number: Open XKR-S mass is only 40 kg more than a coupe, and most of this excess weight falls on the mechanism of folding the roof and the safety arc, which jump out due to the head restraints of the rear seats during the coup. It is even more amazing that completely aluminum body has not been increasing so designers were confident in the reserve of stiffness. And indeed, 18,000 nm / hail. One of the best indicators in the world of convertibles. As with the transformation of Erki in the Er-Esk, when creating a cabriolet, the British managed to do with low blood.
I know that the cabriolets are not for Russia. I agree that the soft roof in our climate is a significant minus. But if you ask my recommendation, I will advise you to the convertible. He inspires even more than the coupe. Any sports car must first give emotions. And the convertible is a guarantee of good mood, believe me!
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