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Georgian adventures with Mazda CX-5

The adventures of Mazda CX-5 in Georgia. Why shoil wine into the ground? Are there traffic cops in the actions? And how is all this connected with the Japanese mechanical doll and a digital mannequin?

Cutting into a juicy mountain agony of a Georgian serpentine for a dump of gas, somewhere between overwhelming squeaks of rubber squeaks and a motor cavity, I suddenly caught a desperate crac of the passenger: he was frightened. Relax, old man. This is Mazda! There is nothing to fear. And when the colleague moved behind the wheel, he himself quickly brought tires to high notes.

I do not swim? !!
The Japanese car company did everything right, but twice was wrong. The first when he was hoping for the quality of Georgian asphalt. Mazda never was suitable for bad roads. Colds, cracks and pits Her suspension was not happy, and the driver and passengers were shaking as before the exam. Present CX-5 was better on even asphalt. Nevertheless, we drove through this wonderful country, without losing a good driver tone, and the lack of comfort compensated for the second mistake of Madovtsev Georgia. This country is so interesting that literally overshadowed the Japanese novelty with his charm. Arriving home, I remembered Georgia much more than about the car. And that's why.

We landed in Tbilisi at the time when the Russian Foreign Ministry released a frightening statement and recommended to refrain from visiting this country. Bodried. At the airport I looked around several times in anticipation of the arrest or blow a saber. While one of the local, instead of throwing me off the cliff, did not say: you will not even imagine how you love and wait! We managed to talk about everything. Georgians have a mass of claims to Russia as a state, but this does not apply to a separate person from Russia. This is really worth come. In what other country of the world the waiter can argue with the client, which will now jump off the balcony to the mountain river and swollen it back and forth? Here it is in the order of things. True, this waiter was fired because it was entertained during working hours.


Good ATM
Well, Mazda CX-5 ... This, of course, is not so colorful. It is unlikely that she will produce a furor on the market. This is an ordinary compact five-hour half-and-a half meter. The same size as Suzuki Grand Vitara, Honda CR-V and long-base Qashqai. All the Japanese are brazed in connection with their new product, are somewhat exaggerated. For example, they argue that the Mazda CX-5 wheelbase is the longest in the segment. As many as 2700 mm, thanks to which the crossover has a spacious and comfortable interior. Let me remind you that Qashqai + 2 wheelbase is 2765 mm.

Relived even from the second battery, which was necessary for the start-stop system, taking it to work more economically. Thus, Japanese engineers brought their model to exhaustion: today it weighs from 1445 kg. The two-liter gasoline engine of the new product was designed by type of diesel with a huge amount of compression. As a result, they achieved overclocking to hundreds for 9.8 seconds. Nothing supernatural, but it is strictly as part of a reasonable zoom-zoom concept. I did not think that I ever hear such a phrase. Looks like non-alcoholic vodka, good ATM or honest cop. Let's talk about the latter. Mazda hinted it happens.

FREE CASSA!
Having descended from the mountain serpentine, having traveled past Mukuzani, Cinanali and Saperavi, we parked near the local traffic police and went on a tour. You still do not believe what I will tell, so perceive as a fairy tale. Georgian militia is no different from the McDonald's restaurant. I have not seen a single traffic cop in ambush, but the guarage of order with the motto is a free cashier! Although debut. When I needed help, they came immediately in four and expanded from the effort to the cake. We went to the traffic police with transparent walls as on the palm. The rooms here are issued for fifteen minutes, as much as it takes customs clearance ... pass the right exam? Come directly from the street, sitting at the table with the computer and click the buttons, then go out into the yard and driving (here, however, you have to wait, there is a queue). The inspector does not even participate in the process. I was offered to try. I sat down in an exam car and five minutes later, when I hit the cone, I reported a computer with a female voice: you did not pass, and turned off! Are you asking if there is an honest cop? And what else to be, if the examination machine is packed with camera recorders, and the inspector there is generally like ballast, just watching the audience to ask the audience.

Mechanisms melting surprises
Reasonable zoom-zoom? From Mazda would like something else, such as a hybrid based on a rotary power plant. And what did the creators of the CX-5 come up? Designing salon, they were inspired by Karakuri. One of the versions, these are hidden mechanisms that melting surprises, on another mechanical device, created to amaze, but in fact it is a traditional Japanese doll, which herself begins to go when she put a cup of tea in his hand. It sounds mysterious, but in fact, the Parquetnik surprised only the rear seat transformation scheme according to formula 4-2-4. In other words, the central small sidush is detached separately. The Japanese also applied a digital mannequin, which a million times came into and left a virtual crossover to find the optimal position of the middle body rack. Now, as they claim, landing and disembarking pass with minimal physical efforts. There is in the new crossover and the interface of the last generation of a man-machine. Such a loud name, the authors of the Parketnik called several buttons on the tunnel billet, which turn on the radio, navigation and other multimedia economy.

I watched on the CX-5 and pondered: everything is already invented by competitors, the prospect for the work of engineers here, alas, no. As soon as this thought firmly settled in my head, we drove up to the winery, where I learned that I was mistaken. Mazda's Parachics never make anything just like that, they have a double bottom in everything, hidden meaning, which they encrypt in the most unexpected circumstances.


Decent volume. Trunk for its class not small 403 liters


Transformation. Central sidushka can be addressed separately

The horse does not smell
Is it possible to surprise at least today in the production of wine? Not to mention, of course, about plastic traffic jams, powder concentrate and heated burned sawdusts? In traditional winemaking in the next 40 thousand years, no change is foreseen, will say any normal person and will be mistaken. Georgians believe that the French wine smells a horse, because it is withstanding in barrels ... When I heard it, a few minutes fought with dizziness caused by the circularity of this theory. But then we started practice. How much drank, I do not remember, but it caught the main thing: real wine is made much more ancient way, which is about 6,000 years. It wanders along with cake in clay vessels, asked by bee waxed and buried to the ground.

Mazda, like other companies, produces cars, but does it in their own way, having spoiled that the rest are about the same, and, swing the Choos, it is cool, because even on an extreme mountain serpentine I was not afraid: CX -5 always remains under control.

CAREFULLY! Technical details
The Russian market of Mazda CX-5 is supplied with a two-liter gasoline engine Skyactyv-G with a capacity of 150 liters. with. and 6-speed mechanical or automatic checkpoint. The engine is equipped with a standard configuration with a modern automatic stop / launch system I-STOP. The light chassis includes the front suspension with McPherson racks and a multi-grazing rear suspension. CX-5 was provided with an improved full drive system, which takes into account the slightest slip of the wheels, which helps not only save their clutch with the road, but also save fuel. The new steering electric powerful provides assistance and instantaneous reaction, starting at the lowest speeds, as well as tough feedback at high speeds.





Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo manufacturer

 

A source: 4x4 magazine [August / 2012]