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The inhabitants of the Khanty-Mansi district people are smiling and, it seems, completely pleased with life. The Finno-Ugric gods (in which they still believe here) sent them Ermak Timofeich, who joined them to the Moscow principality; The gas fountain in Berezov, which opened these lands as the fuel and energy base of Russia, and the 65th article of the Constitution, which gave them autonomy. And recently, local hunters stumbled upon a new Mazda6 in the forest. Joy was!
Why here? Even the organizers themselves do not speak directly, joke, they say, to test the new winter equipment. Maybe because Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug is dynamically developing region, rich in energy resources, excellent roads, warming inhabitants and colorful landscapes?!
What else do journalists need Russian automobile publications? Unless to drive a hundred or two kilometers along icy long-distance routes, from time to time distributing business cards and fines to local traffic police officers and admiring the objects of the beauty of local nature. All inclusive!
It is dangerous to develop high speed on local tracks for two reasons: firstly, the asphalt freezes, is covered with a light snowball, and it becomes extremely difficult to hold the car on the road without a stabilization system. Secondly, traffic cops here are not uncommon, and their cunning and ingenuity would have caused the humorist Zadornov pride in a Russian person.
Do not drive if you see Gray KamAZ standing on the side of the road: it will probably be a mobile post of traffic police with a small camera sticking out of the body. If your speed exceeds the permitted, get ready to see yourself in the photo and part with part of the business trips
Note to dealers: Mazda cars are rare in Surgut and other cities of the district. The nearest official dealer is located in Tyumen (about 800 km from Surgut), and the gray sellers offer used cars of the past generation at the price of well -equipped new ones.
However, the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug is not poor: the average salary in large cities is 30,000 rubles. See the light above the forest? This is burned by excess gas, they say, it is much easier (and more profitable) than to store it. And how such towers look at night!
The sun, by the way, does not even rise high above the horizon during the day: for example, hangs over the cedars, waiting for a quick sunset. It gets dark here really early at half past three, twilight is already gathering, and by four o’clock in the afternoon the sky becomes blue-black. However, at this time of the year, the St. Petersburg day is not much longer
Engine 2.5 was created on the basis of the previous 2.3-liter unit. Its working volume has grown due to an increase in the diameter of the cylinders and the piston. Mazda6 confidently accelerates in any of the 6 programs, and even on the last two you can safely perform overtaking on the highway. However, in winter there can be too much traction: do not turn off the active security system.
Mazda6 gas pedal with a 2.5-liter engine seems especially sensitive, and excessive zeal instantly leads to a slip. But the DSC system can be trusted. Surprisingly, even this set of microcircuits was imbued with the spirit of Zoom-Zoom and gives the driver to feel the buzz from slipping before the DSC system leveles the car.
However, at high speeds, the system still begins to think faster and trusts the driver's reactions less. The latter now controls the rotation of the wheels through a fully electric amplifier. The reactive effort on it seems to be many times, but the sensitivity has increased, and the most pleasant thing is no longer bite to bite it, as it was with the previous electro -hydraulic power steering!
It became easier to the fingers: the number of necessary buttons came to a minimum, and they are brought to the steering wheel. But you need to get used to the vaunted system of total CF-NET control.
At first, it seems more difficult to control the entire contents of the central console with the thumb of the left hand than to do this, stretching the right hand and choosing the right key each time. But after a pair of three hours of communication with the system, having learned the finger with the right routes, you understand that CF-Net really allows you to be less likely to be distracted from the road.
Optronic devices of expensive versions look stylish and expensive, but, reading their testimony in the dark, their eyes are stronger than the devices of simpler versions.
In the dark, local lighting is turned on in the front panel. When the driver turns on the audio system, its buttons light up with bright blue light, pulsate and gradually go out.
Stylish, but on the functional side is useless. But it is pleasant to have such an illumination in the car, if only because competitors do not have this yet! Like many of what is now in Mazda6
 
Text: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Author and Mazda

 
 
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 124/2008]