Test drive Mercedes Benz A-class w169 2004-2007 hatchback

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Six years ago, the production of a Mercedes A-Class was resumed. During this time, Baby-Benz was dispersed in the amount of one million copies and became the most aggressive model of the company: for seventy percent of all Mercedes-Benz users, this is the first Merce in their lives.
Ivanov returned from Brussels some kind of inflated. He brought good vodka, janitors for his murdered piston, chocolate for the secretary and then says: this a-class is some kind of strange, he almost rolled over in an blue. I traveled around the flowerbed in the city center, and then the car stood on two wheels. By some miracle and the steering wheel, I turned it out, returned it, set it at 4 points, but the misunderstanding remained. There is clearly something with him, let's go with you, let's say to the main thing. And the editor -in -chief says: you need to drink less. These are Mercedes, everything is thought out there for a hundred years in advance. Write better what a good car it is. It was 1997. August fell from apple trees. Before the official presentation of the smallest and most unusual Mers there was two weeks.
After another two to three weeks, two Ashki lay on their side at once, performing an ordinary test maneuver and slightly damaging the testers sitting in them. In both cases, journalists were testers. Being citizens of developed countries, they received insurance and solid moral compensation for the bruises received and for several months distributed an interview to the latest media injecting for several months. Ivanov was beside himself. He would not save the car in Brussels, he would be the very first A-class revolter in the world! I would have corrected health in some European health resort at the expense of a Mercedes, I would have issued a solid sick leave, I would say something smart in a newspaper with a circulation of 3 million. And with the correct arrangement of the emphasis, Mercedes would be owed to him by a whole car, even a-class. But most Ivanov was depressing that he was not allowed to write about this on time at the place of work. Such an ugly story. The globalist received under the breath with some delay and from his own democrats. The release of the A-class was suspended for three months ...
So the most revolutionary model of the oldest automobile company was tempered. Now, six years later, no one remembers what happened, what is the reason, and who exactly does not remember and the names of all cars of the year for the reporting period. The car market is changing rapidly. And only one thing stood, and stands a mansion on its own island. This is an A-class. He was healed, got stronger, received in the standard a stabilization system of course stability (fourth-generation ESP as at a S-class, only unlotted), grew in length (+170 mm of the base), became more serious, stately and merciful. And besides the revolutionaryness, there is still something to love for.
   
If you felt something wrong in A-class, then just keep in mind that this is not an ordinary Mercedes, but a front-wheel drive. This is such a large exception of small size. And if it seems to you that he does not have enough dynamics, then do not translate it into three and two liters of volume. There are only one and six. So, you will have to measure mainly with the GOLF class. Among the opponents, Ashka rides very, very cocky. The opponents of those who treat Ashka with understanding of its exclusivity, or rather familiarity, so they will not be zealous for a long time, they do not press further two hundred meters from the traffic lights, but prefer to observe the Mercedesik on sewer covers. And there is no surprise in this: everything that you had ever read about the Mercedes pendants does not work here for reasons of sustainability. And stability is already a matter of image. And since the wheels are suspended to the body tightly and briefly, the moves are minimal, then the image of the sports car suggests itself on its own. So you have to think. Light, fast and places flying scooter, equipped, flattened and intended for the city.
... And those who without brains seek to attack our Baby even in a bend, not understanding that in the arc a-class is falling without error and restrictions. If anything, ESP corrects everything. And in terms of controllability, the car no longer presents any surprises. And it seems that this time everything is thought out for a hundred years. This is the bottom, that is, everything under the floor.
Above the floor is what A-class is especially appreciated. With a length of only 3.77 m (this is slightly larger than Ford Ka, and less than the 206th wad), it has a two-meter (and another 5 millimeters) salon, which is more than in the S-class! What is the use of imagining such a proportion you need to sit. Only on your own pope can you feel the distance between the rows. Even if the first row is pushed back to the stop, then draws of knees will not rest on the backs. The second row of seats also moves back and forth and in the front-out position releases 470 liters of the luggage compartment. To make it clear, this is a useful volume of the trunk of the fourth golf ... with a wagon body. The rear seats can be folded, or you can take it off at all, releasing as many as two cubic meters for skis, sticks, boards, sails, rollers, greats, brooms, boxes with beer for outdoor activities, post -working unloading and reloading. Not a car, but some kind of matrix.
Add here a leather salon, a full electric package, a five-speed machine with an undertaking +/-, climate control, parking sensors and a star on the hood ... and see how in the seventh year it conquers his market.
Text Ivan Paderin photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

Source: Cars