Test drive Mercedes Benz C-class w202 1997-2000 sedan

What kind of Prussian does not like fast driving

BMW 850 CSI and Mercedes CL 600 are the two best compartment of the two best German auto -films. The similarity ends on this.
It is possible to compare the numbers before stupefaction: Bavarz has a engine of 5.6 liters, and Stuttgartz has 6 liters and a power of 14 horses higher; The first one is 300 kg lighter and 0.6 seconds gaining a hundred faster; And the second but 28 cm longer and the valves are twice as much as 48, however, gasoline consumption is 1.4 liters higher, but at the same time the smoothness is better, but stability is worse in such a comparison as much as in Statements of the fact that Ivan Ivanovich is a little older than Peter and wears longer hair, but the latter is heavier and slightly wider in the shoulders.
But both cars brought a businessman to the gates of the publishing house, and the first look at them finally repelled the hunt to compare and determine the worst and the best. A pleasantly well -fed silver Mercedes with prosperous rounded lines and large, honestly open headlights - and predatory, squat, with a beveled nose of bimer without headlights (they rise above the hood, only when he looks out in the darkness of the next victim).
INSIDE
Daimler-Benz has many secrets. For example, sitting in her sports, it seems, a compartment in a sports, at first glance, armchair (even the power of hugging the rider can be adjusted), you feel yourself falling on a leather sofa in a calm atmosphere of a small office. It turns out even somehow it is not very interesting: he left the office, sat on the street to another office and went to the third. The whole difference is that in stationary offices, the chairs are not adjusted as subtly as in a mobile one.
However, the BMW 850 from the inside is not like a car. The salon, in a Mercedes representing a single comfortable, albeit slightly cold space, is divided into two independent cabins - passenger and driver’s. The life zone of each is limited to tenaciously holding you with a seat, an unusually high central tunnel, front panel and a very thick door. Well, of course, what kind of conversation, the chair can be pushed anywhere, as you like to be tilted and all that else, but the feeling of space is strictly in your size, nor a centimeter more, it still remains. And if, for example, you suffer from claustrophobia, it is better not to sit here. Or you need to be consoled by the thought that you are still in front, and not behind, where something is located, your shape, but not in size resembling a seat.
Experienced people claim that unpleasant sensations pass through three days of active driving. But in general, this car is not even for two. You must go to BMW 850, ”said the owner of the dark blue eight, who changed four of the same in his lifetime. - No women. The second place is for a tennis bag.
IN MOVE
The next secret of Merc is revealed on the go. A solid company simply pouted everyone. Everything, as it should be in a swift compartment: two doors, dizzying acceleration, instant switching of an automatic box to a reduced gear if you press the pedal all the way. But the problem is that I absolutely do not want to do all this. And I want to go calmly and solidly, and only journalistic duty makes you accelerate, slow down and twist the turns.
The CL 600 coupe is actually almost no different from the usual six -hundredth. Well, in short, 5 cm. Well, more doubtful with the rear passengers. That's all. The choice of such a machine does not speak about sports inclinations, but only about one thing: a person will ride without a driver, himself. And there should be nothing breathtaking in this machine. There was a man with us who rode on her not for two days, like us, but for several years. We talked. Acceleration? Excellent. Inhibiting? There is nowhere better. Winter riding? Perfect. Summer? Also excellent. Technical problems? No. No emotions.
But the car itself is trying in every possible way to make up for the unusual absence of service personnel. He takes on the role of the Lacquium silently standing behind the chair, ready to rush to fulfill any order of the owner. You wanted to open the trunk - he immediately sticks out from under the silver livery specially for this case prepared handle. You go in reverse - immediately puts forward two metal mustache, facilitating orientation. And barely sitting down in a chair, slipping to you under the very side, so that, God forbid, you don’t have to stretch, the end of the seat belt. Having waited respectfully for a minute, he removes the belt back, not daring to insist anymore. A good servant knows how to appear at the right time, but not to be obsessive.
And the BMW 850 can be intrusive. At every opportunity, it demonstrates its character. It must be shoe. To do this, there is even a special button next to the speed box lever, which limits the power of the motor 80 percent. But this helps little, the possibilities are still too great. You can easily go, for example, around the city all the time in second gear. And it is possible on the third - with the same result, just as rapidly overtaking everyone. Crazy jerking forward and sideways, sharp rebuilding, accelerations and braking turn into your duty. Without this it is impossible - such a car. And if someone does not like it, let him not go to the BMW 850. There is such an automobile incompatibility. One of my clients chased by car, hit several times and refused it, ”said Bavaria, director of the company. “Not that he is worse, but I'm better.” It's just not his. And I like to ride her, and that’s it. I like to always be the very first.
With BMW, they say people traveling on it for a long time, you gradually grow together. The longer, the stronger. And you are imbued with her ideals. And the ideal is only one - speed. And the owner, along with the car, serve him meaninglessly and fanatically.
- Here you have 380 forces. What's next? I asked the owner of the car.
- Like what? Firstly, I will remove the catalyst - this is a plus of 10 horses. Then I will put a special release system - ten more.
- And that’s all, is this the limit?
- As everyone? Then, if possible, I will buy Maclaren with a Baemwash motor: there is now in Germany for only a million marks ...
Now imagine that someone in his spiritual warehouse cannot ride Merc. Nonsense, you say, there is no such thing. But the expression fan of the Mercedes did not meet and will not meet. Just because it is one of the granted elements of a prosperous life. Cliche. Where will you spend money? - They asked the Englishman who won a million in the lottery. Is it really not clear? - the winner answered with a hidden mockery. - Cottage on the seashore, yacht, young wife and CL 600 coupe.
OUTSIDE
It is also interesting to look at everything that happens through the eyes of a pedestrian. In the 19th century, one classic of Russian literature did this:
... The knitting needles in the wheels mixed in one smooth circle. Only the road trembled and cried out in a fright of a stopped pedestrian - and she rushed out, rushed, rushed! And there is already visible in the distance, how something dusts and drills the air.
Model/Modification BMW 850 CSI Mercedes-Benz Cl 600
Manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Daimler-Benz AG
The manufacturer Germany is Germany
BODY
Type of coupe
Number of doors/places 2/2+2 2/4
ENGINE
Gasoline type with multi -point injection gasoline with multi -point injection
Front in front of the front is longitudinally
Working volume (see cubic meter) 5576 5987
Number/location of cylinders 12 V-shaped 12 V-shaped
Cylinder diameter x Piston stroke (mm) 86x80 89x80.2
Compression degree 9.8 10
Power (EES) (KW at rpm) 280 at 5300 290 at 5200
Power (DIN) (p.) 380 394
Moment (EES) (Nm at rpm) 550 at 4000 570 at 3800
The number of valves/cylinder 2 4
TRANSMISSION
Rear wheel drive on the rear wheels
Gearbox six -speed mechanical five -speed automatic
SUSPENSION
The front is independent independent
The rear independent independent
STEERING
Type gear-rake, with a hydraulic power steering screw-sharing nut, with a hydraulic mission
Brakes
Front disk (ventilated) disk (ventilated)
Rear disk disk (ventilated)
ABS standard equipment standard equipment
Wheels
The size of the tires
front 235/45 ZR 17 255/60 ZR 18
rear 265/40 ZR 17 255/60 ZR 18
Dimensions/about EME/Weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4780/1855/1330 5065/1912/1478
Wheel base (mm) 2684 2945
The track front/track of the rear (mm) 1554/1562 1614/1587
Minimum turning radius (m) 5.75 5.95
Dry mass (kg) 1975 2240
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 250 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec) 6.0 6.6
The cost of non-insured, thousand DM 151-170 197-220
Order of execution of the order 2 months 4 months
 
Alexey Kamensky,
Alexander Kalugin,
Dmitry Novokreshhenov (photo),
Stepan Rybakov (photo)

 

A source: "Autopilot"