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Clap your hands

We went with one master on the new Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse and drove at some point under the railway bridge. There was just a long-coming train on the bridge. My companion vigorously patted his hands three times. Such a sign, ”he explained,“ to money. ” Here, you see, now the grandmas are basement - I will buy myself Mercedes. This is not this, of course, more proper. And then in certain circles they will not understand. I nodded knowingly. This Mercedes really does not suit my degree satellite. It is for those for whom the girls are still more attractive than the grandmas, personal freedom is more expensive than the vertical of power, and the qualities of the car itself are more valuable than authoritative judgments about it.
The most annoying thing is that I also hardly fall into the target audience of C-Klasse, even if my chrysanthemums, libido and ambitions have not yet faded. But still, I could look organically in the cabin of this car only after several cosmetic suspenders that would not be tactfully noticed by some pretty, shallow girl without a/p and a good b/y, I caught by the Internet nets. That's ten years old, when the trees were higher, and the back is straighter and the eye, capable of taking out the lowest lines from ten meters in the Sivtsev-Holovin table, lure ...
I grumble, and meanwhile I had Mercedes ten years ago. The Kaliningrad distiller drove me a cool and fairly fresh car-C-Klasse, the famous 190th, aka W20, white with a tint in turquoise body, $ 11,000, sat down and went. He was, as usual, from under a very accurate German grandfather, in my eyes by perfection. Firstly, because it was Mercedes, and it was so pleasant-how did the cat stroke in the soul-answer the question what are you going to? Careless: on Mercedes. After that, my quotes for the same girls without a/p and a good b/y went up without any further effort. Secondly, because it was Mercedes. And I took almost as an insult when my European nickname was opened-Baby-Benz. What is he Baby? I thought. Yes, not a mythological six-hundredth monster, of course, but also sometimes forced one shirt to panic with one gleam and some kind of garbage can be removed from the left strip. Thirdly, because it was Mercedes, and the then Mercedes really did not break ... unlike several starry cars that had happened later. But this is a sad topic.
Probably, not one I sentimentally mixed a tear with a snot, standing at the four cars built in a presentation line, four ceshek - W202, W202, W203, W204. But, apparently, we were allowed to touch the story in order to feel the difference more strongly. She is huge between the two flanks. And against the background of the new (W204) C-Klasse 190th, it looks as archaic as the 1886 motorcycle-Benz Patent Motor Car N1. The new C-Klasse-no evil tongue will turn to call Baby. Of course, this is a complete and full -size Benz. No need to climb into the reference books, and it is clear that it is more than its predecessors in size. Longer, higher, wider. Not harder, but wider - the effect achieved by sharp faces along both sides - a fashionable element of modern design. This design can be liked more or less, you can even carry out not flattering comparisons for it with classic, chancellor forms of the 126th body or exemplary Meshchansky 124th, but this is the design of the High-Tek century, the third millennium. Compared to him, everything yesterday seems ridiculous, at best artisanal tuning. By the way, the models of the same 190s with huge stars on the arch of radiator grilles for a long time for some reason were presented as exactly the product of some garage craftsmen. In the Caucasian Asian version, that is, with a white body, it generally looked like a cheap kich.
Today it looks like an expensive avant -garde (even with white color, which, by the way, Mercedes also became different, modern or something) and is called Avantgarde as opposed to the Elegance configuration, where the branded star habitually stands on the edge of the hood. This car can be made even more than the AMG sports package. This car can be made even more sports using the Agility Control package that changes the rigidity of shock absorbers, the sharpness of the steering wheel and the accuracy of the lever of 6-speed mechanics (on cars with a 3.5-liter standard-a 7-band automato). This car can be made even more beautifully and more comfortable using options-a glass roof with two light hatches, for example, or an electronic sim-symam, which opens the locks, remaining in the pocket.
It may turn out that some amenities of the salon, whose presence significantly expands the idea of \u200b\u200bC-Klasse, the driver is able to evaluate only in the parking lot. As I did, suddenly noticing the sweet old -fashioned radio. Here, instead of flickering numbers on the display - a scale floating, like on a radio tape recorder, a scale. I also did not immediately realize that the computer’s computer could communicate with the driver in the great and mighty Russian, without forcing you to feel like a miserable national native for your money. It was also found that leafing through the navigation menu, audio systems and phone is very convenient with the help of a special joystick with the reset and return keys-a kind of analogue of MMI and I-Drive. By the way, it is located there (in the central tunnel), as with his favorite competitors.
 
There will be a lot of these pleasant things, the totality of which creates full -fledged comfort. I was clinging the build quality. When the car is so assembled, you begin to penetrate the belief that you really worked on it well. And that this Mercedes will serve as faith and the truth, that he will be a Mercedes, which will not break, and will not rust from Luzhkovskaya caustic salt, will not cry out a week after the purchase.
 
Of course, something can be added to this car, but even nothing can be taken from him in the basic configuration. He cannot be taken away by incomparable controllability, sports composure and gracefulness of the course. What is surprising for a serial car and a seemingly calm sedan: it starts very quickly that you, as a driver, can be more with this car, he is so obedient to your will. On a good serpentine driving C-Klasse, drawing, like a sharply honed pencil, the line of the highway, you feel like the hero of the film, computer game, a commercial. The ride captures the driver completely.
The number of horsepower stops being an element of the design of the TCP. The car becomes a force that drives the elements. He dissects the air, earthly firmament and water surface, scaring flocks of rapid birds, jambs of elusive fish and herds of quick -legged animals. It seems to be from the new video about the new model? In the old video of the old C-Klasse, Kimi Raikoneno could be sophisticated by a pink elephant. In the new car, may the glorious racer will not be offended, with himself - as, however, with any other guaranteed to forget about everything around the driver, you can do any nonsense. Kimi, you are an elephant - yes, yes. You are a pink elephant. -Yes, yes, of course, I am a pink elephant. Clap your hands when the train goes on the bridge, and may the Lord go to the new Mercedes.
 
Mercedes-Benz C.
 
Gasoline, 4-cylinder/gasoline, 4-cylinder/gasoline v6/gasoline v6/gasoline v6
Working volume (cubic meter) 1796/1796/2496/2996/3498
Power (L.S. at rpm) 156 at 5200/184 at 5500/204 at 6100/231 at 6000/272 at 6000
The moment (Nm at rpm) 230 at 2500-4200/250 at 2800-5000/245 at 2900-5500/300 at 2500-5000/350 at 2400-5000
The rear drive
The gearbox is 6-speed, mechanical for all, except C350/7-speed, automatic (C350)
Length/width/height (mm) 4581/1770/1447
Equipped mass (kg) 1485/1540/1610
Maximum speed (km/h) 223/235/240/250/250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.5/8.6/8.4/7.3/6.4
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 7.8/7.9/9.6/9.4/9.7
Price in Moscow 30 500/34 100/36 600/38 700/47 800

Text Khasan Ganiev photo Daimlerchrysler
       
 

Source: "Autopilot"