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Much over time can get bored: delicacies to be shy, parachute jumps to lose a feeling of sharpness, but there are things that always attract
 
Supercars based on compact sedans format, which turned out to be not all car manufacturers on their teeth. However, for the Germans this is a completely common thing: throughout all their generations, the same famous Baby-Benz always had an extreme version. Of course, it may seem to someone that the charged C-Klasse has become something common, but still when meeting this minimonster covers awe, because in front of you is not a car, but a beast, the embodiment of absolute automobile evil!
 
It is curious, when I was offered to get to know him better, I did not expect anything special from the meeting. It is no secret to anyone that even extreme machines in our time become fresh and everyday: inexperienced ladies, and they easily cope with them. But as soon as I saw this miracle, such thoughts instantly disappeared: yes, it is small and neat, but at the same time seriously (even somehow unnaturally, as if as a result of a mutation) pumped up. The standard chain has a lot of gloss, and this, as if clothes are torn at the seams. In a word, evil, and the traffic cop and a possible opponent in a traffic light race easily calculate it.
 
A voice also indicates the aggressive attitude of the fighter (and even the most daring and desperate) indicates from his intentions: from the exhaust pipes, thunder is erupted, moreover, not camouflaged by modern environmental standards, neither on the iot (the engine is deafening from the very launch and until the moment when the moment when the moment when He will be drowned).
 
I must say that the Teutton does not seem so terrible from the salon: only sports seats with adjustable lateral support and the steering wheel cut from the bottom indicate combat qualities. Otherwise, a completely ordinary chain with cool ergonomics (with an on -board computer I immediately found a common language) and rich equipment. And also, to our chagrin, with indecently cheap decoration materials, and is that, an American? Well, of course! Where did the Europeans see the speedometer marked in miles, the climate control unit, counting the temperature only by Fahrenheit? It’s just not entirely clear why it was to import a overseas copy into our country if we are quite officially selling a European version? The answer is 3,250,000 rubles, which is significantly cheaper than the cost of a similarly equipped machine ordered in the company salon (it is ordered: there are practically no one at the moment in the presence of such cars).
 
So, enough about cheap plastic and price. In such a car, the main thing? Well, yes, comfort, of course, too. But first of all, we are talking about Drive! The only problem is that there is nowhere to experience it: on weekdays, Moscow is a continuous traffic jam. It is gratifying that such a powerful Mercedes-Benz turns out to be a good companion in daily rat runners: the suspension is collected, but not toothy, in general, it is suitable for capital's roads. It should be noted that the chain demonstrates directly amazing stability in straight sections of the highway, and another plus becomes obvious in the parking lot: excellent maneuverability. Accelerator (and brakes and this especially delighted in such modes) does not differ in excessive sharpness, and only tangible rumbling of the engine, even at low speeds, recalls the potential of a compact car
 
Perhaps the time has come to check these very possibilities, the benefit on the road has become a little freer. We click on the gas stronger and I must say that I personally do not have a weak car with a 3-liter engine with a capacity of 200 horses. So, with a pedal, drowned by a quarter, Mercedes-Benz rushes faster than my Toyota with a completely open throttle! And if you press the pedal to the floor? Wheels with a width of 255 mm hardly cling even to dry asphalt (a yellow light is constantly flashing on the tidy, signaling the operation of the anti -wings system). But as soon as the hook appears, the 457-horsepower C63 AMG gains a move as if you are not driving by a car, and at the behest of thought you move to where you want. And only a rough bass roar gives acceleration a sense of reality.
 
As for controllability, it is transparent, like water in the inaccessible areas of Lake Baikal: the car does exactly what you expect from it, and you get exactly what you want from displacement of the steering wheel. A collected and amazingly obedient car! From disobedience, if anything, ESP will save (where without it with such power?). But the brakes were not too pleased. No, their efficiency is at a height, but cotton wool, which in the way in civilian trains, interferes with energetic piloting. I didn’t really like the machine gun: it often seemed that he didn’t really understand what they want from him (the transmission motor resembles a couple of skaters, in which a barely mastered lover is trying to catch up with the lightning movements of the professional partner).
 
An almost perfectly balanced sports car could leave C63, if not for one but who distinguishes a German among other cars: his infinite impudence. No, actually, Mercedes-Benz gives the impression of an educated, strong and very smart individual, he respects others, but is not afraid to bend his line, to defend his own opinion, and he will not care what others think. He is not shy about his strength and a deafening voice. There is practically no grayness in it (a cheap salon for forgive), and you will not have to miss it either at the first meeting or at once.

 
 
 

Source: Magazine Cars and prices November 3, 2008.