Test drive Mercedes Benz Cl C215 1999 - 2002 coupe

King size

SOME Like It Hot - some love you. Translated into German, it sounds like Mercedes Cl Coupe Lorinser.
Not only owners of automobile consumer goods decorate and improve their cars. Owners of expensive cars sometimes also overwhelm the spirit of argument. And the best is not always an enemy of good.
Here, for example, the Mercedes CL500 compartment. Prestigious brand, rapid design, three hundred horses under the hood, leather, wood, navigation-televisor, ABS, ESP, ETC ... It would seem that for the true admirer of the brand there can be only one car-CL600. But this is not so.
One piece is always not enough. Many work on the field of improving the Mercedes brand. Of course, he managed to become a donor and CL500.
For example, Mariani will undertake to make your Power Sound component - a converted exhaust system will roar like a formula car.
The more famous German tuning studio Carlsson offers a more serious intervention in Stuttgart products. However, it is not necessary to steal everything at once-you can choose one thing or engage in tuning constantly and gradually. First buy $ 195 velor rugs worked out Carlsson specifically under CL500. Then the front and rear spoilers of $ 500 apiece to fly like a real Carlson, however, installation and painting are not included in the price. Rubber discs, 18--20- inch for $ 4.5-6 thousand per set. Of course, Schildik. If this seems a little, then for $ 8.5 ?? The power of the power unit will be brought to 347 hp. Against 306 hp The basic version of the compartment. And this is again not the limit. Having increased the volume of the standard 5-liter V8 to 6 liters (recall that in six hundred twelve cylinders), Carlsson designers promote a power unit up to 405 hp! Twisting the moment - 600 nm at 3600 rpm.! It is curious that the price for this product is not indicated in the official price list, it is written by agreement. Probably, in order not to shine to lawyers the amount with respect to which moral and material damage will be calculated when candles will shoot the client through the client.
And finally, Brabus is a company that dismantles the Mercedes star and takes all responsibility for this. There is still more serious. Brabus not only supplies CL500 with a hitch and disks of its own manufacture, there are Brabus brakes, airbags, as well as an exclusive interior, trimmed with aluminum and valuable wood. And, of course, the famous embroidered engines. The most powerful, installed on CL-Coupe, is Brabus 5.7 Kompressor with a capacity of 554 hp. And just a frantic torque - 715 Nm at 4000 rpm.
Enough and half the dose. The German tuning company Lorinser stands somewhat apart from the above brothers in the workshop, because it seemed to us, they manage to achieve a reasonable compromise between the so -called show -off tuning and attempts to turn Mercedes into a dragster. Lorinser Cl-Coupe is a kind of intelligent King Size.
External differences from the standard model are not so noticeable, but they are. This is a front spoiler with three horizontal samples and more voluminous than that of CL500, fog lights. The same powerful spoilers from behind and on the sides. Anti -wing on the roof and in the stern. The entire exhaust system after the catalyst is also a Lorinzer exclusive. Plus 19-inch discs with rubber Dunlop SP 9000. Of course, such wheels are not cheap and therefore touching secrets-the owner receives two pagan keys from them. And no less touching a set of auto -shampoo, polishes, as well as funds for disks and salon - all with Lorinser labels. Needless to say, it would be ridiculous if a stripped version had been tuned-of course, there are all the options with which the Mercedes supplies his flagship-coupe. In the interior from the tuning studio, only chrome linings on the threshold with the SportService Lorinser engraving were added. On the lid of the trunk of the nameplate K50 - if you remember, this is how the Russian military helicopter is a black shark.
The engine finalizing on Lorinser also approached very delicately. No increase in the working volume of the combustion chamber is the same engine. But a compressor is installed, which, coupled with a special air filter and candles, a specially tuned system for preparing the working mixture and with special engine oil, gives an outstanding result - the power increases by 80 more lp. But, this is perhaps not the most important thing. Torque of the K50 - 580 Nm at 3900 rpm.
Money must be spent wisely. The first thing that catches the eye, or rather, in the ears is the roar of the engine at the start. True, those who sit inside, he is almost not heard - the famous Mercedes noise insulation, which includes absorbing doors. Up to a speed of 100 km/h the outstanding qualities of a tuned engine is difficult to feel, moreover, when you lightly press the pedal, the car is carefully, if not insinuatingly, rolls. This happens until the arrow of the tachometer reaches the mark of approximately 2000 vol./Min. Further sensations of the driver are comparable, perhaps, with the feelings of the stone that is thrown out of the sling: in almost complete silence, rapid power throws the car forward.
ABC (Active Body Control), installed in serial on the compartment, is the pleasure of the driver - the behavior of shock absorbers and levers will give you a more aggressive driving style: the rolls will be reduced to a minimum when passing. You can do even more cardinal: press the ESP OFF button, turn off ABS and enjoy the drifts and squeal of the tires - in fact, for the sake of such driving and it is worth winding up the machine. Of course, such exercises are not in vain, and an increase in power by 80 hp, of course, will reduce engine resource. However, it is hardly the owner of CL-Coupe Lorinser is going to drive for ten years on this car and is already thinking about the overhaul of the engine. There is a consolation to the to the prime owner of Lorinser: with a very aggressive style of driving the first in such tuned cars, a turbine is covered, but since it goes to the engine as a side dish, even with an unemployed accelerator, the owner will be able to be content with an accelerator 300 standard horses.
And now the most curious. Remember the joke of three years ago about a specially ordered windshield with diopters for the 600th? The glasses at Lorinser are not yet made, but all the car provided for the test was made of the standard CL 500 compartment here, in Moscow, with Russian hands.

Text Dmitry Gronsky, photo Alexey Ilyin

 

Source: "Autopilot"