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A lot of citizens can pay $ 80 thousand. For Mercedes. And the same for the station wagon? Most likely, units: they can, but do not want. But this is how much this Mercedes E-Klasse 200 Kompressor Estate costs.
As a rule, the universal does not pay such money for the body. Although the body structure has nothing to do with it. The most indicated amount of most of us is already associated with sports or representative cars. But who will undertake to say that the station wagon is forbidden to use as a representative car? If it is distinguished by noble forms of the body, it is quite comfortable, roomy (not in the sense of trunk volume), and on the road he is able to perform on equal terms in traffic lights - then why not? Moreover, the modern station wagon is less and less used in their family-carbon pranks-for this, gazelles are being built on the Volga.
A bucket of compression. Here it is, the stereotype of thinking! All acquaintances with a skeptical expression on the face bypass around the new E-Klasse Estate. Wow, they say, the barn ... Yes, beautiful, big, but is it Mercedes? The engine is only two hundred units ... The weakest ... especially competent are immediately told less aware that E 200 is not 2 liters, but only 1.8. And that such a car does not go at all. Well, what do you take from people for whom the compressor is just a device for pumping the wheels? In practice, the four E 200 is in no way inferior to the six E 240 - the loss in force is only 14 horses. But the peak of the same (!) Twisting of 240 nm occurs at the compressor much earlier, already at 3 thousand engine speeds. Therefore, with an automatic box, E 200 is inferior to E 240 in accelerating dynamics of only 0.5 seconds. And in comparison with the three hundred twentieth, Kompressor accelerates only 2.1 seconds. slower. You can not mention the difference in maximum speed - this is only 13 km/h.
 
 
The E 200 Kompressor engine is quite enough to feel equally comfortable both in a dense city stream and on a high -speed highway. In normal mode, the car moves calmly, one might say, phlegmatically. Until the shooter of the tachometer crosses the mark of 3000 revolutions. In order to provoke the car, it is only a little stronger and sharply press the accelerator on the pedal. The e 200 accelerates quite worthy, even with an automatic box, although light shocks when switching to increased gear are still felt. And especially impatient drivers can always use the manual mode. By the way, the nameplate E 200 and Kompressor can be removed. In order not to speak after the car snobs that, they say, there was not enough money for a real Mercedes! We know what they were enough for.
Like two fingers ... In modern Russian, the word feature has already taken root, which in the language of Shakespeare means device. In New Russian is something new, fashionable, not necessarily useful, but without fail status.
The Easy-Pack system proposed for Mercedes E-Klasse Estate-precisely a feature. It is easy to do without it, but once having tried it in the case, it is difficult to abandon Bustroopak. Firstly, it is convenient. Secondly, practical. Thirdly (and in fact-firstly), the installation of the system emphasizes the status of the owner. In the sense that he has money not only on Mercedes, but also to use the latest achievements of automotive civilization ...
After filming, we drove into a banal dry cleaning to pick up a couple of costumes. Having received the packages sealed in cellophane, we are slowly, as befits a solid car, we went to the parking lot. Six steps to the car, they pressed the button on the key fob - the fifth door obediently opened while we took the very six steps. We touch another button at the end of the trunk door - the floor of the trunk is obediently crawling out to meet us. Gently, so as not to damp, we lower the costumes on the carpet, pushing the floor back and close the trunk - also remotely. All went. Money, the installation of the Easy -Pack package was spent not in vain - the surprised faces of the surrounding onlookers will warm our pride for a long time.
 
 
Seriously, the Easy-Pack system includes two more interesting options. Along the entire trunk, a peculiar metal rack moves along the special guides, which can be tightly fixed by things laid behind. The entire structure was performed quite original, but it turned out to be very flimsy for the test - it holds a small bag with camera and tripod well, but a more massive item, for example, a plastic road suitcase, can turn the entire Easy -Pack set into a pile of fragments. It seems that the former driver of this station wagon has already encountered such a problem - one of the latches was with a broken stop.
But we had another device to taste - behind the rear seats there is a secret box, access to which opens only through the back leaned forward. It is very convenient to store various little things that are not used every day, but which it is desirable to have with you in any car - a pump, a cable, a first -aid kit. On the trunk, all this does not tumble, but you can get it at any time - the backs of the seats fold on E -Klasse Estate very easily.
DEMO VERSION. Yes, this Mercedes costs $ 80 thousand and you can buy for this money ... But what if the soul lies exclusively with Mercedes? In the style and lifestyle of CLK, it simply does not suit you, but there is money, and you regularly decide the puzzle, how, damn it, in the trunk of everything that your family considers the necessary minimum for a normal country vacation in Week-End? Or, more likely, you just need a not too catchy office car, on which you can go to the airport and the tax. But so that not too much? .. In this case, e -klasse estate is what you need. The appearance - for the basic $ 46 thousand, and what is inside - no one sees: the price tag on the frontal one does not hang.
But you know that the climate in your car under the control of the 4-zone system of Thermotronic, from a sudden fire, you are protected by a built-in fire extinguishing system, bixenon headlights themselves shine where the steering wheel is turned, the seats warm the bodies of all, without exception, passengers, and in You and your companions can watch TV and your companions.
This is a distinctive feature of the Mercedes-Benz policy, where buyers of a certain version are practically not limited in fantasy flight: many options for senior models are always available to younger ones. Moreover, you wanted to get a car in Avangarde sports, but with a more comfortable suspension, as on the Comfort version, please only pay money. All will be. In this case, a station wagon with a smooth stroke worthy of the sedan will be obtained. Not without flaws, however: after all, there are too obvious bumps of the road on Estate, but there is no sense of discomfort. Moreover, the rear suspension on the station wagon is pneumatic, it guarantees smoothness even at maximum loading. And the sound insulation, the weak point of many station wagons, in e 200 beyond all praise - extraneous sounds from the street do not penetrate at all. During the shooting, we had to constantly open the window - sitting in the car, the photographer’s commands were not heard, even if the latter was a meter from Mercedes and yelled with good obscenities.
Book with raisins. We admit a hand on our hearts that such an e-klasse estate is still unique in a set of its parameters incompatible by Russian standards: an unpopular body with an unpopular engine volume, and to this all a complete minced meat, which costs an additional almost $ 30 thousand but a highlight There is, and not one. For very large ones, we are not afraid of this word, you get the money almost maximum comfort that you can imagine in the car in general and in Mercedes - in particular. And if the sharp and aggressive behavior on the road is not an end in itself, then the costs will bring obvious moral satisfaction to the owner.
After all, as it happens: he smeared a piece of fresh bread with black caviar - and already eat with pleasure.
Text Nikolay Kachurin, photo Alexey Ilyin
Model/Modification Mercedes-Benz E 200 Kompressor Estate
Manufacturer/country DaimlerchrySler/Germany
Type/number/location of gasoline cylinders/4/row
Working volume (cubic cub) 1796
Power (kW (L.S.) at about./Min.) 120 (163) at 5500
Moment (Nm at about./Min.) 240 at 3000 - 4000
TRANSMISSION
 
The rear drive
Automatic gearbox 5-speed
Brakes, safety
 
Front/rear circular ventilated/disk
ASS Assistering Electronic Systems, Brake Assist brake distribution system, ESP exchange rate stability maintenance system
Safety pillows 2 frontal, 2 side, inflatable curtains
Dimensions/mass
 
Length/width/height (mm) 4850/1822/1496
Wheel base/clearance (mm) 2854/150
Tires 225/55 R16
Massive weight/complete (kg) 1720/2295
The volume of the fuel tank (L) 78
Maximum speed (km/h) 218
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 10.6
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 9.4
Price in Moscow $ 82 685

 

Source: "Autopilot"