Test drive Mercedes Benz ML class W166 since 2011 SUV
Which Mercedes-Benz ml is better, diesel or gasoline?
Better diesel ml can only be gasoline. Even Vysotsky sang something similar. But we decided to double-check ... It is believed that Mercedes-Benz is bought because of the nameplate. Apparently overpaying. Ebblemka herself is not so expensive. There are many ambiguities around this brand.
How to test ml? Should we talk about the design and chrome brilliance of the sight in a circle or go off -road and evaluate cross -country ability? I was recently asked: which car is the best? I replied: Audi, and was immediately forced to explain to the interlocutor why not Mercedes. Because he does not shake before me in a bow, he is too arrogant, unnecessarily self -propelled, too self -sufficient. He considers himself so beautiful that in general, the owner is useless to him. This approach does not suit me. I am my own king. I won’t suffer the second nearby. It’s better then Lexus, it is not as perfect as Audi, but the great footman and sneak. And Mercedes is now swinging from a sense of self -importance. He considers below his dignity to strive for perfection or please. He, like Mr. Pazh in a spa, lies and lets the bubbles while you make him dry cleaning of the salon and rub the wheels with wax. Not a single person was found in the world who was able to ride Mercedes. Reality makes a castling. Mercedes climbs to the owner and lazily drives a whip, so to speak, forcing a person to fulfill his duty, serve the goddess of all gold in the world ... Something I spoke, sorry, suffered. In fact, we are testing two new Mercedes ML here. One with a diesel three -liter engine with a capacity of 258 horsepower, and the other with a gasoline five -liter, outstanding 408 vigorous horses. The task is very simple: to determine which of them is more practical, passing and more convenient in every sense on the highway, in traffic and in the field. Let's start.
Snake.
If you make your way to work and home, then choose a five -liter gasoline version
Don't like it don't eat
The first thing I always look at when I got into the next new Mercedes-Benz is that they finally put normal side mirrors or not. So no. They did not do this again. Again, I am sitting in one of the most premium brands in the world and peering into the mirrors of a lateral look, as in a microscope. Small, distorting, wildly uncomfortable ears wander from model to model, because Mercedes does not fall to lackey questions. I do not like? Go buy Audi and you will look like an assistant deputy! Excuse me, flared up again, could not resist, I return to the narrative. The interior of the new ML has become noticeably better. The multimedia screen is raised to a height convenient for vision, the climate control panel also now migrated higher, which is pleasant and gives it with ergonomics. Even to the abnormal selector of an automatic box located on the steering wheel, with a schizophrenic-accusable algorithm of work, it seems that everyone began to get used to it. But, tell me the mercy, what is the point of carrying the machine gun lever to the steering wheel, if as a result you not only do not free the space on the central tunnel, but generally tightly close it with a lid with the cup holders, and so high that the driver feels like behind a prison fence, instead of In order to enjoy a large free space inside the cabin? Is this not an idiocy ... Once again I lost control, I swear it for the last time. I continue.
Design.
The dashboard still looks bold
The remnants of conservatism.
If this goes further, it will be difficult to distinguish Mercedes from other brands from the inside
Electronic assistants. Almost all car systems are able to tune in off-room driving style
Movie. Rear view camera is one of the best in class
Not an evil surgeon
Especially for our rival brothers, we removed the landfill and spotted the time of the exercise called the snake. The gasoline fellow won one or two tenths of the time with diesel and no more than 1 km/h in speed. The difference is small, but in fact, the five -liter ML went much more confident. Mostly more vigorously responded to gas and at the same time, due to low -profile tires, he scribbled less along the trajectory. If your path from work home is laid down by cones, choose the ML 500, we made an appropriate conclusion and went on the off -road. It was then that a drama called a surgeon, who doesn’t succeed, played out. It’s not about the leader of Moscow bikers from the street Lower Mnevniki, but about the joke in which the doctor who operated on the patient suddenly freaked out and began to wave the scalpel left-right. Absolutely, according to the scenario of the joke, he behaved on the off room ML 500 that we liked on the asphalt. He met a little more or less difficult site for him, as he couldn’t work with a cry !!! Frantically buried along the arch into the ground. The whole off-road test drive we dug and twitched the gasoline Mercedes. In the end, we even stopped cleaning the cable and shackles, because he stuck out of the blue. The scene became the apotheosis when around the five-liter Mercedes began to cut circles of an outsider on the old Land Cruiser and mockingly comment: they say, mine doesn’t skid, where I want, maybe you can’t do it yourself? Of course, we drove off the insolent and, trying to pull the five hundredth, tightly planted the three hundredths. Fortunately, we always have a shovel with us. We left the off-road section, having received a second revelation: if you need cross-country ability, buy ... I am silent, I am silent!
Grow a look. Navigator screen, thank God, is located at the desired height
In search. Multimedia management is still on the way to an intuitive algorithm
Tricks.
Two -color finish is able to revive even a dead interior
Baggage. It seems to me that for Mercedes a transformation performed by one movement is more suitable, there is too much bustle in the present
Who else? Place for security, cook, maids and dogs
The remaining days had to do a boring business: to compare fuel consumption, sound insulation and other consumer vehicles. It turned out that the diesel ml eats 12 liters, and almost 18 gasoline. The silence on the move is especially pleasant in the ML 350, and not because it is less loud than the rival. He’s just fantastically quiet for diesel. We have never sat in such a comfortable diesel SUV, comparable in the noise and vibrations with the best samples of gasoline versions. That, in fact, is all. The conclusion is this: buy ML 350 and put 19-inch discs on it so that it is good not only in the sand, but also on the asphalt. The same, who chose the ML 500, do not need advice, he generally needs only a nameplate, and in his place I would buy this emblem in the transition.
Immodest. Three -liter six -cylinder diesel allows you to accelerate to hundreds in 7.4 seconds
Beyond measure. For what time does the gasoline version get to 100 km/h, the manufacturer does not even report
If the mind and life of the road to you, I beg you, do not appear on the gasoline five -liter ML in sandy careers
Entertainment.
In any case, take care of a sufficient place for acceleration
Verdict. Our choice of diesel Mercedes ml. The decisive role was played by his cross -country ability
Technical details
The Mercedes-Benz ML 350 4MATIC model with Bluetec technology and a 3.0-liter V6 engine now develops 258 horsepower. The torque also grew up and is 620 nm against 540 in the last version. And the fuel consumption instead of the former 8.99.4 liters per hundred became in the range from 6.8 to 7.4 liters of fuel per hundred kilometers of mileage.
The new Mercedes-Benz M-class 2012 is equipped with an adjustable soft air suspension, which, if necessary, can increase the road clearance by another 80 millimeters and perfectly copes with both off-road and high speed mode on the highway. The pneumatic suspension of ML can be supplemented with a package on & Offroad, in pairs with which an automatic, two off -road modes, winter, sports and driving with a trailer are available on an SUV.
Twisting to the wheels is transmitted using a 7G-Tronic gearbox. The 4TS system slows down the boxing wheels, transferring the moment to the wheels with the best clutch. This works both for increasing stability and improving patency.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [December/2012]
