Test drive Mercedes Benz Slk Class since 2011 Rogster
Ocean, volcano and cacti. We test the new Mercedes Slk
Tenerife is an interesting place: the largest island of the Canary archipelago. The origin is volcanic. The crazy variety of landscapes and volcanic rocks. From the highest point of the peak of Teide, which rises above sea level by 3700 meters, you can see all the Canary Islands.
The new SLK is 31 millimeter longer and 33 millimeters wider than its predecessor. The power structure and design are thoroughly revised
But I'm not here here. The fault of my appearance on the island of eternal spring was the new Mercedes Slk relatives. Platypus? Hell no! The new (the third in a row) generation does not look like a yota to the predecessor: a cart, entourage, the filling is very processed. The new relatives outwardly the flesh from the flesh of the flagship SLS AMG. Granturism? No, leave the trip at least for SL, and even better for CL. Little Zabiyak for another. Put dust in the eyes of this easily! It is his. SLK for Lighting-entertain. Who will think that he is addressed to the girls, let him try a tear on the tooth and make sure that this is not so. Engineers trampled SLK so that only the most sophisticated motorciers will be able to feel the whole depth of the Stuttgart school
He rides and how he rides! Several hundred kilometers of a varied asphalt of Tenerife turned into continuous pleasure, by the way, a variety of. Delicious! And that's it. Regardless of execution and optional seasonings. What can not be measured with springs, levers, inchs, pounds and millimeters of a mercury? Spirit. The car should have a spirit. Here he is in every bend, each key of the key, every switching of any lever. Sleep, expensive, status, despite the size. I am happy to say to myself!
Three engines are provided for the relatives. On average, thanks to the refinement and use of the Start/Stop SLK system, it has become more economical by 25%, while the return of the engines increased. The initial boost 1.8 in the SLK 200 version issues 184 hp. The flagship SLK 350 with a 3.5-liter six has 306 horses, and it seems excessive. The most optimal version of the SLK 250 with a two -liter engine outstanding 204 forces. He was taken to the sample first.
The aerodynamic resistance coefficient of the new SLK compared to the previous generation of 0.32 is reduced to 0.30 (value with the raised roof). This was done due to the more carefully developed form of the body and the use of a large number of spoilers who improve the tributary aerodynamics and aerodynamics of the subpoor space
The ocean, +230, frozen lava, cacti in front of the pass. Fry! Hatki on the floor. A two -liter four with an angry pulls a one and a half -ton relatives along a mountain serpentine. Virazh behind the turn. Straight behind. Overtaking. Gidrotransformer automatic machine 7G-Tronic Plus at the transitions down is dumb! Well, where is the sports regime?! Ah, here it is, on the dashboard. I poke the key, now everything is fine with the engine in good shape, reduced gears, competent bitterings, a little faster switching. The craving is always under the foot. Go and up, to the clouds, like a fighter on a fast and aid. SLK went to shoot the steps. With each discharge of revolutions, a short rolling bubbles of gas compressed in the intake collector. Utroble Brff !!! Bli-and-in, this is the sound! ..
The sound, of course, is good, but it is fake. No similar gas -dynamics, capable of publishing such peals in the collector of a two -liter fourth, does not even smell. A delicious syncuse is provided by the sound generator a special device in the intake tract. The generator is just a set of cunning channels, which are timely connected, unimpressed by an electromagnetic valve. What we hear in the end is nothing more than the resonances provoked by him. By the way, the exhaust is also well configured, everything is in an adult way.
Come on the roof, or something, is we folding? Offers Alexei Smirnov, my partner and colleague. How does it all sound from the outside? Opened. Sounds! And how it sounds! .. On a narrow serpentine, the sound reflected from a steep cliff gives such an effect you sway. Gas, the second before cutting off, further Brff!, The third to the cut off Brff!. And all this on the uterine intelligent tambourine of the exhaust system.
MD-a-a-a-a-Ah. Dust can be put into the eyes. But you do not touch. Benefect. Acceleration with such an accompanying sound will wait for another. In general, it accompanies the 250th better than accelerate. Sprint up to 100 km/h 6.6 seconds. If they do not suit you, it is better to choose a 311-horsepower six-cylinder version of SLK 350. This is a volcano (for nothing, are we on the Tenerife?). The acceleration dynamics is almost a cannon 5.6 seconds to hundreds, but the Mercedes acceleration is no jerk, switching is smooth. Only sports and manual modes are capable of shaking out of you gutted. Switching gear with blows, gas reactions are almost razor. On the serpentine, you do not take a walk too closely and plugging for the 350th, Roadster is torn to the track.
At a convenient case, we change our top six -cylinder unit on SLK 200 with a turbocharged four 1.8 and mechanics with a partner. Frankly, I did not have any special illusions regarding this version, but it turned out to be a surprise machine. This is the most honest SLK of all. Honest, but rude. Here is the toughest suspension and the highest vibration load. The steering wheel is most informative, the drive transfers very tangible shocks to the rim. Tractor, in a word! Strongly hard, why such a longitudinal swing on gentle waves? Base. Short base. The body falls into resonance, and you are like a boat. The sensations that SLK sways strongly is also intensified by the fact that the seats are exactly before the rear axle. Here, the amplitude of vertical movements is greater (we are all used to sitting in the middle of the base, where vertical movements are minimal).
The interior is simply a breakthrough compared to the previous generation. The quality of materials at the highest level. Advanced multimedia is available to order. But there are a couple of incidents.
SLK received a bunch of lotions like an electromechanical parking brake, an advanced Comand multimedia system with navigation, Connection with external multimedia devices and the ability to install digital radio tuner and many other things
SLK 200 is certainly not for girls. And if we take into account that the 1.8-liter motor accelerates the roadster with mechanics to hundreds in 7 seconds (version with an automatic machine for 7.3), even more so. The moves of the lever of the mechanical box are small, the fixation of the parsing, the efforts are verified and pleasant. But there are a couple of sins is heavy. As well as the clutch, which, by the way, is damn informative. Everything would be fine, but working with a poker is uncomfortable for me to be too high between the seats, and you sit low. Although convenient. To rise so that the elbow does not hurt the box-articulate and a console with the control keys of the roof, but the growth does not allow. Ninety meter, after all. A little higher, and the spaces above his head will become with Gulkin's nose. The point is not even in space, but about the overview, the fair part of the sector forward and to the right overlaps the salon of the rear view. In right -wing turns, I need to dive under the mirror to consider what is on the road.
Regarding the multimedia system. On the front panel, the SD card slot. What do you think happened when I wanted to go to the touch to the beginning of the playing composition? Correctly! Instead of the rewinding key, I jabbed a finger on the end of the sd-shk, she snapped down, then navigation was chopped off. Not funny.
Pressing the keys ECs transfers a power unit into a sparing mode of operation. The engine mainly works at low and medium speeds. In the city, the Start/Stop system is activated, it dramatizes the engine at every stop. The engine comes to life, already when you release the brake pedal (it is enough to squeeze the clutch on the version with a mechanical box) or pull the steering wheel to the side
The suspension with adjustable stiffness has only two default modes and Sport. Moreover, the difference between them is not as obvious as you want a range of change in wider, and more gradations. But Mersedes did not consider it necessary. The damping characteristics of shock absorbers, depending on the relief of the roadway, are still changing electronics in real time, regardless of your wishes. I can only indicate the button more tough, the electronics will make it tougher, but only as much as the road and the concepts of engineers about comfort that set up the suspension and debugged the algorithms for the work of active shock absorbers allows. However, in addition to the customizable suspension, you can choose the usual one. The brakes are good, the drive is informative, and the effort on the pedals is thoroughbred. Who was lucky to feel Mercedes will understand me.
The landing is low and comfortable. If you lean back until the end, the chair will blame the back to the rear panel of the cabin. The creak while driving is not at all in the maneuver.
You can fold the roof and can be folded even in motion, but at speeds no higher than 10 km/h. Everything goes about everything about 20 seconds. A new chip panoramic segment of Magic Sky Control, the degree of dimming of glass in the ceiling can be changed at your discretion. The option is quite expensive about 2000 euros. Of course, sometimes I want sweet, but this is all pampering. The constellation systems that are guarding security are much more useful.
The roof, two -section, fully automatic. To fold or decompose it, it takes only 20 seconds. Robot transformer, no less. I just opened the roof several times for the sake of pleasure
In the Arsenal SLK there are three cameras and a radar (components of the Distronic Plus system), thanks to which he monitors the road situation. Active cruise control operates under the start of electronics in the range from 0 to 200 km/h. A cruise adequately withstands a given distance behind the ahead of a vehicle, quickly reconfigrates to new goals and, if anything, can urgently slow down when an obstacle occurs. SLK also tracks signs that limit the speed and display the corresponding icons to the dashboard and the monitor of the multimedia system.
In front of SLK MacPherson, a multi -link behind. The steering gear-rack with a hydraulic wrap. The drive is only the rear
When you are on the verge of slipping, the stabilization system slows down the inner wheel in the bend. Part of the torque is fed to the outer wheel thanks to the differential. Thus, an additional unfolding moment is created relative to the vertical axis of rotation, which pushes the car into a turn. A tire pressure monitoring system is available.
Adaptive xenon light is adjusted to various conditions of movement. Slk knows how to look into a turn, in the city the light bundle makes it wider, and on the highway automatically regulates the range and adapts to other participants in the movement.
And you can also install a system following the dead zones on the Rogster
Electronics can monitor the markings. If you did not turn on the turn signal and began to crawl to the side monotonously, at first SLK will wake you up with pulling the steering wheel (a vibration ground is built into one of the knitting needles), if you ignored the warning, the smart Merce will independently correct the trajectory, pulled with a pulsless wheel of one of the sides. Audi has a similar system, but it sets the direction not to slow down the wheels but with impulse steering. Naturally, electronic assistants are not able to protect from all troubles, but can significantly increase the safety threshold.
By the way, the set is here. Belts with two types of pretensors (electric and pyrotechnic). Eir-Begov is six two frontal (integrated into the steering wheel and front panel) and four side (steam in the backs of seats and steam in the doors). By the way, when the pillow control unit becomes clear that a collision is possible (the relatives are sent into sliding), it automatically raises the glass. When the latter are raised, the side bags are most effective
The stabilization system is applied to the ideal. It turns off with the track control, but partially. Drive and hooligan deigned? Yes please! But not very much, after reaching 50 kilometers per hour, the disabled system is automatically activated and again rises to the guard of safety. On a high -speed serpentine, the stabilizing electronics did not cause exactly no. I often rode, as they say, on the verge, but the stabilization system, grabbing the wheel inner relative to turning, woke up in a timely manner and reliably pushed the car on the trajectory set in the turn. Kaif, in a word. I like this behavior, reliably and unobtrusive. How to.
But here my Ukrainian colleagues, alas, clearly overwhelmed in one of the right serpentine hairpins with speed. The hairpin is a very tricky road twisted like a spiral. Having lost the clutch under the influence of lateral force, the SLK colleagues with gliding of both axes crossed the oncoming lane, fell into the ditch and almost reached the left side to the steep cliff. What is important to do without drifts! Thanks to the stabilization system. Roomster was still moving through the on -country inertia and stopped, was always oriented in the direction of movement and was ready to keep his nose a frontal blow. Let me remind you that with a frontal and cobblestone strike, the car most effectively protects the participants in the movement. Why? Everything is simple. With such a clash, the largest amount of passive safety means enters the work. The zone of programmable deformation (power elements in the front of the body) provide the softest damping and decrease in speed. The belts with the pretense are reliably held on the spot and together with the pillows, the front -line shock is preferable to any other.
With an open roof on 120-130 km/h in the mountains at a two-kilometer height, where snow lies on the sidelines, in the cockpit you are like in a bubble, twisting zero. To exclude hypothermia, it is better to turn on the heating to the maximum. Additional deflectors delivering warm air to the neck and head, option
The guys were very lucky. And three times. Firstly, because they did not fly into the abyss from the steep cliff. Secondly, there was nobody on the oncoming lane. And thirdly, their roof was closed. God forbid to make an ears, with a folded roof after several somersaults on a petrified lava and gigantic cacti, it was more difficult to get more frightened and a couple of light bruises. They were fastened, the pretexts of belts and four side pillows worked.
What are the conclusions? SLK is small, light, nimble, delicious. Now it is even more advanced, technological and safe. Stuttgart genes are mutated in the sports side. Every year more and more. But in general, Mercedes remains himself. SLK status and comfortable. Renomes of the brand are preserved and multiplied. Of the competitors of Audi TT and TTS Roadster, BMW Z4 and Porsche Boxster.
All variations will be sold in Russia. SLK 200 with mechanical and automatic boxes, as well as SLK 350, which is produced only with a machine gun, will appear in July. SLK 250, equipped with a predominantly automatic transmission, will become available in the fall. The cost of us will be announced at the end of April. In Germany, the price fork is 38 700 52 300 euros.
Vitaly Kabyshev
Photo: Vitaly Kabyshev and Mercedes
STORY
Mercedes-Benz Slk (German Sportlich, Leicht Und Kompakt sports, light and compact), presented in 1996 at the Turin car dealership, is considered the first mass car with an automatically folding hard roof. This machine (the factory index R170), built on the C-class platform, diverged 308 thousand copies and was discontinued in 2004. The first generation reincarnation of the first generation was Chrysler Crossfire, its basis was the R170
The second generation of SLK debuted in 2004 and received a radically new exterior, made in the spirit of the flagship sports car Mercedes-Benz McLaren Slr. Of the main differences from the convertible convertible, we note a completely new roof folding mechanism, other architecture of suspensions and rhealhic steering (a vint-chain nut was previously installed) a completely different machine! And now, after 6 years, the generation R171 gives way to the new generation of SLK with the R172 index
Source: Auto.mail.ru
