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Child's world

All wrong! Test, landfill, even joyfully jumping units in red jackets, reflected Sergey Voskresensky, looking at mini and phiat-500. Photo: Alexander Batyr.
Mini Cooper S 1.6 L, 175 hp, 6-speed mechanics, basic equipment, options, 1 010 700 rub.
FIAT 500 1.2 L, 69 hp, 5-speed mechanics, lounge equipment, options, 597 500 rub.
Now, if these two toy car drive into kindergarten and give the baby to the confusion! It would be possible for expensive upholstered upholstered hands, buttons, but shining kids faces inside looked natural.
And why not fall into childhood? After all, these cars contribute like no others. Especially since the replica is only nostalgia along the past, and in spirit the modifications that fell on the test differ as an adult and the child, because to compare them really incorrectly. The mini-cooper s is continuous to cut 170 turbosets under the drinkest hood, burn up to madness hard pendants and other sports bones, stubborn in a compact three-door body. This cycle of energy has the right to arrive at the proposed opponent. Fiat-500 with a 1.2-liter motor capacity of 69 hp, according to the standards of Cooper s, more like a lawn mower. True, the rest fully corresponds to the promised retroser and it is held maintained, without an emphasized celebration of modern technologies.

Adult games
Car, Fiatik, five hundred ... In life, did not use so many diminitious words. How little it is necessary to believe these simple forms that have to constantly surrender with a car, which tries to look like adults and independent. And you do not get tired of admiring, looking at a slightly hopping, like the ears of a teenager, mirrors, surprised headlights, tiny fog, sparkling with chrome bumpers.
Inside the car, it rolling sadness to good past. I confess, I was never sitting in that long ago and, probably, according to modern standards, a small and non-zeanist five hundred. And it seemed, as if he met with an old acquaintance. The spirit remained the same, but the places for sure it became more and the content changed. Light-skinned steering wheel, climatic installation, glass roof over head, comfortable pedalings, expressive gearbox lever. And the speedometer and the tachometer, in whose different-caliber circles arrows at first hold together, and then begin to play catch-up! Unusually, partly even uncomfortable, but the soul is rejoicing in childish. No, he is still a franger, persistent on stylish, but it's not completely wrong to communicate with him.
It is clearly contraindicated by the promotion of autobahn, but it is in the close space of Fiat-500 as a fish in the water. Cancelled mobility on the first two transmissions, enviable even for classmates maneuverability, visibility and sense of dimensions. It is easy and communicated so much that you sometimes doubt whether there is a limit of this exchange of thoughts and desires. However, Euphoria gradually disappear. When the motor is accelerated (the good, that is not noisy), it is desirable to twist almost until the cut-off, only then it finds a complete mutual understanding with a transmission. Of course, it is possible and different: for example, on the fifth gear, the engine pulls quite well from 50 km / h. But try to get involved, especially on the rise, you will have to go to two or three steps down.
The fact that the kid does not like speed, says everything else: noisy tires, volatile aerodynamics, peculiar smoothness and handling. He can afford to bring the arrow of the speedometer as much as 150 km / h, almost perfectly slow down in an acute situation. But when driving at high speed, Fiat shag sharply aside. Or suddenly, suddenly character, damaging in the most common turn, all the nature protesting against the aggressive action of the driver. He advocates a calm move in space. In addition, it was created for good roads rigid and at the same time the suspension is simultaneously inclined to split the suspension on the waves, although the soul is cut in small irregularities thoroughly.

Espander for the vertebrae
Extravagance in our time is definitely in demand. Otherwise, why he is such a tough and principled, powerful and insanely sharp, assertive and not forgiving errors. When, enjoying the relief muscles of the street fighter, you find yourself inside the mini-cooper S, it remains to be toughly to take a strong arms of the seat, low, squeezed from all sides, penetrate into involuntary respected by the tight clutch pedal, grip steering wheel, braking the flawless gearbox. Finally, pay tribute to expensive and good-quality materials, majestic, although partly and stupid launching devices. Here literally everything is performed in a sporty style, even each toggle switch, regardless of significance, is in an individual niche. And this, you must confess, fascinates. Especially two devilish yellow-lilac night illumination eyes tanning over the inner mirror. Believe me, there is something mystical in them. I doubt that the former good-natured mini could carry even a small part of the aggression inherent in the current monster. In Fiat, although stylishly, but simply and does not bother here in the body all the time goosebumps from an excess desire to taste everything and immediately.
Alas, it will not work! Try to use the climate setup climate installation, select the wiper mode or simply find the desired toggle switch. The eyes are knocked out in shallow, illegible symbolism, the hand freezes in a search. To avoid squinting to look at a huge speedometer contraindicated (especially since nothing really can be seen). Speed \u200b\u200breadings are much more convenient to deduce in a digital version in a tachometer window.
No, he is still good! Easy trembling ran through the body, responded in the tips of the fingers, feet feet. The release system was flushed by a ripple basket, then the most powerful jerk from the place, a screech, smoke of a bucking even on the second transmission of rubber. All six gears of the box are moved on the first two kilometers of the dynamometer road, and it seems that the cooper can also, only give the next pairs of gear. By the hell, the limiters, like the active security systems, you need to communicate without intermediaries, one to one. Only then can be subordinate to itself a very sharp steering wheel and no less impulsive responses of the machine. Pay tribute to the absence of rolls, the perfect tracking of the trajectory, forgive the very sharp breakting to the glide and almost complete absence of smoothness. You can not behave with Panibrates, because he does not forgive mistakes and as if he is waiting for when you shine: pretty, pretty! And then it will shrink, the concerning DTC will be stopped, everything around will come to normal, and only sharp stags in the spine on invisible irregularities will remind of the real possibilities of this car.

Still, the main thing is not hidden under the hood and not in the settings. In the end, Fiat has a charged version. It's all about emotions that cars deliver to people carrying them for several decades ago. Into the world of bright children's sensations ._x0008_
FIAT 500.
The compact three-door car in retro style was first introduced in July 2007, 50 years after the first version of one of the most popular Fiat models.
Engines: gasoline 1.21.4 l (69100 hp).
Transmission: 5- or 6-speed Mechanical or 5-step robot.
Hardware: Lounge, Sport.
Price of basic versions: 555 000595 000 rub.
+ Excellent design designers, spacious front interior, comfortable seats and controls, excellent brakes, good visibility, convenient for rear passengers landing-disembarka.
- contraindicated bad roads and aggressive ride style.
Total rating of 7.7
With him a trip to the world of lost traditions is surprisingly friendly and comfortable. Yes, and in motion, it is this version of the five hundred that allows you to feel the era of the 1950s.
Mini Cooper S.
Leads a pedigree from the distant 1959. In 2001, the Firm BMW revived three-door mini, the charged versions of Cooper and Cooper S. Restyling in 2006 appeared.
Engines: gasoline 1,41.6 l (95175 hp).
Transmission: 6-speed manual or automatic.
Fitting: individual.
Price of basic versions: 655 000925 200 RUB.
+ Excellent external data and very sporting internal content, verified driver's instruments, excellent driving abilities.
- Hard and sharp, unsuitable for long journeys, uncomfortable for rear passengers.
Total rating of 7.8.
Fast, bark and very expressive. So much that at times you forget about the retrocornia of the present mini.
Sergey Voskresensky: At first it seemed that there could be no speech about expert assessments, not the case. And then they decided to try to go out for the usual framework (still the test turned out to be non-standard) and put everyone that he deserves. The result turned out unexpected. But funny.