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Volkswagen Passat CC: Gravity Center

We study the habits of the most beautiful Volkswagen Passat in the history.
It all started, as I usually got into the car, adjusted in German capacious, but not at all the hard chair, I put the key in the castle, drowned it deep into it, Into it did not happen. It was convinced that the DSG massive lever was in the parking position, the reaction brake pedal was left. He took out the keychain, inserted again all the same. It seems that I have already spicy climate control regulators in the hope that the car still becomes necessary when the technician who came to the revenue showed the console, the tablet of abnormal immobilizer, which is necessary.
Yes, these cars are hijacked. Because they are a favorite deficit of the secondary market. Thick more often than other foreign cars in at least in large cities of Russia. But the second, to which I presented myself by the autowner, was not enough to answer myself if I had a choice, would I take the usual Passat? Or after all, this car, which is now leaving in the direction of Pulkovo junction on Kada?
Under me VW Passat CC, four-door coupe on the latest terminology. With a turbocked engine 1.8 sufficient to make a fastening machine in a lunch of fast turns, without dialing daily kip fines for exceeding the segment from work to the house. With a robotic DSG box, which has long learned not to be confused in gears, even in a ripped city rhythm, lightningly splitting the torque for seven steps.
In the hurry of the illegal acts, I would not have noticed a special difference with the usual Passat, although within changes in Tse-Tsa Sea: before our eyes, two wells for devices with soft light-colored lights, on the right light, falling average console with neat climate controls, under the fifth point New seats with a noble transverse line over soft leather
In fact, the interior solutions are copied from BE-sixth - after all, this in it we first saw the plateau of the neat console, and the wells of the devices (though there are four of them), and the seats seem to be more convenient in the new pseudo coupe. Just CC is perceived wholework. Expensive. Sports.
Of course, they bought me on the most convenient steering wheel (in general, the raids of the last VW are ergonomic masterpieces), and more grabbing seats, elegant door handles and neat climate control regulators, not suggesting anything fundamentally new, but I have eaten the bait And it remained completely satisfied: the quality of fitting the interior parts is amazing, the cabin plastic is almost everywhere a friendly and soft and noble warm flaker.
But this is the little things who would doubt that Volkswagen makes high-quality salons? It is important that Passat CC is beautiful. Damn handsome.
This is not an ilon-like Mercedes CLS a height of the coupe of four doors, with a huge front skeleton, hooligan inhibits feed and proportions, incomprehensible for the geometry of Geometry in Perelman, maybe, this is an envy, yes. But the proportions of CC are too organic in order not to talk about it.
By the way, the SS is not the Soviet Union, and not even clinic center. Comfort Coupe This is what it is. The car so diligently practices the imposed image of an expensive coupe that the question where the door frames were played, as it were from himself. By the way, the doors are so lubricatted by castles, and so diligently restrain the streets of the streets on the approaches to the salon, which will unwittingly doubt why in Subaru refused to make such crazy designs? Surely really because of problems with acoustic comfort? Won, Volkswagen turned out. There is really very quiet in Tset.
And the shopping trade wind more accurately writes turns, reflects faster on the rotation of the steering wheel than the usual, inherent softer on the irregularities. Quick pits are those who are located for each other, and the shock absorbers do not have time to fully work out on the SS post passes everything is also tight and assembled, but small irregularities extinguish not a small fraction of straight on the fifth point, but restrained and unnoticed. The suspension softened, began to work smoothly and, in most cases, comfortable.
Behavior on the road soft passat is no worse than the classic opposite, the low center of gravity allows you to push the car in a quick turn, without waiting when the front axle starts to slide out. At high speeds, the car is stable as the Chinese wall in the time of attacks of the Huns.
And the steering has become harder and informative. The electric powerful was taken from Tiguan, but its cotton reactions of the SS did not adopt its role played a low rubber profile and a smaller angle of inclination of levers and thrust.
We will not be glad only the rear passengers, even though they received an additional 31 mm in length, 36 wide and separate, well-designed places, but the vespers are fixed there - at the bottom of the cushion, on top of the ceiling. Close and not very cozy.
And yet the Passat CC is the first VW in the latest history, with the number of doors, more than three, which is intended primarily for the driver. Three-blank Volkswagen, which clings. He could enter the market and without elegant solutions, like leaving the emblem of the rear view camera, or optional adjustable suspension, steering and accelerator. He would love it and so.
And it seemed to me that the center of gravity of this car is not near the points of fastening the gearbox with two clutches, and much higher exactly where the heart of her driver.
Often it is appreciated even above the possibility of writing turns with the accuracy of the cardiac surgeon.
We thank Volkswagen Pulkovo Center for the provided car.
Posted by: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Stunnin

   
 
 
 

A source: Magazine "Wheel" [November 2009]