There is still little specifics in the Rolf case, but there is plenty of politics, rhetoric and hysteria. The owner and top managers of the largest Russian car dealer they are persecuted for withdrawing money offshore, but for some reason this resembles reprisal against an inconvenient business: the state, which is heavily invested in supporting car factories, suddenly declares war on the country's main auto shop. Shot yourself in the foot? Let's figure out why it is important for all of us that Rolf continues to live.
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The test route near Frankfurt caught up with melancholy: even on an unlimited autobahn, you can’t accelerate faster than 170 km / h. Eh, this has never happened before. As well as speed cameras everywhere or the repressive laws of the European Commission to limit CO₂ emissions. Yes, the world is changing. It becomes cleaner, more convenient, safer...
But more boring. Like a Mazda CX-30.
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Chinese Chery crossover Tiggo 7, which grew out of the Tiggo TX show concept, is a cosmopolitan car. International engineering, a completely European price tag ... For Russian market Chery Tiggo 7 collect on Kaliningrad plant Avtotor, but I drove a car from the first batches, produced in China.
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Remember the voyage 14 years ago when we took range rover, BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz ML - and went to Sochi (AR No. 15, 2005)? Now we decided to repeat that forced march, but remembered traffic jams from vacationers on the M4 highway - and only reached the Romantsevskiye Gory. And the fourth was taken to this company also latest Audi Q8.
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Kia Sportage - Russian bestseller in the class mid-size crossovers at the end of last year. And there is room for choice: nine fixed configurations and six combinations of “engine - gearbox - drive type”. We tested all versions with an “automatic” at the test site, including our reader’s front-wheel drive pre-styling car, and now we know what to recommend and why.
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Never more Volkswagen was not so close to the Mercedes. Purely technical. Semi-autopilot Travel Assist is exactly like the Mercedes Pilot Assist. Voice control of the new multimedia MIB 3, activated by the command "Hello, Volkswagen!", One to one "Hey, Mercedes!" at the Stuttgart MBUX. But the updated Passat did not turn into a C-class from this - as it was, it remained itself.
Jeeps and Sakartvelo I (coming soon)
Recent events in Georgia - one is darker than the other, but having driven along the roads of Imereti, the Adjarian passes and the Black Sea coast at the wheel Jeep cars with Russian numbers, I did not notice a single sideways glance. I report the situation: Cherokee has been updated, Compass has become modular, Wrangler has undergone heart surgery, and Georgia…
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We have already noted that the "three-ruble note" BMW Series E90 (AR No. 12, 2013) noticeably passed in terms of reliability compared to its predecessor E46 (AR No. 13-14, 2009). And the new heroine in the back of the F30 (2011-2019 years of release), alas, continued the series according to the same scenario.
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In Europe, naked shoes with engines of about 300 cm³ are popular: tax-friendly, light, inexpensive, maneuverable and economical. Why then is the Honda CB300R Neo Sports Cafe not a bestseller in Russia? Only because of our pricing.
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“The motorcycle driver lost control. The passenger sustained injuries from which she later died. The driver was not hurt." Have you seen a girl without a helmet and in shorts behind a motorcyclist in full protective clothing? Surely, more than once. But this is deadly for number two!
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"Autoreview is testing again american tractors? - Readers will be delighted by looking at the picture. You guessed it wrong: just a nosy Volvo VNL, shown in Gothenburg, Sweden, is equipped with a turbo compound, as well as the new generation European Volvo FH. On them, I drove 340 km in Sweden.
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Once several Tigers, a Bear, an Athlete and another VPK-Ural gathered together ... It was at the Army-2019 forum: there - the Military Industrial Company (VPK) showed its new products.
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Driving new passenger MANs and Neoplans around Munich and around it for almost seven hours in a row - but after this you feel that you are a real Busfahrer, a “bus driver”! And the range was extremely wide, from an electric bus to a double-decker airliner.
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Fiat Ducato has been produced in the current body for 13 years, but is not going to lose ground: it's time for another upgrade. Externally, Ducato with the prefix 2020 has not changed much, but it received updated motors, driver assistants - and also a full-fledged "automatic". And I appreciated all this in the vicinity of Turin.
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Passage of trucks Russian roads the price has risen - but there are no more protests
In the meantime, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the tests of summer tires.
Audi RS 3 on the tracks of the American tire test site General Tire - and eight top models summer tires class Ultra High Performance. Hot news - Continental SportContact 6, Pirelli P Zero, Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 and Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S - against already famous models Hankook Ventus S1 evo², Nokian Hakka black, Yokohama Advan Sport V105 and Toyo Proxes T1 Sport. All of them are dimensions 235/35 R19, all are designed for maximum load 615 kg and top speed 300 km/h Maybe they are the same? No matter how!
IN This year, Texas welcomed us cool: instead of the usual sunny weather in these places, it rained in early March, and the temperature did not rise above 65 degrees ... Fahrenheit, of course. Or 18 degrees Celsius, which is dog cold for these places. But every cloud has a silver lining: cool days allowed us to conduct a curious experiment - measuring the braking distance on wet pavement at +18°С and after warming at +28°С. It turned out that most tires with increasing temperature lose their braking properties. Biggest account losses toyo tires: braking distances from a speed of 80 km / h has grown by almost three meters!
And the most stable were Continental tires and Yokohama, with the latter even improving slightly with rising temperatures. If we talk about average results at different temperatures, then we are better than others for braking on wet pavement Hankook tires, and worst of all - thermally unstable tires Toyo.
They lost to everyone on the track wet handling covered with a millimeter layer of water - and the best weregood year tires: the difference is almost three seconds per lap! True, we drove with the stabilization system turned off. And if you turn it on, then ... The brakes will die! The constant intervention of the ESP heats up the discs, water gets on them - and by the end of the races they go with a screw: a characteristic vibration appears on the steering wheel. It's good that we prepared one more set of front brake discs- sorry, not carbon-ceramic, but basic cast-iron.
When braking from a speed of 100 km / h on dry pavement, the difference between the best and worst tires in our test was almost four meters! If on Michelin tires the car freezes after 35.1 meters, then on toyo tires or Yokohama at this moment it is still moving at a speed of 30 km/h.
But the effect of tires on acoustic comfort this time turned out to be so weak that we decided to cancel this test item. They did not evaluate rolling resistance either: owners powerful machines, as a rule, not up to the potential savings of 0.2-0.3 liters of gasoline per hundred kilometers. Ride is another matter: tires Goodyear is better others are smoothed out by coating defects, and the toughest were Pirelli and Toyo tires.
Well, the races on the dry handling track finally put everything in its place. Leaders - three models that are really designed at the top level. And Michelin Pilot Sport 4S(first place with a score of 9.6 points) Audi RS 3 an amazing combination of soft reactions and speed in corners: the car forgives slight mistakes in taxiing even at a speed of 150 km/h!
On Continental tires SportContact 6 (9.4 points) the Audi character becomes calm, Nordic and balanced. And when developing the Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 tires (9.2 points), the creators clearly paid more attention to wet performance and comfort - but with their soft response they turn the RS 3 into an S3 and seriously reduce the driver's buzz on dry pavement.
The rest of the top five with a rating below nine points is also not bad, but noticeably loses to the top three in terms of the totality of properties. And if Nokian tires Hakka Black (score 8.8 points) is simple good tires, That Pirelli P Zero(8.5 points) sharpen steering responses and make Audi drivers feel more emotional. And not always positive. Hankook tires earned the same rating as Pirelli - but they do not differ in their bright character. As well as Yokohama Advan Sport V105 (8.3 points). And the outsiders are the Toyo Proxes T1 Sport model (7.4 points), which is already in dire need of modernization, especially in terms of improving grip on wet pavement.
However, these estimates are set according to the Hamburg, that is, Texas, account - for the UHP class, that is, for powerful fast cars. Well, for those who are interested in the choice of "civilian" tires mass dimensions, we recommend to open our archives and get acquainted with the results of last year comparative tests tire sizes 185/65 R15 and 215/65 R16, which have not lost their relevance this season.
