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James Bond became too serious. Where English of samoironiya? Where famous steb? Two-three more series about agent 007 in this spirit? and in the auditorium there will be some adolescents. Or adult, but very dull people. Maybe, Bond did change manners under the effect of the Germans, who allow not only the dorogushchiye machines for Bond, but also, probably, big enough money for the producers of film? This, it is said, entirely serious automobile, and therefore let us approach the scenario without your English khokhmochek. Superspy on the super-automobile must be model person!

That zh, remained to still convert Bond into the the exemplary of sem'yanina&.yuellip;

but we on this trick do not burn! Because rapidly they understood: if we relate ourselves to BMW Z8? to last bondovskomu automobile? in earnest, then this machine will enslave, will crush, will flatten. From the fact that was called personality, it will not remain and track. There will be only tot, who drives on BMW Z8..

BEAUTY! But cowling- that, cowling! To kapotishche! But here is tail? dock-tailed. But in these proportions? tribute to famous rodsteram of the fiftieth. Furthermore, engineers did attain load distribution between the front and rear axle ideal for the zadneprivodnykh automobiles? 50 to 50.

After proving to be in the salon (in the cockpit?), you understand, that with ergonomics dealt not the stylist- probationers. First, they will reach the weighed compromise between sportivnost6h. (characteristic low landing, low door aperture) and by convenience in the traditional sense of this word. We astonished, that for us completely it was not necessary to make acrobatic tricks in order to fall for the control or on passenger's seat. But indeed roof was in rabocem. state, i.e., it was closed. It is remembered, our first attempts to be taken away in Lamborghini Diablo healthily amused okruzhayushchikh&.yuellip;

inside? red with the gray. Not with the black (this combination it would be superfluous exciting), namely with the gray. It is beautiful, but not it is haughty. In the lower part of the salon role serogo. excellently fulfill the elements from lusterless aluminum, and it is here into verkhney&.yuellip; Already not of the plastic whether is made the framing of front panel and qentralсogo. control board? So there is? from jestkogo. plastic. It is naive and it is strange. Or at some moment designers were nevertheless penetrated by samoironiyey? It is possible that the selection of plastic instead of aluminum is dictated by the considerations of passive restraint, especially as under this armor is hidden the pillow of safety for the passenger.

Approach to the secondary control elements is irreproachable. Everything which is used rarely? from the eyes down. Despite the fact that the machine is nashpigovana by entire conceivable and unthinkable equipment, management of this economy is subordinated to the principle of minimalizma. One example. Near the internal knob of left door there is a round aluminum key for glass-hoist, next? the joystick, with the aid of which the drive signals are transferred to the left or right mirror. Everything is understandable. But as from the place of driver to open slightly or to shut right glass-? To be pulled through the salon? First we so made. They then considered (instruction, as it is conducted, they did not read), that when the small lever was moved to the right, then the key for glass-hoist on the driver door is thrown to right glass-. Ek!

I nevertheless exist, there is liwnie. buttons! One of them you, probably already surmised on designation. She is called Start Engine.

Oy, that now budet&.yuellip; Key? to the ignition, the lever of transfers? to the neutral particle. Start! But as the answer? silence. Can, as in the machines with avtomatami., it was necessary to harvest to the brake? No, it is not started. Or nevertheless it is necessary to study this humiliating matter as reading instruction? But if we harvest to the cohesion? There is! Chetyrekhsotsil'naya vos6merka. with emblem M Power on the decorative jacket it sighed by complete breast. Yes as it sighed! All sympathizing (envying!) just in case they fell back to respectful distance. And correctly they made. Because now we will press on one more liwnhh. button. She is called Sport and changes the characteristic of the electronic drive of accelerator. So that barely it would harvest to the gas? and immediately everything became understandable. But also this not all. There is one additional knopochka, hidden under the removed socket, which covers the small information display (the very same it works paired with the system of navigation). Button is designated by symbol DSC, which is deciphered as Dynamic Stability Control? in the essence, the same ESP, electronic system of directional stability. Now system is opened, all limitations are taken by I conversation with BMW Z8 it will go without the mediators.

No-no. To amuse idlers by low starts and to wrap by their clubs of dove-coloured smoke from under the rear wheels we not will be (although, if honestly, passion as it wanted), but let us go to the five-kilometer dynamometric road of auto-range. We, features fight, yet not James- Bonds, but therefore let us manage without pontov&.yuellip; But let us put on helmets. Thus, just in case. For us indeed one must collect the speed, with which take off contemporary airliners. It is interesting, and during filmings OF THE I entire peace little it did leave 007 to such regimes?

The first and intermediate speed zakancivahts4. with lightning speed. And the worked out by years motions by the lever of transfers seem by inadmissibly lazy. One instant? and motor already angry otplevyvayetsya, uperevwis6. in the limiter: 31, teapot, we will change gears or not?

I only at the third appears chance to take a breath and to realize proceeding.

Then- that we understood that the errors in the selection of the moment of gearshift were partly provoked by the fact that the tachometer is located too far from the driver: control board is carry ouied to the center of panel, and tachometer on it is located more to the right speedometer. With the rabid acceleration to suffice to it by view is complex, and indeed good also for the road to cast looks!

Then very gearshift is splendid: the wonderfully adjusted selective motions, but without deliberate sport klatsaniy. By the way, transmission Z8, just as motor, they are borrowed from BMW M5 and underwent only small dovodocnye. changes.

A that is further? Interesting things! First, wide dynamometric road is converted into the narrow tunnel with the green walls. Truly, the world is not enough&.hellip; In the second place, when speed crosses for 220 km/h, you begin to understand, that the coating is terribly uneven. When the pointer of speedometer passes mark 240, control with this force is beaten left-right, which to hold it in the central position is almost impossible. In this case automobile itself although ryskayet, it is insignificant. It is possible even to be collected bravery, to let go control, i&.yuellip; Machine will preserve rectilinear motion! Stabilizing moments excellently manage the disturbances, caused by the unevennesses of road. The main thing so that even without that the become white passenger would not fall into fainting.

I nevertheless the mutual understanding of driver and automobile is disrupted. You cease to oshchushchat' how are caused the fluctuations of control. Only whether by the defects of coating or even and by crosswind? But can, aerodynamic lift did already so unload front wheels that the automobile not at all will go, but low- does fly, and control does twitch itself during the the short prizemleni1.? As a result you compulsorily begin to undertake the timid attempts to change trajectory. With one purpose alone: to ascertain that the machine continues to remain obedient. Glory to god, so it exists. And nevertheless zhutkovato.

Frightened the first retrospective. Oy, mom, we zaporoli motor! From behind? dove-coloured shleyf&.yuellip; But they rapidly understood that this only tonirovannoye dark-blue the window of the folding roof. Ugh -f&.hellip;

sixth transfer. Speedometer does show obeshchannuyu by producer maximum speed? 260 km/h (this the last otsifrovannaya mark of the scale), but pointer continues motion. And it dies at the level of the last large mark of speedometer, which corresponds to the speed of 270 km/h. Still, this is limit.

A that did fix the precision optical-electronic instrument Datron? 262,1 km/h. The Germans of our brother frolic, oh they frolic! Promise- that 2'0&.yuellip; By the way, the speedometer on BMW Z8 is amazingly precise, is not inclined to the superfluous flattery. However, as on others BMW.

But this is what astonished. During the tests there was the automobile with the soft folding top. (in reality, to the machine it is applied and rigid aluminum cap, but in the fuss we it they forgot to take for the range.) The one who drove on the cabriolets, will for sure confirm that at the high speeds such machines will not shine by acoustic comfort. However, in BMW Z8, in spite of the disposed roar of motor and, certainly, nonweak noise of wind, we taught even with the maximum speed to associate with each other without the aid of gestures! But indeed we moreover they were in the helmets, which were not equipped with intercom.

Astonished those, who controlled rounds from the side. Usually, when automobile by is carried at a rate of 250 km/h, impression is created, that the space is torn up into the shreds. And then air continues sorrowfully to bellow, involving torn wounds. At this time there were of this not. Machine pierced air sky by the sharply sharpened awl. Only roaring motor and snake shipen'e of tires. Cloth roof also behaved uncommonly: it were not inflated by bubble, it were not beaten as the dissolved sail, but it preserved its usual form.

Now let us attempt at the high speed (for 200) to change trajectory. Control is here filled by very serious reaction, but automobile it is sharper, it is sharper than that you expect, it passes to the arc. However, with a decrease in the velocity to the reasonable limits this effect disappears. By the way, here completely mujskie. effort not only on the control, but also on the clutch pedal. So that to dreaming about this gift girls it is necessary to be for ready to plenty physical loads. But here are brakes? sensitive and tender: ABS. operates with the pedal force in all in 13 kg. but in this case and effectiveness, and ease of control of retarding they remain excellent, moreover in entire speed range!

A if we are accelerated with udavko1., i.e., with the switch oned system DSC, which, among entire other things, does prevent the slippage of driven wheels with the start? Also it impresses. But no, not that. In response to the slippages of rear wheels the system begins to unceremonious suffocate engine, revolutions fall to 1.5-2 thousand, and further acceleration occurs strictly according to the rules. On the asphalt the interference of system is noticeable not only on the first, but also on the second and even on the third transfers. It is boring. Especially if thus far you were accelerated without DSC. DSC it does just as but strictly suppress pranks in the turnings? it does not give vengeance by tail.

Open- kA we its snova&.yuellip; The moshchneyshiye tires make it possible to pass turnings without the slips with the impressive transverse accelerations. That zh, then are more rapid. BMW Z8 Goes as along the rails. It is still more rapid. Tires begin to squeak. It is still more rapid. Front wheels first are torn away into the slip, and in response to increase or decrease of the supply of fuel the degree of their slippage only changes. Rear wheels perfectly still were engaged in the asphalt, without allowing passage into the drift. But indeed khochetsya&.yuellip; Then? the known method: the entrance into the turning kontrsmeshcheniyem (by rocking). Is first pivoted control to the reverse side, then, for the discharge of gas? to the side of turning. And gas. There is! Machine goes by fan, the driver without the special labor changing the angle of drift, retaining automobile within the framework of the outlined trajectory. Is especially pleasant the fact that also the stabilization (output from the drift) occurs softly, understandably, without the frightening jerk to the side of wheels inverted for the correction of drift. Yes, engineers and testers worked to the conscience: BMW Z8 Knows how to do everything, what you await from BMW. I make this with the luster.

A now let us pass circle in the calm manner, giving to cool to retarding discs. Then let us pause, let us leave the automobile and will smoke. Class machine. No, simply plague. And honest. Present super-automobile, dream car. And present BMW. but to whom and why it is necessary?

With the producer everything is clear: from time to time such machines must be manufactured for the support of image. We, it is said, and such can. So act BMW, Mercedes it is said it prepares super-penalties Audi, no-no, yes will gladden by anything such the Japanese and Americans. And it doesn't matter, that similar projects, as a rule, are unfounded from a commercial point of view. The volumes of sales are scanty, and the cost of research works and organization of production? it is enormous. Managers BMW, for example, do not hide, that sales BMW Z8 (according to the plan, about 2000 automobiles per year) will hardly pay expenditures. But very fact of appearance Z8 on the market, certainly, will show moralсuh support to the more mass models: @3ti machine they are let out by the same firm, that built BMW Z8! And the same their engineers developed.

But that does obtain person, who returned for this miracle of technology almost of 180 thousand dollars? Those more? in Russia! The snow crust into Avtorevyu although has the possibility from the soul to travel a little along the closed and safe high-speed roads of range. But if it does not exist?

After these thoughts we did lower the roof (necessary only to harvest to the button on the front panel), without hurrying they did cover it did cut off for the roof by leather case, they did extend after the backs of seats beautiful a3rodinamiceskuh. grid? and they went. No, they did not go. They rolled. With usual, permitted by all rules (including by the rules of a good tone) speed. And it is unimportant, what is included transfer. You do want to listen to the sound of motor? include the second or third. You do not want? pass to the fifth, and that to the sixth. Now motor will rustle almost on the unmarried revolutions, but even light pressure on the gas will make it possible not only to be held in the transport flow, but also it is easy to be pulled out forward.

Here, here is it, kayf! Main thing? not to construct from itself James Bond and not to make serious mine. It is necessary compulsorily to smile, allowing to understand and oneself, and by rest, that you do not relate to all this in earnest in fact.

So, is pure pokatat'sya&.yuellip; But if someone does look to you not with the enthusiasm, but with the irony, it is necessary to harvest to the gas? and to become point at the horizon. And to again smile.

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