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Volkswagen Passat. A TALE OF HOW IVAN WAS LOOKING AT THE PASSAT

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Video: Volkswagen Passat. A TALE OF HOW IVAN WAS LOOKING AT THE PASSAT
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Volkswagen Passat. A TALE OF HOW IVAN WAS LOOKING AT THE PASSAT
Volkswagen Passat. A TALE OF HOW IVAN WAS LOOKING AT THE PASSAT
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A TALE ABOUT HOW IVAN WAS LOOKING AT THE PASSAT

Actors and geographical names:

Some kingdom is a neighboring state - Republic of Belarus

Tsar - Editor-in-Chief

Ivan - Correspondent

Court Painter - - Photojournalist

Merchant - Atlant-M Company - official dealer of Volkswagen AG

Prikazchik - Employee

German product - "Volkswagen Passat 1.8 turbo"

In a certain kingdom, in a neighboring state, there was a merchant. Traded non-car cars - he transported goods from distant Germany. It’s a common thing - a lot of people feed on such a job. But he soon went about rumors about that merchant: they say he has excellent goods, which he doesn’t sell in vain, he painfully gives cheaply, as if he had no profit in this.

That rumor quickly spread - who doesn’t want to get a good thing for nothing? The time has come - the Tsar heard about the unusual merchant and his goods. He thought a little, and then he shook his staff on the floor: “Well, give Ivan's syuds !!!” Ivan has no choice: a forced man, he was ordered to appear - he appeared, he became threatening under his eyes, he listens to speech, scratches his head. And the cunning king begins from afar, affectionately so weaving:

“Hey,” he says, “Van.” You, like, in a certain kingdom, in a neighboring state have been?

- Well ?! - answers Vanka.

- Did you deal with their little merchants, swindlers?

- Well ?!

- What are you all "well" yes "well." Answer the Tsar as it should, not instead of abroad, although your neighbor, you will instantly go to the other side, where my craftsmen have been getting the engine on the cart for several years now. How much money they ate, dunce, and the cart remained so cart! The Germans wouldn’t have the wisdom to learn that … Ugh, what am I talking about? So, answer - familiar with the merchants of the neighborhood?

- But how, Tsar-Father, I know!

“This is another matter,” the Tsar smiled, was silent for a little while, and again he would bark: “If I know, what the hell are you standing here for, my eyes are royal? Ali did not hear what they, Herods, are doing there - they sell the latest German goods for nothing, but we are sitting here, we are not itching. I have a boyar who drives a German car - bought him on occasion, satisfied, praises. Do not look that in their own way the car is called national, in our case it’s just a noble one. So - while we are here rejoicing in their junk, they pondered there and built a new car for their people and sell it very cheaply. So, collect money, take a patchport and blow to your acquaintances - find out what kind of goods, well, and so on. Got it?

- Well ?!

- Well, what ?!

“I do not understand, Your Majesty,” said Ivan, “what do I need to look at?”

- It is told to you, on the German windy car.

- What kind of car? - Vanya was surprised. - Windy, I'm sorry, there are girls.

- One is all on your mind! Girls are girls, and they called the car a windy name - “Passat” - such a wind blows on the sea. Got it?

“Ah, I think I understood.”

- Well, if I understood, get ready - and with God, on the road …

What can I say? If the Tsar himself wants, it is necessary to go. Ivan collected things, received coins on the road and food in the treasury, took with him, frightened by the royal disgrace, the court painter, so that later he could present not only a word, but also a color picture before the light, and set off.

How long, how long Ivan and the Painter rode, but reached the neighboring kingdom. The merchants meet them, speaks affectionately, leads to their mansions, treats them with coffee and coffee from the road, talks about a precious German product. Ivan twists his head, looks out the window - nowhere to see the cherished car. “Oh, the trading man is cunning,” Vanka thinks, “he’ll trick him with speeches right now, and the overwhelming one will show the goods. What am I going to report to the King? Oh, carve!”

But the adjacent merchant is a brainy man. Of course, Vanka is not a ragged man in himself, but a royal man, an ambassador, we can say. And the king of that subject, like bugs. You see, Ivan will talk about something and the new buyer will go. So in vain our hero raised a man in his thoughts. The merchant didn’t - Ivan provided the best car. Yes, not simple, but executed by special order. Not only is there a motor in it with five as many valves per cylinder and turbocharged (Ivan only read about it in such books and looked at the picture), so the finishes are the best that happens. And Nemchur was always capable of all sorts of little things-dryuchki. Not only that, on all cars - power steering, ABS, traction control - here you have electric windows in the front, servo and heated mirrors, here are athermal glass, and central locking, and a fully galvanized body, and a spare wheel full-size, and a lot of little things such that we have not yet dreamed of.

By merchant's order, they trimmed the interior with leather, put a special sports steering wheel, hid two side airbags in the seatbacks (this is in addition to the two front airbags), added height adjustment to the seat itself. The air conditioning is automatic there, so that neither the merchant nor Ivan becomes cold or hot. The sixteen-inch alloy wheels were cast.

In general, I saw Vanka - gasped. And that's not all! The Germans attach a list of forty-two points to the car. What you want - you order from the merchant, and he sends your wish on. Look - the car is ready, just as you wanted. Yes, a cunning merchant, knows how to trade, from whom to take goods. He would have our cart with a motor - let him sell …

Well, all the coffee has been drunk, speeches have been made, they have looked at the car - it’s time for work. The merchant gives Vanka’s keys, and he so maliciously says: “If you, Ivan, what kind of malfunction or inconvenience you notice, write everything down immediately on a piece of paper. I’m interested in your opinion.” “Well, well,” Ivan thinks, “I will provide you with such a document in a few hours. Well, in the Tsar’s service, it’s not without reason that I receive a salary. What is the flaw in the car is my first concern.” With such thoughts Vanya got into a leather chair, spread his fingers out with a fan (almost everyone who buys a foreign car in his homeland is doing it right away) and went to look for all sorts of absurdities in the German product.

A courteous clerk is sitting nearby, shows the road, Vankin's tricky questions are smartly answered. And Ivan frowns more and more. The broken hour travels abroad, but has not written anything down in a booklet. And he had plenty of seats behind the wheel, although he was not a small man, and the seats, which at first seemed too hard, were actually very comfortable, and he adjusted the steering column in length and height, and all the levers and buttons were in place. Let Ivan press the pedal, maybe the motor will growl or the wind will whistle, so no - it's quiet in the cabin. And the clerk knows about his goods. “In vain,” he says, “you are waiting for noise, we need sound insulation, and the wind will not rustle.” Tea was blown in the pipe for more than a day: its drag coefficient, one might say, is a record - 0.27.”

Ivan got angry, let's look for holes on the roads and bumps to ride on them. Found, ride - all to no avail! The car's suspension is not so soft, but even in the pits of passengers it does not shake or knock.

It was in the spring, it was raining, the roads were wet. “Well,” Ivan thinks, “pan or disappeared,” and let's turn the steering wheel left and right. Wound up to sweat, and a little sense. German technology does not want to slip into a skid and glide along the road - know yourself rolling.

Then Vanya remembered that the engine was in a turbocharged car, which means that, as Ivan was taught, at low crankshaft speeds it should work neither shaky nor roll - such a turbocharger has such a harmful feature. Ivan grinned, slowed down, turned on fifth gear and pressed gas into the floor. Well, thinks the German motor twitches! But no, barely the speed exceeded one and a half thousand, the car went, so very fast! And the clerk know your oppression: “He,” he says, “has maximum torque at low revs and keeps steady over almost the entire range. German engineers thought up everything so that no harm would happen from a turbocharger, but only benefit. You can also try the brakes. ABS, mind you, is the most modern, neither you have wheel locks, nor pedal tremors.” What to try, it is clear that it will be so.

Ivan spat, got out of the steering wheel upset, flopped into the back seat and … got his head to the ceiling. He was glad, but the clerk-villain again ruined everything. "You, " says, "the growth of a large, non-standard, which is why this happened." And he put back the painter of the court, the man, too, not small, but Ivan is still smaller. He doesn’t rest against anything, sits, twists his head, bends his feet, enjoys life. So Ivan stepped back from the German car with nothing. Well, except that a damn thing is not visible back in the window, so now almost everyone has it. Either fashion, or this science, like her, aerodynamics!

Ivan comes to the merchant, and he waits, rubs his hands and asks: “Well, Vanechka, you have my goods, how many defects have you scribbled in your notebook?” What can I say? The truth must be said. No, they say, I didn’t notice any special defects. Everything, it seems, is in order, it just hurts the car is boring, it has no character, a herd under the hood can not be heard. This is what Ivan said - a tsar is a man to a merchant, but he himself thinks: “I need this“character”to show off, to get a buzz from the car. And for others, and there are many, such a buzz is unnecessary. Give them a car at once, and powerful, and convenient, and not evil, to handle this very power easily. I remembered Ivan and the old model that was traveling around his kingdom. She is just like that - comfortable and reliable, but spineless, painfully obedient to the driver. And for this, many people fell in love with her. Tame of the Shrew is not to everyone's liking. New - in the same spirit, only conceived and made, perhaps, even better …"

With such thoughts Vanka returned to the Tsar. He came to the report, so, they say, and so, he says, I was looking for defects and absurdities in the German product as I could, but I really didn’t find anything. The king, of course, is unhappy: “Why am I, you okhlamon, in the service? What is German technology, I know without you, I have long been reported. I am the king after all! You, obtuse, at least found out why this little merchant is so cheap?”“I found out, but how can it be,”Ivan answers. - "Report." - “He says that he made a strong friendship with the German, and he gives good friends cheap goods to good friends - they say he has such a policy. So good product comes out at a ridiculous price. Only in our kingdom this will never happen, because we have duties. If they are removed, the people of the cart with motors will stop buying.”

Listened to Tsar Ivan, listened. Tired of him, he is so insinuating and asks: “You,” he says, “Van, why did you get into politics?” Are you with me, maybe the minister or the first deputy prime minister? Why did they send you? For you to provide me with a written report. Right now, go and describe everything. And I’ll decide what to do with your scribbles!”

What is left for Ivan? He is a bonded man. I went and wrote - everything was as it was …

Igor TVERDUNOV

Photo by Sergey Ivanov

The same vaunted German product …

Another new Volkswagen, under the traditional name Passat, was the automotive world last fall with a sedan. Wagon ("option") appeared later - at the beginning of this year. The range of engines: five gasoline units with a volume of 1.6 to 2.8 liters and a capacity of 74 to 142 kW, two turbodiesel, 66 or 81 kW. Transmission - a five-speed manual, four-speed "automatic" or "smart" Tiptronic system. The 2.8-liter six-cylinder engine is only for the Passat all-wheel drive.

If a scorcher who jumps around the corner and goes right to the side, the pillow in the seat will be inflated at once. You look, the head will remain whole.

Wow! The Tsar himself in the chambers will be more modest.

Such nonsense is not for everyone, only by order.

German engineers were a little wiser over the motor. Brainy men, they know their business well, the noble engine came out,..

… who runs on the roads painfully confidently and very much …

This is how much good you can upload!

Vehicle Specifications

Volkswagen Passat 1.8 Turbo

Length - 4670 mm; width - 1740 mm; height - 1460 mm; base - 2700 mm; track front / rear wheels - 1498/1500 mm; curb weight - 1280 kg; Gross weight - 1830 kg. Engine: number of cylinders - 4; the number of valves per cylinder - 5; diameter and piston stroke - 81x86.4 mm; working volume - 1781 smz; power - 110 kW / 150 l. with. at 5700 rpm; maximum torque - 210 N.m at 1750–4600 rpm. Maximum speed - 223 km / h; acceleration time from standstill to 100 km / h -

8.7 s; fuel consumption at 90, 120 km / h and in the HZ - 5.8; 7.6; 9.8 l / 100 km.

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