Chrysler 300C Touring - Test Drive

If you wear glasses, your head PROELA baldness, your growth and build repel others, you poor attention from the opposite sex - you need a Chrysler 300C Touring. This car can make all congeal on the ground and start saliva, watch how you startuete with a traffic light.

Such opinions thrown around on a huge estate Chrysler 300C. It looks really impressive. Some compare him with a heavy hand hearse, but even they greedily provozhajut his eyes and recognized that this design does not meet more than none. Although the 300C Touring for sale in dealer showrooms for more than a year, it is rarely seen on the streets of Moscow. What is the cause of this uncertainty of buyers? 

Exterior Design Chrysler 300C Touring is unique in all respects. The huge grille with a chrome grid, huge headlamps harmoniously fit into the great universal hood. The adjective «huge» can be used against 300C everywhere: a huge body length of five meters, a huge wheelbase of 3048 mm, a huge trunk, the maximum volume of 1602 liters.

U 300C all great, except, perhaps, rear and side windows. The latter have given way to a massive wide (again, huge) the door and did not hinder the review. In the best traditions of the American automobile industry, a large station wagon has a spacious interior, which restrictions will not feel even a very tall passengers. True, this car is still for 4 persons, because place in the center rear seat is very uncomfortable because of the wide and high tunnel under their feet. Moving in the back seat, you can look at a narrow window, or look ahead, no more classes for passengers at the rear of engineers did not come. 

If outside the Chrysler 300C is impressive and luxurious vehicle, the inside things are quite otherwise. The front panel is fitted with round plastic adjustments and the same buttons, but the appearance of the audio system does not fit into his head: a car - and such electronics? Does not it make more worthy?

Seats skinned skin nice and noble white, right, front-seat leather spared, and so on each side are half-skinned white cloth. Finishing a good salon, the steering wheel and the lever are hints in the CPT tree itself chetyrehspitsevy big wheel and leather cover, and two lower spokes finished by chromium. The steering wheel are audio controls and on-board computer, the screen which is displayed on the dashboard. 

As has been the sad tradition for all cars supplied to us in Chrysler 300p, proposed to Russia, there is no display on the front panel, where all Western countries is the navigation system. But because in our country with a navigation system, while not all good (road navigator with a television system and onboard computer for the first time presented so far only BMW only recently), the Chrysler decided that it would be enough audio.

Performance on-board computer displayed on the dashboard and tells you all the standard indicators (fuel consumption, mileage, etc.) that can be displayed both in kilometers and miles. Sami also performed under the appliances and chrome is highlighted in green light, like the buttons on the front panel, the level of brightness which can be changed. Equipment is well read, at any time of day. In the dashboard why some embedded electronic compass indicating the direction of movement in one direction or another part of the world. Typically, these features are available from the SUVs, whose vocation wheel fields and forests, but 300p is worse than the Chrysler? 

If you're tired of all the achievements of the modern automobile, then using the keys on-board computer, you can disable various features designed to make life easier for car. You do not like that side mirrors are deleted when moving in reverse? Please, you can disable this feature. Tired of nasty squeak parktronikov - also disabled, leaves the seat back when you exit the car - it is possible to stop this chaos! You can also disable the rain sensor, flashing light with an external device for setting the alarm. If you do not want the doors are blocked at a speed exceeding 24 km / h, it is also possible to deactivate.

Driver's seat in the Chrysler 300C offers all possibilities for convenient placement. The seat is regulated in eight positions, which can not be said about the front seat passenger, a number of adjustments is reduced by half, namely: the very seat can be adjusted for height and distance from the front panel, but the back will have to adjust manually, and the list of options in electric back of the front passenger seat is not included, as a consequence - the lack of your seat. With regard to the driver, he can to memorize two different variants of the geometry of the seat, steering wheel, equipped with electronically controlled four positions - on the inclination and the escape, as well as the position of the pedals are also equipped with electronically controlled memory (option). 

Indicators parktronikov in the Chrysler 300C is on the ceiling, аккурат over the rear seat back. With rear-view mirror, you can follow the approach of obstacles, not only through the rear glass, but with the help of sensors, which display the distance to the obstacle by using the scale on the left and right. When the distance is close to critical, distributed intense warning signal.

Here are just a front parktroniki missing, which is very uncomfortable with such huge (some have not heard that word) size car. By the way, all mirrors in the Chrysler 300C Touring with avtozatemneniem. 

Space for baggage in Universale предостаточно. In general, the structure of the luggage compartment is very innovative. First, the fifth door took a portion of the roof, which can be opened without going out of the car body. Advantages of such solutions can be felt in the parking lot, if too close to drive to the nearby car - not necessarily pull off from it at a distance to open the trunk.

Back row of seats can be difficult to form a large space for baggage. In addition, the floor has a double bottom, which is height of about 10 cm and the bottom is the battery and spare wheel. As a result, the volume of space can be increased from 603 to 1602 liters. 

Driving the quality of Chrysler 300C Touring with the 3.5-liter engine it is at the proper level. Despite a long base and impressive weight of 1902 kg, touring quite frisky on the road. Of the three options for the engine V6 power of 253 hp, probably the minimum that can be installed in this car. 

Rudder tugovat slightly at low speeds and the brakes have a poor feedback to the driver. Approach, for example, the light seems that you have to press the brake pedal in order to stay in the right place, but the car continued to move, and it even stronger pressure on the brake. 

The merger of German and American group could not bring their full benefits. Chrysler 300C Touring was the platform of his German fellow E-klasse in the body W211, front and rear suspension, similar steering reechnogo type, and full gear is the same as that of the «E-shki» 4MATIC: 62% of torque is transferred to the rear wheels, while 38% - on the front. 

Thanks to the full drive and the availability of ESP Chrysler 300C excellent passes steep turns (even if the length of 5 meters!), As well as great on slippery slopes. 5-speed automatic with the function of Autostick (ICIE imitation) works smoothly, without failures and unnecessary shocks.

Pendant is set in such a way that a small velocity Chrysler 300C zhestkovat, but with the quick ride roughness hardly felt. As soon as the tachometer needle zapolzaet for the 2500 revolutions, from under the bonnet is dealt a powerful and quite loud roar, the body is pressed to the seat, and the speedometer needle starts to creep up fast. 

And finally ... As an option for the Chrysler 300C Touring proposed audio system with 6 speakers Boston Acoustics, amplifier at 288 W and CD-changer for 6 CDs in the dashboard. This is fantastic for sound quality Acoustics premium class will not leave anyone indifferent. Even at maximum volume, the sound remains clean and high quality, and CD-changer can play just like regular Audio or mp3 files.