It is sometimes difficult to make the right decision. So you do the deed. And then drink champagne or lick wounds. Volkswagen Amarok pickup truck sent word through all Russia, to learn whether it can keep pounding of Russian roads. Kaliningrad-passed.
We are walking on a sandy braid. The machine is a little shaken, but it is comfortable and it does not yet feel the difference between this beach and the kenigsberg cobblo. Suddenly the slit is torn by a half-foot wade. A water hurdle passes through the Agammarks. It's a seed for him. Volkswagen's Amarok car started in Kaliningrad and will end in Vladivostok. In total, participants of the rally will ride on different roads more than 20,000 kilometers nearby the natural nature reserve Kurshsky. Here, the greenish waters of the Baltics meet with sand dunes, which are brush-brush. Nature is amazing. Stake "Agammarks", not troubled by poorly hidden nudists, is located on the coast, as if by the local inhabitants. According to a typical pickup truck, the "Stamok" is well armed for hooliganism outside of road signs and gadget. We have 163-strong diesel, rana structure, full-drive 4Motion, reduced transmission, and rear electromechanical differential. Psychologically, it's very difficult to let go of the brake before one of the hills we stop. The car died away on the top of a 45-degree slope. Press the "Off-road" key, including the mining assistant, changes the accelerator response, adjustment of the brakes, and the exchange rate stability system. The rise and descent assistant greatly facilitates the movement in hilly terrain. It is necessary to get used to the good self-management of off-road electronics. Now all the pedals are released, the driver is only left with a ruination. Following the increasing attraction, the pickup truck is addicled down and. Unnatural laws of physics are slowly flowing to the foot of the slope. The most difficult thing to do at this moment is to believe the smart systems that they can do without you. Oh, cool! And in a straight and figurable sense. Work on errors in the wet sand even at the "teeth" tyres are not easy to go. The turnobodysel with a consistent boost is at the top of the "moment" (400 Nm) already from 1500 rpm. But when the load is increasing, after 3000 thousand/min, the thrust is also quickly extingudied. Gas has to be managed very carefully, ahead of the coming effort. Or mount a reduced transmission promptly without breaking the chosen rate of motion, which is not always the same as inexperience. A typical mistake is this: a little bit of dilation, and in a hurry you're correcting the situation with a sharp opening of the throttle. On the wet sand Amrok, despite all the militancy, is burying fast. This is where the gravity of the diesel has been saved: if bridges are not weaved, with the blocked differential on the first gear, the Amrok pulls out from, seemingly, the "haikova" of the situation. The more experience, the further to follow the tug. It's over, if you want to bury yourself anywhere. So a couple of long-distance cars are equipped with winches. The action and the aggregates are closed by additional protection. When the cars get to Moscow, they will be set up by a shnorkel to overcome the deep sewers. Volkswagen Amark in the rest is the Amarok pick-up trucks that have been shipped to Russian customers for the first time in a few months. With demand growth, the Germans promise to speed up the logistics process. The city will be driven by St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk and many other cities. I was in Vladivostok. Volkswagen Amark, two Multivan PanAmericana and Caddy 4Motion, will have a number of special sites, where "Adammarks" will again have to prove its compatibility with Russian land. The main offsets will be held in the area of the natural order of Tsimlyansky sands in the Volgograd region, and another house has been laid on the beach primers, the coast of the northern coast of Lake Baikal. Internet portal " Zarul. RF " is an information partner and will work with the rally organizers to keep a diary of the route. We wish you a brave success!