I can tell you that this car is so good that anyone with a C1/C2 driver's license can get started quickly, but I can only experience it in a closed venue, and the main purpose of this experience is not to tell you how strong this car is, but to recommend that you drive, ride, walk... Try to leave more road space for this car, because it is easy to drive but requires extremely professional driving skills to ensure safety!
It is... Scania G450, big drag!
-------- meet the big head again
Back in 2011, Xiaobian once followed Scania to its birthplace - Sweden, learned that the brand is actually related to aerospace and SAAB cars, and also experienced the life of a Swedish truck driver who slept on a big drag and drove a trailer to pull the container.
Seriously, at that time, the first time I felt that this automatic drag head was really good to open, and the general automatic car driving method is exactly the same, at most learn some of the liquid slow speed that the car does not have... and other functions can be used in a way.
but...... That's just dragging the head, when the rear trailer hits the world changes - including acceleration, deceleration reaction has become several times slower, turning is often to pull the route to the end, the steering wheel turns several times, with a precise large angle and ultra-long reservation to avoid the trailer from hitting other objects, and even reversing also appears the steering wheel to the right but the trailer to the left, difficult...
In addition, I also participated in the local truck party in Sweden , the Notting Cup Truck Festival, which is like a big car version of Le Mans in France, a Goodwood Racing Festival in the UK... The event, I did not expect that there are so many kinds of modified big drags and trucks on the scene, with ingenious activity content, really opened my eyes - trucks in Sweden, is cultured!
Back to reality, "climb" on the Rhubarb G450 in front of me to sit in the driver's seat, all the memories are all emerging, the same step on the brakes, turn the key to start the engine, just like driving a car, you can forget the tedious action of the old diesel truck before driving the preheat plug heating. Then, the 13L displacement L6 engine under the cockpit immediately sounded a low rumble, rumble, like a beast waking up and preparing to go.
But at this time, I can't rush to open, I have to first set my seat height, front and rear position, air pressure cushioning stroke, and then adjust the left two and right four rearview mirror angles... Speaking of this, I really remind everyone that the driving vision blind area of the big car is very large, if it were not for these rearview mirrors, I would really not be able to see my colleagues standing on both sides of the car when I sat in the car! So...... Cherish life, stay away from the big car, this is definitely not a joke!
Pull up the pneumatic handbrake handle, put it up, and then adjust the turntable on the right lever behind the steering wheel to D gear, at which time the car will not let go of the brakes like a normal automatic car and slip forward, but will have to step on the accelerator to move. Because the tow head needs to bear a very high drag weight, the at-hydraulic torque clutch mode is basically not feasible, so the gearbox of this car is still an MT manual structure, with a friction clutch, but with an automatic shift mechanism.
That's right! It's an AMT gearbox like the early smart, but the G450 has 12+2 gears!
Driving slowly forward, I found that the new generation of the G series was obviously smarter than the shift logic of the old model I test drove in Sweden at that time, with faster gear changes and smoother operation. But the manipulation... Needless to say, the cockpit has shock absorbers, the seats have shock absorbers, the wheel suspension has shock absorbers... It's not a car that makes people drive a sense of control, it's a tool car!
-------- special skills
Let's talk about some of the "special skills" that belong to the big car - the G450 is equipped with a hydraulic retarder at the rear of the transmission to help the car minimize the use of the brake for a long time when going down steep slopes or braking, and avoid thermal decay brake failure.
According to Scania staff, if the hydraulic retarder is driven to the maximum resistance, it can produce a reverse braking force of up to 4100 Nm, which is twice as strong as the 2350 Nm output of the engine itself. In actual use, as long as the gear shift lever is pushed down step by step, the resistance will increase step by step. And if it is troublesome, there is a steep slope slow descent button on the steering wheel, when it is downhill, the vehicle will inhibit the speed through the hydraulic retarder, and even the heavy load is not afraid of slipping.
Recently the price of oil is so expensive, G450 full fuel tank is 1000L belly, how to help drivers and freight drivers save money, is the necessary skill of this tool car!
This 6×2 (three-axle 6 main wheel, 2 main wheel drive) version of the G450 tow head The last row of wheels is only a load wheel, when not towing the trailer, it can be lifted up from the ground through the pneumatic device, gradually reducing mechanical friction, saving 1 ~ 2L/ 100km of fuel consumption.
In addition, the air pressure suspension of the rear two axles can adjust the body distance from the ground, when it is necessary to tow the trailer, first press the rear of the car down, align the connection shield and then raise the height of the car to reach the connection, which can reduce the workload of the driver's manpower operation.
Nowadays, passenger cars are about to become standard intelligent auxiliary driving systems, which have long been standard on the G450, radar, camera detection sensors are readily available, and there are "black boxes" like airplanes, which can remember the data of the vehicle when driving, and the driver can not time out in a single driving time, otherwise the police will issue tickets...
-------- mobile home
In 2011, I slept on a Scania drag head for the night and experienced the life of a truck driver! This G450 also has such a function, the spacious cockpit has a horizontal bed, and there is also a lot of space, bringing your belongings to eat and sleep in the car is no problem. even...... This bed is quite comfortable, ha!
After experiencing the G450, I asked the Scania expert a little, how much does such a drag head cost? The answer is... About 780,000!
Wow! This price... That is, the money to buy a Mercedes-Benz GLE! It can be seen how different the pricing models of tool cars and passenger cars are, and Scania's tow head price ratio is simply too high...
In fact, compared with 2011, Scania's tow head price has decreased on average, but the car is becoming more and more advanced, and if you just rely on selling cars, it will only become more and more difficult. So they don't just sell cars, they sell fleet management, driver training, business interruption insurance... Supporting services, there are personnel in the background who specially collect vehicle "black box" information for data analysis, tell the boss how to dispatch the vehicle to make the most money, and teach the driver how to drive the most fuel-efficient.
Depending on the model, this big drag head is about 80,000 kilometers and only needs to be maintained once... Wow! The value of this durable, maintenance-saving is simply much higher than that of a car! Have a heart to buy it? The premise is to have an A1 driver's license and a place to park!
But back to the theme, or tell everyone that the big car driving vision is large, and after the weight of the various turns, acceleration and deceleration reaction will be very slow, the driver itself will have a relatively large psychological pressure, it is recommended to drive a car, cycling, walking friends to do good deeds as far away from the big car as possible, even if it is for the sake of the driver of the big car that is not easy to live, but also for their own life safety more guarantee, harmonious traffic depends on you and me!
Come all come, don't you like it?