2018 Mazda CX-5 Epic Drive on Lake Baikal Siberia
21Driving on ice and snow is not an exceptional event in winter, but it becomes so if under the tires there are about 1,700 meters of water instead of asphalt. On board the Mazda CX-5 AWD, equipped only with studded tires, Mazda has crossed Lake Baikal, one of the largest and oldest lakes in the world, containing 20% of the planet's water reserves, along with journalists from 14 European countries .
Mazda was the first manufacturer to receive permission to organize an extreme test drive on Lake Baikal, 4,400 kilometers east of Moscow, in eastern Siberia. A 351-kilometer trail that brought a 17-Mazda convoy to cross the frozen lake from the small town of Listvyanka to Tankhoy, on the other side, to get from there Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buriati. The 72-kilometer route on the frozen lake surface required expertise and great attention from the participants. The crews had to look for the most suitable route, because the snowdrifts and the ice floes made a direct route impossible.
Despite this, the Mazda CX-5 AWD, thanks to intelligent four-wheel drive with 27 sensors that monitor up to 200 times per second road conditions and the intentions of the driver, determining immediately how to distribute the power between the front wheels and those Afterwards, he demonstrated all his qualities in extreme conditions, bringing all the participants to the finish line safely and comfortably.
Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake in the world with its 25 million years, and the deepest, well 1642 meters. It covers a length of 673 square kilometers - roughly the distance that separates Rome from Turin - and is 82 kilometers wide. Because of the temperatures that in winter can reach 50 degrees below zero, for about five months a year the lake forms a layer of ice whose thickness varies between one and a half meters and two.
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