Test Drive Audi A3 Hatchback 3 Doors since 2012 Hatchback
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Audi-A3-Sportbeck, of course, a car for an active driver. And the point here is not only in aggressive appearance. Yellow calendar day
I am not too original love autumn, with her fresh transparent air, when you can walk in the forest, raking the beauty of fallen leaves, and think about something elevated. But for November my love does not apply at all. This month, everything seems to be freezing on the eve of winter, the days become monotonously gray, and people too. And nothing, it seems, cannot wake them up.
So I, half a hand, sitting by the window of the bus, with sadness and I think about the summer, about warm, about the sun rather. My depression, probably, would continue at least a month, if it were not for this car. She, like expensive vitamin complexes, filled me with new energy.
At the door of the salon there were three Gray, Yellow and Red Greek. Red still walked, but gray ... no, no, but not it is! I did not inspire the prospect of spending two gray November days behind the wheel of a gray car, even if it is Audi. That is why I almost jumped out of joy when I had the keys from this yellow beauty, such a hot and calling. I presented myself, with what interest we wish us around the surrounding, and anticipation of the future holiday unnoticed in the soul.
They went their way Just a year and a half ago, sales of a new A3 three-door hatchback began, and it would be logical to assume that the 5-door version would not wait long. But in Ingolstadt, they decided not just add two doors to add three doors, but to give a new model name their own A3-Sportbek.
The Audi, obviously, believe that sports and active image is exactly the only thing that lacked their cars, so the sport guard got to the full program. Now no new company is done without reloading the mouth of the radiator lattice, on stylish rear lights, in the spirit of the concept of Nuvelar, also did not save. And the high windows and diagonal front headlights borrowed at A3 it turned out very cool. But at the same time, a sports guard is 83 mm longer than a treshki. What, as you understand, first of all affected the appearance, it looks at all with a 5-door hatchback, but a sports, suspended wagon. Yes, and inside the place was noticeably added, both in the back seat and in the trunk.
In general, the car seems much solid A3. The impression is that if the treshka is still a chubby karapuz, then the sport care is already a strengthened teenager, in growth and is almost no inferior A4. And to me, honestly, it became a little sorry just treshka. After all, her newborn sister, such a fashionable and rapid, probably will take a lot of fans from the 3-door A3.
However, the problems of sales will better worry the Germans, and not me. By clicking on the alarm key chain button, I got access to the Salon of Yellow Beauty The holiday continues.
Why good so harmonica plays Inside everything looks solid, high quality and exquisitely. Other, however, from the car at the very expensive performance of Ambishn, I did not wait. Having fallen into a sports, with a developed side support of the seat, I easily find a convenient position of the adjustment set exhaustive, and the steering wheel can be installed both in altitude and over the corner of the tilt. Immediately notice that in the middle of the three-spoke leather borant is not a round hub, as on A3, and a trapezium, in shape resembling a drawing of a radiator grid. A comfortable armrest was sheltered between the front seats, under the cover of which you can hide the top of the troops of cigarettes. A dashboard with a branded red backlight, made in the classic Volkswagen spirit 2 + 2, where large drives of the speedometer and the tachometer are adjacent to the low round pointers of the coolant temperature and the amount of fuel, it looks very stylish. Extremely by the way on the glove box and the doors of the polished aluminum insert, they are greatly reviving the pathologically serious German interior. On the ceiling, to his surprise, I discovered as many as two lamps, separately for each row of seats.
On the central console, smooth rows of buttons, from here you can control the microclimate and the audio system. Several uncomfortable temperature adjustment. To, for example, make air in the cabin cooler for five degrees, you need to turn the switch counterclockwise to a small angle, return back and so repeat five times.
But, of course, the music established in this car is deserved separate attention. Magnificent, high-quality sound, pouring from the speakers of the company Bose, my classmates would immediately observe their pathos I really liked. And if you have old favorite cassettes, do not hurry to throw them away, the symphony radio tape recorder is capable of playing not only CDs.
On-board computer is only the most expensive version of Ambishn
This small boxing can be useful for storing business cards or several packs of chewing gum.
Electrically adjustable focus for the lower back is very convenient, but installed for an additional fee.
If necessary, the sunscreen curtain is easily folded by pressing it down
Sitting on the back seat to a man in 186 cm will not work
However, enough about the secondary. To the great regret of my parents, I never became a connoisseur of music as such. The sound of a car motor likes me a much more symphonic poem. Night jump and sunrise Yana Sibelius. Yes, and take a ride at all at all!
Same directness Many motors of good and different is the audio policy. Of the four possible for A3-givingbuck engines, we chose a 2-liter 150-strong FSI with direct injection. One hundred two horses of 1.6-liter seemed insufficient for such a car, turbodiesel in Russia is still a pleasure to the amateur. And with the most powerful 250-strong assembly of the sport guard costs almost $ 60,000, too much for a golf class machine. That is why the choice fell 2.0 liters FSI. To help, the Germans died to help 6-speed automatic tattronic. It works all this is just a look.
Switch the machine into the sports mode and click the floor gas pedal until it stops. The motor, waking up from the lowest ones, does not bother on a moment, rapidly drives the tachometer arrow accurately to a 6400 rpm mark before the speed limiter is triggered. The interior is filled with juicy, bass sound, not annoying, but very appropriate. It seems that only clicked on gas, and on the speedometer already 110 km / h and only the third gear. I want to go even faster than the car and rushes into battle. But, alas, in the city such sports exercises are not at all appropriate. I will go, I remember-her, and then fly along the street with yellow lightning, the people and see something really does not have time for my beauty.
In the usual mode, the duet of the Motor box itself is meekness. Switching occur early, in the zone of 2500 revolutions, smoothly and neatly. And the computer shows the pleasing of any economy of the figure of the fuel consumption of 78 liters per 100 km.
However, fuel economy is not the first thing about what the owners of such cars think. That is why, coming to my favorite winding track in the area of \u200b\u200bLytkarino, I switched the box in the manual mode and pressed it in a good way. In straight, I manage to accelerate up to 200 km / h, before turning it on the brake and twice the handle of the box down to the second transfer, refrigerated and downloading the front axle of the machine, put the car in turn and smoothly open the gas. It's just a class as a sportbek writes turns! The right leg was overlapped into the partition connecting the console and the tunnel, it seems that the front wheels have long been to crawl out, but the car is tightly holding an arc. And only when the limit is really achieved, the electronic stabilization system delicately holds the car without letting it slide.
FSI engines are adapted to Russian fuel. There will be no problems with gasoline
Unlike most silent steers, from which the information will not raise, how much the wheels are turned, the Glob's Glob's Steering Steering. Sufficiently acute and with adequate feedback. The electromechanical amplifier with the servotronic, depending on the speed, changes the effort on the steering wheel, and does it, it is worth noting, always in the case.
But do not think that this Audi special shell for high-speed turning of turns and endowed, in connection with this, there is no virus suspension. Yes, the suspension is dense, shot down, but with a calm ride quite comfortable and does not disturb passengers because of each little things on the road. Sports, though hot, but at the same time convenient in all respects a car, in which you feel well both behind the wheel and in the rear sofa. But he has another 370-liter trunk, which can be increased to 1120 liters not forgotten, our Audi almost wagon. The car with such a set of qualities, far from the last in the table of rank name, albeit for a considerable amount of $ 30,554, still search.
Everything is good, as it is not sad, sooner or later ends. Tomorrow, the gray Moscow streets and dull faces of the bus passengers will be award me again. But I will still remember this outbreak of activity for a long time, which is fully obliged to the Sportbeck. And maybe the accumulation of money and buy myself such necessarily a yellow car. And I will always be active, well, like a pioneer.
Free choice Choose, believe me, there is from what. The cheapest equipment of the attractions includes ABS, anti-slip system, climate control, 4 airbags, central locking, power windows and heated mirrors, immobilizer and audio preparation. Here you can choose from three motors: 1.6 l, 102 liters. p., 2.0 l, 150 liters. with. and turbodiesel in 140 liters. with. The prices begin with a mark of $ 28,674 per car with a 1.6-liter engine. The most expensive in this picking will be a car with a turbodiesel and a hydromechanical box DSG $ 35,595.
Execution Ambient about $ 2100 more expensive. For this amount, the car will be equipped with cast discs, trimmed with a steering wheel and the lever of the gearbox, adjusting the front seats in height, decorative inserts under the tree, thermometer, light and rain sensors, cruise control and an electrochromic mirror.
Even more expensive (approximately $ 110) grade Ambishn. It means sports steering wheel and seats, on-board computer, fog lights, aluminum decorative inserts, sunscreen on the rear window. Only in this configuration you can get a 250-power engine of 3.2 liters. Such a car will cost $ 58 294 with 6-speed mechanics and $ 60 553 with DSG box.
PER
Bright appearance, excellent motor, excellent handling, comfortable, spacious salon
AGAINST
Some thoughtful automaton in normal mode, expensive options, high price
Audi A3 Sportback 2.0
general information
Body (number of places / doors)
Hatchback (5/5)
Curb weight, kg
1345.
Length x Width x Height, mm
4286x1765x1423.
Base, mm.
2578.
Pitch in front / rear, mm
1531/1515
Acceleration time 0100 km / h, with
9.7
Speed, km / h
209.
Fuel consumption, l / 100 km highway / city
5.8 / 11.3.
Engine
Design
petrol, row, 4-cylinder
Working volume, SMZ
1984.
Power, hp at rpm
150/6000.
Torque, kgcm at rpm
20.4 / 3500.
Chassis
Drive unit
on the front wheels
Transmission
Automatic 6-speed tiptronic
Suspension
Independent, with transverse stability stabilizers
in front
Type Mac Foodson
behind
Multi-type
Steering
Rack type with electromechanical amplifier
Torkemose
Disk front ventilated
Tires
205/55 R16.
Andrei Koltun, photo Maxim Potcharov
Source: Journal Buy Auto [22/2004]
