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Equation with three famous

The temperamental Italian, a good German, who moved to AMP to America to America to America, was clung to somehow in the hot sparkling. Life is a woman! Waving his hands free artist, a native of sunny turin. And if you are able to swirl with her hand in hand over the gray roofs of everyday life, it will never leave for another! Emotions This is what helps us really live and seek the favor of Felchites!.
Look at this Romeo! Hamped the calm father of the family from Ingolstadt, the owner of a small, but profitable workshop and a six-digit bank account. Neither stable income, no responsibility to children and grandchildren! One on the mind: pleasure, entertainment, adventure ... With such an approach to life, you will not be left anyway, except for macaroni, chinsen and sun with sea water. The benefit that all this you have in abundance and practically for nothing!. What are you arguing? It was included in the controversy a thorough and usually a few chant. South, north, west; wine, beer, whiskey; Gothenburg, Oklahoma, love adventures or a measured family life ... All this has absolutely equal rights to existence, and everyone chooses from the menu of life what he liked and on the pocket. Yes, you at least take a look who came on today! What is better my Saab or your Alfa Romeo with Audi? And truth what?
Alfa Romeo 156 The car in which it is impossible not to fall in love at first sight. It is not beautiful, not elegant, there is no delicious, regardless of what kind of design school you give preference and what Mercedes or Nissan is dreaming of long in the evenings. Having such a car under its window is not a shameful or honest businessman of medium wealth, nor extravagant impresario. The only reproachable designers are flattened in the production hurry where the platform fell under the front license plate. The feeling that the creators remembered about this small, but the catchy design element was remembered only when it was already too late to make fundamental changes to appearance. And in order to harmoniously move the digital hallucination on the left cheekbone somewhere into the center of symmetry, the creative team has already simply not enough inspiration ...
Saab 9-3 Monumental, like a weathered rock, which ingrown with stone roots into the coastal shelf of Scandinavian fjord. The flesh from the flesh of the last 900th, he even looks like a reactive aircraft, who unnecessary the elements of the plumage unnecessary on the road on the road, but still sounded into the sky abandoned by ancestors. When you admire walking along the highway with a speed under one hundred and half-third, you are involuntarily waiting for the fact that the car will place the wings, will remove the chassis, takes away from the ground and hits in low thunderstorm the clouds ... It is especially good, it looks in the monolithic aerodynamic kit of Viggen, but our modest 2-3 SE swan is called a nasty duckling, the language is also not rotated. At the same time, it is impossible not to recognize that the appearance of the car is designed for the connoisseur of the brand, well acquainted with its history and understanding the expression of frozen people in the SAAB family album.
Audi A4 Refined adult child who made his way to the top of a public hierarchy is not yet old parents. It seems that externally, the previous car was more original and original. But at the same time there was a steady image of transport for the excellent half of the speaker in German. The windows of the autobahn and the raging flows of urban streets of Pretty fours, the steering of which the best squeezed well-preserved and flawlessly toned business frau with choleric dobermans on the rear sofas and the full trunk of the packages from the supermarket. New A4 is another story. Now this is a fashionable UNISEX with a fully informed claim on recognition from strong and prosperous men. You can discuss anything similar to the similarity of A4 with A6, A8, and TT, but no one can convincingly prove that the new Audi failed. And how i managed! Stylists have achieved the original effect of the middle class car looks significantly solid and larger than the vast majority of their classmates. But it is striking, only when real A6 and A8 are parked next to A4. However, such a neighborhood is unlikely in our buildings, Audi is rarely collected in flocks. Is that on the company's service or at the central entrance of the State Duma. So admire the rearview mirror, as the uninitiated with amazement look at the fourth rear, categorically not understanding why the nameplate A4 is bangling on the trunk ...
Inside, these cars differ from each other even more than outside. Alfa Romeo is primarily oriented on the driver, whose interests are taken into account before the smallest details and details. It is only possible to plunge into a sports seat with bright lateral support, put hands on the rim of a sports three-spoke steering wheel, throw a look at the round scales of sports devices and pointers and you understand that I was captured from which I don't want to run to the will! An ideal place for the driver with ambitions looking for in the car continuation of its Ya. Landing is traditional for Italian cars sit high, like on a chair. But with almost the first meters of movement, you understand that impeccable specialists were engaged in the ergonomics of the driver's seat. There are only two significant claims. The leisure platform of the left leg in fact is not so much experimenting, you will not find a convenient position in the long road with its help. And the stylish exterior rearview mirrors once again confirm that, when choosing between beauty and functionality, Italian designers prefer exterior to the detriment of the ergonomics more important to the consumer. Overview Back through these chipped elements of decorative design leaves much to be desired. I am confident that when preparing the next generation, the 156th designers will take into account these shortcomings.
The interior of Saab has no surprises in itself. Came, saw the boat! Just do not forget that the ignition lock is between the front seats. Whatever by side, in the pilot cabin is always warm and cozy, and the electric car allows all manipulations with the configuration of the workplace under it exclusively using the buttons. They are in Saaba, as in any plane, there has always been a lot, I would have allocated a couple of days for study. Crates the insufficient range of adjustment of the steering column in the depth and the inability to adjust the angle of its tilt to me all the time I wanted to lower the steering wheel and pull it on myself. Not for take-off, but to achieve the most convenient landing ...
You can configure A4 for yourself perfectly. No, the fourth one never merges in ecstasy, like from the 156th. And do not hurt from snow, as in 9-3rd. She will always remind you where the driver ends and begins Audi. This is a characteristic feature of any German car. Still, for the Germans, even the most space-wide mass car remains not so much luxury as the means of movement. Based on this Germany, you should not build illusions that the car is embodied in the metal continuation of the person driving. No, the car is an extremely convenient and multifunctional unit, designed with the maximum comfort to deliver the rides at the specified address, while preferably minimal driver participation in the process of delivery. Twist the steering wheel, dawn on the pedals and buttons, switch the transfers, enjoy the ride but do not teach the car to live and do not bother her to work out the money you are paid for her. Ready to accept this approach? Then you with Audi are created for each other!
From the point of view of passengers, these cars have much more common than differences. Behind the same way, especially if the public came up on the road in the road above average. Do not forget that these are variations on the topic of the golf class, and require from these machines outstanding internal space is not entirely correct. But all three hospitably swim around with the right front doors to sit in front, cozy and comfortable. That's just in Alfer, the fellow traveler is completely deprived of the opportunity to receive any information from recessed deep into the round niche devices even time to learn about the clock hidden from prying eyes, only by moving the seat belt and practically putting his head to the driver on the shoulder. It is not entirely clear what this can explain really only the fight against night glare on the windshield? And in Saab over the left knee of the passenger, threatening and ridiculously hangs a small piece of the central panel. So small, which is surprised, why he was given such an outstanding role in ergonomics. Of course, the most comfortable passengers feel in A4, as-in any way, the position of a direct competitor of the BMW and Mercedes C-Class robbing obliges to keep a style! What, of course, cannot but affect the price ...
Eat these cars completely differently! 2-liter 150-strong Alfa Romeo with a TWIN SPARK branded system for better flammings of a dream of a dream of any driver who has minimal front-wheel drive control skills. An excected suspension, optimally chosen gear ratios in the KP and sharply, sharp steering will raise the mood and will deliver the true pleasure to an amateur active rest behind the wheel. Up to 2000 revolutions, Alfa simply goes, up to 4000 breaks off and fun gaining speed on any of five gears, and from 4 to 7 thousand flies like a crazy, elegantly noticed by his own traces of his own trails in turn at the limit possible! In such modes, a motor with two candles on a cylinder sings a ringing, like Robertino Loretti, and the sound of the exhaust and smell of a pale rubber disseminate birds within a radius of several kilometers ... It is absolutely not necessary to carry the head of the sunset until dawn in the standard from the point of view of traffic rules And our sluggishly across the city streets of the reality of the Alfa modes is unquestioned by the driver, allowing you to practically not be distracted by the management process. The eternal corks of the metropolis will end, engage in public spaces and run gasoline on highways and adrenaline on the veins!
Saab The most powerful and fast car among dough participants. A 185th strong turbo engine is confidently lucky from the Niza himself. In urban bustle and with measured country movement, the behavior of 9-3 is exactly what an adult samented person needs. However, the main market for Saab 9-3 is the United States of McDonalds and Coca-Cola, and it could not not impose a specific imprint on the suspension. Soft, roll, weakly resisting rolls and clutches, it practically deprives the chance of the chance that moved to AMZ in America to resist Alpha and Audi in the rapid turns of the test track. The catastrophic softness of the suspension is best illustrated by such a fact: you stand in the extreme left row on the traffic light, on the oncoming lane, the car is driving a slightly more Oci, and its air loop squeaks on racks, like a wave boat at the pier. I am not a big makov lover, so I would have ordered 9-3 with another set of springs and shock absorbers ...
Audi A4 with a 2-liter motor and mechanical KP is not the best choice. No, in ordinary modes, the machine behaves flawlessly, no negative emotions! But here in a dense urban stream, where you constantly move in Stop & GO mode, the meter behind the meter, rearing at traffic jam, the right to move in time and space, the engine catastrophically lacks the moment on the turnover close to idle. To confidently touch the place, it is necessary to raise the tachometer to 1700-2000 min-1. On smaller great risk just stumble. As a result, after half an hour of such a creeping, the salon is filled with the aroma of a shredded clutch disk, we assume that it will have to change it once every 10-15 thousand km, along with oil and filters. I would prefer a 2-liter A4 with a machine gun during our first start we found out that the machine is not for extremes. Although due to the full mutual understanding between the engine and transmission, good thrust with 3,500 revolutions and the excellent adjustment of the A4 suspension, it allows you to go actively and quickly. You can generally stop your choice on Turbodiesel. And lovers of sharp sensations wait for official supplies to Russia 220-strong 3L Quattro will talk about something with the owners of Subaru Impreza WRX!
Let's summarize. In favor of Alfa Romeo 156 they say the design, philosophy of the bright leader, the honorary title of the car of the year 98 and an extremely competitive price. In addition, the owners surveyed by us 156s show that it is not an example of traditionally capricious Italian for 3.5 years of operation, this beauty did not disturb them with unscheduled repairs and services. Saab 9-3, as the way, you will have to the courtyard fans of the Swedish brand. Those who love when in the car is homely cozy and warm. And those who want a stylish golf class car, highlighting its owner from the total mass of classmates issued by multi-million editions, 9-3rd is clearly not threatened. And Audi success A4 in our market guarantees the growing brand popularity on Bavarian beer yeast. What to choose? It all depends on the one who is closer to you in the spirit of the temperamental Italian, a good Burger or who moved to permanent SMZ in America, the Swede ...
 
Alexey Mokhanov,
Photo by Alexander Nosdrin
 
How do they look:
Nikita Rozanov
 
 
 
 
Outside:
When the dough participants were lined up by a row, it immediately became obvious that all of them, first of all, are very porous, and the gene pool is expensive in their design ... Judge for themselves: first, they never confuse them with each other, on then there are a number of indisputable stylistic signs that are stably characteristic of each family; Secondly, the found stylistics is correct, for it allows all these cars to stay on a market afloat for more than one year, and finally the style of each is a kind of basis for moving forward.
Newbie one Audi, which flesh from the flesh is reduced A6, the plastic of which is slightly corrected under almost the cloth design TT and A2. Although Alfa Romeo is easily recognized by the breed 147th and 166th models, its style is individual and characteristic. Saab in his design philosophy resembles Audi and confuse the model 9-3 with a model 9-5, in particular, it was not possible, nothing is worth it. The top three has an alfa explicit athlete, the fierce design of which is a single and sharp mahum develops from the nose, through a dynamic sidewall to the insidiously rissed rear-lanterns. Muchly small little lags in the style of Saab, which is also not indifferent to speeds, as they say and the dynamic two-volume silhouette, and a lot of spoilers that are stuck from the car from all sides. The image of Audi, if you can say that the most solid, but not deprived of this kind of dynamics, which somewhat jits in chrome-plated frames surrounding the bunk lining of the radiator. Drawing of wheeled disks all cars are different. The most corporate and recognizable in Alfa Romeo, the solid and most suitable body style of the Audi. Here you can see the most professionally performed graphics on the trunk lid.

Results:
Alfa Romeo 156 Very characteristic and refined design, which can be recommended or to those who like to pay attention to others, or those who can come in handy through the nature of professional activities.
Audi A4 The design of the car is characteristic, but not too individual, for in many respects it repeats the pattern and plastic model A6 and, unfortunately, in this context, it looks somewhat conservatively, but still stylish.
Saab 9-3 In many ways, the success of this vehicle is obliged to his image associated with the aviation past of the firms. Today, aviation technologies are different, and the style of the car will soon be needed radical replacement.
Inside:
The interiors of all cars are performed qualitatively and endowed with easily memorable features. The composition of the instrument panel is individual and is characteristic in its own way. So, Audi is a classic T-shaped, and in its foundation there is a wide and solid filled console; Saab has the role of the console is secondary, and the composition holds on a wide horizontal plane of the instrument panel. Alfa Romeo panel design is radically sculpture and endowed with a number of promising innovations. For example, an actively flowing relief of the instrument panel in the upholstery of doors or more than that of the rest, the free space for the front passenger. In addition, the interior of the Italian car is closest to the sport style. The three-spoke steering wheel, and separate round appliances, and the form of the front seats. Audi is traditionally functional, but it looks somewhat conservative, and thin chrome moldings, which are decorated with the interior, only enhance this impression.

Results:
Alfa Romeo 156 is a very stylish and modern solution, just addressed to energetic and mobile people. True, sometimes the style becomes a hindrance to convenience.
Audi A4 Traditionally, a functional design approach and high quality finishes are adjacent to the sensation of a morally obsolete solution, which soon may need to be replaced.
Saab 9-3 Started traditional design solution and high quality performance create an atmosphere of good conservatism and the test of constancy time.
 

How they sound:
Maxim Rakitin
 
Of the three test participants, only two SAAB 9-3 and AUDI A4 are equipped with regular audio systems. Alfa Romeo 156 is offered to buyers with audio preparation and six speakers.

Saab 9-3.
The car is equipped with a system consisting of a dual-cd receiver and six speakers. Experts from Harmann-Kardon were put on the system. In a large head unit, there is clearly lacking a cassette player, although there is plenty of space for it. Information from the device is reflected on the trip-computer screen, and the management of the main functions is duplicated on the steering wheel. Very comfortably. The tuner with AM and FM bands runs paired with a telescopic antenna. This partly worsens the quality of admission, especially in places of development and beyond the city. The setting is made both in manual and automatic modes. Stations automatically fill the memory cells by increasing frequency. The tuner is equipped with RDS with PTY modes and that besides this, there is a function of memorizing stations with the most confident reception (BSM).
The CD player is easily and quickly swallows the disk, but at the same time it reads for a total of 5 seconds. Search and pass tracks are carried out by the same keys as the tuner, plus a do on the steering wheel. From service functions there is only free disk / disc playback in Changer. System sounds superb. Control low and high frequencies for each type of musical works There is no need. The dedication is absent, but it does not affect the quality and saturation of the sound. Successfully performed acoustic space behind speakers allows all frequencies, especially low, honestly to work out 370 dollars spent on the system. Very cheap, taking into account the sound quality and high power system.

Audi A4.
The complex and multicomponent system of Audi Chorus for A4 was created by BOSE specialists. It consists of a CD receiver, six speakers and a subwoofer. All control is entrusted to logically condated crosses and shoulder keys. The information from a large display is duplicated to the trip-computer screen on the instrument panel. It distracts the driver from the road, especially when the RDS string runs on the screen. The tuner with two standard ranges and RDS is characterized by a fairly confident reception in the city and simply exemplary for its feature. Two bands account for four memory banks for six presets. Setting manual and automatic. The first, truth, to activate is difficult due to the confused menu and the incomprehensible operational key operational algorithm.
Syyutuk soft and sneakers, thinks 3 seconds, after which the disc starts playing. The service menu is more diverse than in Saab 9-3. There is also free disk playback, and playing the first 10 seconds, and a pause. The sound of the system does not quite correspond to her troubleshooting. It is very high quality and powerful, but the subwoofer cannot hear even on the fatal and dance compositions. In addition, the dynamics in the front doors operating at the same time, for some reason, the Midbas are lying to break into overload at any convenient case. In the end, you can just make it hiding, and everything will fall into place.

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