Test Drive Audi A4 Convertible 2002 - 2005 Convertible

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In Russia, harsh climate and no less severe people in relation to someone else's property. Therefore, we have completely few open cars. But Audi did not wait for the global warming and re-education of our fellow citizens. And conducted a presentation Audi A4 Cabriolet.
Everyone who has no convertible, do not see the meaning in his purchase: Say, in Russia for one warm sunny day there are ten people who want to throw the cigarette in the open salon of an expensive foreign car. Those who risked buy a convertible, do not get tired to prove that it costs to try once - and then they don't pull out the ears, because the car with an open riding according to the degree of unity with the road - almost a motorcycle, only on four wheels.
Be that as it may, showing the new Audi A4 Cabriolet, the representative office of the concern did not make secrets from the fact that the big sales of this model and Russia does not count. But to show anyway. After all, beautiful - and you will not argue with it. And in the world, this uncomplicated beauty is valued,
Its previous convertible, made on the basis of his favorite eight-grade Audi, Audi from May 1991 to July 2000 and for nine years every day 22 cabriolet was sold - eight-dimensional, and 13 of them found their buyers in Germany. It is now difficult to make up, but it is unlikely that the daily German norm will be sold in Russia for the year. The eight ten-cabriolence officially sold from the summer of 1998 (since the opening of the representative office of the company in Russia) in the summer of 2000, flew to domestic buyers for one car in the season. However, they were grave after-crisis years, and a new Audi A4 Cabriolet, perhaps in Russia there is more enviable fate.
        
Son of his parents. The Audi A4 convertible appeared after the submission of the sedan and the wagon of the same, a-fourth format. This, naturally, facilitated the task of designers. Externally, the convertible fits perfectly in the fourth family. The same split brilliant okangoic of the radiator lattice, the same smooth circuits, even the salon carries the majority of family traits. Differences on the torpedo can be moved along the fingers. These are modified devices (they are recessed in wells - dust collectors) and round climate control deflectors (image item, it emphasizes the dynamism of the machine).
 

Engines - all the same. Today, two serious motors are installed on the convertible, V-shaped six. One volume of 2.4 liters, 170 hp, the second - top for the fourth series three-liter motor with a capacity of 220 hp Later, diesel - in particular, with a very successful and dynamic motor 2.5 T01 (180 hp) are added to the two gasoline versions. By the way, the Audi first began to put diesel engines on the cabriolets, and, despite the seeming absurdity of this decision (rich in playboy, which considers prices from saving to a mile, - isn't it nonsense?), Very succeeded in their production. In Germany, the diesel-cabrio-convertibles were the fifth of the sales.
Of the two branded audio transmission developments - the full drive of Quattro and the stepless automatic transmission of the MuliGronik - today is represented only by the last, four-wheel drive, consider it in Audi, the convertible, originally designed for riding on good roads in the warm season, is not very needed. But as soon as the company's representative assured the autopilot, Audi will feel that the market requires quatro-cabriolets, they will immediately do them: borrow a four-wheel drive from a sedan or station wage will not be difficult.
        
I HAVE LEFT. Your roof. The new A4 convertible turned out to be a universal predecessor. He is more all-known. Soft cloth roof with stiffened metal stiffeners are fully automatic drive. At the stop (in motion, the drive is blocked by automation) You click on the button, and the process went - the rear trunk and the roof opens the interior. According to the manufacturer, the process takes 24 seconds, in-autopilotovsky stopwatch - for three seconds more, the previous model had only as a semi-automatic drive. In addition, now the roof is implanted heated rear window. Through it, however, in a clear sunny day a little can be seen.
 
With closed top, the car reminds the outlines of the classic compartment, and the roof is very delicately resting in the head of a high driver (as she is a fabric, it is perceived as a slight stroking on the head).
Naturally, there is nothing to do in the back seat behind the driver, although there is nothing to do with a full-size adult passenger, although the company has done everything to save the situation. First, wrote in a press release that Audi A4 Cabriolet is a full-fledged quadruple car; secondly, he added the knees of the rear passengers extra 6.5 cm; Thirdly, it brought the duplicate electric drive control buttons to the upper part of the seats (the front passenger did not want to move - you rolled it out); And fourth, Audi honestly told the truth about potential buyers: ATO people free professions, young businessmen, newlyweds or couples with school children.

The portrait of the ordinary buyer of the cabriolet is worth adding another touch: it earns from S4500 per month. From the laws of the genre, it is not anywhere: a convertible is a car for recreation, and when the presentation was talked about a good capacity of the machine, demosted the boards for a snowboard, which can be dragged into the salon through the hatch in the back session, and the tank of the trunk leading shows measured golf bags - - They will fit four (with a raised roof of the trunk make up 315 liters, with folded - 246). The fact that every luggage liter was considered during the development, it can be seen at least for the fact that the machine in the basic configuration is sparking: a niche under the rug takes not a wheel, but a kit for self-repairing tires.
   
It is better in the summer of the fire than in the winter in the sun. The first feeling from the new Audi convertible is banal: this is a car for the warm season. Yes, at a speed of 120 km / h with a folded top and raised over the rear seats with a grid (it milds whistles) Moiyr's front passengers talk without increasing the voices. But even at air temperature + 20c becomes cool. You can correct the position in several ways: to set climate control to the maximum, turn on the heated seats and raise the glasses. The car turns very easily into the aquarium: from the driver's side there is a special key that controls all four glasses at the same time. You can raise the roof - and in the first steep turn, when the passenger's hand tries to grope and grab the handle from above, to discover that its east. But dust flies under the roof. At the same time, the raised top does not eliminate the need to fasten. This is an elementary logic requirement: the car is stable, but powerful engines provoke on a sporty driving style. When overturning the head of rides, the front protects the powerful aluminum frame of the windshield, and the metal stops emitted in the fraction of the second. Unseasonable ride will turn his own head into an additional emphasis. And hardly to help him with four airbags laid in the torpedo and the sidewalls of the front seats.
The Audi A4 convertible has two more interesting features for Russians. One bad: the clearance of the car is 2 cm less than that of sedans and universal of this series. That is, outside asphalt roads should be riding on tiptoe. There is one good: the glove box in the car is locked with one press of the key on the key - along with the doors and trunk. This soothes: it means that they are stealing not only with us.
National features. For the production of convertibles Audi, he concluded a contract with Karmann - she made part of the Kabri-Eight-grade convertible and was directly involved in the development of a new car. Design capacity of special ograized production - up to 105 cars per day. European Sales A4 Cabrio will begin in the spring. Then he should appear in Russia. Will you be able to see the Audi A4 Cabriolet on Russian roads - depends on buyers.
The car will be supplied to us' only under the order (and in Europe only pre-orders have already arrived more than two thousand).
In the USA, where it is planned to implement up to 40 percent, all cars, sales will start in autumn. Until this time, you need to adapt the car for the American standards - they concern both lighting products and toxicity of engines,
In Russia, their requirements and their tastes. Two convertibles our person would prefer one machine with toning, full drive and hard roof.
  
Text and photo Sergey Scherennikov
Model / Modification AUDI A4 Cabriolet 2.4 Audi A4 Cabriolet 3.0
AUDI AG / Germany Firm
BODY
Type of convertible
Number of doors / seats 2/4
ENGINE
Type gasoline, with multipoint electronic injection
Location Front Overlit
Working volume (cube. Cm) 2393 2976
Number / Cylinders Location 6 / V-Fig
Power, kW (hp) with rpm. / Min. 125 (170) at 6000 162 (220) at 6300
Moment (nm at rpm. / Min.) 230 at 3200 300 at 3200
TRANSMISSION
Drive front
Multitronic gearbox, variator type, with automatic and manual mechanical modes, 5-speed
SUSPENSION
Front / rear multi-dimensional, double levers, transverse stability stabilizer / independent, trapezoidal, transverse stability stabilizer
STEERING
Gear Rake Type with Hydrauscitel
Min. The diameter of the reversal (M) 11.1
Torkemose
Front disc, ventilated
Rear disk
ABS Electronic 4-Channel, EBD, ESP
Sizes / Volume / Weight
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4573/1777/1391 4573/1777/1391
Wheel base (mm) 2654 2654
Mass, equipped / complete (kg) 1640/2120 1580/2060
Tires / discs 205/55 R16 W / 7JX16 215/55 R16 Y / 7JX16
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km / h) 219 243
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (sec.) 9.8 7.8
Economy
Fuel consumption, city / highway (l / 100 km) 13.6 / 7.4 13.9 / 7.4
The expected price in Moscow from $ 31.6 thousand from $ 33.7 thousand.

 

A source: "Autopilot"