Test Drive Audi A3 since 2008 Hatchback

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With all the irreconcilable competition, new BMW 1 ER and AUDI A3 convertibles have one common characteristic feature soft folding top. Previously, a similar roof was evidence and consequence of savings in production. Today is a sign of chic. For many potential buyers, the choice of one convertible from the two proposed predetermined emblem itself on the hood. The same who chooses a car for pleasure not with a heart, but by the mind, it will have to work for a long time in the equipment and long lists of additional equipment. Especially since the convertibles are these though compact, but class premium.


1. With the raised roof, the silhouette of the new Audi A3 cabriolet resembles a coupe. But it is the roof that gives a true convertible in the car: like the classic models, the top is tissue, which, however, does not interfere with the rear glass to have heated. A selection is offered not only from the colors of the upholstery of the folding roof (red, black, blue), but also type of drive: semi-automatic and automatic. In the first case, the roof has a central handle for manual locking / unlocking, in the second this function is performed by an electric motor.
2. In the color scheme, the car is conservative. Of course, red, white and green colors are offered, as well as four shades of blue. But specifically for Audi A3 Cabriolet developed for some reason a modest gray color (total in Ponteon A3 three gray shades from the offered fifteen). But the rear lights of the car are just a look: the LED plank in the dark creates a covering light strip, bringing in the design of the back of the back part to the highlight, but even the perch.
3. Fabric top gives Audi A3 Cabriolet a lot of advantages over convertible with a rigid roof. For example, it makes the car easier, which cannot but affect its dynamics. In addition, the soft roof does not affect the volume of the trunk (260 l), which has a rarely characteristic functionality in the form of a folding back of the rear seats. The total luggage compartment increases to 674 liters.
4. The folding / laying speed of the roof interests cabriolet buyers sometimes more than the overclocking of the car itself until hundreds. The treshka, the top opens in 9 seconds, closes in 11. As for the speed characteristics of the car itself, with the most powerful AUDI A3 engine accelerates to 100 km / h quite a sports for 7.3 seconds.
5. The professional rider is not necessarily, but with the design of the car in the style of S Line, feel quite sporty ride. As you know, even a clean car goes faster. What to say about the new A3 converter, which has a little different (bumpers, air intakes, etc.), and the seats are not just sports, but also stitched with a red seam along the black skin. Behind the wheel A3 Cabriolet S Line you feel differently, so it goes quite differently.
 
Audi A3 Cabriolet 2.0 TFSI
Gasoline engine, 4 in a row
Farm volume (cube cm) 1984
Power (hp at rpm) 200 at 5100 - 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 280 at 1800 - 5000
Drive front
6-speed gearbox s tronic
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4238/1765/1424
Maximum speed (km / h) 231
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 7.3
Fuel consumption of medium, (l / 100 km) 7.6
Price in Germany (Euro) 35 150
 
1. Do not overheat in the sun and protect yourself from the cold wind. This is what is relevant in an open car. The skin in the cabin of the Bavarian cabriolet, made on special pigment technology, perfectly reflects infrared rays (heating at least 20 degrees is lower than in the case of conventional skin). Climate control has a special convertible mode in which it reacts to external stimuli, and not on intra-alone.
2. The roof above the head is also important. Soft top of the 1st series convertible can be either classic black or beige, either black with a searched from metallized threads; In the sun, such a top is transfused with silver. On the automatic decay of the roof takes 22 seconds, as much and on folding. It is not necessary to stop for the loop to lose speed up to 40 km / h.
3. The top modification of the Bavarian convertible BMW 135i takes a hundred in 5.6 seconds. And to shoot from 80 to 120 km / h (this is the most common overtaking mode on public roads) in 5.5 seconds at the 4th gear or for 6.5 per 5th. Thanks to the 3.0-liter row six, outstanding 306 horses. Version 135i in the basic configuration is equipped with a sportspaquet M, in combination with which the exclusive body kel Le Mans Blue Metallic is possible.
4. What is interesting, the Russian market shows a diesel modification of the convertible 120d. Two-liter turbodiesel with the Common Rail system (and with a particulate filter in the basic configuration) develops 177 hp At 4000 rpm and 350 nm at 1750-3000 rpm. With him and mechanics, the car accelerates to hundreds for 8.1 seconds and walks with a maximum speed of 222 km / h. With a machine gun, respectively, 8.2 s and 220 km / h.
5. As relying the cabriolet, BMW 1 Er Convertible enters the market on the eve of the warm season. The Russian market presents four modifications. For the top BMW 135i, we will ask 1,515,600 rubles, for BMW 125i 1,267,200 rubles, for BMW 120i 1,076,400 rubles and for diesel BMW 120D 1 130,400 rubles. In the model range there are still BMW 118 I, but it is not announced.
 
BMW 125i convertible
Gasoline engine, 6 in a row
Farm volume (cube cm) 2996
Power (hp at rpm) 218 \u200b\u200bat 6100
Moment (nm at rpm) 270 at 2500 - 4250
Rear-wheel drive
Gearbox 6-speed mechanical
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4360/1748/1411
Maximum speed (km / h) 238
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 6.8
Fuel consumption of medium, (l / 100 km) 8.1
Price in Moscow (rub.) 1 267 200

Text: Anna Kilimnik, Sergey Sorokin
Photo: Audi AG, BMW AG
      
 

A source: "Autopilot"