Test drive Audi A4 B6 2001 - 2004 sedan

Audi A4: First line

10,000 km behind. The car is better than the new
 
There is no stretch in the subtitle. When it comes to a quality machine, this is exactly what it should be: after a ten thousandth mileage, it can be said, acquires a true form. As a physically gifted person who is not too lazy to go in for sports. The body became several millimeters closer to the ground (the clearance is exactly the one that appears in the characteristics) - the pendants settled, and this was in the best way affected the controllability and the sensation of the road. But, of course, not to the expense of comfort. Under my weight, the driver's seat is slightly settled - in any case, it seems even more convenient to me and the editorial colleagues. In a word, we have been akin to the four of Ingolstadt.
 
It is completely clear why Audi and cars of a similar class are not lost in price when resale in the secondary market: there were no ten thousand kilometers passed. The car looks flawless both outside (though we, in addition, were polished, so that the unusual color was even brighter, and the body is protected), and inside (we only need to go to a good sink for cleaning the cabin from time to time). Unless the unique smell of novelty almost disappeared.
 
In the salon - no creaking and other extraneous sounds, nothing prevents the wonderful branded audio system with a compact drive player. The climatic installation copes very well with extraordinary heat, so I do not want to open the windows in the Moscow haze. But sometimes it still has to be: alas, in the capital there are an incredibly many charming cars, and no filter can cord with black or blue smoke, the large and small means of transportation from the bowels, which is the very place in the landfill. You do not always have time to press the air recirculation button in the cabin, so you have to, getting into a relatively clean space, ventilate the salon. The air conditioner reacts immediately, increasing the supply of ice air. It’s good that so far none of us have earned a runny nose. By the way, under the right deflector in the center of the console there is a very convenient cup holder in which a bank or a small bottle of drink is ideally placed. It is fixed quite tightly and does not jump out with normal movement, but life -giving moisture is always cool and always at hand.
 
I do not think that I am original, but I will still allow myself to share one simple technique when moving in the capital's traffic jams. If you want to avoid unpleasant odors in the cabin with closed windows, try not to drive closer than three to five meters to the standing cars of domestic production. They, as you know, are not burdened with catalysts for the exhaust gases, and even new ones smell at all not of the valley. Incidentally, how they are in Moscow (and not only in Moscow, of course), the environmental friendliness of vehicles, says the authorities' inability to seriously take care of the health of citizens.
 
Surprisingly, in the most sultry days, with a continuously working air conditioner, the average fuel consumption in the Audi A4 even slightly decreased, and I became faster to get to the center. There are two reasons. The time for vacations made the roads a little free. But most importantly, on the route traditional for me - along the Volgogradsky Prospekt - the metropolitan traffic police - the traffic police finally returned to the practice of organizing in the peak of the bands of reverse movement. And there were no monstrous traffic jams in the area of \u200b\u200btextiles. After all, they can, if they want! ..
 
The reader who monitors the editorial trials of A4 surely remembers that we had to add oil only at the very beginning, during the first, with a mileage of about 3,000 km. So, since then its level is normal, and the on -board computer does not rush to the next service. On the contrary, testing all the main systems of the car on my command, he invariably showed two pleasant letters on the screen between the speedometer and the tachometer - approx.
 
Oleg Osipov
 

Source: "Automobile Izvestia"