Test drive Audi A4 B6 2001 - 2004 sedan
In search of the golden mean
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If you collect everything together, it will turn out more likely a all -round station wagon without special off -road abilities - avid hunters and fishermen, please do not worry. But any car from our trinity is quite suitable for lovers of winter holidays - it is much easier to drive with all -wheel drive on winter roads. Fresh snow or an icy rise is not an obstacle to these cars, especially if they are shod by season. And we will talk about the features of controllability in more detail.
Safety precautions
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The Subaru scheme differs not only in a shorter and lightweight opposition engine that can greatly reduce the moment of inertia of the machine relative to the vertical axis, but also the design of the center differential - it is blocked by the viscous coupling. Forester has no stabilization systems, as well as a self -locking rear differential - it is attached only to the adult motor. But Subaru with a mechanical gearbox has an additional gearbox with a transfer number of 1.45, significantly increasing traction capabilities.
Honda CR -V - all -wheel drive only formally: under ordinary conditions, torque from the front of the engine transversely is transmitted only to the front wheels. The rear are connected using hydromoft only when the front slipping. Such a scheme is most beneficial in terms of economy, although it is not quite optimal for the best controllability and, especially, cross -country ability.
VIEW FROM BELOW
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On the bottom of the Subaru, it is difficult to find extra details attached for the sake of aerodynamics, and the neutralization casing was lower - it is 190 mm above the road. A little higher than the exhaust manifold pants, but the pallet of the opposition engine is raised by another 50 mm! So the lack of protection of the motor compartment can be justified, although it still will not be superfluous. A short base and small overhangs allow the Foretor to move along moderately crossed terrain.
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Do not forget that all of the listed numbers are given for cars with one driver. And with full load ...
Ideas and salons
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The appearance of Audi Avvan deserves only praise: a stylish, modern car with a slightly conservative and strict appearance looks like an expensive prestigious costume: both a brand and a style are visible. The same is inside: a strict German interior, magnificent seats and a little sports style in the dashboard and console. Dear plastic, large comfortable keys and indispensable red backlight do not allow to doubt the choice. In addition, in comparison with a close predecessor, the new Audi A4 is simply huge: behind the are convenient for passengers even an impressive complexion. Unless, of course, even more solid driver and passenger are located in front - the seats adjustment range is designed even for two -meter giants. But the driver with a tall of less than 170 cm will have to move the chair almost to the stop.
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FIGURE SKATING
Full -wheel drive is absolute control on a slippery road - a phrase from the advertising avenue. If everything was so simple in life ... A full -wheel drive car is really more stable in standard traffic modes, but counting that it is as easy to control it in sliding as a machine with one pair of drive wheels is a little frivolous. We are going to check this and go alternately on every car.
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Now we turn off the electronics and steer ourselves ... It turns out that in a matter of seconds, Audi is able to turn from burgher transport into a rally car. Swing with a steering wheel, drop the gas, add, catch the desired sliding angle - and pull, pull, pull to the exit from the turn, with accurate movements of the steering wheel maintaining a small skid, and regulating the radius with gas. In words, everything is simple, but in order to master these techniques perfectly, long training is required. I will not be cunning, on paper I get more beautiful. The questions still remain: to keep the desired angle of drift, in general, is not difficult, but here to correct it on the arc ... or on the audi is such an action considered the error of piloting?
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Now, next in line, Honda, shod in exactly the same Nokian-Khakkapeliite-1 as Subaru. Already in the first circle it becomes clear that this is not her element. The rear-wheel drive delay makes itself felt, inconspicuous in ordinary modes: because of it, to make CR-V write an accurate arc of turning in sliding. The machine prefers to move strictly along the trajectory of the front wheels. Well, these are also the principles - strictly, and no pampering.
Taste and color
Why all these fun with slipping, entertainment with drifts - after all, there are no complaints about the active security of claims even to the emphasized CR -V's calm Honda? This is not the case: the exact control of an all -wheel drive machine in such modes is, if you like, the highest aerobatics of a coordinated team creating a driver’s driver. The slightest nuances here are the imprint of the highest professionalism and creative thought. Let's just say much more significant than rivalry in creating the most sophisticated design of a folding cup holder. We will go down, however, to the ground.
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Subaru Forester pleased with off -road capabilities, managing slippery coating and lower, in comparison with competitors, price. But objectively, the hopeless foreman on the asphalt looks rather modest, and the comfort of the suspension leaves much to be desired.
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And yet - this is not about cars, but about the ideas in them inherent. Naturally, a sports station wagon will lose to an all -resistant on a primer and win on a good highway. In turn, a high car, with a more vertical landing of the driver and passengers, will be more profitable in terms of convenience and size of the cabin. So the ideal is somewhere in the middle?
Perhaps, but Subaru Forester does not lie on a straight line connecting Audi and Honda. Subaru always built original cars, following her own ideology, and Forester is no exception. He has many advantages, but they are not always in the taste of the majority. And therefore, the Forester who chose in our Trinity can very well classify themselves to a certain secret society. Since they know something more ...
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A source: The magazine "Driving"
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