Test drive Audi A4 B6 2001 - 2004 sedan

Audi A4 3.0 Quattro /8500 km

Our car is very capable of much. Full -wheel drive, three -liter engine, Electronic Stability Program, not to mention ABS and other security systems. However, in conditions of ordinary operation, most of its abilities are extremely rare. For example, creating a situation for the operation of ESP on an ordinary road, to put it mildly, is incorrect in relation to other participants in the movement. We were helped to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine in extreme modes by the specialists of the Driving School of Audi Quatro. We tried to take several courses from active and extreme driving programs to understand how and in what situations the features of the machine are manifested.
+ However, not everything depends on the car. In principle, the permissible speed of the turn of the turn is more likely to limit the conditions for clutch tires with the coating, ”says Andrey, one of the quotro instructors. The car can only help the driver get out of a critical situation. A turn on a slippery coating (a clutch reduction provides scattered sand) can be passed at a maximum speed of about 55-60 km/h even without ESP. However, in the case of entering the Electronic Stability Program, it greatly simplifies the fishing of the car. True, for this, the driver must act correctly, otherwise electronics simply cannot correctly assess the situation. And the perfect driver will not allow a breakdown.
+/- ESP shutdown is necessary if the car is stained. It is for this that the button is provided on the console. However, it is located in a prominent place, which can provoke some drivers to get rid of the electronic assistant. Do not check your qualifications in this way - driving modes, where ESP can interfere, are necessary only on sports routes.
+ Tiptronic - perhaps not an ideal transmission, but very similar to that. The passage of the turning chain involves periodic acceleration and discharge of gas. In automatic mode, the transmission thinks too slowly and sometimes switches in the wrong way. The issue is resolved by transition to manual mode. At the same time, it is not necessary to worry that the engine speed will go beyond the working range: when the limit speeds of rotation are reached, the box automatically switches to another step. At the same time, a clean automatic machine is still extremely convenient in city traffic jams, and the sports regime is quite suitable with fast movement along highways. So Tiptronic allows you to satisfy the needs of drivers of different qualifications and in different conditions of movement.
+/- The efficiency of braking of modern cars is really very high. This can demonstrate an emergency braking exercise with the vast evidence. It also helps to understand how effective ABS is. However, as it turned out, it is psychologically quite difficult to implement emergency braking to an ordinary driver - knowing that now he would have to stop, I began to dump the gas a few meters earlier than before. Normally for driving along the street. Worse, I did not press the brake sharply enough. Perhaps the Brake Assist subsidious systems can be really useful. It is a pity that there is no such thing on A4.
Text Valery Chusov, photo Vasily Shaposhnikov

Costs on August 14 - September 15
Mileage city/highway 2300 km, gasoline consumption 320 l.
AI-98 gasoline $ 117
Moika $ 25
Only $ 142

 

Source: "Autopilot"