Test drive Audi A4 B7 2004 - 2007 Sedan

How much to take?

Younger premium
Small European premium sedans are quite a clearly defined circle in order for the desire to have a machine of just such a class to be specifically defined. But from simple to sophisticated versions $ 35,000, and the choice of the car is often tied to the amount that we are ready to sacrifice to satisfy our transport whims. Our study is designed to shed light on which of the four of the considered brands should be thought depending on the planned amount.
Audi A4 2.0 TFSI Quattro
Price from 1,258,000 rubles.
Max. Power 200 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 7.7 s
 
Audi A4 2.0
Price from 967,000 rubles.
Max. Power 130 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 10.4 s
 
 
MB C 350
Price from 1,673,000 rubles.
Max. Power 272 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 6.4 s
 
MB C200K
Price from 1 193 500 rub.
Max. Power 184 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 8.6 s
 
 
BMW 330 XD
Price from 1,617,000 rubles.
Max. Power 231 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 6.6 s
 
BMW 318i
Price from 910,000 rubles.
Max. Power 129 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 10 s
 
 
Jaguar X-Type 3.0
Price from 1,550,000 rubles.
Max. Power 231 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 7.5 s
 
Jaguar X-Type 2.0
Price from 1 030 000 rub.
Max. Power 157 hp
Acceleration 0100 km/h 10.8 s
Premium compacts can appear under different persons and in various images. For some, this is an opportunity to join for 3540 thousand to good quality and high style, to distance your image from a determining dictate of reasonable frugality and savings.
 
Someone sees in them a car of sufficient sizes and with excellent dynamics, a little more convenient in the city than a car of the primary middle class, at the level of which their younger brothers with medium-sized engines are valued. The super-top price range is largely close in ideologists to the hot hatchback, only for those whose financial opportunities are twice as much. They are closer to the sedan (or the station wagon) and the elite brand. Their cars combine universal ideas about practicality and spaciousness for each day with serious dynamics. For such a price, you can travel on a well -equipped car class higher: this is the choice of those few who highly appreciate, first of all, the drive and is able to pay it.
 
Different approaches, desires and types of owners. Different motors, transmission and types of cars ... when often you have to answer questions regarding cars, you notice that 80% of them are formulated, how: how much does a BMW treshka cost? The absurdity is? However, after this test, it is much easier for me to briefly answer a similar question. The BMW 3 costs differently, the Audi A4 is expensive or a lot, Mercedes is expensive, but you can save, and Jaguar X-Type is good until it loses modesty. Now we know how much small Jaguar, BMW, Mercedes or Audi costs
 
1 PLACE
Audi A4 2.0 TFSI Quattro
BMW 318i
 
2ND PLACE
Mercedes-Benz C 350
Mercedes-Benz C 200k
 
3RD PLACE
BMW 330xd
Jaguar X-Type 2.0
 
4th place
Jaguar X-Type 3.0
Audi A4 2.0
 
SUMMARY
The BMW of the 3rd series debuts most of all. 318i, with a price tag on the lower common class bar, a full and whole car endowed with all Bavarstsev’s branded trump cards: a real BMW. Expensive versions demonstrate the highest technical level, but some of them may be too well adapted for victories in Germany's autobahns in order to feel normally in Russia. The general wording of the trend is impossible: it is necessary to separately consider each specific of the quick modifications.
 
Mercedes is good both at the bottom and above the gamut. However, there is no proposal at the general initial level. Start from boxes: only from $ 46,000 and 184 liters. S., however, on the approach of C180K from $ 41,700. Confident second place on the upper price border.
 
Jaguar looks great in the database for $ 40,100. A two -liter V6, different from all style, incomparable comfort and good behavior on the road. The three -liter all -wheel drive machine does not pull against the background of the driving perfection of powerful Audi and Mercedes, and the quality is behind.
 
Audi can afford with a small budget: only if you are not too scrupulous in the requirements for running properties, then you will be satisfied thanks to the interior. However, the truly voice of the four Audi is heard only when she speaks the Quattro language. A confident victory in the high (starting from the middle) price range, due to the fact that we are in Russia. Full -wheel drive and energy intensity of the suspension here cannot be overestimated.

Text Dmitry Sokolov photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

Source: Cars