Test drive Audi A4 B7 2004 - 2007 Sedan

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There is no better stimulant than an extract about the state of a bank account. It is worth the sum of the savings to grow from five to six-digit, as the excitement wakes up in a motorist: Oh! Now I can buy a cool SUV. And also - a decent sedan to go to work like a white person. Or something burning-a turbo, all-wheel drive ... But the very first calculation of expenses, credit rates and insurance hardly lands on reality and forces us to proceed to not the most pleasant procedure-optimization of desires.
There is no such motorist who would not dream of becoming the owner of several cars for various purposes. But even very wealthy people are in no hurry to implement this desire into the opportunity. And there are several considerations, including unexpected ones. The electoral approach implies the choice of, so to speak, of the right cars. Do you surprise yourself or others? It’s better then alone. But such that it pleases every day to combine the best qualities as much as possible.
Let us take as a basis the Audi A4 sedan popular among the townspeople. By choosing a car with a 2.0 TFSI motor, you will not become the owner of a sports projectile, but a portion of daily turbotonics is guaranteed to you. Pleshny for the sensation fortress Full -wheel drive Quattro. And in order for the cocktail to take a seductive look, we will stop the choice on the DTM Edition version. Total - $ 60 300 ($ 12,000 more expensive than the basic A4 2.0 TFSI Quattro).
Now let's try to make a second recipe. The main ingredient is the BMW sedan of the third series. With a turbo is a problem, but you should not be sad, Bavarian hopeless motors are generally something. Version 2.5 - an adequate answer to Ingolstadt 2.0 TFSI. And all-wheel drive is possible-it is proposed under the piquant name X-Drive. The cocktail can be given by using the BMW Individual program. You can order a non -standard body color and interior decoration. Something can even be seen from the body kit BMW Motorsport. Then your three will finally fall out of a series of his own kind, and at a price it will only be not much more expensive than the base 325xia.
 
The extraordinary qualities of the BMW engine are a consequence of the use of a unique double -distribution system Vanos and the mechanism of smooth change in the height of Valvetronic valves. These developments of BMW engineers have taught the engine to breathe correctly at any load. TFSI Audi engines also many innovations - in particular, the so -called layer of the fuel injection is implemented. By the way, an increase in power of 20 horses for modification DTM Edition was reached without cardinal alterations: the pistons were slightly modified, the engine control unit was reprogrammed, a turbocharger was modified. Both motor concepts are good. What is interesting: the choice between them is often determined by psychology, not technology. Someone loves turbo, and someone is not a tour. And why, he himself cannot explain. And try to convince.
Explicit and fictional. A4 DTM, released in honor of the Audi Victory series in the Deutschen Tourenwagen Masters body coupon championship, cannot be recognized among the rest of OOOO. Differences are striking at once: the air intakes became larger and took an aggressive look, in the rear skirt with two oval mulberry pipes there was a spectacular element resembling a diffuser of the racing car, and laconic carbon plastic anti -wingeds were attached to the trunk.
 
The image turned out to be whole, in the spirit of DTM and, perhaps, even more dynamic than that of S4 with a 4.2-liter eight under the hood. It should be added that light tuning has undergone the engine and chassis. The power is raised from 200 to 220 hp. In the suspension, lightweight levers and shortened sports springs were used, pressing the car to the road by 20 mm. 18-inch cast discs, 6-speed mechanics, a sports salon made of carbon fiber and alcantara-a standard for DTM Edition.
The opponent of Audi will not be able to describe in paints-unfortunately, according to the BMW Individual program, the car is made from one month to six, so take it on a test drive tomorrow, the day after tomorrow it is unrealistic to return it. We'll have to strain your imagination. Imagine that it is not black in color, but completely indescribable - Moonstone Metallic (on the first turn this coler imitate glare on the hood). And the salon is finished not beige rough skin Dakota, but by the chocolate Merino (it is useless to simulate it in the pictures). Plus, piano-black inserts in the dashboard and console, steel overlays on the thresholds, even more spectacular than that of DTM, 18-inch 15-spoke alloy wheels instead of full-time 16-inch ...
Such metamorphoses will immediately make an individual BMW alien in a flock of ordinary three in a parking lot in front of a business center.
Shake before use. Do you know how to get the maximum pleasure from a powerful all -wheel drive sedan? In winter, this is elementary: you are just going to yourself when the rest are skipping, slipping and swearing. A completely different thing is in the summer. It is enough in the evening to promise to be at six in the morning at the Kursk station, and then just to oversleep. When you will rush through the half-Moscow on the deserted highway and the streets, dodging the arrogant irrigation machines and frightening sleepy street-players, you will appreciate the car in full.
 
BMW such a trip with honor. The machine operates impeccably. In DS mode, it allows the motor to get out before the cutting, and this is still 7000 in the tachometer. At the same time, the engine makes a tall and musically pure, complete optimism of the sound. Highly profile tires hold the car at bumpy intersections much better than you could expect-thanks to the smart X-Drive, you can bold in vihi and already put it on the gas with might and main. The disconnection of the electronic collar is equivalent to turning on the adrenaline turbocharger itself. The car throws the car into the south, but not deep - it remains controlled. The suspension is short -term: you don’t notice small pits at speed, but on a slightly larger potholes and tubercles you fly up in the seat as if under you is not a fingered Moscow asphalt, but a track for a cross.
 
On A4 DTM, in the same extreme conditions, it was not possible to ride, but this machine is also able to give a lot of driver sensations. In dynamics, it is equivalent to Bavarz, although on paper the characteristics look better. In handling-cleaner, more precisely, which, in general, is both the merit of excellent sports tires Dunlop 235/45 R18, and the QUATTRO drive. The need to work intensively to the checkpoint with the gearbox and choose the right switching moments (to use the turbine praise to the maximum) will require a concentration driver, but the real excitement will bring to the driving process. The motor, by the way, does not like crossroads - above 5500 it begins to sour. It roars more aggressively, richer, with ringing notes. The suspension is perceived as more rigid and energy -intensive. A4 DTM transfers the road profile in more detail, but on major irregularities, she still tries to take a blow to herself, and not on the driver and passengers.
Conclusions? Do not try to compare these machines in business and choose one-only for yourself. Both want. So, you will have to optimize painfully again ...
 
Audi and BMW have a fundamentally different approach to individualization of the car (we are not talking about the choice of options - this is itself). If, among the options offered by the configurator, the production options for the serial Audi were not suitable, the client can order a car with some sauce-for example, with a S-line decoration package (for DTM Edition they are not needed-their own is enough), and the margin will be insignificant. BMW offers its customers a different service - alternative coloring options, other varieties of leather, materials of inserts, and so on, that is, in fact exclusive. True, the price of a car performed by BMW Individual can grow by 10 and 100%. Note that the package individualization of the machine is fraught with similar ones. You know, when two women are sheathed, they have a great chance to meet at the ball in the same dresses. And this is insulting.
Physical education. The list of standard A4 DTM equipment includes front airbags, side pillows in the front of the cabin, a side protection system for the head and active head restraint. The latest generation ESP is responsible for the dynamic stabilization of the machine. In fullness, the equipment that provides comfort is also presented. There is a 150-watt audio system with ten BOSE speakers, a separate climate control system, heating seats, electrical mirror adjustments, acoustic parking sensors. The headlights, of course, xenovy - it would be strange to see Hageline in a car worth fifty by car.
However, the highlight of the A4 DTM salon we will call exquisite finish (mainly dark materials, silver line) and excellent Recaro seats. Chairs resembling racing buckets in the profile allow you to comfortably feel behind the wheel both in statics and in dynamics. Their coating is made of Nardia micro -fiber - the material of nonsense and pleasant to the touch. Convex and moderately soft sides of the chairs are trimmed with skin. Thanks to this combination of form and texture, the driver’s body is not clamped, but is well held. It is impossible not to note the clear moves of the gearbox lever, a verified pedal force.
Comfort. According to the equipment and level of comfort, the BMW 325xia does not lose to a competitor from Ingolstadt. In an emergency, safety is provided by six pillows, electronic collars are represented by a system of dynamic stability control of DSC III and a control system for braking at the SVS turns. Bixenon light lighting, with automatic inclusion. There is a rain sensor, parking sensors, an advanced dynamic cruise control and an audio system non-poor in sound, to which, however, we still have a complaint. She looks like he was made by Thomas Edison himself. Which, however, could have been said about the dashboard, but here it is still an element of style. A car from Munich could well become, in our opinion, an example of ergonomics in its class, if not two annoying things. Well, what kind of crooks from steering wheel switches without fixation? Only pathos. And the rim of the steering wheel would like to see less in diameter, but more in the section. You can’t find it to other details. The pedal node is made perfectly and works as a high -precision tool. And all the buttons after two minutes driving seem to you relatives and acquaintances.

Text Ruslan Tarasov photo Andrey Danilov

We thank you for the help of organizing the shooting of the company Audi Russia, (495) 234-0233, and BMW Russland Trading, (495) 781-3400.

Audi A4 2.0 TFSI Quattro DTM
 
Gasoline engine, with turbocharged, 4 in a row
Working volume (cubic meter) 1984
Power (L.S. at rpm) 220 at 5900
Moment (nm at rpm) 300 at 2200
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed, mechanical
Length/width/height (mm) 4601/1772/1397
Equipped mass (kg) 1520
Maximum speed (km/h) 247
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 7.1
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 12.7/6.9
The price of the tested car is $ 60 350

BMW 325xia
 
Gasoline engine, 6 in a row
Working volume (cubic cub) 2497
Power (L.S. at rpm) 218 \u200b\u200bat 6500
Moment (Nm at rpm) 250 at 2750-4250
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed, automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4527/1817/1421
Equipped mass (kg) 1615
Maximum speed (km/h) 236
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.1
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 13.0/7.0
The price of the tested car is 45 100

 

Source: "Autopilot"