Test drive Audi A4 B7 2004 - 2007 Sedan

Girl from high society

In an effort to impress, the car must be chosen, of course, primarily prestigious. However, between reasonable sufficiency and luxury, you can try to find the optimal balance.


So, you are young, well provided and looking for a dynamic and prestigious car ... The choice is actually small. Sedans of the middle class from the large German troika BMW, Mercedes-Benets, Audi, as well as Jaguar-X, Lexus-Sis and Volvo with Saab. But the Japanese, as well as BMW, forced to take what they give: the finishes of the cars have already been determined at the factory. Not everyone likes this approach. You can build a Mercedes for yourself, but it will be very expensive to cost. Jaguar is actually just ennobled Mondeo. But Swedish cars still do not know to a truly prestigious class.
 

So it turns out that Audi-A4 is a find for those who want to get a car created in accordance with their desires, already prestigious, but with the right choice of modification, not insanely dear. And the four are interesting not only with an abundance of options, decoration options, body colors, but also by the variety of engines and even transmission.


What is the price?
Be sure, any A4 girl of those who know their price well. In her company in your respectability, doubts will hardly arise. However, the choice of a four with a base 8-valve in 102 liters. With. It looks at least strange. Yes, the equipment of even such a machine is almost the most generous in the classroom. But do you need a prestigious, richly cleaned and expensive car at a price of $ 30,208 with almost without a motor?
 

That is why you need to consider A4 with a 2-liter version. It can already be obtained both with mechanics and with automatic transmission multitronics. 130 l. With. In most cases, enough, and in the city such a motor is simply magnificent. Yes, and the surcharge on the price of the prices of Audi is small $ 2714. Such A4 is weak only with complex overtaking on the suburban highway.
 

Therefore, the optimal choice of A4-1.8T. A dynamic car and a car must drive on any road appropriately. And chased by turbocharged 163 liters. With. For the four, what the doctor prescribed. This is already noticeably faster than the overwhelming number of cars, but still not very expensive from $ 35,990, noticeably cheaper than BMW and C-class.
 

 
A4-audit of a typical image-car, the volume of his trunk (440/1185 l) is noticeably inferior not only by classmates, but also to most of the universals class below. Nevertheless, he is capable of more. In this, you can already load a bicycle or a quartet of snowboarding, without losing all the passenger capacity of the rear sofa


To this amount, without thinking (monotonous exercises with the clutch pedal and the lever of mechanics, you probably prefer the gym), add $ 2453 per machine gun. On all front -wheel drive A4, its role is played by the variator. Then you can choose options, the list of which is limited, in fact, only your imagination. Only for decorating the interior, 9 types of fabric, 15 leather, 2 suede, 5 options for decorative inserts and for dessert as much as 6 different rudders have no such diversity.
 

Of course, if you, with an aplomb, Cleopatra, who wished Rome to be taken to the house in the original packaging, you want to create a unique car, you will have to fork out. And less picky will be able to find very attractive options. For example, Mikado fabrics are free, others require reasonable ($ 222) surcharges, and stylish inserts from facet aluminum are worth trifles $ 159. In a word, if you do not pick up, it is quite easy to stay in the framework of $ 4142 thousand quite acceptable for the four. Given the equipment, this is cheaper than all prestigious competitors.
 

Of the other options, you should pay attention to a rather profitable 1.8T-Kvattro and 140-horsepower 2.0TDI turbodiesel. But the first, despite such a full -wheel drive in Russia, cannot be bought with a machine gun, and the second is scared away by the need for refueling only with high -quality diesel fuel and the problems of starting in severe frosts. More powerful (200344 l. P.) Four buy units. Yes, they offer the greatest variety of mechanical and automatic gearboxes, front and four -wheel drive, but they are already worth $ 5594 thousand - prohibitively expensive for the middle class.

 
  
So that the Mode button is not just a plug, you have to buy a full -fledged flight comprehensive comprehensive compartment for $ 382

For $ 168, you can order a couple of drawers in the armrest, nets on the backs of chairs and trays under them
 
 
Sliding boxes under the front seats that make up the clothing package for $ 168

A retractable cup holder and trays for credit cages are on all A4
 
 
List of standard equipment

1.6 l:

tilt adjustable along the length and angle of an amplifier and leather trim
ABS
ESP
6 airbags
Active front head restraints
adjustable driver's chair
Athermal glazing
fog lights
The fabric finish of the salon
Electric windows
Electric drive heated mirrors
2-zone climate control
Heating of the front seats
Anti -ophapping Mirror in the cabin
CD magnet
drawer from the front panel
Heating of the fabric shaft
The armrest of the rear sofa
Patch and emergency stop sign
Tires 205/55 R16
Plastic wheel caps
DOCKAY

For 2.0 additionally:

light alloy wheels, 16
Full -size spare wheel
Rear parking sensors

For 1.8t, additional:

control of CD Magnetic and phone on the steering wheel

For 2.0t, 3.0 and 3.2 additional:

steering wheel drive
front armrest
CD chamber on 6 disks in a glove box
Rain and light sensors
bixenon headlights with washer
Tires 215/55 R16

For S4 Additionally:

Light alloy wheels, 18
Tires 235/40 R18
Sports suspension
River armchairs with electric drive
Sports steering wheel with leather trim
Decorative carbo inserts
Boil display
signaling
ski bag
mirrors trimmed with aluminum
trunk lid




Outside...
The current chief designer Audi Walter da Silva has repeatedly been able to create stylish things. In his track record, such beauties as Alfa-Romeo-147 and Seat-Ivisa. And it was thanks to his sensitive leadership that the light restyling Nenova already car (the current A4 debuted in 2000) a little more than a year ago turned it into nature much brighter. In total, it was necessary to give the headlights a little squint, decorate the nose with a huge, in the style of all modern Audi, an aggressive radiator grill, and let moldings on the bottom of the doors, and under the lid of the trunk of a substetric car. The matter is ready! On the street, such a fashionista will always be paid attention to.
 

You can emphasize the advantages of her figure in any of 18 colors. White, dark blue, black and red are free. But if you like metallics, you will have to fork out. For example, so that the A4 is grenade or beige cost $ 1036. Expensive, of course. But very pretty...
 

And for which the buyer A4 will definitely not have to pay for the quality of the body assembly. Perfectly even, just a few millimeters, the gaps are left only where they cannot but be. Even the most problematic for the cut of any car of the junction of the bumpers and the body, hood and headlights, the lids of the trunk and wings are sewn for envy accurately and without flaw. And everywhere these same seals. Even to insulate the motor compartment, they were allowed around the entire perimeter, saving the engine electronics from destructive dust and moisture. In the door and window openings, they are completely laid in two layers of tissue and rubber. Such generosity is the key to a noble dull sound when closing any door.
 



... and inside
After such a respectable clap of the door, an expensive interior you take for granted. There is no contented satiety of a Mercedes, the cold correctness of BMW, the abundance of the newfangled electronics of Lexus. But there is a cozy, albeit without unnecessary luxury, but a very elegant world. Of course, the skin or Alcantara is a feeling of expensive and exquisite car will only enhance. But what is surprising, and without them, the interior breathes with nobility: a simple gray-blue fabric of Mikado is exactly the color of the body, the skin on the steering wheel, expensive embossed plastic, branded red lighting, stylish aluminum linings.
 
 


Passengers on the back sofa are not forgotten. From comfortable door handles, it blows with goodness, and the forearm immediately finds a convenient wide support. The landing, although somewhat complicated with narrow -minded doorways by the standards, is quite convenient for an adult for an adult. The sofa pillow is hard, correct in length and angle of inclination. The back can boast of noticeable side support. In addition, in plastic overlays on the backs of the seats, deep substetricians were cut. It is thanks to them, even if the driver is ahead ahead, and your height is eighty meters, a place for knees with a margin of 45 cm.

True, the third on the gallery is inconvenient. Not only the tunnel in the floor is to blame. Sit on the protruding ottoman and propagate the lighting ceiling with your head. In a word, it is better to ride on the couch nothing more than together. Then, under the right hand, you can organize a convenient retractable armrest with a proprietary first -aid kit inside. The beauty is not alien to practicality. However, she bribes primarily the driver.

 
  
The armrest is adjusted along the angle of inclination, and the box in it is quite roomy

Love to ride, like in a deck chair? The steering wheel adjustable in length and angle of inclination will help. Excellent lateral support is provided in any case
 
  
On the left under the front panel there is a recess for different little things. A little to the right shelf for instructions

To figure out how to control the light of headlights, it will not be difficult

The glove box is shallow, but wide, and for the surcharge will be cooled


Behind the wheel
I take off my hat to the creators of this captain's bridge! Convenient, thought out, made taking into account the growth and complexion of various people. Ranks of the regulations are huge, but the vertical as much as 10 cm is especially impressive. I shook a comfortable handle on the end of the pillow, changed the back tilt, and you can sit almost as vertically as in compactway.
 

Agree to pay extra? Seats, will be ... right, even better. Plus $ 893 in the cabin will appear sports seats with an even more developed lateral emphasis. $ 1149 All mechanical adjustments, including the lumbar emphasis, will replace electric drives. The services of the aesthetes are magnificent light or dark skin of a wide variety of shades, and in the rosaro chairs ($ 2946 plus $ 3502 for the skin of the Valcon) and you can completely imagine yourself as an authorsom champion. Expensive? N-yes, really ... But remember, where did we start getting to know the interior? Even without expensive frills, the salon looks very noble.
 

And I liked it that dealing with the abundance of buttons and handles is easy. So what is the place of A4 driver perfectly? Not certainly in that way. And the fastest will they find what to complain about, those who travel actively.

 
 
Governing bodies














1. Switch of light of the headlights. 2. The ESP shutdown button. 3. The alarm switch. 4. The extending cup holder. 5. AKP selector. 6. CD Magnetol. 7. Climatic installation unit. 8. Coicier. 9. Adjusting the heating of the front seats. 10. Handle of adjusting the height of the seat. 11. Buttons of electric windows. 12. The joystick of mirror adjustment.
 
 
Dashboard
 









1. Control icons. 2. The odometer and the daily run counter. 3. Fuel level indicator. 4. Buttons for the output of service information. 5. Speedometer. 6. Central display. 7. Tachometer. 8. The buttons to install the clock and the calendar. 9. Clock and calendar. 10. The indicator of the temperature of the coolant.


The gas and brake pedals are located completely in sporting step. The key in the ignition lock was sheltered in dangerous proximity to the right knee. Throwing the leg to the brake, you will not hurt an hour. And the configuration of the dashboard is not designed for the driver, but rather for the connoisseur of comfort. The central place was not given to the tachometer display with information about the run on the balance of fuel, the operating mode of the machine, about the settings of the radio station and some other important ones, but for me, who does not know German, alas, inaccessible data.
 

Do you think that a trifle does not speak Russian? May be. But the little things of these will be typed, perhaps from half a dozen. If you raise the parking brake lever, it will fall into the armrest. And in vain I pressed such convenient buttons on the steering knitting needles. It turns out that these are only plugs if the car does not have an advanced onboard control system. On our A4 she was simplified. And soon this simplification will play a bad joke with me.
 



On the roads ...
For a few seconds, a powerful heater gave transparency to a foggy windshield. The sensors of the belts with a piercing squeak are strongly advised to fasten. I obey. I sneak in reverse, fearing inadvertently someone to hurt in the parking lot, full-time parking sensors allows you to choose millimeters. A few meters forward, and door locks were automatically blocked. Damn it, how nice it is when they care about you!
 

Mud waterfalls for trucks forced the wipers without ceasing to demonstrate their agility, and now and then to turn on the washer. And suddenly the glass of the glass gunner is empty. Before my eyes, only a white veil, periodically rubbed by wipers. This later I learned that when ordering the very full -fledged on -board computer for $ 382 about a low water level, a signal lamp would warn me. Of course, for many cars, its absence to this day is the norm. But why does a penny sensor present, by the way, at any golf, requires a surcharge?
 

However, there were an order of magnitude more pleasant impressions from the ride. The first work of multitronics. Not a single automatic transmission with a hydrotransformer knows how to change gears so smoothly. Even in the best machines, this moment is noticeable in the tachometer, and the variator does all the work as if in one breath.

I touch the gas pedal slightly, the tachometer arrow hangs for about 1500 rpm, and the speedometer calmly begins to measure 40, 60, 80 km/h. As if in one gear! He acts like Pava, this is about A4 with a variator.
 

And you can rush from the place so that the passengers will not tear their heads from the headrest. I put a gas pedal to a polish and enjoy a very assertive and again uniform (only now at 55.5 thousand revolutions) overclocking. How the variator chain will shift there, how to change the gear ratio by synchronous displacement of the host and led pulleys absolutely unimportant. The main thing is that such a transmission allows you to ride both smoothly and very quickly at the same time. I do not remember a single automatic transmission that would not lose a single hundredth when a 100 km/h. 1.8-multitronics is just that. It allows you to switch the gears by hand, hang on any imaginary step. On protracted slopes-elevations or when you need to help the engine to slow down the gears, these qualities are very useful.

 
Engine












1. Oil probe. 2. Mastensal neck. 3. The glass of the glass gunner. 4. The tank of the main brake cylinder. 5. Battery battery. 6. The body of the duct. 7. Expansion tank of the cooling system.


Another pleasant surprise suspension. It appeared at first unexpectedly tough on minor irregularities, it is actually very energy intensive. Whether the tiles under the wheels framing the tram tracks, the joints of the flyover or serious, several centimeters, potholes, the body will be guaranteed to be saved from destructive blows. Thank you, I must say not only excellent shock absorber settings, modest, thanks to the widespread use of aluminum, unpressed masses, but also a subframe installed on rubber pillows.
 

A comfortable suspension, a miracle automatic, a muffled roar of a turbo engine and excellent sound insulation give birth to a desire to go far, far away. And on the speed highway the four like even more. To accelerate from 100110 km/h, you just need to squeeze the gas pedal a little stronger. Calmness and serenity miraculously combine with the composure when passing irregularities, even if they fly on 130. Neither frightening buildup, no fares to the side. A noticeable howl of the wind licking the body of mirrors and body racks appears only at 150160 km/h.
 

On a winding suburban path, it was possible to notice another pleasant quality of A4. Especially cutting into a turn, I got acquainted with the work of the system for stabilizing the trajectory by a quick, accurate, although not at all frightening condenses. ESP immediately drops momentum, slows down wheels, and Audi easily occupies the trajectory indicated by the steering wheel. However, the line between such figure skating and troubles is always very thin. And those who wish to constantly play such games will have to study a lot from the ability to feel the limit of the clutch of the wheels with the road to driving the machine in turns not only by the steering wheel, but also with gas. Have you learned yet? It is enough just to reduce the speed in front of the turns. The limit on which A4 knows how to safely prescribe them is still higher than that of most cars.
 



... and without them
Incidentally, ESP is an excellent assistant on a snowy rise. Our front -wheel drive A4 due to the electronic blocking of the differential (one of the components of the stabilization system) allowed me to go on the rise without problems when the left wheels were on the asphalt, and the right on the ice crust.

But who told you that city young ladies should be able to measure snowdrifts, like collective farm milkmaids? So from A4 there is no need to expect any serious all-resistant abilities. A low front overhang involves very accurate maneuvering in the curbs, and a clearance of 135 mm (for unloaded, notice, cars) the need to avoid the ruts left even with the Lada.
 

Although you can’t call her a completely fragile, lean. The motor compartment, fuel lines and all the trunks are closed with plastic, and the aluminum levers of the rear suspension from below were covered with steel sheets, so that they, even sitting on the belly, will not work right away.
 



We load the suitcases
The trunk opening is surrounded by the next seal. Dust is guaranteed not to penetrate the villous upholstery. It is also important that with the apparent compactness of the hold of the sedan unexpectedly roomy. It is very deep 1100 mm. In shape, this is an almost correct parallelepiped, with deep capacious recesses behind the wheeled arches. There are caches under the lid (in the raised state, it is easy to fix it with a plastic hook) floor.
 


 
In addition to a set of three suitcases in a deep trunk, a couple of bags may fit


It is a pity that such useful things as folding and split in a 2/3 ratio of the sofa or hatch for skis will have to be ordered. And they stand, alas, not cheap. However, a station wagon is best for lovers of an active lifestyle.



 
Car dimensions, mm
 
Salon dimensions, mm


Safety
By modern standards, four stars earned by the four in the euroncap tests five years ago, the result is quite modest. But in the database of 6 airbags, active front head restraints, belts with pretensors and a traumatic steering column. A couple more side pillows will be installed for the surcharge.
 

True, without paying for the anterior pillow of safety, you can not install a baby seat forward on the front chair. But children's locks of the rear doors and electric windows, as well as the isofix mounts do not require surcharges.
 



Operation, service
Having bought an expensive audi and pay for service, there will be much more than the owner of Ford or Opel. Although it may seem that in the operation of the four is cheaper than prestigious compatriots. But this is if you evaluate the recommended prices for that and spare parts. Having phoned five Moscow dealers (there are 28 of them in total in Russia), we found out that the full cost, for example, TO2 ranges from $ 320 to $ 440. These numbers are already similar to those that require a three-class or C-class. And in order not to lose a 2-year guarantee, you will have to look at the service every 15 thousand km.
 

But when insurance, you will find pleasant news: the tariff of autocasco is only 7.7%. Anyone who wants to save money in an accident will be able to study the price list for body parts: for example, replacing a door with painting will cost more than a thousand. e. And even before the end of the warranty period, do not be too lazy to carry out a full diagnosis of the suspension. Given the abundance of aluminum under the bottom, you can save on subsequent repairs.
 

There are also advantages from large investments. The main mobility guarantee throughout Russia. Thanks to her, you have the right to count on urgent free assistance, including the evacuation of the car, even if the audi breaks far beyond the capital.


 
We liked
 


Seal that protects the motor compartment around the entire perimeter

Organization of a place for a tool around the perimeter of the niche of the spare

The smooth work of the KP


As well as:

abundance in the base of security systems
good handling and dynamics
large ranges of the driver's chair
ease of control of CD Magical and Climate Control


 
We didn't like it
 


Door lock indicator that is poorly visible outside

Unperemitted flight comprehensive compartment

The parking brake lever rests on the front armrest


As well as:

battery
harsh at low speeds suspension
high cost of many interesting options
the back row is close in height and insufficiently wide doorways



 
 
Audi A4 1.8T Multitronic

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Sedan (5/4)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1450
 
Complete mass, kg
1940
 
Speed, km/h
223
 
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
8.6
 

Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
6.4/11.4
 

Fuel supply, l
63
 

Engine
 
Location
The front is longing
 
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, in order, with two upper distributions and turbocharges
 
The number of valves per cylinder
four
 
Diam. cylinder x Piston stroke, mm
81x86.4
 
Working volume, SMZ
1781
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
163/5700
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
23/1950
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
Standed variator with the possibility of choosing gear rates from 0.38 to 2.38
 
The gear number of the main pair
6.0
 
Suspension:
Independent, spring with reproach stabilizers
 
front
four -leaf
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
255/55 R16
 

Car
from 0.24 $/km
 
Prices for spare parts and then, rub.

TO1 (15,000 km) 950
TO2 (30,000 km) 3000
TO3 (45,000 km) 950
TO4 (60,000 km) 5850
Oil filter 357
Air filter 901
Spark plug (1 pc.) 334
Front belt with rollers 6221
Palled brakes Front and rear 4397
Tip of steering thrust 2625
Steering rack 47 328
Front shock absorber/rear 5989/7291
Front/rear wing 8704/7096
Hood 14 124
Front door 14 292
Rear door 13 222
Front bumper assembly 28 922
Rear bumper assembly 26160
Windshield 9436
Lateral glass (front) 1559
Farah assembly 9558
Rear lamp assembly 4862
 
    
We decided:

A4 is not only an image, but also a convenient, fast car with a noble finish, outstanding in smoothness of work transmission and good handling. It is, however, not cheap. And in the content is the road. But this girl is really from high society.
 

Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [07/2006]