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Oh how serious everything is ... Audi A4

Like a person, each car has its own character. It can be cheerful and frivolous or serious and gloomy ...

It rarely happens that the machine remains true of its mission for several decades: usually its character changes depending on the fluctuations in consumer preferences. However, sometimes this happens, for example, as much as we remember the Audi A4, he only evolved, never allowing revolutionary changes. By the way, it is not a fact that this is for the better. Beautiful, solid, pleasant on the go and well equipped A4 (and his predecessor 80) was always, but fervent, funny. He invariably blew the cold and German severity. At the same time, it is necessary to pay due to the car: it is correct, he is trying his best not to bother the driver and passengers. Nevertheless, it’s boring with him, it’s hard to fall in love with this car. And is it necessary?

General impressions
Compared to the previous A4, significant changes in the style did not occur: two models are very similar, as if the predecessor of the current machine just passed deep modernization. However, the differences exist, and the most important of them is a noticeably stretched case: the last Audi of the middle class no longer seems kutsy. There are smaller changes, in particular, completely different the back optics, as well as headlights in the style of two -door R8 and A5 ...

Audi remained with itself and inside, although the theme is traced in the salon, running around in the older model A6: all buttons and switches are combined into a common cockpit, ergonomics are simply magnificent! As, in fact, the quality of the finishing materials, the accuracy of the adjustment of the panels is all over the height. It is pleasing with spaciousness: the spacious managed to make both the passenger compartment and the A4 trunk turned out to be noticeably longer than its main competitors (BMW 3-Reihe and Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse).

On the course of A4, a typical VAG product: the management is reliable, even too much (confidence borders on drowsiness), the braking is effective, the acceleration is good (a 1.8-liter turbo engine, as always, is burden). And although the competitors are higher with sled comfort, A4 has quite acceptable (despite the fact that he did not become a leader either in terms of smoothness, nor in noise and vibration isolation of the salon).

Audi A4

Characteristics of the body type
sedan Universal
Number doors 4 5
Sum of places 5
Length, mm 4703
Width, mm 1826
Height, mm 1427 1436
Wheel base, mm 2808
Road clearance, mm 120
Suspension front and back independent, double -leaf
Type of drive front or complete
Brakes front and rear disc ventilated
Gas tank volume, l 65
Passive security rating*Defense of adults: *****
Children's protection: ****
Pedestrian protection: **

* According to EURONCAP.

Choosing a body
Audi A4 is available either in the form of a sedan, or with five doors. There is a similar in size A5 compartment, which is built on the same base with A4 and has a lot of stylistically similar elements, but since the Germans came up with a different name for the two -door, it means that it does not attribute it to the A4 model range. This is a relative, but not a brother.

The station wagon, all other things being equal, of course, is more expensive than a four -door version: the surcharge for an extra door is approximately 7273 thousand rubles.

A new generation convertible will appear on our market in at least a few months.

Sources of movement
The weakest of the engines proposed for the new generation A4 has a working volume of 1.8 liters and produces 120 liters. With. A machine with a manual box will cost not cheaper 1,11,000 rubles, while an automatic machine (in fact, this is not an automatic transmission, but a stranded variator) will increase the cost to 1,181,000 rubles.

The next power step is 2-liter turbodiesel, developing 143 hp. The cost of such a car is 1,262,300 rubles. The variator will make a diesel model more expensive by 71 thousand rubles.

There is a 160-horsepower version of the 1.8 TFSI engine. It is she who is most often found under the hood of A4: it combines good dynamics (8.6 C to hundreds) with the efficiency of the hatchback of the golf class (in mixed mode, fuel consumption is 7.1 liters). Such a car is already offered with all -wheel drive (a regular machine with a mechanical box at a price of 1,202,200 rubles. The Quattro system will make 85 thousand rubles more expensive). The modification with the variator, but without all -wheel drive will cost 1,272,200 rubles.

A 2 liter turbo engine is 20 horses more powerful than a 1.8 liter motor with a capacity of 1.8 liters. True, it is not much more expensive: A4 with mechanics costs only eight with a small thousand rubles more than A4 1.8 TFSI machine gun. With the variator, this modification will rise in price to 1,350,400 rubles.

A more powerful version of the same engine, of course, makes A4 more expensive: you will have to pay at least 1,333,300 rubles for a car with a 211-horsepower unit. And if you need a multitronic variator, then you will need to give it already 1,403,300 rubles. Full -wheel drive is available in combination with a mechanical box, and the cost of such a model is 1,417,300 rubles.

The most powerful diesel has 3 liters of working volume and 240 hp. Such a car is available only with all -wheel drive and a full -fledged automatic machine, and it costs 1,850,000 rubles.

Top gasoline engine for today with a volume of 3.2 liters develops 265 hp. The cheapest machine with such a engine is a version with a variator (1,753,200 rubles). A full -wheel drive modification with mechanics will cost more (1,767,200 rubles), and with a normal Tiptronic automatic, all the more (1,837,200 rubles).

Well, the powerful engine is a 333-horsepower V8, installed under the hood S4. At the time of delivery of the material, the model was certified, so its price has not yet been declared.

Basic levels of equipment
Execution levels for Audi A4 do not exist, because the basic equipment that customers can supplement is very rich.

Even with the least powerful engine of the 1.8 TFSI four, a perfectly equipped car with a complete arsenal of passive (front and lateral pillows) and active (ABS, stabilization system, Brake-SSIST) safety, parking radar, heating front seats, on-board computer -control, rain sensor, as well as electric drives of glasses and lateral mirrors. Good set! Perhaps, perhaps, only seats on the buttons and leather upholstery. However, as it turned out, the list of additional equipment includes significantly more positions ...

Additives?
The story of options should be paid to special attention, because Audi is considered a premium brand. Consequently, the buyer should be able to order the configuration he needs, and not the one that corresponds to the representations of the car dealership about the optimally equipped car. Audi A4 provides this opportunity in full. There are so many options for finishing that it is impossible to completely describe them in one article. Therefore, we limit ourselves to the main points.

First you should decide on the equipment that you want to equip your four. There are many variations, for example, installing a different audio system (depending on what exactly will be chosen, from the new acoustics to the introduction of the whole complex Bang & Olufsen, this can cost from 10 to 35 thousand rubles), cruise control (simple for ten or adaptive for Fifty with a little thousand), a three-zone climate control, as well as equipping a cabin with an on-board computer with a colored display (14 thousand rubles), side airbags for rear passengers, navigation system (125 thousand rubles), adaptive headlights or even a function Automatic transition to the near light, if the sensors recorded the approach of the oncoming car.

Then you can work with a salon: put another steering wheel (from 7500 rubles. For a regular steering wheel to 25 thousand rubles for multifunctional), choose your favorite finish (made of wood or aluminum), overtake the seats with skin, alcantara or just expensive fabric, as well as Change the shape of the front seats (there are ordinary, comfortable and sports).

In addition, the manufacturer provided quite impressive sets of additional equipment. For example, IMAGE worth 66 thousand rubles, which includes xenon headlights, a three-zone climate control, an automatically darkening rear-view mirror and pl. other or as an Exclusive Line option for 165 thousand, which includes sports seats, upholstered with combined skin, salon panels, trimmed in the corresponding style, three -spitz steering wheel, as well as aluminum inserts.

Well, as for the offer of the disks (at 17 and even 18 inches), it is simply huge. In addition to order, a sports suspension is available for just ten and a small thousand rubles.

COMPETITION

BMW 3 -rehe
In this BMW segment, a full -time athlete: it is not easy to find a better configured suspension or more effective brakes in machines of this class. With relatively small dimensions, 3-Rihehe has a fairly roomy interior. In addition, in the lineup there is something that Audi does not yet have an extreme modification.

Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse
This car is not as sports as Audi and BMW, but it has a fairly high level of comfort: the suspension effectively swallows the irregularities of different calibers (even in the lightning c63 AMG, quite acceptable smooth smoothness). The Germans always knew how to make the salon very convenient to use excellent ergonomics.

Lexus IS250
The previous IS200, by and large, was a youth car. The new generation car is different. This is already a truncated version of senior GS, that is, a very elegant and solid means of transportation. Compared to German models, the choice of motors here is small of them only, and there is no variety of bodies at all.