Test Drive Audi A5 since 2007 coupe
I guarantee paradise
The shaking space of a roar of eight cylinders, the animal grid of the radiator grille, the wide wheels are an amazing thing, as far as this aggressive beast can be soft and fluffy for its owner. There is only a moment
Here he is my favorite turn ... on this cool arc, exploded by a bizarre turn of irregularities, any car, like a sinner for confession, does not hide anything about herself. One breaks off out, forcing the steering energetically, the other lies the bumps, not changing the trajectory.
For 8090 km / h, mischievous cars are able to hold here. On a hundred, even one hundred and ten pass his monsters such as Imprem-WRXSti, speedster or Mg-TF. Won my familiar label, a large stone on the left behind the sideline, very close. Before it, you can not remove the legs from the gas, but after it is mighty to slow down. And then a glance has time to grab the figures on the front panel, 175! How did I hurt so much at speed? On the instrument panel, it is not differently specifically for such a breaking, like me, the Germans have provided two speedometers, digital and analog and no sense.
I do not know how tight now the 255-millimeter dumplings are now, how violently knocked the pads in brake discs, I don't even feel how the seat belt was dug into the chest. Just manage to include the third and repay this monstrous pace. Audi forgave irreparable, it seemed to be a mistake and no matter how it was, calm and at ease, as if on the rails, this crazy closed left was held. On 120.
Extreme Subaru, German and English Roadsters All three demanded a monstrous concentration here. Audi as if on a mild morning jog. And already at the exit, the acceleration reaches the space again. Third 160, fourth 204 km / h. Maybe both speedometers lie godless?
Ozberin Aristocrat What do not say, the marvelous car turned out to the engineers in Ingolstadt. Similar to the solid sedan coupe, which can ride so that morning the nose and the purebred supercar. And I also selected separately: familiarity with the new audi-A5 began with the fastest and powerful version of S5.
God forbid the health of that guy who persuaded the bosses to put under the hood five not only the 6-cylinder engine of 3.2 liters, but also the V-shaped eight in 354 liters. with. Having a monstrous one for a passenger car in 440 nm, it easily strips a huge Q7 weight well for two tons. Will you imagine how zhinking such an engine catapults a coupe in a ton of six hundred? Each horse has to pull less than five kilos other porsches cannot boast such a specific power, in the 560-strong Bentley Continental-GT it is almost the same. Moreover, all his unmeared Silius Audi uses the most effectively.
A machine on a stretched A4 base of the previous generation was built. A less powerful A5 may be anterior and all-wheel drive, only the Kvattro branded transmission is installed on a 4-liter ECC. Differential Torsen distributes torque between the front and rear wheels in the ratio of 40:60. And the suspension was calculated in such a way that in addition to exemplary handling, it reduced to a minimum inevitable clips when starting and braking.
The most convenient front chairs with the S5 logo are easy to set up to people of any growth and a set.
For clarity, all manipulations with radio tape recorder and climate control are reflected in the 6.5-inch monitor.
About the correct weaving took care of particularly. The engine was installed longitudinally, the front axle was carried out as follows forward, and the clutch was shifted back, placing it behind the front differential, as in A8. As a result, the car is almost perfect (48:52) the distribution of masses along the axes.
However, interest, new tonometers and other theory will be interesting only to rare lovers. But unusual for sports in essence, the level of comfort will have to do with any five owner.
Almost any detail of the interior looks expensive and noble
Alarm with volume sensors and towing protection will cost 589
The trunk at the coupe is not small. With a volume of 455 liters, a pair of suitcases fit here. Or red caviar per million rubles
Take a look at these Barsha chairs from delicate white skin (although the finishing options can be more than a dozen), with electric drives and very dense support for the hips and back. A complete set of insisting electronics, split climate control, filters cleansing the outer air, a comfortable on-board computer, a juicy sounding music This machine cares about its host for the highest standards.
To facilitate the life of passengers of the second row, also provided an electric drive. He moves the buckets as much as possible. Just do not count on full four places. With the growth of the meter eighty, I felt here curly, backing up the ceiling.
They delight you calm The elegant falling roof line, due to which the elite gallery will only suit the children, the car is obliged to chief designer Auda Waltera de Silve. But this is perhaps the only victim in favor of styling. In the rest of the artist who has managed to work in Alpha Romeo and Seat, to reproach nothing. Yes, in the top five, maybe there is no brace sophistication, but at the same time, obviously more expression than in the BMW 3-coupe.
De Silva has always good headlights. So here they look like a real work of art. Only strips of blue LEDs, which the Italian Maestro decided to emphasize the eyes of this burning beauty, a detail on an amateur. Guaranteed delight they will not cause the boys on the tonned tightlice of the Zhiguli. However, in any case, the Italian achieved an important coupe everywhere pay attention.
True, not left behind the wheel, I was absolutely sure that the whole mixture of style, technology and power is completely unsuitable for ordinary life. I certainly waited for tight, in German long-term clutch pedal, a manual box, no visibility, low landing, thin tier tapes, counting usually every sand on the road. In a word, a full bouquet that in the modern city only prevents calm. But the first kilometers in Moscow traffic jams were pleasantly surprised.
Let's say to move from the traffic light on the hill, not throwing back, you need a parking brake. So, it costs a small lever on the central console once, and the pads themselves will be dissolved every time with such starts. To drive around a broken car, I rent a back, and immediately on a 6.5-inch display arises a clear picture: how many from the bumper S5 to Kangurina stopped behind the jeep. With the help of such a convenient parking sensor, you can choose hardly every centimeter of space in the dead areas. And how nicely work the motor and box! Short lever, high selectivity and miracles of the trap. I easily start with the second, and on the sixth accelerate from 30 km / h.
Could not, really, at first, understand why the display on the front panel informs the driver about the transmission included. Yes, for example, immediately after the figure 3 there arises a green arrow, and for it the numbers 5, or even 6. I thought, naive, so the creators of S5 imitate engineers of rally machines. During the race, such visibility is vital, because to be mistaken with the inclusion of the optimal step in the sports box with a sequential switching of a pair of trifles. In the S5, the tip serves will not believe, efficiency. When the engine is confidently lucky at 1000 rpm, so unobtrusive recommend not to drive it at higher speed. No guys, I do not like your Swabian nice! Easy Pressing Gas Pedal, and the womb is instantly moving into a tall, juicy, riveted roar. And without switching from the second S5 already flies above hundreds of kilometers an hour. After such a jump in the space, find a place in the right row before turning work is not.
The assumptions about the boundless stiffness of the suspension were also not justified. On the bumps and chicks of S5 comfortable other European hatchbacks. Is that the front bumper, hanging in centimeters of ten from the ground, makes it harbing.
What else? Proconols in new items are really a bit. It is a pity, no in an audit mechanical hand feeding the seat belt, as in the BMW 3-coupe. In the interior decoration, the rustic plastic of the folk golf is found in places. And the junior outdoor handle of the Higher Door is generally nonsense.
Because even the cheapest A5 is the whole condition of 51 805. Esk at least 13 148 more expensive. And with half a hearty options, our S5 pulled more than 70 thousand. And yet, if you buy this coupe, it is the ones that the most impressive combination of drive and comfort will provide the most impressive combination of driving and comfort. Paradise delight, consider you guaranteed.
In the spring will be cheaper
Buying a basic 265-strong A5 for 51 805, you get a generous equipping an abundance of electric drives, climate control, MP3 radio, flightcomputer, wheels made of light alloy, leather interior, as well as front-wheel drive and variator. At 589 more expensive coupe with mechanics and full drive. The octali cylinder S5 (64 953) is only with the MCP and the transmission of Quattro. According to the tradition of the Audi, a huge list of options, including the TV-tuner, a parking heater, a rear-view video camera, a variety of options for external and interior decoration. The spring list of the power units A5 will be replenished with an engine 1,8tfsi (170 liters p.). Promise that such a car will be cheaper than V6.
Audi S5 (A5-3,2-AT)
Total information
Body, number of places / doors
coupe, 4/2.
Curb weight, kg
1630 (1495)
Length x Width x Height, mm
4635x1854x1369.
Base, mm.
2751.
Speed, km / h (limited to electronics)
250.
Acceleration 0-100 km / h, with
5.1 (6.8)
Fuel consumption, l / 100 km
9.2 / 17.8 (6.6 / 12.5)
Volume of fuel tank, l
63.
Engine
Design
6 (8) -Cyl., V-shaped
Working volume, SMZ
4163 (3197)
Power, hp at rpm
354/7000 (265/6500)
Torque, kgmm at rpm
44.9 / 3500 (33.6 / 3000)
Chassis
Drive unit
Permanent on all wheels (on the front)
Transmission
Mechanical 6-st. (variable speed drive)
Suspension:
Independent, spring
in front
on double transverse levers
behind
Multi-type
Steering
Rack type
Torkemose
Disk, ventilated
Tires
255/35 R19 (255/50 R17)
Car
from 0.74 $ / km
+
Excellent handling and dynamics; four-wheel drive; Rich Equipment
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High price; Low road clearance; places impervious assembly quality; Close rear row
Sergey Devyatkin, Maxim Potcharova
A source: Journal Buy Auto [23/2007]
