Test Drive Audi A5 since 2007 coupe
A and B sat on GT
In fact, the playful title is related to a serious occasion that occurred at the Geneva Salon in this spring. Car A5 on that salon was among the main prime ministers. And in order to consider it better, my colleague got married, penetrated the Audi booth forward even the company's employees and sat down in the cabin to study the car and fit it on themselves. It turned out to be so fascinating that we did not notice how the rest of the press mass took it up and lined up. The Italian journalist, knocking gently in the window, began to disappear on broken English. Like, Rashen, I understand everything, you have oil, gas and pipes, and you buy all these cars, but let's take a look. We on a moment felt like lucky people who were lucky to sit on the pipe and ride GT. In fact, we, two funny and poor liteers, as in that counting, of course, peeled - fell and disappeared. And, he is the Italian, stayed on GT. The company was a German reporter. The end of the county, despite her jerks, is logical. In the scene from life, with all its seeming chance, a regularity is also found. Audi A5 - car Italian-German. Italian style, German technology - what else is needed in order to create a perfect car?
The main designer A5 Walter de Silva from the creation of his hands fell in Northernik (I am a genius), but a good sin of pride. To fall, as the British say, in love for A5, you need to look at this car into the profile. The side of the Audi A5 gives the impression of the perfect original. Well, maybe the smallest look like Bentley Continental. If you approach the standards of classical art, then it has the proportions of the Olympic God. By the standards of GT - this is also the Olympic Classic. Long hood, short ass, shifted to the front of the front axle, optimal weighing ... A car from the sphere of high speeds and large ambitions.
The view of the FAAS can scare you with a dejum, however, it would be time to get used to Audi's work in the past recent years. But it is immediately clear, with the help of whose technologies will be born. Victory A5 technologies are, of course, primarily Motor technologies FSI (or TDI for diesel versions) and Quattro actuator. Both are not needed in unnecessary compliments. A 354 horsepower - the power of the upgraded eight on the charged version of S5 - and they speak for themselves for themselves, weighty and multigid confirming that this is a real physical value. Actually, not in vain Audi called for the presentation of the car in Geneva, not some pop Labukhov, and Yellow with Dieter Meyer - well, who is even better disassembled in the nuances of the music of electro-techno? Listening the engine S5, joined the gas pedal or attaching the ear to one of the 14 speakers of the 500-watt High-fi Bang & Olufsen, put the volume on the volume or shut down in boxing key with a racing car running there - all this is approximately equal to the degree of fun.
But it is fun in statics. In the dynamics, no matter what engine is under your hood - and choose from what, - you understand enough easily that your ideas about speed change. They are fun only in press release graphs. A hundred for 5.1 seconds or two hundred in 19 seconds on the same S5 does not seem so majestic standards until you try to fully on yourself. At first, the concept speed and speed limit are stretched, in many respects, just due to the KUATTRO drive, a universal insurer from excessive delete or insufficient qualifications. But then, all these physical concepts converge in one point under the spoon, where it still suits, even if the car is already in the garage, and you are in a hammock. Calm analysis helps to figure out the obvious - even a four-wheel drive that helps to accurately take turns and do not panic on dubious road surfaces, does not cancel the fact that you are a GT car. With quite a tough suspension, not tolerance. And the steering wheel is almost all variants A5 (well, especially, of course, on S5) is deprived typical of Audi impatience. Here, its sharpness is just enough to feel how the wheel clings for the hardness of the earth. And the remnants of ease in the steering wheel will destroy together with dust from under the wheels. I found a sufficiently assembled, precision, short-terrestrial and A5 box (the mechanics comes in the standard almost with all engines), but after the stepless Audi variator, which goes into a pair with a motor 3.2 and 2.7 TDI, the mechanics somehow quickly stop loving. This is a find for lazy drivers. Those like me. Rips on gas and forget about everything - like on a moped. Well, if your hands still missed the sport, you can go to manual mode at any time. Audi Multitronics, by the way, now has as many as eight fixed gears. 
The word comfort is not much appropriate when it comes to the sports car, which must be angry, cruel and smelly. But it is obvious that A5 is not from such cars. Here are familiar to the people of the Audi circle amenities in the form of a soft good skin, a Russified computer and MMI system, three-zone climate control, etc. Here, even an electromechanical manual brake can be translated into an automatic mode when the machine itself will throw anchor on the traffic light and herself to let go of the pads when pressed for gas. But the most curious innovation lies in the ignition key, which turned into a diagnostic device: Now it stores the data on the mileage and the technical problems arising on board. In short, soon in the car service will be first to carry the key, and only then drive the car itself. Audi A5 is a car that serves four in the bush. The pleasure of the wheel of the coupe, and even GT, the value of indivisible. Excess with GT should fall, leaving a place for one individual, for one and.
Audi A5 3.2 FSI S5 3.0 TDI Gasoline engine, V6 gasoline, V8
Working volume (cube. Cm) 3197 4163
Power (hp at rpm) 265 at 6500 354 at 7000
Moment (nm at rpm) 330 at 3000-5000 440 at 3500
Front quattro drive
Continuous gearbox
mechanical variator 6-st.
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4625/1854/11372 4635/1854/1369
Curb weight (kg) 1495 1630
Maximum speed (km / h) 250 250
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 6.6 5.1
Fuel consumption, medium
(l / 100 km) 8.7 12,4
Price in Moscow No data
Text Hassan Ganiev, Photo Audi AG
A source: "Autopilot"
