Test Drive Audi A5 since 2007 coupe

Audi A5: Editable

The last Audi Coupe has gone from the conveyor twelve years ago. Since then, the German company has bought off from the suffering sedans, similar to the sports coupe, and Audi TT, unlike anything. But the missing two-door link closed the chain A4-A6-A8 in 2007 in Geneva, the world saw A5. Although the concept of the link may seem offended. More precisely, Audi A5 said the head of Volkswagen Group Design Walter de Silva: This is the best car I ever created.
 
With a feeling of resentment, I smelled when I gave the keychain from Audi A5, it is not easy to reconcile. Still a second ago, I was fenced by the outside world by a closed space on four, which was covered with dark skin with inserts from Alcantara, decorated with magnificent plastic and did not allow to get inside a single false sound from the street. And now the duty officer of the car dealership manager Well, how do you test?, I passed the car to the chef car, and the irresistible thoughts about fees that do not allow (so far) to become the owner of these one and a half tons of high technologies in the aluminum body.
Ideally, a long time to publish a law prohibiting other test machines from journalists. Or at least release a methodological manual for painless taken by the dealer of the provided car. Approximately so first, as you like to pull out the journalist from the salon, then make it take a look from the car, then remove it at the maximum distance. You look, will not catch up, and Ponuro will boot back to the editor. Working from writing brethren, sitting, do not like to run.
By the number of uniform Audi A5, I would be taken without oscillations. Yes, during the spy games around the images of the new coupe, I firmly thought that German bosses with the release of a new model simply want to grab a small piece of cake from BMW with her troops-six. Designate in the class, to declare, we also have a coupe now! And then continue to dial orders from power burghers to a classic A-series. But how, looking at the thin bend of the line of the side of the A-fifth, you might think that the car was created in the appendage? Immediately ready to forget the heavy architecture of German sedans, and admire the smoothness of the form A5, providing, to everything, a record low resistance coefficient of 0.28.
Lovers of the Bavarian iDrive in the A5 salon will be enough to hit, perhaps today it is not customary to leave the middle console such a number of keys and regulators. But to complain about the inconvenience to sin against the truth. Let me be eaten by the fans of the brand, but the interior design of Audi does not change in principle for fifteen years. It is even not even a design, and the spirit itself remains the same: the magnificent seats are tightly clasped the body, landing behind the wheel is impeccable, and large dials are still informative and, naturally, the corporate red. And nothing that fermentation on the on-board computer menu without instruction is that the laborer is blind.
Laconicity, which is cooked salon A5 (exactly like the donor - A4), binds you to the car. N. one unnecessary line, not a single controversial solution! However, at the exit I remembered (or rather, I felt) that the coupe by definition is closer of the sedan: the crown hurts with the low-fat arc of the doorway. Fake sports what to do!
 
Only where is he in motion? By blowing the expensive audio system Bang & Olufsen, I am trying to listen to the promotion system. Tachometer counts two, three, approaching four thousand rubles it! The split tube replaced a quiet breath on a roar with hoping notes. In a calm mode, and even more so at idle, the ineffective rustling of the engine disappointed, but now the most correct sound for 265 purebred horses! The most correct the suspension for a dynamic ride is still tougher than we are used to wait from Audi, but in this whole raisins! The most correct steering wheel for such a chassis electromotor is good resisting the effort, allowing the trajectory to a centimeter.
Let the chassis itself is not at all new, but an upgraded cart from the previous A4, it is difficult to find it with its settings. For better weighing, the wheelbase machine increased by 10 cm, shifting the front axis ahead, which allowed the masses to make away almost robbing (45:55). Plus, the front suspension on four levers is collected on the subframe, which is rigidly attached to the body so the steering has become even sharper. In addition to all you will be offered a version of Quattro, but immediately take away multitronic variator, in replacing a six-speed mechanics (with gasoline atmospheric 3.2 or Turbodiesel 3.0). Such a company policy is not very clear, especially if you consider how demanding the buyer to such class machines.
We have for A5, as a rule, representatives of gold young people come to the salons, many literally have a hand with solid dads, who already have Audi in the garage, only an older index. In Germany, there are more pre-age styles on the coupe there are also such.
Thus, the chain of success of the company closed. The missing link A5 strengthened the idea that, contrary to the expression of the classic, I like not so bad. Worse than the other - the law on the scope, most likely, will never take. Otherwise, the Audi A5 representatives and dealers of the AUDI A5 will disappear.
The car is provided for the Audi Test Center Vitebsk, the official Audi dealer
 
Text: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Stunnin
 
   
 

A source: Magazine "Wheel" [July 2008]