Audi A5 test drive since 2007
Audi A5 test drive: Well, a very beautiful city sports car
Is it possible to combine the power and beauty of sports cars with the mundane practicality of a city resident of Russia? The Audi A5 compartment did it quite in. I think everyone can admit to himself that when meeting on the road of the car of his dreams in the soul, feelings of envy and easy anger for his driver arise. However, such emotions seem at least low when looking at the sexual appearance of the Audi A5. The man behind her steering can only say thanks! For putting this copy of contemporary art to the court of the gloomy public.
The Audi A5 sports building is picked up by a wave of side ribs of stiffness, and the languor of the gaze is emphasized by the diode line of headlighting. No matter what side you look at, it is difficult to notice at least one of the seizures of the structure. However, I never found them. Looking at this compartment, you don’t understand why in no country there is still a national project to support the emotional stability of the population, which is based on stimulating sales of cars such as A5. For the sake of launching such a program in Russia, reluctantly, one could even agree to their assembly at the Volkswagen concern in Kaluga.
Dreams - dreams, but we will continue the narrative of A5. At first glance, the salon seems very simple: there is no tree, no extravagant designer elements, and the skin does not sparkle with a gloss of the feet. What tree can be in a sports car?! Neat aluminum inserts of the finishes, dark gray suede median parts of the seats and the maximum ergonomics of the location of the devices from speed and the road nothing distracts. The fabric is especially pleasant to be trimmed with the roof from the inside no villi, the threads are one to one. And most importantly, there is an atmosphere in A5 in the cabin, which accepts the driver for the first time as if he was doing this at least in the fiftieth.
The workplace for drivers of all physique is equally comfortable. The ceiling of the driver’s head of 185 cm tall does not stroke, and a person with a height of 160 cm does not sink under the wheel. However, the two rear passengers will have to be located not so freely, which is the minus of most cars in the body of the coupe. For trips to the country with his mother -in -law (or mother -in -law), they are not calculated. On the other hand, surprisingly a large trunk of 455 liters, will accommodate at least ten people provisions for a party.
The rear -view mirror cannot boast of the view, but in the city stream there is quite enough view of large lateral mirrors. Standard sound and visual parking systems help to fit in the parking lot (monitor with areas of proximity of objects to sensors by car).
However, in the rear -view mirror on A5 often only a free strip remains. As practice has shown, A5 rarely sits on the tail. As a driver, I never differed in addiction to checker. However, A5 manageability was constantly awakened by the desire to take a free window, which was extremely rare to cope with, the wheels are so sensitive, and the steering wheel of the driver.
In the heart of the beauty A5, a windy two -liter heart with a turbocharged capacity of 180 horses beats. This is not to say that this is too much for a car of this class. However, starting from the traffic light, it was extremely unusual to go along the deserted highway, remembering that in anticipation of the green signal I was not alone, and not even in the front row. According to the passport, acceleration up to 100 km/h in A5 takes 6.9 seconds, the maximum speed reaches 250 km/h.
How much eats A5? According to the declared characteristics in the urban mode, 7.1 liters of fuel are enough for 100 km. In practice, the consumption is very dependent on the driving manner. If you release the brake pedal after the stop, the car touches with a large delay, about 5-7 seconds. However, the supply of torque is enough to move at a decent distance without pressing the gas pedal. Therefore, the patient drivers have a ride in the office on the A5 will be quite economical, and the fuel consumption rate is quite proportionate with passport data.
I forgot to mention that an automatic Multitronic variator with the possibility of manual control was installed on the tested version. A5 provides for three car control modes - everyday (Drive), comfortable (Comfort) and sports (DS). I did not feel the difference from the everyday mode and the comfortable regime, but when the sports regime is turned on, the suspension becomes distinguishablely tougher, A5 as if merging with the road, and the character of the sports car, the creators, manifested in the car, manifests itself more and brighter. Unfortunately, the whole drive from unity with the road, as usual, spoils unexpected pits and removed asphalt canvas, so you again have to return to normal mode.
In addition to all personal automobile qualities, the snow -white compartment of the Audi A5 showed me how Alfons look like in real life for curious people I will say at all in the same way in cinema and modest gentlemen are indistinguishable.
The time allocated for a test drive came to an end, and I could not be saturated with beauty, dynamics and controllability of Audi A5. Until now, on the road, the gaze clings to the wavy headlights of headlights, a dynamic body and a rear spoiler, smoothly turning into the roof of a sports compartment, and naive thoughts about the national project about supporting sales of such cars again appear in the head.
Audi A5 tested car with 2.0 TFSI engine, 180 hp, automatic transmission multitronic, cost from 1,784,470 p.
The editorial office of a business car club thanks Audi Russia for the car provided
Source: Business car club
