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Audi A5 Sportback. Imager.
Audi A5 Sportback. Price: not defined. On sale: since October 2009 The car market is becoming more and more selective. The battle of autocorporations has long experienced its integrity, crashing for dozens of small clashes. The struggle is not even for segments, but for subclasses and even tiny target niches. New A5 Sportback is designed to provide AUDI reliable bridgeheads in the middle class of premium segment
Test pilot
Vladimir Makkaveev, 32 years old, car journalist, driving experience 13 years, personal car - Volvo C30
Than selecting the client, the more difficult to please him. Audi A5 Sportback is aimed at a young ambitious audience with high life standards, on those who have long been replaced in their diet sprite in expensive French wines. Those for whom the thirst is nothing, but the image is everything! A5 Sportback As a good image, capable of combining it would not seem to be combined: Emotions of the coupe with the comfort of the sedan and the practicality of the wagon.
An exquisite exterior with a light brutality, which, as two-day notice, does not spoil a real man, but only gives his appearance of negligence and freedom. At the same time in the A5 Sportback, a disheveled taste is felt. Strong, horizens-oriented in order to emphasize the width of the car. Split ride lines are surprisingly combined with soft, falling in the form of a seagull wing with longitudinal vehicles. The rear stand of the elegant wave flows down the body, forming a small side window inspired by Audi 100 Coupe S 1969 at its base. Wheel disks in the form of a chrome-plated propeller as an expensive clock give the thickening. Even the names of the colors, in which our athlete is dressed in Poetry itself: White Ibis, Beige Dakar, Blue Sphere, Gray Condor, Black Phantom, etc. And this is not an indicator of his dubious orientation, rather a sophistication and education. Belong to him and a cosmopolitan salon: chrome-shaped drop-like instruments, smooth panel lines.
The ratio of glass and metal in the Sportback design roughly corresponds to the usual 1/3 x 2/3 for Audi 1/3 x 2/3, but the lack of door frame typical for the coupe gives it additional ease. For all this lightness, the frame provides a good rigidity for a twist, which is one of the pillars of the sports character A5 Sportback. Transferring the battery to the luggage compartment, along with the traditional A5 line shifted as much as possible the front axle, contributes to good weighing along the axes. A five-dimensional front suspension learned to separate longitudinal and transverse loads. The stringent transverse force arrangement mode sharpens manageability without compromising comfort due to longitudinal softness. If it seems a little, you can order either a semi-self-adjustable chassis with tighter suspension settings, or a S LINE Sports version with a decreased by 10 mm clearance.
The only thing that upsets is the excessive steering adaptability. In urban mode, at speeds up to 60 km / h, the A5 Sportback behaves until indecently.
At first, the A5 Sportback will be represented in Russia with eight modifications with four different motors. Gasoline clan will be two 2? Lithuanian turboctors with a capacity of 180 and 211 liters. with. and 3.2? Liter 265? A strong atmospheric unit. The only diesel modification will receive 2? A liter turbocharged heart with a capacity of 170 horses. By the beginning of next year, border reserves will catch: the most modest in the line 1.8? The liter turbo engine in 160 liters. with. And the most powerful three-liter monster S5 with a capacity of 333 liters. with.
What to say, the space for the choice of a four-wheeled image operates very extensive. Driving
In German, verified and clear handling with a small failure in road regime. Good course stability.
Salon
Very spacious for its class. Good side support for seats.
Comfort
You can choose both comfortable and semi-self-sports and sports s Line Chassis variation.
Safety
Pretty hard, body, full set of modern security.
Price
In Russia is not defined. European price from 36? 050 is quite reasonable.
Advantages and disadvantages
+ Good coupling stability, a fairly wide motor line, the presence of a recovery system.
- Excessive adaptability of the steering wheel at low speeds turns into excessive impulvagement.
Specifications
Brand and Model - Audi A5 Sportback
Dimensions - 4711x1854x1391 mm
Engine - gasoline, 1984 cm3, 211 hp / 43006000 min-1
Transmission - automatic S-Tronic, 7-speed
Dynamics - Max 241 km / h; 6.6 s to 100 km / h
Competitors - BMW 3 Series Touring, MB C-Class Estate, Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon, Jaguar XF
Our opinion
No matter how paradoxically sounds, but Audi A5 Sportback is a good option of the anti-crisis car. And the point is not at all in value. Emotions of the coupe in combination with the comfort of the sedan and the practicality of the station wagon will allow its potential buyers to replace this model at once two or three cars in the family garage.
Posted by: Vladimir Makkaveev
