Test Drive Audi A5 Sportback Since 2009 Hatchback

All photos Audi A5 Sportback since 2009

Genetically modified

The sedan abstracts from all the well-known advantages of this body is trivial. And the coupe is impractical. In favor of demanding customers, Audi combined the strengths of the first and second, at the output received a new A5 Sportback. Let us try to find out how accustomed the genes A4 and A5, and at the same time it was possible to avoid side effects when crossing.

The four-door coupe, as the creators characterized the car, does not lose in the outbreak even a two-door version. The profile is especially good: the round the roof is dropped from the central side racks to the very edge of the trunk, which is completed with a dying tail with a small visor-spoiler. It will come in handy at high speeds when the back will strive up under the influence of the powerfulness of the aerodynamics.

And in the A5 Sportback Doors without a framework: Well, what is he inferior to the coupe? Only in the number of doors.
And even more so the sport store wins at easy-a5 in the space of the cabin. Adjusting the leather armchair under itself, I sit on the rear sofa, molded under two. Three will fit here, but it will truly be comfortable. I, with a growing above average, it is quite convenient: I do not even rest in the falling ceiling. For complete satisfaction, only the sofa adjustments and the heater diffusers for the rear passengers are lacking.

The driver's place, as in the A5 coupe, is pretty limited, but also organized as well: the chain seats are securely wrapped the body; Landing behind the wheel is flawless, and large devices are informative and fit perfectly into the interior.

Sorry, Multimedia Interface, with a comfortable washer-controller, did not enter our configuration: to deal with climate control blocks and the magnetic is not easy; Requires stopping and deeper immersion. However, for the main operations with the audio system on the three-spoke leather steering wheel, the corresponding buttons are provided.
On the dashboard and the center console there are pair of displays small and larger, respectively. They are not synchronized: twist the radio on the tidy, but the changes in the center does not occur. So, while the driver will tune the radio, the passenger will be able to choose a pleasant temperature in the cabin.

When I was asked in the Audi salon where we plan to go for tests and shooting A5 Sportback, I immediately blurted out that the center. I lied, even though it was not in my plans: somehow it turned out. I blurted out and immediately introduced myself as with Vitebsky we will go towards the avenue of Obukhovsky defense, then let down to the Neva, we will make a couple of circles at the bridges on the Sinopsky Embankment, and we will go back through Nevsky and Ligovka. Places for shooting, I thought, abounding, and in the reserved half a day for a test drive we must meet.
But together with the keys from the Audi A5 Sportback, the solid determination came to go, and not stand in traffic jams. So we were on the way to Pavlovsk on a half-empty road, covered with snow and looping turns

A5 Sportback I got with a two-liter 180-strong turbo engine, a variator and front-wheel drive, spinning the untapped tires of 18-inch wheels. For a condition close to happiness, I didn't have enough only two things that day: the full Quattro actuator and the S-Tronic automatic box.
Moreover, one of the first point would be enough, but in practice such machines so that they do not exist with Quattro and the variator. Audi A5 Sportback is supplied to Russia with three PPCs: mechanical, variator and robotic checkpoint with two S-Tronic clutches. Moreover, the variator is only available for the front drive, and S-Tronic for full.
The Multitronic Variator works not only in the machine, but has a sports and manual gear algorithm. The latter imitates the work of the 8-speed (!) MCPP, but the point of switching to the manual makes sense only when the daily rhythm of driving is different from which you are going to rush further. Although many will be suspicious and sports.

Sports savaged; Smooth work of the variator and soft (despite the low-profile tires) the course relaxes and lull, playing the unkind joke with the driver. Overloads from accelerations are practically not felt; Audi is gaining speed without informing the vestibular apparatus. I do not expect it, I come to turn on speeds exceeding their safe passage. But if A5 and leaves the trajectory, it makes it solid and in an adult: no digging, smoothly and all four wheels. First, the ESP makes it possible to feel adrenaline, accompanying the exit with the intended curve, then slows the speed, quickly and obediently directing the car after turning the steering wheel.
Only led A5 Sportback could be even more interesting; Four-wheel drive allows you to enter with gas with gas, and not with a decrease in speed. And so abandoned forward torque does not always can be hooked for ice with snow. In addition, I did not succeed completely to disable the stabilization system only the anti-slip system of obedient retreated.
But is it a minus? ESP and so gives the demolition of both axes, and the Tonya Hakkapeliitta R does not allow to miss: the control is more accurate, but the course is accounted for almost every time you find yourself on slippery coating.
The side effects of the crossing at least: A5 Sportback is not bad, controlled (for the front drive) is excellent, the ceiling does not prescribe. True, the actual number of doors will not give to call the car coupe without quotes, but it will cost cheaper than twice for 32,000 rubles. Gene experiments completed successfully. Who is in line? Maybe q7 and a1?

The car is provided by the company Audi Center Vitebsk official Audi dealer