Test drive Audi A6 2001 - 2004 sedan

Four times six

Two body options, four - gearboxes, ten - engine, sixteen - colors. All this is the updated Audi A6, the presentation of which took place in late May in East Germany. During the time allotted for the test, we managed to experience four modifications of the six.
 
Remember, in the joke: why is the monument - Pushkin, if Mu -Mu wrote Turgenev? We thought about the same thing: why is the whole parking scored by four, if the presentation is the new A6? It was impossible to make a mistake: Audi AG representatives met us at the airport and delivered us to exactly. We come closer. Here are those on! On all cars, the cart A6, although the similarity with the Audi A4 is one hundred percent.
 
First of all, the double grille is confused. Previously, this was only for cars with 8-cylinder engines, then it appeared on A4, and now I got a six.
 
The block fact is also as if one to one. Only then did we learn that the diameter of the light module is increased from 60 to 70 mm. It would seem that some centimeter, but the light bundle has become 37 percent more. If desired, you can install all xenon lamps (meaning close-davo) with an automatic headlight tilt regulator.
 
The car has changed little in profile. Unless, due to the use of 16- and 17-inch wheels, it looks more dynamic and obsessive. Note that for the version with the 4.2 engine, alloy wheels of three types are offered, plus one more for winter tires. The right external mirror is now the same size as the left. Behind the novelty differs from the previous model by other lanterns and a place for a license plate. Exhaust pipes - to give the car a more sports look - deliberately displayed, and their number and diameter are determined by the power of the installed engine.
 
There are even fewer visible innovations in the car: the steering wheel has become more convenient for the dials of devices have acquired aluminum edging. However, what is there to improve, if everything was fine? Unless noise insulation. So it improved it - the lateral glass made thicker. The result is a decrease in noise by 40%. The climate control was also modernized: now, in addition to performing the previous functions, it recognizes harmful and bad smelling substances in the outcome air and immediately stops its supply to the salon.
 
Logbook is set by order - an electronic book of accounting for the movement of the car, with which you can monitor where and when the car was - at least an hour ago, at least two months. However, this informer works only paired with a navigation system, in Russia not operating. So our lovers can be stolen in a service car can sleep peacefully. In the same place where the navigator works, the Audi Telematics system allows you to receive information about traffic jams and ways of their detour, and in an emergency, call technical assistance or police. The call buttons are on the ceiling, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe rear -view mirror, under a special lid.
 
Security issues in the design of the car were given great attention. A stabilization system of course stability appeared - ESP, which includes an amplifier of brakes, which includes a sharp slowdown. The Sideguard side curtains also included serial equipment.
 
There are changes in the suspension, especially in the front. So, the lower lever here is made of aluminum alloy, which is why the unsprown mass was reduced by 5 kg. This, of course, affected the smoothness of the stroke and controllability, but it was almost impossible to feel how much the car stroke improved: it was comfortable to drive even on an arb, not to mention modern cars.
 
The first we experienced a car with a V-shaped 6-cylinder turbodiesel with a capacity of 155 hp. And a stray automatic. The combination is quite successful. It would be possible to say the perfect if it were not for a small failure at a brisk start: you are stomping the gas pedal, the engine throws speeds, and the car only after a squeal breaks off. This is not very great, especially when you try to jump forward at the intersection. But then what an acceleration! If it were not for a specific rollene, you will never believe that you are going on a diesel engine. From a place to hundreds - in 9.7 seconds. Maximum speed - 210 km/h. And this is with an average fuel consumption of 6.9 liters per 100 km!
 
We transplant into Audi with a 1.9-liter in-line four and a mechanical 5-speed KP. It does not feel much difference in dynamics. The car even seems to be angrier than the previous one, but this is most likely from behind a manual box. Before each gear shift, you give an extension, and the car just jumps out from under you. The engine here is weaker by 25 hp, and the difference in dynamics is only 1 second. And the consumption of fuel, by the way, per liter less from every hundred. At one gas station you can brush 1200 km.
 
The next car has a completely new V6 gasoline with an aluminum cylinder block. Three liters, 220 hp And the same unavailable automatic machine is almost impeccable tandem. Up to hundreds - less than 7.5 seconds, without failures and pickups. Plus, the exceptional smoothness of the course is due to balancer shafts.
 
Time was running out, however, it was possible to cut out a few minutes for dessert: 4.2 liters, V8, Quattro. Not a car - a plague. What are the presentations recommended by the organizers 130 km/h, when 300 horses are raging under the hood!
 
Rather on the track, and there to the whole coil. They estimated: the car walking in the extreme left row is quite far away. Gas on the floor and ... after 15 seconds had to be talked about, as if a motionless obstacle had grown before us. But the law -abiding German accepted to the right, ahead - clean and straight as an arrow of the autobahn ribbon. Tiptronic - to the sport position (in this case, the transfers are switched later, allowing the engine to gain maximum speed, and, accordingly, increase power). Gas pedal - for the whole hole. They say that the take -off speed of the passenger airliner is 270 km/h. We did not have enough before take -off only 20 km/h. The car was so smooth that the speedometer’s readings simply could not believe. Later, when we still returned to the recommended 130, I wanted to open the door and go out - the complete feeling that the car had stopped.
 
Unfortunately, four more modifications Audi A6 remained not tested: with a new engine 2.0 (130 hp), modernized 2.4 (170 hp), as well as 2.7 (250 hp) Biturbo and Avant. It will be possible to meet with them at home - they are included in the supply plan to the Russian market among 19 modifications with various transmissions, 9 of which are Quattro.
 
The prices are also different: A6 1.8T, for example, will cost $ 31900, A6 2.7T - almost $ 50,000. So without the multiplication table when determining its capabilities to the buyer of the new six Audi, you can not do.
 
Audi A6 2.5 TDI (4.2 Quattro)
 
The body is 4 -door, all -metal. o The number of places, people. - 5 o equipped mass, kg - 1590 (1750) oh full mass, kg - 2140 (2290) O dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 4796/1810/1453 O base, mm - 2760 (2759) O maximum speed, km/h - 212 (250) o acceleration time to 100 km/h, C - 9.7 (6.9) O Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km: mixed cycle - 6.9 (13.0) o engine - V6, turbodiesel (V8); working volume, cm3 - 2496 (4172); Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 155/4000 (300/6200); Twisting, NM at MIN-1-310/1400-3500 (400/3000-4000); The power system is directly. Injection (injection) O transmission - Multitronic (5 -speed, Tiptronic) O size of tires - 205/55R16 (235 | 50R16) O Independent ON brake (front/rear) - disk, ventilation./Disk steering - Steering - With a hydraulic wiper.

 
Text: Oleg Kalaushin
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel