Test drive Audi A6 2005 - 2008 sedan

All photos Audi A6 2005 - 2008

Diamond car

We call the new Avant a vehicle for the transport of diamonds and cans with caviar in a joke of AiHER, Director of the Audi Design Center in Ulma, only the share of the joke. Do you doubt the prestige of an almost five -meter A6 station wagon with a V8 motor in 335 horses and a full -wheel drive transmission of Quattro? In vain in Europe, its owner will be considered not only very rich, but professing an active lifestyle: golf, skis, yachts in Russia such a car will cost $ 97,214 (recommended price). So with caviar and diamonds, the owner must be familiar first ofhand.
More versatility

Compared to the A6 sedan (ZR, 2004, No. 6) that appeared last year, the station wagon remained in the same dimensions of 17 mm increase in length and 4 mm in height only for order. Yes, and a huge trunk seems to have nowhere to grow! But in it they laid out the sides of the runners to attach a grid and racks with a fixing belt or telescopic bar to them. Having folded the split (40/60) rear seat, we will increase the length of the compartment to 2050 mm, and the volume to 1660 liters is enough even for a pair of mountain bikes, if you remove the front wheels.
The trunk door nearly broke it down inadvertently, and she is not in any! It turns out that you need to press the button at the end and the servo will close the door. The height of the rise of the fifth door is programmed to be conveniently limited to a low garage or if long objects are fixed on the roof.
Frantic carriage

I have not seen foxes in a mountainous fox park near the tarragon, but whole jambs are found cyclists. Hiding the horns, under the curious glances of neatly, the next variegated string and sincerely unscrew along the serpentine further Audi Avant 3.2 Quattro performed by Sport-Line asks to step on the pedal! Two and a half hundred horses of the V6 engine tease post -brings against the background of puffed by the environment of brothers, this is distinguished by enviable excitement, although it also corresponds to strict Euro IV. Yes, acceleration to hundreds for 7.4 s and the maximum speed of 250 km/h do not really knit with the image of a sedate car!

The sports package includes shortened by 20 mm or more rigid in comparison with standard springs, hefty 18-inch bast shoes, the machine gives out lateral accelerations, which strive to pull me out of a well-defiled chair. Urgent insurance updated ESP stabilization system. Unlike the previous one, if necessary, it slows down not only the internal wheels in the bend, creating an additional rotating moment, but also external ones, reducing the speed to safe. Moreover, the intensity of braking of each wheel is individual. Additional function stabilization of the machine with the trailer.
The seven -speed Multitronic box is nothing more than a stray variator with a family forcibly fixed gears. It works great in automatic mode, but I liked controling a couple of petals more, without taking off my hands from a comfortable chubby steering wheel. However, the reserve of the moment transmitted by friction forces allows you to arrange a variator with gasoline sixes of 2.4 and 3.2 liters.
A quarter of a century with a kvattro

In order to effectively realize all Newton-meters of top versions of 4.2 and 3.0 TDI, these machines are equipped only with a full-wheel drive transmission of the crook of Audi with a branded dish, which is now 25 years old. For other modifications, it is listed as an option for a word that is inexpensive against the background of the price of the car itself (in Russia, for example, $ 3179).
Honestly, it was not possible to feel the advantages of all -wheel drive, frankly, it was simply dangerous to drive the car in the dry asphalt of the usual public road in the mode where they could appear. Colleagues tried to test the quattra on the beach, buried on the hub and went to look for a tugboat. In general, you should not confuse Audi A6 with Audi-Hallwood, and even more so all-terrain vehicles, he confidently feels on slippery, snowy roads, in the mountains, but he has nothing to do off-road.
Representative station wagon

The phrase from the avenue: on the new A6 Avant you can install equipment that is not always available even to the vehicles of the upper segment of the market. We have to believe: adaptive air suspension from the flagship A8 migrated to the novelty, for example, as an option. Another example of the MMI multimedia interface (also from A8) in three versions, with a navigator controlled by a navigator, a colored 7-inch monitor, ten columns and two tuners.
Another innovation adaptive cruise control, the radar of which doubled the viewing angle. For the first time in the world, such a system is offered not only in a machine with a machine gun, but also with a manual gearbox. Three options for headlights, including rotary xenon, electromechanical parking brake, light and rain sensors, authorization on the key and air conditioning of the luxury, built -in telephone, six airbags, do you still doubt whether there are representative station wagons?
In the spring in Russia
In Europe, the new Audi Avant can already be ordered in eleven modifications with five engines. In Russia, the first cars will appear about. Five modifications are provided, three of them are all -wheel drive. Motors are all gasoline and the most powerful diesel. Prices start at $ 57 thousand and almost reach a hundred thousand a whole car clean as a tear of diamonds give a pack of green paper with portraits of other people's presidents ...