Test drive Audi A6 2005 - 2008 sedan

A lot of Audi

I obviously tuned in that in the road disciplines, Alload would be sent to a knockdown, and the six would fix all his flaws, albeit not capital. As it happens, a surprise was prepared for me. What a knockdown! It turns out that Allroad is a real athlete!


This engine, 4.2-liter V8, is associated primarily with the AlloD model, on which I had to drive more than one hundred kilometers. I am still impressed by the temperament of that machine, its dizzying starts, a hungry motor of motor and passenger control. Trust and respect is what Audi Allroad 4.2 is.

 

New six, a new version of the same engine 335 horses! It must be something! And the price of eloquent six digits in currency equivalent. Multi -stage tiptronics, all -wheel drive, total electrification of everything and the entire joystick of the multifunctional MMI interface Ingolstet response to BaemVeshm Idrive. Only simpler and more attacked in communication. And the display is more clear. He acts as a TV, which, however, in our conditions is useless, shows some interference.

 

Everything is beautiful and solid. Design, leather, wood in aluminum cut. And the buttons, buttons, buttons with one button the engine starts, the other is jamming. Unless, of course, laziness with a key. Fortunately, the comprehension of all this economy does not require Einstein intelligence. For several minutes and you, like a real DJ, twist the MMI handles and a climatic installation, fiddling with your fingers of the jungle of steering wheel and program a chair.
 

I obviously tuned in that in the road disciplines, Alload would be sent to a knockdown, and the six would fix all his flaws, albeit not capital. As it happens, a surprise was prepared for me. What a knockdown! It turns out that Allroad is a real athlete! And the six, it seems, decided to try on the laurels of a government limousine. Take at least acceleration. The dumped gas pedal, coupled with the electronic delays in its drive, the imposing operation of the machine and the stretch of gears, completely deprive passengers of the ability to experience with the declared 6.1 seconds to a hundred any emotions. Moreover, for powerful acceleration at the entrance, the pedal should lie in the floor, leaving a variety of electronics to think. And the sports and manual modes of the machine can only play the moment of transfers of the gears, little affecting the speed of the box.
 
A two -faced suspension, zeroing any road trifle, works quite hard when passing significant coating defects. It was not possible to quickly get used to the brakes: each time the force was originally attached to the pedal was not enough to obtain an adequate slowdown. Although the effectiveness of mechanics is excellent for the sharp inhibition of overload can really cloud consciousness.

 

Nevertheless, in the city, the car feels like a battleship in shallow water, scorching from 14-inch guns on sparrows. The surface of the autobahn is her vocation. Moreover, something about the true possibilities of a 4.2-liter six can only be understood at speeds, which, according to our laws, mean inevitable deprivation of rights. Not every car knows how to throw the speedometer to the right, to the limit of the scale! Sometimes it seems that acceleration to the first hundred is more difficult than to the second. And Tiptronic suddenly earned it as clearly, logical. The exchange rate stability, despite the rather sharp steering (2.5 turns from the stop to the stop), is not amenable to reasonable explanation: to say that the car is on the highway as a glove does not say anything.
 
But I will remember the six not at a price, not a hi-Tekov salon and not even shaving a flight in a straight line. It will be remembered by how she drawn the arc of the congress from the Pulkovo highway to the Pulkovo-1 airport, multiplying the initial 90 km/h by two. Drawing with prohibitive spontaneity, not asking a hint to straighten the trajectory. Her equanimity in the situation, for most vehicles of fatal, even a little scared. Also, because the information on the usual channel was not enough at the hands, the steering wheel is so lightweight here. According to the vestibular apparatus and spinal cord, which stated an increase in the body and non -childish side overloads had to be oriented. And also the absolute neutrality of the behavior of the machine without any signs of possible drift or demolition.

 

I got the impression that, having squeezed BMW at the market of athletes, Audi, with the help of a new six, is trying to bite Mercedes-Benz, relying on a healthy conservatism of style, complaisance of character and comfort. No wonder E-Class 4Matic is called a direct competitor A6 Quattro. I wonder what they think about this in Stuttgart?
 
Autography
Audi A6 C6
Predecessor
A6 C5 (1997)
Premiere
march 2004
Body
sedan
Engines
2.4-4.2 l (177-335 l.
Drive unit
front, full
Production
Germany, China
Expected replacement
2010/11


The car was provided by RUSE-AUTO,
the official dealer Audi and Seat.
During the test, the car is insured by Rosno.
 
Text: Leonid Klyuyev
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 85/2004]