Test drive Audi A6 2005 - 2008 sedan

Four for four summer

The best way to understand what you like in the car and what you don’t like is not to arrange pokatushki under the supervision of the seller with a bored face in the cabin, but it is really possible to exploit the device. Then everything will come out - from the feeling of crowding to displeasure of the trunk size. Or vice versa - you will suddenly understand that you cannot part with this miracle of technical thought and now you are one road - to the box office. With daily operation, a coincidence is revealed or not coincidence of this machine with this territory. It is for this that we monitor what and how is happening in our small park of cars.
It is believed that the new Audi A6 is an alternative to such machines as the BMW 5 series, as well as Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse. Strange, but the creators reached such a result in just a few years. Because we are adults, we remember in which niches there was that brand - from sports to barrel. And now, it is necessary, almost luxury goods. We slowly get used to that on the 4000th kilometer of mileage, people still look at the car, as if aiming: he would take one-would not. From two luxury, amazingly popular brands in Russia, the sixth Audi is distinguished by restraint of design and the desire to smooth out the corners of a hard Russian life. It does not have aggression, a call, and it is exactly the machine in which you want to transport pale labradors. It seems that the owner of Rottweiler or, God forbid, there Stafford is unlikely to peck at the intelligence of A6-this is a different key, a different style and another life. Life similar to the measured life of the middle German town. Or your middle cottage village.
In the framework of our total struggle for safety, we installed a children's chair in the rear seat and tried to carry a two -year -old boy there. The boys have playful hands, and therefore they want to reach all the buttons at once - from the lighting button of the rear of the cabin to the lowering button and lifting the glass. And if the glass blocking is carried out with a simple press of the button from the driver's seat, then we have not found the door from the inside (Anti-Baby Lock). Although we believe that, according to the developers, this is somewhere very close and quite obvious. Not obvious.
The practice of business trips for sausage, crabs and champagne showed that the trunk of six is \u200b\u200beasier to open than to close. In order not to stain our hands, we are invited to use two handles from the inside of the trunk. But, for example, female hands are not used to clapping from all over the scale with a lid, but it doesn’t work out in a different way. And again, all hands in Moscow dust and soot, in the origin of which, judging by the hypocritical month, a clean car, the Moscow authorities accuse only the cars. (And never - builders or landscapers, and even more so no enterprise.) But God with them, we still have a problem - inside the trunk one of the plugs of working voids is constantly falling out and dangling through the trunk. Strange, but not critical.
After the last snowball (as you remember, it was just recently) we changed the rubber to the summer. And then the rains collapsed. The front -wheel drive inspires some optimism about the stability of the car on the road, although it seems to us that with sharp braking on the wet surface of the car, the nose leads to the left. A simple pumping of the left wheel managed to slightly damp the levocentric bias. The main news: we have long drove the threshold of running-in, and now you can truly drive. There are not very many places for fast driving in Moscow, so we break off on overtaking, which is facilitated by switching to manual mode with the help of ears on the steering wheel. So far, more than 150 have not been able to accelerate.

Text Igor Maltsev, photo Alexander Antonov

Audi A6 3.0 Quattro
 
V6 engine, gasoline
Working volume (cubic cub) 2976
Power (L.S. at rpm) 218/6300
The gearbox is 6-speed
Automatic Tiptronic C.
DSP and Sport mode
Torque, NM at 290/3200
Rpm
Maximum speed 241
(Km/h)
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.5

Expenses (April 20 - May 20, mileage 4700 km).

Audi A6 2.4
 
V6 engine, gasoline
Working volume (cubic cub) 2393
Power (L.S. at rpm) 177 at 6000
Type of drive front
Gearbox 6-speed, mechanical
Maximum speed 231
(Km/h)
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.9

 

Source: "Autopilot"