Test drive Audi A6 2005 - 2008 sedan

On a well -deserved rest

The smart one will not go to the mountain. A well -known saying will do. It is in accordance with it that the new Allwood acts. He will eat a mountain. And it will do it very quickly.


Nostalgia
More recently, his face was burnt by the sun and winds. He was young, a muscular and is ready to go with you to storm mountain passes. Now Ollroud has become completely different. No, he still has gunpowder in powder, but the insolence in his gaze and recklessness diminished. It has grown markedly 124 mm in length, it was width by 10 mm and looks much older. The relief of muscles under a completely civilian suit with a prestigious club emblem of Audi in the form of a huge trapezoidal chrome radiator grille is no longer so distinguishable. It does not smell like everyday training here, more and more a cup of expensive coffee and cigar in the morning. And the sports uniform is dusting in the closet on the long shelf.
 

Slightly large mirrors, thresholds, plastic unpainted expanders of arches and bumpers with steel protective sinks are somewhat distinguished by a descendant of the first all -resistant audi from the most ordinary anterior drive station wagon A6. But it looks only a weak attempt to support the image of the adventurer. You must admit that a car with a base of 2833 mm and long -long overhangs will sit like a barge on the first serious bumps or leave its expensive bumpers there. With all appearance, the current Allwood seems to say that the difficulties of this kind are already not supposed to overcome by the life of the service. There are young and courageous, such as Q7, here they are, even if the mud is dirty with their huge wheels. As they say, we have a road to young people everywhere, the old people are a big respect.
 



The immodest charm of the bourgeoisie
But I not only do not want to drive along the lanes, finding out the limits of the cross-country ability of a new olroud, I generally have no way to go somewhere. So he would sit in his luxurious salon, in fact, in no way different from the interior of the usual A6, fenced off from worldly fuss with tinted glasses, and relaxed to the sounds of jazz, pouring from the speakers of a cool audio system.
 

Once in Germany, Audi was considered a machine for rural teachers. In order to afford the current A6-over, these teachers would first have to get villas on the Cote d'Azur and yachts in the bays nearby. Yes, what sometimes a lot of money do you pay only for the image and for belonging to the circle of the elect ... However, in the case of allwater, this is not entirely true.
 

With manic addiction, I always dissatisfied, I pushed the interior along and across and did not find what to complain about. It seems that the masters from Ingolstadt piled over each detail as thoughtfully and patiently as Karl Marx over his capital. It turned out stylishly, qualitatively, convenient and, unlike the works of the theoretician of communism, is not at all boring. Wooden inserts were not at all manufactured at the Plastmass factory, the seats profile are excellent, the range of adjustments is exhaustive. The glove box, and it opens with a button. A trifle, but nice. Perhaps it is not too easy to communicate with the MMI terminal responsible for the settings of most of the on-board systems of the car. But in comparison with the Beamwagh Ai-Drive, everything is much more understandable and logical here. Moreover, Audi knows the Russian language very well.
 

She not only speaks in many languages \u200b\u200band takes care of the driver, this clever man perfectly remembers her family-economic duties. On the back sofa will not be closely three healthy men. After all, in length, Ollroud does not reach the representatives of the representative class for all a little. Yes, and in the trunk there is enough space not only for golf clubs. And before, the volume of the cargo compartment was rather big, and now it has still increased by 110 liters. So, with the backs of the rear sofa folded, you can easily place two bicycles here. For attaching various small things and bags, moving along the guide partitions are provided. And finally, like a cream rose on the cake so that you do not overly strain, the fifth door closes with a button. He pressed, waited three seconds, and all things. Not life, but a fairy tale.

 
    
Practical solution
 

Separate climate control is included in the basic equipment
 

You can choose the desired air suspension mode using the MMI terminal. But everything is clear and simple
 

The glove box is large, and for convenience has several departments
 
    
The back of the sofa can be folded in parts, but the floor is not quite even
  

That there is a curtain from the sun is nice. But the fact that she needs to be lowering her hands is not very
 

Despite the huge disk, there is just a doctrine




It will be not enough
But the button for turning on a number of low transmissions that was on some versions of the first Allwood, I, no matter how hard I tried, found. Such a plebeian equipment is not supposed to our aristocrat. Only a pneumatic suspension and a full -wheel drive with a self -locking differential Thorsen remained. And still you are free to independently change the road clearance. Only if earlier it could be increased to 208, now to 185 mm. In principle, not so little, but it is still scary to park on the sidewalks: because of such a long base of that and look, you will hit the border with a belly.
 

However, the owner of this car will have to drive on the country much more often, for example, to the country house under construction or just to nature. So, when you install the maximum clearance on a bumpy road, with the fully selected suspension moves it will go very hard. My poor teeth with unfortunate seals had oh like hard. So if you do not want to spend time on an unplanned visit to the dentist, crawl from the hole to the hole better to sneak.
 

 
Carter protection on allwood factory and does not require surcharges


A completely different thing if the primer is relatively flat. You can install a comfortable suspension mode with a road clearance of 140 mm, and then Ollroud is imposingly, even somehow in American, like a ship on an air pillow, flies along the road, not noticing all sorts of little things under the wheels.
 



The main habitat
In short, it is more convenient to travel on even roads on this Ollroud, and best of all on asphalt. And here he will more than play all the time that he lost to the SUV, not to mention the real jeep, on the lane. Not just like that with any of its engines this audi rides faster than 200 km/h. He is a real eater of kilometers. Having drove almost 500 miles in three and a half hours, I was not at all tired. As if in front of the TV sat with beer and chips. The rustle of the tires is almost inaudible, I was also isolated from the engine noise.
 

But 255 horses, perhaps the optimal 6-cylinder engine with a volume of 3.2 liters for the new olroud, is not allowed to forget about their presence. Seventy on a speedometer or one hundred and seventy, to overtake it is enough to press the gas pedal stronger, and the one who was ahead, after a matter of seconds, is already disappearing in the rearview mirrors. True, you must nevertheless oblige the machine to work in a sports mode. In the usual, he really cares about the preservation of your nape and the transmission changes very smoothly, and it does not go to the lower ones so quickly. For relaxation, what is needed, but if you wanted to inject the adrenaline into the blood, you definitely need to choose a sport or manual mode.
 

By the way, in Allwood, steering gearboxes are not installed at all for beauty in order to attract failed Schumachers, but exclusively in the case. In a compulsory manner, Testronics passes from step to step instantly, firstly. And secondly, you do not have to remove the hands from the steering wheel when switching in turns. Why do you need such extreme? Yes, just the handling of the car is excellent and quickly pass the turns on it is a real pleasure. Incidentally, at speeds over 120 km/h, the road clearance decreases to 125 mm, which increases the already excellent exchange rate stability of a large audi. The predecessor could also fall, but only up to 140 cm, and his body rigidity was 30% less. Feel the difference? The latest generation car was dragged precisely under a quick, sports driving along the highway.
 

As a result, the manageability of Ollroud is no worse than that of an exclusively highway A6-audit, in addition to a plastic body kit, you get a car a little more prepared for asphalt driving at any time of the year. For which, ceteris paribus (full -wheel drive, machine gun, motor of 3.2 liters) you will have to pay $ 4000. As if a little. So it is so. But if earlier, OLRUD could be purchased for $ 66,000, now it costs at least $ 76 019. Having added even less than a thousand green, you can buy Q7 a large, comfortable, prestigious jeep. True, this thug will not enter every garage, it has a spring suspension and a diesel engine in its base. But this is perhaps all that he is inferior to Ollroud.
    
One more

There were three, there were four. We are talking about the engines of the New Ollroud. There are still two gasoline. But 2.7-biturbo yielded to a more fashionable engine with direct fuel injection now, a working volume of 3.2 liters and a capacity of 255 liters. with. 50 horses became more powerful V8 4.2 liters. True, for a 350-horsepower car you will have to pay a lot of $ 96,706. There are now two diesel engines. These are a completely new 180-horsepower 2.7 liter and 3-liter in 233 liters. with. Both are equipped with anti -and -and -hawk filters and will not appear in us earlier than autumn, so the prices for them are still unknown.
 
BEHIND

High level of equipment and finishes, spacious and convenient salon, comfortable in standard modes suspension, excellent handling, traction engines, rich list of additional equipment
VS

Hard suspension in offside modes and elevator, high price, mediocre geometric cross -country ability
 
 
Audi A6 Allroad 3.2 FSI (4.2 FSI)

general information


 
Body (number of places/doors)
Universal (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1750 (1820)
 
Length x width x height, mm
4934x1862x1519
 
Base, mm
2833
 
Front/back, mm track
1596/1587
 
Trunk volume, l
565/1660
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
7.7 (6.3)
 
Speed, km/h
240 (250)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
7.4/15.1 (8.6/15.7)
 
Fuel tank capacity, l
80
 

Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
gasoline, V-shaped, 6-cylinder (8-cylinder), 4 valves per cylinder, 2 upper camshafts
 
Working volume, SMZ
3123 (4163)
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
255/6500 (350/6500)
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
33.6/3250 (44.8/3500)
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
Constant full
 
Transmission
Automatic 6-st.
 
Suspension
Independent, pneumatic with telescopic shock absorbers and reptile stabilizers
 
front
on double triangular transverse levers
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front are ventilated (all ventilated)
 
Tires
255/55 R17 (245/45 R18)
 

Car
from 0.66 $/km
 
 

Andrey Koltun, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

A source: Magazine buy a car [14/2006]