Audi A6 test drive since 2011 sedan
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The Audi A6 hybrid sedan spent a month and a half in our editorial office. During this time, we are almost used to the features of the machine control with an electric motor, calculated the cost of operation and made disappointing conclusions.
Of the obvious advantages of Audi A6, that the hybrid really works! The car turned out to be quite economical even with a equipped mass of 1845 kilograms in the conditions of winter and endless traffic jams the total average fuel consumption did not exceed 11 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers (and along the highway of nine liters). And this despite the fact that we did not try to ride as economically as possible. But something still had to get used to. 
Another gloomy winter morning. I sit in a cold machine, press the start button, and then Audi begins to hysterically yell Akhtung!, Informing me that the hybrid installation has been covered. And this is with a run of 14 thousand kilometers! Fortunately, firstly, you can live with this, in the sense of traveling, and secondly, the problem of self-pounded after a hundred kilometers. But doubts did not disappear, especially after I looked in the specification of the car: the guarantee for the Audi A6 Hybrid is only two years or 30 thousand kilometers of mileage! Deregnoths, during transitional modes, annoyed the first two weeks, but then you get used to the specific settings of the brake pedal, and the moment when the ICE accelerates the electric motor, you begin to predict. In addition, the device helps more or less in the operating modes of the hybrid installation (how to call it up?), Aligned instead of a tachometer. Here is the part of the scale indicating that the battery is charged, here is an effective zone, but the Busta zone, when the ICE and the electric motor operating at full power. Clearly. And when you get used to this transitional state, the Audi A6 Hybrid begins to follow the accelerator pedal so accurately and so smooth that it seems that the car is installed on the car. Or that the gearbox is completely absent. Or what are you going on an electric car. An incredibly direct connection between the gas pedal and acceleration! 
The Audi A6 Hybrid sedan is quite convenient for daily trips. In winter, the quick heating of the salon and the infernal heating of the seats are pleased: turning it on to the maximum, after a minute or two you start to frill. But what is bad in winter conditions is that the wipers leave a very wide strip of unpeeled windshield at the wide left rack, this makes it very difficult to review. As for handling and comfort, this is typical Audi. The suspension is quite stiff, but it is able to endure any road: how many I did not drive through the pit, she never hinted at a breakdown. Great and comfortable: the hybrid is quiet and pleases with the lack of unnecessary vibrations. 
Also, the Start-Stop system (it is notable, unlike other Audi models) turned out to be completely useful: it extinguishes the motor not only when stopping, but also when moving on turtle speeds, which is completely in Moscow. Of course, if the battery has a charge. Two main disadvantages of the Audi A6 Hybrid is a dull front -wheel drive and a brutal price. Moreover, even the low fuel consumption will not allow her to recapture for any sane period of ownership: the difference in price compared to the usual sedan 2.0 and the variator is 1 million (!) Rules. The cost of operating the car in the first year, as usual, was calculated according to the following conditions: Moskvich driver older than 22 years with an experience of more than three years, annual mileage of 20 thousand kilometers, and the cost of casco insurance among companies with A+rating. The cost of AI-95 gasoline at the rate of 32 rubles per liter. The expenses of the owner of the Audi A6 Hybrid in the first year of operation of OSAGO CASCO transport tax of TO-1 gasoline 6336 p. 110 000 p. 18 375 p. 15,000 p. 67 840 p. Total: 217 551 p. A kilometer of run (only fuel): 3.39 p. A kilometer of run (taking into account all expenses, including CASCO): 10.87 p. A kilometer of run (taking into account all expenses, except for CASCO): 5.3 p. The cost of then for a hybrid is no different from a regular sedan with a 2.0 engine: the first and third will cost about 15 thousand rubles, the second - 24 thousand, and the fourth - 40 thousand rubles. True, in one of the salons we were called other numbers: 13 thousand for TO-1 and TO-3, and TO-2 and TO-4-37 and 60 thousand. This difference is due to different costs of the Normal Council for each dealer. It is worth noting that the cost then varies depending on what engine oil the owner chooses when replacing: one of the recommended brands or Audi branded, which will cost noticeably more. The difference in value is noticeable, the liter of the original is three times more expensive, which in the end can lead to an increase in the cost of maintenance for impressive 8-10 thousand rubles. The amounts, by the way, are not frighteningly high for comparison, the content of the 333-horsepower Audi S5 Sportback hatchback will cost almost one and a half times more. And here, all the same, business class competitors? If you need a hybrid sedan of a business class, then the choice is small. Lexus GS 450h is amazing, but the basic equipment of the hybrid GS costs almost the same as Audi 2 625 000 rubles. But the total return of its power plant is impressive 343 horsepower! It accelerates to a hundred, it correspondingly quickly in 6.1 seconds instead of 7.5 for Audi. And the equipment already includes all conceivable and inconceivable goodies. There are no perhaps diode headlights, a hatch and a sophisticated audio system that go in the equipment of Luxury for 3,118,000 rubles. So, in equal trims Lexus GS 450H is both more accessible and faster. True, the drive of the Lexovo hybrid is also on one axis, but at least to the back. Lexus ES 300H Lexus ES 300H sedan, made on the Toyota Camry platform, will be even more accessible from 2,100,000 rubles for the Premium equipment to 2,306,000 rubles for the execution of Luxury. True, he is significantly weaker than his power plant is able to squeeze out only 205 horsepower, and overclocking to a hundred will be 8.5 seconds. And, like Audi hybrids, it will be front -wheel drive. But due to the increased wheelbase increased compared to the Camry Donor Camry, it is approximately as spacious as the Audi A6, and it boasts good sound insulation. Audi A8 Hybrid If the Audi A6 is not enough for you, then there is an Audi A8 Hybrid with exactly the same power plant. By the way, it weighs only by the centner and accelerates to hundreds in 7.7 seconds by two tenths longer than A6 HYBRID. True, and it costs 4,050,000 rubles. But the flagship sedan is tangibly larger and richer equipped. In addition, other hybrid sedans of the representative class Lexus LS 600H and Mercedes-Benz S 400 L Hybrid will be even more expensive: from 5,637,000 and 4,700,000 rubles, respectively. Or maybe diesel? If the presence of a hybrid as such is not necessary and it is only necessary to save on the consumption of fuel, then there are a lot of interesting options in the segment of business sedans. Including Audi. We decided to take a diesel car for a couple of weeks, and compare our impressions. True, to find A6 with a diesel engine did not succeed in the press park only found out on the same components of the large Audi A7 hatchback. But its motor 3.0 TDI develops the same 245 forces as much as the hybrid A6. And the base price of 2,650,000 rubles is only 50 thousand cheaper than a hybrid, and the A6 sedan with the same diesel engine would cost 300 thousand less! 
Of course, it is not entirely correct to directly compare A6 and A7: A7 has the best aerodynamics, but a little more mass (1795 versus 1770 kilograms). In addition, on A6 Hybrid and A7 TDI there were different tires. But something about fuel consumption and pleasure from driving can be understood so. And the first impression is how good a diesel is! Since the Audi A6 and A7 with six -cylinder engines go with all -wheel drive already in the basic configuration, and on the street is winter, the difference in accelerated dynamics was simply colossal! From the place of 245-horsepower, A7 tears as a hybrid A6 and never dreamed! 
Winter controllability is better: due to a full drive when erupting with gas in the bend, the car does not stupidly leaves out, but even a little, but nevertheless it is on the stern. Nevertheless, Audi without all-wheel drive is some kind of mockery! But with smooth reactions, things are worse. The diesel A7 has not an eight -speed machine, but a seven -speed gearbox with two clutches. It feels like it is inferior to traditional transmission in everything! In Drive mode for low gear (both when pressed on the floor and when moving in half -pea), it goes significantly later, and when it goes noticeably twitching. Of course, it does not reach discomfort, but that magical obedience and responsiveness in it is not even at all. 
Another very small minus is noise and vibration. Fortunately, the diesel V6 on Audi, even by gasoline standards, does not rattle and does not rumble. But the hybrid is still quieter! On the other hand, A7 does not have a start-stop system yet, which means that it will not constantly start and jerk the engine itself, which in the hybrid is accompanied by inevitable vibrations. So in a way parity. But a significant minus of a diesel machine is a very slow heating. But fuel consumption in the city of A7 Sportback spends no more than nine liters, that is, one and a half to two liters less than A6 HYBRID! On the highway, where the hybrid does not have an advantage in the form of a free traffic light of electricity, the difference becomes even more tangible. Seven liters per hundred, if you do not deny yourself anything. And if you roll on the A7 CROP control for a free autobahn without any overtaking, fit six liters. For a two -ton car, great! 
It turns out that even taking into account the higher cost of diesel, for 100 thousand kilometers of mileage you will take one and a half thousand liters of fuel less, which will save about 50 thousand rubles exclusively at gas stations during this time. But the point is not only in price: if the hybrid has a stroke of the course of about 650 kilometers, then the diesel diesel is more than 900. It turns out that from Moscow to St. Petersburg or Kyiv you can get without refueling once, but on a hybrid it will not work, so, diesel. And definitely! And more convenient and faster, and save money: you can pick up free options or take a hatchback body, that is, Audi A7. 
But why then Audi needed to create a hybrid if you buy it illogical and not economical? Firstly, hybrids are a trend, and we must try. Another answer lies in European legislation. Indeed, since 2014, Europe will introduce the norms according to which automakers will be required to have a lineup, which has an average level of not more than 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer. And since no one thinks how much Audi sold hybrids the indicator is calculated on average by the model range, regardless of demand, the presence of several hybrid models can easily fit into the strict requirements of the European Union. But if you want benefits for yourself, and not for the Audi brand, then take a diesel. He is cool. Operation of the total mileage of the car, 15957 kilometers from the beginning of the dough, 1732 kilometers of fuel consumption, liters per 100 kilometers 10.6 Source: Motor magazine [March 2013]
