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Audi A8. Traditions and ambitions
Audi A8. Price: not defined. On sale: from April 2010 Top model with athlete data? Or a terrible dream or an even more terrible yawa. If only it is not about Audi A8. With traditionally light aluminum body and magnificent Motors flagship really can ask the heat. No wonder in Ingolstadt, the new eight even read the title of the most sports sedan of the representative class!
Test pilot
Dmitry Tyatyuchenko, 34 year old, car journalist, driving experience 15 years, personal car - Jeep Wrangler
What does not kill us, makes stronger. Nietzsche The statement is celestial, but often just and relevant. And in the modified version, Audi is also perfectly projected on the new flagship: if A8 does not fight, the amount of innovation, the internal forces addly beyond any doubt. Here it is, invisible communication times
Characteristic, by the way, for Audi. Today, Ingolstadt Brand is perhaps the only brand in the premium segment, which is not amenable to provocative experiments and holy honors. The tribute to the company's own past is especially noticeable on the example of the representative sedan. The developers of the new Audi A8 managed not to miss the classical thread that connects the third eight with the previous generations of the model. The recognizable silhouette of the body with a familiar slope of the racks and the surname grille of the radiator confidently refer to both ancestors even against the background of numerous innovations.
And innovations really quite a lot. One completely diode optics what is worth! The rear lights received a single form with other representatives of the model range, and the headlights learned more and a lot. They adjust the intensity of the distance light with the camera in the cabin recognizing the oncoming transport. They perform a fog-functional function. The familiar fog in the bumper was taken by the adaptive cruise control sensors. But most importantly, they are directly related to navigation! The headlights light turns in advance on the route laid and are included in those places where necessary, without the participation of the driver. In close connection with the navigation system, the cruise and the ACP are also consisting, the settings of which are automatically changed in accordance with the conditions of movement. Firing!
MMI menu can be traveled rather quickly using the wheel on the center console. Music and DVD, telephone and even access to the Internet through a cell phone is all literally at hand, which you just need to fill a little. And you can find out the road at all, in writing your finger! Laptops with touchscreen saw? The same. Slightly above the selector of the automaton draws the touch screen. Without breaking the eye from the road, draw the letter (in the MMI menu there is a Russian language), the navigation system votes duplicates the drawn and displays the name of the corresponding settlements to the central 7-inch display. Chose and go ahead!
Electric drives, electric drives in the cabin they respond almost for all operations, reducing the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe manual and quietly controlled by the tips of the fingers. However, since most of the settings are stitched in MMI, there is no abundance of the buttons here and in risen. Therefore, it is not necessary to understand what is not particularly accomplishment. The exception is perhaps only the adjustment of the front seats. With wide, as the country is my native, the range: the ribs are inflated the backs, an explanatory sideboard, sidewalls pillows and the shoulder sector. Massage function option. Pleasant and useful. For example, for the body's cheerfulness that the duplicating smoothness of the AUDI A8 move is capable of planting.
One of the first to Russia will arrive a 350-strong 4,2-liter diesel engine. According to the manufacturer, the city consumption of eights with such an engine must barely hand over 10 liters per hundred. Looking for killer torque figures of 800 nm, you believe in it much weaker than in 5.5 second acceleration to 100 km / h. And when Newton Meters mercilessly fell on the back of the head, faith finally comes off. The dynamic explosion is easily digested with a 8-speed automaton, quickly and timely selecting the necessary transmission. But when accelerating the effect of the shot dissolves in a smooth, albeit, an increase in the rate of driving. However, neither a gram of discomfort during overtaking this feature does not deliver.
A responsive accelerator feels the slightest change in foot pressure, and the sharp steering wheel transmits reliable information about the road. But it is worth transferring the dynamics control system from Dynamic to a comfortable mode, as Audi A8 calms down. The elasticity and sharpness of the steering wheel disappear, the gas pedal loses the liveliness, the collected suspension relaxes, and the car envelops you with super-comfortable comfort. Driving
The car Multidigl: Riding varies from the pepperborn, bordering the nervousness, to a fitting smoothness.
Salon
Contrary to expectations, the rear passengers here are far from free. Foot places are just enough.
Comfort
Suspension omnivorous: Only small irregularities are felt in the cabin.
Safety
The preventive protection system analyzes the road environment and in case of risk of collision, the security means in advance.
Price
Unspecified.
Love not love
The rear sofa is integrated for two passengers. The back and seat cushion are adjustable separately. Pleasantly
The MMI system has extensive entertainment and communicative features. Emko
Dimensions, turn signs, near-distant lights, fog light headlights are completely consisting of diodes. Bright
Advantages and disadvantages
+ Dynamic appearance, highly efficient motor, energetic machine, technological saturation, high quality assembly, prestige.
- Places on the rear seats are less than you expect.
Specifications
Brand and Model - Audi A8 4.2 TDI Quattro
Dimensions - 5137x1949x1460 mm
Engine - diesel, 4134 cm3, 350 liters. s. / 4000
Transmission - 8-speed, automatic
Dynamics - Max 250 km / h; 5.5 s to 100 km / h
Competitors - BMW 7-Series, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Lexus Ls
Our opinion
The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe representative sedan was the adaptability. The ability to adapt to the preferences of its owner and road conditions and used to be characteristic of the model. But the range of capabilities of the current generation Audi A8 is incomprehensibly expanded. In addition, none of the competitors can still boast such a diesel in Russia!
Posted by: Dmitry Tyatyuchenko
A source: Magazine 5 Wheel [March 2010]
