Audi Allroad 2000 test drive - 2006 SUV

WOMAN'S HAPPINESS

It so happened that in Russia women are driving or very large cars - so large that, like the central safe in the Swiss bank, to guarantee the safety of the main contribution - or very small cars. So small that, as the writer Parker joked, another centimeter less and a passenger more, and will reach adultery. Maria Golubkina, as befits a person closely related to the autopilot, demonstrates originality and prefers Audi Allroad - a car far from extremes and the sophisticated motorists of both sexes close in spirit. We entrusted her with comparing the old and new versions of Allroad.
Vertical races. The phone call belongs to the category of such that they lead to microinfarct. A voice belonging to the haste balances on the verge of hysterical scream: well, where are you? And where should I be, how not at home? I sit in my Kurkino and look forward to a calm family evening. And the voice immediately breaks into a scream: what, to Eskren-Matrena, a family evening? You have a performance today!
From my house to the Satire Theater, where I work (and where I had to cope with the main role in the apple thief in that acceptable evening), a little less than 20 kilometers. And at the disposal I have a little more than 20 minutes. It is unrealistic, - concludes any motorist, imagining the capital named after Yuri Mikhailovich, a model of the early 21st century on a weekday at 18.40. And yet I did it. On the flag, as chess players would say. On the third, last call, as is customary in the theater. But at seven o’clock with a small trifle, I was already behind the scenes.
It seems to me that such a miracle with any other car would be impossible. At least, I would get stuck in endless Moscow snowdrifts and traffic jams. It’s scary to talk about the maximum. Shock turned me and my car into a fire spreading in space at a speed of 140 km/h. But I did not break, although I can’t - enough for the family of one scorch - so extremely to ride. And I never go like that. Never, except then. I saw how fragile ladies were careful behind the wheel of huge SUVs. How they glided on a liquid substance called antellaries, and small -leafs fought. And what bitter tears were dripping on insurance policies. I would pour tears to me. When a person, having caught out of the right row, suddenly stood up as if they were dug in my strip. I still do not understand how I stayed on the road and how I stopped millimeters from this obstacle that had fallen from the moon. Thanks to Audi Allroad.
Jack for Cinderella. Quattro drive is a great thing. I can’t explain how he helps and why it is worse without him, but intuitively (how any woman intuitively feels that the child hides some kind of secret or her husband at work has come into work) I understand his dignity. And then, before Allroad, I had six Audi, and the comparison, of course, is not in favor of the latter. As our driver aptly and humroly put it, when four years ago brought from the Alload cabin, this car was on Darog as sparkled.
The new Allroad, on which I had a chance to ride on a test in Italy, it seems to me that he is even more reliable for the earth's firmament. Either the QUATTRO drive has become more complete, or the engineers have worked tightly with ESP and EDL electronic systems, or just our roads are better than ours, but the fact is evident. On the other hand, on the off -road, a new car will probably be worse than the old one. I don't say this empirically. I admit, I heard excited the smart opinions of experts from a pool of automobile journalists. I myself, apparently, have only to convert millimeters of the road clearance into some conditional emotional units. On the one hand, you think, before, the car could be raised by 208 mm, and now only by 185 mm. Like nonsense. On the other hand, well, as somewhere, you will tear something along the way because of these insignificant values. I am actually among active users. For me, 250 km per day is the norm. And more than 100,000 ran on a large counter for a long time. But the main thing is that the mileage of the car was combat, hiking. I have to travel a lot around the stables, construction sites and country-sites. In short, where not every car will pass and where the adjustable suspension is a good help.
With ALLROD, everything is different with the air suspension. On my, that is, old, the model is simple. I pressed a button with an arrow, the diodes were blinked, the process went. On the new design, I first did not find the suspension height adjustment buttons at all - he was still a reason for panic. But it turned out, she panicked early. Adjustments went to the MMI puck. I will not say that it became more convenient to raise the car and even more quickly. We have to turn on the built -in Bill Gates and delve into his insides for a long time. By the way, there was more suspension in one regime, which should please fans of technological progress and upset the simplicity lovers even in complex devices. But the screen with navigation in the new Allroad is just a magic in the spirit of Harry Potter. All you need is on the card to the click with a finger.
The screen, as is now customary, is multi -channel. On one of the channels they even show that you are going on behind you. This is when you turn on the rear gear and the rear view camera turns on. The camera is luxurious. This is not just some kind of door eye, as in our family example, where it is for the sake of not to crush the cat. Not, everything is very thorough here. This is directly the air defense in its ground version. On the display, even the hint is visible which trajectory of movement should be selected. But, I admit, these hints came to me just like Kaloshi fish. I am actually the queen of parking. I say without false modesty. On a cramped Moscow Piglet - leave in an inch on each side - I can squeeze easily and quickly enough. The nervous lifestyle affects. But I am already used to twisting my own locator, alternately looking into the side mirrors and large in the cabin. And with an assistant in the new Allroad, I was just lost. To understand and navigate this screen, you need at least four eyes.
The new Allroad, according to the tradition that has developed today, albeit a little, but more predecessor. 124 mm in length and 10 mm in width. The wheelbase is increased by 76 mm, in addition, the track is increased by 22 mm in front and 2 mm behind. The luggage compartment volume - 565 liters in working condition and 1660 liters - with folded backs of the rear seats.
The car is equipped with 17- or 18-inch discs with three design options: with 7 Rotor knitting needles, with 10 knitting needles and 5 Aero knitting needles. Adaptation to Russian conditions came down to the appearance of a protective casing of the motor and a change of weak antifreeze to a strong, designed for frosts to -35.
Audi A6 Allroad has ten options for coloring. One of them - gray Kondorgrau - is reserved only for Allroad and Q7. The eleventh kner, the blue Polarblau, which should appear in the second half of the year, was invented exclusively for Allroad.
Are the driven puffs shoot? NOT TRUE!
I said that I would change my old Allroad to a new, even before that test drive. Changing cars is normal. They are changed not because the former is bad, but the new is so irresistible. But because even ideals are boring. Audi Allroad - both new and well -familiar. He is so fresh that it seems different. Although after the week I tried to remember the trifles of what was in the car of another in the car. Everything is practically the same. Unless the lever of the box and everything around it changed significantly. And the form is as if different, and the materials are unusual. At first I even thought that there was a mechanic in a test car. Not that I do not like mechanics, but I somehow forgot about it. Since then, I have been unlearned in a driving school, where everyone has to puff and puff over the switching of the VAZ poker. To the machine, whatever you say, you get used to it, like a television remote control. And the Purists, tenaciously holding on to the mechanics, like an unfinished symbol of automotiveism, seem to me by hypocrites. Maybe they are ready to throw the remote control into the trash? I doubt. If amenities are at hand, why transfer them to the yard?
It also seemed to me that the new Allroad was more spacious. They say that 630 kg can be inserted on it. In my car, by the way, I calmly load both the saddle, and the harness, and the bucket, and the feed of the car. No, true, truth. The other day I fitted six 25-kilogram bags, two saddles, two boxes with horse sprays and shampoos plus a box of water for a favorite mow. Or maybe I just want AlloD to become more and more powerful. Although, judging by the technical characteristics, he is quite able to drag not only the load on board, but also the two -ton trailer. I'm just thinking about buying a horseback.
What I really liked relative to the cargo compartment: on one of the test cars there was a magical option - the opening and closing of the trunk door from the key. My partner by a test drive assured that the key can be programmed so that the lid would rise to a certain height. Miracle. What I did not like was all the same and the goodbye that was found there. I hoped that there would be a real reserve in the new car. This is not a whim. There were simply cases when it was necessary to go far, and I had to reach the tire fitting.
I also came to the fact that the new Allroad would become multi -colored. In the sense that the choice of kalra will be richer. Here my car has a gray color, that is, silver. And he is so from hopelessness. When I chose a car for myself, I had practically no choice. The dealer’s cars were only black (for officials), red (for aggressors) and green (like longing). Now not what before. In the park of test machines, it was full. So this hope was justified.
 
Through the MMI control terminal, the Audi Allroad driver can change the height of the road lumen within 60 mm and choose one of the five modes of air suspension - Dynamic, Automatic, Comfort, Alload and Lift. Dynamic mode for sports driving with the lowest planting of the car - the road clearance is 125 mm. When traveling to the Automatic body, the body rises by 15 mm, however, at a long ride at speeds above 120 km/h, it again lowers into its original position. With Comfort, the body rises and remains higher above the road at 15 mm even at high speeds. Road clearance in Allroad - 175 mm, but the car drops by 15 mm, if the threshold of 80 km/h is exceeded, and 20 mm at 120 km/h and faster. The maximum clearance is 185 mm in the Lift position, from which the machine returns to Allroad at speeds above 35 km/h.
AND IT'S ALL. ABOUT HIM. Surprisingly, I have never seen women driving Audi Allroad. From here I have a Napoleonic complex - yes I am so alone! So I am 100 percent sure that I will exchange my old car for a new Allroad on the trad-in. But it will definitely be with a diesel engine. Of course, I am pleased that due to the high prices on Urals and Brent, crispy invaluis flows in the bins of the Motherland, but I do not agree that this currency is flowing out of my bins with terrible force. No matter how much I asked the masters in the car service to reduce the gluttony of my car, I never asked. They say everything is normal. But these are abnormal norms. The economy should be economical. Enough to shimmer. And the number of L.S. I do not care. I don't think about them. It is enough that Nikolai thinks about it.

Text Maria Golubkina, photo Audi AD, Photoxpress

Audi Allroad
 
Gasoline engine 4.2
V8 FSI gasoline 3.2
V6 FSI diesel 3.0
V6 TDI diesel 2.7
V6 TDI
Working volume (cubic meter) 4163 3123 2967 2698
Power (L.S. at rpm) 350 at 6500 255 at 6500 233 at 4000 180 at 3300
Moment (Nm at rpm) 440 at 3500 330 at 3250 450 at 1450 380 at 1400
The permanent drive is complete
Automatic gearbox 6-speed Tiptronic, mechanical 6-speed
Length/
width/
height (mm) 4934/1862/1519
Wheel base (mm) 2833
Equipped mass (kg) 1820 1750 1820 1820
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.3 7.2 7.5 9.3
Maximum speed
(km/h) 250 242 231 215
Fuel consumption (l/100 km) 11.2 11.2 8.4 8.7
The base price in Moscow ($) 96 706 76 019 no data no data

 

A source: "Autopilot"