Audi Allroad 2000 test drive - 2006 SUV

Audi Allroad 12000 km

We have cars on the tests, which we feel sorry for parting. One of them is Audi Allroad.
 
By reason, we understand that a car is just a piece of iron, a set of components, mechanisms, wires and electronics. But you know what it is to part with the car, to which you are truly used to, whose behavior is friendly and predictable, which all this time served you faithfully and, it seems, has also become attached to you. Our Allroad is just that.
We were closely familiar with 12 thousand kilometers - a term that allows us to talk about the departed only well or nothing. We decided to recall the most vivid stories and situations from our half -year communication. So.
 
BODY. Well, shed. What can I say is true. It climbs one and a half cubic meter of the lining - verified. The standard Audi A6 station wagon with a certain number of decorative elements: the front grill, the extensors of the wheel arches, the moldings on the lower edges of the doors, supposedly protect the luggage compartment from the back ... but then how to look. The Audi concern consistently sells all its most charged cars in universal bodies. For example, the same RS 4 is a barn. And in the AlloD concept, kneading from utility, prestige and dynamism generally reached its climax. If you want, it is in this raisins. But about him below.
ENGINE. From the very beginning, we looked at the modification with a 2.7 liter gasoline power plant with a double boost of 250 hp. There is also a turbodiesel with direct injection, but we cannot judge it. As for the gasoline, we give only one characteristic of the acceleration dynamics - up to 100 km/h the machine accelerates by 7.7 seconds. In Moscow, there are a pair of tuning studio, which by chip tuning increase power to 360 hp! Well, as for the consumption of gasoline, this is the figure with which the owner may well come to terms, who allowed himself the car for $ 55 thousand - about 17 liters per hundred.
Suspension and transmission. The creative of Paris-Dakar, used in the image advertising of this all-terrain vehicle, is very good, and most importantly-is true. If the road clearance rushing on the highway has a road room - 142 mm, then the body can rise to 208 mm on the laundry. And the last figure will be respected even by desperate jeepers. A curious fact: Toyota, having made its Land Cruiser 100, did not dare to officially supply models with air suspension to the Russian market - I was afraid for the reliability of its work. The ALLROAD air suspension left the underbuilding of our car for the virgin - they never clung, even on rural inexpensive. In fairness, we note that after one desperate test drive in the system there was a glitch and this electronic error was erased on the service for five minutes.
As for the Tiptronic automatic transmission, in skillful hands it turns into a universal means of driving. In manual mode, its capabilities are almost similar to a mechanical checkpoint. An example of this is the rally practice of our Allroad.
Equipment and ergonomics. There is one drawback that we cannot forgive all Audi models of the 6th series-the central console is too close to the driver's right leg. But there is nothing to be done - a generic sign. As for the standard AlloD equipment, its simple transfer would take the magazine strip. We note only the particularly pleasant things that we got (a combined salon, alkantara leather, curtains on the rear doors, memory steering wheel, rubber) and which we lacked (memory for seats, an audio system with CD loading on the front panel).
SAFETY. Our car was opened, the ignition lock was broken and the front panel was stolen. But the immobilizer was saved - the car was not brought up or hijacked. Comments are superfluous.
             
Expenses: June 15 - December 10
AI-95 gasoline 20 343 rub.
Moika 6000 rub.
Incandesurge lamp 78 rubles.
Oil 0W 40 192 rub.
Winter tires Pirelli 215/60R16 $ 800
Alloy wheels, 4 pcs. $ 1100
Total: $ 2787
 

Source: "Autopilot"