Test Drive Audi Q3 since 2011 SUV

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Test Audi Q3.

The Germans brought a premium crossover to Russia the size of Qashqai. He is unobtrusive and calmed to the smallest detail. At the same time, it seems to be, but it is no matter ... the first time I saw Audi Q3 at the presentation in one of the fashionable metropolitan clubs.

Impressions made zero. Ordinary car. Emotionless. It is even somehow incomprehensible, why was it for the sake of her to rent a night entity with music. But then, when a crowd of invited party members poured into the club, and there were ten more journalists, everything turned out. Audi hoped to the contingent of buyers under the code name Trendsetters. I thought it was a breed of dogs, but there was legislators of fashion trends. Since the fashion is now complete crap, it is not surprising that these things are excited. Then I read the presentation materials and found that Audi also counts on childless pairs, on families with children to ten years, in addition, for people over fifty, who have already raised children, and still on unfulfilled men older than thirty, which, when choosing a car, pay Special attention to compact sizes and ... easy access to the car. Apparently, a press release wrote several people at once, as a letter to Uncle Fedor from Prostokvashin.

The German crossover 4.3 meters long cheerfully populates Russian drifts. Off-road is not afraid

The only thing that is really sorry is that Audi got rid of a permanent full drive

People Addict
The new German CD-crossover is suspiciously similar to one of the concepts of AvtoVAZ, shown by the public in the early 2000s, and then buried due to difficulties with management and finance. Perhaps, in addition, there is nothing about the appearance of Audi Q3. The same thing and inside it is not for that, all very much and nicely and pleasant. All emotions arise on the go. The four-cylinder gasoline engine produces 211 horsepower and disperses Q3 to 100 km / h in just 6.9 s. The maximum speed is 230 km / h. His mid-calm torque in 300 Newton-meters in a wide range of 1800 to 4900 rpm will have to be very welcome. The engine power is competently distributed to the seven-step automatic transmission gently, but persistently. However, if the client caught the plump, it moves to the bold impulses using the sport mode. I would call this regime addict. He causes instant addiction, and it is already impossible to refuse him.

The youngest Audi Parentar under Q3 code goes much better than the oldest Q7

Audi Q3 is gorgeous, as well as Q5 and A4 Avant and much better than Q7. I imagine what it will be with the stated five-cylinder gasoline engine 2.5 TFSI with a capacity of 300 liters. with.! The unit from the series you can not catch up. However, for quiet-style lovers, a million three hundred thousand rubles today offer a version with modest 170 horses (truth, with a manual box). Until hundreds, she gets for 8.2 with, which, put the hand on the heart, is also quite enough.

Nothing drank
Whatever the version you prefer, you will always get Audi. What does it mean? I have already spoken at the beginning: the mechanism about which at first glance little can say. In Audi cars, figuratively speaking, nothing sticks out. All elements of the machine are so thought out that they do not attract unnecessary attention. BMW is similar to Orangutan and literally yelling on you. Mercedes Pure Narcissus ignores you at all. Volvo is obsessively caring. Only Audi behaves like perfection: it is, but it is not. Perhaps it was in him who found its incarnation with a clean German car genius. The hand of engineers touched everything, including smells and sounds. But the basis of the basics of the body. In it, 74 meters of glue seams (an additional factor that increases rigidity). The most complex compounds of the seams around the drain along the luggage compartment, between the sidewall and the roof, the inner parts of the doors are welded with a laser. There are already manageability, as well as acoustics and comfort, reducing the level of vibrations and noise in the Audi Q3 salon is achieved thanks to the exact coordination of the resonant frequencies of the body, external parts and embedded components. Special attention designers paid noise and vibration insulation of all areas where direct contact of people with a car, in the seating area, floor and steering wheel arise. All this can be felt, but, of course, not immediately. On our roads too many distracting factors. Pits, cracks, traffic jams and so on.

Speedometer: Figures small and it is not in the center ...

Permanent merged
Audi Q3 is almost perfect on asphalt, but quite not bad in the snow. At first I mentally pulled the constant four-wheel drive Quattro we have been convinced many times in his infallibility. But it turned out that in this compact crossover, a regular electronically controlled multid-wide coupling with a hydraulic pump is hidden under the Quattro branded logo. The weather did not allow us to climb into a more or less decent off-roud, but most likely replacing a permanent full drive connected on this small easy crossover with a powerful engine is not so critical. The manufacturer itself climbs into the field does not call, counting on that the buyer in his will is hardly eats into a serious dirt.

LCD screen is located correctly at the highest point

It is the size of Qashqai, but rather spacious. In the back row and in the trunk there is enough space. Quick, perfectly managed and comfortable. It smells wonderfully inside, because even the manufacturer has seriously taken care of this, and stands by the standards of premium-class of reasonable money. What else do you need?

- S-Tronic box with manual switching
- In Chulana. Headrest three, but in the middle I would not agree

On the limit. The two-liter motor gives 211 horsepower. It seems, Tkni his pin and he will explode

Caution, technical details
Audi Q3 will be supplied with two gasoline engines: 170 liters. with. With a 6-speed MCPP, as well as 211 liters. with. With a 7-speed S-Tronic gearbox. The most powerful versions of TDI and TFSI are standardly equipped with a 7-speed S-Tronic gearbox. The chassis Audi Q3 is a design with a 4-lever rear suspension, an electromechanical steering amplifier and wheels with a diameter of 16 to 19 inches. The four-wheel drive electronically connected, in its basis, as in most crossovers, a hydraulic multi-disc coupling.