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Range Rover Evoque against Audi Q3

Premium powerful compact crossovers like Range Rover Evoque and Audi Q3 are not ready to get along in one segment. Everyone give your niche ... It seems that the marketing departments of automotive companies are not suitable anywhere.

Well, how can I put Range Rover Evoque in one row with Audi Q3, calling this company premium segment? Blatant absurdity. However, this thought came to us in the back. At first, we were innocently believed to the market kinship of these car shower and took them on a comparative test drive, which is not thinking about anything in advance.

Snake is just what you usually arrange in urban stream

Wheels palaces
As soon as I sat down in Evoque, instantly understood without any doubt: there are no man in the world, which would choose between this little Range Rover and the German car. The Germans make cars, and we love them for it. How much do they eat inside the Audi, you will not find anything except self-devoid crew. There are some details! The British are also not the latest people in the engineering Olympus, but we respect them for others. For example, for magical abilities to attach the wheels to the palaces. You can turn the royal apartments upside down, but the internal combustion engine is not detected. Only silk shouting. How the Renge goes on it, do not ask.

Eternal Seishn.
Stay all day in the club atmosphere very tiring

Red risks. Fighter-motorcycle devices

Multimedia. The screen is sitting low

Sofa for two.
Despite the modest size of the car, there is spacious

New Tumbler automatic transmission.
This brilliant washer is amused, annoying, infuriates

But we turn to the specifics. Evoque, of course, not Versailles. Rather, the night club Buckingham. Dream of Pozerov and Fashion Tusovers. There are two versions of the origin of its appearance. First construction. On the usual Reng, standing in the courtyard of the design studio, fell concrete slab. She was raised and saw Evoque. The second is more prosaic. The designers took the bottom from Freelander, and the top was granted from Mini (the benefit of the drawings of the kid roofs from them from those times when BMW owned Land Rover). As for the appearance of the Q3, it is still like to write about it that to squeeze on the topic of an equally sized triangle.

At the table you will not be smoldering
Evoque machine small. It just does not seem that it was originally designed as the usual participant of the CD. This is an old familiar big range, only pressed. Devices, buttons, handles and other interior details are all huge. The massive front panel hangs over me. I sit in it and feel like a child in adult felt boots. Audi also sibling the senior brothers Q7 and Q5. But it looks absolutely independent, created again from scratch. The insides correspond to external dimensions. Neither his eyes nor the psyche gives anything.

Dominant deflectors.
Disgusting huge air ducts give to all other interior elements

Style classic. White on black optimal solution for instruments

On high. The location of the screen is just perfect

- Double grip. This type of box for today is the most smart

- Places for viewers. The rear row is modest than the opponent

For a few hours, I resisted Evoque restaurant and club Aura, reinforced red and black interior trim, but then surrendered. What would do with you? Change floor. Buy a bag made of glossy skin and a coupling case for a cellular. Throw on the seat Vogue magazine, start smoking and jamming a spicy perfume. I'm afraid of all this I can not even do in the next life.

But Q3 does not require anything from me. Although a subtle attempt to adjust my personality is still present. As in the apartment where nothing attracts attention, and from signs of luxury only barely a nice vensel host on napkins. And no, the whole style is set, you will not be wait at the table.

Saving.
On the credit exercises, Audi led cheap tires

Like drunk.
If Evoque has gone from the trajectory, then finally and irrevocably

Sign devils
In the nightclubs, everything is usually in the best case intenseva. In the same way, with time, you begin to feel yourself in Evoque. The first time is funny, but then tires. Range Rover confirms its alcohol orientation. Drag racing ended for the British with a complete failure. The German broke it easily and easily in all possible modes of ordinary, sports, manual. According to the passport, Q3 gets to hundreds for 6.9 seconds, and Evoque for 7.6. Then we moved to the snake. God, how did the EVOQue! If he came from the trajectory, then finally and irrevocably. Demolished completely. Shouter and accurate Audi, it would seem, in the most hopeless situation allowed himself to straighten and gently turn around the cones. Range Rover's swaying gait did not leave any chance of revenge.

However, skins are devilized on uneven ice crust, and there was a positive circumstance for the British: his suspension is much softer. However, it is natural: any Range Rover is softer any Audi. However, surprise was still waiting for us. Ivan compared the data from its devices and found that Evoque won on the snake. He did not have to win in any way, but did it like a drunk tractor driver, which masterfully fits into the gate of the barn with a gap of two millimeters.

In the town. I choose Audi, but it seems too boring to many, because they do not understand ...

Without preservatives
In the case of 2-liter gasoline turbomotors, the advantage of the Range Rover in front of the Audi is extra 29 horsepower. In the rest of the German genius ahead. The modest Q3 is equipped with a speedy and efficient seven-speed transmission of the robot type. The chassis is configured so that the hints are listening, without waiting for the pins. The steering wheel perfectly combines softness and response. Evoque behaves as if he is much heavier than Audi. Its power plant includes a less damned six-speed automatic. Vallaja suspension, fog steering wheel. Inside the German, everything tries to help you. You want to run into the seat of the belt itself falls into the hand and it is conveniently snaps. Throw in a hurry mobile to the central tunnel and the phone itself rolls to helpful gloves. British little concern such little things. Evoque driver observes how after pressing the start button from its groove, as if the rocket from the mine, the automatic transmission switch leaves, and then suffer the unusual switching algorithm. This washer behaves strangely, and I generally arose an illusion that she hesitated. I traveled at the three-door version and, when I wanted to sit on the passenger series, I understood: it's easier to sleep in the subway than on the rear seats Evoque. One hand movement, as it usually happens in other three-dimensions, can not do. We must wait until a unhurried electric drive will move the seat.

I am sure that Range Rover Evoque will find its buyers among lovers to relax in the summer in neon basements in the center of the city (the good of the queue is already painted for him a year). But the connoisseurs of the car in its pure form, without artificial dyes and preservatives, will be chosen Audi Q3. The question is, there are many connoisseurs of the unmandant drive among customers of compact crossovers.

Caution, technical details
The Audi is equipped with a 7-speed Tronic gearbox with double grip, which allows you to hardly track the behavior of the machine with the help of the right pedal. Hydromechanics Range Rover is also very good, but this feature does not give. Electronic stabilization systems are equipped with both cars, but Audi allows a little more.

Independent suspension bearing bodies and dimensions do not make these two crossover similar. The full drive system from Land Rover is traditionally tuned to high permeability. And the Quattro transmission, on the contrary, is designed to ensure the dynamics of overclocking and controllability on slippery surfaces. When there is a risk of sketching the wheels of one of the axes, the torque distribution function through the handout and the Haldex clutch directs the moment on the axis having a more dense coating contact, or even on a separate wheel. As a result in the deep snow, Audi is experiencing some difficulties and begins to be stopped earlier than having relatives in the Range Rover all-terrain clan. On the slippery road there is a reverse Englishman seems more heavy and does not allow playing a classic rally pilot, giving a sense of car loss much earlier than a German descendant of sports cars.