Audi Q5 test drive since 2008 SUV

A quarter to seven

Crossovers are now in fashion. And the race for fashion competition is no less interesting than le-man. The main thing is not to lag: after the Audi-Q7, the average size Q5 has been released. Anatoly Fomin ripened to his presentation. Photo by the author and audi.
The test drive had to be finished by six. I was late and drove the car without a quarter seven. However, the presentation still began later and not through my fault. But without a quarter, seven became a magical number.
TWO BY TWO
Two engines of two types: two gasoline, two diesel, four or six cylinders. Let's figure out which one is better? We probably will have a popularity of 3.2 liters, 265 horses. A solid, direct injection, automatic transmission S-Tronic (with two clutches, in the girlishness of DSG, Direkt SCHALT GETRIEBE). From a traffic light in the forefront! Come on, hetristovna, switch faster, do not twitch! Less than 7 C to hundreds promised! And if you judge in European, mindful of a calm pension life and global warming? We take a two -liter diesel consumption of less than 7 liters. If you stroking the right pedal especially tenderly, then at five to fit. At the same time, 170 forces and maximum speed for 200. But saving is available only with six -speed mechanics, and therefore will not work in the metropolitan metropolis. In Europe, on the contrary, everyone is confident in the gluttony of the car with a machine gun, so the economical version will not be taken with a pen.
Let's get back to gasoline. Here is a star 2-liter TFSI, four times the engine of the year. In the fifth year, he reached 211 hp. And he became even better. The full capacity is demonstrated from 4300 to 6000 revolutions, a torque of 350 N.M from 1500 to 4200 rpm, and the average consumption is 8.5 l/100 km. It spins like crazy and does not buzz (it is not for nothing that two balancing shafts have!), Always pulls, eats moderately. Good in a sports compartment, and in a brush hatchback, and in a fashionable crossover. And Shvets, and the reaper, and on the exhaust pipe in the euro v Game. It is a pity, the character is not enough.
So the six -cylinder three -liter diesel remains the brightest. It works as quietly as a smaller counterpart, but in combination with a seven-speed S-tone guarantees an impressive acceleration at any speed allowed on European roads and is found on domestic ones. Alas, the gasoline engine, although more powerful, but by torque loses one and a half times, that is, the car goes quickly, but does not bullet. And with this diesel is inferior a little in the maximum clip, but in the acceleration from the average revolutions the leader. With an eye on the consumption and completely non -alternative. My choice is made!
Rice for Paelia
Around Valencia, Fig. In the banned river delta, it grows remarkably. There is even its own variety, large Valencian, round, and not oblong, like Asian. It is prepared from it to Paeli resembles pilaf, but with local specifics. However, Paelia will be for dinner, but for now it’s more important that excellent asphalt paths are laid between rice fields. Narrow, with uncomfortable sharp turns, sticking out crossings through irrigation pipes, without the side of the cross -country lover's dream! The main thing is that in the rice you can’t get there just overcoming the Audi-Q5 half a meter of ford, but with a viscous bottom. Such a tractor will only overcome!
To begin with, I'll deal with the buttons on the console. Dynamic, comfortable and automatic modes are offered. I refuse the latter, if only because in a couple of hours it is hardly possible to understand all the logic of electronics. Pressing the button changes not only settings of shock absorbers, but also the steering amplifier, and the response to the gas pedal, and the algorithm for the operation of the gearbox. Now I understand why the seventh -raising stubbornly did not want to turn on on the highway: in dynamic mode it was not involved. But in comfortable it helps to save diesel fuel from 1300 rpm.
Audi-Q5 is one of the lowest cars in the class of only 1.65 m. You do not have to be Gulliver to get something from the trunk on the roof. By the way, the stabilization system is quite capable of making adjustments to the car mounted on the roof with it much earlier will demand to stop experiments with a squeak of tires.
The difference between comfortable and dynamic modes is more noticeable on the steering wheel and in the operation of the gearbox. Contrary to expectations, the smoothness of the stroke and the rolls depend much less. Despite all the tricks of the designers, aluminum pendants levers and a low center of gravity, Audi is difficult to compete with BMW. Perhaps official indicators will be at the highest level, but the level of comfort interrupts emotions from the car. In a comfortable mode, Audi-Q5 is completely trying to resemble the older brother of Q7.
In the channel of a dried river, they did not dare to go down for a car with a long base, this will not pass without a trace at best. In the worst hang on the thresholds. The declared 200 mm clearance is enough for not very flat primer, but no more. The energy intensity of the suspension in any mode is sufficient to drive a bad road much faster than on an ordinary car. Standard suspension of 214 mm of the total stroke for compression and hanging in front and 230 mm behind. At present, it’s not bad, taking into account the imitation of differential blocking, this allows you to overcome the areas where one of the wheels hangs in the air. But it is better not to meddle on a seriously traveled primer, the tires are traffic. Audi all -wheel drive of a proprietary structure with an intended differential of increased friction. For him, an asymmetric distribution of torque was chosen: under normal conditions, 60%enters the rear wheels, and for the front 40%. This scheme provides more sports management on slippery coating.
There are more than enough electronic toys. The third-generation MMI multimedia system offers a couple of connectors for SD cards, USB2.0, Bluetooth and even a digital receiver for DAB programs. A processor with a clock frequency of 800 Hz and 40 GB is used, a part of the volume of which is given to the needs of navigation. In addition, the 500-meter-free signal processor is responsible for playing sound in 5.1 format and decoding DVD films. Improved graphic capabilities made it possible to add images of houses (even textures are provided for especially noticeable buildings) or topographic information. However, in vast rice fields, these possibilities are clearly redundant
Where does Audi-Q5 feel best? Of course, on a good road at good speed. There is silence in the cabin, in the steering wheel confidence, under the gas pedal, there are more than enough reserve. But if you eat rare passing cars, we do not fit in 7 liters. It turns out on average at least 10 liters. But on every dispersal there is such a wonderful feeling! By the way, the fuel in Europe fell by almost 10 cents. Trifle, but nice
On the clock without a quarter seven. It pursues me constantly. I remembered! Last year and the surroundings of Munich. Snow-white audi-Q7 with a powerful 4-liter diesel engine, narrow at a speed of 240 km/h of the Audi-Q5 Autoban tape with a 3-liter engine accelerates almost the same way. In general, Audi-Q5 without a quarter of Audi-Q7!
Audi Q5 for high technologies, comfort and dynamics is completely optional to pay buckets of fuel!
Leader Diesel
The three -liter diesel is serious. Twisting 500 Nm in the range of 1,5003,000 rpm is comparable to a 5-liter engine gasoline. Thanks to this, the Q5 accelerates to 100 km/h in 6.5 seconds, and the fuel consumption in a conditionally combined cycle (a third of the city and two -thirds of suburban driving) 7.7 l/100 km. Very good data for an almost two -ton car!
Anatoly Fomin
 
 


 

Source: The magazine "Driving"