Audi Q5 test drive since 2008 SUV

The best tandem

Today's testing test. We will not climb the crossover with roulette, check its cross -country ability or compare with competitors. The first acquaintance with the Audi Q5 took place in the city, but here he has something to show.
When accelerating, there will be a rapid pickup. Yes, only a turbodiesel can. Gasoline is a little wrong. If Audi, only diesel is you feeling the difference? The manager sat down deeper into the sports chair.
No, I did not feel the difference. What with a two -liter gasoline turbo engine, what with a three -liter turbodiesel, Audi is perceived the same: a fervent and intelligent bulletin.
You are least waiting for such a magnificent dynamics from the mid -size crossover, without shocks, jerks when switching and other charms of hydrotransformer automatic machines, but otherwise, the character of the car cannot be called as dynamic.
Yes, the Audi Q5 is perfect for the city. A good review back, thin front racks and a 20-centimeter clearance perfectly complement the workplace of the driver of the classic German cut and a spacious, comfortable second row. And the smoothness of the course is just a plague.
An independent in a circle, the suspension of the ku-fifth mainly remained the identical nozzle model A4, but some changes were made to the steering: to reduce vibrations on the steering wheel inherent in high cars.
However, this affected the information content of management, the clarity of the Audi Q5 reactions at an inaccessible height for many classmates. In addition, the crossover is available with the optional Audi Drive Select system, which allows you to play with the settings of the steering wheel and pendants.
When recruiting speed, the diesel is simply magnificent. His picking up is even, stretched, but powerful and tasty, so that the inhabitants of the salon remain pressed into gracefully defiled seats for a long time.
The maximum torque of half a fifty Newton per meter is already available from 1,500 rpm, and switching the robotic presetelic box S-Tronic is lightning and clear. We add here the testimony of the flow meter, which did not go out of 10 l of diesel fuel per 100 km, and it turns out that it is possible to control the power of the Ingolstadt crossover very economically
Needless to say, Q5 in the city is like a fish in water: it is good for him here. And I was not upset when the authorities limited our pokatushki with limits of the room. Because in advance I knew in a sturdy quagmire, Audi and I did not climb. This is the peculiarity of the S-Tronic boxes, direct relatives of the Volkswagen DSG: two clutches working in the Oil Bath Carter, under difficult conditions, are prone to overheating. This means that the slip, the movement in the interference and other off -road pranks will negatively affect the transmission.
Of course, you should not dramatize: the special oil in the clutch crankcase is designed for a significant removal of heat from rubbing steam, but the Audi engineers themselves indirectly confirm the q5 road purpose. Neither with the robot nor with a manual transmission in the crossover do not have reducing transmission or forced locks.
A ku-fifth product, of course, is purely commercial. It must be sold, most should like it. Compact crossovers are in the arsenal of most manufacturers, and they could not miss their piece of pie in Audi. But in any commercial product there should be a vein of spirituality: what will give emotions and make you not change once a chosen brand for a long time.
For Audi Q5, such a vein has become a tandem of perfectly configured motors and a robotic S-Tronic gearbox. Having tried to manage their coordinated work once, refusing in favor of something else it will be difficult.

Author: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Ostanin

 
   
 

 

Source: Wheel magazine [March 2009]