Audi Q5 test drive since 2008 SUV

Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLK

If you believe the colleagues who have already bombed the Stuttgart, the Mercedes-Benz GLK has no chance against the Audi Q5. So, let's start the beating of Mercedes? Usually the fight begins with a dispute: who is better than BMW or Mercedes?
Audi is remembered only in a lazy bush, and lastly, and only in connection with the Bavarian-Stgart duet, when they want to say: is not enough for BMW? Buy Audi! And serious journalists, making comparative tests, paint for a long time how cool the BMW turns, how the lateral acceleration holds, and at the end add that in the aggregate of qualities the Audi wins, although there were only two paragraphs before it: the first about that about it about it about it How bored he is, and the second that the devices shine well in the dark.
Permanent, complete, Germans
We wanted to push the BMW X3 and Mercedes GLK foreheads. But then I remembered the old film unlucky, where Gerard Depardieu tried to start a conversation: if you choose between BMW and Mercedes, and Jean Renault, having gripped his face, interrupted him: I ask, just about that. In order not to hear the same from readers, I had to replace BMW with Audi, especially since the Q5 has a constant all -wheel drive and structurally closer to GLK with its QUAIFE differential. All other premium-crossweants use all-wheel drive connected through the coupling as necessary.
And here are two Germans. Both with a constant drive on all wheels. Motors, although of different volumes of 2 liters and 2.8 liters, but the power is close to 210 liters. With. and 230 l. With. Parity, because the smaller Audi engine is complemented by a turbine.
I want that, I want it, I want everything!
Frost 18 degrees. I sit in Q5 and food, as inside the iceberg. The pedals are constrained. The decoration of the doors and the front panel was frozen. The aluminum body clenched. Involuntarily and I pulled my shoulders in my head, covered with goosebumps. An unheated transmission in the cold spoke with strange shocks on small gas. Audi is not installed an automatic machine, but a DSG system with two clutches. And on Mercedes a traditional automatic transmission, she did not suffer from frost, and in general GLK did not look frozen. The special difference between the warm and cold Mercedes was not noticeable. He does not have the poor chopped Audi that smoothness that Mercedes is so famous for, and he walks along a holey asphalt, like a piece of ice in an iron roof.
We will discard all the banality of Audi and Mercedes. What will remain? Mercedes relaxes. You get behind the wheel and feel the peace of mind and body. You are in no hurry anywhere. You love and respect everyone, this is not only about the participants in the movement, you will idolize GLK. Audi is completely different. He is like a slot machine. Performs all commands quickly and easily. Therefore, the car itself, as it were, remains in the shade, the main thing is the will of its owner. And you start: I want that, I want it, I want everything! You don’t even think: why? So the on -board computer writes that the average Audi speed during the test was 30 km/h, and Mercedes only 23.
I am against constant wishes, but when Audi is ready to fulfill all the requests, he does not stop him too hard. Therefore, Mercedes is more pleasant to me: a mechanism that does not need the praise of the owner. When you have Mercedes, there is only it. There is no bad asphalt. You are not traveling along the highway, you are inside Mercedes, and it doesn’t matter what outside the window. And when you sit in Audi, the road and the quality of its coating arise, and then endless desires begin to climb, which interfere with signs, marking and traffic police. If you want to become a psycho, buy Audi, and this will happen soon. Love to enjoy life take Mercedes.
 
 
Why come up with MMI joystick, then to tighten it with a million auxiliary buttons? It is clear that such a control algorithm has already trampled the fiasco
 
Why drink so many numbers in a speedometer so that they then read poorly. There should be only a few scs of: 60, 90, 110 and a signal bulb of a moron

Several times I ironed one cool turn (hairpin) in an attempt to find the limit. In the end, Mercedes brought the ass, and Audi almost flew sideways there in the fence. No, Audi is far from weak with a suspension and electronic assistants, on the contrary, his chassis is more sports than Stuttgart and is easier to turn. But how does it end? You imprison and then lie in the ditch on the roof. The car must indulge in all the best that is in a modern person, fear and laziness. Mercedes do so. Audi ignores the heights of the human psyche and develops excitement and the fees of the most vile vices.

Matter: Audi Q5

  

Material: Mercedes-Benz GLK
 
 

In the footsteps of the snowmobile
On both crossovers, you can safely ride in the snow, even deep. In Audi outside the road, press the descent button from the mountain and the ESP OFF-ROD mode. The Audi motor is amazingly elastic, the torque shelf begins at 1,500 revolutions. In that snowdrift, where you have the mind to call in, he will never get stuck. Even if the height of snow is slightly higher than the road clearance. Audi rides along a deep snow rut and overcomes the diagonal hanging of the wheels. But you always need to keep a place for acceleration, just in case. For a long time I stormed the snow hill to which snowmobile traces were led. Audi took the top for the third time. After some time, I drove up on Mercedes and climbed on the first attempt.
Aluminum Audi is light, but it is easier to go to Mercedes outside. Although the transmission is almost the same, the operation of the anti -boom electronics differs only in the nuances, and the geometric cross -country ability is approximately equal. But ask me: will I go to Audi in a sand career? No. He is shaking on the hillock, like a washing machine in an extending mode. And Mercedes floats like a longboat, and he also has an off-road package with a beautiful bottom protection (sorry, he was absent in a test car).
Rejoice what is
The layout of the devices and the entire front panel of both rivals illustrates only that they understand a lot about decoration materials, while Audi looks more adequate than price, and Mercedes saves only aluminum. But in ergonomics and security of the control buttons, both Germans do not understand a damn thing. For some reason, Audi believes that it is necessary to twist the temperature in one place, and look at another, and Mercedes just took and hid the climate twists almost under the front rug. The success of the MMI system illustrates the number of auxiliary buttons, the number of which is around the main joystick every year increases. The Mercedes Command is better, but also far from perfect. As automobile journalists like to say, everything is intuitively clear: for example, in order to just throw out the disk, you need to make 16 movements, half of which are fists on the screen in powerless anger on their own stupidity. If you want a premium rose-in-law, do not touch the climate and CD on the go. Rejoice at the temperature that is, and the music that already plays.
 
According to all the rules of our journalism, I must now conclude that Audi wins the totality of qualities ... if you measure opponents with a ruler, it is. Colleagues are right. I lost only the last line at school and in this test I have never used it.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [June /2009]