Test Drive Audi RS4 Avant B8 since 2012 Universal

Holiday obedience

Audi-RS4 is positioned as quoting, machine for 365 days a year
For two hours, one and a half hundred kilometers, besides caring time to photography. In addition, the opposite rain, which always accompanies me on the presentations of Audi. And this is only half of trouble: I also got lost, and you can hit the navigation system with a navigation system and a unnecessary odometer. It is guilty myself, and you need to leave the position. I hope it will not be so difficult because in my hands a new Audi RS4. Well, cut out, buddy!

Alien among their
It seems here right here is one of the pink arrows who raised by the organizers. Would you know how long I was looking for her! But managed to meet this serious German, and he starts me like. For powerful, rather, even an inaccessible appearance with extended wheeled arches, low-profile tires on 18-inch discs, rear spoiler and pair of exhaust pipes hides a rather obedient car with a fitful character.
Audi RS4 is positioned as I quote, the car for 365 days a year. Here is one of the examples: the long gas pedal allows you to submore to the winding streets of Italian towns. Once again you are amazed, to which electronics can be able to further curb over four hundred stallions? Sorry, it accidentally fell out an important adjective of the car, but a sports car
Popular items ended, you can choose a little horses. Knowing that the system of electronic systems was built by an invisible shadow, ready to quickly correct errors, after all I will not give her herd full freedom. I take the gas at half and immediately I carry my leg on the brake, overlooking some slow fiat. Interestingly, RS4 does faster accelerated or slows down? And in that and another case, you feel the feeling that you will hang for a while over the expensive. Maybe the Spirit does not have time for the body? The dynamics of eloquently declare the figures of 100 km / h Audi RS4 reaches for 4.8 s, and the second hundred changes after another 12 pm.
... They specially paved the route along winding mountain paths to demonstrate the possibilities of a new charged sedan. The steering is not so sharp as accurate, and at any speed allows you to clearly prescribe turns. No, I will not go faster. Suddenly some Iveco hurt for the mountain?

In native element
The second part of the presentation is a Pirelli Polygon, where we have to try Audi RS4 on a test track. Separate areas are abundantly watered irrigation settings, others have dried a little after the rain. In one of the turns, I entered faster than you need. But the ESP 8.0 stabilization system did not have to fight for a long time. Worked clearly and, most importantly for a sports car, turned on at the most suitable moment. Electronics favorably allows the driver to independently return the car onto the trajectory, but the situation is threatened to exit from under control, the engine power drops and the brake drainage is distributed.
I will try to disable the smart and sensitive system. It seems that Audi's experts can customize not only electronics. Outside roads quickly and finally make sure in the exemplary behavior of the new RS4 chassis clear reactions to the steering wheel turns, good course stability, minimal rolls. True, the suspension differs not only by the characteristics of the shock absorbers and springs. Clien 30 mm is lower than that of ordinary A4, the front wheels are expanded by 37 mm, rear by 47 mm. In addition, at the request of the buyer at RS4, P-Zero Corsa Pirelli racing tires are installed with dimension 255/35R19.
Dynamic Riding Control DRC (Dynamic Ride Control) was first tried on RS6. Specialists from the company Quattro have improved the development, making it more compact and easier. Shock absorbers are connected diagonally hydraulic highways with a central valve. If you need to reduce rolls in turns or cracks during acceleration and braking, the valve is bypasses the liquid from one shock absorber to another. Clean mechanics and no electronics in our time when it seems on the processor approach in eraser and paper clips!
But the advantages of the chassis would not be so convincing without a new full drive. Like the predecessor model, the moments between the axes distribute the Torsen differential. By the way, again no electronics remove the hat. Now the new RS4 on the sobs has become more like a rear-wheel drive car, because it goes 40% of the torque, the remaining 60%. But if some wheels have been drunk, then Torsen can translate at least the whole moment on this axis. Nevertheless, the electronics grabbed a piece of cake over the distribution of moments between the wheels watches the EDS system, a slow-moving paging side.
I just studied the track and accustomed to the car, and the time of stay at the polygon has expired. Eh, sorry to part with Audi RS4. But it is not a risk of 365 days a year to ride for 365 days a year. The car is wonderful, he is really able to delight and arrange a holiday but after the holiday it is always better to relax.

 
 

Maxim Sachkov

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"