Test drive Audi RS6 2002 - 2004 sedan
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Erashesh should be pronounced on exhalation. Sitting behind the wheel - on inspiration. Meet: new supercar. Audi RS6 Avant. I inhaled the cold October air, furtively closed my eyes, turned and, opening the gas, looked at the monster for the first time.
There was no monster. Outside the window of the car dealership, through the drizzling rain, a profile of a rather ordinary, very bourgeois manner is visible. Well, who does not know him: the station wagon Audi A6, the steppe and practical, except that painted in a silver-steel color, rare for gamut of sheds. However, on Quattro GmbH you will be painted in such a color ...
Still, a monster. The presentation of the car at the 2000 Paris Motor Show was more than modest. Probably, in this way, Audi wanted to emphasize that the characteristics of the car and its appearance in the model line of the concern do not need presentations.
So, RS6 is by no means tuning, since factory engineers and designers from their native quattro division worked on the machine. The exterior underwent minimal changes: the black grilles of the radiator and the rear bumper, the false pipe pipes and the minimum pads on the doors and thresholds, visually slightly lowering the car, but still do not make the road clearance lower than, say, the same civilian Audi A4.
The interior also did not undergo special changes - this is all the same richly equipped with minimal signs of the breed: recaro seats with logos, black as a night, an instrumental panel with a speedometer, digitized up to 310 km/h, all over the thresholds and steering wheel with those with those The same inscriptions RS6. Traditional transmission buttons on the steering wheel are replaced with original knuckles with icons + and-.
But the main thing is the filling. A well-known V8 V8 engine is supplemented by two high-pressure turbines, and this not only gave an increase in power up to 450 hp, but also provided a fantastic torque of 560 nm at 1950 rpm. The transmission of all this herd of horses occurs through a 5-speed automatic with a manual mode Tiptronic, borrowed from the Audi A8 6.0 and capable of adapting to the driver’s driving. The drive is already traditional for Bavarian cars - Quattro with a self -locking differential torsen. Over the incomplete five seconds, all this farm is gaining speed of 100 km/h, in twenty seconds-200. 18-inch low-profile wheels and specially designed brakes are also responsible for acceleration and braking.
Drain the water. It is strange that for a car worth $ 100 thousand, there was not enough rubber rugs. That is, in principle, they are, but in the store they cost about $ 75 - a mere trifle. Therefore, we left the cabin, putting on the dark velor shameful sheets of paper with the image of human feet. Well, at least the inscription of the leg is missing. Here we need to write something like: a light press on the gas pedal, and .... it was not there. On that day, in a narrow alley where the car dealership is located, a huge truck truck did not share the road with Skoda, and for ten minutes we frantically twisted the steering wheel back and forth, handed over backwards and in front, just to go around this cork. Behind all these worthy classes, I somehow forgot about which car I food-at a speed of 5 km/h RS6 behaves absolutely the same as an ordinary Audi station wagon.
And like any other car, RS6 must be seasoned with fuel. We did not have it. From the first second, the computer showed a range of 10 km at an average consumption of 40 l/100 km, and when we reached the nearest gas station, the threatening number 0 shone on the display. Naturally, drain occurred at the gas station.
We took a chance and quietly trudged over a long bridge. They say that there is a gas station and 98th gasoline. We were overtaken even by bulls and Aleo. We rode in an average row on a car that could accelerate to hundreds in 5 seconds, and dreamed not to stand shamefully in the middle of the road. We rolled to the gas station already on the neutral. There was gasoline there, cheers.
Burbo. A good thing is the third transport ring. If anyone does not know, there are completely completed, but not open segments on it. Apparently, our mayor-builder did not bless them, and therefore you can get there for a very moderate fee and ride at all loneliness with any speed. So. Internally preparing, click for the first time for gas ...
We were very surprised that nothing happened, and the car is already driving at a speed of twenty meters per second. There was a feeling that in these seconds, as in a time machine, you were simply transferred from one point of speed to another. No clutch, switching, convulsive compression of the steering wheel, the effect of turboyam. A car weighing 1650 kg simply took and flew. He flew without a tear, like some kind of Boeing in Sheremetyevo. Without pathos, without thunder and lightning, but simply, almost vertically - to Zenith. Our planes, they say, are also trying to take off like that, but it turns out not very.
The steering wheel also suddenly sank simply and naturally, the turbines began to sing along, and with them the volume of the Bose acoustic system increased. The feeling was about the same as if suddenly, sitting in the bed of an opera theater, the ticket unit, imperceptibly put on you a virtual helmet with a stereo -edition and turned on the Dolby Surround hidden until then. The machine has completely no desire to go into a turn, characteristic even of sportsmen with a special suspension. The DRS (Dynamic Ride Control) system, first used on the six, works mechanically, without any electronics. Oil from a special central distributor is almost instantly distilled towards those racks that are prone to roll. The car is without exaggeration on the road.
Supercar. Stunning comfort, not characteristic of machines with similar dynamic characteristics, smoothness in mode D and ease of steering, an abundance of assisting electronics and huge potential put RS6 in a special place. No other car combines the power and speed of a sports car with dimensions and the comfort of a family station wagon. You can forgive a high price and a huge fuel consumption.
There are no RS6 analogues in the world. As you know, Mercedes and his AMG unit did not yet introduce E-Klasse in the station wagon, and the BMW M5 was never performed in the modification of Touring. According to the power characteristics with the Audi RS6, only the updated six-hundredth S-Klasse Biturbo with an engine similar to what is installed on Maybach can be compared. But this, as you know, is a completely different story.
Text Alexander Fedorov, photo Alexey Ilyin.
Model/Modification Audi RS6 Avant Quattro
Manufacturer/country Audi AG/Germany
BODY
Type station wagon
Number of doors/places 5/5
ENGINE
The type of gasoline with forced ignition, two turbochargers and a double air cooling system
Front location, longitudinally
Working volume (cubic cub) 4172
Number/location of cylinders 8/V-shaped
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 331 (450) at 5700-6400
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 560 at 1950-5600
TRANSMISSION
The permanent drive is full, self -locking differential torsen, electronic locking of the differential EDS through the inhibitory effect on all leading wheels
SUSPENSION
The front/rear is independent spring, on double transverse levers, a transverse stability stabilizer/Independent spring two -leaf, transverse stabilizer
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster
Min. The diameter of the turn (m) 11.4
Brakes
Front/rear circular ventilated
ABS 4-channel, EBV brake force distribution system, ESP stabilization electronic program
Dimensions/volumes/weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4852/1850/1452
Wheel base (mm) 2759
Clearance (mm) 104
Own mass (kg) 1880
Trunk capacity (L) 455/1590
Tires 255/40 R18
Alloy wheels, 8.5j x 18
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 250 (limited by electronics)
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 4.9
Economy
Average fuel consumption (l/100 km) 14.6
Fuel tank capacity (L) 82
The price in Moscow from $ 100 thousand.
Additional equipment and special equipment
Additional CD chamber in the trunk for 6 CDs $ 400
Cast aluminum discs, size 9j x 19 are not on sale in Moscow
Winter wheels with cast aluminum discs and tires 225/45 R18 with the possibility of installing anti -excess circuits $ 1180 (pcs.)
Luke's lid in the roof with the air cooling system in the $ 200 cabin
Rubber rugs $ 75 per set
Rubber rug in trunk $ 55
The steering column with an electric regulatory in height and inclination, an automatic system for facilitating landing and landing $ 960
Multifunctional steering wheel with controls and heating $ 650
GSM automobile phone, built into the armrest, loudstream device $ 260
Navigation voice control system, phone and audio system is not on sale in Moscow
A source: "Autopilot"
