Test Drive Audi RS6 Sedan since 2008 Sedan
Reactive Sarai.
Erasshstright should be used in exhalation. Bear behind the wheel - in the breath. Meet the new supercar. Audi RS6 Avant. I breathed the cold October air, I snapped, turned around, turned around and, opening the gas, I looked at the monster for the first time.
Monster was not. Outside the window of the car dealership through the drizzling rain they could have seen a rather ordinary profile, a very bourgeois fellow gear. Well, who does not know him: Universal Audi A6, a power and practical, except painted in a rare shed of silver-steel sheds for gamma. However, on Quattro GmbH you and not in such a color paint the car ...
Still monster. The presentation of the car at the 2000 Paris Motor Show was furnished more than modestly. It is probably in this way Audi wanted to emphasize that the characteristics of the car and its appearance in the concern model line do not need presentations.
So, RS6 is not tuning, as factory engineers and designers from the native division of Quattro worked on the machine. The exterior has been subjected to minimal changes: black grids of the radiator and the rear bumper, false exhaust pipes and minimal lining on the doors and thresholds, visually slightly lowering the car, but still do not make the ground clearance lower than, say, at the same civilian AUDI A4.
The interior also did not undergo special changes - it is all the same richly equipped Avant with minimal signs of the breed: RECARO chairs with logos, black, like night, dashboard with speedometer, digitized up to 310 km / h, overlays on the thresholds and the steering wheel all with those The same inscriptions RS6. The traditional gear shift buttons on the steering wheel are replaced with original petal keys with + and- icons.
But the main thing is filling. A well-known 4.2 liter V8 engine is supplemented with two high-pressure turbines, and this not only gave rise to 450 hp, but also provided a fantastic torque of 560 nm at 1950 / min. The transfer of all this herd of horses occurs through a 5-step automaton with a manual Tiptronic mode feature, borrowed from Audi A8 6.0 and capable of adapting to the driver's travel manner. The drive is already traditional for Bavarian cars - Quattro with self-locking Torsen differential. For incomplete five seconds, all this economy is gaining a speed of 100 km / h, for twenty seconds - 200. 18-inch low-profile wheels and specially designed brakes are also responsible for overclocking and braking.
Dry water. It is strange that for a car worth $ 100 thousand. Not enough rubber rugs. That is, they are in principle, but in the store and cost about $ 75 - the only trifle. Therefore, we left the salon, putting the shamened sheets of paper on the dark velor, with the image of human feet. Well at least there is no inscription leg. It would be necessary to write something like something: a slight pressing on the gas pedal, and .... not here it was. That day in a narrow alley, where the car dealership is, a huge truck wagon did not share the road with Skoda, and for about ten minutes we convulsively circled the steering wheel there, donated with the back and before, just to drive around this cork. For all these worthy classes, I somehow had forgotten, on which machine food - at a speed of 5 km / h RS6 behaves absolutely the same as the usual University of Audi.
And as a whole car, RS6 must be fastened with fuel. I did not have it. From the first second, the computer showed a stroke of 10 km with an average consumption of 40 l / 100 km, and when we did to the nearest refueling, a threatening figure of 0 was shining on the display. At the refueling, naturally, the drained was dropped.
We risked and quietly pulled through a long bridge. They say there is a refueling and 98th gasoline. We even overtook the bulls and Aleko. We drove on average row by car, able to accelerate to hundreds for 5 seconds, and dreamed not to get shame in the middle of the road. We have rolled up to refueling on the neutral. Gasoline there, cheers, was.
Buturbo. A good thing is the third transport ring. If anyone knows - it has completely complete, but not yet open segments. They, apparently, did not bless our mayor-builder, and therefore, it is possible to get there for a very moderate fee and ride in full solitude with some speed. So. Internally prepared, click on the first time on the 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 over these seconds, as in the time car, you were simply transferred from one point of speed to another. There are no clutches, switching, convulsive compression steering, turboyama effect. The car weighing 1650 kg just took and flew. He flew without darling, like some Boeing in Sheremetyevo. Without pathos, without thunder and lightning, but simply, almost vertically - in Zenit. Our aircraft, they say, are also trying to take off so, but it turns out not very.
Suddenly, just and naturally despite the steering wheel, it was delicately began to sing the turbine, and together with them the volume of the BOSE speaker system increased. The feeling was approximately as if suddenly, sitting in the opera theater's bed, the ticket would imperceptibly put on you a virtual helmet with stereo imagery and turned on the Dolby Surround dynamics hidden until that time. The car completely lacks the desire to go in turn, characteristic of even sports with a special special. The DRS system (Dynamic Ride Control), first applied on the six, works mechanically, without any electronics. The oil from a special central distributor is almost instantly distilled towards those racks that are subject to the roll. The car without exaggeration stands on the road.
Supercar. Stunning comfort, not peculiar to machines with similar dynamic characteristics, the smoothness of the course in mode D and ease of steering, the abundance of assisting electronics and the huge potential put RS6 on a special place. No other machine combines the power and speed of a sports car with dimensions and comfort of the 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 division still did not prevent E-Klasse in the body of the wagon, and the BMW M5 in the Touring modification was never made. According to the power characteristics with Audi RS6, it can be compared unless the updated six hundred S-Klasse Biturbo with an engine, similar to what is installed on Maybach. But this is, as you know, a completely different story.
Text Alexander Fedorov, photo Alexey Ilyin.
Model / Modification Audi RS6 Avant Quattro
Manufacturer / Country Audi AG / Germany
BODY
Universal type
Number of doors / seats 5/5
ENGINE
Type gasoline with forced ignition, two turbocharger and double air cooling system
Front location, longitudinally
Working volume (cube. Cm) 4172
Number / Cylinder Location 8 / V-Fig
Power, kW (hp) with rpm. / Min. 331 (450) at 5700--6400
Moment (nm at rpm. / Min.) 560 at 1950--5600
TRANSMISSION
The drive is a permanent full, self-locking Differential Torsen, electronic blocking of differential EDS through the braking effect on all drive wheels
SUSPENSION
Front / rear independent spring, on double transverse levers, transverse stability stabilizer / independent spring double, transverse stabilizer
STEERING
Type of gear-rail with hydraulic
Min. The diameter of the reversal (M) 11.4
Torkemose
Front / rear disc ventilated
4-channel ABS, EBV Brake Distribution System, ESP Electronic Stabilization Program
Sizes / volume / weight
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4852/1850/1452
Wheel base (mm) 2759
Clearance (mm) 104
Own weight (kg) 1880
Capacity of the trunk (L) 455/1590
Tires 255/40 R18.
Alloy wheels, 8,5J x 18
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km / h) 250 (limited to electronics)
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (sec.) 4.9
Economy
Middle fuel consumption (l / 100 km) 14.6
Fuel tank capacity (L) 82
Price in Moscow from $ 100 thousand.
Additional equipment and special equipment
Additional CD changer in the trunk on 6 CDs $ 400
Cast aluminum discs, size 9j x 19 are not available in Moscow
Winter wheels with cast aluminum discs and tires 225/45 R18 with the possibility of installing anti-slip chains $ 1180 (pcs.)
Hut cover in the roof with air cooling system in the cabin $ 200
Rubber Rugs $ 75 per set
Rubber rug in trunk $ 55
Steering column with electrically regulating height and tilt, automatic system for facilitating landing and disembarking $ 960
Multifunctional steering wheel with controls and heating $ 650
GSM car phone built into armrest, speakerphone 3 260
The system of voice control navigation, telephone and audio system is not available in Moscow
A source: "Autopilot"
