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Audi RS6. Family express

Audi RS6. Price: from 4 743 700 rubles. On sale: since 2009
A family car must meet the requirements such as capacity, comfort and practicality. If so, then the Audi RS6 AVANT station wagon is ideal for family needs, but with a small reservation. Each family member should have an excellent vestibular apparatus and iron nerves. Audi RS6 Avant only looks like a summer resident, but rides like a sports car

Test pilot
Maxim Egorov, 24 years old, automobile journalist, driving experience 6 years, personal car - Volkswagen Tiguan
Audi RS6 Avant a car, ruthlessly breaking outdated stereotypes. This station wagon can be compared with a seal, jumping in length by nine, or with a ballerina, winning brutal men at arm wrestling competitions.
The RS version first saw the light in the mid -nineties. The famous Audi 80 was taken as the basis. Not only experts from Audi, but also the best minds from Porsche took part in the development of a sports serial car. By that time, many companies had already worked in this market. Perhaps to stand out from all this mass, Audi began to charge the station wagons.
The first such station wagon with the RS nameplate based on the sixth series Audi left the assembly line in 2002. Take even the current generation RS6 Avant. Under the hood, a 4991 cm3 engine with a capacity of 580 hp is installed under the hood. If you compare with the Audi R8, then it has only 525 hp with the most powerful engine. Is this not madness! After all, we are talking about a car weighing more than two tons and five meters long. So what is the riddle of Audi RS6?
To get used to the sports habits of a bulky station wagon is not easy. Excess weight and insufficient rotation due to imperfect weightlifting are allowed to know about themselves. On the road, the Audi RS6 Avant behaves nervously, reacts sharply to the rut and a change in the coating. At the same time, he obviously obeys the helm. Nervousness is facilitated by a sporty suspension with the possibility of changing hardness (Dynamic Ride Control), as well as low -profile tires of the 20th radius with a dimension of 275/35. If you find a plot with good asphalt among our bumps, all these disadvantages turn into pluses. It remains only to enjoy the dynamics, not thinking about the harmful kinematic problems of the rolls and buildup. They simply are not!
Euphoria after information about the engine power on the Audi RS6 Avant passes after a few kilometers at the wheel. Instead, adrenaline dependence begins. Acceleration, like a shot from a gun: 4.6 s to 100 km/h. But then you should not smoke or configure the radio. It is better to do this in advance in the parking lot. Acceleration up to a limiter of 250 km/h is accompanied by an intense set of speed even to breathe hard. 14.9 s after the start, and the speedometer hand easily overcomes the mark of 200 km/h.
The five -liter engine is equipped with two turbines, each of which pumps a pressure of 0.7 bar. As a result, the torque is 650 nm. And most importantly, it is not peak, but is available in a very wide range of revolutions from 1600 to 6250 min-1.
 

Driving
A sharp steering wheel, an elastic suspension and a very powerful motor impose their driving manner.
Salon
As expected, the universal body, there are a lot of places in the cabin in front, from behind, and in the trunk.
Comfort
In motion due to sports suspension about the smoothness of movement, you can forget.
Safety
Sports setting up the car additionally increased safety due to the excellent balance of brakes, motor and handling.
Price
The price is very high, but for exclusive it is normal.

Worthy and disadvantages
+ Excellent handling, effective brakes, dynamics.
- Nervousness in the rut, high fuel consumption.
 
Specifications
Mark and model - Audi RS6 Avant
Dimensions - 4928x1859x1460 mm
Engine - gasoline, 4991 cm3, 580 hp/6250 min -1
Transmission - automatic, 6 -speed
Dynamics - Max 250 km/h (limited by electronics); 4.6 s to 100 km/h
Competitors - BMW M5 Touring.

Our opinion
Audi RS6 Avant is an exclusively niche product. He combined the incompatible representative class, a station wagon body, a 580 liter engine. With. and sports control. Such an exclusive will certainly not be massive. The starting price does not contribute to this. Audi RS6 Avant for gourmets.
 

Author: Maxim Egorov
Photo: Sergey Krestov
 
 
 
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [October 2009]