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For the client of the Bavarian motor factory, the Audi S5 acted as a red rag, and a desperate race started between us ... Conducting a single test drive of the latest Audi S5 compartment, we accidentally compared ESKA with its strongest opponent and sworn enemy of the Last generation of the E92 BMW M3 Supercope. But first things first...
The appearance of a compartment with four rings on the hood we had been waiting for a long time and finally waited. Before us is the Audi A5, built on the new platform of the A4 family. In the mid-90s, Audi produced a 3-door shedding hatchback, but the main emphasis in Ingolstadt was always on universals. The legendary Audi S2 preparation Porsche, then the 380-horsepower RS4 both models were equipped exclusively by Avant body. And here we have a real 2-door compartment, and even with the S5 nameplate. Under the hood of the 354-horsepower 4.2 V8 FSI motor, which in different variations is installed on almost all Audi models, except for babies A3 and TT.
The designers who built A5 had a very responsible task to create the proportions of the classic compartment, otherwise, buyers could not understand innovations, because there is a younger brother in the person of TT, but at the same time make an original form, because the traditional straightforward style of Audi has not evaporated anything for a long time, In addition to boredom and desire to yawn. In addition, A5 was supposed to prepare the public in the emergence of a new generation of A4 Sedan of the best -selling Audi model. So the coupe bets were made very large. Having examined the A5 with addiction, one cannot but admit the work performed perfectly: a group of designers under the direction of Walter de strong coped with their task well. Perhaps the ESCA seems somewhat heavy due to too inflated wheeled arches, in which even 18-inch wheels are lost, but this is already a nit-picking. The compartment looks very dynamic, which has not been for Audi for a long time, but it is recognizable. What is the wavy side line of naked erotica! Add charm LED cilia, like a compartment R8.
The interior is decorated in a traditional Audi style. Exactly the same MMI system is installed on the senior models A6, A8 and on the Q7 SUV. Management at first glance seems quite complicated due to the abundance of buttons with poisonous red backlight. But after a couple of hours of active use of navigation and other functions with MMI you find a common language and then it does not cause any complaints, everything is intuitively understood than thanks to a large and contrasting display with an abundance of additional information.
The steering wheel, armchairs and, in general, ergonomics are also well familiar from other Audi, so you don’t have to get used to it. Without delaying the case in a long box, I press the Start Engine button on the central tunnel and on the road. Smoothly move (S5 is sold only with mechanics, other boxes are not yet available for ESKA), an electronic handbrake helps on the rise, which holds the car when stopping and is released when touched. With calm driving, this helps a lot, but with quick starts it is better to do everything yourself, without the help of automation. After all, the S5 is obviously not for a measured driving? Yes and no. Riding on the compartment calmly does not make any difficulty motor allows you to switch through the transmission, or even through two. Long -flow clutch interferes somewhat, but Volkswagen Group has already been used to it for several years of regular tests of cars. If you go carefully, do not press the gas more than a third, and do not raise speeds above 3,000 mark, then we have a convenient and comfortable compartment for every day, the average fuel consumption has only 12-14 liters per hundred. Economic riding is helped by an electronic clue showing which transmission is now turned on and which one is worth switching to. Moreover, his task is to save fuel, therefore, when accelerating to the floor, he keeps silent until the arrow of the tachometer reaches the red zone, but when calmly driving, he periodically advises to jump over the step. When slowing down, the soufler recalls the benefits of braking by the engine.
But you can’t only save. Born must fly! Gas to the floor! It is impossible to say that acceleration on the S5 is fascinating, but looking at the speedometer arrow, you understand that feelings have been deceived. The speed is significantly higher than that expected. The programs cling perfectly one to another, and it is possible to exceed 220 km/h by accident, assuming that the speed does not exceed 160 km/h permitted on the Moscow Ring Road. The motor honestly practices the declared 354 hp. And the working volume of 4.2 liters, which is easily forced up to 420 horses, does not allow to doubt the perky temperament. At the same time, comfort and silence are preserved in the cabin, as if you are managing not a sports compartment, but a powerful business class sedan. Perhaps even the Audi sedan
The previous generation S4 was perceived as a more sports car. To complete the sensation, the five lacks a juicy soundtrack. A characteristic gurgle, characteristic of all eights, is heard only, oddly enough, on the bottom, up to 2000 rpm. Above the sound of the motor sinks in a common hum and high -quality sound insulation. Even when accelerating into the floor, you have to constantly monitor the tachometer of that and look at the engine will rush into the limiter, but you will not hear this. In a closed car, you feel like a first -class passenger unquestioningly reliable German Lufthansa. Nothing in the cabin will creak, and not the irregularities or unnoticed at night the S5 police officers are passing with truly Aryan resistance. It seems that it is almost impossible to achieve a breakdown of the suspension. But the coins of the body could be smaller. Although this is a matter of priority. For everyday drives on roads like Moscow, the suspension setting is almost perfect, but the sports control that you expect from any car with the Audi S nameplate are pushed into the background. If you enter the turn with excess speed, then the ESCA will banally slide out the front wheels, and to do something will be very difficult to do with this, non-optimal weighting with the V8 motor in front of the front axis makes itself felt. Compared to the previous generation of the Audi A4 on the top five, the transmission was redone, which made it possible to improve the situation, removed the balance of the center differential in favor of the rear axle (the standard distribution of torque of the XX/XX), but it was not possible to completely defeat insufficient rotation.
Duel, only duel And under the curtain of the dough, like a piano in the bushes, we found one of the first owners of the latest BMW M3 in Moscow. For the client of the Bavarian motor factory, the Audi S5 acted as a red rag, and a desperate race started between us. As 354 hp will show themselves. In combination with Quattro against 420 Bavarian horses on the rear -wheel drive?
Nobody wanted to concede, and as a result, ordinary pokatushki turned into a real duel of sportsmen. Initially, we wanted to arrange a confrontation between the two Germans, but it turned out to be very relative. The impression was that in one corner of the ring was a lean boxer in lightweight, and a Sumo fighter came out against him. Of course, the differences between the cars are somewhat exaggerated, but the essence is this. BMW M3 lightweight sports car. Perfectly balanced and created for the racing track. The engine displaced inside the wheelbase, the Kevland roof and the hood that create almost perfect weighting, and the low center of gravity. BMW handling is incomparable the car is clearly driving, and it is worth turning off the stabilization system, as the skid will not be long in coming. With Emka you have to hold the ear in the way, and then the car will repay with a magnificent drive. The cranes of the body are minimal, and the suspension, as usual in BMW, is dentist. The transfer of shock absorbers into a comfortable resolves the situation somewhat saves the situation, but the Bavar is incredibly far from real comfort that the Audi S5 shines.
Audi S5 is more malleable and soft. But it cannot be called a weakling. At starting from a place, even on wet, not to mention sprinkled with snowball, asphalt, ESCA does not give M3 the slightest chance. Old Torsen regularly plays the torque between the axes, and Audi flies forward like a bullet. The soft suspension and unsuccessful weighting S5 are forced to reduce the speed before the turns, but the acceleration can also begin earlier, almost without fear of skidding and with incredible acceleration, which is inaccessible to Bavarz in conditions of slush. In addition, with a disabled Audi stabilization system, it allows to storm turns in a rally style: braking in front of the turn, provocation of drift and sliding with all wheels for almost the entire arc. It turns out fast enough and very impressive. And of course, in choosing any car, the last factor is its price. Here, between the rivals, the parity does not smell. The basic configuration of the Audi S5 costs 64,953 euros (2,311,170 rubles), while the prices for the BMW M3 begin at 2,516,500 rubles. You can easily get both cars for another 200-500 thousand rubles, but in this case, the trifles of the driving characteristics do not change from this.
We did not pass by and the practical side of the issue on the size of trunk and salons between M3 and S5 almost equality. As for the appearance, this is a matter of addictions. BMW looks more frying, and a hump on the hood is clearly hinting at the immodest motor, as if turbocharged was hidden under it. You can identify S5 primarily by the underestimated front bumper and nameplates. There are no more identification marks, and they are not needed here, there is nothing truly extreme in the S5 in essence. Just a powerful and very elastic motor, while the M3 is a charismatic sports car, which will be few on the ring track like a Nordschlyife. In winter, it is better to preserve such a car in the garage, moving to an all -wheel drive three -wing, and even better to X3 or X5. Audi is a magnificent powerful car for every day. And for those who want to drive four rings to furnish the BMW in an honest struggle on dry asphalt, you will have to wait for the RS5 Supercope, the appearance of which is expected in 2008 ...
Text: Leonid Pavlov
What will the blonde say? You like to ride, as they say, love and navigate in Kurkino, early in the morning, on the street without a name, when the window is nasty zero or either snow or rain. The task, honestly, is not easy, especially for the blonde, but for the sake of the test drive of the new Audi S5 model, you should try ...
And so she seemed because of the turn, so new, red, blinked a turn signal and flew away, showing the way to the scene. I only had to rest on the right pedal on the floor so as not to lose her guide, and hope that the lady with a baby stroller will slow down at the transition, noting not only the red miracle of the technique, in a skid, which is included in the turn on the red light in front of her nose, but also that big one The white cart behind, which is desperately trying not to lag behind the steam locomotive.
And behind this beauty is not a typical Audi quite narrow, aggressive rear lights, 4 exhaust pipes, an elegantly curved trunk line, very successfully not like TT ... predatory, low and wide muzzle, coupled with red color, of course, mentally tolerates mentally mentally I am somewhere to the south, to the mountain serpentine, but alas .. although the Kurkinskoye highway in its form is very reminiscent of it, if you close your eyes to slush and other natural-holiday inconsistencies ...
I get behind the wheel. The button remove the electromechanical handbrake. The ESP system is carefully disabled by the professional racer of Vasya, who had just left the driver's seat. Touched ... Convenient sports seats, a stylish dashboard design, many buttons and control knobs of super-dwelling Hi-Fi Information and entertainment system Navigation, DVD, Radio, TV and all this from Bang & Olufsen ...
The first unpleasant surprise of the transmission switch only with a completely squeezed clutch ... Even Lamborgini forgave me heels and clutch pedal, which did not reach the floor ... The second surprising moment was a very smooth, unsportsmaning set of speed. As one motorist told me, proudly boasting of his tuned 300s yes, he slowly accelerates, but then you won’t stop it! It was this statement incompatible with a sports car that came to my mind when I finally dispersed that I was hardly braked before turning. Later, having looked into the technical passport, it became clear that it was caused by the mass of the car 1,700 (!!) kg, because of which it is not felt in this beautiful compartment of its 4.2 liters, V8 and 354 horsepower ...
Another unpleasant trifle at 7 thousand smart cars itself dumps the momentum: the feeling is not pleasant as if the third leg presses the brake pedal at the most inopportune moment ...
But given the fact that when buying a compartment, we often choose not functionality, running qualities and safety, but as if it were more powerful to ride it along the central streets of the beloved city (and the female half of the car owners are generally guided in choosing a car, and we do not care about the torque The moment and the location of the differential of the front axle) either Audi managed to make a truly stylish coupe, which, I am sure, can be observed next summer on the streets of Moscow under the control of us, blondes who, joyfully crossed in the spring from their winter jeeps to something new.
Specifications
Body
BMW M3 Audi S5 car
Body type 2-door coupe 2-door compartment
Number of places 4 4
Trunk volume, l 430 455
Equipped mass, kg 1580 1630
Full mass, kg 2080 2130
Length, mm 4615 4635
Width, mm 1817 1854
Height, mm 1418 1369
Wheel base, mm 2761 2751
Road clearance, mm 130 130
Engine
The type of gasoline, with distributed fuel injection gasoline, direct fuel injection
Front location, longitudinally in front, longitudinally
Location and number of cylinders V8 V8
Working volume, cm 3999 4163
Cylinder diameter/piston stroke, mm 92/75.2 84.5/92.8
Compression degree 10.2 11
The number of valves per cylinder 4 4
Maximum power, L.S./О/min 420/8300 354/7000
Maximum torque, Nm/rpm 400/3900 440/3500
Transmission
Gearbox 6-speed mechanical 6-speed mechanical
The rear drive with a differential lock is full with an asymmetric differential Torsen
The front suspension is independent, McPherson is independent, two
The rear suspension is independent, multi -link independent, multi -link
Front brakes Disco ventilated circuit
Rear brakes Disco ventilated circuit
Tires 225/40R18 in front and 265/40 ZR 18 behind 225/40R18
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 250 250
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with 4.9 5.1
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
city cycle 17.9 17.8
country cycle 9.2 9.2
mixed cycle 12.4 12.4
Fuel tank capacity, l 63 63
Fuel AI-95 gasoline AI-95
Source: Carclub.ru
