Test Drive Audi S6 since 2012 Sedan

Ice and ... ice?

Ultrafast sedan or business class wagon branded Bavarian dish.

Looking at the thermometer, showing a +2.5 degree in the vicinity of the castle, I remembered warm Moscow and Pushkin. The famous and such a brought line from Evgenia Onegin about ice and a flame. Ice on the edges of the road in prosperity, is there a brass in the car on which I am going? Eh

420 liters with. and 550 nm, eight cylinders and two turbochargers, four liters of working volume Agree, these figures inspire respect. But respect is not a passion. Respect unable to regret the fire. 4.6 seconds to 100 km / h. Two inhales, two exhalations, a small pause and the first hundred behind. The second hundred is achieved a little slower. Solid and confident. As befits the German sedan of the business class. 220, 240 km / h is possible and faster, but why? There are still no emotions. The cabin is quiet, calm and very comfortable. A partner torments me Brazilian Tresh Metal, and this is the only thing that annoys me. The car is flawless. Suspension, steering, S-Tronic box is all great. Even in AUTO mode, I have no need to find fault. Yes, I do not want to find fault. I am comfortable and good, I still think more about the wildness of the SEX Trash group than about S7.

We will come from the auto in the secondary track in the foothills of the Alps. Audi Drive SELECT in the Dynamic position and the steering wheel is filled with even more effort, and the suspension is a bit dub. At the joints of the wheel begin to tapping, but in the corners the car is assembled. With each turn, speed increases, and the branded insufficient Audi turning and does not think to appear. The front axle is shifted forward by 71 mm, and between the rear wheels there is an active differential, familiar with RS5. Yes, and the torque of the corona differential distributes in the ratio of 40:60. So it's worth a little add gas in turn, and the car instead of expanding the trajectory, with new forces is bungled into the asphalt. And all this is accompanied by an uterine edge of the eight with a barely distinguishable supervision of the turbine. Great, but does not cling. Maybe after all these Ferrari and Porsche I am killed? But the eyes of the colleague in the crew also do not burn passion and adorations. Maybe S6 Avant will be able to melt the ice in our hearts?

Having in favorite residence of Ludwig Bavarian too much time, we realized that we were terribly late. And it was delolding us, because there are almost 120 km in front of the unlimited autobah, and under the right foot 420 horses! So the cruising speed of 200 220 km / h and ahead. Those who never went to Germany by car, represent that the autobahn is direct as an arrow of roads with five strips. In fact, many unlimited areas have only two strips, and the turns are sometimes forced to recover. But we were not nervous, we read inscriptions on BMW M5 Touring stickers, which we caught up. Sly Burger decided to advertise his own company on the side of his own car cleverly! Then the German missed us forward, carefully examined our Avant and was attached to the tail. So we drove, periodically overtaking each other. We looked at BMW, his driver on us, and then I was painted. Here it is! This Audi and should not be excited. Passion is R8, and S6 / S7 is confidence, comfort, solidity, and more dynamics and speed. But this is the case when the speed is not a target, but only a means that helps to move faster in space. That's all. At the same time, even at speeds far in 200 km / h, you can think about music, lead a secular conversation or view stickers on neighboring cars. You do not need to sweat from tension, fight the car, dear or yourself. S7 / S6 is not a sports car, it is, first of all, a business class car. An excellent choice for those who do not want to sit in the back seat A8 does not want to seem like a hired driver behind his wheel, but it is obliged to demonstrate their status. Do you know what struck me in the novelty most? Not active noise reduction and not active engine supports, not a powerful and tracked motor and not a quick robot, but a puff wood finish. 5 layers painted in a black tree and a thin layer of aluminum, and so four times. Surprisingly beautiful and thin!
 
Audi S6.
Weight reduction was paid to increased attention. All external mounted panels are made of aluminum, but many parts made of winged metal are generally hidden from the eyes of the average man. As a result, the total percentage of aluminum parts in S7 20%! The structure of the body is a percentage of high strength steels. Of these, all elements are performed on which there is an increased load. The sliding spoiler on S7 is made of plastic also for weight saving.

In order to overcome traditional for Audi insufficient turning, the engine was maximally moved back and down, and the Quattro all-wheel drive transmission is configured so that most of the moment comes from the rear wheels. In standard modes, this ratio is 40: 60%, but depending on the road situation may vary. And anyway, feed theoretically can get more power: 80% maximum against 70% for the front wheels. The distribution of traction is the inter-axis corona differential.

BOSE Music System Standard Equipment, and as an option available Bang & Olufsen audio system with 15-speakers, 1200-cotton amplifier and futuristic columns. Even the basic music sounds very worthy, and Bang & Olufsen pleases deep bass and surround sound. But, frankly, I did not feel a special difference.

CARBON-Ceramic brake discs are available as an option, which are easier cast iron by 15 kg. Brake mechanisms are minor. Standard brake disc composite: the working part of the cast iron, the radial pins are steel, and the hub is aluminum. Sign up the machine with such brakes is the easiest way to gray calipers.

The difference in the interiors S6 and S7 is barely catching. In fact, everything comes down to a different form of a wooden insertion on the front panel. At S7, it narrows to the center and expands in the zone of deflectors, and S6 ends, not reaching them. In addition, only a five-door coupe will be available to a new finish of black wood, inlaid aluminum sheets. On the rear sofa S7, only a pair of passengers will spread comfortably, while S6 sofa is presented as a triple. Due to the fact that the S7 is below 32 mm and 46 mm is longer, the landing is more relaxed with a rolled back and elongated legs. Interestingly, there is enough places above your head.
 
Audi S6 & S7
S6 / S7 is almost the same skewed as the flagship S8. The navigation system works with Google maps, and all the auxiliary functions are assigned to the MMI system (MULTI Media Interface), the control of which is carried out by a multifunctional washer located on the center console. Now on the business class Audi there is a touch multifunctional panel, which makes it easier to enter the address for navigating or searching the name in the phone's record book. The machine itself recognizes the letters injected with the finger. And reads Cyrillic. As with S8, an active noise reduction system is installed on S6 / S7. At the top of the cabin there are four microphones, thanks to which the sound processor defines the level and frequency that you need to pay off.

When the cylinders are turned off, the motor turns into a poorly balanced four-cylinder. To reduce vibrations, low- and mid-frequency sound oscillations are extinguished by active hydraulic supports. An electromagnet connected to the membrane is integrated into the support housing. The membrane affects the liquid that is in the chamber, there is an antiphase with oscillations that fall on the support.

Active Sport Differential, located between the rear wheels, is designed and manufactured by order of Audi by Magna. The principle of operation of the differential is generally the same as Mitsubishi AYC: the left and right rising gearboxes can be included with the help of packets of wet friction. Hydraulic drive is triggered for 100 ms to-in-point, as with AYC. However, the Audi node has an advantage of non-planetary gearboxes, but two-stage, which makes it possible to increase the difference in the speed of rotation of the semi-axes twice (up to 20%). Maximum difference in torque 1800 nm. The mass of the unit is 43 kg, which is almost twice the differential on the A6 / A7.

The engine on S6 / S7 is the same as on the elder S8 and Bentley Continental GT V8. In the collapse of the block there are two turbocharger. The moment is not only more (+10 nm) than the engine V10 5.2 FSI on the last generation machine, but also available on lower revs. In addition, eight 4.0 TFSI is more compact: 497 mm long in length by 66 mm shorter than the predecessor. It is no less important that the motor is 20 kg easier (220 kg), and its center of mass 30 mm shifted back. But the power is less than 15 liters. with.

In the four-cylinder mode, the engine passes only when the coolant of the benefit is minimum up to 30 ° C, the transmission is not lower than the third, and the crankshaft turns of 9603500 rpm. / Min. Deactivation occurs with the AUDI ValvelFT system actuators shift the cams so that the pushers remain motionless. Valves are closed. At the time before deactivation, a portion of fresh air comes into the cylinder, but the injection and ignition does not occur.



 

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