Audi S6 test drive since 2012 sedan
Wild horses
Predator in sheep's skin. More than four hundred horses hid in the Mongol steppe behind a lonely yurt. And at some point they jump on you, and this is always unexpected. Today you are in a suit and with a laptop, and tomorrow - in a leather jacket of a rider, although without a helmet. It turns out that for some money you buy two completely different cars in the person of Audi S6, which allows you to be diverse and many -sided. It is possible that life in a measured society expressed engineers from non -KARSUMS with a branded tuning structure of Quattro GmbH to do something new, refreshing. We got acquainted with the product near the conveyor, where they collect it. We were simply swept away by the new V10 engine and are somewhat surprised by the shape of daylight lamps. Read more about the machine of the future that has come now. The seal of Lux also turned to our workhorse Audi A6, which now carries the Schildik S and is a top version of a well -known machine.
Why? Yes, because the simple new A6 with a single-frame was a very different machine-from front-wheel drive 2.4 to QUATTRO 3.0. What do they have in common, except for the body contours? And now the quattro plant is that in a non -Karsim (Germany) it will bend its line. S-line.
The device expected us at the parking lot of the Stuttgart airport and with all its appearance claimed that this was not A6, but a certain car. The special joy for Muscovites who adore fireworks are LEDs to the bottom of the front bumper. Bright and row. Now you can’t confuse this car at all. As you can see, the disco lights on the single-Mord, so, consider the meeting with the beautiful took place. My colleague from Top Gear is adults and squeeze into fairly formal seats. Farewell, rest and relaxed comfort - sports seats with a built -in headrest all the time discipline. We are moving and slowly understand that the machine is adapted both for a calm driving around the city and for more exotic exercises. The fact is that the most important attraction of this model is the V10 5.2 liter engine, almost similar to what is on Lamborghini Gallardo. That is, under the guise of a German good man, you get for little money (in Europe from 70,000 euros) of a wild Italian stallion.
The organizers, as luck would have it, approved route plans, as if specially allowing the car to walk around an unlimited autobahn. More and more in the back streets around Khailsbron. The nooks, of course, are beautiful, and sharp turns emphasize the sports to become a car and its suspension. There will be surprises with a suspension in Moscow. But the owners of sports supercars are already familiar with them - they feel them, one might say, with their own back.
For the start in 5.2 seconds, you can endure it. On the highway, the owners of ordinary cars do not even have time to understand how the six went around them, as if standing. And all because the lighter and compact V10, slightly improved in comparison with Gallardo, develops 435 horsepower, which allows it to fly in the Grand Touring concept. The Avant body accelerates only one tenth seconds longer - 5.3.
90 percent of the torque is available to each user driving at 2300 revolutions. All this power must be somehow kept on the roads, so here Quattro (not confused with the company and the Quattro plant) with a distributed capacity of 60/40 at the same time 40 percent-on the front wheels. And of course, all modern developments for driving on a slippery surface or surface with various clutch coefficients are all these ESPs with ASR track control. Despite the fact that the speed limit here is determined electronically - 250 km/h, the ASR system does not begin to intervene in the process at any speed stages. The design chassis is very close to A6.
In the interior - carbon fiber and aluminum, trimmed with skin and alcantara, and a three -spoke steering wheel with automatic control petals. Everything else is typical Audi. Well, or Gallardo, if such rich comparisons are flattered to someone more.
The machine is equipped with 19 inch wheels with five knitting needles. Wide tires have a 265/35 R 19 format - the usual A6 does not have such. As they hold, we already checked the QUATTRO test trace a few kilometers from the plant. The flight is normal.
Xenon headlights are included in the basic configuration, while the system of adaptive lighting of the road is delivered by order. Standard rear lights include Stop signals on LEDs, and the S6 Avant station wagon is additionally equipped with LED rear overall lights. Just such a fashion and such technologies.
Passing by the village beer with the spill Palm Bier, we thought about who the authors of the super -player would like to see their customer. It is clear that this is primarily a German, quite young, but not too much. A person who pretends to be decent and respectable, but quietly, he tears off the tower, and he can buy a track for himself for the whole day and pull himself at a speed of 250 km/h on nyurgurging. And then quietly on her to work in the office, in a tie. Well, good: will Russians buy? Of course, they will, but for another reason. Firstly, you want such a six not like all guys. Secondly, it looks modest in appearance, and it goes in a second and can pull the nose with any bent nouveau riche on a competing brand. And this is already nice. Well, and besides, it is customary to drive on public roads, paying off from traffic cops, if caught. And so the game with wild horses under a gray hood will continue.
The line of S has long become the subject of attraction of a variety of car agents. They not only rip off your nameplate from the body, but also hang them on their own not S-machines. In the case of the new S6, this ingenuous Fint does not work. It is too different from the serial A6 to be accepted for it. Differences in the form of a radiator one -decisive lattice, and in specific daytime lights.
Text Igor Maltsev, photo Audi AG
Audi S6
Gasoline engine 5.2 V10 FSI
Working volume (cubic cub) 5204
Power (L.S. at about/min) 435 at 6800
Moment (Nm at rpm) 540 at 3000-4000
The permanent drive is complete
Gearbox Automatic 6-speed Tiptronic
Length/width/height (mm) 4916/1864/1449
Wheel base (mm) 2847
Mass weight (kg) 1910
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 5.2
Maximum speed (km/h) 250
Fuel consumption (l/100 km) 13.4
Source: "Autopilot"
