Avantazhny Avant

But aside hard - too hard copy Audi designers have the same image. Dominant gene-in-chief stylist Walter de Silva's almost not mutate. Not only will all the new Audi cars with the same person, so some of them now and can not be distinguished from the back. If it were not impressive size, A6 Avant could easily be mistaken for an updated wagon A4, and even for small Sportback.No look in the trunk - it is mersedesovsky Wagon T-model E-class! Arrangements for the organization of internal space for the luggage compartment made example of a set Fixkit mersedesovskoy system EasyPack: the same longitudinal rails on the floor, the same set of replaceable "tips". But it's still like. Quality luggage trinkets worse and on evaluation of the kinematics, and performance. Although the range observed. There is also a lightweight aluminum bulkhead, and a coil with tension band and a ring with the amount of luggage fiksatorami.A here ... The Mercedes can cram almost two cubic meters of stuff, but the maximum capacity of luggage Audi - "only" 1660 liters. (A folded seats is 565 liters - less than wagon-class golf Skoda Octavia Combi! Although it's still a little bit more than the other main rival Audi - BMW Touring Wagon fifth series.) Mercedes have a sliding floor, which facilitates loading of heavy objects, while the Audi - just rubber poponka that snaps over the bumper to avoid scratching the "threshold." But in the Mercedes did not throw dirty or wet bike ski "harness" and velor "mat" in Audi and consists entirely removed from the trunk for a second: is washable plastic floor. And equipped with motorized fifth door Audi not only stop at any intermediate position, as in a Mercedes. It can be set once and for limiting the height of the rise - for example, lives in close garage. Put the desired level, press the button for five seconds - and no longer need to insure the opening door of a meeting with a low ceiling. You will need to open the trunk to the end - just push the door by hand. More precisely, two rukami.Interer wagon - the same as on the sedan and Audi A6. The same high-tech atmosphere. Scattering of buttons, lots of displays - all directed at you. In the eyes of little ripples, but it's nice to feel centered in the scene ... With the appearance of the Audi A6 wagon began to establish an adaptive air suspension, designed on the basis of a representative collection of sedan Audi A8. Moreover, the modification was the result even better than the original - at least, so says Thomas Kriegel, a man who has been developing a family of chassis A6. First, Monroe shock absorbers are now electronically alter its characteristics continuously, not discretely in four steps as before. Secondly, the vibroacoustic performance air suspension on the A6 is not inferior to the suspension A8 - despite the fact that behind pnevmoelementy not combined with shock absorbers, as in "eight", and installed separately, which reduces isolation from vibrations. But due to the fact that the front on the A6 lighter, rubberized front wall pnevmoelementov made single-walled and less "hold" noises and vibratsii.Ob these subtleties there are no words in press releases, and on the surface of all remained the same. With the controller MMI (multimedia interface), you can choose any of four modes of the suspension: automatic, comfort, dynamic, lift. In automatic mode the electronics itself adapts to the driver's driving style and features coverage. Comfort mode shifts the balance of "comfort / control" towards a better ride, and the regime of dynamic, on the contrary, "pinches" the suspension. The fourth mode, "lift", can lift the car by 15 mm. True, if we consider that the car with air suspension originally "sitting" at 13 mm below the standard, then the increment of clearance can be forgotten. And in addition, regardless of the load A6 c air suspension at speeds over 120 km / h squats 15 mm - to improve a good road aerodinamiki.Na difference between the modes is almost not there, and only in "sport" steering wheel is barely noticeable "heavier", and perturbations in suspension comes through high-frequency reference to Micro-lined canvas. In this air suspension compared with the usual spring wins not so much on the smoothness of motion, as the quality of "feeling of the car." Here, above the level of feedback on the wheel, but its still not enough for high speeds. Limit confidence in the car just pushed back at 20-30 km / h on the speedometer to the right, but then again no longer feel his hands informative resistance bagels. Only with universal plate left S-line allows you to safely withdraw Spanish squiggles highway at a speed of 200 km / h. Tough sport-tuned suspension with a "shortened" to 20 mm Kayaba springs and shock absorbers makes the car collected and understandable. At least, not yet finished smooth asphalt. On the road, medium-quality touring shows an improved "jumping", but hit hard sport suspension holds still better than the "pneumatics". Another novelty - a six-cylinder turbo diesel engine 2.7 TDI. In fact, this modification fervent Engine V6 3.0 TDI. He reduced the stroke - as a result of reduced output to 180 hp and 380 Nm. The new piezo motor replaces the old "six" 2.5 TDI, which we are very mindful of the editorial wagon Audi Allroad. We never complained about the lack of temperament in this engine, though he gave less than 70 Nm, and indeed the Allroad weighed 120 pounds more than the new Avant. But apparently, to quickly get used to the good: after a frantic 450 Nm of the latest three-liter turbodiesel Avant 2.7 TDI seems vyalovatym. Although objectively it is fast: according to factory figures, to accelerate from standstill to 100 km / h diesel wagon is required only 8.3 s.Kstati, Diesel Avant seemed at first noisy. But most of all, the engine noise reduction here is so effective that at high speeds ear involuntarily "tied" to the aerodynamic whistle, which is covered by a gasoline car engine roaring. From setting up an exhaust Germans worked with pleasure: the sound of motors makes smile. "Gasoline" voice scatters characteristic metallic pea, and the diesel engine under the hood like a monster from an old hand-drawn animated film "The Scarlet Flower" - a low, velvety, rich voice. And the overall noise level in the wagon subjectively not much higher than in Ingolstadt sedane.V sure to share Avant wagon will have almost 40% of the total sales of the family of Audi A6. Already this year, plans to collect 60 000 wagons of those 400 thousand, which will be launched in the next five or six years. And more than half the Avanto settle in Germany. This is the main market for business-class station wagon - and here is the fight! Main rival station wagon Audi A6 Avant - already referred to the "T-Model" E-Class and BMW Touring fifth series. We have the fifth series Touring will appear not earlier than the end of this year. So the only rival station wagon Audi A6 Avant is still Mercedes E-Class - a roomy, solid and expensive. For example, Mercedes-Benz E240 T-model with the "automatic" is worth 53 940 euros - almost $ 68,900! Audi A6 Avant will be available for touring will cost on average $ 3,500 more expensive than the sedan A6. A front-Avant 2.4 Multitronic CVT with continuously variable cost $ 56,974 - $ 12,000 in less than a Mercedes. With such savings could ever ignore the monotony and just enjoy the harmony lines.