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BMW 545i and Audi A6 4.2 quattro - cars are expensive. Very expensive: BMW 545i is 84 500 euros. For that money can buy BMW 730i! And for $ 94 850 (about 77 thousand euros), which is asking for Audi A6 4.2 quattro, it is possible to take the Audi A8 sedan with a three-liter engine. True, the front-wheel drive, but the higher class. As for business-class sedans with powerful engines, the company's Chrysler dealers will soon be ordered novelty - a heavyweight Chrysler 300C 5.7 Hemi $ 54,000 for all ... In short, the practical considerations of the properties purchase of these machines can not explain. Overpay for the badge "545i" and "4.2 quattro"? After all, if they are removed, the most powerful "five" can be distinguished only by a vertical chrome strips falshradiatornoy grating and a circular cross-section of dual exhaust pipes. And with Audi eight-cylinder motor, except for name plate, outwardly indistinguishable from the far less powerful versions ... But look обманчива.Восьмицилиндровая "five" feels more like a coupe BMW 645i. The same dense, hard hit by a car. Resilient as a tennis ball. With the most powerful drayverskogo magiey.Ty feel the spell immediately: initially symmetrical interior looks unfriendly. Ergonomics, of course, is impeccable: the driver around - nothing more. But it seems unnecessary buttons along with an eraser designer Karim Habib erased from the interior panels of "five" something more elusive. Maybe a soul? But as soon as you put your hands on the steering wheel rim chubby (he's here, too, as in "six"), something changes in consciousness. You hug multicontour seats. Embraced in the literal sense: it is necessary to fasten the seat belt as a "relaxed" bolsters automatically inflate lateral support, locking trunk in the "battle" position. In "Six" BMW, by the way, these great "comfort" seats do not put - there they do not fit. And here, in a sedan - please! "Bending" headrest elektronastroyka height, the back of two halves, retractable roller support your knees ... And yet - ventilation. Amazing comfort! Sitting in the Audi, feel other sensations. First impression - very nice. We immediately see that the driver here - the center of the universe, and the plastic-leather-wood is linked microcosm comfortable around him and for him. However, after the BMW immediately notice how much easier this chair. They are good, comfortable, but ... But such a fantastic comfort, as in "five", not here. Steering wheel - a thin and hard to the touch. Handle selector "machine" is also papered the thin skin so simply, as if it's a golf class. A paddle switches - and did the spitting image of Golf. At least the use of thin levers still more convenient than uncommittable switches on BMW.I out that "five" BMW first cold and arrogant, but then reveals the truth to you "semerochnye" hug. And Audi A6 - on the contrary. It seems everything is the same as in the Audi A8, but in fact - lower class ... And the first "low start" on a rolling road avtopoligona finally puts everything in its place. Ingolshtadtsky sedan draws "hundreds" of space for 7.45 s and the maximum speed is only published at the end of the five-kilometer "dinamki." Meanwhile, hundreds of BMW reaches almost a second faster than the Audi, - for 6.63 sec. And to be dispersed to "maximum speed", eight "top five" missing half of the measuring track! Excellent BMW engine spins up to a maximum of 6500 rev / min with a muted hum. "Automatic" pereschelkivaet transmission as seeds - it works even if not perfect, but still very fast and soft. Chassis? Active steering, active stabilizers ... The car obeyed the slightest deviation of the "acute" steering. No fragmentation - a change of direction occurs instantaneously, without lists and delays. On the steering wheel angle and felt the wheels, and features coverage. Minus one - with the growth rate of cake, BMW is becoming too "alive", randomly swinging in his hand. And when braking on a bumpy road "five" sometimes requires podrulivaniy.No these nuances are dissolved in the general admiration. And, surprisingly, even on a bad road BMW 545i does not look like a rigid vehicle and nekomfortnoy.Predel coupling properties of 18-inch Bridgestone tires on the BMW is beyond common sense, common driver. The stabilization system DSC - on guard. You can only disable it for those who know how to cope with 333-horsepower rear-drive vehicle. Of course, even with off DSC "five" to help the driver, extreme. First - a gentle drift under the hood, under the discharge of gas - go on a steeper trajectory. Sharply with the gas - instant skid. But how docile the car even slip! Of course, if you do not overdo the gas and just work the wheel. Otherwise - a reversal of flying ... Emotions are heated with additional "special effects" - are projected on the windshield of the flight data. Not the Mach number, no bank and no amount withheld goals - but only a ground speed, mode of operation the cruise control and trip computer warning messages. The only pity is that the yellow figures huddled in the bottom of the windshield, and drivers of average height can see them, just lifting the seat up upora.Na Audi A6 "projector" do not. But there is a comfortable paddle "trigger" that can change gear even when Drive. However, if the Audi A8 4.2 was indeed a car for the driver, the Audi A6 4.2 with the same power plant was brought before us in a very different image - the image of a car and a comfortable solidnogo.Eto anything but a sports sedan! Too smooth response on the gas pedal a bit "light" steering wheel. Too slowly switching "automatic". Of course, driving dynamics is good - but not enough to keep relaxed in the wake of a BMW. Why? The case in the more "long" transmission, and the mass (Audi to poltsentnera heavier), and in another set of control electronics. For example, the "automatic" BMW moves to a lower gear, even during fast movement "in the third pedal." A processor box to explicitly click Audi pedal on the floor - or apply in advance with one of the paddles "gashetok." Controllability Audi too bright not name. Everything is easy, of course, but without the divine spark. On the highway, low effort on the steering wheel in a near-zero area unaccustomed to a roadblock: a high-speed bend begin to "search" path. It is not easy to reconcile with a small "dead" zone in "neutral", where the machine does not react to the wheel. In response to the rapid movement of the wheel of Audi strange wagging "tail" - apparently, rear axle with taxis zaderzhkoy.Zato small irregularities like Audi did not notice it at all! At first, it even seems that there is air suspension. But its customers ingolshtadtskoy "six" will be offered until next year. But the current version of the spring suspension on the A6 4.2 is set up primarily for comfort. Micro-lined road suspension work out well on the waves of body relaxed swinging up and down. However, it should go to some mediocre vyboinku and body visibly shaking. The car rolls in cornering, but on the big moves seen appreciable vertical swinging ... Yes, completely different cars! Place behind the wheel of Audi is not sorry to give the hired chauffeur - and enjoy a margin space on the back of the couch. But how to let anyone behind the wheel of BMW, there can be no question. Although the sofa back to us more like it in the "top five" ... Ctart! Low, pulsing hiss BMW 545i exhaust is mixed with another staccato punch V-shaped "Eight" - Sedan Audi A6 4.2 quattro. Vsparyvaya blued cutter chuck wet fog, "five" rushes forward. A few seconds - and a white veil Evaporation from runaway bride Munich covers hopelessly behind ingolshtadtsky express ...