To go on the Audi it became fashionable. In a country three years ago, polls show recognize the reality around only through the sight on the hood and three-letter avtomarku, Audi is experiencing a real renaissance. It can explain a mass of reasons: cost, diligence mission, "fatigue," the consumer from the stereotypes of old age, etc. But the fact remains that no one can boast of such a dynamic sales over the last two years - an increase of almost five hundred percent. The Germans were clutching at his head, when Russia demanded more and more new quotas, the lion's share of them were not "cost", A4 and A3, and very, very complete with the A8 and A6. Well, what can I say - well we live. IMAGE THAT YOU MY. "Upgrade" of popular models - the sly thing. Then press the presentations there was a tradition even if minor innovations, they try to compensate with more than "interesting" places, luxury hotels, expensive gifts and so on. Audi, presenting his "six" in 2001, has chosen this quiet East German town of Weimar, best known for the fact that there lived and worked great miser, sensualist, a tyrant, but along the way and the genius of Goethe. Journalists were settled in a regular hotel, notable only in that in the GDR it was packed with "bugs", as the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and gave each a leather wallet, probably with overtones of "save up money." Go tell that to my eyes the new A6 does not "hit". As in the picture - put side by side and find ten differences. Results from the pipeline will go to 48 vehicle variants, of which 22 will be equipped with all-wheel drive quattro. Let's start with the external. Changed from the front panel grille - it was double. If you look closely at the headlights, it is evident that they have become more - the manufacturer claims that the new xenon provides 37 percent more light, and as an option, and cars are equipped with a "distant" xenon light. To "feed" notice on a new designed rear lights that emphasize the design of dignity "Occupied limousine" as engineers call it Audi. Immediately - underlined "sexual characters" - chrome, not modestly concealed, as before, the pipe muffler. As for color, and then change: in the range Audi has finally moved away from the dull, in my opinion, the Prussian-green and switched to the most unexpected shades of blue and black - came with 11 new options for coloring the body. Shire has wheels and gamma - a variety of patterns and sizes, up to 17-inch sports version. MARK "TRI". "Best is the enemy of the good" - with this phrase began the presentation of a group of functionaries. Apparently, it was she had to explain why the exterior changes were made to a minimum. Indeed, if the car is sold so well, why reinvent the wheel? So what really touched update content, not form. Naturally, the first machine that chose the author, was a modification of the Quattro with the new engine 3.0 and the new 6-speed "manual" transmission. Last year, the "AutoPilot" six months tested A6 Avant with the "manual" gearbox, and memories of this vibrant, comfortable and pleasant in all respects the car was still fresh in memory. In addition, a fair share of Russian sales amounted A6 quattro with engines of 2.8, and here he was replaced by a three-liter. Behind the wheel, I felt like a pair of jeans after dry cleaning - all at his place, never too tight, not pull. Alas, a "hole" still remained: the driver's right foot rests on the back side of the central console - the one the "tunnel" of which we have repeatedly mentioned, was built here. However, I have long to live with it and see it not as a design flaw, and a hallmark of Audi - something like four rings. With "the bat" machine starts very quickly, powerfully and smoothly at the same time. Added two dozen horsepower in a lightweight nearly fifty kilograms of affected engine performance booster. At the 4 th sound of the engine speed is clearly audible in the cabin with each press on the gas - the feeling is that you squash a pedal medical drill. After ten minutes, it becomes annoying after half an hour - on the nerves of an hour, but you get used to it. Worse was another. With a colleague from the magazine "the wheel", which can hardly be suspected of incompetence (race driver after all), we took turns "tortured" 6-speed box. Then periodically send the wrong were stuck, then drive off because not too comfortable of the pedals is sharp - in short, a feeling evident "wet", to say the incompatibility of the power unit and manual transmission. The same evening, we talked about their feelings Engineer Group. Crumpled napkin in hand, the German suggested that we "just got unlucky with the car, which may be" compacted "to our fellow journalists." Well, maybe. Consolation, that three-liter car, Russians tend to buy a gun Steptronic. And there are no such problems. Ode DIZELYu.Posle not too successful, "rapprochement" with a three-liter engine, we decided to go to another modification. Generally, as noted earlier, changes in the "Six" affected primarily engines. Well known engines of 2.4 and 2.7 "biturbo" have been modernized (or have been facilitated and reinforced), and with them appeared in a range of new ones. With a fair amount of skepticism, we sat in the front-wheel drive car with the engine 2,5 V6 TDI. Diesels are clearly not in our success, as one buyer said: "Why do I need a tractor for forty thousand dollars." However, a friend of mine dzhipovladelets to question how his car consumes gasoline meets "Three hundred and fifty dollars a month." We will gradually withdraw from the stereotype of stupid, "who for forty thousand car purchases, money for gasoline is not considered." Already considered. And in this case a "brake" when buying a diesel version was well-known brands, especially some of their "stupidity" and noise. Like, not the dynamics that fuel, and "voice" is not that the diesel engine. That's me to the fact that the "Audi" is not the case. Diesel engines have presented to me the biggest surprise. I never thought that diesel can be so good to go. Only on this machine in full, I felt other "self-centering" updated A6: The new "smart" power steering "Servotronic" continuously variable automatic transmission and "multitronik." Great machine overclocked to "hundreds", confidently holds the road in very steep turns (not quattro), and, best of all, the computer displayed an average fuel consumption - 7 liters per hundred! Frankly, I would not have refused such a company car - a dynamic, comfortable and at the same time very "budget". However, the latter definition applies primarily to the other "motor" novelty - came to the A6 engine 1,9 TDI. And he was pleasantly surprised by our excellent dynamics and an intelligent work of the box. The sensations were like driving on petrol "shestnadtsatiklapannike" with low-pressure turbine. Alas, the large-scale deliveries of Russian market of this model does not provide a pity. With a manual automatic transmission, a simple configuration and at a low price, it could easily compete with even cheaper models, Korean and Japanese manufacturers. Audi, too, were harassing the laurels of Formula 1. Almost like in a sports car and like Alfa Romeo, a new steering wheel, "six" can be equipped with control keys gearbox "Tiptronic". This is an obvious advantage, especially when switching on only one gear down when overtaking. The ability to control transfers in fully automatic mode, too, of course, remains.
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