To be precise, the new Audi A4 Cabriolet with a three-liter gasoline "six" and a mechanical five-speed manual transmission weighs exactly 1580 kg. Plus my 60. A lot even for a 220-strong motor ... But the convertible has a place easily and naturally. And I drove on the roads of the island of Tenerife, affectionate person substituting the southern sun. Lord, how wonderful! Is it in Moscow at the time - the low gray sky, slush and zero Celsius? By the way, in Moscow, I have repeatedly seen on the streets of previous Audi Cabriolet - an open two-door car based on the Audi 80 model 1986. That car turned out surprisingly good - despite the fact that the basic "vosmidesyatku" withdrew from the production in 1994, replacing Audi A4, sedan continued to produce until 2000! "We did not make sense to open car based on the Audi A4 of the first generation. After all, the old Cabriolet good buy, even in his last year of issue "- was recognized in Ingolshtadte.A Does it make sense to now create a new Audi A4 Cabriolet? Familiar contours - rounded like a small boat. The frame of the windshield frosted aluminum, wide metal rim on the back of the perimeter of the roof. The new convertible is very similar to the old! And the resemblance is much more noticeable than with a modern sedan Audi A4.Tut could reflect on the stylistic crisis ingolshtadtskoy brand, the need for inflow of fresh ideas ... But do not feel like it. The time now is gone, these "fresh ideas" and then refuses to digest the soul. Look at the next "revolutionary" car, which "turned the idea of ??the brand," and sickening ... I swear to God, the classic is better - let well enough alone. The fact that the stylistic ideas Audi twenty years ago are relevant now - it does not matter, it's pride Ingolshtadta.A front Audi A4 Cabriolet is more like a roadster Audi TT, than the Audi A4. The interior design also has fresh notes - three circular deflector in the center of the front panel. Meanwhile, a new panel is only half - the bottom part along with the console is left unchanged and only the top is made specially for the gig. But thank you for it. Typically, the creation of such machines from the financial considerations such as cost minimal means decorative overlays and white scales priborov.Kombinatsiyu devices from A4 is also hidden under the new plate, sinking in the scale of "wells" is much deeper. Because of this, by the way, the readings are read only from the driver's seat. Passenger can not see even a speedometer scale - after 100 km / h scarlet hand is hidden behind the border "well". Well, right - there is nothing to him to know how fast we go! Noble muffled exhaust sound and confident traction from the "bottom", a nice pickup after 4000 r / min, when the intake system is switched to "short" response ... Gas pedal does not want to let go even when the fires stop to maximum speed. The car with no jerks, as often happens on other machines - just the tachometer needle gently hangs at the maximum of 7000 / min.Krome, the engine is very responsive - all 220 of forces are sensitive to the slightest touch of the right leg. More gas - and the Audi immediately accelerates the dispersal. Let go of the pedal - the car squats on the front wheels and even more compliant zanyrivaet in turn. Five-speed transmission boxes matched perfectly - "cling" to each other, like links in a chain. And the brakes raduyut delightful combination of well-considered move the pedals, her efforts and the effectiveness of tormozheniya.Kstati, on chains - Audi A4 Cabriolet is the first open car, which is proposed for CVT. This is the famous klinotsepnoy ingolshtadtsky multitronic, which allows you to transfer torque to 310 Nm. Cabriolets with CVT were among the test machines. As well as cars with less powerful engine V6 2.4 - and also with a five-step "mechanics" and the Variable speed. But I must admit to misconduct. Instead try to move all four options, I took a red three-liter Cabriolet with the "mechanics" - and went on a long route across the island. From the south coast - up to extinct volcano Mount Teide, and further to the north-east ... Never seen such a diversity of landscapes in one place. Not for nothing scholars argue that Tenerife was formed by the merger of four different islands in the era of violent tectonic activity. Tropical palms give way to the ocean and coniferous woodland on the slopes of the mountain of the island. Ten minutes streamers - and you find yourself in a "country of Marlborough", with red and orange sand cliffs bizarre. And just a few miles the road takes on a kind of svezhevspahannogo black earth, on which just passed a giant plow. In fact, jet-black clods of "land" - a huge block of frozen lavy.Dorogi are narrow, but the most that neither is "drayverskie" - long straight, which are replaced by bundles of serpentine turns. It's great that Audi A4 Cabriolet performs well in the corners! Superb steering - precise (pinion mechanism mounted on a stretcher suspension), with "pure" jet effect. By the way, on three-liter version of the steering mechanism includes dampers to absorb unwanted vibration steering wheel. And sorry about the missed opportunity to ride on a convertible with the engine 2.4 melted like wisps of clouds, crawling on the slopes of the ancient mountains Tenerife.Mezhdu way, all the colleagues who sit behind the wheel of the 170-strong version, complained about the lack of traction. Readily believe them: it Cabriolet is almost 200 kg heavier than the four-door sedan Audi A4. Of these victims require an open body stiffness - it is higher than the previous convertible Audi, more than doubled. Therefore, the new Cabriolet behaves on the road almost as a private car. The irregularities did not shake the mirror, do not tremble at the door openings. But the panel interior creaked faintly: the odometer on this car already has more than 10,000 km.A considerable weight gig helped the creators to provide high smoothness. But the configuration of all items selected excellent - especially in that red car with a sporty suspensorial package. Audi A4 Cabriolet does not become hard even on asphalt comb, and at the same time roll in the corners are small, and build-up in the waves almost otsutstvuet.Otlichnaya ride - and pleasant handling. The large mass - and a feeling of lightness. "Sisters heaviness and tenderness, the same signs of your" ... with a "clean kabrioletnoy" in terms of an open Audi is also good. The roof is composed entirely automatically - just over 25 seconds, hold your finger on the button between the front seats. Aerodynamics worked out on the best - if from the trunk to get a folding windshield and mount it behind the front seats, a convertible can fly at speeds over 150 km / h without vortices in the cabin. Even with the lowered side windows! However, the screen with much noise. Nevertheless, it seemed to me that the creators of this car deliberately left some excess "kabrioletnuyu" specificity. Light wind noise, cheerful breeze over your head, which gently stirs your hair ... Even a well that Audi A4 Cabriolet is not as perfect as, for example, Mercedes CLK Cabrio with its phenomenally low and aerodynamically "closed" salonom.A still like the fact that convertible A4 - it's almost a full four-seater. Of course, in the back too small, but if the front seat pushed forward, then you can put even a tall person. But with one condition - 60 km / h with the rear passengers do not overclock! Indeed, in a four-screen version of the set will not succeed. This means that, as in any four-seater cabriolet, with the lowered ride the wind pressure on the rear seats becomes unbearable after 80-90 km / ch.Slovom, Audi A4 Cabriolet can claim to be "four-" only with the top up. Half a minute - and the sky closes the black curtain with a small glass rear window. Now, in the car quietly, almost like a coupe with a hardtop. But visibility back worse. So good, that among all e-luxury (ESP, powered seats, "navigation") in this car and there is also a "parking assistance." In the twilight of an intimate private gig, I immediately begin to yearn for the lost sun. I do not miss him in Moscow, I long ago accepted the fact that the open car - not for Russia. It's not even in the climate: Audi marketers claim that more than half of the 72,000 issued during the nine years previous model convertibles were sold in Germany - the country is not the hottest. But in Germany the roads are clean and fresh air. And we? Nevertheless Audi A4 Cabriolet in Russia must appear. Five years later, the family, these machines will be imported second-hand - as is now importing the previous Audi Cabriolet. Given that the annual re-plant Karmann in Osnabruck is ready to produce up to 15,000 Audi Cabriolet new generation, the chances of seeing these vehicles on our roads even more. Already, before the advent of cars in dealer showrooms, they were collected in 2000 orders ... Karmann will not be idle.
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