Socket on the highway

In connection with the achievement of the new A4 sized former flagship brand choice of location for the European debut can be considered as very appropriate. Sardinia is very convenient for testing at any time of year due to the mild climate and relatively empty and quite twisty mountain roads - that is to say, the purely practical side. We also remembered that this is the second largest island in the Mediterranean resort known as millionaires. Now, due to inflation of Sardinia has become a resort should be billionaires, but prevented the general rise in living standards: the island can afford to call in representatives of the middle class, so that the average holiday-makers did not grow so zametno.Tak and Audi A4. Even the memory of the economically active and now generations of machines of this size and with a level of comfort could afford only the most wealthy. Today we see a car that category, which some of our colleagues have called the "business class" and other such titles, and even he's not allowed, limited to no less vague descriptions of "average" or "family". But it's still third from the top rung in the range of Audi, and the fourth from the bottom in the European classification - that is, a description of the "upper middle class" to the Audi A4 (and the class D in general) fits very tochno.Prichem something available to owners of A4 and even on models of the class above rare. That's very useful, for example, piece - a socket. Normal household outlet for 230 volts. And it was in the Audi A4 it can already be seen in front of the rear seat. True, this is an option, but worth it (in Germany) is only 135 oyro. The middle class must be practical, and generally for the € 25 900 (price in Germany) can afford to be demanding. Including the external vidu.S design at the prestigious brand is not easy. On the one hand, we must treat seriously the traditions, because the palaces in the style of constructivism does not happen. On the other, as well dispense with all fashionable trends and new technologies in particular? Especially when it comes to such brands as Audi, which has made a technological avant-garde his motto. So tradition has to create itself. And here is an Audi A4 simply amazing in its definition of an example of the same ideas. The previous generation looks like this sketch. The lines that were on B7 supposedly slated for B8 boldly and confidently prochercheny.Prichem, as a precursor to a more lively his predecessor and the current became more bold and expressive. Or expressive - which means the same thing, but in a different language. Here plays a significant role soaring rib on the sidewall, borrowed from the A6. About the "older" like instrument panel, which seems to just copy across the A6 9:10. Here we mention one of the few drawbacks of the new A4: The screen really is artificially inscribed in the central part. This, of course, our excessive nicety: it is clear that the screen is rectangular, and every panel varied. But the lights are also used to be an epidemic round or square, but the designers got their way and technologists were able to give them the freedom to choose forms. The form of the same screen, unlike the shapes and dimensions of headlights, is not governed by standards of any country in the world, so it's time to think about what they can be adapted to the instrument panel. But it will certainly not with the A4, but with those models that top managers. A4 is already too full of novelties. And many of them - the new performance is already known systems. That's how we'll measure your tire pressure? Sensors - is accurate and reliable, but difficult. The calculation of wheel speed - it is cheaper, but inaccurate. Audi uses a system that calculates a pressure change in the frequency of oscillation of the wheels. No additional components, as just another program in the ESP. The Germans have to pay for it only € 80 (French 90) - a marked savings compared to 300-500 for a set of pressure sensors. Although the program is, of course, give so much pity. Perhaps the compilers of the next "Platinum software" for Savyolovsky market is still "kryaknuta" and it? Almost revolutionary part of the new A4 - steering. Here, as neighbors and competitors are also able to change the gear ratio steering, as well as to allow the management of the electronics in the face of ESP. But the Audi instead of a complex planetary gearbox uses the wave transmission, the well-known application in a variety of spacecraft. And in this case, it is important that such a mechanism is much simpler and more compact. The electric motor can interfere with the administration, by changing the gear ratio steering. The marina is necessary to turn the wheel from stop to stop only twice, but at high speeds this would take four times - if someone had the idea to turn the wheel on the maximum angle at a speed of 200 km / h. ESP helps the driver not only in the rotation, but in the circumstances. When the car came to a variety of coverage. For example, the wheels of one side or fall into a puddle on the ice. The electric motor adjusts the angle of rotation of the wheels, so that the machine is stable. And the driver did not notice with ESP. To enable us to evaluate the performance of "Dynamic Steering" we were given the opportunity to pass on this "poluskolzskomu" section first with a conventional steering wheel, and then - with the electronic assistant. ESP work completely invisible, simply because of the problems of wet asphalt disappear - the car goes completely flat. But the wheel will vibrate noticeably at the intersection of the Guidelines. Although French companies have long offered a similar system, Audi has found a new approach twice: here and vibrates steering wheel instead of seats, and follow the road sensors are not under the bumper, and the camera on the windshield. However, this system presumably Lane Assist is a € 500 that requires the installation of a special steering wheel for € 370.Dazhe at the most affordable version without dynamic steering, with the usual front-wheel drive and well-known direct-injection petrol FSI power to an already quite human 120 hp . everything works just fine: Audi brand is not in vain with a bias "drayverskie" characteristics. But better, of course, not to save and choose a car with four-wheel drive quattro. Now, as the RS 4, the rear wheels served more time than the front - 60:40, so the car feels a bit more like a rear-wheel drive. More than a living character is the best and meets the new design, performance and luxury engines.