Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Three Men in a Boat

"Aesthetes" NICHOLAS SVISTUNPodtyanuty, sports, assembled, single-minded - this is a portrait of a typical young careerist. The suit - not Valentino, clock - also, apparently, is not Breitling. When asked about the model of your car it is not expending the fraction of a second wasted, weight-throwing commercials casually: "Sportbek." Exactly. In one word. Without the "Audi". And without the "A3". Poymut.Posle their work (young careerists working late), he on the run by clicking the "sting" a key approach to "sportbeku." Alone (authoritative Mercedes and BMW ran a couple of hours ago) the car looks quite serious. And even respectable. Frowning "eyebrows" hood, creeps on head optics, bright grille surround, a massive front bumper ... solid manifestation of power and agressii.Dizayn, apparently, do the "front": the rising window-sill line and sloping roof arc obviously an appointment somewhere at point X and a rush to the place of rendezvous, incidentally giving the car a rather rapid appearance. Which, however, is completely lost when viewed in profile - the side is a plain wagon-hatchback, in which "beg" is clearly more than "sport." And the window-sill line in this perspective seems too deliberate, and door handles - just archaic: poddevat them already out of fashion and unsportsmanlike. Although hardly cares careerists - time to fly home. Or somewhere nibud.Letet? No, probably not likely. What are flying with the motor in the 102 "power"? And the salon is, quite frankly, does not have. Instead, like the "elder brothers" A3, extol the driver, the designers and builders "treshki" humiliate passengers, and any review ("window sills" high), and the place is not very. The driver did not let him upset because of the lack of built around the "cockpit". God is with them, with flying. It is better to just sit back comfortably, put your hands on the stylish steering wheel and roll himself, slowly, thinking about plans for tomorrow. True, relaxing only be non-smokers - ashtray shamefully hidden away somewhere, almost under the center console. Oh yeah, how could I forget? Young careerists do not smoke. FARMERS 'CYRIL BREVDODa, a sport we want! Although I bet: surely someone will seem strange that pathos and meaningful word has attached to the German Sport five-door "is almost universal," not to compact "trehdverke", which marked the beginning of our A3 with you today. This is a good thing not a sports sedan, as it is now like. In A3, any attempts to portray a representative car look at least far-fetched. And here - just honest and functional machine. All 68 mm, which lengthened "treshka" fell straight into the trunk. And rightly so - in the rear seat and had enough space. Let now the bags feel like a human! But the boot loading height could be smaller. By the way, the undoubted benefits of additional doors, not only in that they allow to enter the second row by direct flight. From now on, to fold the rear row of seats do not have to dive into the bowels of the machine entirely - you can get quite an elegant gesture. We've all been waiting a long time. Sportback is friendly and helpful. Inside every detail thought out (the quality of performance and ergonomics) and details (pockets, trough or other container). Happy existence separate "chandeliers" over the heads of rear passengers. Separate climate-control is effective, but control them - intuitively ponyatno.Avtomobil seemed a simple and reliable to operate, and a lack of power is quite forgivable: still here, "machine" and for this city - a great boon. I think that if Sportback - this is in fact "sport", it really does not sprint race, but rather a chess. Without emotion, but with the idea. DRIVER "LEONID KLYuEVIdeya call Sportback car and gave her mannered family sedan is hardly successful. One justification - the base version with the old 1.6-liter engine makes it possible to keep the lower price level at a competitive level. But when a low-powered engine is also a "loaded" automatic transmission, though less perfect, as the Tiptronic, things take on a sad turn. Goes sour and bored! A fashionable flooring the gas pedal of his zadempfirovannostyu worse. To get the car decent for the Audi brand playfulness will not work - so just press down on the floor, not lose. To minor sports and manual modes of "automatic" do not expect: faster still not setting poluchitsya.Udivila traction system ASR, for too long allowing the drive wheels spin helplessly in place. It is true that disabling ASR is further complicated start to the slippery conditions. And where is ESP? Do not believe it - an option! Well, the brakes here we need: powerful, but not nervous, and ABS is not panicking before vremeni.Potentsial chassis is impressive - it is easy to "digest" and much more serious engine. This is typical of "Autobahn" chassis with excellent directional stability, with an impressive power consumption characteristic of the suspension and handling: smooth reaction, not very sharp, but very informative steering. And in sharp turns Sportback kept a stiff upper lip, not trying to slide to the side face (but this is easy, plus the engine). Here are just a steering wheel at low speeds, "numb", and the machine has to manage "to the touch." I note all the above contains a correction for studded winter tires Nokian. On the other hand, its habits of five-door car is virtually identical to trehdverki in an identical configuration, which traveled to the test "Wheels," a year ago.

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