Why is the A4 with eight cylinders? Is six enough? Why was a modest-sized engine bay with hard stuff upgraded the engine from the A8? So many questions, and answer, as always simple, but it is not in plain view. Specifically, the answer is going in another German city. We speak to Munich - mean BMW. While you are still not completely confused, explain: there is a BMW M3, a significant competitor for the S4. Why not a BMW M3? That's right, eight-cylinder engine! On the other hand, there is a four-door Mercedes C55 AMG and Cadillac CTS-V with V8 engines and the volume far beyond the five liters. In this war of numbers and technology needed fresh Audi argument.Glavnaya part of the updated Audi S4, as you know, the engine: 4.2 liters, five valves per cylinder, 344 horsepower at 7000 (!) Rpm and 410 Newton-meters . Maximum torque is achieved at 3,500 rpm, and the speed just above idle figure is very close to 300. A serious weapon. In any case, on paper the numbers seem to be more than convincing. S4 motor is also unique for its compact size - only 46 cm in length. And it is also a small weight - 195 pounds - weighed as much old motor 2.7 V6 bi-turbo. Audi S4 with 6-speed manual gearbox accelerates to 100 km / h in 5.6 s, and 200 for 20.6, and the speedometer needle on a suitable road will freeze at around 250. We went on a test machine with an optional "automatic". Of course, it is not as fast as a car with manual transmission, but it is not an ordinary A4 1.6. Motor responds to pressing the gas pedal and instantly at any speed. Acceleration is very energetic and sharp. For the city, this tandem is perfect! No matter what channel and what pace - goes everywhere S4 and very willingly. The new automatic 6-speed gearbox is not only "smarter" and faster than the old, but still easier. Thanks to the Dynamic Shift Program transfer switch very quickly, no delays. You may want to play paddle petals and iterate speed manually. Despite all these advantages of the automaton is one drawback - a start. How sad to have such an engine, Quattro all-wheel drive system with the head of all the differentials Comrade. Thorsen and so sluggishly away from rest (the author was an old Audi S2, and I do know how wonderful start «S-ki" if you throw the clutch). Sorry, does not save even the fact that after the car was going very fast. How quickly? This is what we tested with the latest precision equipment manufacturing Japanese company Mitsubishi. White EVO8 - such as new as ours, "jaundice" - waiting for us at the next traffic light in the evening on Leninsky Prospekt. In view of the complete disdain, the author has a secret challenge to a duel. Why fear when under the hood of 344 "horses"? Struggling, I tried to show the enemy that not only faster but also on all other pages are much steeper. I felt that I had just bought this today, S4 and "remembered" as a week ago, the party successfully sold expired aspirin tablets in a secret office and decided on a portion of the proceeds to indulge a new car for 98,000 dollars. While I dreamed of becoming a modern businessman, and all the attendant virtues of this "other" life, the light changed. "Hell with all perish" - soon, I thought. Samurai sword "eighth evolution" has destroyed my castles in the air, and it became obvious that this is not an obstacle for S4 the main street bullies for today - Mitsubishi EVO8 and Subaru Impreza STi. 344 German forces failed with 265 from the Land of the Rising Sun! Retrieved tests on Lenin and the Kiev highway, where we went for the final measurements. On the way back to the editor I was thinking about what, apart from the dynamics, there are arguments for buying the car. And that's what was typed. If you look closely on the design of Audi, is nice and warm. The contemplation of beautiful things always brings joy, and the new A4, and even more so in the version of the S4, really beautiful. Especially on those disks of radius 18 production BBS. A new grille with a unique to the S4 cells. Four holes of exhaust pipes, giving it clear that you are ahead is not by chance. And what a heady sound! In German in a low voice, but distinctly eight sips. Well inside Audi - certainly not Japanese rocket! Salon is decorated on the highest level: carbon fiber, leather, alcantara. Stunning Seat Recaro, separate climate control, good music Bose, the same Tiptronic, in the end! For a city with his crush and bustle of S4 - beautiful car. When there is no place to break it softly and carries you very comfortable in traffic, and when you open a loophole - jump there first. At this Audi's standard set has all the modern electronic systems to facilitate and make driving safer. Including Servotronic - the device changes the gear ratio steering and easy parking, leaving the steering wheel "sharp" at speed. There is absolutely no sport details that translate into the possession of our car very nice level. For example, hatch with solar panels, which allow climate control to monitor the temperature of the non-working car. It is very important for those who sit in the car in working clothes (I mean a suit from Hugo Boss) and he can quickly come to the boil. Not here! The Audi breathe evenly and remove the glove compartment of a refrigerator with a bottle of chilled Ice Tea. It turns out that's what the picture: if you do not mind that you are paying almost $ 100 thousand for the A4 (albeit for very high-spirited) and the fact that it's slower than a hundred 'yaschy more than half the Evo VIII, - buy. You will receive a fast, beautiful car with a full set of all the necessary luxuries today. But when next to you at the traffic lights will stand our abuser white Lancer - open a window and tell them that wait for the new Audi RS4. And when he comes, then drive on.
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