And as I waited for this meeting! After all, Audi S4 is available for two years, but never this car does not get into our hands. And now I was driving not just Audi S4, and the latest Audi S4 - after restyling. So what? Trudge in a traffic jam in the pouring rain. And to top it all no one in my brand new Audi is not looking! Long trend is clear: one after another, trying on new Audi cars the same way, found by Walter de Silva. And the appearance of the family-to-date Audi A4 has not become a revelation: a new link to the concept car Audi Nuvolari. Link, however, is more complete than in the case of the Audi A6 and Audi A3 Sportback: a trapezoidal grille and horizontal taillights and added another slyly screwed up lights in the style of Nuvolari. But the first glimpse, alas, is not able to see this feature. Therefore, no one responds to my car. For others it's another Audi ... How much does it cost a family of restyled Audi A4 in Ingolstadt not say. But it is clear that the costs were high. After all, the old car is not just "stuck" new grille and optics - all exterior body panels here New! Intact remained only a roof. Due to new car bumpers became longer updated: Sedan - 38 mm, and the wagon - to 41 mm. Moreover, in the main increase in length took place at the rear overhang. But because of the new "muzzle" the front "beak" it now seems generally bezmernym.Universaly fourth series and I liked them before, the silhouette is updated machines have particularly harmonious - now there is no step bumper. And the new rear lights are wagon, no less than the sedan. And the "escalator», Audi S4, looks even more spectacular "civilian" vehicles. The body fits tightly on the 18-inch "rollers," Large-tightened chuck "Scottish." Cocky grinning wide air intakes. Rear - chrome twin pipe exhaust pipe ... That's just enough to enjoy their music, there's no way. There is no place to open, there's nowhere to throw S4 towards rain. But there is a chance to complain about the sluggishness of "automatic" - the only Audi S4, which was brought to the presentation in Munich, was not with the "mechanics", but with six-speed 'tiptronic'. Pensive. Yes, and feedback on the gas pedal can not be called an instant. But the motor of course is good! Although not in the Audi S4 that scary, wild wind, I remember that 367-horsepower Mercedes C 55 AMG - a direct competitor "eski". Four-wheel drive Audi S4 with "automatic" the impression is not a sprint, but rather a marathon ... Manageability? Let's wait for the findings to the next meeting. On short tracks free sites wet felt that "supersaray" with V-shaped "eight" too heavy on the front. In the extreme cornering on wet pavement car and strove to straighten traektoriyu.S technically S4 does not change: naturally aspirated V8 engine still produces 344 hp and 410 Nm of torque is transmitted through all-wheel drive transmission with limited slip differential worm Torsen. The only difference between a new car from its predecessor - is a slightly revised power structure of the body. The percentage of parts made of high strength steel, the design became a little easier and harder. Exact figures Audi engineers did not disclose limited pretentious «best in class» (supposedly the best rigidity in the class). But we know that self-resonant frequency of the steel body has grown from 28 to 30 Hz - it implicitly characterizes the increase zhestkosti.V unlike "eski" ordinary sedans and station wagons Audi A4 have been more serious revision. Changed elastokinematika suspensions. And for this purpose units from other models. For example, the silent-blocks of the upper suspension arms and steering rod tips are taken from the Audi S4 - for greater angular stiffness. A rear shock absorbers and mounts front lower arms - from a new sedan Audi A6. This is for komforta.S comfort of updated car is all right. Micro-lined roads Audi ignored altogether, responding only to joints and significant irregularities. Although after the rear-wheel drive "treshki» BMW and Mercedes-Benz C-Class even pay attention to such things as vibration on the steering wheel under the hood and barely visible to understeer. Steering can not be called transparent: there a clear "zero" and a decent level of effort (luckily, the wheel did not do the same "light", as the Audi A6), but the driver sometimes is not enough feedback. And always has the feeling that you lead a great car - there is only the first characteristic of a large detachment of Audi, a distance in relations with voditelem.Motory - salt restyled the "quartet". Their nine - more than any other family of Audi! Among the gasoline four-cylinder engines, there are low cost version of a working volume of 1.6 and 2 liter (102 hp and 130 hp) and turbocharged versions - an old "Four» 1.8 T (163 hp) and the latest 2.0 TFSI (200 hp). Gasoline top model - V-shaped "six» 3.2 FSI (255 hp) with direct fuel injection, presented recently at the new business sedan Audi A6. There are four turbo-diesel: Version 1.9 TDI (115 hp) and 2.0 TDI (140 hp) with a pump-injectors, and two six-cylinder engine. The most powerful of them - V6 3.0 TDI 204 hp, also the Audi turbodiesel A6.Etot gave me the most impressive - even more vivid than gasoline "eight" in the Audi S4. Motor with intercooler and with two piezo doroguschy develops 450 Nm at 1400 r / min and growls at it this way, as though under the hood - American Six, not eight liters! Thrust - crazy: diesel without restraint "lucky" almost to the maximum 5000 rpm / min. It should be at least once to switch from first to second under intense overclocking - and you realize that in the petrol engines have no meaning. A transition to the third in my head there is only one idea: let the fuel crisis breaks out, and behind him - general dizelizatsiya! Give European taxes on high-octane gasoline, diesel fuel green light! No wonder even the world motorsport rages ahead of the diesel revolution ... like the two-liter diesel engine, even a modest 2.0 TDI.Naposledok I rode an Audi A4 with a 255-horsepower gasoline engine 3.2 FSI. Also a good engine, exactly, assertive in nature, but a three-liter turbo diesel engine is still better. But gasoline "six" can be paired with a CVT klinotsepnym Multitronic, and a diesel - excellent net.A preselektivnuyu "mechanics» DSG on the Audi A4 is not put at all - it was designed only for a transverse engine, and a fourth series of the machines power unit is installed longitudinally . Sorry! How many customers probably would have just Audi A4 with a powerful engine with DSG and all-wheel drive ... Told this to the Germans. "That would be a wonderful car," - replied dreamily staring at the ceiling, one of the minders Audi. And then, as if waking up, takes a hard look at me: "But such a machine in the plans there." Ya, I say sadly, the gene. It is clear ... there's something else interesting. Audi engineers say the all-wheel drive vehicles better weight distribution between front and rear axle than the front-wheel drive - roughly in the proportion 52:48. But in this case, for example, diesel engine 3.0 TDI with cast iron cylinder block weighs 224 kg - almost 60 kg heavier than gasoline, "Six» 3.2 FSI with light-alloy block. And in fact, it appears that the front-wheel sedan Audi A4 3.2 FSI behaves in much the same as four-wheel drive Audi A4 3.0 TDI quattro - both show a tendency to drift. A Modest universalchik Audi A4 2.0 TDI in turn almost "neutral"! Probably, the most refined sled character will be different all-wheel drive cars with light petrol-turbo engine - for example, Audi A4 2.0 TFSI quattro.Pri case check: updated Audi A4 will start off the production line at Ingolstadt in November this year, and in the salons of the Russian dealers they will not before January. The Germans have promised that the price of new cars will remain the same, but in Russia is likely to bring in cars for improved packaging and sell them dorozhe.I course, as soon as we fall to, finally, Audi S4, we'll talk about this machine free format. Munich without frames.
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