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Compared with the A6 sedan that appeared last year (ЗР, 2004, No. 6), the station wagon remained in the same dimensions - 17 mm increase in length and 4 mm in height we mention only for the order. And the huge trunk seems to have nowhere to grow! But in it, runners were laid from the sides to attach a grid and racks to them with a fixing belt or telescopic bar. Having folded the split (40/60) rear seat, we increase the length of the compartment to 2050 mm, and the volume to 1660 liters is enough even for a pair of mountain bikes if you remove the front wheels.
The trunk door almost broke inadvertently - I down it, but she did not! It turns out that you need to press the button on the end and the servo will close the door. The height of the fifth door is programmed - it is convenient to limit it in a low garage or if long objects are fixed on the roof.
Raging Wagon
I did not see foxes in the mountainous Fox Park near Tarragona, but there were lots of cyclists. Hiding the horns, under curious looks, I carefully pass the next motley string and unscrew the serpentine further - Audi A6 Avant 3.2 Quattro performed by Sport-line asks to step on the pedal! Two and a half hundreds of “horses” of the V6 engine tear apart - against the background of fellow tortured by ecology this differs with an enviable passion, although it also complies with strict Euro IV. Yes, acceleration to hundreds in 7.4 s and a top speed of 250 km / h do not really fit in with the image of a power car!
The sports package includes shortened by 20 mm and stiffer in comparison with standard springs, hefty 18-inch "bast shoes" - the car gives out lateral accelerations, which strive to pull me out of a well-profiled chair. Emergency insurance - updated ESP stabilization system. Unlike the previous one, if necessary, it slows down not only the internal wheels in a turn, creating an additional turning moment, but also the external ones, reducing the speed to safe. Moreover, the braking intensity of each wheel is individual. An additional function is the stabilization of the machine with a trailer.
The seven-speed Multitronic gearbox is nothing more than a continuously variable variator with seven forcibly fixed gears. It works fine in automatic mode, but I liked driving a couple of petals more without taking my hands off a comfortable, chubby steering wheel. However, the reserve of torque transmitted by the friction forces, while it allows you to assemble the variator with gasoline “sixes” 2.4 and 3.2 liters.
QUARTER OF CENTURY
WITH QUATTRO
In order to effectively implement all the newton meters of the top versions 4.2 and 3.0 TDI, these machines are equipped only with the Quattro all-wheel drive transmission - Audi's signature dish, which is now 25 years old. For other modifications, it is considered an option - by the way, inexpensive against the background of the price of the car itself (in Russia, for example, $ 3179).
Honestly speaking, it was not possible to feel the advantages of all-wheel drive - it is simply dangerous to drive the car into a mode where they could manifest themselves on the dry asphalt of a common public road. Colleagues tried to experience the “quattra” on the beach - buried themselves on the hubs and went to look for a tugboat. In general, you should not confuse the all-wheel drive Audi A6 with Audi Allroad, and even more all-terrain vehicle - it feels confident on slippery, snowy roads, in the mountains, but on the impassability it has nothing to do.
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Phrase from the prospectus: “Equipment can be installed on the new A6 Avant that is not always available even for cars in the upper market segment.” We have to believe: the new product, for example, as an option, the adaptive air suspension migrated from the flagship A8. Another example is the multimedia MMI interface (also from A8) working with DVD media in three versions, with a voice-controlled navigator, a 7-inch color monitor, ten speakers and two tuners.
Another innovation is the adaptive cruise control, whose radar doubled the viewing angle. Such a system is offered for the first time in the world not only in a car with an “automatic machine”, but also with a manual gearbox. Three headlights, including rotary xenon, electromechanical parking brake, light and rain sensors, key authorization and luxury air conditioning, built-in telephone, six airbags … Do you still doubt whether there are representative station wagons?
