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Three Eights

2024

Video: Three Eights

Video: Three Eights
Video: TieBoss Three Eights 2024, March
Three Eights
Three Eights
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What do car manufacturers from Ingolstadt offer this time? The new A8 at first glance is not too different from its predecessor. But her silhouette looks more graceful and at the same time powerful. Not least, this effect is created by short overhangs and a smooth, clearly defined back. There is a development of Audi's well-established corporate identity - an expensive, but somewhat mundane outwardly car.

In order not to torment the reader, we will immediately deal with both “eights”: at first there will be no other motors under the hood. Both engines, whether with a volume of 3.7 or 4.2 liters, easily accelerate an almost 1800-kilogram sedan to 250 km / h “allowed” by electronics. It is so easy that the first three-digit mark of the speedometer needle flies through 7.3 or 6.3 seconds after the start. In this case, the torque is transmitted to all four wheels through a new six-speed automatic transmission with Tiptronic function (manual control of buttons on the steering wheel).

It would seem that such accelerating characteristics are more than enough for a representative car, but next year the new A8 will be implanted with a 12-cylinder Phaeton monster. The "eights" regiment will be replenished with diesel from … "Porsche Cayenne", and for the most thrifty customers, a six-cylinder gasoline engine from A6 is stocked.

And yet, if we distract from the engines: before us is a novelty or facelift? As the creators of the A8 assure, not only aluminum hinged panels, but also the body frame, also of winged metal, have been re-designed! In any case, its rigidity increased by as much as 60%. You can not say about the stiffness of the suspension. In fact, the passengers of the battleship should not have recounted all the joints of concrete slabs, hatches and potholes. Therefore, in multi-link aluminum suspensions, the springs were replaced by air cylinders.

Suspension tracks every pothole and continuously adjusts elasticity and damping characteristics. The driver, of course, can choose between three main modes - sports, comfortable and very comfortable, and even adjust the ground clearance, but … the last word is left to the electronics. On a bad road, the A8 will simply refuse to “crouch”; at the speed of “a hundred,” on the contrary, it will not “stand on tiptoe”. And the characteristics of the shock absorbers will be automatically adjusted to the average number of potholes per kilometer, no matter what you choose.

Such a life, which allows you to lay out at least 60 thousand euros for a car, is usually especially valued and cherished. Because - all the attention to security. First, active systems will help prevent the worst. Depart from the road or not stop on time, having at its disposal precise steering with variable (depending on speed) gear ratio, ABS brakes, “break-essist”, devices for distributing forces between the wheels and for stabilizing the trajectory, headlights, luminous in a turn "around the corner" - this still needs to be managed! As well as to fill a cone in case of an accident, being covered on all sides by inflatable pillows. But, maybe, thinking, it will be possible to catch up with the slow car ahead or become a target for the next one? The first will not allow adaptive cruise control with a radar, active head restraints will save you from the traumatic consequences of the second trouble.

You won’t even be able to accidentally slide down when starting uphill - the electro-mechanical parking brake is for that. He will not let the wheels go until the thrust on them reaches the required value.

And what remains to man? Yes, just go and have fun. For this, in fact, the A8 was conceived, for this there are many more electronic gadgets in it. For example, MMI - Multi Media Interface, combining audio and video equipment, a telephone and a navigator, the Internet and a service menu into a single system. The latter is ready to tell you when it is time to change the oil or brake fluid and where to do it closer. But in any case - more than once every 30, 000 km or two years they are not waiting for you at the service. Well, maybe you puncture the tire and the air leakage alarm board blinks alarmingly …

With all the abundance of electronic devices, they are controlled by only a few pens.

The aluminum frame of the new body has become tougher.

Audi A8

3.7 quattro 4.2 quattro

Seats 5 5

Curb weight, kg 1770 1780

Dimensions (L x W x H), mm 5051x1894x1444

Maximum speed, km / h 250

Acceleration time 0–100 km / h, from 7.3 6.3

Displacement, SMS 3697 4172

Power, kW / l. with. 206/280 246/335

at rpm 6000 6500

Torque, N.m 360 430

at rpm 3750 3500

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