Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Audi A6 Avant The Chic Lifestyle Cruiser
Audis new middle-class estates dual role as a spacious family car and more dynamic Sports Tourer occupied nearly perfect. In the fall, the new A6 Avant at the base price of just under € 41,000 will go to the launch.
Even if many candidates in this class, the teaching of life is considered embassy - Suits should be spacious especially. The new Audi A6 Avant manages both. With a tense figure whose shape the design team of the Ingolstadt as "dynamic elegance" describes a mature and wheelbase, it offers more space than its predecessor. Now the wagon version of the A6 was unveiled in Berlin, its official debut, the 4.93 meter long Avant give at the IAA.
More space for passengers and luggage
The extra space compared to the previous successful despite almost the same exterior length. The wheelbase has grown by about seven centimeters, the so-called modular longitudinal platform, despite the front longitudinally mounted engines creates more space, makes it possible. The better space are primarily benefit the passengers in the rear, the storage space for luggage are grown in the maximum value properly.
Like its predecessor, the Combined Invite at least 565 liters, the maximum luggage capacity with the rear seat folded is 1,680 liters, 40 more than before. For more convenience store provides the optionally available tonneau cover that is electric when you open the tailgate to the front. About 250 euros to be paid for that option.
Base price Euro 40,850
Despite the comfort of the A6 Avant profit has become easier than the basic model. As with the sedan in the diets success is about 70 kilograms. The mix of high-strength steel and aluminum leads to better weight distribution and a considerable relief of the body. On expensive and exotic materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic dispensed with Audi. The base price of 40,850 euros was in line with the competitive environment - beginning for other brands at around 43,000 euros (BMW 5 Series, Mercedes E-Class T-model).
If the A6 Avant will roll in the autumn on the streets, are initially two gasoline engines and four diesel on offer. The capacity ranges from 130 kW/177 hp to 230 kW/313 hp. New top engine is the 3.0 TDI turbo that makes a sleek combination in 5.4 seconds from 0 to 100 km / h and consumes 7.4 liters on the measuring standard (172 g / km CO2). Audi is the first time a two-stage turbocharging in a diesel engine.
For now, not as a hybrid
Like the sedan gets the Combined Wi-Fi hotspot, with which you can establish an Internet connection for mobile phones and notebooks. This, according to Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is, at the moment to have with any other manufacturer in this class. Not planned, however, is a hybrid version of the Avant. While the sedan in mid-2012 with the force of two heart goes to the sales start, it remains in the combined first with conventional engines. Basically however, the A6 Avant will be equipped with fuel-saving technology - after all, the bottom group and its modular composition almost identical to that of the sedan. A natural-gas version is also in the pipeline.
