Alexander Divakov Authors biography

Growth cm, driver’s experience - 39 years, drives by Hyundai Getz to be honest, I am not interested in “trying on” such cars. Almost everything in them is perfection itself, and therefore there is nothing to say. Well, is it worth saying that I easily picked up “my” driver's pose? That the seat suits me both in stiffness and shape? Needless to say, all controls are located where necessary, and a pretty instrument shield is perfectly “read”?

Is it worth it to mention that the control of a “separate” microclimate is carried out through a large, bright and contrast display with just two or three actions? Is it necessary to list all the “bells and whistles”, up to the curtains on all windows of passenger apartments? All this is already indispensable attributes of cars such as Audi A6. And from sled qualities, the dynamics are most impressive.

Moreover, not so much the charge of the energy of the three -liter “six” - it is more than sufficient - how much speed control systems, acceleration. The six-speed “automatic” works very smoothly, and this smoothness to some extent hides the delay at the transitions “down”. It’s nice to play with steering licenses, independently sorting out the steps. However, even in the “manual” mode, the box remains automatic, switching after reaching the limiting modes either “up” or “down” switching to the step below, and by pushing the accelerator until the “Kik-Daun” mode is turned on.

And how great the accelerator fulfills its direct duties! This is not just the exact performance of my teams - it seems that I myself accelerate the car, with my will, with my desire. Management is especially good at high speeds - here the low sensitivity of the steering is very helpful. But in urban conditions you have to work a little more. But if you rush along the highway under two hundred, then you can maneuver without any tension, it is easy and accurately rebuilt from a row in a row.

And how good a car is in high -speed turns! Audi draws the circular curves with amazing tenacity, showing neutral rotation. And the limit is so high that the chill runs on the back before the stability control system works. The lack of feedback also pulled me: when the steering wheel is quickly rotated, it is lost, and on a long gentle arc, the level of effort is so small that you barely feel the car.

But with an emergency detour of the obstacle, the amplifier works properly - the steering wheel can be twisted arbitrarily quickly. The level of comfort is fully consistent with the status of this machine. The suspension protects the riders from the vicissitudes of road surfaces, and noise insulation blocks from the mumble of the outside world. And only the gambling, in a motorcycle, a rattling voice of the motor barely breaks into the salon with intense accelerations.

Even an aerodynamic whistle from mirrors is not heard. Perhaps also because these mirrors are too small, which caused inconvenience to the city crowd. But the panorama of the inner mirror is not blocked by sophisticated headrests, and, despite the small opening of the rear window, the picture remained very informative. I do not praise and do not scold myself for finding something to complain about in this beautiful car.

Believe it, you want not, but he left me indifferent. For the first time in my life, I saw a figure on the scales, I will tell you, an event. I suddenly immediately felt my own weight, in every sense of the word. I even considered it appropriate to change the frivolous backpack to a leather suitcase. The Nissan Primera family sedan is no longer great for me. Moreover, having immersed my additional kilograms into the Audi A6 salon, I found that in the business class sedan, I no longer feel like a child in daddy galoshes.

I'm comfortable here. I feel calm and safe in the tight arms of the front panel and the central tunnel. Although sometimes it seems that this micromy caring around me is still too diligently isolated from the world's world. Surprisingly, the mentor correctness of the Audi interior suddenly began to impress me: I hardly miss me - it turns out that it is enough for me that everything here is imperceptibly convenient.

Before taking a historical step on the scales, I managed to wove to stupefying on an all-wheel drive “A-six” at the Audi Driving School in Karelia. Perhaps that is why in Moscow now I don’t want to go aggressively - I just want to dynamically. With Audi, I unexpectedly fell in love with night prospects that previously hated - their dull monotony seems to me now romantic. Stringing traffic lights on the xenon thread of emerald, I understand that there is time to think, listen to music.

Eh, here High-End! Have I ever matured before? True, for the same money you can buy a pitching Chrysler C with a huge “eight” 5. But aesthetic damage will be much more significant than saved products.

And then-I’m an “Audi-Driver” with one experience of experience: if I liked the business class sedan, it would be nice to get a business itself. I thought about this, still standing on the scales.Alexander Zakharov, the artist Growth SM, Driving Experience - 36 years, drives in an Opel Omega car, the appearance of the Audi A6 of the previous generation was not just a new word in automobile design - this was a revelation.

The bold and unexpected solution of stylists who profess the beauty of simple, mathematically correct forms, radii and spheres looked fresh, unusual and elegant. All generations of Audi cars in recent history had a recognizable, characteristic appearance and a special, refined style, but that machine is an unconditional masterpiece. But the market and time are ruthless even to such works of art: new ideas and new forms are needed.

The latest “six” - the car is also very beautiful and stylish. But still it is perceived as a modification of that previous one. Outwardly, the car has become more aggressive, swift and bright, and also “prickly”. The master’s hand, making three powerful smear, turned a beautiful, friendly and calm lady into a socialite, into a predator. A huge radiator grille, elegant, flying from the front wheel to the rear bumper light glare and a spectacular under the stamp in the form of a trunk interceptor spoiler on the lid of the trunk, and when you start not only to admire this beauty, but already glancing at it “like yours”, when you touch it here and it becomes clear for which they take that kind of money.

Here it is, the highest world level of approach to mass production of cars. Overflow, fantastic level. Sensation, touch of quality is drunk and fascinating. The quality of surfaces and their joints, the quality of control algorithms for all functions, the development of parts and nuances, the quality of the selection of materials, light, color and textures.

In this car, I liked everything, with the exception of the textures of wooden inserts in the cabin. But these inserts can be ordered anyway, for every taste. And how the car is equipped! And the rain sensor, and the lighting machine, and parking sensors, and the climate, and the music is very convenient to the metaphor of the media center, where the display graphics repeats the manual system control bodies.

Planting adjustment is the most accurate and very convenient, at an ideal level for me, not so long ago specified by the “five” BMW. But the seats themselves, it seems, are slightly inferior. And also - the lateral mirrors are small. Of course, a permanent all -wheel drive is already a good in itself, and with the support of the intellectual systems that the car was pushed is a miracle.

Ice, snow, dirt, snow porridge, dry asphalt - all this separately or in any combinations, and the car goes like rails, but at the same time in the direction that you set. I liked the powerful but rather economical engine. But the most remarkable is the gearbox! Moreover, for me, even for the most dynamic acceleration, it is better to leave the box in the “sports-automatic” mode “S”, and not to switch to “manual”.

Although the steering wheel petals for the “manual” selection of programs - the toy is simply wonderful. Amazing machine. It is a pity that while she is inaccessible to me. There was something heavy, arrogant and pathos in that car, especially in versions with “deputy tuning”: flashing lights, strobe, three-color numbers and rude drivers. And there are few differences in the external!

Another lighting technology, a little more dynamic lines, a visually “lightweight” trunk machine became more intelligent. Now hiding under the hood “Kryakalka” or putting “blue -eyed” on the roof is already awkward. Accurate mechanics - this is what Audi A6 is. A serious car thought out to the smallest detail, and at the same time very well made. I especially liked the combination of a three -liter engine, an automatic gearbox and a full -wheel drive transmission.

A kind of gentleman's set for calm and self -confident people showing their driver's skills and the capabilities of their car not in races on the counterclaim, but on snowy suburban paths or special closed tracks. Perhaps the only thing that periodically caused irritation was excessive "multimedia" controls. I am not an opponent of modern computer technology. But when, including heating the seats or changing the direction of air flows, you see the usual analog scale in the third submenu of the display, the thought creeps out that they are simply mocking you.

After all, such a control algorithm does not help get rid of the “extra” buttons on the front panel. Why complicate then? But I am afraid that the new A6 is unlikely to get rid of the most unpleasant feature of its predecessor - a high “criminogenicity”: these machines are too often stolen. And for me this is a good reason to abandon such acquisition.