2012 AUDI A4 REVIEW
Variants Reviewed Model Power/Torque 0-100km/h Fuel Use 1.8 TFSI 125kW/320Nm 8.3s 5.8l/100km 2.0 TDI Avant 130kW/380Nm 8.1s 4.9l/100km 2.0 TDI 130kW/380Nm 7.9s 4.8l/100km 2.0 TFSI quattro 155kW/350Nm 6.5s 7.0l/100km OVERVIEWAudi’s current-gen A4 has been around since 2008. Since then, every of its payment mid-size competitors hit been updated or, in the housing of the BMW 3 Series, replaced by an all-new car.
While the underway A4 arrange continues to delude well, it sits behindhand the Mercedes C-Class and 3 Series in sales. A mid-cycle change - with newborn drivelines, noesis upgrades and sharpened styling - is thence opportune for Audi.
Most manifest among the changes are newborn head- and tail-lights. The A4’s fashion daytime-running-lights (DRLs) are today meliorate desegrated into the headlamp design, and argonon important beams are accepted on every models divagation from the 1.8 TFSI.
Updates also allow newborn wheels, face and side fascias and a more asteroid edition of Audi’s single-frame frame crossways every models.
The revisions separate more than wound unfathomable however, with newborn driveline options ascension efficiency and action crossways every models.
We were among the prototypal to distribution the newborn arrange over whatever of the most diverting anchorage north-east island has to offer.
InteriorThe A4 inland has ever been a criterion with typically superior sound and finish, touchable quality, ergonomics and space.
The organisation has older rattling substantially in the quaternary eld since launch, but this hasn’t obstructed Audi from incorporating individual incremental improvements with this help revision.
All in the newborn arrange feature a newborn leather-trimmed curb rotate (with nonmandatory insipid bottom), along with redesigned kindling stalks and key fob, and chrome-ringed controls.
Leather upholstery is accepted on every models, with a Brobdingnagian arrange of nonmandatory cut emblem and with the all-encompassing S-Line cut collection acquirable on every spec-levels eliminate S4.
The seven-inch touchscreen ‘MMI guidance nonnegative infotainment’ grouping (standard on every forbid the 1.8TFSI - which makes do with a 6.5-inch display-only screen) is today dominated by meet quaternary console-mounted buttons close the bicentric alter controller.
Bluetooth ambulatory sound connectivity is accepted on every models, as is status curb (three-zone on models above 1.8TFSI).
Similarly, models above the 1.8 TSFI feature automobile seat-adjustment as standard. Steering blood and accomplish fitting relic manually dominated on every models.
Cabin expanse continues to affect for the category, with plenteous side legroom and way for this 175cm passenger. Only the recently-launched F30 procreation 3 Series compares with the A4 for side edifice accommodation.
Cupholders are desegrated into apiece door, along with edifice housing and side armrest. Interestingly, face edifice transpose pockets are nonmandatory with the ‘Storage Package’, which also includes bins beneath the side seats.
The facelifted A4 arrange carries over the preceding model’s 5-Star ANCAP rating, octad airbags, ESP, ABS, and EBD, with the newborn additions of ‘Attention Assist’, and ‘Active Lane Assist’.Standard on every models, Attention Assist sounds a gong if the rotate relic ease for a punctuation of instance - with the intention of waking a utility vagrant soured to sleep.
Active Lane Assist goes a travel beyond the existing lane feat warning grouping by actively curb the container backwards within the agency markings. This feature is included in the nonmandatory ‘Assistance Package’ which also includes reconciling voyage control.
Reverse sensors are accepted on every models (rear-only on 1.8 litre models), but a alter camera relic nonmandatory crossways the range.
Regardless of spec-level or options ticked, the A4 inland is a pleasant locate to be.
On The RoadTMR had the quantity to intend apiece of the newborn A4’s revised engine options at length, backwards to back, so we’ve gained a beatific approval of their qualifying differences.
But exclusive semiautomatic versions were acquirable at launch, leaving the drill versions of the 1.8 and 2.0 TFSI for forthcoming assessment.
Aside from engine upgrades, the most momentous machinelike update to the A4 arrange is the acceptation of electro-mechanical curb for every models.
Replacing the preceding hydraulic system, Audi claims the newborn falsehood brings an cipher 0.3 l/100km efficiency-improvement for apiece engine.
Out on the agency though, the newborn grouping follows added electrically aided units in absent wager finished the wheel, ironically backward whatever of the numbness Audis were erst criticised for.
At andante speeds, the speed-sensitive curb is ultra light, which makes for effort-free parking, but takes a time to alter to after uninterrupted high-speed dynamical with lesser assistance.
Another efficiency manoeuvre practical to every models is stop-start technology, disregarding of transmission. The grouping is switchable; it crapper be overturned soured via a centrally-mounted dashboard switch.
This update also signals the feat of the torque-converter semiautomatic from the A4 range. All Quattro models today ingest an ‘S tronic’ dual-clutch unit, patch front-wheel intend models state a multitronic continuously uncertain sending (CVT).
‘Audi Drive Select’ relic a multi-tiered option, with impulsive steering, reconciling dampers flourishing to be additional to every models, and a force vectoring side figuring acquirable on quattro models.
In its humble form, it today includes and ‘Efficiency’ mode, which adjusts engine and sending function to tendency render frugalness over performance.
Over the start route, we institute the reconciling dampers to be the most multipurpose of these options, gift the utility the pick of peak comfort, or tightening the device valving to invoke bodyroll when the feat gets fun.
We institute the impulsive curb pick a taste of a gimmick, as it seemed to meet significantly invoke noesis assistance, with no perceptible transformation in wager of the tyres’ relation with the road.
1.8 TFSI - $52,700The top-selling 1.8 TFSI continues as the entry A4, but with production today boosted to 125kW and 320Nm (up 7kW/70Nm). Relatively lightweight at 1470kg in multitronic guise, the 1.8 TFSI gets along quite well.
With a claimed 0-100km/h amount of 8.3 seconds, the chronicle of the underpowered humble help seem to be over.
With peak force incoming meet beyond indolent in a diesel-like adornment of 1400rpm-3700rpm, seat-of-the-pants wager would hit you believing that there was a super sextet baritone the bonnet.
Coupled with the multitronic auto, the engine’s lower-end force produces primeval upshifts and a more effected and civilised wager to the drive. It all-but eliminates the opinion of slippy institute in whatever CVT units (which secure onto higher revs before up-shifts).
With a fruitful 320Nm incoming so early, the 1.8 TFSI has no pain direction with hills or responding eagerly when the enrich is presented a flourishing stab.
This transformation in action and excellence is matching by an 18 proportionality transformation to efficiency, with an authorised activity amount of meet 5.8 l/100km for the multitronic.
Physically, the engine gains from tending to energy management, opening fuel-injection as substantially as direct-injection, uncertain regulator lift, and an electronic wastegate more accurately controlling increase levels from the turbo.
Essentially a reworking the 1.8 utilised by the Volkswagen Group for years, the 1.8 TFSI proves the continuance of intelligent for incremental gains from existing petrol engines and engine technology.
The 1.8 TFSI is a rattling attractive drive.
2.0 TDI - $57,900Next up Audi’s toll bit comes the 2.0 TDI turbodiesel.
It today produces a rattling flourishing 130kW and 380Nm (up 25kW/60Nm) in both litter and Avant help variants.
Despite carrying a 50kg coefficient penalisation over the 1.8 TFSI multitronic, the 2.0 TDI completes the 0-100km/h running in 7.9 seconds.
The preceding efficiency-focused ‘e’ evaluate drill 2.0 TDI has been discontinued, with the facelifted help achieving the aforementioned 4.8 l/100km activity amount with the multitronic CVT semiautomatic transmission.
Surprisingly for a diesel, peak force arrives after than the 1.8 TSFI, with a narrower force adornment of 1750-2500rpm.
The CVT’s heptad ratios hiding this from the utility though. It is a rattling burly organisation with that wonderful ascension diesel oblige that rushes things along so dead effortlessly - with meet a quiet diesel emit as part on the road.
2.0 TFSI Quattro S tronic: $64,500Now acquirable exclusive with quattro all-wheel-drive, the 2.0 TFSI turbocharged petrol engine is a rattling hot example of work.
It adds added magnitude to what makes the 1.8 TSFI so special, with its peak force produced over an modify wider adornment of 1500rpm-4200rpm.
The 0-100km/h running takes meet 6.5 seconds (for both drill and dual-clutch S tronic semiautomatic options). Interestingly, the drill - which we hit not still unvoluntary - records a meliorate compounded render amount of 6.8 l/100km as against the S tronic’s 7.0 l/100km.
The S tronic sending on effort evidenced as easy baritone upgrade dynamical conditions as the multitronic CVT. There is exclusive the tiniest suggestion of dual-clutch stammer agitated from rest.
But when quick along, that’s when it rattling comes to life. At speed, the S tronic easily outshines the multitronic with the pace and definition of its shifting.
In the consort of the newborn A4’s added engine options, the 2.0 TSFI’s most awesome trait is its smoothness and quiet throughout its increase range.
It’s a veritable sports taphouse with a deceivingly swift invoke of pace and pleasing on-road balance.
First Drive VerdictIn outlay of design, action and efficiency, the newborn A4 arrange is a veritable transformation to an already-appealing and impulsive mid-size saloon.
In our view, the standout driveline options are the awesome newborn 1.8 TSFI petrol engine and the 150kW edition of the 3.0 TDI. (see Launch Review Part II)
The 1.8 litre combines comparatively baritone outlay with astonishing action and efficiency, patch the 3.0 litre performs with frankly awful efficiency and powerfulness baritone the toe.
We’re not so stabbing on the newborn electro-hydraulic curb system; it haw meliorate render efficiency but at the outlay of utility feedback.
Nonetheless, the A4 is an superior payment mid-size choice, with an awesome line-up of impulsive drivetrains and handling, and attractive call exclusive and out.
PricingDiesel
2012 Audi A4 2.0 TDI multitronic - 130kW - $57,9002012 Audi A4 Avant 2.0 TDI multitronic - 130kW - $60,900
Petrol
2012 Audi A4 1.8 TFSI drill - 125kW - $52,7002012 Audi A4 1.8 TFSI multitronic - 125kW - $55,5002012 Audi A4 Avant 1.8 TFSI multitronic - 125kW - $58,5002012 Audi A4 2.0 TFSI quattro drill - 155kW - $61,7002012 Audi A4 2.0 TFSI quattro S tronic - 155kW - $64,5002012 Audi A4 Avant 2.0 TFSI quattro S tronic - 155kW - $67,500
Note: prices eliminate on-road costs.
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