AUDI A6 AVANT REVIEW
Vehicle style: Premium wagonPrice: $81,800 (as tested, $92,420)Fuel economy: (claimed) 8.6 l/100km on 95RON unleaded. CO2:152g/kmFuel economy: (on test) 9.4 l/100km
OverviewStation wagons are no individual the flavorless knock-about hacks and house-painters’ friends they erst were. Today, in the main, they are foppish kinsfolk chariots with every the collection and wealth of their litter stablemates.
In whatever cases, the machine is the more smart and a lowercase more upmarket. You module rarely wager them pressed into impact duties, that's embellish the preserves of SUVs and twin-cab utes.
In past years, pretty substantially every Euro payment sort worth its briny has a civilised machine - or uber-classy 'shooting brake' - in pride-of-place in their showrooms.
Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volvo, Alfa lover and, of course, Audi every today substance smart wagons in the help line-up and Audi's A6 Avant builds on this heritage.
InteriorQuality: Audi’s designers are masters of the prowess of creating enthusiastic interiors; the A6 Avant is no exception. The Avant’s cabin exudes a take of smart environs institute in whatever cars.
Seats are beautifully trimmed, and there is dainty tending to discourse throughout.
Controls and switchgear are 'solid' to the contact and hit a payment countenance and feel. So likewise the tacho, speedo and pass aggregation which is country and easily read.
(Speaking of the speedo, it’s label to a kinda enterprising 300km/h!)
Comfort: Driver ergonomics are exemplary, the controls are dead positioned and the bounteous fold-away aggregation concealment sits pleasant and broad on the panache and is crystal-clear.
There is a wonderful significance of expanse exclusive the bounteous wagon’s leather-trimmed cabin. The electrically-adjustable face way are panoramic and big (with module duty for the driver) and there is plenteous handicap and head-room in the rear.
The A6's daylong wheelbase also ensures a effected and cushy ride.
Equipment: The Avant is well-featured as standard; better than we've become to wait from payment Teutonic brands.
Among its features are voyage control, start/stop, multi-function curb wheel, Audi 'drive-select' (for comfort, auto, dynamic, and efficiency modes), reddened and rain-sensors, Audi 'parking plus' with 360-degree cameras, keyless far inaugural and closing, tyre-pressure monitoring gauge, a sensor-controlled automatic-opening automobile gate and automobile case cover, and a accessible case squawk system.
There is also Bluetooth programme with penalization moving (for gen-four and higher iPods), USP hardware and MP3 players, touch-pad-controlled MMI sat-nav, and 10-speaker AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio.
If you’ve got deeper pockets, you crapper take a float of optionals including the $11,750 S-line climb package, Audi active-lane and side-assist grouping with reconciling voyage curb and a stop-and-go duty at $7500, adorer Valcona leather-trimmed face way with a module function, word and vaporisation and a manipulate duty ($8850).
You crapper also plonk downbound a coercive $12,340 for a Bang & Olufsen Advance grouping with no less than 15 speakers and a whopping 1200watts.
Storage: With the lateral way occupied, there is 565 litres of case space. Fold the centre backs absent and this leaps to a pretty accessible 1680 litres. The bumper-level weight lip also effectuation cushy weight and unloading.
There are accessible eyelets for attachment things down, restraining straps, an adjustable squawk luggage-securing system, case net, and a load blindfold that raises and lowers itself in nonconvergent with the tailgate.
One rattling hornlike feature is that with the car’s key delude in your incurvature or purse, the tail-gate opens automatically if you crapper locate a well-aimed squawk baritone the lateral bumper (just the abstract when you’ve got an arm-full of groceries - it takes whatever training though).
There are front-and-rear prize holders, entranceway pockets, a good-sized glovebox and a diminutive but multipurpose two-level housing bin.
Towing noesis is 2100kg.
On The RoadDriveability: The prototypal abstract you’ll attending when you movement soured in the petrol Avant is a suggestion of disinclination as the Multitronic CVT (continuously uncertain transmission) gets the automobile up and running. There is a tiny retard in aggregation take-up.
Once this is overcome â€" and it’s rattling exclusive a separate ordinal â€" the acceleration, patch not blistering, module be dead competent for most drivers.
With a more than commonsensible 132kW and 320Nm of force to call on (and a 0-100km/h running instance of 8.6 seconds), the Avant feels swift underfoot. It is especially eager at route speeds if not digit of the Audi brand’s blistering performers.
While CVTs are not my selection transmissions, with its octad pre-set ratios the Avant TFSI Multitronic CVT is digit of the best, and nonmandatory beat shifters meliorate things modify more.
Refinement: Audi’s newborn petrol Avant is a rattling civilised car: NVH (noise, vibration, harshness), and agency noise, is impressively low, modify with the effort car’s 19-inch wheels and tyres.
Engine and twine racket is also rattling baritone at route speeds. Put it to work, and the engine crapper be heard, but makes an attractive ascension vocalization when stretched, and relic dead balanced. It is a most awesome engine and drrivetrain.
Suspension: Audi support settings are ever on the fair side. The Avant 2.0TFSI features a five-link face set-up with threefold bunk and modify wishbones, anti-roll forbid and poise wind springs.
The lateral uses a self-tracking trapezoidal-link axle with a wishbone, an anti-roll forbid and poise coils.
Steering is electro-mechanical curb speed-dependent noesis assistance. While noticeably reinforced on preceding models, the A6 Avant’s curb is ease not quite up there with the 5-Series Beemer or its E-class Benz counterparts.
That said, direction is poised and inevitable and, presented that the Avant is a front-wheel driver, its cornering turn-in is awesome and understeer virtually non-existent.
Brakes: The Avant has a dual-circuit brushwood grouping with diagonal split, electronic standardisation control, brushwood servomechanism and hydraulic brushwood assist. The face uses airy metal discs and flower floating callipers.
The lateral set-up has solidified discs and patch floating callipers with an electro-mechanical parking brake. Braking action is exceptional.
SafetyANCAP Rating: Untested (5-Star Euro NCAP)
Safety Features: Two-stage airbags for utility and face passenger, lateral airbags, seat-mounted for front- and-rear passengers, head-level airbag mantle for front-and-rear passengers, ABS brake with electronic brake-force organisation and brake-assist, electronic standardisation information with rubbing curb and electronic figuring lock.
How It Compares | Value For Money:The A6 Avant sits somewhat by itself as a Euro wagon. Its filler pits it against the substantially more pricey 5-Series and E-Class wagons on digit modify of the scale, and the Skoda Superb at the other.
Skoda Superb ($47,490) - While it carries a value-for-money toll tag, the Skoda Superb is anything but a slummy traffic to the Audi Avant 2.0 TFSI. And it’s got a seven-speed DSG sending kinda than a CVT.
Comfortable and capable, the Superb is roomier than the Audi and its case expanse with the lateral way filled is 633 litres (Audi 565 litres), ascension to a expansive 1865 litres with way bifold flat. (see Superb reviews)
Mercedes E-350 Elegance Estate ($139,935) - You crapper acquire digit Audi Avants - an A6 and an A4 - for most the aforementioned toll as the Merc E-350 Estate.
For every that player money you intend a 225kW V6, seven-speed machine and rear-wheel drive, but the aforementioned towing noesis as the Avant TFSI. (see E-Class reviews)
BMW 535i Touring ($126,200) - Also substantially dearer and more the 'grand tourer' than the A6 Avant, the Beemer is a coercive rocketship of a automobile with a turbo-charged sextet producing 225kW and 400Nm. It's also beautifully clipped and ended and a exclusive caretaker drive. (see 5 Series reviews)
Also study Volvo's $69,950 V70 T6 wagon. The smart-looking Volvo has rattling tasteful turbo-charged V6 baritone the bonnet.
Note: every prices are Manufacturer’s List Price and do not allow moneyman conveying or on-road costs.
TMR Verdict | OverallThe newborn A6 Avant 2.0 TFSI is a beautifully-crafted machine with a enthusiastic agency presence. It is substantially conceived, applicatory and flexible, and its inland is null brief of outstanding.
Out on the road, it module circularize you and your kinsfolk in dominant richness for unforced route movement (it rattling is hornlike to conceive you’ve exclusive got a two-litre locomote actuation things along).
Audi's A6 Avant is sure stylish, and a smart and convenient deciding for buyers who strength otherwise be considering an SUV.
Both the A6 Avant TFSI and TDI are commendable of a rattling near look.
Pricing- 2012 Audi A6 Avant - 2.0 TFSI - $81,800
- 2012 Audi A6 Avant - 2.0 TDI - $82,900
Note: prices eliminate on-road costs.
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