2017 Audi A4 Euro-Spec Review - Automobile
FREIBURG, Germany -- After breakfast, the Technicolor test car convoy lines up at the foot of the famous Schauinsland hill climb on a gray Saturday morning. It was here where the annual European championship event -- fearless heroes in fragile, fast open-top single-seat sports cars -- drew large crowds in the 1960s. Audi has chosen the legendary route as the place for the first real drive of the new... We start the day in an A4 powered by its highest-spec 3. 0-liter V-6 diesel with 272 horsepower (it’s available in the new Q7, but won’t be offered in the U. S. -spec A4), and after takeoff we’re still busy sorting out the basics. The new A4’s redesigned sport seat is supportive and comfortable, but it needs adjusting. Drive Select wants to be in the individual position. Although the V-6 TDI spreads its 443 lb-ft of torque from 1,500 to 3,000 rpm, nudging the eight-speed Tiptronic automatic’s new, square drive-by-wire gear selector to the manual position and flooring the accelerator doesn’t quite have the... Once the torque feed has started, however, it feels more progressive and less peaky than last year’s vintage. Source: www.automobilemag.com
