Its the High Performance versions of audi models that carry the are as bad we tested the new our as for avant now in its fourth generation our card test reminded washy for will be taking a closer look at some of the innovations made to it. In his view what normally matters in a Station Wagon are things like practicality and functionality but no one that has time for an hour as for the only things that really counts are performance and driving pleasure. The Station Wagon sports version looks back on a long and successful history. Emmanuel recalls of the r. s four is based on the legendary of an r. As to the first generation was powered by a six cylinder engine with a second and third by an eight cylinder now for the fourth generation downsizing is the word so its back to a v six but its a three hundred thirty one kilowatt or four hundred fifty horsepower twin turbo putting out six hundred newton metres of torque and that amounts to a fast car to the steep cost. The other is for a bot moves from zero to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour in four point one seconds with a time speed capped at two hundred fifty or not tional two hundred eighty Kilometers Per Hour. The sports exhaust with active flaps make for a calmer choir to write the end of a monologue notes that he can choose between different modes while driving comfort dynamic auto or individual whatever suits the drivers personal taste for dynamic an individual the exhaust flaps are opened producing a somewhat louder sound. And in speed tiptronic got a magic transmission passes on the power to the twenty inch wheels even with these big rims and relatively less rubber between them and the road an optional air Live Performance especially makes the r s four Supreme League comfortable. In mind a while didnt expect to have any complaints about its handling of the r. H. For so well balance in the curves its really fun to drive and accelerating out of them is no problem thanks to that want row all wheel drive and plenty of traction makes driving it pure fun. The r. Is force design cant be described as elegant yet aggressively sporty. The honeycomb grille easily air cools the two point nine leader engine. From inside youd hardly think you were sitting in a sports car were it not for details like the are as logos the materials are high quality and the workmanship clean. But in the summer the Steering Wheel make the infotainment system easy to operate. Overall the manual thinks the r. S. Four is a fabulous car everything is right the suspension the performance the workmanship he really doesnt have any complaints as he would only expect from a car that starts at nearly eighty thousand euros when he uses the drive select menu to change modes and it displays a little cart that he would have preferred to see r. S. For instead of a plain old i bought. A new audi r is for a bond is no bargain by any means and if the buyer starts adding options the price can swiftly rise above one hundred thousand europes. An artist im doing some moments as subarus new xxvii has undergone a more than a facelift yet it doesnt seem much different than its predecessor after all subaru doesnt want to turn off customers were appreciate the all wheel drive models durability and reliability. And why change a winning formula even with a Production Capacity of over one. Million vehicles a year subaru is still unable to keep up with the demand so xxvii have a high resale value to the new xxvii is one of the first of the manufacturers models to be based on the subaru Global Platform this modular platform will underpin the next generation of subaru vehicles. Typically for a crossover the x v sixty are features plastic cladding designed to protect the vehicles paint job as the worlds biggest producer of all wheel drive vehicles its only natural that subaru once its x v become well prepared for johnson. Because of stack operations the x. These main strength is its all wheel drive unlike most modern s. U. V. S which operate in front wheel drive and only distribute power to the rear axle on demand line and the x v has permanent all wheel drive a stick in a box or engine also ensures that the all wheel drive is symmetrical so theres no imbalance between the left side on the right side of the power during the engine slow center of gravity makes very good stability to a list i dont see and says it has popped out of. What twenty two centimeters of Ground Clearance going up road is a breeze in the x. V. The s. U. V. Covers rough terrain with nice and its all wheel drive less and handle the toughest of conditions even rocky inclines are no trouble he actually these wheels dont spin on the gravel. And if i took a stack under he says his price is another of the xxvii strengths to look for a basic compact s. U. V. With all wheel drive from another car maker and youll pay all around three thousand euros plus two or three thousand more for an automatic transmission up for the. For that price you can get the x. P. With the top engine and the highest trim level and the base model actually which comes with all wheel drive an automatic transmission cost just twenty three thousand euros in germany parts. Inside our test vehicle looks very schick with its orange stitching and even if its dashboard is all full leather and plastic the x v never looks cheap its also the safest vehicle in its class earning five stars in the latest euro and c. A. P crash tests thats partly due to the crossovers built in eyesight Driver Assist its three collision braking feature can prevent or reduce the severity of frontal impacts. Of this pressure the Congress Says the biggest weakness is an engine range for cost reasons subaru has foregone a diesel entirely so buyers can only choose between two gasoline engines and they only come with a lean year trani got a magic transmission getting andris testing the smaller engine and finds its acceleration and satisfactory and has a bad feel to it and little pick up a snowflake. So it takes the eighty four kilowatt one point six liter power plant almost fourteen seconds to go from zero to one hundred kilometers an hour though the xxvii consumes just six point four liters of fuel per one hundred kilometers under new European Driving Cycle test conditions. He says the x. Five is rock solid and bucks the trend towards urbanists u. V. s as made for those who go off road or at the very least drive in snow yaks he cuts a good figure in the city but its really at home in the mountains. Has added the x e forty two its actually a family the swedish carmaker is given this compact s. U. V. A more angular look than previous larger models the new x three forty is available with eighty five gasoline powered engine putting out one hundred eighty two kilowatts or a d. For diesel with one hundred forty kilowatts of power. Has reworked the jazz now and sports the honda civic face the jazz comes with a new one point five leader i detect a gasoline engine that has an output of ninety six kilowatts provided by years for the dynamic trim level and like all honda engines this one is very rev happy delivering his power through a six speed transmission. System dies in over says its important to free cars of snow ice and road salt regularly during winter theyve already done that with their test car the v. W. Eagle but very low or high temperatures arent ideal for batteries of electric cars either so yes the. Highest. I know says weight is also a major concern for electric cars the eagles battery pack and any way almost four hundred kilos thats like driving around in one hundred kilos of luggage this reduces range she says so he wonders if it makes sense to invest in electric car just yet its a part of. The second votes wagon generation has a longer range and a slightly reworked front section a lithium ion batteries capacity was increased from twenty four point two to thirty five point eight kilowatt hours charging the batteries from a standard two hundred thirty mains outlet takes up to seventeen hours of. Ash charging station can recharge the battery up to eighty percent in just forty five minutes. I know of thinks the eagles interior looks like that of any other gulf but the Instrument Panel and touch screen have been adapted to tell drivers how much range is left and range is what really matters i hope wants to test how it holds up he will turn on the air conditioning the seat heater radio lights and the windshield wipers to see how much range that leaves. If i took a. B. W. Claims the Second Generation e. Car has a range of three hundred kilometers almost double that it was predecessor b. W. Has also increased the maximum speed from one hundred forty to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour and makes the dash from zero to one hundred kilometers an hour and nine point six seconds. I know it says the ego suspension is a bit stiffer than in regular read Combustion Engine cars thats because it weighs an extra four hundred kilos but for that its almost silent. Yes. Inside its hardly different from gasoline and diesel powered v. W. Cars one difference its got blue stitching and the touch screen can be controlled through gestures. The Steering Wheel is fitted with buttons to control the radio and various drivers assistant systems easily. Before heading off drivers can check things like the Battery Charge status and regulate the interior temperature using the car net ear remote app on their computer or. A car also boasts a new eco driving mode that makes predictive driving easier helping to save energy and increase range. Nobby amino says the cars sat nav is especially savvy and helps cut down on Energy Consumption and knows of a downhill stretch is nearing where the car can just coast and recuperate energy it also recognizes if a speed limiter town is coming up drivers are going to let up on the accelerator and increase range recuperation works on three levels it has two advantages saving or Generating Energy and reducing brake wear. And theres a useful optional feature for winter for nine hundred seventy five euros buyers can get a heat pump to further increase the cars range and utilizes both ambient air and heat produced by the drive train to warm the cabin reducing Energy Consumption that can boost the vehicles range by have to thirty percent. Final says the eagle makes sense in cities it has a range of roughly two hundred kilometers even in winter enough to get to work in town or even travel in country roads but too little for highways so both wagons offering all illegal phoners of free rental car for thirty days per year for a weekend or holiday trips doesnt come cheap says ryan at least for thirty six thousand euros even with germanys ecological buyers incentive factored in. Equipping cars with Collision Avoidance systems helps to make driving safer but just how reliable are they and drivers blindly depend on them we teamed up with the German Automobile club eighty eight seat. Tense various systems designed to prevent collisions. Put us under his wiggling his testing of up with the city emergency brake that works with a laser sensor up to thirty Kilometers Per Hour a c. S. V. Take it with a radar sensor behind its logo and a subaru with a stereo camera behind the windshield thats two cameras able to see three dimensionally. And other side. First we test the systems under normal conditions meaning the cars head straight for a parked dummy vehicle at twenty five to thirty Kilometers Per Hour all the systems work flawlessly. Underway as introduces the first variable a car park next to the dummy vehicle to see if that will confuse the system so. The car park close by is no problem at all for any of the Collision Avoidance systems all three and it was situation with. The next factor is a dirty windshield often in winter road salt and dirt obscure the drivers vision but the author really based systems are still quite reliable. The v. W. Ups ways are at the subarus camera both have things well under control. We go a step further and stick masking tape on the windshield to simulate bird droppings the systems must be able to see past blotches like this. The subaru stereo camera gives a warning signal but the v. W. Absolutely zero system doesnt tell the driver the Collision Avoidance system is no longer active when they want to sign away as has found that Collision Avoidance systems generally work well in various test situations and they cant see if a camera sensor is more reliable than a radar sensor and all the systems are limited by different factors and variables so the driver should not by any means depend on him. No lets take a look at intersection assistants the German AutomobileClub Developed a special platform with a dummy that three darwood appeared of the a completely normal Passenger Car if a collision occurs it wont cause any damage and dummy vehicle can be steered down to the centimeter via g. P. S. Unlike the Collision Avoidance systems that will only slow down and stop vehicles moving with the traffic the intersection assisting keeps an eye on traffic crossing the road the systems are currently only available in the high end classes of for example volvo mercedes and audi. Yes in that i dont use discovers that the first three assisted systems work very differently for intersections and the receiving sports vehicles crossing his path the audi and the wall will stop themselves from pulling into on coming or crossing traffic so. Much like the Collision Avoidance systems the new intersection systems use sensors and cameras in combination with a radar to spot vehicles crossing their paths and stop in time. All three systems test about. Fine but they can only hit the brakes of certain parameters are met. The mercedes system only kicks in if a car cutting in front is going half as fast as the mercedes itself. Otherwise the sensor spots it too late. Always intersection assistant also has its limitations. So i believe it has found that the turn signal has to be on the car travelling in ten Kilometers Per Hour or less and the system has to see its own lane because it will try to keep the car in it where the wall will though none of these three parameters apply it will prevent a collision of the car were to veer into another lane thought the father hauls up big a forgone what i call is the one thing of. The continuing development of Collision Avoidance systems and intersection assistance is enhanced in Traffic Safety considerably making them standard for all vehicle classes would not only cut down on fender benders but on serious accidents as well. Tucked away in a Little Village is the one hundred eighty year old one horse man or elizabeth these are michaels parents ran a farm here for many years she grew up on it now she not only takes loving care of the manor but also over and darling in the barn are a no are for that shes nicknamed by them of age. This is elizabeth explains that its a rule no five or and our four super from spain rhino used to have a plant in spain called farmers or where they built this car now the model has become quite a rarity if. You are not. The first test runs commenced in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine for the prototype bar four known at the time only as project one twelve renault produced the compact its first car with front wheel drive from one thousand nine hundred sixty one to one nine hundred ninety two more than eight million of them in the course of those thirty one years old is a bizarre force from one nine hundred seventy shed gone looking for it in fact shed never forgotten it her love affair with this model began here over thirty years ago. Elizabeth remembers they had one on the farm they had a nice car but their field car as they called it was always in our four and when i gave up the ghost they got another one she learned how to drive in our ford age fifteen out of five and. A loser of the shows is the road she took to the fields she used to help her mother by taking lunch out to the men but as long as she was under eighteen she had to stick to dirt roots the family still owns the land its not far away from the manor her mother drove till they got to the field in elizabeth took the wheel and her mother walked back to the house now elizabeth drives her very own dearly loved our four but not in the fields. She told us the men would sit in the back here any time when you ask them. When the men had finished eating elizabeth would pack up and head back but she had to stop at the public road block up the car walk back to the house and give her mother the keys that was her daily chore now of course elizabeth can drive wherever she wants she started driving were no our force as a teenager but the first. When she but on her own didnt last long. Yes she explains that her first car fell victim to rust she had just finished her studies and wanted to spend some time abroad but she didnt want to give her brother and sister the car she parked in or grandparents garage and left for canada when she came back and opened the garage door it was rusted through and through it had been moved. To stymie the thought for costs that it would not give a thought to. And it wasnt the only are for to be claimed by rust the models arjun emesis but all those of us never forgot her old our four so in two thousand and ten she went out and bought her madam b. But it wasnt as simple as paying the Purchase Price the car was shiny bright outside but riddled with bugs inside she only noticed them after she got the car home so elizabeth had to put lots of working to restore in her new are for but had only brought her in madame de closer together recently they joined a group in france. They have on elizabeth recounts that they were all driving renaults and she was there with madam b. Five when they spent the night in an old mill she started talking to the hostess who told her she did wired an old are for together with the mill and i think. It was hidden under some bushes someone to stand back. Would have elizabeth asked what she intended to do with it and the hostess gave it to her elizabeth got a renault mechanics outfit from someone in the group mice that keep the become what i had borrowed the hose boots from the mill and then she and waded into the black berry brand thats one best book crime. On that that there she found a beautiful old r. Four that still had its chrome trim she worked on it for an hour and a half and screwing all the chrome part she could get. She was overjoyed that she could have so much fun with her own car. This is yet all she has from driving it even if it isnt that fast as joe gets or dependably from a to b. Even if the radio crackles fine but she could live with that either cannot thought. Her current are four stance in the same barn the first one did so long ago but its advance from work car to sunday car and those are both long lose this one the rust not a she can help. And next time on drive it we tesco it is compact s. U. V. The car a. And triad porsche is breathtaking five hundred kilowatt panamera turbo s. Bridgeport turismo. The be. The be the be. The be. The be. The but. The be. The be. The be. The birth first they cheated on diesel emissions and they experimented on mondays and schumanns good folks wagon cases global economy. And you can still business is booming sales top ten million cars last year how do they do it how Big Companies shrug and scandalous goofy. Little. Clothes a plastic bundle turn into eating stuff why do algae that makes clean. Good idea cant work anymore and there are people developing Smart Solutions everywhere. 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