it's the high performance versions of the models that carry the r s badge we tested the new our as for avant now in its fourth generation our card to streamline a washy for will be taking a closer look at some of the innovations made to it the sticks in his view would normally matters in a station wagon are things like practicality and functionality but knowing that there's time for an hour as for the only things that really count are performance and driving pleasure on. this station wagon sports version looks back on a long and successful history. recalls of the r.'s four is based on the legendary 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 it's back to a v. six but it's 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 owner is four of but moves from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in four point one seconds with a top 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. a minimal notes that he can choose between different modes while driving comfort dynamic auto or individual whatever suits the driver's 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 didn't expect to have any complaints about its handling of the r.h. for so well balance in the curves it's really fun to drive and accelerating out of them is no problem thanks to the quanto all wheel drive and plenty of traction makes driving it pure fun. the r. is force design can be described as elegant yet aggressively sporty. the honeycomb grill easily air coup. the two point nine leader engine. from inside a huge hardly think you were sitting in a sports car were not for details like the are as logos the materials are high quality and the workmanship clean. buttons on the steering wheel make the infotainment system easy to operate. overall the manner of things the r.s. four is a fabulous car everything is right the suspension the performance the workmanship he really doesn't have any complaints as he would only expect from a car that starts at nearly eighty thousand euros but when he uses the drives away menu to change modes and it displays a little car he would have preferred to see r s four instead of a plain old i bought. the new audi r s four avant is no bargain by any means and if the buyer starts sanding options the price can swiftly rise above one hundred thousand europe's. an artist i'm great cinema says subarus new x v has undergone a more than a facelift yet it doesn't seem much different than its predecessor after all subaru doesn't want to turn off customers were appreciate the all wheel drive models durability and reliability. and why change a winning formula even with the production capacity of over one million vehicles a year subaru is still unable to keep up with the demand so x. vs have a high resale value to the new xxvii is one of the. first for the manufacturers models to be based on the subaru global platform this modular platform will underpin the next generation of subaru vehicles. two bickley four a crossover the x v sixty or features plastic landing designed to protect the vehicles paint job as the world's biggest producer of all wheel drive vehicles it's only natural that subaru once it's exegete to come well prepared for johnson. the whole stack operations the x. means 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 actual on demand line and the x.v. has permanent all wheel drive just in a box or engine also ensures of the all wheel drive is symmetrical so there's no imbalance between the left side on the right side of the power during the engine slow center of gravity makes for a good stability to allison island fans as it has spotted. with twenty two senate leaders and ground clearance going up road is a breeze in the x.v. the s.u.v. covers rough terrain with nice and it's all wheel drive lets it handle the toughest of conditions even rocky inclines or no trouble the actual these wheels don't spin on the gravel. and if i tossed under a says it's price is another of the x. me strengths look for a basic compact s.u.v. with all wheel drive from another car maker and you'll pay all around thirty thousand euros plus two or three thousand more for an automatic transmission up but 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 and automatic transmission. cost just twenty three thousand euros and germany guards. inside our test vehicle looks very chic with its orange stitching and even if it's dashboard it's all full leather and plastic the x v never looks cheap it's also the safest vehicle in its class earning five stars in a way this year and c.a.p crash tests that's partly due to the crossovers built in eyesight driver assist it's pretty coalition breaking feature can prevent or reduce the severity of frontal impacts of. this fresh air he says the actually his biggest weakness is its 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 tronic out of magic transmission andris testing the smaller engine and finds its acceleration 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 x.v. cuts a good figure in the city but it's really at home in the mountains. to bag a. volvo has added the x e forty two it's actually family the swedish car maker is given this compact and should be a more angular look than preview. yes 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 liter ivy tech gasoline engine that has an output of ninety six kilowatts provided buyers opt for the dynamic trim level and like all honda engines this one is very rev happy delivering his power through a six speed transmission. car just that i know of guys in over says it's important to free cars of snow ice and road salt regularly during winter they've already done that with their test car the v.w. eagle but very low or high temperatures aren't ideal for batteries of electric cars either. you know it says weight is also a major concern for electric cars the eagles a battery pack and any way almost four hundred kilos that's like driving around for adults and one hundred kilos of luggage this reduces range he says so he wonders if it makes sense to invest in the electric car just yet. the second votes wagon generation has a longer range and a slightly reword 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 out would takes up to seventeen hours a fast charging station can recharge the battery up to eighty percent in just forty five minutes. i know of things the eagles interior looks like that of any other golf but the instrument panel and touch screen have been adapted to tell drivers how much range is left and range is what really matters and 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. but that's really. 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 reader combustion engine cars that's because it weighs an extra four hundred kilos but for that it's almost silent. game sun it's hardly different from gasoline and diesel powered v.w. cars one difference it's got blue stitching and the touchscreen can be controlled through gestures. the steering wheel is fitted with buttons to control the radio and various driver's assistant systems easily. before heading off drivers can check things like the battery charge status and regulate the interior temperature using the car net the remote app on their computer or smartphone a car also boasts a new eco driving mode that makes predictive driving easier helping to save energy and increase range. that's not the amino says the car's sat nav is especially savvy and helps cut down on energy consumption and knows if a downhill stretch is nearing where the car can just coast and recuperating energy it also recognizes if a speed limit or tone is coming up driver is 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 there's a useful optional feature for winter for nine hundred seventy five euros buyers can get a heat pump to further increase the car's range it 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 up to thirty percent. i know 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 traveling country roads but too little for highways so both ways going to offer an all in go for owners of free rental car for thirty days per year for a weekend or holiday trips doesn't come cheap says ryan atlas for thirty six thousand euros even with germany's ecological buyer's incentive factored in. equipping cars with collision avoidance systems helps to make driving safer but just how reliable are they can drivers blindly depend on them we teamed up with the chairman automobile club to test various systems designed to prevent collisions. under us weekly 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 that's two cameras able to see three dimensionally. and to the. first we test the systems under normal conditions meaning the cars head straight for a parked gummi vehicle at twenty five to thirty kilometers per hour all the systems work flawlessly. assess the struggle is underway as introduces the first variable a car park next to the gummi vehicle to see if that will confuse the system and if . the car park close by is no problem at all for any of a collision avoidance systems all three handle the situation with. the next factor is a dirty windshield often in winter road salt and dirt obscure the driver's vision of the op to believe based systems are still quite reliable. the v.w. apps ways are and 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 blockages like this. the subaru stereo camera gives a warning signal but the v.w. absolutely zero system doesn't tell the driver the collision avoidance system is no longer active with it on his own signed away as has found that collision avoidance systems generally work well in various test situations and they can't 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 this team. now let's take a look at intersection assistants the german i. there will be a club developed a special platform with a dummy that the radar would appear to be a completely normal passenger car if a collision occurs it won't cause any damage the 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 kingson ion traffic crossing the road the systems are currently only available in the high end classes of for example volvo mercedes and audi. that i don't use discovers that the first three assisted systems work very differently for intersections and there are cd sports vehicles crossing his path the audi and the oval stop themselves from pulling of the on coming or crossing traffic so. much like the collision avoidance systems the new intersections systems use sensors and cameras in combination with a radar that squad vehicles crossing their paths and stop in time. all three systems tested out fine but they can only hit the brakes of certain parameters are met. the mercedes system only kicks in if a car coming in front is going half as fast as the mercedes itself. otherwise the sensor spotted too late. intersection assistant also has its limitations that is that so i believe this is found that the turn signal has to be on the car travelling at 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 for the oval though none of these three parameters apply it will prevent a collision of the car were to veer into another lane i thought also thought of also. being a forgone when i could is there one thing about. the continuing to vent. amount 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 form of man or elizabeth is a michael's 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 or a no are four as she's nickname but. this is elizabeth explains that it's a rule no or an r. for super from spain no used to have a plant in spain called far as where they built this car now the model has become quite a rarity. and. the first test runs commenced in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine for the prototype bar for known at the time only as a project one twelfth bruneau produced the compact its first car with front wheel drive from one thousand nine hundred sixty one to one thousand nine hundred two more than eight million of them in the course of those thirty one years. are four years from one nine hundred seventy she'd gone looking for it in fact she'd 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 cars they called it was always an art for when you gave up the ghost they got another one she learned how to drive in our ford age for. fifteen out of five and. a loser of the shows was 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 roots the family still owns the land it's 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. in my mouth she told us the men would sit in the back here any time going to have us asking them. when the men had finished eating elizabeth would pack up and head back but she had to stop at the public road lock 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 reno our force as a teenager but the first one she bought on our own didn't last long. run 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 didn't want to give her brother and sister the car she parked in her 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 things i mean this time maybe. it would not talk to them. and it wasn't the only r. ford to be claimed by rust the models are nemesis but elizabeth never forgot her old r four so in two thousand and ten she went out and bought her madame b. but it wasn't 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 work into restoring her new are for but it only brought her and madame de closer together recently and joined a group in france. they have elizabeth recounts that they were all driving renault's and she was there with man m b h five n one the one they spent the night in an old mill she started talking to the hostess who told her she did wired an old r. for together with the mil and i think. it was hidden under some bushes someone arrested for that. what happened was her with asked what she intended to do with it and the hoses gave it to her about elizabeth got a renault mechanic's outfit from someone in the group buys that keep the become what i had borrowed the hose boots from the mill and then waded into the black berry brand that's one best book cry in. on happy. 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 their own car. this is all she has fun driving it even if it isn't that fast is so gets are dependently from a to b. even if the radio crackles fine but she could live with that. call. her current are for stance in the same barn the first one did so long ago but its advance from work car to sunday car and elizabeth won't lose this one direction's not if she can help. and 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