Audi is launching the subsequent era of the Audi A6 Avant, the maximum a success enterprise-magnificence station wagon in Europe. The new version offers the brand's complete array of modern technological expertise. Its light-weight frame, huge quantities of that are made from aluminum, units new requirements, as does the huge choice of help and multimedia structures. The key-word for the latter is Audi connect. The new Audi A6 Avant is to be had with a preference of six engines: gas engines and 4 diesel gadgets. Fuel intake has been decreased via way of means of as an awful lot as 18 percentage as compared with the preceding version. Topping the engine lineup is the brand new 3.zero TDI with twin-faster era and 230 kW (313 hp). Audi additionally gives severa excessive-quit alternatives for the drivetrain and the chassis. The baggage compartment has a potential of as much as 1,680 liters (59.33 cu ft) and gives some of stylish functions, consisting of a strength rear hatch that opens in reaction to a sensor signal.
Audi is over again main the way, with the brand new A6 Avant the trendsetter withinside the enterprise magnificence. With its light-weight frame and plenty of extra innovations, the seventh-era Audi A6 Avant is supposed to write down any other bankruptcy withinside the version collection' records of success.
The new Avant units requirements with its low weight. With aluminum additives comprising more or less 20 percentage of the frame, Audi - the worldwide pioneer in light-weight creation - has raised the bar over again. Gross weight has been decreased via way of means of as an awful lot as 70 kilograms (154.32 lb) as compared with the preceding version. The Audi A6 Avant 2.zero TDI, for example, has a cut down weight of simply 1,640 kilograms (3,615.fifty eight lb).
The baggage compartment has a potential of 565 liters (19.ninety five cu ft), which may be elevated to 1,680 liters (59.33 cu ft) via way of means of folding down the rear seat backs. Audi gives its clients severa stylish functions as alternatives. Topping the listing is a gesture-managed, automated rear hatch. Through the mixture of the strength baggage compartment hatch and the ease key, a specific motion sample under the rear bumper turns on the device and the hatch opens automatically.
Audi gives a preference of six engines offering direct gas injection for the brand new Audi A6 Avant: gas engines and 4 TDI gadgets. They increase among one hundred thirty kW (177 hp) and 230 kW (313 hp). This enough strength is blended with groundbreaking performance. The 2.zero TDI consumes a median of simply 5.zero liters of gas in keeping with a hundred km (47.04 US mpg).
All of the engines make use of the technology from the Audi modular performance platform, that have helped to lessen gas intake via way of means of as an awful lot as 18 percentage.
Depending at the engine, the brand new Audi A6 Avant rolls off the meeting line with both a six-pace guide, the sporty seven-pace S tronic, the constantly variable multitronic or the handy eight-pace tiptronic. In addition to the front-wheel pressure, the state-of-the-art improvement degree of quattro everlasting all-wheel pressure is to be had as an choice. The elective recreation differential flexibly distributes the strength among the rear wheels.
The chassis is likewise very state-of-the-art and combines sporty dynamics with remarkable comfort. The Audi pressure pick using dynamics device comes popular, and the brand new electromechanical strength guidance is extraordinarily green. In the the front-wheel-pressure variants, the ESP digital stabilization application offering an digital constrained slip differential make the automobile's managing even greater particular. Options encompass the adaptive air suspension and dynamic guidance, with the latter turning into to be had relatively later.
The indoors of the brand new A6 Avant treats its occupants with a graceful and clean layout, uncompromising workmanship, beneficiant appointments and exemplary ergonomics. Among the excessive-quit alternatives are a head-up show, adaptive mild with variable headlight variety manipulate, the front seats with air flow and rub down function, and severa infotainment additives. Topping the variety of infotainment alternatives are the tough pressure-primarily based totally navigation device MMI navigation plus and the Bang & Olufsen Advanced Sound System.
Audi connect, a totally fledged Internet connection, additionally locations the brand new Audi A6 Avant at the top of the pack. In collaboration with Google, it brings unique on line offerings to the automobile, consisting of voice-managed factors of hobby (POI) search. A Wi-Fi hotspot lets in passengers to surf and e-mail freely at the same time as on the street. The Audi on line visitors facts carrier informs the motive force in actual time approximately how heavy visitors is on the chosen course.
The new Audi A6 Avant may be ready with all the brand's help and protection structures for even greater composed using. Some structures paintings carefully collectively with MMI navigation plus, similarly improving their capabilities. A new function withinside the Audi lineup, the parking device plus with 360° show, can be to be had relatively later. Four small cameras report snap shots of the car's instantaneously surroundings.
Fast software program combines those snap shots and shows them in plenty of perspectives at the huge onboard display.
The Audi A6 Avant can be to be had on the market withinside the 2d 1/2 of of 2011 at a base charge of 40,850 euros.
Lightness and elegance: the layout
The engine hood stretches out a ways to the the front; sharp edges body taut surfaces over the whole period of the flanks. The low, early-sloping roof line and the flat D-pillars underscore the dynamic styling. The function rear lighting and the exhaust device's tailpipes intensify the rear of the automobile. The elective S line outside package deal gives for an excellent greater dynamic look.
Low weight: the composite creation frame
A new composite creation idea makes the frame of the Audi A6 Avant relatively rigid, secure and surprisingly mild. Many additives of the occupant mobileular are product of excessive-power and extremely excessive-power steels. The strut braces withinside the engine compartment and the bolt-on frame additives are made from aluminum and contain more or less 20 percentage of the frame. The idea represents the transition to the revolutionary Multimaterial Space Frame, with which Audi is starting a brand new bankruptcy in light-weight frame creation.
The frame of the A6 Avant is more or less 30 kilograms (66.14 lb) lighter than that of the preceding version. Depending at the engine, the entire automobile is as an awful lot as 70 kilograms (154.32 lb) lighter than the preceding version. The Audi A6 Avant 2.zero TDI, for example, has a cut down weight of simply 1,640 kilograms (3,615.fifty eight lb). Audi, the sector's light-weight creation pioneer, has over again reversed the load spiral.
Another power of the composite creation frame is acoustic comfort. Modern substances and creation strategies lessen the indoors noise degree to that of the luxurious magnificence. Audi additionally gives unique insulating/acoustic glazing as an choice. The particular matching of all additives and complicated hydraulic damping withinside the axle and drivetrain bearings offer for remarkable experience comfort.
Spacious and handy: the baggage compartment
The baggage compartment of the brand new Audi A6 Avant has a potential of 565 liters (19.ninety five cu ft). Its loading lip is low. The cut up rear seat backs may be without difficulty folded down the use of the faraway seat again launch on the edges of the trunk to growth baggage potential to 1,680 liters (59.33 cu ft). Lashing eyes, facet restraining straps, bag hooks, a double shipment floor, a rail baggage solving device, a dirt-resistant tray and roof rails are popular.
Audi gives extra information as alternatives - a load-thru hatch, a solving set that makes use of the 2 popular rails withinside the shipment floor, and a strength rear hatch with an incorporated strength baggage compartment cover. Making its debut withinside the Audi A6 Avant is the gesture-primarily based totally manipulate of the strength hatch in mixture with the ease key. If the motive force stands at the back of the automobile and makes a particular motion together along with his or her foot, sensors open the hatch.
The add-ons application consists of many unique functions for transporting sports activities and leisure equipment, from a partition grille to a bicycle rack. The new huge Avant is a effective towing car, with a rated towing potential of 2,a hundred kilograms (four,629.seventy one lb).
Powerful and green: the engines
The Audi A6 Avant is to be had with a preference of six engines offering direct gas injection: one 4-cylinder unit and 5 V6 gadgets. Five of them use pressured induction to hold displacement quite low, hence enhancing their performance. The 2.zero TDI with one hundred thirty kW (177 hp) has the first-class gas intake figures. Paired with the guide transmission, it consumes on common simply 5.zero liters of gas in keeping with a hundred km (47.04 US mpg), similar to CO2 emissions of 132 g in keeping with km (212.forty three g/mile).
The 3.zero TDI is to be had in 3 variants: with a hundred and fifty kW (204 hp); with a hundred and eighty kW (245 hp) - a smooth diesel model will observe relatively later; and the pinnacle model with 230 kW (313 hp). The twin-faster has a -degree turbocharger institution that grants a most increase strain of as much as 3.2 bar, imbuing the 3.zero TDI with advanced overall performance. The dash from 0 to a hundred km/h (62.14 mph) takes 5.four seconds (initial value); the electronically constrained pinnacle pace of 250 km/h (155.34 mph) is only a formality.
The 2.eight FSI with a hundred and fifty kW (204 hp) makes use of the Audi valvelift device, which varies the carry of the consumption valves in levels as necessary. This lets in the engine to respire easier, growing torque and decreasing gas intake. The maximum effective gas engine withinside the version collection is the supercharged 3.zero TFSI generating 220 kW (three hundred hp).
All of the engines withinside the new Audi A6 Avant use the technology of the Audi modular performance platform, consisting of the start-prevent device, the restoration device and the revolutionary thermal control device that fast brings the coolant and motor oil as much as their working temperatures. These novel answers are a first-rate motive why gas intake has been decreased via way of means of as much as 18 percentage as compared with the preceding version.
Something for everyone: the drivetrain
Like many Audi fashions, the brand new A6 Avant is to be had with a huge variety of drivetrains. Depending at the engine, Audi gives a six-pace guide, the constantly variable multitronic or the sporty S tronic with seven speeds. The 3.zero TDI with 230 kW (313 hp) grants its strength to a relatively green eight-pace tiptronic optimized for immediate shifts.
The gears in all the transmissions are broadly spaced, a first-rate component contributing to their performance. All of the automated transmissions are incorporated into the engine's revolutionary thermal control device. The differential lies in the front of the grab or the torque converter. This enabled the engineers to shift the the front axle ahead via way of means of seventy one millimeters (2.eighty in) as compared with the preceding version, to the gain of each the wheelbase and axle load distribution.
The 2.zero TDI grants its strength to the the front wheels. The V6 gadgets are paired both popular or as an choice with all-wheel pressure. The state-of-the-art evolution of the quattro everlasting all-wheel pressure device used withinside the new Audi A6 Avant functions a crown-equipment middle differential and torque vectoring for advanced dynamics, traction and stability. Upon request, Audi will equip all quattro variations with the game differential, which distributes the strength in constantly variable proportions among the rear wheels. So ready, the Audi A6 Avant rides as though on rails.
Very state-of-the-art: the chassis
Sporty precision, effective braking and advanced comfort. The chassis of the brand new Audi A6 Avant combines all of those strengths to a harmonious whole. A 5-hyperlink creation courses the the front wheels; a track-guided trapezoidal-hyperlink suspension is used on the again. The wheel manipulate fingers are made from aluminum. The strength guidance is tightly incorporated with the brand new help structures and is relatively green way to its new electromechanical pressure. It facilitates the motive force to countersteer whilst braking on a floor with much less grip on one facet.
Depending at the engine, the same old wheels degree both sixteen or 17 inches in diameter, with wheels up to twenty inches in diameter optionally to be had. Tire sizes variety from 225/60 to 255/35. The brake device is designed for excessive degrees of overall performance and durability.
Avant clients also can choose the cushty adaptive air suspension with variable damping and the sporty dynamic guidance, in order to be to be had relatively later. The dynamic guidance device adjusts the guidance ratio to the rate pushed and helps managing on the restrict with mild pulses of countersteer. Audi has designed the S line sports activities package deal with in particular dynamic drivers in mind. It lowers the frame via way of means of 30 millimeters (1.18 in) as compared with the same old chassis, and consists of huge wheels, look adjustments and plenty of unique information for the all-black indoors.
Top pleasant: the indoors
In the indoors of the brand new Audi A6 Avant, a ornamental inlay called the "wrap-around" encircles the motive force and the the front-seat passenger. The the front of the device panel is elegantly curved. The whole indoors makes a first rate and practical impression. It takes up the mild fashion of the outside. The again seat gives enough passenger room. There are lots of garage alternatives and cup holders the front and rear, with an extra garage package deal to be had as an choice.
Every remaining element withinside the indoors of the A6 Avant demonstrates Audi's exacting pleasant requirements. All of the substances were decided on and labored with excellent care. Decorative inlays are to be had in aluminum and 3 kinds of wood, consisting of a completely contemporary-day, novel veneer of alternating layers of mild and darkish oak. A piano lacquer variation rounds out the choices. The indoors colorings harmonize as stylishly because the substances, which encompass a number of leathers as much as distinct Valcona, a completely herbal grade.
Audi gives a preference of in particular cushty and sporty the front seats, with the pinnacle fashions offering air flow and rub down functions. An elective lights package deal or the ambient lights package deal shower the indoors in subtle, but dramatic mild. There is likewise a huge variety of alternatives on the subject of the guidance wheels: 3 or 4 spokes, strength-adjustable guidance column, heated rim and paddles for the automated transmission.
Intuitive: the ergonomics
Like all Audi fashions, the brand new Audi A6 Avant impresses with its logical, easy-to-apprehend manipulate idea. Its contraptions are truely marked; the show among them - optionally to be had because the motive force facts device (DIS) with a 5 or seven-inch display - is managed from the guidance wheel. In the middle of the device panel is a 2d, strength-retractable display this is a part of the same old MMI radio manipulate device.
The revolutionary Audi pre experience primary protection device, a relatively green automated air con device optionally to be had with 4-region controls, an electromechanical parking brake, cruise manipulate and mild and rain sensors also are popular. The engine begins offevolved with the frenzy of a button. Audi gives an elective head-up show that tasks critical facts onto the windshield in color. Another appealing function is the onboard pc with performance application.
Groundbreaking: Audi connect
One of the various fields of era wherein Audi leads the opposition is infotainment. A huge variety of modules is to be had withinside the new A6 Avant, crowned via way of means of MMI navigation plus with MMI touch. Core functions of the huge tough pressure-primarily based totally device with the eight-inch display may be managed through the touchpad. Topping the road of hi-fi alternatives is the first rate Bang & Olufsen Advanced Sound System that grants crystal-clean sound from 15 speakers.
One groundbreaking choice from Audi are the brand new functions which can be blended beneathneath the key-word Audi connect. With its UMTS module, the Bluetooth on line automobile telecellsmartphone grants the Internet to the Audi A6 Avant. Special offerings are to be had in collaboration with Google. The images card withinside the navigation device, for example, integrates snap shots and facts from Google Earth with the navigation course. A Wi-Fi hotspot gives touch to cellular gadgets on board.
Two extra offerings are new to the Audi lineup, and hence to the marketplace as a whole. The Audi on line visitors facts carrier attracts at the motion profiles of masses of lots of cellular telephones in different motors to tell drivers in lots of European international locations approximately visitors degrees alongside the chosen course in actual time. Points of hobby can now be looked for on line with Google - in particular without difficulty through voice manipulate.
Intelligent: the help structures
The MMI navigation plus withinside the new Audi A6 Avant works carefully collectively with the elective motive force help and protection structures. It makes its course information to be had to the manipulate gadgets for the adaptive mild headlights, the automated transmission and the adaptive cruise manipulate with prevent & cross function. This allows those structures to higher understand complicated eventualities and help the motive force.
The coronary heart of the help structures is the radar-primarily based totally adaptive cruise manipulate with prevent & cross function, that is energetic in any respect speeds among 0 and 250 km/h (155.34 mph). It works carefully collectively with Audi pre experience, that is to be had in some of configurations. It facilitates the motive force in lots of conditions to lessen the severity of rear-quit collisions with the car beforehand and their consequences, or maybe to keep away from all of them collectively. The new Audi A6 Avant has an in depth package deal of restraint structures on board withinside the occasion of a collision.
Audi energetic lane help intervenes lightly withinside the guidance to assist the motive force hold the Audi A6 Avant in its lane. The park help device, that is optionally to be had with a reversing camera, relieves the motive force from the problem of steerage whilst parking or exiting a parking space. The Audi facet help facilitates the motive force whilst converting lanes; the night time imaginative and prescient assistant marks detected pedestrians to make using withinside the darkish safer; and the rate restrict show offers critical avenue symptoms and symptoms at the DIS show.
The parking device plus with 360° show, that is a brand new help device at Audi, will observe relatively later. Four small cameras - on the the front, the rear and withinside the housings of the facet mirrors - report snap shots of the Audi A6 Avant's instantaneously surroundings. Fast software program combines those snap shots, and the motive force can name up numerous perspectives at the huge onboard display. This technical device complements protection at the same time as maneuvering and whilst pulling out from regions with obstructed perspectives.
The Audi A6 Avant will start arriving in showrooms in key European markets in past due summer time season 2011. Its base charge is 40,850 euros.
