Cars Price 2015

The next generation of the combination of lifestyle-dominated character.
Audi A4 in the fall of 2014 in the trade. As is known now, its already a short time later, following station wagon. For the A4 Avants successor (see photo montage above) is in the spring of 2015, which is only about half a year later to market than the new sedan.

2014 audi a4 avant

More than Avant Sportback
The new middle-class estate is more of a Sportback than a station wagon. He is to hold its own against the new BMW 3 Series Touring, which was presented a few days ago for the first time. Particularly striking is the steep rear end combined with an unusually angled rear window. Provide particularly narrow front headlights, which will also be available with all-LED technology, striking for a look. The upper edges of the single-frame grille is still slanted more. Otherwise, the newcomer very similar to its predecessor, which in view of the good sales figures certainly not a mistake. The lifestyle estate car and slims from: Thanks to an increased aluminum content of the new Audi A4 Avant is about 100 pounds lighter than its predecessor. This is around six percent lighter than the current model, which leads depending on the equipment and engine about 1,500 kilos.

Wide range of engines
Engines are the same as in the saloon. The turbocharged gasoline engines output 143 (1.4 TFSI), 177 and 225 hp (both 2.0 TFSI). When the diesels can choose the customers for engines with 122, 150, 197, 218 and 272 hp. There will also be a plug-in hybrid version that can be up to 25 kilometers purely on electric power.

Audi Nero is a concept car. Audi Nero use nightlubbing design. Audi Nero designed by Jess Harder and Raul Cenan. Audi Nero reflect night life. This car body made from black carbon. The car bonnet is perforate of light, so people can see the engine when the bonnet is closed. The tire closer is look like Audi RSQ. Audi Nero will on market 30 years later.

At the Austrian festival tuning Worthersee 2012 German automaker Audi introduced a special version of Q3 compact crossover called Red Track. Earlier, at the motor show in Beijing, the company showed "Levitating golden dragon" - the so-called beach version of the Q3 Jinlong Yufeng Concept for kitesurfers, and before that the automaker has already demonstrated the winter concept car named Vail, which honors from the Red Track is the only engine power.
 

The new Audi Q3 painted in vibrant red color that will not leave the car unnoticed, not only on the winter snow-white background. The lower part of the bumpers, wheel arch extensions and sills have a gray colored quartz that gives the car the external characteristics of a serious and powerful SUV. Paying attention to seemingly insignificant details of the exterior of the new Audi Q3 Red Track: aluminum frame windows were edged frame radiator grille designed in the same style with bright accents, and sectors of the headlights with daytime running lights are decorated in a general body color.
 

The new Audi Q3 release Red Track supplied with pegs on the rapids, and roof rails for mounting a snowboard or skis. Q3 have put in off-road tire dimensions 255/45 R-20 which are mounted on five-spoke alloy wheels with original design. Track crossover has increased by 40 millimeters compared with the standard version, and ground clearance increased by 30 mm. Dual exhaust pipe comfortably integrated into the rear bumper diffuser and further protected from damage.
 


The interior of the new Audi Q3 Red Track is designed in three-color palette consisting of gray, black and red hues. The main colors are titanium gray and black, red, highlighted some of the details. In finishing salon skin well with Nappa, fabric and Alcantara, and there is a red decorative stitching. Do not forget about aluminum and stainless steel, these materials are introduced into the interior finishing Q3 Red Track on Audi even more sporting note, being present in the frame of the instrument cluster, the automatic transmission selector in the form of inserts in the console. Media Monitor system of the car is hidden in the panel, the system has the function of navigation and measuring the angle of inclination of the road.
 





Audi Q3 Red Track enjoy winter sports lovers of their reasonableness. In the trunk there is a crossover charging station for special lights, the car will warm up with hot drinks, and between the seats there is room for a thermos. The infrared heating element embedded in Q3 lights will quickly dry ski boots or a pair of warm hands. A portable trunk mat Audi Q3 Red Track also added a heater. In the elephant there is a set of LED lamps, which are even on the inside of the tailgate. You can open the door, sit on the edge of the warm rug and quietly Shoed in ski boots, or without spending a lot of time to dry shoes.
 

Under the hood, "winter" Q3 crossover from Audi five-cylinder engine works TFSI direct-injection 2.5-liter. It develops 340 horsepower and 450 Nm of torque, which distinguishes it from previously presented a concept car Q3 Vail . The engine is securely covered with carbon-stiffened from falling snow or mud, and paired with the power unit operates the 7-speed automatic S tronic. Through their coordinated actions Audi Q3 Red Track sprints to 100 km per hour in 5.4 seconds and its top speed is equal to 263 km / h To overcome the lack of roads and snow, and with confidence the behavior of the vehicle on slippery winter roads will help brand-wheel drive Quattro.
 

Audi Q3 2.0 TDI 177 SE quattro

Background

The Range Rover Evoque may be this year’s most wanted premium SUV, but given the production delays that have hit it recently, one or two deposit holders could be forgiven for sizing up the alternatives. And now’s our chance to assess the chief among them: Audi’s new compact 4x4, the Q3.
The Q3 has a few questions to answer. Can Audi successfully imbue a relatively small, cheap SUV with the substance and luxuriousness that characterise the Q5 and Q7? Does a Q3 offer a meaningful improvement in practicality or capability over a lower, more conventional family option? And will its outsourced production make it any less convincing as a premium-brand German model?
In effect, fellow VW Group brand Seat has been making Audis since the A4-derived Exeo was launched in 2008. But the Exeo is a Seat. The Q3, on the other hand, wears Audi badging – but, like the Exeo, it’s made at Seat’s Martorell factory near Barcelona.
In today’s truly global car industry, that should be no reason for anyone to raise a dismissive eyebrow, but German luxury car fans just might.

Design
 
More crossover than traditional SUV, the Q3 is a chip off the Q7’s old block as far as styling is concerned. It’s fairly squat at the kerb – for a 4x4, at any rate. And although the Q3 still has plenty of visual presence, the added heft of this family 4x4 is disguised by the understated Teutonic lines of Audi’s current design lexicon. So the car appears unexpectedly small. It lacks a little impact next to a certain new Range Rover but, in reality, it’s intended for an entirely different customer, one who’ll appreciate its quietly handsome aesthetic because it’s so smart and discreet.

The Q3’s gently sloping D-pillars and tailgate are among its most interesting visual features and will appeal to those repelled by the idea of a boxy 4x4. Like Audi’s bigger SUVs, the car’s hatch is a wraparound closure with wide, undivided tail-lamps that – provided you go for S-line trim or tick the right option box on your SE-spec car – are lit by LEDs.

In its mechanical layout, however, the Q3 has more in common with a regular five-door hatchback. There’s no six-cylinder longways engine or Torsen-based quattro four-wheel drive system here. Instead, a four-cylinder engine is mounted transversely, with gearbox in line and the latest Haldex front-biased four-wheel drive system attached. Entry-level front-drive models will be available in the UK from December.
Suspension is via MacPherson struts up front and a multi-link set-up at the rear. Both are attached to the Q3’s body-in-white by subframes, rigidly mounted at the front and rubber bushed at the rear. Although its off-road capabilities are limited (there’s 170mm of ground clearance, or just 150mm if you have S-line sports suspension), the Q3 seems optimised for everyday use on the road.
A three-level crash structure at the front includes a lower tier of deformable metal designed to match the crumple zone of a lower vehicle and therefore prevent overriding in a head-on crash. The car also has the lowest coefficient of aerodynamic drag in its class, at just 0.32.

On the road

Four-cylinder diesel engines may have become the workhorses in most mainstream model ranges, but there’s nothing workmanlike about the way the best of the breed function. This 174bhp 2.0-litre unit can count itself among that company. With 280lb ft of torque on tap from 1750rpm, the motor is content to punt along in the low rev range that its economy-tuned standard dual-clutch transmission deems applicable to most situations. Gear ratios often come and go imperceptibly, and while there’s a voluble rattle at re-ignition from the automatic stop-start, the engine generally fades into the well-refined background.

Demand considerably more pace from it and the powerplant responds with quick-fire bursts of convincing thrust. Its maximum output is exhausted by 4200rpm, but with a free-revving character and seven ratios to get through, energetic headway is not difficult to access. The automatic gearbox can be slotted back into its accustomed ‘S’ mode for such moments or you can opt to shift for yourself via the wheel-mounted paddles. The dual-clutch ’box has a habit of holding on to gears a little more belligerently than is often required, but its performance bias is useful at roundabouts, where the standard ‘D’ mode has a tendency to leave the car in too high a gear for the usual positioning cut and thrust.

That’s a minor quibble. A more substantial one can be levelled at the new Efficiency mode, which, when selected, disengages the clutch each time the driver lifts off the throttle to preserve fuel by allowing the car to coast unencumbered by engine braking. It’s a good idea, and in practice others, including Volkswagen, have made it work well enough, but Audi has failed to perfect the system in the Q3. Because it’s not an automatic feature (that’s a clue to its failings), it only occurs to you to select it on the motorway, but as the revs fall away so, promptly, does the speed, meaning that power must quickly be reapplied – not so easy when the clutch takes several seconds to re-engage. That process makes for an ugly cadence to an otherwise seamless powertrain and, unsurprisingly, makes the Efficiency setting largely redundant.

The Q3 drives more like a conventional hatchback than a mud-plugging SUV. Excellent body control and rigidity ensure that the penalty for the car’s high-sided nature is minimal, and it responds with obliging agility to most demands made of it.

For customers coming to the Q3 from smaller, lighter cars – a significant proportion, according to Audi – the resemblance will likely be welcome. Anyone expecting a capability to venture far from the road will be less happy. However, the Haldex four-wheel drive should be sufficient to help you through any gentle winter flurries and over the occasional grassy slope.

Arguably more important than the ‘quattro’ badge are Audi’s optional Drive Select system and the adaptive dampers, which should be thought of as must-have items. Drive Select allows the driver to choose between Auto, Comfort, Dynamic and Efficiency modes, which adjust the throttle response, transmission, steering and suspension settings. In its default Auto mode, the Q3 will surf its firm set-up in reasonably contented fashion, but most UK buyers will want to invest in the system (and uprated dampers) to access Comfort, which further dulls the sharp edges of abrasive local roads.

Even so equipped, the car is not class-leading in its ride quality. While it refuses to crash over suspect surfacing, the Q3 can struggle to completely settle without gently relaying every foible its tyres find to the driver. It’s a distraction the driver could do without as he or she is likely to be busy negotiating the fog of uncertainty that characterises the car’s steering.

Misjudged inputs and unintelligible feedback are unwanted repercussions of the brisk progress that the Q3 is otherwise quite capable of.


Living

Fit and finish have long been Audi strengths, but the firm has added an impressively fine-tuned sense of aesthetics to its interiors in recent years. The Q3 typifies its effort to meld function and premium feel in a clean-cut, purposeful environment.

The dashboard is set high and bulges indulgently towards the occupants. Soft-touch trim and brushed buttons feature throughout much of the handsome matt black centre console. In daylight, it’s all pleasantly appealing, but at night the peerless use of subdued LED spotlighting bathes the cabin in a mesmerising glow.
There are missteps – the clickable climate controls are not gratifying to use, for example – but most are so immaterial that they serve only to highlight what a first-rate effort the overall effect is.

You sit high, with a traditional SUV vantage point, and the car feels sufficiently compact to pass as an overgrown A1 rather than A3. Nevertheless, up front, the overall impression is one of satisfyingly snug surroundings rather than an unnecessarily cramped cabin.

That perception alters in the rear. Moderate-sized adults should be able to fold themselves into the allotted space adequately enough, but tall passengers might feel short-changed by both the legroom and the lack of headroom caused by an even-lower-than-it-looks rear roofline.

However, young, affluent families are a natural target and parents may conclude that, with good access, there’s an appropriate amount of room for little ones. They’re likely to be content with 460 litres of boot space, too. Tip the rear seats forward and there’s 1365 litres – 250 more than in an A3 Sportback.

An entry point on the right side of £25k makes the Q3 seem like excellent value. But it’s less well priced when you look at what BMW asks for an X1, which can be landed with four driven wheels and a diesel engine for less than £26k, compared with this Q3’s £28,460. The Q3 is also a slightly less capable and appealing vehicle if you can’t afford the right options. You don’t even get cruise control as standard equipment, for instance.

Fuel efficiency proved good, if not quite class-leading; 45.7mpg is a good result for any SUV on our touring economy test, but not as good as the 52mpg we recorded in an X1.

Verdict

The compact SUV market seems ready-made for Audi’s covetable brand. The trend-conscious customer base is likely to prove highly receptive to the super-slick product positioning that has become a cornerstone of Audi’s success.
The well-honed Q3 effortlessly perpetuates a seamless experience of attainable upmarket packaging. But, separated from its aspirational starch, the new model is commendably competent rather than seriously impressive. Objectively, it earns few significant demerits, but there is a familiar sterility to the way the Q3 drives and that denies it a more generous score.
That it refuses to sparkle under a dynamic spotlight will hardly matter to most of its intended buyers, though. For better or for worse, desirability now comes vacuum-packed as standard with the LED lights, business-class interior and four-ringed badge.

The Grand Prix and on the new Audi S5 Sportback. engine with 3.0-liter TSIs 333 horsepower and 440Nm /325 lb-ft of torque to 375HP and 495Nm / 365 lb-ft. The power boost comes from a reconfigured ECU, the addition of a performance air filter as well as a custom sport exhaust system with four tail pipes.


This S5 Sportback Gran Prix also gets a set of sport springs that lower the ride height by up to 40mm or 1.58-inches and new two-piece 20-inch alloy wheels shod in 245/30 R20 tires up front and 295/25 R20 at the back.

interior design Audis interior is revamped with a carbon fiber trim package.

At Auto China in Beijing. The new Audi Q3 Concept will emphasize its sporty nature even in SUVs.



Under the hood is a 2.5-liter turbocharged five-cylinder engine developing 265 kW/360 hp, accelerating the vehicle lowered by 2.5 inches in 5.2 seconds from zero to one hundredth The top speed is 265 km / h For more fresh air it provides an open air filter. Gears are changed by a seven-speed automatic, which distributes power to all four wheels. The power station is decorated with a large carbon plate.

Audi is the concept car on a special shade of blue, carbon and polished aluminum. Visually, it can be seen among them a new bumper and a revised grille in brushed and polished aluminum. The grid was used in black and the lights are dimmed. For a more aggressive appearance, a front spoiler, which is painted matte black at the bottom. At the rear are a massive diffuser and a subtle roof edge spoiler, the rear lights are dimmed. For a rich appearance and filled wheel arches provide 20-inch aluminum wheels.

The interior is dominated by black and blue. Seats and dashboard are covered with black leather and Alcantara, as a contrast, the decorative panels with blue carbon fiber provided. Thanks to a large glass roof, lots of light coming into the interior. When Audi tachometer went to the presentation of country - the figures are painted in Chinese characters.

Whether the car finds its way into the series has not yet been determined. Possible but would be a similar interpreted Q3 RS model that the previous top model, the 2.0 TFSI would 155kW/211 with prices starting at $ 48,934.02 , surpassing even then.

2011 Audi A6 Technical Specifications

Dimensions & Weight
Length	4,916
Width	1,855
Height	1,459
Wheelbase	2,843
Engine
No of Cylinders / arrangement	6
Displacement	2773cc
Type	2.8L 206bhp V6 w/ Audi valvelift system
Maximum Power	209 @ 5,500-6,800 (PS@rpm)
Maximum Torque	28.6 @ 3,000-5,000 (kgm@rpm)
Fuel	Direct Injection
Transmission
Type	6 Gear Automatic
Performance
Top Speed	243 kmph
Brakes
Font	Disc & Drum
Back	Disc
Wheels
Options Available	Alloy Wheel 17 inches