The A4 is Audi's bestseller - for 39 years now and in its 8th generation. The emblem has offered ten million such fashions in total. The Audi A4, with its beauty, sportiness and emotional appeal, bureaucracy the center piece of the Audi emblem. And now the layout has come to be even extra absolutely described and putting in all fashions - the Sedan, the Avant, the allroad quattro and the S4.
The new appearance similarly accentuates the horizontal strains on the the front quit. The engine hood is extra arched, the top corners of the unmarried body grille are tapered, and the move ribs and the Audi jewelry are highlighted 3-dimensionally. The grille is painted gray, with excessive-gloss black at the six-cylinder fashions or in aggregate with the S line outside bundle. The redesigned bumpers are putting with their angular air inlets, their revised grilles and the flat the front fog lighting. The Audi A4 allroad quattro is prominent via way of means of its grille's horizontal chrome packages and via way of means of the spherical fog lighting.
The tail lighting replicate the form of the headlights, and in aggregate with xenon plus have homogeneous strips of LEDs. The bumper with its diffuser insert has been redesigned, with the exhaust gadget usually terminating in tailpipes.
There is a choice of 15 paint finishes, which includes 4 new tones. The Sedan and the Avant provide the S line outside bundle, at the same time as the Avant additionally consists of a roof spoiler.
The indoors of the Audi A4 fashions has additionally been subtle. Audi gives a big choice of recent guidance wheels with chrome and excessive-gloss inlays, with the leather-based game guidance wheel additionally proposing a flattened decrease rim. The guidance arm and the ignition key were changed. High-gloss packages and the slim chrome trim on the controls upload beauty to the indoors.
The difficult end makes operation even less complicated and extra intuitive. The MMI navigation plus gadget now capabilities 4 as opposed to 8 buttons, with a script characteristic included withinside the extent manage dial. Other upgrades issue operation of the automated transmission, the green aircon structures, Audi force pick and the multifunction guidance wheel. The seat heating and aircon are actually without delay operated on the respective buttons.
The excessive degree of expertise is as a lot a count number of direction for Audi as a positive contact withinside the variety of colors. All indoors colors - besides black - were re-coordinated. The upholstery variety has additionally been revised, with Fine Nappa leather-based changing Valcona leather-based. The new, unmarried-component cluster trim has been tailored in shadeation to the indoors, at the same time as the inlays are to be had in Aluminum Trigon, walnut darkish brown and quality grain ash natural. Especially captivating is the Beaufort oak plywood inlay.
The indoors of the S line game bundle is available in black, subtle with brilliant packages. 18-inch wheels or the optionally available 19-inch wheels and an S line game suspension that lowers the frame via way of means of 30 millimeters (1.18 in) whole the bundle. Audi specific and Audi specific line provide similarly individualized alternatives.
The Audi A4 Sedan's bags compartment nevertheless has its 480-liter capacity - 962 liters with the rear seats folded down (sixteen.ninety five and 33.ninety seven cubic ft). The A4 Avant and the A4 allroad quattro have 490 and 1,430 liters, respectively (17.30 and 50.50 cubic ft), with Audi supplying an optionally available electrically operated tailgate for each fashions.
The new Audi A4's force gadget units new standards. The intake ranges have dropped via way of means of eleven percentage on common, no matter the extended strength and torque of most of the engines. In the Sedan and the Avant every, Audi gives any of six TDI and 4 gas engines, with 23 viable engine-transmission combinations. All engines are supercharged direct-injection structures; the start-forestall gadget and the healing gadget are fashionable throughout.
The TDI engines integrate pulling strength with pioneering performance, with the 4-cylinder variations offering substantial adjustments. A new centrifugal pendulum-kind absorber (withinside the 2.zero TDI with a hundred kW, one hundred twenty kW or a hundred thirty kW with quattro force) withinside the dual-mass flywheel makes engine going for walks even extra subtle and quieter at low revs, for even in advance upshifting and financial savings of as much as zero.2 liters in line with a hundred km.
The maximum in your price range version withinside the version own circle of relatives is the Audi A4 2.zero TDI with a hundred kW (136 hp). In the Sedan, this engine wishes simplest four.2 liters of gasoline in line with a hundred km (56.zero US mpg) on common - a CO2 equal of simply 112 grams in line with km (a hundred and eighty.25 g/mile). The new A4 2.zero TDI with one hundred twenty kW (163 hp), additionally optimized for max performance, manages with four.four liters of diesel in line with a hundred km (fifty three.forty six US mpg). This equates to one hundred fifteen grams CO2 in line with km (185.07 g/mile). Both engines are to be had for the Sedan and the Avant.
In addition, 3 different 4-cylinder diesel engines are to be had - with 88 kW (one hundred twenty hp), one zero five kW (143 hp) and a hundred thirty kW (177 hp). They also can be ordered for the allroad quattro, other than the entry-degree version. Three V6 TDI gadgets whole the road. The three.zero TDI with a hundred and fifty kW (204 hp) (now no longer for the allroad quattro) is the maximum green six-cylinder engine in its magnificence worldwide; withinside the A4 Sedan it consumes a median of simply four.nine liters of gasoline in line with a hundred km (48.zero US mpg). The 2nd version, the three.zero TDI, generates a hundred and eighty kW (245 hp), with an mainly easy diesel version.
The Audi A4 collection additionally affords the modern-day nation of the artwork in gas engine technology. A new spotlight of the TFSI own circle of relatives is the brand new 1.eight-liter engine, to be had for the Sedan and the Avant. The 4-cylinder engine supplies sporty thrust, with a strength output of a hundred twenty five kW (one hundred seventy hp) and 320 Nm (236.02 lb-ft) of torque. The common intake withinside the Audi A4 Sedan is restricted to five.6 liters in line with a hundred km (forty two.zero US mpg), or 134 grams CO2 in line with km (215.sixty five g/mile). That is a lower in intake of nineteen percentage as compared with the predecessor engine.
The entry-degree gas engine is the 1.eight TFSI with 88 kW (one hundred twenty hp). The 2.zero TFSI - because the simplest spark-ignition engine additionally to be had withinside the Audi A4 allroad quattro - supplies a hundred and fifty five kW (211 hp). At the pinnacle of the road is the three.zero TFSI in variations. In the Audi A4 the V6, to observe a piece later, provides 2 hundred kW (272 hp). In the sporty Audi S4 pinnacle version its strength is an excellent 245 kW (333 hp).
The extensive variety of drivetrains is standard of Audi. A six-pace guide transmission is fashionable at the Sedan and Avant fashions with the front-wheel force; maximum variations provide constantly variable multitronic as an option. The quattro variations have both the guide transmission or (as of the 2.zero TDI with a hundred thirty kW (177 hp)) the seven-pace S tronic on board. The Audi A4 allroad quattro employs a guide transmission or S tronic with all engine variations.
The modern thermal control gadget shortens the warm-up segment of the guide transmission, amongst different things, and thereby reduces friction loss. All transmissions are prominent via way of means of handy and unique operation, excessive performance and a extensive unfold of equipment ratios - the lengthy ratios withinside the better gears reduces gasoline intake, at the same time as the quick ratios withinside the decrease gears advantage the dynamics.
The quattro everlasting all-wheel force is fashionable at the Audi A4 allroad quattro, and to be had withinside the Sedan and Avant from the 2.zero TDI with one zero five kW (143 hp). The A4 own circle of relatives makes use of the self-locking middle differential here. In normal riding operation it in the main transmits the engine torque to the rear wheels withinside the ratio of forty to 60. If necessary, redistribution happens withinside the shortest viable time. The torque vectoring characteristic dietary supplements the paintings of the middle differential with finely incremented brake packages, to make coping with even extra unique and safer.
In the V6 quattro variations Audi gives the game differential as a complement, lending most precision and excessive traction to the A4 while cornering on the coping with limits. The excessive-quit aspect actively distributes the strength among the rear wheels as required.
The chassis of the Audi A4 is putting with its sporty precision, excessive journey consolation and advanced protection. The mounts of the rear suspension manage hands and the traits of the surprise absorbers were even extra finely tuned. Most of the additives of the five-hyperlink the front suspension and the trapezoidal-hyperlink rear suspension are product of aluminum.
The electromechanical strength guidance is new in all fashions of the collection. The direct equipment ratios bring unique street contact; moderate brake packages counteract pulling to the aspect on erratically slippery surfaces. The electromechanical strength guidance calls for no strength for straight-in advance motion, thereby decreasing gasoline intake via way of means of as much as zero.three liters in line with a hundred km. This is equal to a discount in CO2 emissions of as much as 7 g/km (eleven.27 g/mile).
Another excessive-quit characteristic that offers the Audi A4 a unique repute in its magnificence is Audi force pick. In the primary bundle, the driving force can transfer the feature of the accelerator, the shift factors of the automated transmission, the strength guidance and the automated aircon among the 4 modes "consolation," "auto," "dynamic" and "performance." If there's an onboard navigation gadget, the additional "individual" mode is likewise included.
Further modules are optionally available - adaptive cruise manage or the cruise manage gadget, the game differential, the suspension with damper manage and dynamic guidance. By way of a superposition equipment, the equipment ratio is adjusted in a constantly variable way relying at the pushed pace; on the coping with limits small interventions catch up on understeering and oversteering.
All the front-wheel-force variations of the Audi A4 characteristic the digital stabilization program (ESP) with digital restricted slip differential. In dynamic riding the gadget similarly improves coping with and protection via way of means of starting up minimal brake interventions on the the front wheel this is difficulty to a discounted load at the inner of the curve. The huge wheel brakes - with ventilated the front and rear disks in lots of variations - provide exceptional preventing strength and may be exactly modulated.
All Audi A4 variations roll off the meeting line on stylish aluminum wheels. Depending at the engine version, they may be sixteen or 17 inches in size; tires with optimized rolling resistance belong to the 205/60 and 225/50 collection. The A4 three.zero TFSI has 18-inch wheels with 245/forty collection tires. The line of alternatives levels to 19 inches with 255/35 collection tires. Four of the 18 to be had wheels are new designs. The A4 allroad quattro gives 4 unbiased designs.
Audi gives enormously advanced help structures for the A4 own circle of relatives, for making riding even extra relaxed. Standard on all variations is the brand new driving force records gadget with destroy recommendation - it detects and attracts the driving force's interest to deviations from standard riding conduct on the idea of guidance motions and different parameters.
The adaptive cruise manage help gadget continues the Audi A4 at a regular distance from the previous automobile at speeds among 0 and 2 hundred km/h (124.27 mph). If the hazard of a rear-quit collision turns into drawing close at speeds underneath 30 km/h (18.sixty four mph), the gadget will execute a complete brake application. Audi lively lane help helps the driving force in maintaining to his lane. A digital digicam detects the lane markings and the gadget makes moderate corrections to the guidance if necessary. Audi aspect help video display units the gap in the back of the Audi A4 via way of means of radar and detects any motors withinside the blind spot, for example.
Infotainment systemsAudi gives an entire package of brand new infotainment structures for its A4 collection. The refrain CD radio with 8 audio system is fashionable, at the same time as the MMI navigation plus gadget with huge difficult disk, shadeation monitor, 3-d photographs and DVD participant bureaucracy the pinnacle of the road. Voice manage and the optionally available virtual audio broadcasting are similarly upgrades to the gadget.
The excessive-quit complement to the MMI navigation plus gadget is the Bluetooth on line vehicle phone. Via Audi join the gadget gives unique offerings withinside the vehicle, which include voice-managed Google searches for factors of hobby and navigation with Google Earth pictures, together with Google Street View. Audi on line site visitors records, every other such service, offers the driving force the modern-day information on congestion alongside the chosen route. The WLAN hotspot, every other characteristic of the Bluetooth on line vehicle phone, permits passengers withinside the Audi A4 to surf the net and ship e-mails as they please with their cellular devices.
The Audi S4, to be had withinside the Sedan and Avant variations, employs the maximum effective engine withinside the line - the three.zero TFSI with 245 kW (333 hp) and 440 Nm (324.fifty three lb-ft) torque. The Sedan's common gasoline intake is an insignificant eight.zero liters in line with a hundred km (29.forty US mpg) - with an excellent performance: The Audi S4 hurries up in five.zero seconds from 0 to a hundred km/h (62.14 mph) and achieves an electronically restricted most pace of 250 km/h (a hundred and fifty five.34 mph).
The changed Audi S4 is identifiable from the modifications to the headlights, the bumpers, the air inlets and colors. The indoors additionally includes diffused modifications in appearance. The S game suspension and 18-inch wheels featured at the S4 supply exquisite street grip.
The costs of the A4 have modified simplest slightly, no matter the substantial upgrading. For example, the Audi A4 2.zero TFSI fees simply 475 euros extra - the sporty Sedan is now indexed at 35,425 euros.
