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| Audi S4 3.0 TFSI and BMW 335i test |
LATEST CAR NEWS - Audi S4 and BMW 335i - two power sedans with eingeschworener fan base. A praise all-wheel drive and V6 engine, for others, the straight-six engine of hero deserves. But who is ahead?
Other day somewhere in the Hohenlohe. Crackling engines, shiny asphalt - and tester scratched up. "My goodness, how quiet the Audi 3.0 TFSI on the undulating piece there was S4." Even after the Summit: no twitch, no swinging by. The fast right went with a steering angle, without poking and will. Class. "And the crazy traction since the sport differential helps him." "Yes, but did you hear how loose the BMW 335i turns up seven?" Pressure from the bottom to top. Pushes like a diesel, rotates like a sucker. "Not to mention the ultra direct handling, this steering tells everything you."
You guessed it already, here it is not about the drop count in the Familienvan. Instead, let S4 3.0 TFSI and BMW 335i for the victory in the sporty middle class competing Audi. Here the new BMW 3 series with 306, as always been beaten Turbo HP in a comparatively subtle body. There the recently refreshed Audi S4 with compressor motor and 333 HP in the S typical delicate training dress velvet metallic Grill and four-pipe exhaust. Okay, one level deeper would there still an incognito version of A4 with 272 HP, but for the BMW 335i should have the Audi S4 ran. He brings for almost €54.900 base price already all-wheel drive, seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, and more with, the BMW 3 series (basic price 43.600 euro) only rear-wheel drive, charged extra for the eight-speed automatic.
Compressor in the Audi S4 3.0 TFSI krawall low and punchy
Nevertheless, both sedans still on the border of financial accessibility, convert light or turbo feuriges M3chen give something like the RS4. Merely that it is binding occur as the sporting friends. So the three litre compressor in the Audi pushes to as punchy as krawall arm S4 3.0 TFSI. Why compressor? Because the roots-blower slips in the cylinder-V and prepared as a hot charger less thermal problems. In addition, he shovels extra air into the combustion chamber more evenly, without on-delay. Its torque is located on still not earlier, the maximum 440 nm bubble up from 2,900/min, while the BMW 335i releases its 400 Newton starting at 1,200 rpm.
The super-charged three liter - straight six engine of the BMW 335i optimizes his breathing by Valvetronic, which eliminates a conventional throttle, as well as by means of a double inlet-loader control (twin scroll). Only sensual feel his minimum trip delay before he turns minimal vibrant, but all the more energetic to 7,000 rpm. Quite so greedy the 90-degree V6 Audi not bites to 3.0 TFSI S4, that he runs sämiger and kultivierter, his somewhat smooth, usable power gives. Up to the traction: the slightly hecklastig-based distribution through the Torsen C Center differential plus the optional sport differential rear commands implement efficiently. Rather than glow control systems, the Audi S4 is seeking optimal mechanical traction. The sport differential is working with two connectors and allocates the portion of driving dynamic effective power to each rear wheel, resulting in a dynamic Mitlenkeffekt.
Quickly the same S4 and 3 in the driving dynamics course
Traction control and ESP have a balmy Lenz at the Audi, instead the speedometer must toil. Because if you don't pay attention, drives them to unhealthy levels, where it is no matter whether the road smooth or buckelig comes along, grip or slippery. Conventional damper meet the Audi S4 3.0 TFSI for excellent ground contact and high comfort during low-building movement. The dynamic steering system (1,000 euro extra) holds back with unsettled occurrence, supports the relaxed, lightning-fast locomotion without wet palms.
Since even the hinterrad-Powered BMW 335i must stand back. In the driving dynamics course about the same fast, he falls off on winding country roads with serrated surface, what even its optional Adaptive dampers can change nothing. Basically comfortably designed, which moves about 180 kilograms lighter BMW 3 series more, higher attention seems restless, required. Also because propagates his landing gear more bumps to the steering. To give a clearly untersteuernd, he wins in the curve of neutrality, to put on appropriate use of performance in disabled help electronics for the drift. Sporty, but less broadband as the Audi S4 3.0 TFSI, the neutral and more easily manageable remains.
Both hot on the slopes and cultivated in the Sunday outing
Fascinating in both: the enormous suitability for everyday use. With the hot tires on the road, now with Grandma Erna on Sunday trip to the roast pork restaurant. Cultivated, comfortable, quiet, comfortable seats and in-service transmissions. The BMW 335i with eight-speed converter, the Audi S4 3.0 TFSI with seven-speed double Coupler. Both the Audi work even busier quickly, ground and accurately, fixer. For this, he denied the seventh course in dynamic mode, keeps the low levels sometimes slightly too long.
Although he also has an efficiency mode, but the BMW 335i shows here greater potential, switches to eco Pro to Flash that you would put a person in the taps for his character of sport +. But here it helps climate performance and display by trägerer throttle response, reduced the fictional wrestling extra km when the fuel saving knauserten. About 7 L / 100 km are in it, the Audi S4 3.0 TFSI comes only with difficulty under nine.
But who thinks of limousines with performance at the level of historical Turbo Porsche on the fuel savings? Since we allow rather whistle the loader and the motors Crackle. Oh yeah, at the end of the Audi WINS S4 3.0 TFSI if also scarce.
