Audi A6: Technology Reviewed!

An Audi A6 review by the folks over at CNET. Personally, I am used to letting the folks at Motor Trend and Edmunds handle the car reviews and the folks over at CNET handle technology reviews. However, the folks at CNET have give the Audi A6 4-door sedan a rating of 8.6 out of 10 on their scale. That's not surprising knowing their tester car was that of the top line Audi A6 with the 4.2L V8 engine with all of the trimmings.



They also look at the car from a technology perspective.

Here are a few excerpts:

Among the features listed as part of the Technology package was the Advanced Parking System. After putting the car in reverse a couple of times, we realized that this system consists of a backup camera overlaid with distance and direction lines, along with an audible parking distance warning. Because Audi's press materials highlighted this feature, we decided to put it to the test by running a backward slalom.....

.....We came away very impressed by how well the car tracked to the lines on the display. The rearview image was clear and expansive, and the display also used shaded blocks overlaid on the image to give an idea of the car's distance from objects.....

.....Voice command in the A6 isn't particularly intuitive, but it is useful if you learn its command trees. You can dial phone numbers with it and choose specific AM or FM radio stations, although you can't choose satellite radio stations. We also couldn't find a way to set destinations in the navigation through voice command, which was too bad because using the MMI can be tedious.....

.....The 350 horses of this direct injection engine go through a six-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission, which works very nicely for normal or sport driving. It has a manual gear selection mode and a Sport setting, the latter doing a decent job of downshifting when we let off the accelerator while approaching a corner.

[Source: CNET]

‎