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on our roads model AE you will meet not very frequently, although from the moment of its starting into a series it passed almost five years - machine made a debut during June 1996. In the summer of 2000 AE obtained new headlights and backing lamps, the regular place in the front spoiler engaged protivotumanki. Specifically, this automobile is proposed to Russian users by official dealers. Presentation and the beginning of official sales - than not occasion for the close acquaintance?

I will recall that almost all versions AE, except 1,6- liter, can be completed by the all-wheel-drive transmission quattro (on the writing from the small letter it insists concern Audi AG). However, as far as automobiles popular in Europe Golf- class are concerned, precisely the greatest volume of sales comes to the versions from the middle of price range. This determined the selection of machine for the test - with the engine with a volume of 1,8 l and the automatic transmission with front-wheel drive.

"it is agreeably cut, strongly cross-linked", the first, which arrived to the mind, when I saw this small automobile. Color - light grey metallik. 15- one inch wheels are put on shoes into vsesezonku Michelin Contact, so that even with the trip on the snows of problems be there must not. However, to move I am assembled along another way, where after each snowfall, according to the communications of the press center of capital city hall, "work about 8000 units of snow-removal technology".

927 is very good the interior, executed in the with restraint- refined color range: gray and dark-blue. Torpedo lines are smooth, without superfluous fakturnosti, ergonomics - to "yat'", everything it is functional, it is aesthetical and it is convenient. The left zone of torpedo usually occupies control board with the isometric by speedometer and the tachometer. Two instruments a little less - the temperature indicators of the cooling fluid and the fuel level. The scale of speedometer is otsifrovana azh to 260 km/h, with the variable step - 10 and 20 km/h. Reserve - clearly for version S3. was located place also for the electronic indicator- understudy of the selector of transmission, but with the specific combinations of landing driver and position of the steering column this signal panel hides itself behind the nave of baranka.

Adjustment of front seats mechanical, effort on the handles optimum, everything are executed in German thoroughly, without the excesses. Was pleased the illumination of salon - separate for the driver and the front passenger, which is convenient with the case study of actual chart area. For the maps in the doors there are capacious pockets. But here glove box did not strike by volume: the pillow of safety of front passenger occupies its significant part. Between the instruments and the box - deflectors of climatic installation, under which are located the firm radio tape recorder Audi Chorus, the control unit with climatic installation, small section for the documents or the cassettes and ash tray prikurivatelem. Around the red displays in the central zone of torpedo - necessary buttons, made in the united style.

Attractively appears the lever of selector AKPP. Its foot, crowned by convenient knob, chrome-plated as into the seventieth. Cover plate in the base of lever with the round windows of the indication of the regimes of transmission is made from aluminum and pleasantly it gleams. Windows shine red - in the darkness it is similar to the landing lights of airfield. Steering wheel sheathed by the skin has acceptable section, and here podrulevye switches are located to it too closely, with the active taxiing is chance to povklyuchat' everything, which is included by them.

To the matter. I tune seat. The belt of safety does not disturb, overhead - centimeters eight free space. Forward.

795 Stometrovka near the auto-salon resemble (yes tyuey prostyat me veterans) the road of the life: the gently sloping arc of route lies between the filled with brown water grooves of unknown depth. At the low speed I am stolen on this holiday of dzhipera, on the stuffing from ice and intended not to allow the freezing of reagents. The body of automobile assumes khimvanny, and there remains only to sympathize with paint and varnish coat. Not one wheel slid down into the pothole - the thanks to rubber.

After being selected to the asphalt, I gain speed. Automaton operates unnoticeably, the moment of switching is determined only by the brief beat of the pointer of tachometer. Survey forward and picture along the sides - without the observations, from the sun and the lamps overhead will protect spectral band on the upper part of the wind glass. Proceeding from behind is tracked rather well through the society and lateral mirrors. Latter with the preheating, that under snowfall conditions very by the way.

Wide main call to spur machine. The dynamics of acceleration is not rocket, but is constant, the sharpness of steering control magnificently harmonizes with the action of brakes. On snow AE it slows down very well, the wear and tear OF ABS. was possible to provoke, having only strongly stamped on the brake pedal in the iced turning. Element AE - city with the dense herd of the machines, which it can without the special labor leave behind itself.

On area I evaluate the maneuverability of automobile and special feature of motion by backward motion. Through rear glass- it is evident everything which is necessary, the sector of the work of "yard-keeper" it is sufficient large, and "to go back", looking through the right arm, is possible is completely confidently. Middle-sized overall sizes, small turning radius, very insignificant efforts, which require with the work by baranka, all this it contributes to adroit maneuvering.

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