What is it?
We’ve previously driven the fifth-generation, C8-type Audi A6 and so know about its mild-hybrid powertrains, Audi A8-apeing bodywork and divisive infotainment system. A full road test will also follow, so the examination is far from over.
But this is the first time we’ve had one on British highways and in right-hand-drive specification. It’s therefore an opportunity to find out whether the engine room of Ingolstadt’s luxury line-up can reproduce the favourable verdicts gained abroad, particularly concerning its road manners.
Petrol and more fully electrified variants will follow, but for now the line-up is straightforward for prospective British buyers with a choice of either a 2.0-litre four-cylinder ‘40’ or the 3.0-litre six-cylinder ‘50’ turbodiesel engine. We’ve sampled the former in Avant form and considered it a likeable, no-nonsense large estate that sits right in the intersection of a Venn diagram plotting luxury and utility.
Trim choices are similarly straightforward: there is Sport as standard or S Line, which adds roughly £3000 to the 50 TDI’s £47,110 starting price. The latter adds Matrix LED headlights, 19in alloys, more aggressive S Line bodywork, leather and Alcantara sports seats, and a perforated leather steering wheel to a basic specification already brimming with safety and infotainment technology.
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None of the used 50tdi s for sale have air suspension
As i thought when i rad this first time rare as hens teeth.
Air springs on all versions will be rare as hens teeth.
Just rubbish to say most 50s will come with air springs. It will be special orders at lower discount.
Audi mouthpiece...
"Audi could, were it so inclined, build a saloon every bit as appealing from behind the wheel as a BMW 5 Series, but it chooses to fight on a different front and spend its development budget elsewhere"..how do you know that?