Price of Side Grill Audi A4 2017
2017
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The Automobile Connection Expert Review
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May 31, 2017
Likes
- Excellent turbo-iv ability
- Up to 37 mpg
- Good rear-seat space, at concluding
- Treatment'due south near S4 levels
- Dazzling display screens for all the things
Dislikes
- Styling barely advances
- RWD-based rivals nevertheless sharper
- Turbodiesel is DOA
Ownership tip
features & specs
2.0 TFSI Automated Premium FWD
ii.0 TFSI Automatic Premium Plus FWD
ii.0 TFSI Automatic Premium Plus quattro AWD
The 2017 Audi A4 advances its sport-sedan credentials in lots of incremental means, but the virtual cockpit drops the digital mic.
The sport-sedan niche is full of not bad cars. It'south not but a 3-Series game anymore, not with the ATS, the C-Class, and the Q50 grabbing enough of honour of their own. The entire grade oozes brownie, even earlier the Jaguar XE and Alfa Romeo Giulia have had time to brand an bear upon.
Count the Audi A4, available in a dizzying array of Premium, Premium Plus, and Prestige trim levels, in with this talented crew. In the past two decades, the A4 has taken Audi's reputation for taut styling and good road manners, and elevated it with lots and lots of technology. It'due south an easy 7.viii out of ten overall for us.(Read more about how nosotros rate cars.)
How tin can the completely new 2017 A4 keep the kudos coming? With progress on all fronts, particularly the digital ones.
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2017 Audi A4 styling and performance
The Audi A4 isn't adventurous outside, but inside, the virtual cockpit vaults it into the hereafter. It wears an aero-smooth body that doesn't venture as well far from the outline that Audi'due south applied since the A4 was new in 1996, but the details have been progressively crisped up and refactored. The new grille has a more geometrically pleasing look, the front end a more athletic stance, the rear a more than pronounced wedge.
Inside, the A4 wraps tomorrow'southward applied science into a cabin that's spartan in the about pleasant way. The strong horizontal theme of the dash harks back to the Audi 4000s of the '80s, from the trim strip of vents that bisects the motel to the toggle-switch controls that govern the climate control. The subdued cockpit makes the A4's digital displays stand out in even higher contrast: on most models, a wide, high-resolution display switches dynamically from navigation to instrumentation while a center panel follows duplicates and augments that information. It'due south Boeing-grade interfaces, drilled down to the mainstream sport sedan realm.
Audi's clarified the A4 lineup over fourth dimension, to the point where the new auto merely offers i engine available in ii states of tune. With its turbo inline-4 and pick betwixt manual and dual-clutch transmissions, the A4's powertrain makes perfect sense for the route ahead.
The belatedly introduction A4 Ultra serves every bit the entry level, efficiency-oriented model, offering merely one configuration and two trim levels: 190 horsepower, the dual-clutch automatic, and front-wheel bulldoze.
The more than mainstream, and pricier, A4 boasts 252 hp, but information technology offers either the 7-speed dual-clutch or a 6-speed manual and a choice of forepart- or all-wheel drive. It'south smoothen and strong, with 0-sixty mph times well beneath 6 seconds, and a overnice, raspy 4-cylinder engine note to its credit. Shifts are generally corking and clean, and the occasional low-speed hitch is a good reminder that Audi'southward slushy CVTs of the past are thankfully history.
Fantabulous straight-line functioning by the A4 still nets fuel economic system of upwardly to 37 mpg highway—and the A4 makes big strides in ride and handling, thanks to a strong new torso structure and its offset-ever adaptive dampers. Its five-link suspension has been redesigned, its electric ability steering re-geared, and its brakes re-sorted to give the A4 road manners that come close equally can exist to the outgoing S4.
Nosotros accept yet to bulldoze the A4 Ultra or the manual transmission A4.
Nosotros've put hundreds of miles on cars with the available sport-intermission tune, with the adaptive pause, and with summertime tires; the A4's capable road manners shine through, even if the steering doesn't deliver copious amounts of road information. Information technology's blessed with composed and responsive handling that doesn't quite have the precision of an ATS or Q50S, but does outpoint those rivals in ride quality. It also has driver-selectable modes for the manual, steering, throttle, and dampers that can be tweaked individually—a command freak's please.
2017 Audi A4 comfort, safety, and features
Audi has solved its rear-seat issues in the 2017 A4. It's always offered snug, comfortable front seats with long-distance space and support. In the past the A4 slacked off on back-seat accommodations, with a low cushion and not much genu room. The new motorcar's extra inch of wheelbase and additional caput room make information technology perfectly capable of carrying a 6-human foot passenger behind a 6-foot driver with some genu room to spare. The trunk is big and regularly shaped, and small-detail storage is adept; there's fifty-fifty a semi-secret chamber to the left of the steering wheel, big plenty for a couple of water bottles.
The IIHS has named the A4 a Tiptop Safety Pick+ with good scores and advanced safety tech, only the 2017 Audi A4 pushes the autonomous-driving envelope with a suite of prophylactic add together-ons. All A4 sedans come with a rearview camera and Bluetooth; options include lane-keeping assistance, bullheaded-spot monitors, adaptive cruise command with stop-and-follow capability up to 40 mph, and a warning system that pings if yous open up a door into oncoming traffic. Surprisingly, forwards-collision warnings with automatic emergency braking remain an option on about versions.
The new A4 is priced from merely below $36,000, and for that, Audi makes a statement with engineering and features. All cars get Bulldoze Select, a sunroof, leather, power front seats, 17-inch wheels, and premium audio with Bluetooth audio streaming. All-wheel drive is available on all versions. Premium Plus models add 18-inch wheels, parking sensors, and a xix-speaker Blindside & Olufsen stereo, while Prestige editions have a caput-up display, surround-view cameras, and navigation. LED headlights, ventilated seats, and adaptive dampers are among the major recommended options.
Undoubtedly, it's the A4's splash of technology that will drive home its reputation for advancing the sport-sedan niche. Virtual cockpit aside, the A4 also links effortlessly to smartphones, and offers a loftier-speed, in-car information feed by subscription. Its new infotainment organization accepts input from voice, steering-wheel controls, even from letters traced on its console-mounted rotary dial.
The new A4 will even talk to your smart watch and volition let yous lock and unlock it via a mobile app. Nosotros're a long, long way from where we've come—and the new A4 does its part to move smartly toward new horizons.
The Audi A4 isn't adventurous outside, but inside, the virtual cockpit vaults it into the time to come.
The 2017 Audi A4 ventures just a few millimeters exterior its safe zone. The proportions and profile of the sedan are well-nigh unchanged, though information technology's built on an entirely new platform.
It scores an 8 out of 10. (Read more about how we rate cars.)
The aero-make clean shape still is quite attractive. It's substantially a crisped-upwards take on the shape the A4 has worn since it became the A4, back in the 1990s. Knowledgeable eyes volition be able to spot this generation instantly: The front hulks at the fenders, the rear end rises higher, the grille is framed more geometrically. There's aplenty front-end overhang and a bullet-smoothen front end. Down the body sides the A4's big glass areas taper neatly toward the roof.
It's a pattern intended to endure, rather than dazzle. Still, it might be the final time Audi can reinterpret this sedan without reinventing it, at present that the C-Grade has altered the design dynamic amidst the German brands.
The A4 is part future-remember, part throwback inside. The spare look fondly recalls some of Audi's classic shapes of the '80s, like that of the 4000 sedan. There'south a spartan entreatment to the strongly horizontal dash and toggle-switch controls. A strip of vents divides the dash horizontally, just the wide middle swath is there for continuity—it's not a operation air vent. Audi's even nodded subtly at its past with the seat stitching.
Functionally it'southward a ameliorate blueprint, likewise. The low cowl opens upwardly the field of vision for the driver. The steering-wheel hub is smaller, but the Audi ringed logo is larger, leaving more room for thumb controls on the dished spokes.
It's all yanked into the nigh future by the dazzling brandish screens embedded ahead of the driver, and affixed to the nuance. Audi calls its organization of screens its "Virtual Cockpit," in which it's replaced the conventional gauges on most A4 sedans with a changeable display that tin can emphasize elements like a tach and speedo, then shrink them in favor of a full-width navigation brandish rendered with Google Globe maps.
That display's express by the form cistron of the screen—navigation wants a portrait-style layout, and the screen's of the landscape multifariousness—but it's attractive, and quick to refresh. Information technology may be a fiddling distracting through the learning curve, but the displays are a stunning calling bill of fare Audi has all to itself.
On the centre stack of controls, a new climate-control interface has its ain toggles and screens and fluid graphics. Flick the switch for the fan speed and its icon grows in size on the LCD console through the mod magic of capacitive switches. They're no ameliorate or worse for legibility that other digital readouts, and the toggles do a fine chore of replacing the tactile rightness of a big, round knob.
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The 4-cylinder in the A4 makes perfect sense for the road ahead, and and so practice its adaptive dampers.
The engine in all A4 sedans is a turbo 2.0-liter 4-cylinder, just it's available in two different states of tune.
We've only driven the more powerful A4, but it's polished and terrific to drive, scoring an 8 out of ten. (Read more than about how we rate cars.)
The A4 Ultra was announced equally a surprising addition in order to compete with the BMW 320i for entry-level consumers. With 190 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque, information technology gives up some grunt to the 252-hp, 272 lb-ft model, and the Ultra offers just Audi'due south 7-speed dual-clutch automatic manual.
The 252-hp version is available in a wider array of trim levels and can be coupled to the seven-speed dual-clutch manual or a late-introduction six-speed manual, and a choice of forepart- or all-wheel-drive. In other markets there are dissimilar versions of the aforementioned new engine family, but the 252-hp American-spec engine is the strongest. It'due south also more than powerful than final yr's A4, with 29 more horsepower and fourteen more pound-feet of torque.
Nosotros have not yet driven the A4 Ultra, only expect it to carry much like the 252-hp variant, albeit with around 60 fewer hp under its hood.
The 252-hp engine makes a good complement to the Audi'due south weight and size. The sounds emanating from under the hood are smooth and balanced. With no active-noise cancellation, the turbo inline-4 sounds natural and fairly muted, filtered equally it is through sound deadening practical in the cycle housings and at the firewall.
The dual-clutch transmission is an evolution of previous VW Group designs, and replaces a string of torque-converter automatics and CVTs peddled past Audi in the A4 over the years. The paddle-shifted gearbox fits better with the A4'southward sporty intentions, and doesn't take much of the hasty feel at low speeds that dual-clutches tin can suffer.
The powertrain combination launches the A4 with gusto, rifling through shifts and pushing through the engine's quick torque onset. Audi estimates this combination will accelerate from 0-lx mph in v.half dozen seconds. Numbers like that are the equal of the uprated S4 from just a few years ago—and there'due south a turbocharged Five-6 S4 with an 8-speed automatic if you're in the mood.
Audi A4 ride and handling
A stiff new body structure and a redesigned intermission brand the most of the A4's turbo ability. For the first time, the A4 can be fitted with adaptive shocks, and in concert with its variable electric power steering and selection of driving modes, the A4 has the hardware and programming to please a huge range of drivers.
The pause is equanimous of lighter-weight five-link assemblies, front and rear, like to the setup on the previous A4. Adaptive dampers are an option on nearly models, giving A4 buyers a more capable choice versus the base and a mid-line sport-pause tune. The electric power steering has a new mode that raises steering boost at low speeds and bigger steering angles, which aids urban center driving and parking. It isn't blest with loads of feedback, but it's quick to tighten a line, credit going to better suspension geometry.
Four-piston, stock-still-caliper front brakes and two-piston rear brakes are standard, and blessed with a pedal with smashing feel and progression.
Audi Drive Select coordinates all the responses from most of the A4's drive system. Every bit before, Drive Select lets drivers alter steering, throttle, transmission, and adaptive-damper tuning through economy to Sport+ modes. There'southward an Private manner that will accept settings outside those programmed modes—comfort-oriented steering with quick shifts and sport shocks, for example.
Nosotros've spent time in A4s with 19-inch summer tires on European roads, and in the A4 with all-season treads in stock and adaptive-damper class. It's responsive and composed in all versions, simply for our money, the adaptive dampers are worth the $ane,000 upcharge where they're available.
Nosotros spent an afternoon hustling the A4 in Private style through some favorite winding roads outside San Diego. The premium suspension setup fits the A4'due south upgraded mission and pricetag. It softens modest bumps and keeps firm control of the ride, turning the mid-line A4 into a rough equal of where the terminal-generation S4 left off.
This A4 feels all-time set into sport steering and transmission modes, and set up to automated damping. In that manner, information technology's a magnitude more capable than the terminal A4, a far reach across the old base machine and its unathletic interruption tune and slushy CVT. There'south not much in the mode of steering feel, simply the new A4 is quick to respond and corners predictably, without hammering road flaws into the torso structure or pumping powertrain racket gratuitously into the cabin.
We're still smitten with Cadillac's amazingly accurate steering and Mercedes' absorbent air-spring ride, but the A4 cuts its own path here through the sport-luxury woods. There'due south a smart, engaging driving experience at work that leans more than in the ATS/iii-Series direction than it does in the mode of the base of operations C-Grade, and information technology makes the S4 all the more promising.
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Audi has solved its rear-seat bug in the 2017 A4.
The revamped 2017 Audi A4 is a trivial lighter on its anxiety, thanks to a wider, longer body structure that makes moderate gains in passenger and trunk space.
The A4'due south at present a true mid-sizer, and it'southward about every bit spacious as the bigger cars in its niche—the BMW 3-Series in particular. Nosotros like the manner information technology has improved for 2017 and give information technology an viii out of x. (Read more most how we rate cars.)
Compared to the outgoing A4, the new sedan rides on a wheelbase that's 0.7 inches longer, for more rear-seat leg room. Information technology's about an inch longer overall, and a half-inch wider. Audi too claims an inch more head room and 2.6 inches more than front shoulder room.
At the same time, it can counterbalance up to 100 pounds less than last twelvemonth's A4, even with more equipment and more space.
5 adults will fit well inside the new A4. It delivers improve infinite and comfort for all those passengers, just those in front become the near form-fitting chairs. Audi's sport seats have always tended toward the snug side with firm bolstering, and the new A4 chairs hitting that sweet spot perfectly. Over hours of driving, the ability front end seats never cause fatigue.
Between the front buckets and effectually the motel, Audi factors in enough of modest-particular storage. The A4 has two big cupholders placed ahead of the shift lever, and has a deep, useful console bin. To the left of the steering bike, there's a sleeping accommodation that's big enough to hide a couple of water bottles.
The back seat is where the A4 makes its virtually noticeable gains. In the past, the A4 suffered from a brusque, depression, flat seat bottom. Alpine passengers had caput room, but few passengers had good leg support. In the 2017 car, the rear seat has a high, supportive absorber. Six-foot passengers are comfortable, even seated behind vi-pes passengers.
The A4's big trunk holds ii roll-aboards and two backpacks easily, without stacking anything. The space is regularly shaped and squared off, and the trunklid hinges are covered to protect from scuffs.
Equally usual, Audi's precisely designed interiors reflect a lot of attention to seams and panel fits. Though the A4's cockpit doesn't state the visual knockout of the new Mercedes C-Class, the refined and restrained trim combinations are uniformly handsome and tasteful.
The dazzling high-resolution display ahead of the commuter glosses over some low-level foibles. Dash-mounted display screens can look low-upkeep, but the A4's TFT looks more firmly affixed, if not completely high-hire.
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The 2017 Audi A4 improves dramatically its crash condom scores with a new structure.
The 2017 Audi A4 is a make-new design and structure for the automaker and condom information so far is promising.
The IIHS gave the sedan superlative scores in every category, including a "Good" rating in the small-overlap crash test and a "Superior" rating for optional crash-mitigation technology. The insurance-industry funded agency gave the A4 a Top Safety Choice+ award for the first time in the sedan'southward history. The improvement is meaning—the 2016 scored a worrisome "Poor" in the crash test—and could bode well for future cars based on that platform.
Federal rubber officials gave the 2017 Audi A4 a v-star overall rating, which helps it earn an 8 out of 10 on our safety calibration. (Read more virtually how we rate cars.)
The A4 besides comes with a long listing of safety equipment, from standard airbags and stability command to bachelor all-wheel drive. Rear-seat side airbags are likewise offered as an option.
Some features on the A4'due south options list tin can't be had on rival sedans. Information technology tin can exist fitted with forward-collision warnings with automatic emergency braking; adaptive cruise command; a terminate-and-go characteristic that lets the A4 follow the car alee safely at speeds of upwards to 40 mph; blind-spot monitors; parking and attention help; and lane-keeping assist.
The A4 can even warn drivers when they attempt to turn into oncoming traffic. Information technology tin can scan the lanes behind the forepart doors and sound a alert if the doors open up into busy traffic.
With all these systems engaged, it's possible to drive the A4 over long distances in a proto-autonomous style. Fully autonomous driving may be a few years, or a decade, abroad, merely the pieces are starting to fall into place.
With screens galore and sporty trim lines, the latest Audi A4 makes its marking in applied science and features.
Prices start at $35,850 for the forepart-drive A4 Ultra, just tin climb rapidly from in that location. Equally tested, our 252-hp A4—with adaptive suspension, a head-up display, and adaptive cruise control—checked in at $54,500.
There's a lot of technology even at the standard level, but the A4 truly impresses the more it is equipped, which helps u.s. rate it a 9 out of 10. (Read more than about how we rate cars.)
The U.S. lineup includes Audi's usual Premium, Premium Plus, and Prestige trim levels; Ultras offer only Premium and Premium Plus simply substantially mirror their more powerful siblings.
All 2017 A4 sedans come up with power features; leather; and USB, Bluetooth, and smartphone connectivity.
Other Premium features include a sunroof; power forepart seats; aluminum trim; a rearview camera; Audi Bulldoze Select; 17-inch wheels; and an AM/FM audio system.
Premium Plus cars get 18-inch wheels; parking sensors; S-line exterior trim; satellite radio; and a stunning Bang & Olufsen 3-D audio organization with 19 speakers and 755 watts of output.
Prestige cars get a standard head-up display; blind-spot monitors; surroundings-view cameras; and navigation.
Major options will include all-wheel bulldoze; the S-line advent package; the adaptive air interruption; full LED headlights; ventilated front seats; heated rear seats and steering cycle; summertime tires; forest trim; rear side airbags.
Infotainment and connectivity
Audi's putting a big emphasis on the A4's side by side-generation infotainment and connectivity features, and that begins with the wide digital display that displaces the gauges. With the ability to toggle between views—from a pair of gauges and a small-scale navigation screen, to a full-width nav view, for example—the so-called "Virtual Cockpit" is identical to the one in the TT coupe and roadster, every bit distracting at first, equally arresting as a unique characteristic.
Base cars have a vii.0-inch display screen at the heart of the dash, while versions with optional navigation have a larger eight.3-inch brandish with breathtaking high-resolution output.
Next-generation connectivity is broiled into the A4, as well. Virtual cockpit aside, the A4 now links effortlessly to smartphones, and can exist fitted with an on-board, loftier-speed data connexion.
It sports the latest version of Audi's Multi-Media Interface (MMI). This infotainment setup uses a combination of inputs, from voice to steering-wheel controls to a rotary punch with a scratchpad surface that accepts handwritten input.
Lastly, Audi'south connected services have new functions baked into them. A smart-watch app interface is new, and all A4s now have a express set up of smartphone-app features including car status checks and remote lock/unlock.
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Gas mileage has made gains in the 2017 Audi A4, only the loftier-mileage pick is off the table.
Audi has boosted the fuel-economy ratings for the 2017 Audi A4, but a notable choice on prior versions is missing in this new edition.
We give information technology a vii out of ten. (Read more than about how we rate cars.)
Opt for the A4 Ultra and you'll have the all-time fuel economy story. Front-drive models, the but configuration offered in the A4 Ultra, come in at 27 mpg city, 37 highway, 31 combined.
The EPA rates the dual-clutch front-drive, 252-hp A4 at 25/33/28 mpg. Calculation all-wheel bulldoze lowers those figures to 24/31/27 mpg.
Audi hasn't still detailed fuel economy for the manual transmission model.
If yous're looking for the long-promised turbodiesel A4, it's been scuttled from the powertrain plan, at least for the time being. Audi had planned to bring a turbodiesel to market in this generation of the A4 sedan. The discovery and admission that Volkswagen has tried to defeat emissions controls on its smaller-deportation turbodiesels in the U.South. has put those plans into turnaround—at least until Volkswagen AG determines how to handle the legal and technical consequences.
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