If you have to pick flanked by speed and power, it often turns out you have to make that crucial a choice eventually, you’ve got to go for speed for it is fast. But what are you going to do with speed if you have no power at all? It’s useless. To have both at the same time, buy a 2009 Audi a4 for sale.
The dash, the center stack, and the armrest architecture are not new to Audi but are new to the A4. Specifically, the wider interior allowed the MMI controller to be relocated from the dash to between the seats, as in family members A8, A6, and Q7. Also like its pricier siblings, the A4 will offer many extras, including cooled seats, a backup cam, and a Bang & Olufsen sound system, this time with 14 speakers and noise compensation, but unfortunately no pop-up dashboard tweeters like those found in the S8.
The B8 Audi A4 Rendering
The 2009 Audi a4 for sale comes with more upgrades come in fresh new color-and-material combos and a truly huge (i.e. flat, tall, and deep) trunk. Clear attention was paid to the haptic quality of the A4′s various buttons, switches, and other ditties that one must twist, poke, or pull. One example: The current model’s window switches are unremarkable tabs that utter a thin metallic click when actuated—far from offensive, equally far from premium. The 2009 Audi a4 for sale model’s counterparts are ergonomically contoured and pleasant to the touch and operate silently but with a convincing heft.
At first blush it appears to have been shorted by the design team, which certainly outdid itself on the A4′s luscious platform-mate, the A5/S5 coupe, but bestowed much less of that car’s swoopy curvaceousness on the four-door version. On the road, however, a 2009 Audi a4 for sale has infinitely more presence, and not just because it’s 4.6 inches longer and two inches wider than before. To help optimize weight distribution and thereby neutralize the A4′s notoriously pushy handling, the engine-and-transmission layout has been smartly reengineered, allowing the front axle to be moved forward 6.1 inches. The 2009 Audi a4 for sale in turn created a shorter front overhang; a longer, sexier hood; and a more aggressive road stance.
The tougher—but absolutely crucial—challenge in Audi’s plan involves closing the image gap that persists between itself and the premium class leaders, which is merely a matter of marketing. By most accounts, Audis are engineered, assembled, and appointed about as well as (and often better than) their countrymen. And the 2009 A4 is no exception. Certainly, if the rest of Audi’s $10 billion product blitz is as nicely executed as the A4, we’d say Mercedes and BMW had better check their mirrors.
The 2009 Audi A4 Engine
This 2009 Audi a4 for sale comes with a Compelling Diesel Option following the 3.2 to market—and not by much, we think—is the best of the A4′s available diesel engines, which happens to be the same one that will make its U.S. debut in 2008 in the Q7 luxo-ute: the 3.0-liter six-cylinder, which generates 240 horsepower and a kickin’ 369 pound-feet of torque between 1500 and 3000 rpm. In the A4, it will come mated only with Quattro all-wheel drive and, at first, a six-speed manual transmission. And just because you’re an enthusiast, don’t ignore this engine option; in addition to the fuel economy benefit expected of a diesel, this is a particularly compelling choice not only on account of its 6.1-second 0-to-62-mph sprint but also for its smooth turbocharged midrange shove. On Sardinia’s winding two-lanes, which reminded us more than a little of Southern California’s gloriously banked asphalt strips, we left the car in third with rarely any need to shift.
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