230hp diesel isn’t great. If I hadn’t bought this thing for under 2000 EUR in a pinch, I would’ve preferred the 239 hp
I don’t exactly remember which one it was, the restyling of the “round front” one. Had an A6 quattro sedan from the same model, pre-restyling too, same car really. It was many years ago. The tiptronic gearbox sucked, it was awfully slow even when changing gears manually. I remember spending about 1k€ to replace a headlight, then at around 250k km the gearbox started acting up, lots of stupid costs I luckily didn’t have to pay for personally. Now I don’t use the car as much, actually I barely use it at all, so the bad fuel economy of the Subaru doesn’t matter much to me.
On the snow I didn’t like the Audi, I’ve never skimped on tires and I used to be a 4x4 offroader myself, so honestly I don’t know how to justify it sucking so bad.
As for the Levorg yeah, I don’t think they sold a manual turbo in Europe, the best you can get is my same 1.6L turbo 170hp with CVT. CVT really sucks the power out of this engine, the feeling is not very sporty, but some things don’t matter as much to me as when I was younger. For everything else the car is perfect, and the CVT does have its perks. Fuel economy is REALLY bad, like normally I can get 10km/l, but there are times where I drive a bit less carefully and then I get 8km/l.
If you had the facelift with the LED DRLs, that would’ve been the superior 239 hp one and if you had a pre-facelift 3.0 tdi, that would’ve been either 230 or 224 (ish) hp.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Tiptronic either, but I do like its longevity and relative simplicity if I need to rebuild it. In a BMW it would be possible to flash it for higher line pressure and faster shifts, but unfortunately not the case for Audi.
For my next car I’m looking to ideally get something with an 8HP or 9G-Tronic box. Aisin 8 speed as a backup option. Haven’t actually driven either of those 8-speeds somehow, but I had a W205 C-class with 9G for over 2 years and it was sublime. Kicking down even 4 gears at once was quick as hell and outside of sport+ you couldn’t ever feel any of the shifts, even though they were always quick
I don’t exactly remember which one it was, the restyling of the “round front” one. Had an A6 quattro sedan from the same model, pre-restyling too, same car really. It was many years ago. The tiptronic gearbox sucked, it was awfully slow even when changing gears manually. I remember spending about 1k€ to replace a headlight, then at around 250k km the gearbox started acting up, lots of stupid costs I luckily didn’t have to pay for personally. Now I don’t use the car as much, actually I barely use it at all, so the bad fuel economy of the Subaru doesn’t matter much to me.
On the snow I didn’t like the Audi, I’ve never skimped on tires and I used to be a 4x4 offroader myself, so honestly I don’t know how to justify it sucking so bad.
As for the Levorg yeah, I don’t think they sold a manual turbo in Europe, the best you can get is my same 1.6L turbo 170hp with CVT. CVT really sucks the power out of this engine, the feeling is not very sporty, but some things don’t matter as much to me as when I was younger. For everything else the car is perfect, and the CVT does have its perks. Fuel economy is REALLY bad, like normally I can get 10km/l, but there are times where I drive a bit less carefully and then I get 8km/l.
If you had the facelift with the LED DRLs, that would’ve been the superior 239 hp one and if you had a pre-facelift 3.0 tdi, that would’ve been either 230 or 224 (ish) hp.
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Tiptronic either, but I do like its longevity and relative simplicity if I need to rebuild it. In a BMW it would be possible to flash it for higher line pressure and faster shifts, but unfortunately not the case for Audi.
For my next car I’m looking to ideally get something with an 8HP or 9G-Tronic box. Aisin 8 speed as a backup option. Haven’t actually driven either of those 8-speeds somehow, but I had a W205 C-class with 9G for over 2 years and it was sublime. Kicking down even 4 gears at once was quick as hell and outside of sport+ you couldn’t ever feel any of the shifts, even though they were always quick