The improvements bode well for UK ride quality, but we’ll reserve judgement until we test it in Britain. The McPherson strut front and four-link rear suspension arrangement offers impressive fluidity through the bends, and the firm S-line suspension rode well on our southern French test route. Flip the steering wheel-mounted paddles and it occasional trips over itself, and there’s an uncharacteristic delay between requesting a shift and some cogs moving. In quattro guise, this engine is only available with the seven-speed S-tronic auto ’box tested here, which is best left to its own devices. ![]() ![]() Although the warm performance is there, it sounds like any other cooking four-pot motor. Push hard and it sounds flat and lacks the more gutteral tone we’d expected. Flexibility is perhaps this engine’s strongest suit.Īudi needs to do more on the acoustic tuning of the engine. The 1.8 TFSI engine pulls well with a linear delivery aided by a wide torque band which peaks at 184lb ft and plateaus from 1250rpm to 5000, while power reaches a crescendo at 178bhp between 5100rpm and 6200rpm.
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