At the long Ascension weekend represent over 170 race cars of the 40th Edition of the ADAC Zurich 24h-race. Also present is the Schumann Motorsport team with the silver Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
When the Hyundai Genesis Coupe in the fall of 2010 came on the German market, we adopted the Schumann brothers, Peter and Jurgen, the decision to develop a racing version of the sports car and attack on the legendary Nordschleife. With the support of Germany and Hyundai Motor Hyundai Motor Europe began in the district of Saarbrücken, Burbach of construction of the racing version.
When on 19 May by 16 clock of the Clerk of the 176 race cars full starting field of 24-hour race on a journey through the "Green Hell", sends the crew of Schumann Motorsport is the second time in a row with the vehicle from the Korean manufacturer at the start.
The company itself is in the Hyundai dealership racing coupe built by the brothers of Peter Schumann (52) and Jürgen Schumann (49) and Alexander Koeppen (31) and Axel Duffner (40) is run.
The Hyundai Genesis Coupe comes with its 4-liter V6 engine in the class SP8 (Specials up to 6.2 liters) on. There shall inter alia on strong factory support and opposition from Lexus, Aston Martin and Corvette. But already the season starts in the VLN Endurance Championship race, the Korean coupe had a class win in the competition with more powerful cars, the LF-A, Vantage and C6 sit up
BMW ennobles the supposed "fair importer" AMI Leipzig and is equal to two long-awaited world premieres before: the new BMW 3 Series Touring and the three-door 1 Series.
And the same way BMW 1 Series presented alongside the sporting three-door also has a new entry-level engine 114i and the new top model, the BMW 135i with 320 hp bumsfidelen. Patsch.
The BMW 114i and the BMW M135i will be offered at the same time as a 5-door. For all models except the BMW 114i and the BMW 116d EfficientDynamics Edition is an option in the compact segment, the unique eight-speed automatic transmission. Both in conjunction with manual transmission and automatic transmission is available with the Auto Start Stop function. Also includes the BMW EfficientDynamics technology package as the Eco-Pro mode, which is activated via the standard switch driving experience. At a later date for the new BMW 1 Series and the intelligent xDrive all-wheel drive may be available. He completed his debut in the BMW 120d xDrive and BMW xDrive M135i.
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The abbot of the Allgäu company has a long tradition in the performance of vehicles made by Volkswagen and Audi. Clearly the one with a history of 100 years is not tuning felt awestruck when the Audi A6 Avant presents the major with a strong power-313HP diesel. On the contrary. Is much in this case was not enough and so the Allgäu tuner is still a strong power boost and equipped the four-wheel drive Avant a total output of 360HP and 700Nm impressive.Days of electro sound
A combination of strong 360HP must of course "rock" as he pulled the rubber band catapult as the occupants and the family dog in the trunk of the highway. Unfortunately, the inventor of the diesel engine, the sound has not been set as a priority and will sound even today, the diesel noise more like a family outing to the farm. Therefore, Audi and Abt not more so. But on the other hand - and thus created the sound designers from Ingolstadt an electronic sound, which can be influenced by on-board computer. Muttering in deep and believable sound like a real V8 gasoline engine, can propel the 3-liter V6 diesel through the village. The synthetic sounds so believable, like the strawberry flavor in fruit yoghurts have the never before seen a strawberry.
But it pleases. If you switch to synthetic illusory world via on-board computer menu to "comfort" were dashed, the bubble of the engine sounds comforting. Thanks to perfect shielding and high-Dämmkunst engine compartment, basically nothing more then penetrates into the interior which could point to the diesel principle, stand still in the early joy of torque explosion reveals.
Beam me up, Rudolf Diesel
The inventor of the diesel engine would float on a wave of ecstatic bliss, he would be able to learn what made Audi and the Allgäu boys of Abt and foul from the 120 year old principle of self-igniting engine for motor vehicles. With 700Nm of torque, the suit reminiscent of the coupled to an 8-speed automatic engine more to the steam hammer of a departing aircraft. Thanks to the series-supplied four-wheel drive "Quattro" everyone gets the tires he tolerated dose of power allocated. If the "beam" was not invented back in the 60zigern by the crew of the starship Enterprise, the test drive in the truck Abt'schen torque would have been a good opportunity for a new synonym for the word acceleration search. And "beam" would be just the right adjective for this precise.Carry coals to Ingolstadt
Expect a review on the processing of the Audi A6? Or the luxury of a test car came with all of what life in the left lane of life has been making pleasant and beautiful? Certainly not. Audi has long since arrived in the league of "happy premium manufacturers." Instead of the owls, we should talk about the cuckoo.
Who wants to see on the selfsame not his possessions, which should be concerned about the financing of the company car driver's dream a few thoughts. A 313HP Audi A6 Avant is already beating high with the base price of just under 60,000 € on the petty cash out a deep crater in the usual company car costing. Thanks to an impressive depth charge-list from the manufacturer Audi and one again - special driving pleasure and neighbor-envy promising accessory list from Abt is one who uses embarrassment to both, the purchase price of the Abt AS6 loose 100,000 to the € driving limit and beyond.What remains after the test drive in the Abt AS6?
In addition to the printing of the leather grain in the driver's shirt, it is one thing that remains in the mind of the driver. The compulsive attempt to make the right arguments to the next company car-finding hearing.
