#PERSONAL CARS 1.4 DRIVER#

#PERSONAL CARS 1.4 DRIVER#

But the task is much more difficult in reality and requires painstaking concessions in driver comfort.Дespite signposted speed limits of 130km/h along the Territory stretch of the Stuart Highway, we set out to average a speed closer to 80km/h the supposed happy medium between minimal wind resistance and fulfilling the required daily travel distance. On first glance, both figures seem easily beatable. Paired with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic, the A3 returns a claimed fuel consumption rating of 4.7L/100km combined and a highway-only figure of 4.1L/100km. Similar technology has been used in larger capacity V8s, such as the Holden SS Commodore, for the better part of a decade now. It works by dropping the second and third cylinders when the load on the engine is lightened on long declines, for instance. The new A3 is Audi's first four-cylinder car to employ cylinder deactivation technology. That left veteran journalist and experienced economy driver Bob Jennings to man the ship between the top end and the interior, where your humble correspondent joined proceedings. Our adventure was meant to begin in Darwin itself, but a last-minute hiccup forced a change of plans. But as we discovered, being green ain't easy. The brief was straightforward: cover the 3000km distance in five days using minimal petrol. Rather, the setting is the desolate and intriguing Australian outback, and the extra-terrestrial apparatuses whizzing by are in fact solar cars.Дriving Audi's new petrol-powered A3 1.4 TFSI, Drive was tasked with driving from Darwin to Adelaide as part of the biennial World Solar Challenge. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi flick: sitting in a sweltering car, surrounded by desert, while strange alien-like craft maniacally whistle past you.Д«ut this isn't the latest instalment of Star Wars. Engine 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol four-cylinderДЇuel consumption 4.7L/100km (claimed) 3.6L/100km (best on test)

Personal cars 1.4