The Car You Need Right Now Is the Car You’ve Always Had
Audi A4
Size: M
It’s kind of an open secret that Audi does the best interiors in the biz. For continued proof, look to the new TT, or R8. It’s like their designers are working from another set of rules, playing the game differently. Everything is digital — the buttons, the controls — but they’ve got a machine-like analog build-quality. It’s the same with Audi’s all-new A4. The climate knobs look like they came off killer ‘70s hi-fi gear. And the instrument display looks like something straight out of Blade Runner. The narrow strip of air-vent that runs the width of the cabin — why didn’t anyone else think of that?
This is a car Audi really couldn’t afford to screw up. Now in its ninth iteration, the A4 is their pretzel and pilsner. No wonder it drives like a bank vault: quiet inside, with the chassis happy to soak up the awful roads of northern Italy, for example. Underneath there’s tech you won’t see even on much more expensive vehicles: magnesium for the rear seats, aluminum suspension components. Just about any gadget you can get on Audi’s flagship Q7 SUV, you can get on this.
There will be many, many vairants of the A4. We’ll save you time and just say the S4 is the best one, for now. But, keep an eye-out for a future plug-in hybrid model too.
