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Last Auto Account – 2009 Audi A6 Offers Dizzying Array Of Great Engines Audi’s midsize affluence sedan, the A6, has so abounding powertrain options for 2009 it’s starting to attending like something from a GMC barter catalogue. Thankfully, all four are arch powerplants, so you absolutely can’t go wrong. But, again, they abjure us the diesel, so you can be abiding that Ed and I will abode a complaint. At atomic one can ..Last Auto account –

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Audi’s midsize affluence sedan, the A6, has so abounding powertrain options for 2009 it’s starting to attending like something from a GMC barter catalogue. Thankfully, all four are arch powerplants, so you absolutely can’t go wrong. But, again, they abjure us the diesel, so you can be abiding that Ed and I will abode a complaint. At atomic one can be had in the A4 3.0 TDI.

Prices for the agilely restyled affluence auto activate at $45,100 for the A6 3.2 auto Premium. In layman’s terms, this archetypal is a front-wheel drive A6 with a direct-injected 3.2-liter V-6 cranking out 255 hp and 243 lb-ft torque. The manual in this appliance is Audi’s multitronic, a continuously-variable automated with stepped RPM changes to accomplish it feel added like a acceptable automated (a abashment they don’t fit their analgesic 7-speed DSG here).

Next up is the A6 3.0T quattro auto Premium, which begins at $50,100; $53,310 for the Avant archetypal (wagon in Audi-speak). This acidity sends ability to all four auto application Audi’s acclaimed quattro all-wheel drive system, routes that ability through a 6-speed tiptronic automated transmission, and favors rear caster drive in archetypal operation. The engine is a new one for Audi; it relies on supercharging rather than turbocharging, and belts out 310 lb-ft to waft the big auto to 60 mph in an estimated 5.9 seconds. Direct bang and optimized accessory ratios accommodate this admixture an EPA-estimated 18/26 mpg, reportedly the best numbers for any mid-sized affluence auto awash in the U.S. featuring all-wheel drive.

If you wish to adventure to a advantageous V-8 soundtrack, appear with $60,950 for the Audi A6 4.2 quattro sedan. Your breadth will ache accordingly, but all four auto will apprenticed by a 350 hp adaptation of the direct-injected eight butt barbarian that rockets the R8 down the alley with ascendancy and sings acquiescently to an batty redline. Just as in the 3.0T quattro above, a six-speed automated with tiptronic handles the shifting.

If you still wish (and can afford) more, footfall up to the uber-A6, the S6. Direct-injection, 10 cylinders, 5.2-liters of displacement, and a six-speed tiptronic automated will rocket you to 60 mpg in about 5 seconds. How abundant for this 435 hp, 398 lb-ft monster? $75,900. Plus a paycheck that can abutment its 14 mpg burning (premium only) in the city.

Sign me up for an S6 for weekend racer duty, and Al Gore’s A6 2.0 TDIe for an ultra-efficient circadian advance in which I could get up to 44 mpg.

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