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Driven - Audi A4 Avant 2.0 TFSI Quattro (2016)

Hello, petrolheads! Today’s review regards the latest-generation Audi A4 Estate, powered by a turbocharged 2-litre, 4-cylinder 250 horsepower petrol engine. I must confess that, upon first eye contact, I was deeply disappointed with this new generation A4. Here is an all-new model, sporting a brand new chassis but looking mostly the same as the previous-generation A4. Or as an A3 Sportback… Of course, all Audi did was to play it safe, and rightly so. You see, the A4 is Audi’s volume model, this is the model most people end up buying after having seen some football players, any self-proclaimed digital-era celebrity or some Hollywood star stepping out of an R8, or RS6 Avant, and subsequently having mentally created this élan-picture of themselves on such a dream world. Let’s face it, most people who drive a new Audi nowadays – or even a BMW or Mercedes-Benz, for that matter – are more worried about 1) the (successful) image they project, 2) how many digital toys it has and 3) l...