Because, at one point during those years living abroad, I was particularly afraid of becoming one of those people who took their family out across the continent in a station wagon every summer, with a caravan trailer on the back, and whose final destination was presumably the south of France or Spain.
For me, this is almost a standard form of vacation for the greasy middle-aged middle class, a set of boring and boring stereotypes, and the station wagon is the protagonist and label of this life. At the time, I still had the idea that the world was a big place, and I wanted to go around, experience different lives, and be like Eva Chen who sang about the meaning of travel:
Tasting Paris at night
Stepping through snowy Beijing
Embracing the passionate islands
Burying the memory of the huskies
Years later, I realized that it was just a different idea at a different stage of life, and that it was a different way of thinking. I realized years later that it was just a different idea in a different stage of life, and after understanding the meaning of travel and the significance of the car, I gradually fell in love with the station wagon. Because a station wagon is the kind of car that calms you down, and unless you're driving an RS4 or RS6, it's hard to imagine a station wagon "road rage". And when you own a station wagon, you will soon find that its appearance, will bring infinite reverie to your life, for example, after having a station wagon, you will probably go to buy a tent, to buy a picnic mat, hammock, to buy fishing gear, to buy a bike carrier, and even accidentally become a connoisseur of bicycles, and you will certainly imagine the children in the countryside around the tent playful play scene! - You'll also imagine children playing in tents in the countryside, and then work hard for that, while looking forward to a beautiful day every weekend - these are life's pursuits, and everyone goes through them.
The Audi A6 wagon is the kind of car that gives you that kind of fantasy. It's the kind of car that you don't immediately get excited about, but you immediately feel a sense of respect and an urge to travel. Its front design and aura is almost no different from the new Audi A6, and Chinese users who are used to seeing the Audi A6L will feel that the A6 Wagon seems to be a bit strange in proportion, in fact, the A6 Wagon is based on Audi's purely imported A6 to build, so there is no wheelbase extension, and its overall length and wheelbase are shorter than that of the A6L by nearly 100 millimeters. As a result, it's not as slender, but such a visual gap will be slowly forgotten as your attention falls on its wagon body features.
But the A6 wagon is also valuable in the original, its driving experience is obviously more rigid than the localized lengthened A6L, although the same front and rear five-link chassis, but you will feel the A6 wagon's driving experience is more impactful, for example, in the normal curves, the A6 wagon will be heavier in the rear of the car, but it is driving the route as if it were drawn out of a circle, it will not let you feel a significant sideways movement. It doesn't let you feel the tendency to have a significant sideways tilt.
We drove the front-drive 45 TFSI version, and in the four-wheel-drive model with the higher-spec powertrain, this driving confidence will be even stronger, in other words, pure imported A6 wagon in the handling and sporty feel of the creation, but more than the A6L personality - about this, do not you want to count like a family and your side of the family to tell them Wouldn't you like to talk to the people around you and tell them how the A6 Wagon is different from the A6L?
The 2.0T engine used in the A6 Wagon, badged 45 TFSI, is also a bit more powerful than the 2.0T in the A6L, badged 45 TFSI, with 245 hp and 370 Nm of torque, while the high-powered version of the 2.0T engine used in the A6L has 224 hp and 350 Nm of torque. The difference between the two is that the purely imported A6 wagon uses an all-aluminum engine, while the domestic A6L's 2.0T block is still made of cast iron. One more word, the good stuff still needs to be introduced into the country, so that the domestic models can really be synchronized globally.
Interior, you can hardly feel any difference between the A6 wagon and the A6L, but it is clear that the imported A6 wagon's rear legroom is on the small side, and the softness and hardness of its seats seem to be more in line with European usage habits, without the pursuit of pure relaxation like the domestically produced A6L, which has a kind of ergonomically engineered seat "hard". There is a kind of ergonomic seat "hardness", but believe me, this kind of hardness is what you absolutely need on a long trip. Most importantly, the interior of the A6 wagon has a full sense of space, which can be described as airy, and that's one of the most refreshing things about it.
It's as if you're living in a room that's large in size and high in floor height, and it's not the extra square footage you're after, or the extra stacking of more items in that extra space, it's the fact that you'd like a larger and more private space to hug you - and in the Audi A6 Wagon, with the rear seats down, you've got a maximum of 1,680 liters of your exclusive, private space, and that's The A6L has 430 liters of luggage space, a difference of nearly four times.
The real difference between the Audi A6 Wagon and the A6L is behind the C-pillar, which is where it embodies its unique identity, and where you really get to see and appreciate the difference between its rear design and the sedan's. The essence of all this is in the moment it opens the tailgate - for those who love wagons, every time you open the tailgate of a station wagon it's full of rituals. And this sense of ceremony can only be felt in a station wagon - a standard sedan belongs to you and your Passenger, while a station wagon belongs to you and your Family, your Partners, the people who can go with you to see the farthest places and talk about your dreams with your hands.
On the A6 wagon platform, there's the RS 6 if you're after performance, and the Allroad version of the A6 wagon if you're after light off-roading, and the standard A6 Avant is a bit lethargic by comparison - it doesn't need a 600bhp-class engine, or a suspension that's a couple of millimeters higher. But it's what makes you feel like you're traveling - the process, even if it's not as smooth as you'd like it to be, but after all, the roads you've traveled, the books you've read, and the people you've loved will ultimately be embodied in your aura - Life is a journey. well, that's a drop of chicken soup in English, and it used to be a jingle for the Sunseeker. But once your trip becomes a Journey , then perhaps the journey before and after the redundancy, sometimes only to meet a certain person, or purely for a section of the unknown scenery, in this Journey, a good station wagon is not too important?