This sentence can be regarded as an evaluation, and it can also be regarded as the high popularity of Audi Quattro in the civil field and its merciless praise.
With the in-depth understanding of Audi Quattro four-wheel drive system by fans, it can be found that Audi four-wheel drive system has a very complicated branch, which has a very significant algebraic division according to different years. Even in the same era, Audi will be equipped with Quattro system for different positioning and different power layout. There will be a big difference.
In recent years, the Quattro four-wheel drive system equipped with Audi models, on the one hand, because of the patent of Torsten differential, on the other hand, because of the progress of the times, began to slowly cancel Torsten differential and began to adopt multi-plate clutch differential. In terms of naming, it also became Quattro? Ultra, in the eyes of many conservative consumers, this electronic four-wheel drive system is undoubtedly reduced.
Perhaps to some extent, the electronic four-wheel drive system is indeed a kind of reduction, but from the perspective of manufacturers, it is more a helpless choice made in line with the times.
Among the alternating models of Audi's new and old Quattro system, the one that can arouse the enthusiastic response from consumers is the launch of Audi Q5L. The full-time four-wheel drive system that was once standard in the whole system has become a timely four-wheel drive. Not only consumers are skeptical about Audi's move, but even many media are skeptical. I can't bear the enthusiasm of the older generation of mechanical Torsten differential locks, but at the same time I can't bear the new Quattro? Ultra is very conservative.
Although the Audi Q5, which once dominated the mid-level luxury SUV, has retired, the new Audi Q5L uses a set called Quattro? Ultra-active timely four-wheel drive system adopts electronically controlled multi-disc clutch differential, but it also has the function of central differential lock that Torsten differential does not have, and can realize the power distribution between front and rear axles from 100:0 to 0: 100.
With the addition of the jaw coupler, the power input of the rear axle can be completely blocked, and the maximum power loss can be reduced by 10% and the average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers can be reduced by 0.3 liter. And it can actively realize that the system can automatically switch the whole transmission system 0.5 seconds before the four-wheel drive mode by detecting different road conditions, so as to ensure switching to the four-wheel drive in 0.2 seconds. Ultra combines all the advantages of two-wheel drive, timely four-wheel drive and full-time four-wheel drive.
You're welcome. By the way, even quattro? Ultra has no Torsten differential or tubular gear differential. This four-wheel drive system can crush competitors of the same level in almost all luxury brands. The new Q5L is excellent in road handling performance and off-road capability, and it is more fuel efficient.
Although Quattro? Super-active timely four-wheel drive system has such superior performance, but it is always difficult to be accepted by consumers. This may be because of the resistance to new technology, or it may be that the products of such a new era have not won any high-value awards on the field, and they lack certain persuasiveness.
Perhaps because of the ingenious structure, no load, quick response and stable performance, the TOSON differential has brought too much glory to the Audi Quattro system. As a latecomer, quattro? Super-active and timely four-wheel drive system was born under this background, which is a bit humble.
However, in this change of environmental trend, performance always loses to biased and economical regulations, and there is a high probability that all new A7 and A6 are Quattro except Q5L today. Super upper body, when Q7 and A8 are replaced in the future, Quattro will be used with high probability. Ultra, even the Quattro with crown gear, will only appear in the high-performance models of S and RS series with high performance as the selling point in the near future.
If from Audi's point of view, Audi gives up quattro with Torsten differential structure and chooses to apply Quattro on a large scale? Ultra system, the electronic transformation of Quattro is also in the electrification era of Audi e-tron? Quattro, get ready.
Generally speaking, in the history of automobile development, Quattro is not the first and will not be the last high-performance product to lose to time and market. Just like the JDM era that Japanese fans are obsessed with is gone forever, as a part of Audi Quattro system, TOSON differential is also an era in the history of Audi Quattro. Now that times are changing, will Audi Quattro take Quattro? Ultra has entered a new era, which is also the end of the past and a new beginning.
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