With 400,000 yuan in hand, buy Audi A6L or Lexus ES300, according to the car reviewer so choose accurate!

Wen/Lei Lei

With the entry of more and more car buyers, the luxury midsize sedan is now becoming a hot competitive wind. The high-flying brands will also welcome the entry of many heavyweight models. In fact, the A6L and Lexus ES are undoubtedly among the beauty that cannot be ignored.

Exterior design

"Technology" is the car editor evaluation of Audi's tried and true, but in this new car, but has the embarrassment of the verge of failure, this is not because the car in the technology level there is any regression, it is just that Audi for the car to add a lot of technology outside of the qualities and wonderful?

As far as design sensibilities go, the new A6L favors hard origami ribs that support a rather imposing aura. Like the Double B, the A6L is available in a Luxury/Sport exterior package, and the monolithic grille is even bigger and lower than its predecessor, giving it an air of aggressiveness.

On the exterior level, this is a typical but not fundamental Lexus. Specifically, the lines of the ES are deliberate but not cluttered, differentiating it from European brands in the same price range, but also striking an appropriate balance between sportiness and luxury.

Specifically, the new ES's headlamps emphasize slimness and slenderness, and Lexus' latest mesh grille is quite dynamic, adding to the front end's momentum. In addition, the styling and layout of the fog lamps and side air intakes also reveal a distinctly sporty build.

Interior style

Interior level, the new A6L design style transmutation really has the fastest running speed in the BBA three. A6L adopts Audi's signature "three-screen design". In addition to double jump open, quick defogging these necessary functions, air conditioning, audio and video, vehicle settings and other functions are handled by three touch screens. The entire interior, whether in terms of visual language or physical sense of use, has a purity and simplicity that exceeds established perceptions.

Specifically, the recommended model - "40?TFSI?Luxury Elegance" is a full range of beggar's edition, but also equipped with a 12.3-inch LCD instrumentation, a 10.1-inch center control LCD screen, an 8.6-inch air conditioning Control screen. Built-in factory navigation, roadside assistance call, car networking system, Apple/Android dual connectivity. As for the practical use level, what deserves a big mention is the localized linear motor applied to the main screen and the air conditioning control area. Specifically, when you tap the center control screen, the layout area where you press the button, a sense of vibration consistent with the physical buttons will occur, and this vibration, too, is a layered sense of high class, very similar to the linear vibration motors used in more than three thousand dollars price point expensive Android phones.

Interior level, in terms of design, ES this set of enough to be called classic style, indeed, with the outside of the beautiful and bright slightly out of touch. The overall design can only be described as "calm", a black to the end of the color scheme, but also does not have any outstanding, trendy style. However, the inner work is worthy of scrutiny, but also builds up the interior of this set of quite "good" quality.

Space and ride

When it comes to space, the A6L has a rather "spacious" shape at first glance. Both the head and legs can be placed and moved easily and without any obstacles. But Audi's usual problems persist: the seat cushions aren't long enough to support the legs, and the stiff padding and relatively high rear backrest angle depart from traditional perceptions of comfort.

Space, as a Japanese model, we have reason to expect a certain amount of space from the ES. The actual performance of the ES model is also worthy of our expectations, legroom has exceeded our expectations of a luxury executive sedan, and when you cross your legs, there will be no interference with the front seatbacks, enough to carry a long legged man's natural stretching, but only to the flat seat back and too hard padding inside, can not let a person feel completely comfortable.

Power and driving experience

Power and driving level, is the new A6L model on the big surprise. First of all, the recommended 40TFSI model is a 2.0T low-power version, but it is also matched with a 12V light hybrid system, which reduces the load point of the engine combustion, improves the comfort of the start-stop system, and reduces turbo lag. Meanwhile, when driving, you can enter the coasting mode to turn off the engine after collecting fuel. As for the actual driving experience, this 40TFSI model is only the A6L whole series in the entry power sequence, but also retains Audi's extremely strong acceleration ability, extremely low turbo intervention speed domain and DSG transmission laid out a sense of directness, but also can let the engine always keep a fist pumping the leap of faith. The overall acceleration confidence is extremely strong.

The Audi's handling is also very good. Specifically, the chassis is able to filter, cope with, and deal with potholes and bumps in the road efficiently and in a hierarchical manner, while on the one hand, it is able to dissolve external vibrations in a very delicate way, realizing an extremely sophisticated and advanced interior atmosphere. On the one hand, it is different from the general sense of the "Audi false" can give you some communication with the road surface and driving confidence, not to the kind of total disregard for the tasteless. Control level, the A6L adopted active linear steering system, can automatically adjust the feel of the damping and steering circle at the same time, pointing accurate, body dynamics, fast, and extremely easy to feel, the overall driving feeling with the size of more than 5 meters completely contrary to the "easy".

At the handling level, based on the application of the TNGA architecture, the new ES has a clearer and more tangible movement. But this movement is also precise and subtle enough. Not "a small part of the people like agile", but "most people like comfortable", abide in the texture and stability side. It won't tease you to drive it aggressively, but it's always there to give you plenty of driving pleasure and confidence.

Power level, the industry leader, pattern creator, these words of praise and even some meat on the Toyota hybrid system, there is no overstatement of embarrassment. After all, it is, opened the domestic market on the hybrid technology awareness. It can even be said that the current launch of hybrid models of other brands, are enjoying the dividends of Toyota education market. At the hybrid system level, ES300h is equipped with a 2.5L engine with a thermal efficiency of up to 41% and two electric motors linked through a planetary gear set to realize oil-electric synergy, which is highly efficient. However, the structural characteristics of the two electric motors, which cannot be decoupled or work separately, make its power performance more or less lukewarm and not vigorous enough.

Summary

01: In terms of sheer value for money, the A6L is undoubtedly worth buying.

02: For consumers addicted to Japanese styling, the ES is still the one to look at and not get out of.

This article comes from the authors of the Automobile House car family, does not represent the views of the Automobile House position.