All the way to the west to find the ancient Silk Road, witness Audi's journey of exploration without fear of danger

All the way to the west to find the ancient Silk Road, witness Audi's journey of exploration without fear of danger

The 2019 Audi Q family exploration tour started in August. This time, everyone was fortunate to come to Xinjiang to experience the unique charm of the Audi Q family.

I often hear people say that there is the largest Yardang landform in China in Hami, Xinjiang, and it is called the "Big Sea Road". When I heard that it was the ancient Silk Road, I had some expectations. Gobi, red willows, sand dunes, Populus euphratica, plus the magical Yardang landform, what kind of beauty should it be? Find a route that suits you, and then drive your own car, fully integrate into the outdoors, into nature, and enjoy the infinite charm brought by self-driving cars.

What kind of surprises will this route that starts from Hami, passes through the sea channel, then reaches Bosten Lake and finally arrives in Korla? Can the Audi Q family team withstand the test of multiple road conditions and high temperature? I believe that this exploration trip will give the best answer.

The most profound experience of this test drive experience is to cross the "Dahai Road" no-man's land. It is some lake bottoms in extremely arid areas that are dry and cracked. The wind blows along these cracks, and the cracks are getting bigger and bigger, making the original The flat ground forms many irregular wide and shallow grooves. The Yardang landform is divided into four forms: infancy, adulthood, adulthood, and extinction. The "big sea channel" in front of us belongs to the adulthood, stretching for several kilometers, and is the largest Yardang group.

Galloping on the sand dunes and Gobi, rolling up all the smoke and dust, attracting envy all the way. Detour behind Yadan, the slope is gentle and the soil is loose, and there are scattered stones in different sizes and shapes. Pick up a few small ones, the color is like loess, as hard as a rock, as brittle as water ice, and the thin ones can be broken. Of.

This time we will go from the city to the oasis, from the concrete forest to the Gobi desert. The strong winds along the way have witnessed Audi's fearless steps.

Starting from the urban area of ​​Hami, head west all the way to explore the world-class Yadan landform wonders of the "Dahai Road", and experience the journey of the Audi Q family's sea road.

The Audi Q family models have good driving ability and off-road ability in the desert Gobi Desert. You can choose the all-road driving mode instead of the elevated/off-road mode. It has a good power output and the passability is also very good.

After the vehicle with automatic parking function comes to a complete stop, the system will judge that it needs to brake at this moment, and the on-board computer will send a signal to instruct the braking system to apply an appropriate braking force to the vehicle, so that the vehicle is in a braking state.

The biggest obstacle to crossing the sea channel is passing through the no-man's land here. But after walking the sea road, you will also deeply appreciate the endless beauty left by the Silk Road. There is very little precipitation here, the surface water and groundwater are very scarce, and the salt content is high, the climate is extremely dry, and desert scenes are everywhere. It is one of the regions with the strongest continental climate in the world.

During the road test drive, on national highways and high-speed roads, you can clearly feel that the fully upgraded power system performs very well. In the D mode, the entire acceleration process is relatively linear, and the power output is also very abundant. When you shift the gear to the S gear, the response of the entire throttle will become more positive, and the downshifting action will become more crisp during rapid acceleration, and overtaking and merging will be done in one go.

Although the sea road is extremely dangerous, and even the extremely tenacious Achnatherum splendens and red willow are hard to find, the unwilling army, missionary monks and caravans have passed by. Haidao has geographical advantages and rich mineral resources, and has potential strategic value for Turpan's transportation and economic development.

Fully experience performance: Audi Q series has excellent performance, quattro technology, higher ground clearance, driving mode selection, and strong engine performance. Under the guidance of professional ADE coaches, I deeply experienced the challenge of test driving on the extreme road conditions of Yadan landform.

Driving the brand-new Audi Q5L through here, you will encounter psychedelic mirages, such as the moon in the mirror, flowers in the water, the scenery here is so trance, it will make you wonder whether this road is the scenery of the world. Along the way, there are fossil mountains, mirages, herds of wild camels in the desert, and many rare geographical features.

The Audi Q family can easily take you out of trouble on the sand, showing its power and strong passability. The new Audi Q5L has the most outstanding ability to get out of trouble. The driver only needs to rely on instinct to continue to step on the accelerator when the wheels are slipping, and the torque can be automatically distributed to the road with adhesion. wheel.

After talking about Q5L, let me share the feeling of driving the new Audi Q3. Driving Q3 into the Grand Canyon is like entering a paradise. The peaks on both sides of the canyon face each other, and the colors of the mountains are colorful. The big and small strange peaks and rocks, some are cut like knives, some are like screens, some are as abrupt as pillars, some are like wild camels running, and some are like eagles soaring.

You can see that in the vast Gobi Desert, even on a road with poor adhesion like floating sand, when the front or rear wheels sink into the sand and have no grip, the brand new Audi Q3 we are driving can quickly get out of trouble, just like The tough camel thorns on the Gobi Desert are generally planted deep in the ground.

Under the guidance of a professional coach, I quickly mastered the driving precautions and driving skills. The quattro system is indispensable for the precise steering of the vehicle on such rough roads. The performance of this Audi-headed power system in terms of speed acceleration and smoothness has been perfected day by day. The more linear acceleration process, the surging power output in the S gear mode and the quick response to downshifting and speeding up give the new Audi Q3 even better power performance.

Driving on such a Gobi Desert, the new Audi Q3 has greatly improved the handling stability of the vehicle, allowing the vehicle to have a higher fault tolerance rate. At the same time, on such a bumpy sand beam road, the new Audi Q3 gave me almost Feedback of "walking on the ground". Imagine, this should be the advantage brought by the equipped air suspension. Compared with ordinary shock absorbers, the air suspension can well suppress the redundant throwing feeling of the body. Uncomfortable shaking. In this way, it made our crossing on the Gobi very easy.

The new Audi Q3 also provides a choice of 150 horsepower 1.4T engine and 220 horsepower 2.0T high-power engine to meet the differentiated needs of different consumers. As for the transmission system, the new car is equipped with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.

While driving the new Audi Q3 on the Gobi Desert, you can feel the comprehensive handling experience, and look at its undulating shape in the next door, which shows the future design language of Audi. On the vast Gobi Desert, the Audi Q family shuttles up and down like riding the wind and waves , This extreme feeling is hard for every off-road player to resist.

Knowing that the road surface is uneven and the gravel is steep, but there will be no pause or hesitation. This is precisely because of the existence of quattro. With this logo, you will believe that difficulties and obstacles are not a problem.

Every time I go to the Gobi desert, I can't help but think about the war and the past for thousands of years. Although the person playing the flute under the setting sun in the desert has long been lost, quicksand is still flying all over the sky.

The hearty driving of the new Audi Q3 brings challenges and excitement to people, and increases the confidence to face challenges bravely. It is also the charm of this sport. Follow your heart and bravely break the shackles of life. The new Audi Q3 is sound-proofed throughout the car. The sound of the engine is low, thick and powerful when accelerating, like the low growl of a wild beast when it is about to attack. It is ready to go and makes you full of confidence.

On such a journey, we can also deeply appreciate the uncanny workmanship and infinite magnificence of nature. In front of the gift of nature, how can we talk about conquering the world, but we should use a broad mind to awe, To embrace nature, and sincerely use practical actions to protect them. This is also the real purpose of this Audi Q family exploration tour.

This test drive experience also made me realize the strength of the Audi Q family. In terms of comfort, several models of urban SUVs have surpassed the same level of performance. In terms of off-road, the Audi Q family with the blessing of quattro gave me strong confidence. Even in the face of various complex desert road conditions, I can drive calmly, allowing you to drive such an urban SUV to go off-road to your heart's content.

At night, the scenery along the road in Xinjiang and the humanities and folk customs are integrated together, exploring the uncanny wonders of the mysterious wonders, and singing the hymn of life and soul. The 2019 Audi Q family exploration tour allows us not only to experience the outstanding and all-round product strength of the Audi Q family, but also to It is to deeply feel the shock and gifts that nature has given us, and we should respect nature and protect them. From this, I can't help but sigh that the spiritual connotation of the Audi Q family's "into the boundless, mindful of the world" is nothing more than this.

This time the Audi Q family assembled for the expedition, demonstrating strong product capabilities in the geologically complex Northwest Territory. Among them, as a comprehensive breakthrough all-round high-end A-class SUV, the all-new Audi Q3 comprehensively expands the high-end A-class SUV products with Audi’s new-generation SUV design language, advanced intelligent technology, and a number of unique or leading product configurations in its class. The strength dimension has established a new value system from "single advantage" to "comprehensive strength" in the high-end A-class SUV market, and has comprehensively expanded the diversified car use scenarios of users.

The Audi Q family experience platform can take you to explore infinite new realms and provide users with a deeper experience. Starting from the "Journey to the New World" in 2017, combined with user product experience and corporate social responsibility practice, the "Journey to the Five Worlds" began to sink to the region in 2018, through five routes to deeply experience the diverse charm of the product, the Audi Q family experience platform Influence is growing.

The 2019 Audi Q Family Exploration Tour brings users a deeply immersive product and lifestyle experience, further strengthening the emotional bond between the brand and customers. In the future, the Audi Q family experience platform will continue to innovate, and together with more Audi users, explore the world of everything and expand the dimension of life.