Thank you, thank you! Yes, it is the Supercharged V6. And damn does it haul ass, ever so frugally. Driving home from New Jersey the car averaged 35MPG on the highway. That's ludicrous. The torque at 2500RPM is really noticeable when you step on it, and there's just so much torque that the amount of throttle input and sensitivity has been greatly reduced in standard Drive, because the difference between 1/4 throttle and 1/3 throttle at 2500RPM is nothing short of a pair of wings, that's how hard the torque can come at you with this car.
But put the car into S or switch the gears yourself and you gain a ton of control of this car's marvelous 8-speed and its superb shifts, which are either extremely smooth or sharpened up when in sport mode. No matter their setting, this gearbox is just awesome. What's more is the dynamic drive settings, which surprised me. With the twist of a knob you make the car soft or sporty, or leave it on auto so it adapts to road conditions. What's impressive is that you can create a custom setting that gives you the quicker shifts and firmer steering, but with the suspension on its softer setting - an "Individual" mode allows you to pick and choose between 3 settings, basically.
The interior is absolutely divine, I'd have never expected something of this kind of caliber for a $55K car, it is simply marvelous - not a single cheap plastic anywhere to be found in the entire car. The display on the dashboard is astonishingly gorgeous and hi-resolution, downright Apple-esque in quality, execution, and interface aesthetics. The MMI screen in the center console is all new and now rolls up as it does on the A8, and much of the technology behind the A8's center console actually carries over to the A6. The new trackpad works much like a laptop's would, in the sense that it allows you to use your fingers to scroll through the navigation map (sort of how you would on your phone). But there's more. For example: enter the navigation and pull up the map for your route guidance. You can enter your destination one of two ways: use the trackpad as your piece of paper (it recognizes written inputs from your finger) to enter the address. So start writing your ABCs or 123s with your finger and it'll recognize the input almost 100% of the time. Or, as mentioned before, you can use the trackpad to take hold of the map, scroll to the neighborhood you're going to on the map and tap the pad to bring up a menu that will allow you to confirm tap as your destination. When the car is on, there are numbers that illuminate from the trackpad which replace preset buttons normally found on cars, and they function the same way. Find your radio station, hold your finger down over the number 1 and it'll store your preset - intuitive and simple.
The one drawback I've found thus far is that this A6 no longer has an automatically adjustable steering column - it has a lever unlock for tilt and telescoping, my old A6 had a little joystick on the side of the wheel that adjusted it, which always automatically moved to either my driving position or my dad's (based on the key that opens the door). But that's a minor quip, and him and I generally keep the wheel in the same area. Besides, the way I look at it, some of the automated stuff they took out like the steering wheel adjustments and the button for the glove box (the glove box now just has a standard pull mechanism) is for the better - less shit to go wrong. Older Audis were known for jammed glove boxes where the button wouldn't unlatch them - people hated that feature.
