Editor’s Blog on the latest Audi A6 satnav system
COMPANY cars are getting more popular, both with businesses and drivers – that’s what GE Fleet’s Gary Killeen reckons following GE’s most recent research:
“What the research indicates is that since the technical end of the recession towards the end of 2009, the company car has become quite markedly more important to UK employers and their employees.” (See our Special Report Are company cars becoming more popular with businesses?)
When they are as good as cars like this – my new Audi A6 – you can understand why.
If you run it as a company car, expect to pay company car tax of £180 a month (40% tax payer) for the Audi A6 2.0 TDI SE. That’s not a lot for such an impressive executive car. In fact, it’s a steal.
I’ve been around the M25 and up the M11 towards Suffolk recently on a couple of occasions and it’s long distance comfort remains a wonder to me still. You could drive this car for hours. And a bit more.
In fact far more than its predecessor, and that’s partly due to the superior ride comfort.
Another major upgrade is the Audi A6’s sat-nav system. On the old car, the satnav was not able to take a six figure postcode. Most of the time this wasn’t an issue, except for when you really needed to find somewhere specific. And then it was.
No more. Also, it’s presentation is so much better. I have it set to give me the route, plus on the left the next three route changes. It provides much better ‘vision’ of where you are going. What I’m not so keen on, though, is when you have a long stretch on an A-road without a turn off – and it gives you a single screen showing a left turn 20 miles up the road. (See the picture left.) That’s not helpful in my opinion.
But overall the satnav is a major positive step forward – like most of the car. Roll on those miles!
Previous blog on the editor’s Audi A6: There’s a new Audi A6 on the block.
