2013 Audi Allroad - Car and Driver

While the Allroad attempts to look like a rugged SUV, it doesn’t have the credentials to back up the styling. If you’re looking for all-weather transportation, the Allroad works, but if you want true off-road ability, keep looking. First Drive Review – 2013 Audi Allroad “Hey,” you ask between bites of sympathetically foraged nettle burger, “isn’t this Audi thing just, like, a more-expensive version of my Subaru Outback. Like the Subaru, this Audi is based on a no-longer-sold-in-the-U. ) Like the Subaru, the Allroad is jacked up and plastic-plated. And like the Subaru, it’s mainly an advertisement for how green and holistic your lifestyle is. Audi freely admits the Allroad is not intended for off-road use. What it does have are stainless-steel skid plates that would look pretty shitty if they got scratched up. But in contrast to Subaru’s Montpelier shuttle bus, this Audi is a far more luxurious and better-fettled machine, like its A4 Avant forebear. The cabin is as well turned out as you’d expect, a veritable festival of high-buck materials screwed together with the precision of, well, an Audi. The Allroad plies paved roads and gravel driveways at the behest of Audi’s 2. 0-liter. Source: www.caranddriver.com