![]() ![]() When you see Clifton Road sign on the left, we are the next drive on the right. When you pass Longbow Marina, you will have about 6 more miles. Take I-64 West to the Farmers/Sharkey exit, turn left onto 801, continue on 801 to 1274 continue on 1274. ![]() "No shows will be charged for what you reserve if you do not call 3 days in advance!"ĭuring January, February, March $65 per night plus tax.īring I-64 East out of Lexington, come to the Frenchburg/Owingsville exit, turn right onto 36, come 18-20 mile to 1274, turn left onto 1274, when you see the 2 mile marker come just a few feet turn left into driveway, take the gravel drive to the 1st cabin. Of Cave Run Lake fully furnished, gas grill, satellite TV,Īir conditioned and dishwasher, and clothes washer and dryer. One 2 bedroom cabin sitting on hill side within 10 minutes No-shows or early departures will be charged the entire amount with no credit.Nearly all rough sawed lumber cabin fully furnished. If you cancel less than one week prior to your scheduled reservation, you will be charged for the entire reservation. There is no smoking inside any of our buildings, but smoking is permitted outside the buildings. SMOKING POLICY: no smoking in cabins, suite The Suite provides access to a fenced-in backyard for taking your pet outdoors. Yes, we are Pet Friendly! Pets are permitted in the Deluxe Cabins, the Premium Cabin, and the Suite. No shows and early departures will be charged for what is reserved. Let us help you make your vacation this year everything you imagined it to be! Terms & ConditionsĬall for reservations between the hours of 8am-8pm. Your stay at Cave Run Cabins at the Brownwood makes it easy to access all the best the Cave Run Lake area has to offer. Adventures for the whole family! From fishing to hiking, kayaking to rock climbing, horseback riding to ATV trails, and more! All these attractions are a short distance from Cave Run Cabins at the Brownwood! Try something new or revisit a favorite place in the wilderness of Kentucky. Just a half mile from the Daniel Boone National Forest and Cave Run Lake, we are one of the closest lodgings to these wonderful, natural, beautiful places in Eastern Kentucky. Yes, we are Pet Friendly! Ask for details. Guests are also welcome to enjoy a roaring campfire (weather permitting) on our property, or sit on our large covered porch and enjoy conversation and stories with the Innkeepers. Many types of wildlife and birds can be heard or seen from our property, giving you a chance to be close to nature while enjoying the comforts of a home-away-from-home. Three natural wood Deluxe Cabins, a Premium Cabin, a Suite in the Main House, and a two bedroom Cottage are available at affordable prices year round. Guests of Cave Run Cabins at the Brownwood enjoy a secluded, park-like acreage which offers peace and tranquility with quick access to Cave Run Lake and the Daniel Boone National Forest. We're close to all the things that you need, but not so close that it interferes with a relaxing, enjoyable stay. Located just a half mile from the Daniel Boone National Forest and Cave Run Lake, we are one of the closest lodgings to these wonderful, natural, beautiful places in Eastern Kentucky. Guests of Cave Run Cabins enjoy a secluded, park-like acreage which offers peace and tranquility with quick access to adventures in the Cave Run Lake area. Cave Run Cabins at the Brownwood in Morehead, Kentucky is the ideal vacation spot! Why? Because Cave Run Cabins and the Cave Run Lake area offer you the best value for your money. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Strap on your hiking boots, check your oxygen levels, and get ready to venture into space. Every secret is guarded by hazardous environments and natural catastrophes. Visit an underground city before it’s swallowed by sand, or explore the surface of a planet as it crumbles beneath your feet. The planets of Outer Wilds are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time. What lurks in the heart of the ominous Dark Bramble? Who built the alien ruins on the Moon? Can the endless time loop be stopped? Answers await you in the most dangerous reaches of space. You’re the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. Outer Wilds is an open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. ![]() I will freely admit that I am not generally into horror games overall, and those who are will almost certainly enjoy these sections more than I did, but that’s sort of the problem these bits are so unlike the rest of Outer Wilds that they almost feel like an entirely different game – one that’s fun but far less unique, and pretty much just had me wishing I was playing more of its usual style instead.This product entitles you to download both the digital PS4™ version and the digital PS5™ version of this game. Outer Wilds has always had some creepier sections and the looming threat of death, but this tangible mechanical shift (while well implemented) isn’t one I was expecting, and ultimately wasn’t something I was too interested in compared to my previous planet hopping. I’m talking a “stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out how to progress while monsters hunt you” kind of horror game – and it sure does play that metaphorical screeching violin well. Avoiding spoilers as much as possible, this new area is essentially split in two: one half is much closer to the physics-bending, awe-inspiring planet exploration of the original game, while the other occasionally warps Outer Wilds into a proper horror game. The focus on light is also a clever choice because it ties perfectly into Echoes of the Eye’s spookier vibe, often forcing you to wander through the dark and occasionally making light a luxury you desperately wish you could afford. It’s a neat little twist that sets how you navigate this area apart from the others, but it also maintains that same sense of wonder as things change in surprising ways at set times during each loop. That includes the rafts you’ll be riding between locations, which have orbs you can shine your flashlight on to float in a specific direction, as well as locked doors that open when illuminated. ![]() The bulk of this side adventure is basically a haunted river-rafting trip (which absolutely rules), with many of its puzzles and new mechanics built around using light. This setup does mean that Echoes of the Eye won’t have you bouncing around the solar system trying to piece together distant clues, which does make its discoveries a little more straightforward to unravel, but there are still plenty of intertwining secrets to find in this area alone. A new exhibit in the museum on Timber Hearth will point you toward a nearby research station monitoring a photo-taking satellite, and following that simple but exciting lead will eventually land you in a brand-new area with just as much to do as any of the base game’s planets. Echoes of the Eye cleverly integrates its new mysteries by pretending they’ve been there all along, hiding in the shadows. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a newer bottle design featuring a close-up silhouette of a goose. 2 Vitola?įirst of all, the distinctive smoked glass bottle is very well known. But if you really want to try something a little bit more premium, that would be more in keeping with Grey Goose, why not a Davidoff Signature, but specifically the No. It has some character, but a very smooth body, which would marry well with Grey Goose.Īlternatively, go for an Avo Classic, which is going to be much milder and somewhat affordable. One of which is the Plasencia Reserva Original, which is made using organic tobaccos. Therefore, we’ve considered a few as pairing suggestions. Langoustine is going to be a bit more refined and would pair better with a Grey Goose Vodka.Īt Bespoke Unit we’re very fond of cigars. I wouldn’t go for crab or lobster, though, as these are stronger in flavour. ![]() Otherwise, consider seafood dishes such as langoustine or even caviar. You could certainly consider enjoying Grey Goose neat with an ice cream dessert, specifically a fruit sorbet. For instance, it can bring out the vermouth in a Vodka Martini or help create a zesty Moscow Mule. However, it can make a strong cocktail quite smooth. Since Grey Goose is quite mild, it doesn’t offer the body and character that you would need in a stronger cocktail that heavily relies on vodka. Below, we have a couple of cocktail suggestions for Grey Goose vodka: Therefore, it’s best used a gentle base to delicate cocktails. Nevertheless, it’s an excellent option if you want to create cocktails that are easy to drink.Īs mentioned above, Grey Goose is quite a mild vodka. As mentioned above, some may regard it too mild and easily overpowered by other ingredients. Needless to say, Grey Goose is an excellent cocktail ingredient. However, there are some who claim that it lacks character as a consequence. Indeed, those who often struggle to sip vodka may enjoy Grey Goose. Therefore, don’t feel that we need to tell you how to drink Grey Goose vodka! Nevertheless, we’ll happily provide you with a few pointers.įirstly, as it’s quite mild and smooth, it’s easier to drink neat, especially if you’re not used to vodka. The harmony is balanced and the finish doesn’t seem to linger on the palate for very long, since it is quite mild in body.Īs we often state in our reviews, the best way to drink a beverage is the way that you enjoy it the most. It’s not overly complex, but you do have a very smooth mouthfeel. Finally, the finish delivers an accord of liquorice and vanilla. In the heart, you’ll experience anise and cereal. It opens with a hint of lemon zest and a vinous grape note. We’re looking at an overall umami primary flavour. But there is a little bit of complexity between the simple buttery cereal accord. The notes that it delivers are reminiscent of butter and cereal. ![]() ![]() The nose feel is quite prickly, but not so much. And in terms of depth, the clarity does give nice refraction of light. They trickle down slower than you would expect. It leaves somewhat surprisingly wide legs and a nice scallop against the side of the glass. It is indeed a pure, nice vodka with just mineral water. It doesn’t leave any residue if you were to rub it against your hands. Needless to say, Grey Goose is a crystal clear vodka with no sediment. ![]() ![]() Some options feel a little “tucked away,” and you have to really pay attention to the screen to notice them, such as picking standard equipment or starting gold. If you pick race, and you enable all your resources, you will get a list of every playable race that has been created for 5th edition D&D by WOTC, that appears in the resources you own.Įverything in character creation is covered, and the interface is intuitive, except in a few places. You can look up the individual classes, races, and bits of equipment in the resources where they appear, but when you do the walk through for character creation, all the resources you own will be available at the appropriate tab. In other words, if you look up spells, all the spells from all the resources you own will show up in the spells section, and likewise with the monsters.Ĭharacter creation is another place where this comes up as well. However, any information that is organized into the individual resources is also included in similar format if that information falls under another header. In other words, if you want to look up the optional slow healing rules or flanking from the DMG, it’s only going to show up in that resource, but if you search for those things, it will take you to the header on the chapter for the web page that contains that information. There is some content, such as optional rules, that can only be accessed in this manner. You can look up individual chapters, formatted for a web page, in the way they were organized and constructed in the books. If you own any resources (such as the Player’s Handbook or the Dungeon Master’s Guide), you can access those in multiple ways. It was always a good tool for looking up rules in the SRD, if you didn’t purchase any of the packages, but I like the way the information is organized. I’m much happier with the interface now than I was previously. ![]() I decided to play around a bit more, and if I liked it, I would buy it. I really do enjoy D&D 5th edition, and I really do want to have easy digital access to the information about the game. ![]() While it wasn’t a concern for me, there was also that nagging bit at the back of my brain telling me that the digital plan for D&D, with players potentially buying the same resources for a virtual tabletop, a physical copy, and D&D Beyond was something I couldn’t fully dismiss. Additionally, the initial outlay of funds to get up to speed was high, and while I didn’t think it was unreasonable, the fact that someone that has already been into D&D for years has to play “catch up” made the (reasonable) cost daunting. ![]() From what I could access in the beta, I wasn’t overly impressed, and I really wanted a functional app that was designed to be used on a phone, instead of just using the mobile setup of the website. I was really on the fence for a long time about D&D Beyond, and buying into the resources. The service grants access to online character creation, rules references, monster statistics, and, if you purchase the assets, the hardcover adventures that Wizards of the Coast have published up to this point. D&D Beyond is an online service for managing content officially published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. ![]() ![]() Command+Shift+Option+Esc (for three seconds): Force-quit the front-most applicationĪpple has a set of keyboard commands you can use to make your Mac do certain tasks at startup.Command+Shift+Option+Q: Log out of your OS X user account immediately (you won’t be asked to confirm action).Command+Shift+Q: Log out of your OS X user account (you’ll be asked to confirm action).Command+Option+Control+Eject: Quit all applications then shuts down the Mac.Command+Control+Eject: Save/Quit all applications then restarts Mac.Command+Option+Eject: Will put the computer to sleep.Shift+Control+Eject: Will put your displays to sleep.Ctrl+Eject: Show the restart / sleep / shutdown dialog.If you are having trouble with a faulty Mac the following key combinations could be useful. (â+Y also works for single files, but in that case it’s less convenient.) Once that window is open, you can navigate between the files with the arrow keys in the upper left. You can also select multiple files to preview at once by holding down the Command key as you select them and then pressing â+Y. (This also works with files on the desktop.) A full-page preview will pop up-and with Markup options, too. This works for everything from images and PDFs to Microsoft Excel files. Volkswagen is facing increasing pressure from EV market leaders like Tesla and BYD, which have drastically lowered prices to squeeze out the competition.Click+Space Bar: If you want to see what a file looks like but you don’t want to waste time opening the associated app, select the file in a Finder folder and then press the space bar. CEO Oliver Blume said the decision was due to market conditions in Europe, “including the sluggish ramp-up of the BEV market in Europe.” Meanwhile, Volkswagen is delaying plans for a fourth EV battery plant. Volkswagen is struggling to keep up with Tesla, with its Model Y topping the sales charts. Electrek’s TakeĮurope was Volkswagen’s largest EV market by far, accounting for over 341,000 (64%) of total electric models sold through September.Ī 50% drop in orders is alarming. In addition, the end of EV subsidies in Germany, combined with higher interest rates and inflation, is pressuring the market. Volkswagen has struggled to keep up with Tesla and other EV leaders. ![]() The company invested $1.3B into the plant in 2018 to prepare the facility to build EVs. Zwickau is Volkswagen’s largest EV production site in Europe. Slowing demand for Volkswagen EVs has led to the nonrenewal of many temp employee contracts. However, according to the source, the ID.3 and Cupra born were not initially impacted. The production halt impacts the VW ID.4, ID.5, and Audi Q4 e-tron. Last week, Volkswagen paused production at Zwickau, citing a lack of electric motors. ![]() A company spokesperson said, “The decision ensures productive operations and the future viability of the site.” ID.4 (left) quality control at Zwickau plant (Source: VW) The VW ID.3 and Cupra Born are both made there. Volkswagen is now running a two-shift operation in Hall 5, down from three. The automaker is now cutting the number of shifts in Zwickau. Volkswagen ID.3 outside of its Zwickau plant in Germany (Source: Volkswagen) Volkswagen’s EV woes worsen (again)Īccording to a new report from Automobilwoche, Volkswagen’s EV woes have worsened. The report noted falling demand, rising inflation, and an end to subsidies as reasons behind the move. Volkswagen announced at a team meeting it would cut 269 temp jobs at the facility, where EVs, including the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, Audi Q4 e-tron, and Cupra Born are made.Ī week later, a report from the German newspaper Automobilwoche claimed VW planned to end ID.3 production at its Dresden plant. In September, the automaker said it would reduce staff at its Zwickau plant in Germany, its largest EV production site in Europe. That’s 50% lower than the 300,000 from last year. Although Volkswagen delivered 531,500 electric vehicles through September, up 45% from last year, the number fails to show the current situation.Īrno Antilitz, Volkswagen’s CFO, explained on a media call last month that EV orders are down to 150,000 in Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() It may well be that Trump will return to the piece of technology that made him a star in the first place - television. So, with days of his presidency remaining and his megaphone seemingly silenced, where does Trump go from here? He still has the White House press briefing room at his disposal along with his press team. Trump tweeted 5.7 times per day on average during his first half year in the White House and that had grown to 34.8 times a day on average during the second half of 2020. His most prolific day came on Jwhen he sent 200 tweets or retweets, breaking a previous record of 142 sent on during his impeachment trial on January 23, 2020. The New York Times reported that he was tagged on Twitter at a rate of 1,000 times a minute that in 2019. The archive shows that Trump tweeted or retweeted approximately 3,500 times in 2018, 7,700 times in 2019 and on over more than 12,000 occasions in 2020. It shows that he tweeted considerably less during his early days in office and his activity ratched up considerably in 2019. His tweets are still freely available to browse at the Trump Twitter Archive which has monitored his Twitter activity for years. ![]() Trump relied on the platform to bypass traditional media channels, refute fake news and get his direct views across to hundreds of millions of people. Capitol, Twitter went a step beyond attaching warning labels to President Trump's tweets and the company locked his account permanently. In the wake of last Wednesday's events at the U.S. ![]() ![]() But there's no reason anyone has to settle for poor TV sound when there's such a great selection of soundbars out there to satisfy a range of budgets and features. Plus, with eARC, you don't have to wonder whether you're getting lip-sync correction, as it's required under the new standard.While the latest TVs get bigger, brighter, thinner, and offer ever-more gobsmacking picture quality, one of the sacrifices of all this sophisticated tech has, and perhaps always will be, sound. However, if you want to listen to higher-quality lossless formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, you'll want to ensure that you're connected over eARC. Fortunately, there isn't much difference in the audio quality between the two.īoth connections support stereo audio as well as common surround sound formats like Dolby Digital. That said, if you have an older device, you may need to use an optical connection instead. If you can, use HDMI ARC to connect your soundbar to your TV. You can enjoy movies and TV shows without lip-synching issues and control your bar via your TV remote with ease as a result. For example, it can pass Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, which are found on many Blu-rays and 4K Blu-ray discs.Īdditionally, eARC standardizes lip-sync correction and HDMI CEC support. While regular ARC supports Dolby Atmos via Dolby Digital Plus, eARC's improved bandwidth lets you stream higher-quality lossless audio formats. What's the difference compared to regular ARC? How do you know which one is best? You've likely come across soundbars that advertise support for eARC (or enhanced Audio Return Channel). To take advantage of those formats, you'll need a setup with HDMI eARC. Like optical, HDMI ARC also doesn't have the bandwidth to support high-quality formats like Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio, which are commonly found on Blu-rays. Manufacturers also aren't required to support all relevant audio formats, so a soundbar may not be able to send formats like Dolby Digital or DTS over an ARC connection. That means that not all ARC-enabled products help with lip-syncing issues. On the downside, it's up to manufacturers to decide which parts of the ARC standard they want to include. ![]() It may even assist with HDMI CEC setup so you can easily use your TV remote to control your soundbar's basic functions, like the volume level or turning it on and off. In some cases, ARC can also help sync up your audio and video to reduce lip-synching issues. If both your TV and your soundbar support HDMI ARC, it can streamline your setup process. After all, it doesn't make a difference in the overall audio quality. Some devices, like older TVs, don't support HDMI ARC, so in those cases, you'll need to stick with an optical connection. To take advantage of the benefits of HDMI ARC, you'll need to ensure that both your soundbar and your TV have an ARC-enabled HDMI input. With ARC, the HDMI cable connected to the TV can send audio back to the soundbar itself.īefore and after HDMI ARC. It's especially helpful if you want to passthrough video from a gaming console or DVD player to your TV while playing the audio through your soundbar. Essentially, you can use HDMI ARC ports as both an input and an audio output. Listeners who want fewer cables in their setup will find an HDMI ARC connection is ideal.Īlso, HDMI ARC enables two-way data transmission between devices over a single connection, unlike Optical. If you use an optical connection, you need to use two cables to connect your devices: an HDMI cable for the video signal and an optical digital audio cable for the audio signal. HDMI cables that support the Audio Return Channel standard (ARC) can pass both audio and video signals on one cable. So, how do you choose between them? Well, for starters, there is one big difference. Most importantly: for most setups, there isn't a noticeable difference in sound quality between the two. ![]() They can both stream stereo content, including most music and older TV shows, as well as 5.1 surround sound formats like Dolby Digital, which you're likely to find on both streaming platforms and Blu-rays. ![]() Both HDMI and optical cables can pass digital audio from one device (like a TV) to another. It's worth going over the similarities and differences between these two options to help you understand what's best for your setup. That said, there may be some instances in which you need to connect over Optical, also known as Toslink or S/PDIF. HDMI ARC vs Optical: What's Best For My Soundbar? The simple answer is that it's usually best to connect your TV to your soundbar via HDMI ARC. ![]() ![]() (Critically, this has nothing at all to do with decentralization.) By defining a particular ‘version’ of a file as a directed graph of changes resulting in a particular result, there’s a ton of context about where things came from and how they got there. Newer version control systems are typically designed around changes rather than revisions. So not only does the branch approach not work, you get hit by the same bug even if you eschew it entirely! And invariably the reason this shows up is because you don’t want to make small changes to trunk. Not only that, but the new revision it spits out necessarily has to jam a potentially complicated history into a property field, and naturally it doesn’t work.įor added impact, this context problem shows up without branches if two people happen to make more than trivial unrelated changes to the same trunk file. There’s a lot of contextual information in those changes which SVN has completely and utterly forgotten. But the merged files didn’t magically drop from the sky - we made a whole series of changes to get them where they are. Merges basically take diffs from the common root and smash the results together. Subversion’s world revolves around revisions, which are snapshots of the whole project. The fatal mistake in the merge process is one I didn’t fully understand until reading HgInit (several times). There are essentially two problems in merges: the actual merge process, and the metadata about the merge. What tends to happen is people gloss over why they’re broken. Everybody knows merges are broken in Subversion and that they work great in distributed systems. Simple as that! If only merges actually worked. Do everything you need, with as many revisions as you want, and then merge to trunk. Private branches are supposed to be the solution to this problem of work-in-progress revisions. In general though, we are working on high availability environments and making a round trip to the server is not a big deal. It has exactly two reference points: the revision you started with and the working copy. Subversion cannot queue up revisions locally. This is fine as long as you’re in the office, but it fails the moment you’re traveling or your connection to the server fails for whatever reason. The caveat is that this always requires server round-trips, which is okay as long as you’re in a high availability environment with a fast server. Subversion understands this perfectly well, and the mechanism for doing so is branches. When I’m working on something complex, there are a lot of points where I want to freeze frame without actually telling the world about my work. ![]() However, a lot of those revisions are not really meant for public consumption. It can be a solution, but the problems reach a bit beyond that.įundamentally, a commit creates a revision, and a revision is something we want as part of the permanent record of a file. I don’t want to compare to git or explain why it fixes the problems, because that has the effect of lensing the actual problems and additionally the problem of implying that distributed version control is the solution. It’s important to understand what the flaws are, and in particular I want to discuss them without advocating for any alternative. A perfect product is a product no one uses, after all. And like any real world production system, it has a lot of flaws in nearly every respect. Nevermind the hyperbole, SVN is good by practically any real world measure. It’s a mature, well understood system that has been and continues to be used in a vast variety of production projects, open and closed source, across widely divergent team sizes and workflows. SVN is a long time stalwart as version control systems go, created to patch up the idiocies of CVS. This post is motivated in part by Richard Fine’s post, but it’s a response to a general trend and not his entry specifically. ![]() I myself wrote a series of posts on the subject, but I skipped over the reasons WHY you might want to switch away from Subversion. Recently there’s a lot of momentum behind moving away from Subversion to a distributed system, like git or Mercurial. ![]() I’ve used Subversion for a long time, even CVS before that. ![]() ![]() ![]() It can read all general and vendor-specific attributes and monitor their values.It displays the current and maximum temperature for the hard disk. ![]() Disk status are displayed immediately as you launch the application, there is no need to analyse disks for a long period. analysing – Hard Disk Sentinel can communicate with IDE, Serial ATA and SCSI hard disks to detect their status and temperature. The data is protected even in 24 hours daily, 7 days a week. You’ll be notified about the problems – but if everything is correct, Hard Disk Sentinel just sits on tray and displays current status. Just install, configure alerts and backup options and your system is now safe.Detailed text description and context sensitive help guides the user thru the features and options. Intuitive user interface elements display information by using green/yellow/red color to indicate the level of problem. Quick controls allow easy navigation to access all hard disks, partitions and different information. All information are displayed in the main window of the application.The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also. This gives opportunity to backup important and valuable data. This way even a small problem can’t be missed and a failure or data loss can be predicted. Hard Disk Sentinel can be effectively used to prevent serious damage or data loss because it has the most sensitive hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to disk problems. Also it measures the hard disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks today) values for each hard disks. Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data. ![]() Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the HDD inside the computer or in an external enclosure (USB / e-SATA). Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, display hard disk health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel is a multi-OS hard disk drive monitoring application.
![]() ![]() The 540i managed a 4.5-second run, while the Benz did it in 4.6. Despite this quick result, it's not quite enough to outrun its key rivals, the BMW 540i xDrive and the Mercedes-Benz E450 4Matic. At our test track, it charged from zero to 60 mph in just 4.8 seconds. The V-6 delivers plenty of thrust for merging and passing on the highway. ![]() A seven-speed automatic transmission and Quattro all-wheel drive are both standard. Both powertrains employ hybrid technology with a 12- or 48-volt starter/alternator that runs the engine's imperceptible stop-start system and other ancillary equipment. The A6's two powertrains-a 248-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder and a 335-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6-are both more than enough to haul this mid-size sedan around town. On top of that, we'd suggest the Driver Assistance package, which includes adaptive cruise control with traffic-jam assist. Going with the Premium Plus trim adds a lot of features that luxury buyers will find tempting, such as the digital gauge display, a Bang & Olufsen audio system, a larger 10.1-inch infotainment touchscreen, and a 360-degree exterior-camera system. We'd recommend the mid-range Premium Plus 45 trim level but we'd upgrade to the silky-smooth turbocharged V-6 55 model. Both the Premium Plus and Prestige models can now be had with a Black Optics exterior appearance package which adds black accents around the grille and windows. The top-level A6 Prestige gains standard adaptive cruise control, traffic-sign recognition, lane-keeping assist, intersection assist, and heated rear seats. ![]() Mid-range Premium Plus models will now come standard with Audi's Virtual Cockpit digital gauge display as well as a heated steering wheel this model also will now be offered with the optional Executive package which adds four-zone automatic climate control, adjustable interior ambient lighting, ventilated front seats, heated rear seats, and a power trunklid. For 2020, few changes are in store but Audi is making some features standard, including lane-departure warning, heated exterior mirrors, an anti-theft system, and automatic high-beam headlamps. Cars powered by the four-cylinder wear the number 45 on their trunklid while V-6 cars wear a 55 badge. Late in the 2019 run of A6 sedans, Audi began offering a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine alongside the turbo V-6 that the car initially offered. If you're shopping for an under-the-radar sedan to upgrade your commute, the A6 is a solid choice. A hefty load of standard equipment includes touchscreen infotainment with navigation, automated emergency braking, lane-departure warning, a panoramic sunroof, leather upholstery, genuine wood trim, and three-zone automatic climate control. What we're missing here is an athletic nature that would push the A6 into sports-sedan territory like its predecessor its somewhat anonymous exterior styling will also blend in when luxury-car buyers may prefer something that stands out. In some respects we think.As a luxury sedan, the 2020 Audi A6 delivers with a refined ride, quiet powertrains, and a feature-packed cabin. Want a family hatchback, love the size and usefulness, but want something that’s a cut above? Then you’re in the market for a premium hatchback. As such, we’ve trawled the current crop to find a selection of cracking cars for you to. ![]() Why buy any old used car when you can proudly put one of the best modern classics on your drive instead? They combine the best of both worlds – classic.Īt Parkers we’re working hard to find you the best new car deals. Best modern classics to invest in and enjoy.We’re not talking about rakishly-roofed SUVs such as the BMW X6 or five-door ‘coupes’. It doesn’t seem like that long ago virtually every manufacturer offered a coupe of some description. Whether work is a necessary chore or a fulfilling career for you, most of us spend an astonishing amount of time and money getting there. New car registrations came within a whisker of reaching pre-pandemic levels in November 2023, year-on-year growth of 9.5% marking the best November for the new car market since 2019. Check out the full details and compare with rival models on these pages. If you're looking for a Audi A6 you will definitely want to know all about every aspect of the car – and Parkers has all the spec details you need to know how it will fit into your life. ![]() |
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