The Audi A6 Avant brings culture to the culture of entitlement.
If your car-purchasing motives include impressing the boorish, gated-community burghers, there are plenty of flashy cars at the $50,000 price point that bounce the needle more.
The A6 Avant is a car for people with money who would really rather not make an issue of it — your anonymous-opera-benefactor types.
It's also quietly gorgeous. Redesigned for 2006 and just hitting the market, the station wagon has a newly sleek skin that looks curried by the wind, a restyling that buffs out any linearity of the previous design, which wasn't exactly boxy to begin with. All the exterior detailing is vacu-formed, sucked into the bodywork: The glass and polished window surrounds are nearly flush; the door handles are embedded into the sheet metal; the lighting instruments (including the new LED tail lamps) wrap around like a military contractor's sunglasses. With its tapering glass canopy and converging rays rising from the rocker panels, the car has the same fluid geometry and organized energy of a Zaha Hadid building, not hugging the ground but hovering just slightly above it.
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