1/27/2024 0 Comments Audi rs6![]() ![]() Upgrade to the RS6 Performance and you get 596bhp at your disposal, a titanium styling pack, 21in alloy wheels and a leather and Alcantara interior. Suspension is, as standard, by air springs, but our test car wore coils. The RS6, however, doesn’t resort to the sort of trick that the Audi Audi RS3 does, in having thinner rear wheels than fronts instead wearing 285-section rubber throughout, on its optional 21in rims backed by (at the front) 390mm discs – 420mm carbon discs are an option. That drives all four wheels through an eight-speed gearbox, a torque-converted eight-speed rather than a twin-clutch unit, and the driveline features a self-locking centre differential and a limited slip rear differential, to counter some of the natural result of a 55 per cent weight bias towards the front and four-wheel-drive. The body is all but five-metres in length and a mixed-metal monocoque (mostly steel, but 20 per cent aluminium), inside which is that longitudinally-mounted V8, whose two, twin-scroll turbos sit between the cylinder banks, with exhaust valves, unusually, on the inside of each head to shorten the distance from cylinder-exit to turbo. Still no lightweight, but progress of a sort. That car weighed 2145kg when we popped it on our scales in 2008. Neither, to be fair, was the replacement that appeared, after an RS6 absense of three years, the 2008-released sporting variant of the big wagon. Powered by a twin-turbo 4.2 V8, it was fast in a straight line but not especially loveable. And some of them are very good.Īudi’s first flirtations with fast estates cropped up in the earily 1990s (the ’93-’96 RS2), but the first RS6 appeared in 2002. The hottest variant of Audi’s executive saloon arrives in the UK in Avant form only, about which we have no qualms at all because, ever since Volvo launched the 850 T5 wagon, quick estates have given us quite the giggle.īut Audi hasn’t been alone in enjoying fast big estates – you can’t get a BMW M5 Touring, but every one of Audi’s other major rivals offers a car in this class. Instead, the silver-mirrored performance benchmarks have adopted a more coherent theme: fast, undoubtedly, and with a minor reduction in their feeling of heft in the nose, while without ever seriously challenging for class honours in the markets in which they compete. ![]()
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