German Car Zone

Car Magazine had the opportunity to site down with a “high placed Audi source” revealing a few juicy details about future models in the Audi portfolio.
Starting off with the RS4, the current generation model houses a high revving 4.2-liter V8 in its engine bay, but we can now tell you the brand new supercharged 3.0-liter V6 engine is planned to be deployed when the new version comes out.
As it stands, this engine pumps out 290hp and 420Nm of torque and will be initially used in the A6, the new S4 is also expected to be blessed with the same engine, but a tuned version pumping out as much as 350hp will be used. Therefore for the top-spec RS4, the Audi engineers will surely test their technical expertise to the limit, with consumers likely to expect at least 400hp when the new generation is released.
Fortunately the mole in Audi didn't stop there, we can also confirm the A1 will definitely be the smallest model in the Audi line-up until at least 2013, the A3 range will be extended with the Q3 and the highly anticipated R8 V10 will boast a naturally aspirated engine.


worldcarfans

The guys at Car are the equivalent of automotive speculation geniuses!

Let me try:

^ lol...

It's not just them saying this though, I've read several articles where this is being claimed..

Hmmmm.... I don't know if I believe that they'll use a 3.0L V6, but if I know audi they might use a twin-turbo 4.0 or 4.2 V8. That might be the most logical thing right there. Cause that engine size is really nice, all they need to do is up the efficiency, and we all know how the V10 in the RS6 turned out.

The new 4.0 V8 TFSI Supercharged engine can do that job just fine.

Jarod.

Indeed it should. Either way, I'm sure Audi's gonna go more for efficiency and torque than pure hp, although a high-revving engine is always nice.

As long as the engine in a V8 I'm okay with what they do to it!

Rs4 wouldn't be a Rs4 with out a V8

So true, so true. As long as they make it better than the current V8, it's all good in the hood.

no way RS4 should be using twin turbos!

So they have gone from twin turbos, to high revving NA to now a silly supercharged engine. Seriously why is audi messing about with crappy superchargers so much?

Ya know, I think it would be interesting if they decided to use VW's twin-charger to give both low and high end torque. Think about it, supercharging at the low end and turbo at the high end. Now, as for reliability, hell if I know, but it might show up in the future.