Yeah, nice and all but what I said is true and the quattro is more than 2 seconds slower. Probably because of the weight and indeed that dreadful automatic gearbox.

Thanks god Audi soon will replace the old and heavy Tiptronic with a state of the art DSG gearbox.

DSG is pretty much the global gearbox for cars of the future. Good times it will be!!!

As long as we keep 6 speed manual, I'll be happy.
It's DSG now, and something else in 10 years again, while a regular 6 speed always stays the same and works the best

The A4 1.8T quattro automatic is listed at 9.3 seconds 0-100 (weight is 1580 kg though, which is quite a bit less.
I am not convinced yet Yannis.

There is no way in this universe that quattro alone adds an obscene 2 seconds to the 0-60 times. Allow me to illustrate how outrageous that claim is by an example:

The 2.0T quattro manual got 6.4 and 6.5 seconds to 60mph in the latest Road & Track and Car & Driver tests (Very impressive for an all-wheel drive 4-cylinder car BTW). If you say that the car will get to 60 MPH in 2 seconds less without quattro, then the A4 2.0T FrontTrak will theoretically get to 60 mph in...um... 4.4 seconds! That's RS4 performance! That obviously is not possible. I clocked the A4 FrontTrak manual on a test drive last year. It got to 60 mph in roughly 6.3 seconds.

Again, quattro adds roughly 0.1 to 0.3 seconds to the straight line. It's the torque-sapping Tiptronic that is to blame for the slower performance.

And again, all this data I'm putting forth is for straight line performance. Even though a FrontTrak A4 may be slightly faster than a quattro A4 in the straight line, the quattro equipped Audi will always destroy the front drive Audi in terms of handling, traction, ride quality, and of course wet-road performance.

Quattro rules.

It looks amazing

I prefer this combination

The blue colour is definetly nice but the RS4 looks so mean in gun metal gray. BTW did you sit in the backseat of that car?

the blue RS4 was isolated, noone could try it out.