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Test drove Audi RS6
Published by dxb335d
08-09-2008
Test drove Audi RS6

What a fookin beast.




I mean WHAT A BEAST

5.0 V10 Twin Turbo, 527bhp or 580PS whatever floats ya boat. + alot of torque
Intially at low speeds its very docile and easy to drive. Ride is firm (in sport) but not as bad as a coupe bm on 19" runflats, even though the RS6 wears 20" rims with 35 profile tyres all round. They are not runflat i believe.

The car pulls like a train. Drives very much like my mapped 335D but without that enormous shove you get bottem end on a the diesel. But there is no noticeable lag with the RS6 pulls well from low rpm. It really is not comparable with a mapped 335d obviously. Te RS6 is somewhat faster than the Audi R8 which i drove a while back.

The RS6 acceleration is mental. SO RELENTLESS.... jus goes and goes... Its a weird kind of acceleration, does not feel rapido but jsut so linear and the needle does swoop round the clock..

I would say its faster as an E60 M5 to 100mph but the M5 feels so raw and the SMG smashes through the gears. The RS6 just ''melts'' through them as if they are not there.

Its a totally different experiance and power delivery to the R8 which is loud and peaky.
The RS6 with its abundance of torque just goes at any rev at any given speed.
I got upto 150kebabs per hour (lol) in a short amount of space before i had to brake.
Very stable at speed and would comfortable sit at that speed all day long.
The brakes are pretty pheonominal. The thing stops on a 2 pence piece literally.
2.2 tons she weighs but the brakes eat away at the speed like a fat kid devours cake.
The interior is sublime, looks and feels expensive, the leather very much like the nappa out of the current M3 but a harder leather. Somewhat better than the Dakota in the ''cooking'' 3 series models.
The steering is very weighted at high speed which i liked, but stupidly assisted at town speed. Feels weird changing so quickly from one to the other. Something you would have to get used to.
A highly accomplished car.
80k is alot of money for a big estate car (saloon not out yet) But for some it will be worth it.
Only 400 coming to the UK also.
I loved it.
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Re: Test drove Audi RS6 - 08-09-2008, 04:52 PM

Nice Review.

Must have been a thrill for you. I can I only dream, though now that I've driven the RS4 there may be hope for me...
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Re: Test drove Audi RS6 - 08-09-2008, 05:59 PM

Nice review and yes what a Fookin beast
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Re: Test drove Audi RS6 - 08-09-2008, 07:38 PM

Why is it so freaking expensive....
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Re: Test drove Audi RS6 - 08-10-2008, 07:10 AM

Nice review. I'm starting to get the RS6 already...
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