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There’s very little that the RS6 Avant can’t do, and when you look at it under that light, it’s almost a bargain. It lacks the final dynamic thrills of something like an R8, but equally you can barely put a bottle of water in Audi’s V10 supercar. It can tow, it can lug stuff, it can devour the gaps between towns, and it can slay back roads.
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The pace is absolutely relentless as you surge past 4000rpm and does not give up until it’s whamming into the 7250rpm redline.ĭespite its $216,000 price-tag, I want this car in my garage, and no others… well, with a registration plate anyway. Snap open the throttle and the RS6 takes merely a moment to gather its thoughts before flinging you bodily at a future that includes the loss of your driver’s licence.
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It doesn’t contract around the driver rather, it has the feel of something with substance, with gravitas, something that needs to be respected.
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It’s wrong to call the RS6 a big car, but equally it’s no shrinking violet.
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Knock the shifter over to the left to engage manual mode and the new polished, machined-alloy shifter paddles are a joy to use, and once more, a sign that you’ve done the right thing by splashing out on the RS6. The throttle is instantly much, much sharper, and the exhaust, while still relatively muted, makes its presence felt. A new, purposeful heads-up display appears in the window. My favourite? Everything, except the dampers, turned all the way up to 11. How? The RS mode button on the right spoke of the steering wheel provides two distinct setting parameters that can be tuned to your preference. There’s very little tyre noise intrusion from those huge 22-inch tyres, and the engine remains muted. Those 10-piston brake calipers up front for example, are plucked from the Lamborghini Urus, while there isn’t a racecar on the planet that has bigger front brake rotors. And, the fact that Audi can pluck the very best from the Volkswagen group bins and apply them in such a clever and dedicated fashion is a credit to all of them. There is so much engineering prowess in this most unhumble package that it almost defies belief. Power is sent to all four wheels – of course – via a Torsen limited slip centre differential, distributed in normal circumstances 40:60 front-to-rear, but able to send 85 per cent torque to the rear only when the situation demands. I pine for the days when a fast Audi like the S6 was equipped with a howling V10, but, as we’ve all found in the era of the turbo, there’s no substitute for a wall of torque, and the 446kW twin turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 certainly obliges. It’s got muscles for days, and yet there’s also elegance and a subtlety to its finer detail.
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It looks like a homologation special, yet can hold its own in the driveway of any fancy winery. The design language with which it’s been imbued wraps up so many elements, yet uses so few. Let’s check off its basics in terms of desirability. Hey, sure, if the world’s biggest lottery ball dropped on my yard, I’d be as flush with hot metal for every day of the week as any of you would be.īut if I found a small pocket of lithium in my backyard, and I was able to buy just one car, the RS6 Avant has always been quite near the top of the list.
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I’ve also never really gotten in with the notion of having a garage full of cars for various occasions.
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My idea of being rich is to be able to use a brand new razor cartridge every time I shave. But, here on a greying day in rural New South Wales, battle-grimed and primed for more, I don’t think I could love a car any more than I love the RS Avant at this moment. My first glimpse of Audi’s brand new uber wagon was in an abandoned Munich railway shed, polished to within an inch of its life and detailed to complete excess by its proud engineering team. Its barely existent tyre sidewalls are caked in that curious ochre of dust and road grime. Its paint is battle scarred with the internal bits of a thousand insects.
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Long as I live, you will be my, (my first love).Beginners love, soon fades away (oh baby).Shadows of your smile, will always remain (will always remain).