Test drove the RS6 saturday

[dxb335d]

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, one i feel very priveledged to have drive at some ''pace''.

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.

Carlos

[Greg_D]

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

[dxb335d]

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Lol, was a quick write up. Nothign special. GF father works for Audi and he invited me to test it. Im a BMW man myself.

Edited by dxb335d on Monday 21st July 12:54

Edited by dxb335d on Monday 21st July 12:59

[sniff petrol]

dxb335d said:

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.

Should have guessed it was going to be compared to a diesel 3 series.

[steelej]

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Is that the most useful thing you could think of to write Greg, someone comes to the forum and gives their thoughts and opinions of a new car they've driven and this is the response they get, poor show.

John.

[bales]

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Jealous?

[collateral]

Saw one of these about a week ago on the m40 iirc. The LED lights really are rather hideous and completely contradict zee churman q car subtlety, although I guess those damn things will be all over the cooking versions too before long...

[Fidgits]

sniff petrol said:

dxb335d said:

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.

Should have guessed it was going to be compared to a diesel 3 series.

[Tim.s]

steelej said:

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Is that the most useful thing you could think of to write Greg, someone comes to the forum and gives their thoughts and opinions of a new car they've driven and this is the response they get, poor show.

John.

Funnily enough when I had the opportunity to drive the new RS6 I was challenged by some snotter in an 'Evo' on a duel carrageway.

Watching his shocked face vanish in the rear view was strangely satisfying.

[collateral]

Tim.s said:

steelej said:

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Is that the most useful thing you could think of to write Greg, someone comes to the forum and gives their thoughts and opinions of a new car they've driven and this is the response they get, poor show.

John.

Funnily enough when I had the opportunity to drive the new RS6 I was challenged by some snotter in an 'Evo' on a duel carrageway.

Watching his shocked face vanish in the rear view was strangely satisfying.

I assumed Greg meant the magazine and not the car

[Tim.s]

collateral said:

Tim.s said:

steelej said:

Greg_D said:

thanks for your opinion. but it is nothing that an evo road test wouldn't have given.

That said, i bet the audi sales people love messers like you (unless you are seriously considering buying one - which going by the tone of your closing comments i suspect not!)

Greg

Is that the most useful thing you could think of to write Greg, someone comes to the forum and gives their thoughts and opinions of a new car they've driven and this is the response they get, poor show.

John.

Funnily enough when I had the opportunity to drive the new RS6 I was challenged by some snotter in an 'Evo' on a duel carrageway.

Watching his shocked face vanish in the rear view was strangely satisfying.

I assumed Greg meant the magazine and not the car

Ahhhhhhhhh, I see.

[J111]

I have to confess to being somewhat underwhelmed. It's staggeringly quick through the gears, but the handling has the same 'driving by numbers' feel as a Japanese nuttermobile, where you can feel the car doing much of the thinking for you. The RS4 is far more alive to driver inputs, my perception was that an RS6 starting to feel a bit loose would be on its way to an epic accident, rather than a gentle drift.

collateral said:

The LED lights really are rather hideous and completely contradict zee churman q car subtlety, although I guess those damn things will be all over the cooking versions too before long...

Zey already are !



A4 S-Line

[ClaphamGT3]

We've recently got one of the last of the old RS6 estates for my wife, with the 550bhp re-map. I hope the new one is a much better as the old one drives just like a mid-sized estate car with far, far too much power

[R.E.J.S]

I have been invited to Coventry Audi by their dealer principal to test drive the new RS6, but i really could not be bothered! Although i took the plunge and bought a brand new RS4 last year, looking back that was a silly thing to do and i bailed out of mine at £48500, in my opinion i had a lucky escape because they really are taking a hit at the moment the point being if i am going to buy the new RS6 i will NOT be buying one brand new (at 78 grand-ish) hence i cant be bothered to go and kick some tyres and waste peoples time when i have no intension of buying!

With all that said, i have a mate who is a salesman at Leicester Audi where they have a demo RS6 and a pre-owned (yes pre-owned already) and he reliably informs me that they in a different league and it be unfair to compare it to an RS4!

[TonyHetherington]

Go easy on Carlos - he had the opportunity to drive an RS6, and told us about it?! That's what's great about PH!

I'm very jealous

[John D.]

sniff petrol said:

dxb335d said:

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.

Should have guessed it was going to be compared to a diesel 3 series.

[King of d sofa]

OT- dxb335d i saw your car in Fast car or redline, impressive car

[LongLiveTazio]

Is that Eastbourne?

[shoestring7]

dxb335d said:

The thing stops on a 2 pence piece literally.

Literally, they won't.

SS7

[chris_w666]

TonyHetherington said:

Go easy on Carlos - he had the opportunity to drive an RS6, and told us about it?! That's what's great about PH!

I'm very jealous

I agree with Tony on this, stop sgging people for telling us what they have driven, I am also jealous but would never criticise the OP for test driving something.

Has no-one here ever killed some free time by visiting stealers and taking the test drives if offered?