Test drove the RS6 saturday

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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

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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.

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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

Thanks Tony!

King of d sofa said:

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

CHeers mate!!!!

R39S1 said:

DamoLLb said:

chris_w666 said:

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?

I intend to do it at the motorshow this week! WOHOO!

I think it's great when someone who's had the chance to drive an interesting car takes the time to tell us about it. The muttering rotters tend to get a bit jaded about some of the stuff they get to drive and it's good to get a real world, this is what i drove an what I thought, review.

My point exactly, i drove it, enjoyed it and wanted to tell my fellow enthusiasts on the biggest car enthusiast site in the UK!

Greg_D said:

Isoproturon1 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.

+1

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Maybe i should have padded out my initial response a bit more but i am busy atm.

my sentiments are the same, it is a personal bugbear of mine when people test pilot cars they have no intention of buying and as stated previously, the sales staff must get royally hacked off with it.

If he had driven a mates car and reported back on it here then brilliant and i would have been all ears (ie. if the owner was cool about the test drive) but messing salesmen around is just not on and smacks of desperation/ego boosting.

To answer a couple of comments.
a) no, i am most certainly not jealous.
b) no, i never have test driven a car for the hell of it, nor would i dream of it.

Greg

Sorry mate, i aint wasted no bodies time. I have been dating my GF for many years. Her father has always been in sales and invites me, yes INVITES me to drive these wonderful cars.

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Harry Flashman 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.

Thing is, at 2.2 tonnes, the power to weight ratio of this car is 240bhp/tonne.

Which I'm sure any number of Evos can comfortably beat...

Mind you, I guess that in the mid range, when already moving and not having to overcome so much inertia, this thing is crushingly quick.

You are right, and how often will this thing be ''full bore launched'' anyway.
An evo will do 0-60 the same, but once rolling over 70mph it will leave one for dust.

A new evo does 0-100 in 14 secs, there is a video of steve sutcliffe in one. No where near this 2.2 beast.


A veyron only has a power to weight ratio of 500something bhp, but will still beat an atom to 100mph and kill it to 120.

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militantmandy said:

Great writeup mate! You're a jammy so and so for getting a shot in such a monster car! Never mind the moaners on here. Any chance to get stuck into to someone they disagree with! There's a few folk who sound like they take life just a bit too seriously!

I can tell ye the noo, I'm a million miles away from affording a motor like that, but if i was wandering round a showroom and tought I could get a test drive, I most certainly would!


Reckon you've got any chance of a shot in the V10 R8?

Hi there, thanks for the comments. Yes I hope to drive the V10 R8.