New RS6 for sale £82k!!
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Not worth it to me although to some I'm sure it is.
I received an email recently from a class one petrolhead who mentioned they were thinking of getting an RS6 Avant as a daily driver. Having seen your RS4 fly around France and Scotland, I suggested trying a one year old £50k RS4 Avant before commiting to the £80k RS6.
I received an email recently from a class one petrolhead who mentioned they were thinking of getting an RS6 Avant as a daily driver. Having seen your RS4 fly around France and Scotland, I suggested trying a one year old £50k RS4 Avant before commiting to the £80k RS6.
I had a go in a new RS6 as a little bonus when I picked up my 2003 RS6 from having it's new suspension... A new one was set up ready for a customer test drive in the afternoon and so I just asked, and they said yes.
It was a beast, but felt a LOT bigger and heavier on the road then my old E60 M5 or the old RS6. Mid range pick-up was excellent, but not much different from an M5 or the old RS6. Very very grin-inducing... but (and it's a big but), the ride was stiff to the extreme - even on the softest setting it seemed to crash across every lump in the road and you felt it right up through your legs. The M5 has a fairly harsh ride, but is ok when you get used to it, but the old RS6 from a suspension perspective is practically Lexus'esque compared to the new one! And... after about a dozen sprints between roundabouts the brakes were getting a bit spongy - something I never experienced on the M5 (even on track) and after some brake intensive country roads on Sunday the old RS6 brakes stayed rock solid too.
My current RS6 is very chuckable even on country lanes (as those on the Sunday Dash to the Coast may have seen
), and my M5 could be thrown around the twisties in Wales with complete abandon - however the new RS6 just felt huge, skittish and not particularly confidence inspiring.
So, as a person who's owned a current M5 and the last RS6, if I was in the market for a new uber saloon/estate at the moment it would be another M5 without a doubt.
It was a beast, but felt a LOT bigger and heavier on the road then my old E60 M5 or the old RS6. Mid range pick-up was excellent, but not much different from an M5 or the old RS6. Very very grin-inducing... but (and it's a big but), the ride was stiff to the extreme - even on the softest setting it seemed to crash across every lump in the road and you felt it right up through your legs. The M5 has a fairly harsh ride, but is ok when you get used to it, but the old RS6 from a suspension perspective is practically Lexus'esque compared to the new one! And... after about a dozen sprints between roundabouts the brakes were getting a bit spongy - something I never experienced on the M5 (even on track) and after some brake intensive country roads on Sunday the old RS6 brakes stayed rock solid too.
My current RS6 is very chuckable even on country lanes (as those on the Sunday Dash to the Coast may have seen
), and my M5 could be thrown around the twisties in Wales with complete abandon - however the new RS6 just felt huge, skittish and not particularly confidence inspiring.So, as a person who's owned a current M5 and the last RS6, if I was in the market for a new uber saloon/estate at the moment it would be another M5 without a doubt.
It's in my avatar - if it's over £30K it better have wings, rotors or sails. I'll be prepared to spend some dosh on a high performance aircraft (jet trainer etc) or may be high performance yacht one day but not for a depreciating chunk of metal that's vulnerable to being written-off by a moment's negligence by someone in a £500 junker with a license sourced from a Kelloggs pack. Once you've flown a plane over the mountains, glaciers & fiords - four wheels feels tame. There are less idiots to hit you in the air! So £82K for a 2-ton family wagon on steroids - no thanks!
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