Audi RS 6

The Audi RS 6 is a variant of the A6 with a 579 hp engine. It is available with saloon bodywork family or two (since October) with changes in the range of the 2009 Audi A6.

It costs € 121,550, € 124,010 to the family bodywork. It is, therefore, more expensive and powerful than a BMW M5 (507 hp € 103,400) and a Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG (514 hp and € 110,700).

While the BMW M5 and Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG have less power, acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h (the only piece of information common to the three we have) is almost identical: the Audi needs 4.5 s, the BMW 4.7 s and the Mercedes-Benz 4.5 s.

The RS6 Avant, as well as being the most potent of the three, is the one that has a higher weight: 2,100 kg in 1995 compared to the other two. Audi outweigh that is partly because it is the only one of the three that have a total drive system (quattro). However, the relationship between weight and power is favorable to Audi: 3.63 kg / hp for the E 63 AMG 3.88 and 3.93 the M5.

Audi RS6. Model 2009. Berlina.Aún being heavier, having the more powerful engine and the resistance it offers added traction total, the average of the RS6 Avant is 13.9 l/100, a figure lower than the other two.

The engine has the RS6 has ten cylinders. It is based on that of the Audi S6 and S8, but with important tweaks to give more power: the major change is that it has two turbochargers (the S6 and S8 are air).

Driving Impressions

The most striking of the RS6 is its ability to accelerate. The engine is full of strength in nearly all times and when he stepped on the accelerator which a note is unusually intense response, but at the same time, because the linear automatic gearshift select top gear with great gentleness, with little to transmit shocks occupants (such as it occurs in a BMW M5), and quickly.

The feeling that makes the Audi RS 6 is that it is extremely fast but also very comfortable. The RS6 will serve to travel comfortably for several hours due to the rapid and smooth operation of the gearshift to the moderate level of motor noise when you step on the accelerator slightly, and the suspension, not to punish the occupiers.

Audi RS6 Avant. Model 2009. Familiar.Hemos tried RS6 suspension with optional variable adjustment, with three programs running ( 'Comfort', 'Dynamic' and 'Sport'). The setting and the softer middle provides comfort to the occupants without penalizing the accuracy of the trajectory. The hardest adjustment makes possible the suspension at a level of toughness that will only be temporarily bearable driving on roads in good condition, or circuit. The difference between the most gentle and firm is large.

In addition to comfortable, the RS6 has left us feeling that it is easy to drive. The CV is a 579 excess for any conditions that may be in everyday driving (no need to carry so much power in a short space, nor to join a fast-track), but power is not unbridled. Within broad limits, the RS6 has no reactions that require special care or preparation, for example, when stepping on the throttle at the exit of a curve.

We conducted an RS6 saloon on German highways with no speed limit. It is amazing the ease with which reaches and exceeds 250 km / h. Even such is the power of the engine when the needle of the speedometer dial reaches 290 km / h can be seen to be able to gain some speed with ease (although the speed is limited to 250 km / h, can be an option to pay it reaches 280 km / he includes some elements of carbon fiber in the motor).

He had previously tried the Avant version in a circuit, though not a car designed for this, but just so you can take all the power of the engine for more than four or five seconds with a speed illegal.

Audi RS6. Model 2009. Familiar.Otra advantage of driving in these circumstances is that you can prove with certainty how the control of stability in the way 'Sport Mode', which leaves a certain slippage of the wheels before it enters into operation and put the car in the trajectory.

I also appreciate that when a fund to accelerate the departure of the more closed curves, the transmission system gives more power to the rear wheels. The RS 6 is not a trend that has some traction with cars full path when opening the accelerator to the floor at the exit of slow curves, but on the contrary it can be noticed that the trajectory descoloca initiating some oversteer ( if the stability control is off or in the setting "Sport Mode").

We conducted the RS6 with a series of brakes and the optional ceramic, but not enough to draw clear conclusions. What we can say is that, in normal use, touch the brake is similar to some than others. As in other models of Audi, the first part of the trail has a touch of the brake a little spongy.

Details differentiators

Externally, the RS6 versions differ from the other A6 bumpers (the front air inlets are larger and the rear is the bottom-like aerodynamic diffuser), the flared wheel arches and exhaust terminal oval .

Audi RS6. Model 2009. Habitáculo.La front grille and roof bars are brushed aluminum. The cabinets are also mirrors of this material. Optionally, program customization, Audi offers the possibility that, for a surcharge of € 700, the radiator grille of the front grille, window frames, the carrier plates and the lower front skirt are finished in black shiny brushed aluminum instead of (an image RS6 Saloon with this option.) Should it be the Avant version, this means that the bars roof also finished in black are mandatory.

The xenon headlamps are for short and long and includes fog lamps, which have been removed from the bumper to allow more space for cooling. In addition include a strip of ten LEDs, which makes the role of daylight in the S6, this strip is affixed to the bumper (picture).

For the interior, besides the plastic, Audi has been used as coating material for aluminum, carbon fiber, leather and Alcantara.

The steering wheel can be of two types: one with three spokes or rim flattened at the bottom, both have controls for various functions of the stereo, the browser and computer. Which had the saloon was lined leather back, its appearance was improved but the grip was excellent at all times.

The seats are sporty type, with lateral projections that will be delivered very annoying to persons of greater corpulence. Adjustments are manual unless it has electric hichables cushions that increase the tightness of the back and legs.

Among the equipment of the control system highlights the tire pressure, the parking aid with rear camera, or a Bose stereo.

Audi has employed the abbreviation RS RS2 Avant in 1996 (with five-cylinder turbocharged engine from 315 hp), the RS4 Avant 2000 (V6 turbocharged 380 hp), the RS6 2002 (V8 turbocharged 450 hp ) and the RS4 2006 (V8 420 hp), the latter being the only air to date and available with saloon bodywork, family or cabriolet.