Back in the days of the old-gen Audi RS6 (Avant or sedan), the one with the twin-turbo V10 engine, it honestly appeared as if no roomy performance model would ever top it in terms of sheer power and performance.
However, now that the model has been ditched in favor of a less-powerful V8-powered model, the crew over at EVO magazine decided to make sure it was still as fast as an RS6 deserves to be, first pitting it against its smaller brother, the RS4, and then a Nissan GT-R.
With 552hp (560PS) and 700 Nm (516 lb-ft) on tap, the RS6 leaves grooves in the tarmac which slowly melts underneath it as it is getting ready for a strong start, smashing through the benchmark sprint in well under four seconds (the video below says it did it in 3.63 seconds). It annihilates the RS4, which takes nine tenths more to reach 60 mph (96 km/h), and by the time the two cars cross the measured mile marker, it is already two seconds behind.
However, when the car gets lined up alongside a Nissan GT-R, the very close result is impressive, in favor of the German car, because despite taking half-a-second more to get up to sixty, it then sticks with Godzilla, and by the time the race ends, it retains the half-second discrepancy and marginal speed difference.
A fairly interesting and eloquent video, though we kind-of expected this result when seeing the selection of cars and the challenge they faced. Does it prove the RS6 is still a monstrously fast car, despite having dropped its V10 in favor of a (slightly) more tree-friendly V8? The video below says yes.
By Andrei Nedelea
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