Audi RS4: road test

Thursday, June 16, 2005

TopGear also made a road test of the new Audi RS4 and they had a model in red, which looks really hot.

Hit the RS4's brushed alloy starter button and you'd better know what you're letting yourself in for. Via a selection of conductors, chips and relays, you could be, as Maximus says in the opening sequence of Gladiator, about to "unleash hell."

Should the RS4 be threatening to lull you into too great a sense of familiarity, there's another button that now begs to be pressed. It's marked 'S' for 'Sport', but should really have a 'B' for 'Ballistic'.

The first sensation it provokes is a severe clamping of the buttocks, as motors narrow the sides of the seat squabs to hold the driver even more firmly in place. If your backside is of Pavarotti proportions, prepare for agony.

The RS4 proves what can be done.

Having been asked to invest £10,000 more than the manager of their local estate agent paid for his M3, compensation for the RS4 driver comes with the expectation that they should easily be able to leave him behind on most roads and in most conditions. Added reassurance arrives with the knowledge that there's nothing else quite like this car.

We say: The Audi Le Mans experience, only mildly.

Source: TopGear

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