Audi RS4, Audi RS5: High-revving engine in the works?

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Audi RS4, Audi RS5: High-revving engine in the works?

According to Fourtitude the next-generation Audi RS4 and Audi RS5 will both feature the same high-revving engine and no more turbochargers.

So we flat out put it to an executive over dinner and the answer was surprising. The RS4 and RS5 will get a high-revving engine like the outgoing RS4. The high-rev applications in the R8 and B7-generation RS4 have impressed Audi’s engine development teams and they wish to continue in that direction with the next-gen of Audi’s hottest models. First comes a high-revving V10 in the R8 this fall, then an assumed V8 in the RS4 and RS5.