Full expert Audi RS6 review by CAR magazine UK: we test the monstrously fast performance estate car
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Other changes include a new locking centre differential and updated software for the rear axle – the RS6 Performance is now capable of shunting 80 per cent of its power rearwards if the mood takes it. Audi’s also removed 8kg of sound deadening from the firewall – both as a weight saving, and to unlock a bit more of a bellow from the previously quite muted engine.
The transmission is an eight-speed torque converter, but flicked into its Sports mode it changes ratios with rifle speed. You can easily take manual control too via chunky metal paddles.It’s like a video game. Honestly. Grip levels are tenacious and unless you’re going at about sixteen tenths the RS6 just goes, gamely, where you point it. Standard for the Performance is four-wheel steering, which gives the rear end a bit of pivot and makes the car shrink around you just a little bit.
As standard the RS6 Performance rides on air but our test car had Audi’s Dynamic Ride Control, a mechanical setup that uses three-way adjustable dampers and diagonally interlinked hydraulics. It doesn’t have the float of an air setup, but neither does it have the annoying patter across poor surfaces. It’s nonetheless firm but adequately absorbent in Comfort mode, impressively so when you consider the tyres look like mere smears of rubber around the outside of the rims.
Those rear seats afford plenty of space for six-foot adults, though limit it to two – the middle passenger would be required to manspread over a seriously girthy transmission tunnel.
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