Words & Photos: Roger Mecking
Every year, Audi provides the Audi RS Club Deutschland e.V. the Audi Forum Ingolstadt plaza to host their annual gathering. They provide space for up to 120 cars, while only 98 showed because rain was forecast. A great mix of cars showed up including many B5 RS 4s, C4 RS 6s, RS2s and many current cars such as the B8 RS 4, RS 5 and TT RS.
Every year various Audi RS clubs from Germany (including RS-Quattro.de and Audi-RS-Club.de) gather for some fun at the Nürburgring in Germany. Talk about RS heaven! We had over 200 photos to go through and picked out our favorites, yes even a few non Audis made the cut. Tell us which one is your favorite! All photos taken by QuattroWorld Germany Editor, Roger Mecking. Stay tuned for more German content coming soon! Continue reading ‘Gallery: RS Quattro Treffen at the Nürburgring’
The show hasn’t even started yet and photos of the much anticipated RS 5 have already surfaced. It’s one thing to see heavily airbrushed press photos, it is another thing altogether to see photos of the real production car! I am sure we will see an onslaught of pictures surfacing from the show. Enjoy the pictures!
Source: Autogesbot.com via Quattroholics.com
INGOLSTADT, Germany, Feb 22, 2010 – Please note, there is no information regarding U.S. availability of the RS 5 at this time.
Unbridled power lurking in a classically elegant coupé: the Audi RS 5 will debut at the Geneva Auto Show. The high-revving 4.2-liter V8 with its 331 kW (450 hp) unleashes powerful performance while achieving remarkable fuel economy. The seven-speed S tronic and an innovative center differential in the quattro drivetrain transmit power to all four wheels.
Developed by quattro GmbH, the RS models comprise the dynamic spearhead of Audi‘s model range. The RS 5 is the latest torchbearer in a tradition dating back over 15 years to the RS 2 Avant: superior handling in the mid-size class.
Continue reading ‘Audi to present the RS5 in Geneva’
In case you were hiding under a rock last week and missed our post about the RS5 brochure being leaked, we have some more information for you to drool over. The speculation was that the RS5 would be powered by a normally aspirated FSI V8 but the details were still a bit sketchy. This picture of the engine bay should put all remaining questions to rest. I know many were hoping for a forced induction engine but this is a well proven power plant with tons of power and fits in very competitively against the likes of the 414HP 2010 M3 coupe.
Source: Jalopnik
“The next über-model from Audi’s Quattro GmbH division won’t officially debut in Geneva for another week, but images from its brochure have already made their way onto the web. The Audi RS5 coupe will no doubt take the performance of Audi’s B8 platform to levels beyond the much-loved and departed RS4. What we don’t know at this point is how high that level will go, and what the motive power will be.
It’s probably safe to assume it’ll fall somewhere between the 420 horsepower of the Audi RS4 and the 571 hp of the current Audi RS6. Since the V10 used the R8 and RS6 isn’t really in keeping with Audi’s current engine-downsizing philosophy (not to mention that the 10-cylinder probably wouldn’t fir into the smaller A5′s engine bay), perhaps we’ll a turbo or supercharged version of the 4.2-liter V8 in the current S5, or a maybe even a more severely amplified version of the 3.0-liter TFSI V6 from the S4″
Source Autoblog.com & recom-post.de
Thanks to IEDEI Blog” for the following info:
Well I’ve been gathering information about this for a few days, straight from Francois over at Horchaus (Official Canadian distributor of MTM (V.A.G. tuning company).
It seems that they have worked out a plan with Audi of Germany to be able to bring Audi RS6s (C6, current) as well as B7 RS4 Avants and R8s to North America directly from Germany! To any other Audi aficionados such as myself—this is HUGE news. For a very long time, we’ve been stranded by the products being provided to the US market when it comes to ’special’ Audis. We did receive the previous generation C5 RS6, but only in sedan form (NO Avant in North America). We also received the B7 RS4 sedan (NO Avant in North America). We are not going to receive the C6 RS6 at all——until NOW!
Continue reading ‘MTM/Horchaus bringing C6 Audi RS6, B7 RS4 Avants and more to North America!’
Mark White of Accumoto joins former teammate Ian Baas to drive APR Motorsport’s Audi S4 at the upcoming Fresh From Florida 200 race in the 2010 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. During one of the coldest weekends in Daytona history, APR Motorsport tested their new GS Class Audi S4 with drivers Ian Baas and Mark White at the Roar Before the 24 test days at Daytona International Speedway. After an opportunity to experience the capabilities of Audi’s newest generation S4 Mark was excited to be returning to the team for the 2010 season inaugural race at the end of this month. Continue reading ‘APR Motorsport Signs Mark White at the Roar Before the 24 to Co-Drive Audi S4′
