Audi RS4 Quattro Saloon review
Audi A4 RS4 Quattro Road Test
Test date 14 March 2006
Price as tested £51,020
For Awesome engine, dynamics, steering, build quality
Against Road noise
From its thundering V8 (414bhp) to its aggressively competitive price (£49,980), the all-new RS4 really does sound like a definitive solution to Audi’s inability to create an ultimate driving machine (read: beat the BMW M3). Yet what truly distinguishes the RS4 above and beyond any previous fast Audi is not the way it looks, which admittedly is sensational, nor the way it goes in a straight line (ditto) but, if the firm is to be believed, the way it drives.
Audi says the RS4 has a chassis that keen drivers really will connect with this time. And what makes it so much sharper than any previous RS, it admits, is that it was developed partly in the UK, on the sort of roads that we at Autocar know and love. Audi, it seems, respects the British petrolhead like few other car makers, and this time it is deadly serious about unseating the M3 from the top of their wish lists. By any standards that’s a big ask. The RS4 is a big and impressive car in just about every way, but is it impressive enough?
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