Michl defined the motivation behind bringing the idea to showrooms: “We obtained lots of suggestions from clients that our present vehicles by no means touched the highway and we had been amazed by what the apprenticeship guys did with the RS6 GTO idea.
“So it’s not to do with a final vision. It’s really to have something special and we know we have existing RS customers searching for another pinnacle.”
Each automotive shall be powered by the identical 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 because the common RS6, nonetheless pumping 621bhp and 626lb ft to each axles. However, light-weight supplies and aero tweaks scale back the 0-62mph time to three.3sec and 0-125mph now takes 11.5sec – 0.1sec and 1.5sec faster respectively. Its prime velocity is restricted to 190mph.
The suspension and rear differential have been reworked to make the automotive extra agile when in Dynamic mode, with the coilovers lowered by 10mm and stiffened over the usual automotive’s.
The RS6 GT is anticipated to price round £180,000 and deliveries will start within the second quarter of this yr.
Q&A: Rolf Michl, managing director, Audi Sport
What would be the precedence for future RS vehicles? Speed? Driving really feel? Sound?
“It depends on the car, so there will be more driving dynamics-oriented cars, depending on the size. I couldn’t give you one direction but we want in the future to offer the biggest package of versatility.”
What would you say to clients cautious of an electrical RS automotive?
“I think there’s a path we can take together with customers. We’re looking car by car and we have a close view of the usage profile. We will go hybridised and you will see that people will be happy about the additional value for it being electrified. We will do it step by step.”
How are you going to distinguish every mannequin sooner or later?
“The USP will change all the time. For example, it has been sound or battery tech over the last 20 years. This has already changed and will further change. Going to driving dynamics, we have totally different options in the future. I think with EV tech, we can change the drivetrain set-up.”