It’s a tribute to Audi’s inside designers that the model’s big-car cabin structure hangs collectively equally properly for a luxurious, high-quality really feel in a £50,000 Audi A6 because it does in a £112,000 RS6. This cabin is as tech-laden and electronically subtle as you’d count on a flagship Audi to be, due to its sharp show screens and well-judged mixture of cool metallic and shiny black floor therapies.
The normal tasteful but usually restrained sporting particulars do assist to distinguish this efficiency mannequin from its lower-order A6 siblings, although. Contrasting pink stitching stands out on the black leather-based upholstery, and the Alcantara steering wheel and kit selector really feel suitably motorsport-derived. There’s a powerful sense of area within the entrance half of the cabin, too, afforded partly by the non-obligatory panoramic glass sunroof but additionally by the Audi’s sheer girth.
This airiness extends to the second row, the place our tape measure recorded typical leg room of 720mm. Although that’s 20mm lower than in a BMW M5, the Audi has extra head room (990mm versus 920mm). In any case, there’s greater than sufficient room for 2 adults to take a seat comfortably and sufficient general width for 3 youngsters to suit throughout the again seats with out an excessive amount of sophisticated tessellation of booster seats.
The boot, in the meantime, has a seats-up capability of 565 litres, extending to 1680 litres with the rear seats folded flat. The aperture itself is usefully huge; the boot flooring is near flush with the opening, which makes loading heavy stuff straightforward; and for stowing cargo, you’ll discover rails, nets, hooks and a helpful elastic strap within the RS6’s boot, all of which assist to forestall what you’re carrying from smashing itself to items when you’re having fun with what we’re coming to subsequent.
Audi RS6 sat-nav and infotainment
Audi’s flagship MMI Navigation Plus infotainment system and 12.3in Virtual Cockpit come as commonplace on all specification ranges of the RS6.
The high quality of the graphics and the speed of response to your inputs are, as we’ve skilled up to now, impressively crisp, but it surely stays a barely awkward system to make use of on the transfer. The want to use a good bit of stress to garner a response is one disadvantage, however the necessity to avert your eyes from the highway for longer than you’d like is its best concern.
Still, the Virtual Cockpit is impressively configurable and ‘RS’ mode will little question attraction to some – even when some testers thought it seemed a bit naff.
A £6300 Bang & Olufsen sound system was fitted to our take a look at automotive as properly. It’s expensive, definitely, however when arrange accurately, it’s among the finest automotive stereos that we’ve come throughout.
The identical, sadly, can’t be mentioned for each infotainment screens. One is used for the air-con, the opposite for the radio, they usually each use haptic suggestions for key features such because the heated seats.
While the system is good to have a look at and largely slick sufficient to make use of, it’s not the very best in the marketplace. You need to take your eyes off the highway for a second or two longer than can be comfy if you wish to regulate the temperature, and the display screen makes you push it more durable than you’d count on, so you end up repeating prods time and time once more.