The template for the modern fast estate is more than 20 years old. And awesome
There’s nothing like proving your contemporaries right the first time around. That’s exactly what the first Audi RS6 did in 2002. Think about the cream of the current fast estate crop, those mighty wagons that represent the genre at its very best: the Mercedes-AMG E63 used a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 engine, an automatic gearbox and four-wheel drive to devastating effect. The Alpina B5 used a twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8 engine, an automatic gearbox and four-wheel drive to d… you get the idea.
It's amazing to think given the plethora of models that followed that the C5 RS6 was only the third Audi RS model ever. For the record, it was RS2 in 1994, B5 RS4 quite a few years later, then this in 2002, back when there was only one RS in the lineup at a time.
Predictably enough, the engine is an absolute triumph of a V8. Cosworth was famously involved with both the RS4 V6 and this 4.2 and, well, they did something right. Even two decades on, its ability to pick up from very few revs and romp so fiercely to 7,000rpm really is remarkable. There’s so little lag and so much responsiveness where you wouldn’t expect to find it, urgently responding to every throttle input and willing to hurl you down the road at an indecent pace.
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