MTM Audi RS6 Avant goes 214 mph, proves wagons uber alles!
As a profession, there's a very long list of cars on sale in Europe that we can't buy which us auto journo types nevertheless constantly rattle our (virtual) pens over. From the Volkswagen Scirocco to the Honda Civic Type R to the 300+ hp Ford Focus to the Citroen C6, total and complete absence makes the heart grow fonder -- as well as providing an easy, brainless way for us to end all stories about said forbidden fruit. I mean imagine reading this line, "The BMW M5 Wagon sports a 507 hp 5.0-liter V10 and can run up over 200 mph with the limiter removed. Leave it in Germany!"
That said, there are a few cars that we really do want. As in, when we get together after hours on a press launch with some free booze and really start talking cars, these are the vehicles we pine for. For instance, as nifty as the Ford Focus RS is, we get to drive around in the MazdaSpeed3 often enough -- we'll live. But the aforementioned M5 Wagon? Gotta have it. Or the RS4 Avant? Mommy please.
Oh, yeah -- almost forgot. MTM just took their tuned 702 hp RS6 Avant to the annual Nardo High Speed event, and it blew the doors off all the other cars, two-door sports cars included. How fast? 344.2 km/h. Translated into something us 'Mericans can understand: 214 miles per hour. Can we get a dang? DANG! Full results appear next month in Auto Motor und Sport -- we'll keep you posted.
[Source: MTM]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Rich 7:06PM (10/09/2009)
The Honda Civic doesn't have a videogame edition. Good grief.
It's "Type R".
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Franz 7:10PM (10/09/2009)
High performance wagons kick ass.
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Mazdamia 9:49PM (10/09/2009)
I love it but a little smaller is what I'd like. RS4 Avant please.
Soul Shinobi 12:01PM (10/10/2009)
Subaru Legacy, why have you forsaken us!?!
I do have to say that the RS4 Avant is the Spec.B for grown ups, if I could ever afford one.
fmwso 7:13PM (10/09/2009)
Holy s***!!! Now that's a true sleeper!!! I love the Audi RS6 Avant, this thing is awesome!!
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PumaGTO 7:33PM (10/09/2009)
not so much on my point of view...
Even the most inocent german driver must know an rs6 when it sees one. Even if not, the bodywork, gigantic brake callipers and most probably the sound (or "voice", as some may prefer) of the car are hints that there´s evil under that skin.
Remove the bodykit though, and you have the very doomsday beast on cloak mode.
nagmashot 11:29PM (10/09/2009)
@puma
not all are into cars and many think it is just a wagon, sure a large most likely decent quick wagon... the best one I have seen so far was a new RS6 wagon with a A6 2.7T sticker at the rear at a gas station, I asked the owner if people realy run into that trap...he smiled and said every day..
Wolf 7:15PM (10/09/2009)
I would love to buy (and be able to afford) an Audi RS6 Avante... PLEASE, Audi, bring it here! We haven't had an RS6 in 6 years and we've been really good since then, I promise!
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zamafir 7:22PM (10/09/2009)
driving the rs6 is a wonderful experience, it's just such a ridiculous combination from an OEM standpoint.
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JL 7:37PM (10/09/2009)
the Citroen C6????
really...???
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Jonny Lieberman 7:42PM (10/09/2009)
I just explained how weird we are...
Shiftright 2:14AM (10/10/2009)
I would take a C6 over the Audi wagon. I can't really use the Audi's massive horsepower, but I can use the Citroen's out of this world coolnesss, plush interior and magic carpet ride.
Frank Filipponio 7:47PM (10/09/2009)
Perfect. Just perfect. Even better than squirrels.
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TimO 8:32PM (10/09/2009)
I come for the Power and the Sport.
I stay for the Technik.
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ozyran440 8:35PM (10/09/2009)
That is fully 100% unadulterated AWESOME.
That's the car you get when a buddy has a Dodge Viper or Corvette ZR1 that they're bragging on. Then they ask about your 'pansy' wagon and you floor them with the figures on the car.
Amazing. That car needs to be here. Now. And in my driveway IMMEDIATELY. (If I had a hundred grand or so to shell out, that is)
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Protzenegger 1:40PM (10/10/2009)
Try more like two hundred grand, probably.
suraj 8:41PM (10/09/2009)
brilliant!!!!!!!!
M5 and E63 AMG have nothing on this...
and now i know this is gonna butt hurt about this, but same goes for the CTS-V
and i know i know the CTS-V sport wagon hasnt been made yet, and it will be cheaper by 20 or 30 grand, and its and american car so everyone has to defend it, but if you have the money for and RS6 avante, odds are the CTS-V wont even cross your mind
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Beastage 7:15AM (10/10/2009)
It is a tuner car, not a factory RS6.
jasonrichardson 7:48PM (10/10/2009)
Well to be fair, BMW M5 and E63 AMG are stock cars and can't be compared to a 705 hp car that probably costs well over $200,000. Now if you take G-Power M5, you got yourself a winner.
tomguptill 9:19PM (10/09/2009)
Maybe the Chrysler tie-up will bring us a 400hp Fiat Multipla?
But better the old crazy-alien-spaceship one than the new I'm-still-ugly-but-now-I'm-also-boring one.
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