This Is Probably The Next Audi RS6

Audi has posted a teaser image of a car which is almost certainly the 'C8' RS6
This Is Probably The Next Audi RS6

The ladies and gents at Audi Sport have been a particularly busy bunch of late, with Ingolstadt’s most exciting division preparing to reveal no less than six RS models. We shouldn’t have long to wait before the first one is here, either.

The above potato-spec teaser photo was posted on the Audi Deutschland Facebook page, and it’s pretty obvious what’s hiding under the low-res sheet. The profile and rear light clusters look an awful lot like those of the A6 Avant, and we can see a lovely blistered wheel arch cheekily jutting out. What we’re looking at is almost certainly the new ‘C8’ Audi RS6.

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Audi is promising to show off the car during an event at Audi City Berlin in September for Audi Sport driver’s club members. We already know some of the details, though. It will - of course - have quattro all-wheel drive, and feeding that system will be a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8.

This displacement matches that of the C7 RS6 (below), but the C8’s unit will be an all-new engine developed in collaboration with Porsche. Audi’s colleagues in Stuttgart have already been using the engine for the Panamera and Cayenne Turbo models, each running at 542bhp.

The C7 Audi RS6 will soon receive its successor in the form of the C8, powered by a Porsche co-developed V8
The C7 Audi RS6 will soon receive its successor in the form of the C8,…

With the old RS6 Performance developing 597bhp, though, we’d expect the new one to be producing much more than 542bhp. Rumour has it, the next go-faster A6 will have over 600bhp to play with, giving it the kind of firepower needed to take on the Mercedes-AMG E63 estate.

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That_1_Guy

This is my kind of C8

08/12/2019 - 11:20 |
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LPCampbell

I’m guessing not but do you think it’ll be available in the US?

08/12/2019 - 12:19 |
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Audi have said they’re going to be bringing more RS models over, the RS4 and RS3 are in US I think?

08/12/2019 - 12:55 |
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No not really. The RS6 is way too niche of a product to be sold in the US. Even I had a hard time finding a VW Golf GTI for sale when I was looking for my next car. Besides, the US hates wagons because of their craze for stupid overpriced SUVs and crossovers.

If anything, the only probable way by which US customers will be able to get the new RS6 is by ordering it directly from the factory and then having it shipped to your local dealer for pickup similar to what Volvo and Mercedes are doing with the V60/V90 and the E63S Wagon

08/12/2019 - 17:19 |
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leolino

Audi: let’s release a teaser photo
Also Audi:

08/12/2019 - 23:46 |
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Tomás Ribeiro (Audi is life)

The previous generation was one of the most beautiful cars ever made in my opinion.

08/13/2019 - 01:02 |
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Matthew Boxberger

WooHoo a single tail light

08/13/2019 - 20:54 |
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Anonymous

I’m excited to see what new CELs are awaiting us!

08/14/2019 - 03:28 |
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