Upcoming RS5 Model To Have BiTurbo V8?

Recently our friends over at Car & Driver published a story suggesting a new RS 4 wasn’t to be. Contacts of ours years ago confirmed an RS 4 sedan would have never been in the cards anyway as the 4-door buyer was predominantly also the RS 5 buyer. Still, our information about a RS 4 Avant was from a reliable source and, since I have no doubt C&D’s Jens Meiners is also well (and likely more recently) informed, this has gotten me thinking why the RS 4 may have been axed… at least for now.

Why? It can’t be for lack of sales. Audi is having a banner year, though it is true that the RS 5 hasn’t been all that well received by the press… at least in the all-important compare articles. I remember the first time a highly placed source at Audi AG told me about the RS 5 project with its high-rev V8 from the RS 4 bumped 30 hp with an extra intake. The move seemed lackluster and I, along with seemingly the rest of the motoring press, dreamed of something more radical.

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dlin - 12/30/2010 10:38:11 AM

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Buy the GT-R and tune down to M3 level.... Of course redesign it. :)

LexSucks - 12/30/2010 11:00:08 AM

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"Upcoming RS5 Model To Have BiTurbo V8?"

- And will cost as much as an R8.

BondMI6 - 12/30/2010 11:09:37 AM

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Cost as much as an R8?

Hmmm.

You sure about that?

In this economy the M3/C63/RS5 are all way to out of wack pricewise.

AlleVier - 12/30/2010 3:06:34 PM

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Really? The PRICE is out of "wack" in this economy? How about the appetite for cars with pointless amounts of power being out of whack? The way I see it, people who think they're really getting usable value from these higher levels of performance (over the lesser versions) should pay twice as much. At least then, we'll only have the super rich to sue when they crash them.

Silver997turbo - 12/30/2010 2:18:58 PM

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Lol. RS5 has just came out!!

I95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 1/1/2011 2:23:12 AM

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GOD !!!
I had hoped the new year would bring and end or at least a decline to autospies articles so retarded in quality that one would think Sarah Palin produced it..

Oh well........ Here's to hoping on Nest Year.