Audi has released its new RS 4 sedan, with Avant and convertible variants to come. NZ Autocar's Peter Louisson gets to grips with the V8-powered 4wd RS 4 on the road and Taupo's extended race track.
Memories are made of drives like these. Special drives when the traffic melts away, you're on a road that swoops and dives, and you're in a vehicle that is designed to thrill. Most such memories are created not on the cols or passes through the French Alps however.
No, they're created here in New Zealand, where we are privileged to have some of the best bitumen snakes in the world. So anyway, there we were, on another of the countless brilliant roads that stud the central North Island in what will surely be remembered as one of Audi's most outrageous road-going vehicles yet, the RS 4.
If ever a compact flyer was going to give BMW's M3 a decent hurry along, this is it. And for proof, Audi decided to take the RS 4 and the local motoring scribblers to the newly-extended circuit at the Taupo Motorsport Park for a few hot laps.
Full review here