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Awesome
With a few notable exceptions, the estate car is normally chosen by drivers wanting practicality over performance - people wanting to take the family on a week's holiday to the West Country, or take the dogs down the park for a run. I may be wrong, but I've never yet heard of one that's grouped with the top eight most powerful production cars in the world. Until now. This elegant and understated performance car is poised to start arriving in the UK at the end of May. All things to all people, it has a cavernous cargo hold, a luxuriously appointed passenger cabin and a prestige badge on the big front grille. But what sets the RS 6 apart from the herd is what's behind that grille. The numbers need no trumpeting, there's no need here for additional superlatives, just read them slowly and they'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. It has a five-litre V10 petrol engine, pumped up by two turbochargers. It turns out 573bhp and 480lb/ft of torque - the same as a Lamborghini Murciélago, making this the most powerful production car Audi has ever built. The two-tonne car will sprint from a standstill to 62mph in just 4.6 seconds. Ten seconds later it will be doing 124mph and the power just keeps coming till you reach the limiter at 155mph. All that eyewatering power is fed to the tortured tarmac through a six-speed semi-automatic Tiptronic gearbox and the latest version of the quattro four-wheel drive system.
What that means is that the pedal on the right is less of an accelerator and more of a detonator. Step on it and the power simply explodes into the black-top and you're hurtling down the road without any time for remorse. All of this can be yours for £77,730 which, although far from cheap, is pretty good value for money when you think the Lamborghini would set you back around £200,000.
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