Audi RS6 Avant (C8) test: still the queen of wagons

 For nearly 20 years, the Audi RS6, in addition to styling the RS range, has become a real institution, the flagship of the famous car intended for “dads in a hurry”. If the first generation offered a V8 4.2 developing 450 hp, its replacement surprised its world in 2007 by taking on board the famous V10 of the group which equips the Lamborghini Gallardo in particular. Since 2012, Audi has returned to an architecture of an 8-cylinder V, with a displacement of 4.0 L this time, it is this same partially revised engine that equips the 4th generation object of our test which meets the sweet code name C8. Will it be able to seduce us as much as it has seduced generations of testers?

Natural choice

When I received from Audi France the list of RS models available for testing, I might as well say that I did not hesitate for long to choose the one which for me remains one of the most emblematic models to this day of the range to the rings. A bit like the 911 at Porsche, the Golf at VW, the Clio at Renault or the MX-5 roadster at Mazda, the RS6 is one of the essentials in the life of a test driver. Curiously, the test of the latest generation of RS6 to date that I am about to carry out is also my very first test of an “RS” model. Until then, I had only had the opportunity to try the TT S, the S3 , the S5 Sportback and of course the R8 V10 Performance.. A hell of a record, you might say, but you will also understand without difficulty that not having touched the slightest RS model up to now was seriously starting to hit me on the system. I also realize that I am talking nonsense, I still had the opportunity to try the RS e-tron GT only a few weeks ago. In short, picking the RS6 in the middle of this fine list quickly turned out to be the best possible choice, a relatively natural choice.