This is Tech in the Car and this is the Audi RS6 Avant or estate or wagon as you would say in
the USA! This car is perhaps other than the R8 which I've driven also today the crown jewel
of Audi's history people associate audi a lot with the RS 6 and this fantastic car which has got an
illustrious history which has been around for a while and this rs6 when it was launched a year
or so ago a couple of years ago was a car and it's still a car that people are really really
excited about we've got 600 horsepower 800 newton meters of torque this car can do
zero to 60 in less than four seconds and it starts at around 96 000 pounds compared to the
R8 which is about 120 000 pounds this is a v8 now what i find really interesting about this car is
i might mean this in the nicest way and this car feels like a big car it's a bit strange actually
when i first got into it and i think with time cars kind of get smaller but the econ gt
even though that was also a larger car didn't feel as big as this now this is not by any means
a negative on the car this is a state this has got space for your family for your dog the two
dogs the cat whatever there's plenty of space back there a lot of shopping you go buy a 60-inch tv
and lay it flat on the back there this is the ultimate all-round car where it loses points
is simply its size because it is a big car but in lots of places the size of this guy isn't an issue
and this car has the latest technology and its interior is fantastic there's again matte carbon
fiber all over the interior here which feels and looks actually you can feel the weave on this
this is a different feel than the carbon fiber on the econ gt earlier you can feel the weave you've
got the two displays here you've got alcantara on the doors we got the leather rs seats i love
the alcantara steering wheel here i mean i've got an alcatara steering wheel in my in my rs3
but you can tell this car hasn't been driven very much because the alcantara feels amazing our
guitar generally starts to give more you the more you use it but it feels amazing this is the new
audi style steering wheel which is more squared off design it's still a hexagon it just looks
like a five-sided design it's actually still six sided and this is a very very fast car there's
no question there this is a car which is fast and it is a car that has the RS button in the
middle the last person that used this changed the RS settings so the stability control is off
uh i don't really want the stability control off thank you very much i'm very happy to have
the stability control on but here we are we're in RS1 we've got the cool kind of upside down
l-shaped rev counter here now remember on the new RS3 this is the first rs car which lets you
actually change the design of the rs display so you can have a runway design as well check out
my video on the new RS3 as well all my three videos on the new RS3 and my shorts as well
so let's see what this car is like accelerating
and it feels fast and it's a very different feeling to the R8 as the R8
felt very light very nimble this feels like it's big car but it also feels like a really fast car
and also feels like a really really comfortable car and then if i overtake
it's very fast as well that was a very easy overtaking maneuver
no problem there at all the car really took off so we got 880 meters of torque 600 horsepower
we've got a super comfortable ride we've got a ton of space in the back of this car this is a really
practical car a really comfortable car a really fast car with all the latest technology inside
it now we are starting to see some differences in the technology as a generation progress for
example this RS6 is only a couple of years old in every sense if you look at the interior it has the
latest audi technology but then when you compare it to the Q4 e-tron that i drove is missing
stuff like the augmented reality heads up display for example there are things which are coming at
a vast pace which cars are starting to maybe not be able to keep up with which didn't happen before
and that is where the ability to do over-the-air updates is really really important being able to
update your car over the years something which major manufacturers are bringing
from shaw audi is also bringing to their cars like the e-tron gt and the rse truck because
having the ability to add features is really really important of course this car has a
heads-up display and you know actually augmented reality probably is doable via a software update
i don't know obviously what the future will bring in terms of technology hopefully i will
bring it to you on this channel tech in the car and you'll be able to see for yourself
but what i can say about the rs6 is it is the ultimate daily driver and you've probably heard
that a million times on youtube because it can do everything would i want an rs6 no i
don't think i'd want an rs6 i really don't think i'd want RS6 i think i probably prefer to have
a Q4 e-tron you know if we're talking about wanting a suv style car then maybe i would choose
to have an RSQ3 in that size range this feels a tiny bit too big for my personal preference of
course that's not to take away at all from the fantasticness of this car from its speed from
its suspension from its quality from its ride this car is eating up the miles it's in the r8
the five miles from where we were to the nearest town it was village felt like it lasted forever
because every single press of that pedal was an experience that five miles felt like forever
in this car it just feels like five miles it just feels like a short luxury relaxing drive
but you've got the speed if you need it and performance if you do need it and that is all
you could want in a car so that's the RS6 Avant hope you enjoyed this video please give it a like
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