(car engine revving)
- It's coming! We are getting it in America,
a fast frickin' wagon and it's about gosh darn time.
So, will it live up to the hype?
We're about to find out.
We're going gloss black front grill,
to cool looking rear fascia,
bumper to bumper
on the 2020 Audi RS6 Avant!
Fast wagons are back baby, and so am I!
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The frickin' holidays are coming up,
get em' for your friends, or your kids
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If you don't know, RS is Audi's performance badge.
Like M is for BMW, and AMG is for Mercedes.
It started with the boxy little really, really great
looking RS2 Avant in 1994.
(upbeat music)
The RS2 was co-developed with Porsche,
had quattro all wheel drive,
a ton of straight-up literal Porsche parts,
and a 2.2 liter turbo charged five cylinder.
(car screeches)
Only 3000 were made,
and European car enthusiasts bought them up
while Americans cried, and begged, and waited.
Then came an RS4 Avant, and an RS6 Avant,
and we didn't get frickin' any of em'!
Until now.
(upbeat music)
25 years after the very first RS model,
Audi finally realized we'd wanted fast wagons all along.
And I literally could not be happier.
They know they aren't gonna sell a ton of em',
because the price tag is gonna be 100 grand,
but they're bringing it over for the handful
of buyers who want something very fast,
very functional, and very exclusive.
And Americans are excited!
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One of the first things that you notice
about the RS6 Avant, is that it's really,
really, really good lookin'.
There's something inherently balanced
about a wagon silhouette.
And Audi raked the shape of this one,
just right.
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Almost every panel got the RS treatment.
In fact only the tailgate, the roof,
and the front doors are shared with the A6 Avant.
The front gets narrow, tinted headlights,
a black honeycomb grill, and big, big old honkin
air inlets on the sides to feed them up turbo chargers.
And the back end is unmistakable,
with huge oval exhaust tips,
and this aggressive silver rare diffuser outlining them.
(upbeat music)
Under these sexy hips are ginormous 22 inch wheels,
and ginormous brakes.
Let's go look at em'.
Holy (beep) The front rotors are 17.3 inches in diameter.
These break rotors are bigger than the wheels
that came on all of the coolest sports cars 20 years ago.
These things bite hard.
In the break bite kind of way,
not in the love bites kind of way.
Though, love does bite because I love this thing already,
and I know that I can't afford one.
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The RS6 Avant comes with Audi's famous
full time quattro all wheel drive.
(laughs) A no duh!
The normal torque split is 40% front,
60% rear but it can send up to 70% to the front,
or 85% to the back.
Audi was serious about making this wagon
feel as sporty as they made it look,
and they frickin' nailed it.
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Audi has been killing the lighting game for awhile now,
and here they've taken it to the next level.
The RS6 Avant gets special LED laser headlights
that look sick, and are super functional.
They adjust automatically and dynamically
when you're passing oncoming cars.
So you're not gonna like, blind a bunch of old ladies,
which is good.
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The lights do party tricks too.
(upbeat music)
Sick!
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The next thing that makes the RS6 Avant
such a spicy boy is the four liter twin turbo V8.
Hell yeah!
That's what I call a frickin' station wagon.
It's good for 600 horse powers baby,
torque is not far from behind.
It makes a zesty 590 pound feet
between 2050 and 4500 RMP,
now that's where you want your torques!
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This thing pulls like a bull.
Or the buffest just like,
most ripped horse you've ever seen.
Zero to 60 3.6 seconds.
189 mile per hour top speed.
Not that we have any Autobahns here
to do that top speed, but that's friggin' fast.
Maybe you wanna take this and try some of that
half mile air strip racing
we talk about in that super episode.
I really want to do it.
RS6 Avant also has launch control
in a frickin' station wagon!
So you can roast almost anybody off the line,
along with a brand new eight-speed Tiptronic gear box
that holds more power baby!
(engine revving)
Everyone knows V8's are pretty thirsty,
especially with a couple of spinny boys on there.
So the RS6 can shut down four cylinders
under light loads to save a little bit of gas.
You also might be surprised to know
that there's also a 48-volt mile hybrid system.
When you take your foot off the gas
at speeds over 34 miles per,
it can either recover energy
to a lithium ion battery,
or switch the engine off and coast for up to 40 seconds.
But let's be honest,
no one here is taking their foot off the accelerator.
This car is for mashing the gas,
turned everything into chili paste
to make a sweet and savory V8 sound baby!
There's an optional sport exhaust
that lets you tune the sound just how you want it,
and we set it to make sick exhaust notes just for you guys.
But first, let's see how much hockey equipment
can fit in the back.
Okay, so full disclosure,
I don't have any hockey equipment,
because I live in California,
and there's no ice here, in fact,
there's really not that much ice left on the whole world,
but I digress!
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This wagon hauls plenty of stuff.
It's huge back here, in fact,
it's bigger than an Audi Q5 SUV.
Will someone please tell me why
people don't buy more of these in the U.S.?
Please guys, if you can afford this car, buy it!
(footsteps)
(car door slams)
Ahh, I (beep) love it in this car!
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So I know what you're asking yourself,
you like "James how's the cockpit?"
Well, like all Audi's that comes with a six digit price tag,
the RS6 avant has, for lack of a better term,
a sick ass interior.
The steering wheel is leather wrapped,
and it's got a flat bottom, it's sick.
The paddle shifters are made out of real aluminum.
The instrument panel is all digital which means,
you can change it up!
You can have the nav map and directions
put right up in front of you,
if you're a really rich Uber driver.
Or you can switch it to a tac-centric screen,
if you're purposely lost on mountain roads,
and revving that sweet, sweet twin turbo charged V8.
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In a time where most cars look like
they got a frickin' iPad duct tapped to the dash board,
this is a very, very, welcome change.
Gets my Pumphrey stamp of approval.
Naturally, the seats are leather and Alcantara,
and perforated for ventilation,
just the way that I like em',
because big dog runs hot.
Actually, I learned that the reason I was running hot
is because my blood pressure was really high.
But now I'm taking care of it,
and I'm not sweating in videos anymore.
Plus, I carry around nitroglycerin,
just like Carroll Shelby.
Even with all its speed and these details
that make the RS6 Avant exceptional inside,
it's still a real, live, practical car
that you can drive everyday.
Literally everyone in the Donut office is like,
"Yes I want that car".
That doesn't happen every time
we have a car in the office,
but this one from the top to the bottom everyone is like
"Yup, I would drive that thing everyday".
While I'm in here, let's do the thing
that I love to do on this show.
Let's start this bad boy up.
(car revving)
This is normal mode.
(car revving)
RS1 mode.
Use this function on closed road courses only, okay.
(car revving)
Doesn't really let you rev it.
It cuts it off at 4K.
(car revving)
Dude, this car,
this car is so classy that they don't even
let you rev past 4K when you're in park.
It's probably not letting me rev it,
because it's not warmed up.
This car is smarter than me. (laughs)
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Now, I'm not sure what took Audi so long
to give us this beautiful super wagon,
but we couldn't be more stoked that it's finally happening.
Now please, if you are financially able to,
go buy one, so that car companies
will keep sending us all the good stuff.
(car revving) (upbeat music)
Sometimes watching your favorite
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and you wanna where a shirt
with your favorite You-Tube channel's name on it.
Well good news, we're dropping
all kinds of new stuff for the holidays,
so you can get that D-hole in your life a special present.
Even if you're the special D-hole in your life,
get yourself somethin'.
You deserve it, treat yourself.
Guys we have a podcast now,
it's called Past Gas,
go check out the two-part episode
on the Chrysler PT Cruiser.
If you like this show,
check out all of our programming
that we offer here at Donut.
There's a lot of shows, a lot of fun stuff,
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