Meet the most powerful car in the world. In fact, knowing the car is the most powerful production Audi of all time.

That is true, 2008 Audi V10 RS6 Avant features a new 580-hp twin-turbo 5.0-liter V10, and conveniently outguns spectacular 2008 Audi R8 sports car with 420-hp 4.2-liter V8.

Factor attack on their behavior in the field of art and find 2008 Audi RS6 Avant is a good deal faster in a straight line, the R8 as well.

Born with door
It is no surprise that the latest Audi performance show more scandalous was born as a car. No car in recent years placed great emphasis on the production of elegant trucks, even though they are largely ignored by American buyers. Version of the RS6 sedan is perhaps headed our way to America, but now the new Audi will be sold as a wagon, and the majority of sales expected in Europe.

But if the new generation Audi V10 RS6 is second only to leave any lasting impression, it must prove something more than the rapid development of S6, which is largely based. Also be shown to be more driver-oriented than its predecessor, one-dimensional, not very attracted to real enthusiasts, despite its 480-hp twin-turbo 4.2-liter V8. The car was fast – damn fast – but not a lot of fun off the road, wide multilane.

It’s hard to think of a car that went through a long list of mechanical and cosmetic changes such as this. Somewhere beneath all that lies the body swells ordinary Audi S6 Avant, but not as you know. In fact, it is better to think about this new Audi as an all-new model, this change is the global nature of younger siblings.

Personality Transplant
Firstly, it is equipped RS6 Quattro GmbH, Audi performance division is still active in Neckarsulm, a company based on the likes of renowned BMW M GmbH and operation of Mercedes-Benz AMG Skunkworks.

Great attention was paid to the engine. This development is 5204 cc aspirated V10 previously seen in S6, while maintaining hole 84.5 mm, 89.0 mm of travel is significantly lower, resulting in a total displacement of 4991 cc. Strapping offers 580 hp from 6250 rpm and 6700 rpm. / Min, and there is hit 479 pounds-feet of torque from 1500 rpm to 6250 rpm. / Min.

There are plenty of internal adjustments to the power at your fingertips, most are also two IHI turbochargers and the corresponding pair of intercooler. Turbo strengthen maxes out at 10 psi, and delivers up to 116 hp / liter. This is not the highest reached Audi road car – RS4 2000 twin-turbo 2.7-liter V6 fighting a staggering 145 hp per liter – but still enough to RS6 stonking more than 145 hp S6 was really fast.

In game
This power should be enough for people to sit and take note. But he has also improved Audi RS6 views, making it one of the most aggressive of the four-door car on the road today.

The shape of the nose was determined primarily by the need to maximize the cooling air, preferably within the engine compartment and front brakes. There is a new front bumper with deep intake ducts and a major producer crossover aerodynamic downforce. Giving so much space for air supply is possible, fog took over the main beams.

Honeycomb lattice can be used either in black or satin aluminum finish, and dramatizes the front fenders and rocker burned large tracts of the threshold. Back to subtle spoiler on the roof and bumper, which includes both large aerodynamic diffuser and two large oval exhausts.

The test car’s optional 20-inch wheels with 275/35R20 tires perfectly fill in the extended wheel arches, and would not be surprised if it turned out to be more popular than the standard 19-inch wheels 255/40R19 tires.

RS6 Avant is the braking system to adjust its prodigious weight 4464 pounds, with rotors measuring 15.4 inches front and 14.0 inches rear. For those who choose to 20.0-inch wheels, there is an optional brake rotor carbon-ceramic as a mammoth 16.5-inch front with six-piston discs and 14.0 inches rear. Carbon-ceramic discs also contribute to reduce unsprung weight of 26.5 pounds.

Yes, pull
Forget that the RS6 is capable of carrying up to five adults and a considerable amount of luggage. It’s brutally fast cars of all scales. There is no magic trick to get performance in a straight line. Simply place your right foot down against the gas pedal strongly arched and hang on tightly to the beautiful flat-bottom three-spoke steering wheel. The rest is taken care of a standard six-speed automatic transmission with shift paddles and traditional Remote Audi four-wheel drive system.

Since the start of nasty technology – shaping gearlever all in manual mode, winding speed and overcome the brakes – is a mechanical back horrible blow through the unit, followed by an immediate tires squeal as the match to hold all the torque to be transferred to the asphalt thrown on the road.

Audi claims 100 kmh (62 mph), comes in 4.6 seconds, 200 km / h (124 mph), comes to 14.9 seconds. Maximum speed is electronically limited to 155 mph, although Audi RS6 owners the ability to extend it to 174 mph. You’ll be glad to Stephan Reil, Head RS6 development, says that he saw 205 mph during the final testing of a prototype of secret motorway at the end of last year.

Motor truly steals the show. There are significant increases over 1000 rpm and since then, the floodgates opened. Midrange power is unbearable pressure on the horizon, the power set of hard to believe. It’s rare that a turbo engine feels so strong at the top, as it is below, but the V10 RS6 is still beating hard with baritone blare, when rev limiter cuts in suddenly to 6800 rpm. / Min.

Simply Fast
In the RS6 as an extremely fast car with traction colossal time, no real aspirations as a sports car with a quick response crack the whip. Although they feel more at home in a straight line, but also can absorb the twisting road, with impressive speed. Traction tires and what is achievable road safety, and suspension type of hardware that you will not only control the ride quality at three different levels – Comfort, Dynamic and Sport – but also to ensure the movement of the body is always good to see how you throw the car into corner.

Four-wheel-drive system has been redesigned to offer 40 percent of the nominal front/60 percent rear torque split. It guarantees purchase of a massive, but the car handles with a neutral position, even at high speeds in bends. The procedure is quick at 2.2 turns lock to lock and the center has more than feel obliged to S6 revised hydraulic pump. Brakes are perfect, and still feel strong, even after being hammered round after round on the race track.

The last word on the new arrangements über Audi, however, must go to Stephan Reil, who says that once back at the Nurburgring at 8:09, about 20 seconds faster than the previous generation RS6.

Seats for serious road Serious
The combination of luxurious leather, aluminum and carbon fiber trim accents, RS6, not just a road corridor. As expected, the interior offers a driving environment of luxury, as usual aspirated V10-powered S6.

The front seats are new. They are rampant, hard-shell items, which provide plenty of support. Audi also added stop / start button between the front seat of a car fire, twin-turbo 5.2-liter V10 and worked on driving a car wheel. The size and flat-style day of motorsport. Initially it is a little weird to go through his fingers, but you get used to it.

Total interior space is the same as the S6, which means space for four adults generous. Sedan offers 19.3 meters cubic luggage compartment, while the wagon has 20 cubic feet of cargo capacity behind the bench, second, and 58.6 cubic feet when the rear seats folded.

Of course you want to know just who on earth goes out and buys a over $ 100,000 supercar in the midst of a recession. I also wonder, as the 518bhp Audi V10 rises after its peak power at 8,500 rpm and deliver. I clack the paddle wheel for the third gear in the coming weeks and look angular velocity wet for me.

“Oh, the bankers, the city types, celebrities, the usual suspects,” said a PR Audi when I put the question a few months ago. Anyone with the means, frankly. Mostly men aged 48-50, with a lot of money and some other cars, according to the synopsis of Audi. They love skiing, golf, sailing and cycling.

People who can afford to spend thousands customize your R8s, that’s who. Audi Buyers same cost of 500 pounds for the privilege of taking the car factory in Neckarsulm, Germany.

They are something of an endangered species these days, of course, although Audi says more than 960 deposits for this car in the UK, with deliveries starting next year. But the Audi is not recession, as others do. Last year, it sold a record number of cars and hopes that in 2009, its centennial. If Rupert Stadler, chief executive of Audi, was asked how his company was preparing for the collapse last fall, he replied: “We have heard, so we had a board meeting and thoroughly discussed and decided not to participate. ”

Out on a Pass Rhonda in southern Spain has R8 bravely dealing with the ball ting rain. Why do not you? Four-wheel drive, fat tires and traction systems and electronic stability control of such plant 1.6 ton beast in the middle of the road as if painted on the surface.

Audi R8 We did this car already? Let me recap. Budget supercar from Audi was launched with a V8 engine of the RS4 sedan example, two years ago. Although similar to the Lamborghini Gallardo in the configuration (mid-mounted engine, Space Frame extruded aluminum), the Audi is a different car, based on the Le Mans concept, shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2003, which also happened to have a Audi V10 engine. The phenomenal success, selling 450 in 2007, during the first year on sale in the UK and 836 behind. This is a new and additional versions, with the same engine of 5.2 liter V10 engine as the Gallardo (Lamborghini belongs to Audi), but different ignition and fuel mapping.

It is wet on the electromagnetic dampers are connected to its pin down, or the gearbox in sport. With the roads so slippery, you smoothly through corners and ring with the big checks.

It is in contrast to the weight of the car on the first climb in. The disk dump the tires, the motor racing against the clutch and the brakes feel reassuring than captivating. Head into the dual carriageway outside the hotel, and the R tronic automatic box, simply browse through the rain, you get to see what all the fuss is about.

The R8 swishes stylish yet subtle way through the center of Marbella. Under 2000 rpm the engine only murmurs and provoked a transmission stumps unnecessarily switching or external engine roars and blips. This is the R8 stealth mode, silently sailing on Spanish roads, there is no attention to itself.

It gives you the opportunity to admire the beautiful countryside, and, starting with the places that are comfortable and elegant standard form, with the complete alignment and good lateral support. You can blow £ 1565 in some places running Nappa leather and find your shoulders forward so uncomfortable that you can not reach the gearshift. You can also splurge £ 435 on the Audi exclusive window trim, or £ 1575 for the entire boat line in Alcantara suede false. The option price is scary and that is before the ceramic brakes £ 6995, £ 1270 piano-black finish inlays or side plates 1470 pounds of carbon – the panels ugly afterthought behind the doors.

That stand in your book is a nice car, roomy cabin, decorated with great care and skill, with a reasonable amount of luggage space behind the seats and a large boat under the hood. Progress Audi V10 receives £ 10,000 worth of bits that are only options in V8.

The devices use the same fonts and styles as Audi smaller, but because they are so easy to get, why change? Ditto borrowed switching equipment, which makes the job so well, that would be rude to complain. So let’s be rude. The backlight darker panel comes from the Audi TT, which are also half rheostat to adjust the headlights. Since the R8 has adjustable LED or Xenon headlamps, a key part is stripped out with an ugly piece of plastic. One wonders if this would have happened if Dr. Ferdinand Piech still runs the company. With the manual version, there is a shift between the separate natural leg of the driver and the clutch pedal, which can be uncomfortable for larger drivers.

Around 3000 rpm the engine up. Opening the exhaust valves on twitter and drown the engine of his mustache. The 4000 rpm, the exhaust are sounding the load and torque burns almost perfect road car. The Bobs and weaves chassis and steering previously dull start to prove their worth. Super accurate, it seems that this is directly connected to the windshield, so any small movement of the wheel moves the picturesque view left or right. The standard wheel rim is a fine precision instrument, helped of course by mid-engine layout. By keeping the masses in the vicinity of the center, the Audi V10 R8 is rapidly changing direction, which is partly why race cars use the same configuration.

But high-performance mid-engined cars are suitable for the driver the impression that he was tied to the nose of a huge rocket invented by a mad genius. These cars have a reputation for throwing himself living back off the road. In this context, the R8 telegraph their intentions and unexpected brake handles better than most. He leans over the front tire out gently at first, but more difficult if you ignore the warning signs. However, when we turned a corner in a fair lick wet and found the road was full of snow, the cabin filled with some of the best words. I would like to say that I have the R8-caught in a slide of elegance and daring breathtaking. Not me. Caught, and that is exactly what not to do under the circumstances, and the fine chassis dynamics to control the stability of the R8’s magic and electronics prevented us persist, Thelma and Louise style, from the edge of a cliff.

The brakes, which received much criticism in the V8 model, the feeling that they are very spongy at first, but heavy use bright, powerful and easy to modulate, without activating the anti-lock system. The only complaint is that the pedal is mounted too high.

In almost all speeds, there is a strange feeling that the back of the car does all the work. The smooth ride seems to be full of the rear wheel, almost as if the fronts of a very different piece to run on asphalt was found. For the record, this is one of the few super cars I ever drove could cope with the sleep police, even pot holes and washboard ripples. The electronically adjustable dampers can be frozen, if you want your marble or a plan to attack one type of loose track, but in normal mode you can cover huge mileages in the Audi with few adverse effects. Well, you can as long as you spice up your right foot with a tank of 19.8 liters of the Audi has a nominal range of approximately 400 miles (643 km) – they are there and you will complete all 250 miles (402 km ) or worse.

Another wet 50 miles (80 km) in a sister car enough to confirm the R8 manual is an entirely different character, mainly because of what you can do with the right foot. Clicks change the gate with an action, nice, highly evolved infinite torque motor, the tires, but a range of products of cremation in all art forms. This makes a very nice, but even with all security enabled, the R8 manual wagging his tail like an eager spaniel in the wet. If you think you will enjoy it, then this is the car for you.

So now that I think will buy the V10 supercar engine? After long and arduous conducted throughout the day, the best answer I can give to someone who appreciates what is probably the highlight of the results of today’s engineering of the engine. Audi says that some of its customers waiting for the road test before committing to this new version of the R8. Well, go ahead is your lucky golf, skiing, 48-year olds. Fast, stable, beautiful, rare and desirable, the Audi V10 R8 really good. I just wish I was your number.

TECH SPEC

Price/availability: £99,575 manual, £104,665 with R tronic sequential shift. Available to order now for delivery next spring.

Engine/transmission: 5,204cc, 90-degree V10 petrol with twin camshafts per bank, four valves per cylinder and variable cam timing; 518bhp at 8,000rpm and 391lb ft of torque at 6,500rpm. Six-speed manual or R tronic robotised six-speed manual with sequential shifting, rear-wheel drive.

Performance: top speed 196mph (R tronic 187mph), 0-62mph in 3.9sec (4.6sec), EU Urban fuel consumption 12.5mpg (13.6mpg), CO2 emissions 351g/km (327g/km).