Body checking

In the pits the French Paul Ricard track crammed brand new RS6. They look at their track lights with LED dozen pupils in each. Once there was roaring crowd, cut the hot air fireballs French summer, and drunk drivers on the podium a brief flash of victory. In the late 90's on race track with Bernie Ecclestone had his eye, and now there are tests teams 'Formula 1'. Therefore, the air at Paul Ricard is still imbued with the speed, and blue "Avanti" eagerly inhaled it with all his four ingolshtatovskimi nostrils. Athletic track, perhaps the most perfect place where you can feel the full force of one of the main advantages RS6. Do the same thing on the narrow and twisty roads the French provinces, among which is Paul Ricard, it would call a quiet rural life. The first figure, which bites us - to disperse hundreds of 4.6 seconds. For comparison, the Audi model line of can do so only supercar R8. To account not dissipated, the other data list quickly: the new V10 FSI with twin-turbocharged, four-wheel drive quattro, 580 hp, 650 lb-ft of torque. With these words, we put the steering wheel, warning that the RS6 engine still is not racing, but this equipment with ceramic disc brakes on both axles and racing seats. Oh, and do not need a helmet just in case? In the helmet, we would be similar to these pilots. That in general, even justified, RS6, of course, no race car, but it - sports. And in her most powerful in the lineup Audi, used a lot of development of auto racing. Home Pride - technology TFSI, which has been used in racing R8, scored a five victories in the 24-hour race Le Mans. Here we are - we pass around and around, each time faster and faster, more accurate and all are still without a hooligan povizgivany cornering. There would be rain, ice, hail, it seems that nothing would change, everything would continue as powerfully and as "Quattro". While it is clear that the RS6 heavy for the track. Still - it is almost five meters long and two tons of twenty-three kilograms unladen weight, add here a lot of the driver, his bags and jackets, forgotten by someone of the impressions of test pilots. But every gram thrown with this versatile athletic - an engineering trick to think of that is getting harder and harder because it seems every program has long been dropped. The mass, as well as the number of moving parts was less abandoned the use of twelve-engine. Even among the main advantages for the serial RS6 sports tiptronic six-speed gearbox is its compactness and light weight. But no matter how relieved the power plant, the buyer would not be able to resist in order not to add a few extra grams RS6 in suede, which is empty on the steering wheel trim, the rim is lower in a sports plane. Or aluminum, which will come from such a beautiful lining with logo RS6 in the doorway. How to resist the proposed: Carbon for decorative boxes, piano varnish for lining the central tunnel, and even more so - an innovative fiber material High-Tech Nardia, you can upholster the inside of the ceiling and pillars. And because all these calculations that each horsepower has 2.5 kg weight, with each tick on the order form farther from the truth. Therefore, on the racetrack this car is not on its own. He lacks a drive that would be fun to all thirteen speakers droned on Bose, children's whims in the back seat and constant calls to mobile, which begin to wind my nerves since a quarter to nine. He lacks the well on the road, which was so confident you can drive around, traffic lights, where you can pretend that lingered, and then - once they see you and, more precisely, only the new lights of the new RS6 Avant. Here we stumble on this very "avant". Like, we do not need your excess, your 565 liters luggage and even more so in 1660 - when folded back. The more powerful engine, the compact must be submitted to him a body. Otherwise, all the fun Well - wagon under the tail. The car, by Russian standards, should shine. And shine it can have no practical value. But the Audi RS6 invented for a man who owes nothing to be proved. He does not need the hollow sound of the exhaust and feel the asphalt under the fifth point on the speed of a hundred. After all, the pleasure is not always to come first, and sometimes to arrive on time. And do not come alone, but with family or friends, and bring all that is needed, for example, for a picnic. What we've got on the list? Four bags of food and six packs of beer, plus juice and water, a couple of packages of charcoal, balls, balls, bats, blankets, towels. Oh yes, and even our new grill for the barbecue. His first model in the RS in Ingolstadt have done in 1994. RS2 produced only in the back of wagon. His successor RS4 was also adamant, and only after an upgrade in 2005 is now available also as a convertible. In 2002 he debuted RS6 - at the beginning of a wagon, then added a sedan. New RS6 sample of this year so far offered only in the back of wagon. This means that one day, of course, will be the sedan, too. But when - not very important, because fashion is to sports wagon premium in Germany has been held for two decades. And each brand is committed to making them more powerful and roomier. RS6 at par horsepower jumped from the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG by 66 hp and a BMW M5 Touring from 73 hp On the surface you could not tell. Yes, it is not necessary. All idle onlookers dispersed, we can start the engine and quiet ride for. The only pity we can not be used for this purpose highway, by reason of his absence. For the RS6 is the best track for testing, at least in a sports helmet on his head, even with barbekyushnitsey in the trunk.