And screw asking a car forum about financial decisions if he wants it and thinks he can swing it just do it.
Just seems like burning a lot of money on a daily driver that you’re going to put a decent amount of miles on and kill resale.
Buy one yet?
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/audi-rs7-at-lightning-lap-2014-feature
Car & Driver Give Up on RS7 During Road Racing Test
Sharknado, a cautionary tale about removing predators from their natural environment, is an apt metaphor for the Audi RS7. This 560-hp luxury bullet, so buffed and menacing, so unquestionably the top of the boulevard food chain, becomes a messy B-movie horror show on a track. We thought of nothing but escape, but cooler heads prevented us from using a chain saw to cut ourselves out of it.
This kind of horsepower used to be found only in track machines designed to handle it proficiently with proper tires, stiff suspensions, and low centers of gravity. Nowadays, just as military-assault weapons can be found in anybody’s closet, you can find 560 horses in the McDonald’s drive-thru and not just in a racing chassis.
Audi proffers the RS7 as a luxury sedan with a lot of power. Thus, the suspension permits body roll, the tires have at least some comfort built into their compromised compound, and the big hatchback body is loaded with weighty amenities. Thundering up VIR’s esses in this comfy sultanate’s airliner, the bawling twin-turbo V-8 develops serious speed, the 118.2-mph average through the sector surpassing even that of the R8 V-10 Plus.
Eventually the track turns, however, and Audi doesn’t give you enough tire or chassis starch to handle the velocity the engine can summon. The RS7 proved an alarming handful, the power repeatedly creating situations that the rest of the car couldn’t manage. Though this 4442-pound maxi-WRX pulled a solid 0.97 g in Turn One—bettering all of the AMGs—by Oak Tree its tires were hot, slippery, and finished.
Woolly, unexpected tank slappers ruined many a good lap, and the torque-vectoring rear differential spooked us with sudden, sharp oversteer and resulting confusion about the car’s heading. After several days of struggle, we deemed it wiser to just cut the line and let this one return to its native habitat.
Wonder if The Stig will give up…
I still find the car impressive as all hell despite the fact that car and driver does not like it on the track. I think chriss harris had a similar outcome. The car is outstanding at 8 of 10 but if you really push it the chassis falls apart. I think he prefered the panamera but it is double the money so it should be better right?
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I just watched the video. That was awefull to watch. You cant fix understter in most audi by adding power
I wonder how hard you have to push it to see it behave that poorly? I’m guessing that 99% of this board couldn’t pilot that car around a road course hard enough to experience what those test drivers did. Maybe a few of us could get the AUDI to around 90% of what it is capable of, it would feel perfect, and we wouldn’t have a bad thing to say at all. Or maybe at 80% it rears it’s ugly side. Who knows. Speaking from personal experience, my new Camaro is FAR beyond my capabilities as a corner carving driver. I have pushed it right up to my comfort zone limit on corners and I have yet to hear a tire squeal.
have you EVER taken your car to a road course?
that is something some dude enjoys which is why it might be an issue lol
AH I hear he just drives around in big vans all the time and his cars just rot in the driveway. Nobody got time for that!
Well if you read this thread he said he would be selling his track car and other fun cars for 1 car that does everything…
An expensive car that acts sketchy on a road course is kinda shitty when there a lot of alternatives that don’t suffer from that issue…Your also not talking about some predictive RWD car this is something AWD with an electronic diff that does stupid things.
the answer to this thread is to buy the cheapest early R8, pull the engine out, then rob cougarspeed’s place? you like single or twins?
Pretty much every single VAG vehicle I’ve driven is fun up to 8/10ths and then falls apart spectacularly at 9/10ths.
Of course, 99% of the VAG fanboys think the cars are awesome because “driving it like they stole it” is usually bringing the car to 6 or 7/10ths which is the maximum of their available skill level - since anyone capable of driving at full 10/10ths goes out and purchases a real car.
Hmmmmm…
Hmm I don’t know, I usually drive cars 11/15ths but I have heard of guys driving them 19/20ths. They’re crazy though!!
Could you show me how to make it to 15ths?
I’m stuck at 13.
I’m so confused
15/10
15/0
Now you’ve done it…