PHWOAR WAGON
THE AUDI RS6 AVANT SITS, OR more accurately squats in the small Hunter Valley town of Denham, its cartoonishly huge rims already shaded with the efforts of numerous hard stops. Its paint is battle scarred with the internal bits of a thousand insects. Its barely existent tyre sidewalls are caked in that curious ochre of dust and road grime. And yet, I am head over heels in love.
My first glimpse of Audi’s brand new uber wagon was in an abandoned Munich railway shed, polished to within an inch of its life and detailed to complete excess by its proud engineering team. But, here on a greying day in rural New South Wales, battle-grimed and primed for more, I don’t think I could love a car anymore than I love the RS Avant at this moment.
I’m a modest man. My idea of being rich is to be able
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