QUATTRO AT 40
Mar 26, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS STEPHEN DOBIE
PHOTOGRAPHY
JONNY FLEETWOOD
PLUS
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Fast Audis have an odd reputation these days. For all the hits – R8, RS6, that lovely mid-Noughties RS4 – there are twice as many misses. Against sharper German rivals, RS products often feel a bit aloof.
Perhaps we should all be forced to drive one of these alongside every new RS. Because the quattro feels no more extreme. Which is enough, given its superlative stance and glorious motorsport past, to make my tummy sink. I’ve longed to drive one of these and the fact it’s not a scary, histrionic homologation special like some of its contemporaries feels something of a let-down.
But, speak to anyone with
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