Fast, brash and lots of cash

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER attempt by a high-performance Audi to rid itself of that reputation. You know, the one that holds that these cars are straight-line machines only, great at gathering pace, less great at changing direction. These, then, are not cars for drivers, but cars for those who wish to be seen to be drivers, which is absolutely not the same thing.

Oddly enough, it is a reputation increasingly undeserved these days. I’m not saying that modern fast Audis have become oversteering , all opposite lock and smoke-filled wheel arches – anything but, indeed – but those