{"id":5414,"date":"2010-02-24T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:35:10","slug":"audi-rs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/audi-rs-5\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Audi RS 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So here we have the Audi RS 5. It’s a rather handsome coupe that sports a 450 horsepower V8 engine under the hood. So, in a lot of ways, you could look at this as being sort of an Audi version of a older Chevy Impala. Sure, sure, it’ll be much more sophisticated, but the idea is pretty much the same thing: Big engine give you big performance in a pretty nice looking package.<\/p>\n

Of course, one of the biggest, if not THE biggest particular that differentiates the Audi RS 5 is that the 450 horsepower generated by the revving 4.2-liter V8 gets to the pavement via Audi’s famous, and now ubiquitous quattro drivetrain. The Audi RS 5 also has a seven-speed S-tronic gearbox and sports an innovative center differential in the quattro drivetrain transmit power to all four wheels.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned 4.2 liter FSI plant delivers 450 hp at 8,250 rpm and between 4,000 and 6,000 rpm cranks out a maximum of 317.15 lb-ft of torque. The RS 5 tips the scales at an, a-hem, healthy 3,802.97 pounds. So given the engine specs and the weight, the big RS jets from 0 to 100 km\/h in 4.6 seconds (not bad). Sadly, the top speed is electronically governed to be only 155.34 mph, although they say that Audi can increase 173.98 mph, “upon request.” Consider it requested.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the fuel efficiency is a pretty impressive 10.8 liters of fuel per 100 km. Pretty good for a car of these capabilities. Audi also gave the whole drivetrain a thorough going-over with regard to efficiency. The entire drivetrain has been optimized to minimize frictional losses, the oil pump operates on demand, and there is an energy-recovery system that conserves energy during coasting and braking.<\/p>\n

And when the S-Tronic tranny is in automatic mode, the driver can switch between three different options: auto, comfort, and dynamic. There is also a launch control program for “flawless” acceleration from a standstill at full power and with minimal tire slip.<\/p>\n

Audi goes all hyperbolic in its presser saying the RS 5 has ” … vigorous strength, the spontaneous responsiveness, the joyful high-revving, and the throaty, sonorous music … ” Which reminds me of a flyer a guy thrust into my hand when I was in Vegas once, but let’s not get into that, shall we?<\/p>\n

The RS 5 has lots of other gee-gaws, naturally. Xenon headlamps and all these C & C features and RS 5 logos and what not. But that is all the stuff that one would expect with a car like this.<\/p>\n

Sales of the Audi RS 5 will begin in the spring for Europe, but sadly it won’t be coming the States any time soon. Its basic price will be approximately 77,700 euros.<\/p>\n

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So here we have the Audi RS 5. It’s a rather handsome coupe that sports a 450 horsepower V8 engine under the hood. So, in a lot of ways, you could look at this as being sort of an Audi version of a older Chevy Impala. Sure, sure, it’ll be much more sophisticated, but the idea is pretty much the same thing: Big engine give you big performance in a pretty nice looking package. Of course, one of the biggest, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43703,58002],"tags":[],"model":[57132],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Nathan Hudson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automoblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/model?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}