Audi didn’t hold back. To go with its already imposing size is a design makeover full of high performance promise – a promise met by an electrified V8 drivetrain whose 600PS (591bhp) can blast it from standstill to 62mph in 3.8 seconds and to 124mph in 13.7 seconds.
Endowing Audi’s largest and heaviest SUV with such sporting dynamic ability ranked as one of Audi Sport’s larger challenges, one that required an extensive makeover to live up to RS expectations honed over the past quarter of a century. With a recent flurry of new models, the RS badge is now spread across most of the Audi range, but there has never been one quite like this before.
“For the first time in the 25-year history of Audi RS models, we are putting a large SUV coupé with the genes of a true high-performance sports car on the road,” said Audi Sport chef Oliver Hoffmann.