Final special edition o’clock for the Audi RS4, is it? That’s pretty much what you’re looking at here, and the news isn’t good. Only 75 examples of the RS4 Competition have been allocated to the UK. At the time of writing, fewer than ten remain unsold, despite it costing a mighty £84,600.
At £84,600, the Competition is quite the step up in price from the standard car, but if you do happen to want an RS4 that’s practical in the week and track-ready at the weekend, you at least now have that option. Be quick though, if you like the idea of this car, because most have already been snapped up.
“The RS4 is visually distinctive, impeccably engineered and has the pace to exceed the requirements for any self-respecting supercar”
The RS4 shows how committed RS GmbH is to creating cars of real character, as opposed to machines that you simply point down the autobahn. Whatever the weather. The people running the show over there are young and enthusiastic and their cars have an impressively evolving bandwidth, including considerable potential to entertain.
The RS4 is visually distinctive, impeccably engineered and built, and has the pace and capability to exceed the requirements for any self-respecting real-world supercar. Hard to fault in an objective sense, then. Yet it still feels a bit uptight, and not completely comfortable with the more extrovert aspects of its remit.
That’s become even more stark with the arrival of the extremely capable BMW M3 Touring, although the limited-run RS4 Comp gives us hope that Audi can hit back when its replacement hits showrooms.