2018 Audi RS4 Avant

Audi RS4 Avant Competition review: is the RS4 fun to drive again?

 
Audi RS4 Avant Competition

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.

 
BMW M3 Touring vs Audi RS4: Drag Race - Carwow

That M3 absolutely flies, despite the added weight (and 5x pax!).

The RS4 is due for a refresh now seeing as this generation was released way back in 2017/8
 
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Audi RS4 Avant review

WHAT'S THE VERDICT?

“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.

 
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