Supercharged RS4 -427kW|694Nm

[koeks]

Vehicle Specs
Model RS4
Engine 4.2l supercharged V8
Power 427kW @ 7 800r/min
Torque 694Nm @ 4 450r/min
Transmission Six-speed manual

When the day arrived for my first test drive I was nervous. Would my RS4 really feel that much more powerful?

I got into the car, pushed the start button and the V8 supercharged engine jumped to a load thundering noise. "That sounds different," I told myself.

Cruising out of the parking area onto a private service road I put pedal to the metal. The next thing I know the car launches like a rocket in 1st with immense force, hitting its 8 200r/min limiter with alarming ease. I change to 2nd with my gut now sitting on the back seat along with 690Nm.

Second gear really shows the performance. All I can hear is this sinister whistling noise coming from the front and the thundering exhaust note from the back. I slow, gathered my thoughts and smiled like a boy that just got his first BMX for Christmas! I could not believe the power!

A roundabout looms and I keep my RS4 in second gear, pressuring the throttle. What happened next I would never have believed – oversteer. The back came out like on a rear-wheel drive car and with the front pulling I corrected the beast and exit the roundabout with my heart racing and adrenalin pumping. Even though the RS4 Quattro system allows up to 80% of the power to go to the back, I never experienced that with my 'old' RS4.

Awestruck, I stopped at Sportech with my hands shaking. "Is this my car?" I asked.

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[Romito]

Is this the one that is on the December issue of Speed&Sound?

 

[syntax]

I never understand why you would take an awesome car like an rs4 and mod it...
if you want faster, save up and buy faster...

 

[koeks]

I think sometimes a car grows on you and if you can mod it and get more out of it, why not?

 

[sand_man]

0-100 in 3.9sec, that's cooking!!!

 

[MR.C]

Why not mod the car ? 0-100 in 3.9sec, much cheaper than buying a Porsche or Ferrari.

 

[koeks]

yep... and the look on the face of the guy driving the Porsche will be priceless...

 

[the graduate]

yep... and the look on the face of the guy driving the Porsche will be priceless...

Honestly, he is an idiot...

Saw the other day two gahy looking guys in a drop-top Aston Martin parked at a red light next to a 1996 Nissan 200SX (from the looks of it, modded as hell, with dump valves blowing and unnatural exhaust notes)...

They did turn out to be gahy by taking on the modded Nissan who absolutely murdered the Aston off the line and up the hill. The two guys in the Aston tried to give it a complete go.....but failed epically...

DON'T TAKE ON MODDED CARS....ESPECIALLY MKI GOLFS...

 

[syntax]

I think sometimes a car grows on you and if you can mod it and get more out of it, why not?

fair enough for smaller "cheaper" cars maybe...
But my experience of modding has led me to believe, if i want a faster car, i will buy one.

With something like this, i would always wonder about reliability...nothing is worse than driving a car wondering when its going to break