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The Audi RS 6 is coming back, and it will be electric. The model will be trying to stop the BMW i5 M60 and the Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 from making the rules in the mid-size performance sedans segment.
The Audi RS 6 sedan will make a comeback. The four-door model should show up sometime in 2025 as the all-new RS 6 e-tron. The sedan will join the Avant e-tron in the performance lineup 13 years after Audi killed it, keeping the Avant only.
The Ingolstadt-based carmaker decided to halt production of the RS6 sedan in 2010, when the designation was written without a gap between the letters and the number, with fear that the RS 6 might cannibalize the RS 7 sedan at the time.
Based on the future A6 e-tron sedan and Avant, the two performance versions have been confirmed for launch in 2024. Audi is planning to fit them with a newly designed powertrain that the company has been working on in partnership with Porsche. A dual-motor setup, similar to the one of the Taycan, will power the two of them.
The electric models will come with more power than their ICE-powered predecessor, going all the way to 572 horsepower (600 PS) and 738 lb-ft of torque (1,000 Nm), Autocar reports. A two-speed gearbox on each motor and a fully variable electric quattro four-wheel drive will deliver output and torque to both axles.
The Premium Platform Electric (PPE), also developed by Audi with Porsche for large cars for which the MEB architecture is not suitable, will underpin both the sedan and Avant, supporting an 800V electric system and a silicon-carbide inverter. Models such as the Audi Q6 e-tron SUV and Q6 e-tron Sportback, but also the Porsche Macan Electric will be built on the PPE.
Audi previewed the A6 e-tron with a concept bearing the same name back in 2021. It measured 195 inches (4,960 millimeters) in length, 77 inches (1,960 millimeters) in width, and 56.7 inches (1,440 millimeters) in height. The figures make it larger than the current generation A6 sedan in every direction, which means the sixth generation might grow as well compared to the one we're having right now.
But before that generation drops, Audi still has plans with the RS 6. The Audi Sport division is going to roll out the RS 6 GT Avant. Its twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 should get 30 horsepower (30 PS) and 37 lb-ft (50 Nm) more over the RS 6 Avant Performance, which sports 641 horsepower (650 PS) and 664 lb-ft (900 Nm) of torque.
Prototypes of what should be the last-unicorn ICE-powered RS 6 Avant was spotted testing at the Nurburgring back in June. It displayed enhanced aero and was a complete showoff in the German so-called Green Hell.
The Ingolstadt-based carmaker decided to halt production of the RS6 sedan in 2010, when the designation was written without a gap between the letters and the number, with fear that the RS 6 might cannibalize the RS 7 sedan at the time.
Based on the future A6 e-tron sedan and Avant, the two performance versions have been confirmed for launch in 2024. Audi is planning to fit them with a newly designed powertrain that the company has been working on in partnership with Porsche. A dual-motor setup, similar to the one of the Taycan, will power the two of them.
The electric models will come with more power than their ICE-powered predecessor, going all the way to 572 horsepower (600 PS) and 738 lb-ft of torque (1,000 Nm), Autocar reports. A two-speed gearbox on each motor and a fully variable electric quattro four-wheel drive will deliver output and torque to both axles.
The Premium Platform Electric (PPE), also developed by Audi with Porsche for large cars for which the MEB architecture is not suitable, will underpin both the sedan and Avant, supporting an 800V electric system and a silicon-carbide inverter. Models such as the Audi Q6 e-tron SUV and Q6 e-tron Sportback, but also the Porsche Macan Electric will be built on the PPE.
Audi previewed the A6 e-tron with a concept bearing the same name back in 2021. It measured 195 inches (4,960 millimeters) in length, 77 inches (1,960 millimeters) in width, and 56.7 inches (1,440 millimeters) in height. The figures make it larger than the current generation A6 sedan in every direction, which means the sixth generation might grow as well compared to the one we're having right now.
But before that generation drops, Audi still has plans with the RS 6. The Audi Sport division is going to roll out the RS 6 GT Avant. Its twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 should get 30 horsepower (30 PS) and 37 lb-ft (50 Nm) more over the RS 6 Avant Performance, which sports 641 horsepower (650 PS) and 664 lb-ft (900 Nm) of torque.
Prototypes of what should be the last-unicorn ICE-powered RS 6 Avant was spotted testing at the Nurburgring back in June. It displayed enhanced aero and was a complete showoff in the German so-called Green Hell.
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