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If Superman and Wonder Woman Had Kids, This 215-Mph Audi RS 6 Would Be Their Daily

2023 Audi RS 6 C8 with 1,000 HP and 215 MPH 15 photos
Photo: YouTube/Auditography
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Few places on this planet can rightfully claim to be true houses of speed, where unicorn avalanches-with-doors-and-wipers come alive to haunt hypercars. Surprisingly (for some), one of those places is in a country with little automotive tradition: Poland. However, the Poles have a geopolitical advantage – they’re neighboring Germany, and that appears to be a very contagious addiction when it comes to turbos and connecting rods. What the Poles did in their latest deed is a very in-your-exhaust kick aimed at multi-million-dollar price tags with a racial superiority affection.
The Poles haven’t been rubbing shoulders with the country of wrench-and-all-things-mechanical for nothing. They found that certain automobiles made in Germany are very, very well suited to tune-up abuse without batting an eyelash. After all, if BMW and Mercedes have their own tuner fan base to play with specs and performance, why wouldn’t Audi share the same fortunes?

Yes, other speed shops in Germany do exceptionally well in transmuting a factory Audi into a Hulk, but the Poles are not too bad either. After all, taking a stock RS 6 (insert smug face here) and tuning it to above 1,000 hp has become almost the norm lately. Simply because there’s nothing like showing the tailpipes to a thoroughbred Italian/German horse or a bullying Corrida lead character.

However, doing so is not for the faint of heart (or any other muscle, for that matter), and an Audi needs to go through the glowing blue-hot flames of Satan’s forge to come out on the other side as an archangel of hypercar apocalypse. After all, putting over 1,000 hp down to all four corners isn’t just a weekend project that one can do in the resilience of their garage.

2023 Audi RS 6 C8 with 1,000 HP and 215 MPH
Photo: YouTube/Auditography
But the Polish elves from Power Division are masters of controlled havoc and know their trade to the tee. Which is why it looks so annoyingly easy and good when they do it. Look at one of their latest experiments in playing with internal combustion fire. It started as a regular, everyday, normal Audi RS 6 C8, but it has been ‘redefined’ (their word, not this writer’s) to several lengths over what Ingolstadt had in mind for the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8.

Thanks to a bit of witchcraft and a lot of calculated skill, the Power Division four-ringed gauntlet is a dyno-terror with a Stage 4 Kit and enough nerve to shatter speed paradigms to bits. Typically, every tuner has its own personal interpretation of what various Stages of engine modification translate into: for the Poles, this is the jargon that hides 1,043 hp and 893 lb-ft (1,058 PS /1,210 Nm).

The Poland-based tuners declare that this is the most powerful RS 6 C8 they’ve built yet, and they chose a perfect host to transplant their magic into. See it in the video below (courtesy of Auditography’s YouTube channel). The jaw-dropping aggressive carbon aero kit and matching tailor-made red Alcantara interior.

2023 Audi RS 6 C8 with 1,000 HP and 215 MPH
Photo: YouTube/Auditography
Since piston power must come accompanied by a symphony of automatic rapid-fire music, it fell on the shoulders of the neighbors from MGM Motorsport to develop a suitable Cat-back exhaust section for this project. The merry-go-rounders from Power Division did the rest and installed their in-house designed, developed, and manufactured parts. Intakes, intercoolers, hybrid turbochargers, low- and high-pressure fuel systems, exhaust manifolds, sport-cat downpipes, front pipes, racing spark plugs, and the water-methanol injection kit.

The crankshaft hobbits didn’t just settle for assembling all these; they also mapped the Engine Control Units and the Transmission Control unit on their proprietary platform (incidentally, this is the core of their activity: they remap powertrains for everything with a piston in it, from trucks to airplanes to boats to motorcycles.)

As a result of all this overflow of good intentions, the Audi now gets the zero-to-sixty-two job done in a blink-of-an-eye 2.4 seconds (as tested in real-life conditions). The 100-200 kph (62-124 mph) takes a little more – 4.6 seconds – and the monster can quickly go past 350 kph (218 mph). That’s beyond the point when the likes of Ferrari SF90 tap out, for instance.

2023 Audi RS 6 C8 with 1,000 HP and 215 MPH
Photo: YouTube/Auditography
If you’re curious about the price of this Stage 4 package, you should address the inquiry directly to Power Division. Not because I wouldn’t want to share it directly, but rather due to the custom-built nature of the tuning kits, depending on the car it is to be installed on. While some specific parts are sold separately – like the €1,800/$1,900 air intake, the € 3,200/$3,370 intercoolers, and the € 7,500/$7,900 turbo-compressors – some are included in the complete packages available for various stages of engine tunes.

As a final note on the Polish nuclear reactor fitted under the Audi RS 6’s hood, please note that the stock care they based their cataclysmic project on is the 600-PS, 800-Nm model from the latest generation. That’s 592 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque from the same four-liter twin-turbo TFSI engine. However, out of respect for safety, the carmaker has gagged its enormously capable family station wagon to a measly 155 mph (250 kph). On the other hand, the poles rejected the German rule of maximum speed and decided to go full metal jacket. Click the play button and be the judge of their latest creation.

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About the author: Razvan Calin
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After nearly two decades in news television, Răzvan turned to a different medium. He’s been a field journalist, a TV producer, and a seafarer but found that he feels right at home among petrolheads.
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