The thrill of the Audi RS 7 Sportback Performance
The Audi RS 7 captured by Tim Gerges.
The new Audi RS 7 is a car that can make any driving enthusiast's heart race. It is a car that combines the best of both worlds: performance and luxury. It is a car that can deliver exhilarating speed, agile handling, and smooth comfort. It is a car that can turn any road into a playground.
The thrill of the new Audi RS 7 comes from its powerful engine, 22 kW and 50 Nm make for a faster sprint from 0–100 km/h of just 3.4 seconds, and reach a top speed of 190 km/h with the optional Dynamic Plus package. The car also also features a 48-volt hybrid system that enhances its efficiency and responsiveness. It can unleash its full potential with the push of a button, thanks to its different driving modes, from Comfort to Dynamic.
The excitement of the new Audi RS 7 comes from its stunning design, which sets it apart from its rivals. It has a sleek hatchback shape that gives it a unique and sporty look, with striking light design, with HD Matrix LED headlights and dynamic indicators. it also has a spacious and luxurious interior, with leather and Alcantara seats, a digital cockpit, and a touchscreen infotainment system.
The new Audi RS 7 is a car that can satisfy the most demanding drivers, with its thrilling performance and exciting features. It is a car that can make every journey a memorable one. It is a car that can make you feel alive.
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For heightened driving dynamics: the new self-locking centre differential
Power from the 4.0 TFSI engine flows through an eight-speed tiptronic transmission with faster shifting times to the permanent all-wheel drive quattro setup. The strictly mechanical centre differential distributes engine power to the rear axle at a ratio of 40:60 and, if slippage occurs, more drive torque is applied to the axle with better traction – up to 70 percent can flow to the front axle and 85 percent to the rear axle. The self-locking centre differential is lighter and more compact, improving driving dynamics plus offering noticeably more precise cornering which makes for less understeering at the handling limits. As an added improvement, the self-steering response is more exact with passengers benefitting from a more agile driving experience overall.
Exclusive and high-performance: 22-inch wheels with high-performance tyres
The new RS 6 Avant performance and RS 7 Sportback performance leave the production line on standard 22- inch matte titanium grey, diamond turned wheels, which are also available in burnished glossy metallic black, matte black, or matte neodymium gold. Inspired by motorsport, the airy 5-Y spoke design aids brake cooling and the lighter rims are manufactured in a high-tech forging-milling process. The new lightweight wheel is around five kilograms lighter than the 22-inch aluminium wheel on the current RS 6 Avant or RS 7 Sportback – this 20-kilogram weight reduction in unsprung mass overall improves the throttle response.
New high-performance Continental Sport Contact 7 285/30 tyres also play a key role in reducing weight. The tyres offer consistently impressive grip on both dry and wet roads, and reduce understeer when cornering at speed, making for overall more precise handling across the entire speed range. Additionally, the brake path is up to two metres shorter with the new wheels when braking from 100 to 0 km/h.
The Audi drive select dynamic handling system lets the driver control the vehicle’s character. Six profiles are available: efficiency, comfort, auto and dynamic, as well as two customisable RS-specific RS1 and RS2 modes. Experience of the driving modes in the performance models is much more unique than before. For example, the coasting mode now activates automatically only in the efficiency profile, which means at speeds of up to 160 km/h, it switches off the combustion engine and coasts with no fuel consumption or drag torque from the engine.
Additionally, fine-tuning to the engine control unit software makes for tighter load changes in S mode when the “dynamic” drive select mode or driving mode S is active, further increasing the emotionality. The updated software in the transmission control unit makes for faster shifting times and a noticeably increased spread between the various driving modes.
Fresh exterior colours and styling packages
The new RS 6 Avant performance and RS 7 Sportback performance are available in a total of 16 exterior colours and, for the first time, metallic and matte Ascari Blue and matte Dew Silver are included. The performance models stand out with standard RS exterior components in matte grey, including the exterior mirrors, the front spoiler, the front side flaps, the side sill inserts, the roof rails, and the trim on the side windows and rear diffuser. A matte carbon/black styling package is also an option, in which the roof rails and trim on the side windows are black. The Audi rings and model name is available in the customer’s choice of chrome or black.
Out of the blue: new interior accents and features
In the interior, the familiar RS design packages in grey and red have been expanded to include blue. The steering wheel rim in Alcantra black features contrasting stitching in Mercato blue, whilst the floor mats, the side of the centre console, and the selector lever cuff also come with blue contrast stitching. The seat belts are full-surface ocean blue with the decorative inlays in a carbon twill structure with optional blue accents. The selector lever knob and the side of the centre console are made with Dinamica microfibre, which consists of around 45% recycled PET fibres and the sports seats feature high-quality Valcona leather upholstery perforated with honeycomb stitching with contrasting stitching in Mercato blue. Another distinguishing feature is an entrance LED in the front doors that projects the lettering “RS performance” onto the ground next to the car.
Customers can order RS design packages in the three available colour variants. An added benefit of this equipment variant is the seat centre panel with a grey, red, or blue inlay, while the customer’s chosen colour shows through the perforated sports seats and the seat backs feature RS embossing in matching colours.
The displays of the standard 12.3-inch Audi virtual cockpit plus offer new features including a blinking shift indicator in manual transmission mode which changes the r/min display from green to yellow to red, blinking in a manner identical to that used in motorsport, to indicate the optimal time to change gears. Lastly, launch control, which fully exploits the acceleration potential of the RS 6 Avant performance and the RS 7 Sportback performance by signalling the ideal moment to accelerate off the line, now comes with new traffic light icons.
