2015 Audi RS7 Sportback Road Test Review

If you remember some years ago, a chubby middle aged Scottish woman auditioned on Britain’s Got Talent, she went up on stage and the smug and pompous Simon Cowell thought ‘here comes another person who thinks she has what it takes to be a pop star.’ When she started to sing the crowd as well weren’t expecting her to sound like a power house that she was hiding inside of her. When she unleashed her voice, Simon Cowell was left with a feeling that can only be described by the sentence “A kick to the groin”. The woman went on to lose the competition only just, but released an album “I dreamed a dream” with the first song Wild Horses. She goes by the name Susan Boyle.

Now, you must be wondering why I am going on about a Scottish singer when talking about the Audi RS7 Sportback. Well when I first drove the RS7, I thought it’s just a saloon with a lot of power, but too heavy to go anywhere or do anything. And then on an open road I floored the throttle and felt the same feeling that Simon Cowell felt while judging the show. The power is so immense that it was quite literally a kick to my groin.

If you fiddle around on YouTube, you will find a video of the Audi RS6 Avant (which is sort of the same thing but a slightly bigger vehicle), drag racing on a damp track against a 900bhp McLaren P1 Hypercar. The Audi off the line badgered the million pound hyper expensive supercar all the way up to 4th gear because of its damn near perfect quattro all wheel drive system that thinks wheel spin is for the unintelligent. Obviously when the P1 finally found some grip, it destroyed it to the finish line, but think about it. A family estate car is quicker than a hyper hybrid car that weighs half its weight, and costs 10 times the price.

The RS7 Sportback is mechanically almost the same vehicle as the RS6. It’s nothing less of a supercar that is way more practical, doesn’t draw as much attention, something you can drop your kids to school, your wife to the mall, and then you can destroy the tyres on the track later, the same afternoon.

But it’s not a muscle car that just has lots and lots of power. Its way more clever, it has to be, I mean, it comes from Germany, a place where cars literally are quicker than saying the entire name of the engine and the technology kit in it. For example, the RS7 has a limited top speed of 305kmph and does 0-100kmph in 3.9 seconds because of the powertrain that consists of a 4.0 Liter-V8-TFSI-Motor mit FSI –Benzindirekteinspritzung, cylinder on demand, kontinuierlicher Nockenwellenverstellung, Nockenwellenantrieb per Kette und zwai Twin-Scroll-Torboladen. Try saying that ten times.