In its last, limited edition go at the C8, Audi has finally pulled out all the stops...
Remember the Audi RS6 GTO concept? Revealed back in 2020, it was designed to mark 40 years of quattro, which it did in unmistakeable fashion: inspired by the old 90 IMSA racer and fit to burst with visual muscle, it was everything the world loved about big, fast Audis. We never thought anything like it would actually be made. But, not for the first time, we were wrong: behold the Audi RS6 GT, ‘the pinnacle of the model series’.
The GT is far more than a mere cosmetic exercise, however, even if that rear spoiler is a near-carbon copy of that seen on the GTO. It’s not about crazy power for a run-out limited edition, either, as this boasts the same 630hp and 627lb ft from the 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 as inTo that end, this GT also gets coilover suspension, just like the B9 Comp. And let's not forget it was transformative on that car for both looks and handling.
While the paint job identifies the GT as not just another RS6, there are subtler cues as well. The roof rails are gone, for instance, so there’s no hope of a roof rack. Beneath the paint there’s some carbon fibre, too, with both bonnet and front arches made from it for the first time on an RS6; those changes might trim a bit of weight from the nose and encourage that rear-biased handling.