Topic: Northern Exposure: 2013 Audi RS 5 Winter Test

[rrocket]

Lol, yeah, it was easy enough.  I'd be stopping by your place tomorrow on my way home from Detroit if I didn't have Michael from the Globe car pooling with me.

What time you leaving?  Morning, noon, evening??

Should be heading out from Ceasers around 9am

Bummer....could have given you a tour of the shop.

Thanks for not PMing me while you were in town though, prick.....

[Mike]

Off, I'm not even in the country, I'm living it up at the Ren Cen with GM

If I hadn't drunk so much at dinner, I would have grabbed the XTS out of the garage and come see the shop

[rrocket]

Off, I'm not even in the country, I'm living it up at the Ren Cen with GM

If I hadn't drunk so much at dinner, I would have grabbed the XTS out of the garage and come see the shop

Booze....it's why journos give GMs good reviews!!   

[blur911]

Ninety Three thousand dollars!!!! W T F Audi, that's almost a mortgage payment for christ sake. Why you people keep reviewing these cars that are unattainable to 90% of the population is beyond me. You'd have to be an idiot to put out that kind of money for something that will be recycled plastic and metal in 20 years. I honestly don't know how the Germans sell anything but VW's in this country. I'd like to see the bill for a brake job on those fancy ceramic binders. BMW and MB are no better. I envy your job sometimes, but this kind of crap just grinds my gears, I could by TWO F-150's for this price!!

You can also get 3 Hyundai Accents for the price of an F-150. Whats your point?

My POint is, I could probably get 700,000K out of them 3 Accents, and still be driving them long after that Audi's in the junkyard.  They want way too much money for what it is. The warranty on them Accents is probably double what you would get on that 93K penis extension.

Is Rupert your dad?   

Want to see something interesting, check how many old Audi's are on Autotrader, then check to see how many old Hyundai's. Guess what, you're wrong about what ends up in the junkyard.

Just because you can't pay $90k for a car doesn't make it junk.  If there weren't people lining up to buy these do you think they'd make them?

[quadzilla]

I never understood why people come to a car forum and read a review on a car they feel is too expensive and then reply garbage about it. Is their life that boring and empty?

It would be like me going to a sewing forum and complaining about the cost of a high end sewing machine when I could buy one for next to nothing on Kijiji.

The RS5 is super hot and would be on my list if I had money falling out of my pockets.

Many things can cost a lot of money, just not cars.

[greengs]

Hyundai Canada warranty is 5 yrs, Audi is 4 just sayin.

Rear brake job on my BMW was less than a brake job on my Honda.  People sometimes just assume things.  Yes to me 90k+ on a car is completely unattainable  but luckily German cars depreciate heavily and make awsome buys after 2-3 years.   

[Julie]

This car looks awesome. 

[Spec5]

Awesome car, even better written article! Autos.ca more articles from Justin please - I've not had that much fun reading a car review in some time! (though the zombie references probably helped!)

[Threader]

I would love to challenge this one on the drag strip. Seems to do the same 1/4 mile times as I. Just one thing is my STI 6 speed manual takes more skill to pull off 12.5 seconds than 7-speed twin-clutch auto. in this thing. Other than reaction time skill the rest of the race is computer driven. I would guess that this bad boy weighs about 600-700 pounds wet more than my STI and it's the transmission speed getting it to 12.5 seconds. Our terminal speed is about the same at 109-110 mph.

Just the same this is one nice ride.

Quote "...because the RS 5 needs just 4 seconds flat to hit 60 mph and will polish off a quarter mile in 12.5 seconds at 110 mph

Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupes/1209_2013_audi_rs_5_u_s_spec_first_test/#ixzz2IBH1yoQz

[MR2Pritch]

Great report Justin. I miss your visits from when I lived up in Sudbury 



Mike is hard to train 

Thanks, been a while! I see you have an S4.. i remember taking you for a rip in the yellow one... and you said "***K, i need a bigger turbo" haha

[Snowman]

Great report Justin. I miss your visits from when I lived up in Sudbury 



Mike is hard to train 

Thanks, been a while! I see you have an S4.. i remember taking you for a rip in the yellow one... and you said "***K, i need a bigger turbo" haha

Dude I have a TTRS  It has been a while and I do miss terrorizing Highway 55 with my hooning. That RS4 was indeed sweet