2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant

2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant

2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant When DTM-drivers are moving into a road car in order to take it for a few laps at a race music, it is going to be pretty a special car certainly. With the brand new RS6, Audi has finished this exquisite feat: already during the DTM-season, wherein this extreme sports activities vehicle was used as a safety car, Laurent Aiello and Christian Abt often used to take the limousine and the Avant for a bit trip. Now, the crew of Abt Sportsline has taken at the RS6 as well. And all and sundry who thinks that 450 hp is the limit, has to think once more: enter the Abt RS6 Avant.

Yes, one may assume that 331 kW (450 hp) are greater than enough for an Avant - after all, the prevailing automobile of the 2002 DTM, the Abt-Audi TT-R, most effective just tops this overall performance. But a agency like Abt Sportsline, having been passionately involved in motorsport for many many years, can not be glad that without problems: after a amendment of the electronic engine control of the eight cylinder bi-turbo power unit, performance has been extended to 371 kW (505 hp), whilst the maximum torque will handiest be reached at a fascinating 630 Nm. This lets in the Abt RS6 Avant to dash from 0-one hundred km/h in best four.6 seconds.

Equally staggering as the using performance and the growth of the top pace to approximately 280 km/h is the noble understatement of the Abt RS6: it is hiding its energy and its strength, without difficulty exceeding the performance of a sports activities automobile, underneath the stylish guise of an Avant. Here, Abt Sportsline has best delicate the bodywork in details, like as an example with the four pipe exhaust device, emphasising the car's sporty attraction and unmistakably relating to its provenance from Kempten.

Fitting for the overall performance, Abt Sportsline has chosen the perfect wheels for the most effective car in its line-up. The Abt sports wheel SP2, cast in a single piece inside the dimension 9 x 20 inch and outfitted with 255/30 R20 ContiSportContact2 tyres guarantees the high-quality possible touch among the quattro-force and the asphalt. The new Champion wheel rim covers are the top of wheel design from Kempten. The silver-coloured covers with black inscription commemorate Laurent Aiello's title-triumphing campaign within the 2002 DTM-season.

With so much strength, the overall performance of the brakes is specially essential. Therefore, Abt Sportsline has mounted its recreation braking gadget to the the front and the rear axle of the RS6. Apart from the looks, the double-ventilated brake disks with the measurement 380 x 32 millimetres (the front) and 322 x 32 millimetres (rear) make sure extra safety and lighter managing of the incredible sports automobile. Larger pistons end result into greater braking power, the disks offer greater stability and accelerated durability.