2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant

2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant

2003 ABT Audi RS6 Avant When DTM-drivers are moving into a avenue car in an effort to take it for some laps at a race track, it will be pretty a special vehicle certainly. With the new RS6, Audi has finished this superb feat: already during the DTM-season, wherein this intense sports automobile become used as a safety car, Laurent Aiello and Christian Abt frequently used to take the limousine and the Avant for a little trip. Now, the group of Abt Sportsline has taken at the RS6 as properly. And everybody who thinks that 450 hp is the restrict, has to assume once more: enter the Abt RS6 Avant.

Yes, one might assume that 331 kW (450 hp) are extra than enough for an Avant - after all, the winning car of the 2002 DTM, the Abt-Audi TT-R, simplest just tops this overall performance. But a employer like Abt Sportsline, having been passionately worried in motorsport for many decades, can not be satisfied that easily: after a amendment of the digital engine control of the eight cylinder bi-faster power unit, overall performance has been accelerated to 371 kW (505 hp), while the maximum torque will only be reached at a fascinating 630 Nm. This permits the Abt RS6 Avant to dash from zero-100 km/h in simplest four.6 seconds.

Equally impressive as the driving overall performance and the boom of the top speed to about 280 km/h is the noble understatement of the Abt RS6: it is hiding its power and its energy, easily exceeding the overall performance of a sports activities car, below the stylish guise of an Avant. Here, Abt Sportsline has handiest subtle the bodywork in information, like for instance with the 4 pipe exhaust device, emphasising the automobile's sporty attraction and unmistakably relating to its provenance from Kempten.

Fitting for the overall performance, Abt Sportsline has selected the correct wheels for the maximum powerful car in its line-up. The Abt sports activities wheel SP2, solid in a single piece within the size 9 x 20 inch and fitted with 255/30 R20 ContiSportContact2 tyres ensures the best viable contact among the quattro-drive and the asphalt. The new Champion wheel rim covers are the pinnacle of wheel layout from Kempten. The silver-colored covers with black inscription commemorate Laurent Aiello's identify-winning campaign inside the 2002 DTM-season.

With so much energy, the performance of the brakes is in particular crucial. Therefore, Abt Sportsline has mounted its game braking gadget to the front and the rear axle of the RS6. Apart from the appears, the double-ventilated brake disks with the dimension 380 x 32 millimetres (the front) and 322 x 32 millimetres (rear) make sure more protection and lighter dealing with of the extraordinary sports activities car. Larger pistons end result into greater braking strength, the disks provide extra stability and elevated durability.