The 2007 Audi RS4 is a remarkable model from one of the world’s foremost automotive design and vehicle engineering houses. This all-wheel-drive model is more-or-less based on Audi’s classic A4 model. Multiple features, however, separate this particular Audi model from other high-end sports sedans, placing the RS4 in a premium stratum of world class cars. While Audi is commonly regarded as a forerunning designer in the world of high-quality, German automotive engineering, the RS4 delivers some exciting new technologies rendering this model as one of the company’s most advanced sports sedans to date.
Premium Engineering for High Speed Performance
According to Audi, their 2007 RS4 will go from 0 to 60 mph in a startling 4.8 seconds. It takes a little over 16 seconds for the car to reach 125 mph, and while Audi has designed the sports sedan to automatically stop accelerating at 155 mph, the car could theoretically reach speeds of up to 185 mph! The ability of this model to reach such high speeds is based on an impressive 420 horsepower V8 engine with finely tuned suspension.
One of the technological innovations that makes this Audi unique among its company’s other models is the RS4’s “new generation” of quattro drive: the asymmetric torque distribution of the two back and two front wheels is 40/60. This allows the driver to experience greater rear drive power so long as normal driving conditions prevail. The RS4 also boasts 14.4 inch front and 12.8 inch rear brakes.
And with a spacious four-door body, it fills the family-car necessities as well.
High-End Financing
The Audi’s 2007 RS4 doesn’t come cheap, even in terms of luxury European sports sedans. Base price is $68,820. But the good news is that this price includes destination fees as well as the federal government’s $2,100 “gas-guzzler” tax—which brings us to our next topic, and sadly one of the less attractive attributes of Audi’s newest sports sedan.
Fuel Economy: “High Maintenance”
The RS4’s 420 horsepower engine is linked with an FSI direct fuel injection. While the direct FSI fuel injection is Audi’s attempt to maximize performance while minimizing fuel consumption, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates the fossil fuel needs of the car as somewhere around 14 miles per gallon in the city and 21 miles per gallon on the highway.
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