Thread: RS5 at Geneva
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      02-21-2010, 06:46 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by footie View Post
Some of you believe exclusively in dyno figures but the one figure you should be looking more close at is the power to weight. The simple fact is that the RS4 posts near enough identical times and speeds in the 1/4mile discipline, the only reason it's slightly below the M3 figures is it's slightly worse ptw and nothing else. Now if the dyno results for it's awd systemwere indeed correct then those figures wouldn't be even close to that of the M3 but this isn't the case.

The RS5 will be quicker than the M3 in acceleration, of this I am certain.


After more than 3 years, I certainly would expect that Audi would try to extract more than just 30hp from the same engine. The E92 M3 6MT really smoked the crap out of the B7 RS4.

"So what did you thought of that race?" -Gustav
"Well I was a little bit disappointed..." -RS4 driver

Poor guy... lol.

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