Found on the Ebays, Luxury with the man pedal: Audi RS4

"offroadkarter" (04RauderDTR)
10/24/2013 at 21:10 • Filed to: ebays, ebay, audi, rs4, quattro, FOTE

Because ///M cars are so main stream, lets take a look at an RS instead.

The topic of our find today, is a 2007 Audi B7 RS4, in beautiful Sprint Blue. The B7 RS4 is the second generation of RS4's, and were built from 2006 to 2008. Out of the 10,000ish RS4's built, its estimated that 2,500 made it to the US. (The !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! lists 1953 cars).

For those of you that don't know about much about the RS4 in general, it was built off the B7 generation of the S4. It features a 4.2L V8 that revs up to 8250rpm that makes 414hp and 317tq. Backing the V8, is a 6spd Getrag manual. You wanted this car in an automatic? Well you can just go to hell, because this car doesn't have an automatic!

These cars are known to be nose heavy, as the engine sticks out way past the front wheels. However, Audi's engineers tuned the chassis to provide minimal understeer so its not very noticeable. Typical for Audi's, this car also has a quattro system. However the RS4 splits the power bias 40/60, instead of the usual 50/50 in most quattro cars.

(That means AWD oppositelock!)

The RS4 in question looks to be a well optioned car. It has the 10 speaker Bose developed audio system, sat nav, heated/power/memory Recaro buckets, satellite radio, Bluetooth, CD changer (lol) and more. For any of you Audi gurus who may be reading this, it seems the car has the PP-S, t-Al, 5TG and WSR packages. Maybe someone can tell me what any of that means. I believe the PP-S is Premium package with Sirius but thats all I've been able to figure out. 5TG should also be Brushed aluminum interior trim.

Of course, a car that can accelerate to 60 in 4.8 seconds, and well over 150mph, needs to stop in a hurry. This car wears a set of 14.7" rotors up front, and 12.8" in the rear (apparently borrowed from the Gallardo). To put that into perspective, the rear brake rotors on this Audi are larger than the front brake rotors on my marauder. (I just made myself sad when I realized that).

This car does seem like it'd make a fantastic nice weather daily, and I see a lot less RS4's driving around versus M3's or AMG cars. Something about its styling just says its classy without being to aggressive. Understated may be the best way to put it, far from ostentatious. But damn does it look good.

This car is currently on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for a price just shy of 40 grand. I guess I won't be picking one up anytime soon, but at least I can wait for the resale to drop like the titanic in years to come, just like every other European luxury car.