Successor RS6 Avant dressed as a sedan
Although Audi will shift more and more attention to electric models in the coming years, it will not forget its sporty toppers with a combustion engine. There will also be a successor to the Audi RS6. We now see it roll by, albeit in a somewhat confusing guise.
Yes, you read the headline above this article correctly, we see the new Audi RS7 here. But isn’t the RS7 a ‘four-door coupe’? That’s right, the current one is. However, the next RS7 is the successor to the RS6, as Audi moves to odd numbers for its combustion engine models. So the A4 becomes the A5 and the A6 the A7. But it becomes an even more confusing story, because we clearly see a sedan here, while the RS6 has only been available as an Avant for several generations. We are almost certainly dealing with an A7 sedan that if mule serves for the technology of the RS7, which simply appears as Avant again.
It is quite an unfamiliar sight, with the large wheels under a further optically (for Audi RS standards) modestly dressed A7. You can count on the fact that the RS7, as usual, gets a solidly developed body, which makes the whole look a lot more balanced and all modesty goes overboard. The biggest mystery, despite Audi’s frantic efforts to fool us, isn’t the appearance of the RS7. The powertrain is a bigger secret. We already know that the RS7 will be a plug-in hybrid, just like competitors BMW M5 and Mercedes-AMG E63, but it is still the question that gets the beating heart. If the Audi RS7 wants to compete with those competitors, then a system power of 650 hp must be about the minimum. Unfortunately, the spy photographer couldn’t tell us if he heard a four, six or eight cylinder when spotting the RS7.
The new Audi A7 may not be available until 2025 and the RS7 could not appear until a year later. The RS6 will soon even receive a facelift following the A6 and A7, so it can take a while. Incidentally, the Audi A7 Sportback has been removed from the Dutch model range.
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