But that fuel economy is laughable

We lost everything 😔

@@Gaudine Also, when you press on, on a winding road it's apparently all understeer due to the terrible weight distribution - again also, it's "quick" off the line, but given how much power it has, it's really not that great - and sure the 60-100 is great - but outside of Germany, you can't make any use of that legally. Great for munching miles on the highway - as long as you can afford the tickets & the fuel - otherwise a white-elephant in my opinion - or at least definitely a "heart" car, not a "head" car - or anything in between.

@@Beer_Dad1975 yeah. If you need and estate workhorse this ain’t it imo. I think estates should have reasonable fuel economy and reliability. I like some estates that aren’t top of the line models they’re just workhorses and you treat them as such.

@@Gaudine yes because anyone looking at a V10 is looking for decent fuel economy. You must be a social dynamo at parties.

Agree. More videos like "where are they now" or "how are they now"

@mariacanceri Obvious scam-bot is obvious - reported.

​@@Beer_Dad1975 agree !! Love these Reviews

Truly horrid reliability.

That's what I wanted to mention, was good looking at one but maintaining one, especially nowdays is only acceptable if I had all the knowledge and tools needed. This way I would prefer more reliable one, like an inline 6 and that's it.

@@maestroadam but I keep seeing very high mileage example of those cars so what gives? People misinterpret high maintenance for reliability and durability.

To be fair the 6,2l V8 AMG is quite bulletproof. Especially compared to the others. Has as every performance engines 2-3 things you need to look at but far better than the v10s.

@@hovnojede010101 Very complicated cars so more things can go wrong, when it does, the parts are quite expensive and it's a pain to work on, so expensive (or time consuming) to service. That being said, saloons with supercar engines needs the maintenance of a supercar while being able to be easily daily driven, so the big bills are coming in more quickly than owners expect, hence the poor reliabilty reputation... These cars are as expensive to maintain as to buy initially if you want to use them as they should be used (daily), and that's not even taking into account the depreciation... That being said, they can still be unreliable, which would be even worse... 😅😅

I guess you are from the USA where in most states car taxes and fuel prices are very low compared to any european country.

@@igger562 nope, I’m in the UK. Well aware of how much cars like this are to run, doesn’t put me off owning one 😂👍🏾

i do the same but then i remember just how awful it is to do engine work on them haha. we wont even see V8s anymore soon enough

Manufacturers these days are trying to wipe them out. Plastic parts, dealer only fitment and software control, parts out of production etc., all contributing to them either being written off, unrepairable or bought by people that should have no business owning them if they can't afford to maintain them.

I just bought a 2004 E55 kompressor Estate in 2021, sold my new AMG estate to buy it as well!

I think a lot of the modern cars will have been found to have been over produced and some of these special cars from 15-20 years ago will be really sought after.

I’ll second that!!!

@@simonelliott5956 A third from me!

yeah, bankrupted NSU with its warranty bills 😁

Thanks for the Ro80 film - now up on Harry's channel!

Looks far better than most modern cars.

@@bg22757 Most of modern cars are very overdone and overstyled. Desperately aggressive and unfocused stylisticly. Some audis look ok but only because they are hold overs from 2008-2016 styling atleast until facelifts. New RS6 is too aggresive and rear glass slant makes its trunk less usable for no good reason.

The best RS6 design will always be the C7 (2013-2018)

Proof that fashion is temporary but style is permanent, I bet most of today’s performance cars don’t age nearly as elegantly as this shape has

Its was phanastic for the typical leasing customer. To maintain this engine it’s one of the worst ever made. For the replacement of nearly any part the engine has to be removed. There is just no space to work. Also the engines losses lot of power due to coking of the intake ducts. Beautifully car but you need the money for maintenance on the long run

In hindsight from a person who was a teen at the time, 2008 might well have been the peak of society. Tech was becoming super common, things still played as they had decades prior, People were still very social and cars seemed to be riding a wave of cool that is now fading. Seriously, it felt like manufacturers just threw wild ideas at a wall and tried any idea that stuck(Especially here in America). Then the recession hit and everything changed every year since.

Economic crisis hit then

@@joshuakhaos4451 Yep. Cars, music, television, movies, almost everything from back then has aged like fine wine. Not the nonsense coming out these days.

@@rickmorty7284 Not all of it, but even the stuff that didnt age super well is more exciting than half of the shit now lol. But yeah, a lot has aged like fine wine. Maybe not as beautifully as the 80s has, but the 2000s deserves some credit. Thankfully though, the 2000s havent gotten the 80s and 90s love yet and many of the fun cars from then are still very affordable.

I agree this was the RS era at its best

Sorry, C7 for the win. I'm biased as I own one......

@@anthonyprice1576 Nothing, absolutely nothing nowadays beats the old naturally aspirated RS cars from the Ferdinand Piech era. The 2015 RS5 for me, was peak Audi engineering.

Thanks for sharing.

Sweet lord, what was that bill for if you don’t mind me asking?

You should watch mark mcanns video of him doing a tip run on his lambo. Fridge strapped to the roof 😂

This is the first I've heard one of these cars through a decent external mic and I'm absolutely floored by the sound. Far better than the R8 for my money, not something I thought I'd be saying.

Same here but I didn't have any direct issues with mine. Besides an insane fuel bill and Audi's (lack of) service.

Some one at work has one the air rear shock failed about a grand to fix and rear main oil leak was a engine out ££££

@@ianthomas8743 I had a rear main seal on my Lamborghini go out a couple of times, as then Audi was trying to get rid of their old stock, and sent me the same garbage twice, but it was a mid engine, and easy to replace though, sad that Audi wouldnt sell you the revised rear seal, and ship the old garbage again and again

Wiring loom in the engine bay underspecced for the heat, so failed. Of course I found this out after being told I needed 2 new throttle bodies at 750+VAT each. Which was nice

@@iainarthur7713 It's sad and comforting to hear that someone had my exact experience. Unfortunately my loom caught fire and melted the entire harness. Car was down for MONTHS and cost 10k US to repair.

People really have overlooked the 2000s quite badly. There was a ton to like about that decade and it did a lot right. The 2000s had some very odd and special cars produced during that era that nowdays you just dont get. It was almost like manufacturers just threw ideas at a wall hoping one or 2 would stick. And whatever ones did, they went with. No matter how ridiculous they were.

Fully in agreement. It is arguably the best era. It was the era when technology enabled high reliability and daily driverability and comfort BUT crucially not so complicated to be unreliable like modern cars. Also build quality was at its peak during that decade. Now even a slight hail shower will pit a modern cars paintwork 😂 Finally cars were still driver focused while today they are jut stuffed full of gimmicks that one just doesn't need/distract

Even then the next generation made less power iirc

Big turbo = big lag.

@@jareknowak8712 that’s why there were two. They spool up at different revs so lag wasn’t an issue on these.

@@jareknowak8712 that’s why there were two. They spool up at different revs so lag wasn’t an issue on these.

@@mattmorris2867 I doubt they used 2 turbos bc of "2 stages" of boost, normally you use 2 with V-configuration bc of the headers, lack of space, its much easier to feed 1 turbo from 1 bank of cylinders than 1 turbo from both banks. The lag is small bc you still have a BIG displacement to work with. But with smaller turbos (when there is not much reserve of potential extra power) the lag would be even smaller, engine response would be even better. Factory use bigger turbines also bc of less heat and longevity. Excuse my English.

Agreed! Makes for very interesting content! 👌🏻

This is better for average drivers cause it understeers pretty early and you can realize you are doing something wrong. The M5 can do better lap times than this but it requires skills.

@@igger562 Nonsense. What 'skills' do you need to drive a wonderfully balanced car? The BMW even has this thing called 'feel' which allows the driver to have a million times more information on the conditions, grip, tire placement. I've heard that absolute nonsense about FWD-understeery junk being 'better' because of all kinds of made-up wildly imaginary things, and they've never been true. I've driven these cars and so many others way up north on ice and snow, specifically also testing them and not just driving around for leisure, and often even on ice you can get faster lap times on a RWD car than AWD which seems impossible. But it's true. There's even evidence from that time period these cars are from (just a few years later) by Swedish Auto Motor och Sport who tested RS4 vs. 335ix touring vs.135i vs. Civic Type-R among others, on the same tire model. On ice. With a professional racing driver. The slowest of the ones I mentioned was the RS4. When you have a predictable front end with excellent turn-in and great feel you can absolutely maximise your grip and drive right at the limit. You can be more precise and place the car exactly where you want which can mean hitting an exact groove or avoiding a certain bit of slippery stuff. And above all when you can avoid understeer which makes you back out totally you can instead keep on driving right on the limit of both the front and rear end grip. You'd have to provoke the Audi to go sideways to gain any corner speed or corner exit grip advantage, and no-one does that on the road with such a horrible car with totally unpredictable handling, unpredictably AWD system which you don't know if it'll understeer or send it into wild oversteer... If you don't have a football field of space but instead a lane to keep to you can't chuck it in sideways and then figure out the rest, no, you have to keep it neat-ish and so the Audi will only understeer and you're wasting massive amounts of potential grip which you can't use as you're limited by the front wheels washing out. You can't touch the throttle when the front wheels are overwhelmed.

They look very dated to me.

It’s not a Lambo engine. But yeah.

Yep, every now and then I think about getting fid of mine. And then I come to my senses….

Ultimate how? In understeer, lack of feel, unnatural and unbalanced handling, being slow?

Q car, yank

@@pistonburner6448 from a purely layman’s perspective with no experience of the car whatsoever. I stand corrected.

@@Ovenman940 duly noted, man in oven.

@@pistonburner6448 So what is the ultimate sleeper? :)

"Little known"? This and AMG were the biggest rivals of M5.

2025. Kilos That’s heavy.

@@russcooke5671 More like ~1700kg if its the V6 (2.4-3.2L)

@@surena9451 he said it was 2025 kilos So who is right. Because that sounds heavy.

@@surena9451 he was talking about the v10.

@@russcooke5671 You stated that his supercharged V6 weighed 2025kgs, which is indeed the weight of a V10 equipped Audi but not the V6 Allroad Cabra was referring to. He didn't even speak about V10. I don't know what you mean right now.