On March 3, 2025, the FAW Audi RS dual flagship limited-edition models were launched, delivering unimaginable ultimate driving control to performance enthusiasts with their outstanding performance and unique scarcity value.
Among them, the Audi RS 6 Avant GT is limited to 660 units worldwide, with 66 units in China, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of 1,906,600 yuan. The Audi RS 6 Avant GT combines ultimate performance, luxurious design, and limited customization in one, offering exceptional collectible value and showcasing supreme luxury through exclusive scarcity, achieving the ultimate form of a "supercar-grade collectible wagon." At the same time, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of quattro, Audi specially launched the RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition, limited to 20 units worldwide, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of 1,724,800 yuan. It inherits the extreme track tuning of the RS Q8 performance, the "fastest production SUV on the Nürburgring Nordschleife," shaping a peak driving experience comparable to supercars.
As a synonym for high performance, the Audi RS series carries forward its racing DNA and has undergone 8,000 kilometers of performance testing at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, fully verifying its reliability, durability, and handling stability. Audi also applies its top-level technologies honed through long years of track competition to RS production models, endowing them with extreme performance comparable to race cars, allowing users to deeply experience the unique driving charm of fuel-powered cars amid the roar of the engine. As important members of the Audi RS family, the Audi RS 6 Avant GT and the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition are not only performance beasts but also artworks worthy of permanent collection, profoundly interpreting the Audi brand's luxury DNA through absolute performance advantages and collectible value.
Audi RS 6 Avant GT: The Supercar-Grade Collectible Wagon Ignites the Market
The Audi RS 6 Avant GT inherits the classic legacy of legendary race cars, with design inspiration drawn from the Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO race car. The single-frame grille and side air intakes all feature high-gloss black finishes, making the vehicle appear lower and wider. Audi also offers users three body colors and two exclusive body decals. The first livery is Arkona White paint, combined with Audi Sport's classic black, gray, and red tones, with the color of the front and rear model badges matching the livery color. At the same time, to complement the first livery color scheme, the uniquely styled wheels are high-gloss white. The second livery features black and gray tones and can be paired with Nardo Gray or Mythos Black, with wheels in high-gloss black or matte black, creating a race-car-like exterior style. In addition, the exterior features many personalized design elements and exclusive GT badges, such as fender badges with black GT emblems, the classic "RS 6 GT" rear badge, black Audi four-ring logos and emblems, GT-branded sport seats, welcome lights, door sills, car floor mats, and more. Every detail demonstrates the GT model's distinctive identity and unique collectible value.
To meet users' personalized driving needs across multiple scenarios, the RS 6 Avant GT is the only Audi model in the current RS 6 Avant family equipped with a three-way adjustable coil spring system. The vehicle comes with an exclusive tool kit, allowing users to personalize the suspension system tuning toward track or street driving according to their own driving habits and preferences. In addition, compared with the Audi RS 6 Avant, this suspension system can lower the body height by 10 millimeters, achieving a harmonious balance between dynamics and comfort.
As the pinnacle of the V8 fuel era, the Audi RS 6 Avant GT is powered by a 4.0L twin-turbocharged V8 engine. Its surging power injects track-level peak performance into the elegant body of a luxury wagon, achieving a 0-100 km/h sprint in just 3.3 seconds and a top speed of up to 305 km/h, delivering the ultimate peak driving experience. The matching 8-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission rapidly and smoothly delivers power to the mechanical quattro permanent all-wheel drive system, achieving zero-delay torque distribution. Notably, the track-oriented quattro sport differential has been specially tuned, with new parameters focused on improving agility and, in "Dynamic" driving mode, biasing power distribution toward the rear axle, bringing users an even more extreme driving experience.
In addition, the RS 6 Avant GT extensively uses carbon fiber materials for body components. Audi Sport engineers fitted this car with a newly forged carbon fiber front hood for the first time, and together with the RS professional sport suspension, RS carbon ceramic brake discs, and exclusive 22-inch 6-spoke forged lightweight wheels, the RS 6 Avant GT is 30 kilograms lighter than the RS 6 Avant performance. The body is lighter, the driving posture is more agile, and acceleration and braking responses are more sensitive. Moreover, the car also adopts Audi's most powerful braking system in history, among which the carbon ceramic brake discs are the most technologically advanced, best-performing, and largest brake discs ever used by the Audi brand. At the same time, the front discs are equipped with top-performance red 10-piston brake calipers, featuring the highest number of calipers among models in the same class, confidently handling driving across all road conditions and delivering precise braking at any time, allowing drivers to freely explore the boundaries of speed without fear of the challenges ahead.
The extreme performance of the Audi RS 6 Avant GT would not be possible without Audi's outstanding tuning expertise and exquisite assembly craftsmanship. The Audi Sport engineering team and racing experts carefully optimized the chassis of the Audi RS 6 Avant GT based on rich racing and motorsport experience, investing substantial manpower and resources solely to achieve the chassis characteristics best suited to the Audi RS 6 Avant GT and attain peak-precision handling. Furthermore, it is manufactured in the same factory as the flagship supercar R8. In the Audi Böllinger Höfe factory, known as Audi Sport's "technology laboratory," all GT-exclusive components, such as the engine hood, bumpers, sill panels, dual front fenders, front and rear aprons, and adjustable coil spring suspension, are hand-assembled by 7 experienced skilled craftsmen to achieve the highest manufacturing standards. This ultimate pursuit of manufacturing craftsmanship not only gives the RS 6 Avant GT unique scarcity value but also keeps the vehicle timeless and even more collectible.
Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition: The Fastest Production SUV on the Nürburgring Nordschleife — quattro 45th Anniversary Edition Makes Its Global Debut
As the most powerful production fuel vehicle in the history of Audi Sport GmbH, the Audi RS Q8 performance set a new record for the fastest production SUV on the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a time of 7 minutes 36.698 seconds, carving its own exclusive legendary mark. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of quattro, Audi specially launched the pinnacle of high-performance fuel SUVs — the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition. The Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition is powered by a 4.0L twin-turbocharged V8 engine, with a maximum output of 640 Ps and peak torque of 850 N·m. It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.6 seconds, with near-"zero" delay power output response, delivering a supercar-comparable ultimate driving experience. With the assistance of 48V mild hybrid technology, it ensures powerful performance while also improving fuel economy and providing users with a smoother, more comfortable driving experience at low speeds or during startup.
More notably, the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition is the only model in its class to adopt a purely mechanical four-wheel drive system, equipped with a quattro permanent all-wheel drive system featuring a torque-sensing self-locking center differential. By default, the system uses a 40:60 rear-biased torque distribution, endowing the vehicle with precise handling. During actual driving, it can automatically distribute torque between the front and rear axles within a range of 70:30 to 15:85 with zero delay based on driving mode and road conditions, improving driving dynamics and significantly enhancing cornering precision. Even in extreme conditions, it remains easy to handle and free to drive. It is also equipped with the industry's first active roll stabilization system, which can promptly adjust the vehicle's state, delivering more precise handling and making driving more composed and controlled.
As a commemorative work for the 45th anniversary of quattro, the body of the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition is inspired by the legendary rally champion Audi quattro. Its innate sporty DNA and elegant coupe styling give the entire vehicle a rich sense of dynamic rhythm and aesthetic appeal. The octagonal grille adopts a new design language, with a large honeycomb single-frame grille and new bumper design creating a stronger sporty visual impression. As a limited commemorative edition model, the body features Mythos Black metallic paint, paired with a high-gloss black exterior package, carbon fiber sport exterior package, and carbon fiber exterior mirrors, complementing the newly designed two-dimensional flattened high-gloss black Audi four rings and enhancing the vehicle's visual consistency and dynamic stance. The "45 years of quattro" emblem on the rear side window trim further highlights its unique and scarce identity. In terms of lighting design, the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition also debuts high-definition Matrix LED headlights with laser high beam and digital OLED taillights with 5 personalized light signatures, instantly attracting all eyes whether day or night, showcasing extraordinary charm wherever it goes.
In terms of interior design, the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition offers two exclusive interior styles. The luxury-style interior features diamond silver Valcona leather with white jade white stitching; the sport-style interior features a two-tone Valcona leather in black jade gray and diamond silver with bright red stitching. Each exclusive interior color is limited to 10 units. The Valcona leather sport seats inside the car feature the RS logo on the surface, showcasing the exquisite craftsmanship and extraordinary style of high-end customization. In addition, the Audi RS Q8 quattro 45th Anniversary Edition is equipped with a Bang & Olufsen premium 3D sound system with 23 speakers. Acoustic lenses precisely control the sound, creating for passengers an immersive auditory experience as if they were present in a top-tier concert hall.
Since the debut of the first permanent all-wheel drive sedan, the Audi quattro, in 1980, through 45 years of legendary evolution, Audi race cars equipped with quattro technology have demonstrated powerful dominance on the track, whether in circuit racing or rally racing. quattro has become a symbol of victory and the strongest IP in four-wheel drive technology. This technology, originating from the track, now deeply empowers the Audi RS series, becoming an insurmountable technical moat in the field of performance luxury and further establishing itself as the "performance totem" in the hearts of ultimate enthusiasts worldwide. Based on Audi's century-long luxury car-making heritage and the development experience of RS high-performance products, in the future, FAW Audi will continue to deeply tap into technological potential, broaden the performance boundaries of its products, and bring users an even more luxurious, more outstanding, and more extreme driving experience.
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