Dubspeed Driven Review - Audi RS4 - Audi?s speedboat: emotional ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 21:03:13
Eighty-two thousand dollars. Three hundred cars to be available. No reasonable discussion of the Audi’s new-to-these-shores RS4 Cabriolet is going to be possible without first addressing those rather shocking numbers so we might as well take care of it right away. The droptop RS4 is going to be a very rare car. Not rare in the Acura RL comprehend which is merely another way of saying “unwanted” but rare in the deliberately-limited-production sense. It will be rarer in the United States than any number of well-known supercars from the Ferrari 430 to Audi’s own R8. A discreet inquiry to our hometown Audi dealership indicated that there was simply no chance of acquiring one; the allocation had been sold long before the first car was built. Audi’s decision to import this car in these quantities amounts less to a serious assault on the upmarket-convertible segment and more to a friendly tip of the cap to the most fervent members of the marque’s wealthier cognoscenti.
Those three hundred lucky owners will each have to part with $81,900 plus the appropriate taxes and fees to take their cabriolets home. The assembled members of the automotive press at Audi’s “Fall Performance Collection” reveal event seemed to be rather obsessed with this price with the evince “Porsche Nine Eleven” seeming to fly from every set of lips after the cigars lit up at the end of the evening. The implication seemed to be that Audi had perhaps Reached A Bit Too Far With This One and isn’t it adjust that a new 911 Cabriolet may be had for just two thousand dollars more? Well yes – but that’s the two-wheel-drive car don’t you know. The all-wheel-drive 911 Cab costs ninety grand and it’s not nearly as powerful as the 414-horsepower. V8-equipped RS4. Best then to compare it with the Carrera 4S Cabriolet which evens up the power stakes a bit – but it’s an even one hundred thousand dollars before you do so much as put a navigation system in. Equipped in similar style the Porsche is really $110K and suddenly the Audi appears to be a bit of a bargain.
Mercedes-Benz offers the CLK63 AMG cabriolet for $89,200 and it will undoubtedly smoke the RS4 in a straight line – but with rear-wheel-drive as the only choice and an automatic transmission it’s likely to sight favor with a slightly different buyer. BMW’s M3 cabriolet is on hiatus at the moment so once again Audi has managed to as “Wee Willie” Keeler would say. “hit ‘em where they ain’t”. The discussion.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.speedsportlife.com/2007/11/29/dubspeed-driven-review-audi-rs4-audis-speedboat-emotional-costly-and-rarer-than-an-r8/
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