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EKaru
August 2nd, 2007, 18:42
Edmunds is notorious for slow acceleration times... I'm impressed with how close the S5 is to nipping on the RS4's heels...



If you want to triumph over time from a standing start, you dump the clutch at 4,500 rpm, sense a bit of wheelspin from the front tires followed by a stern kick from the rears, and 60 mph comes up in 4.9 seconds. You pass through the quarter-mile in 13.3 seconds at 104.6 mph. This compares to the 420-hp Audi RS4's 4.7-second acceleration to 60 mph and its quarter-mile pass of 13.2 seconds at 106.8 mph.


http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com//media/roadtests/roadtest/08.audi.s5/08.audi.s5.f34.3.500.jpg

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com//media/roadtests/roadtest/08.audi.s5/08.audi.s5.r34.2.500.jpg

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=121924?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..1 .*

AudiSuperDriver
August 2nd, 2007, 20:00
for me in my thoughts guys is to have money to buy an S5 Coupe or an R8 Supercar...also every other S/RS cars from Audi, but those 2 are my favourite...don't know why, maybe i have touched by them by feeling and not by thinking but i love those 2 cars...if i would have a lot of money in the future and i work hard for that i would choose to have little from everything...an coupe (RS5), and saloon (RS6), an supercar (R8-S or R8-RS) and a cabriolet (RS7 Cabriolet):P, yes i know i am dreaming right now because i am desperate to buy and S3 right now and dream of those cars, but hope that someday i will have an RS car...

chewym
August 2nd, 2007, 20:59
Motor Trend got 0-60 in 4.5 seconds with a 13.1 quarter mile @ 105.2. The Edmunds numbers are slower but do confirm that the S5 is very capable. They didn't test it on a drag strip, and it was 97 degrees F.

AudiSuperDriver
August 2nd, 2007, 22:27
i think in this world only the magazine who trully are capable of taking the cars to their limits desirve to put them in our own reviews...like Autobild and Auto Motor Sport Germany(AMS tested S5 and is capable of doing...298km/h for real...), but should we expect a test drive vs some other german coupe to see the results from them about 0-100, 0-200 etc... so for right now, S5 is capable of doing 100km/h in 4.5s, great news...