Breaking news from IAA Frankfurt - what Audi told me
OK...so you've seen all the pictures and the concept cars.
Wanna know what the people working around the Audi stand said?
So...
Audi will no longer have the biturbo concept. (shall I repeat?)
They will have natrual aspirated cars in the S- and RS-series.
There will perhaps be a car with turbo + compressor, but I guess that will be in a lower series car than any S-model.
They said they had tried the M3 CSL (Audi and BMW trade cars with each other) and loved it. It sounded fantastic.
However they said there was a new car that sounded much much better. And I'm not talking about the V10 Gallardo which is built door to door with the RS6...(did you know that?)
The pikes peak quattro will be made, the Nuvolari will follow probably A6-based). The Le Mans is too new too have any production plans, but Audi has showed similar concept cars for over 10 years so "soon" is maybe the right time.
However, there are not so many people working at quattro GmbH so it all takes time.
For the RS4 you can expect V8 n/a with 410-440 hp and DRC like the RS6.
The people at Audi looked really proud.
The BMW story was another story, of course they have a lot of nice cars as well. But they're taking so much bashing for the 5-series it's amazing. After a face-lift or two it might actually look good. Or perhaps when the M5 is released (Geneva 2004 by the way) people will get used to it?
I think there will be a 530 Turbo as well, the man I spoke to could see until 2008 since he was the project manager for the 5-series.
The M5 will have 500-500 hp, 7-speed SMG or manual.
I asked for the 6-series interioir in the M5 but then he looked away. LOL!
Did I forget anything? Ask and I'll hopefully be able to reply. :devil:
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