Audi's put some expensive new, manually-adjustable coilovers on its RS4 Competition. It's much improved, but is it worth the £84,600 price of admission? HenryCatchpole finds out...
The gearbox has received software tweaks for faster shift times and a more aggressive feel to the changes, which has helped shave 0.2sec from the 0-62mph time, bringing it down to 3.9sec. Meanwhile, the top speed has been raised by 6mph over a Vorsprung-spec RS4 to 180mph.While the changes to the drivetrain have been relatively subtle, a lot of work has gone into the chassis. The headline items are undoubtedly the new coilovers with three-way manually adjustable dampers.
The Sport differential has been recalibrated in Dynamic mode and as you’d expect given all the hardware changes, the ESP and ABS have also been adjusted to suit. The final piece of the jigsaw is steering that now has a fixed ratio of 13.1. Out on some quicker, more entertaining roads, the suspension was arguably too good. Such was the pliancy and consequent grip that it found on the smooth tarmac, the RS4 felt more locked down than ever and it was hard to feel any of the apparently more playful characteristics of the Sport differential. I think it might actually be more entertaining, or perhaps just impressive, on a bumpy British B-road, where the dampers will have more to cope with.
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