The author sizes up a 2020 Audi RS 6 Avant, which will arrive in the U.S. for the first time this summer.
Photographer: Peter Bohler for Bloomberg Businessweek
The Station Wagon That You Could Mistake for a Supercar
With 591 horsepower, a top speed of 190 mph, and a “launch control” button, Audi’s RS 6 Avant is a lean, mean, grocery-getting machine.
It would be wrong to call the Audi RS 6 Avant a supercar.
With seating for five, enough space for a family of Saint Bernards, and that unmistakably long “shooting brake” roofline, it’s a bona fide station wagon that will be offered in 2020 for the first time in the U.S. It joins the Mercedes-Benz AMG E 63 wagon and Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo in the scant group of luxury wagons Americans can buy without performing the bureaucratic gymnastics required to import one of the (many) such models offered in Europe.