2024 Audi RS6 GT: Final super wagon revealed, Australian units confirmed

This is the RS6 GT, and if Audi’s planning anything even more special for its fourth-generation uberwagen, you’d have to wonder what more can even be done.

Granted, it doesn’t have any more power than the RS6 Performance already on sale, but as Audi’s engineers told us at the reveal last week, they don’t feel anything more is necessary.

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That leaves us with the 463kW and 850Nm 4.0-litre twin-turbo petrol V8, which is plenty more than the 441kW and 800Nm outputs of the ‘regular’ RS6 (as though any RS6 could be called regular).

That’s again mated to an eight-speed auto and Audi’s iconic Quattro all-wheel drive system, all combining to deliver a claimed 0-100km/h time of 3.3 seconds on the way to 305km/h – while passing 200km/h in just 11.5 seconds.

There are changes, however, to the RS6 GT’s mechanical setup, along with its styling package – the latter having some very obvious inspiration.

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Mechanically, there’s manually adjustable coilovers boasting a higher spring rate, triple-adjustable dampers, and stabilisers now 30 percent stiffer at the front and a huge 80 percent stiffer at the rear. It all sits 10mm lower than the standard RS6, too.

“The necessary tools and instructions for making individual adjustments are also on board,” Audi says, lest anybody halfarse the settings.

If they’d prefer a more luxurious approach to suspension management, buyers can instead option Audi’s RS Sport Suspension Plus with Dynamic Ride Control (DRC), or the RS adaptive air suspension package.

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Joining the new adjustable coilovers is an overhauled centre differential for “noticeably more precise cornering” and reduced understeer at the limit.

Power between the front and rear axles is split 40:60, with up to 70 percent able to flow forwards as needed, and up to 85 percent available to the rear. The rear Quattro sport differential has also been reworked, again focusing on a rear bias in the Dynamic driving mode.

On the styling and aero front, the RS6 GT takes inspiration from the legendary Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO racer, and of course the apprentice-designed and built RS6 GTO concept revealed in 2020.

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The RS6 GT with the Audi 90 IMSA racer and the 2020 RS6 GTO concept. What we’d give to have those futurised turbofan-style aero wheels…

The most obvious change on the outside is the RS6 GT’s revised front bar, along with new front quarter vents crowbarred out from behind the front wheels.

Those new six-spoke rims measure 22 inches at all four corners, wrapped in Continental SportContact 7 rubber.

Out back, the rear diffuser is lightly updated to feature a slender new reflector in the centre, while the pass-through roof wing is said to be nearly identical to the spoiler worn by that 2020 GTO concept. The roof rails have also been deleted – a first for the famously practicality-inspired RS6 – to build on that race-ready look.

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Although the RS6 GT has been shown only in the IMSA-inspired white, ‘red’ and grey livery, the car will also be available without the graphics in Nardo Grey, Mythos Black Metallic, Chronos Grey Metallic and Madeira Brown Metallic.

Buyers who opt for the Nardo Grey or Mythos Black will also be able to order black and grey graphics, and the wheels will be available in either gloss or matte black as well.

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When will the Audi RS6 GT come to Australia?

Audi has confirmed the RS6 GT will make its Australian debut sometime in the second half of 2024, following a mid-2024 launch in Europe.

An exact number bound for Australia hasn’t been specified, apart from “more than 20”.

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