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The premium isn’t always as high as you think, for the mileage I drive, a V8 is about £2k a year more to run than a diesel equivalent
My RS5 averaged 10/11mpg over a full tank when driven ‘properly’
Ouch! I get 24mpg average. If my E63 is driven hard for a sub 20 mile trip it might dip to 17mpg but it's only ever dipped lower on track (9mpg).
I can’t comment on the audi, but I’ve been running an E63 estate for 4 years and it’s not as expensive as people make out.
FWIW a guy i work with has been running a fairly heavily tuned E63 AMG (2017 i think) as a daily use summer car for about 6 years (Easter to October) last i spoke to him he'd had exactly nothing go wrong with it. Just servicing stuff and a couple of minor recalls. Doesn't run it in the winter as snow and 800+ horses doesn't go well.
He and his wife like it sufficiently that his wife drives a box stock C63 AMG.
I pootle around like a OAP in my Volvo hybrid these days and I’m not much into fast roads.
Is that the 350 BHP version or the 420? (Or even the 450BHP version?)
I know 2 people who have owned RS6s.
Both of them ad the pleasure of a gang coming in through their front door with a knife and a request for the keys.
Buy an E63 instead and take all the badges off. Wont be an issue.
450 Bhp hybrid - but it never feels fast or that powerful (it's probably the way they add up petrol+electric). It is a nice lazy tourer and local runabout on the battery.
snotrag
Buy an E63 instead and take all the badges off. Wont be an issue.
Wishful thinking I think, okay so it doesn't have wide arches but it's still really easy to see what it is. The front bumpers are really obvious, as are the exhausts. Anyone who knows what an E63 is will spot that at a glance.
Another ex-RS owner here who keeps coming back to the Audi S cars as a better long term / more usable choice time and again. But as an experience is isolation, any of the RS models is great.
Unless you are heavily DIY (eg happy to pull an engine for some maintenance jobs) I would suggest paying a specialist like MRC, Litchfield etc to do a pre purchase inspection.
If you have the funds they are incredible, a basic remap is 650-690, decats and fuel pumps is 700-740.
It really does make sense.
Ive had loads of fun cars over the years. From a silly 5 litre TVR, AMG Merc, Porsche 911’s….got divorced a good few years ago and downgraded to a modified Cupra which I loved….now driving in a 300hp EV and really missing driving a fun car. The EV is nice, but it’s not fun.
Running costs can be astronomical though on more playful cars, my AMG wasn’t cheap, was pretty harsh to drive on broken roads, but equally was fun on the right road. I’d love an RS6, but not going to happen until kids finish uni!
Make sure the salesperson doesn’t come out with you.
When was the last time you got let out in a supercar without the salesman.
Hard enough getting out in a bland shitbox alone.
I used to long - and still do a little - for an RS6, and I’m very confident I’d enjoy sitting in a traffic jam listening to it rumble away….….but the fear of theft / raiders with kids in the house, and the value of being debt free let’s me make piece with the fact my bland common, undesirable to thieves 50mpg 320d gets me where I need to be with all the toys and comfort I really need means I’ll never own one.
Unless I have missed it, we haven't really had the brief from the OP. Or the question is, as already suggested by others, would the £40k budget be better spent on a £10k Skoda and then the rest on a track car + trailer. Caterham or maybe even a Radical SR1? Or any lightweight track car in budget really.
Sod it, any old tow car will do. Spend the fun money on one of these and some track time.
https://www.ptsportscars.com/cars-for-sale/
That's what I would do if I had the money and sufficient spare time that wasn't used by other sports.
Try to keep it in a straight line as you drive it out of the dealer.
https://twitter.com/autobant/status/1839309907205697816?s=61&t=QxF0FI-upZcXsqCcjxAhDw
Cheers for all the replies, not interested in 2nd cars, track cars, hot hatches etc.. been there done that, always end up spending more time fixing/tinkering than actually using them and then also needing to find the time to use them
Just want one car that can take the whole family, a bike or two when needed, something thats quick and a V8, not interested in Merc's or BMW's (been there) im only interested in the RS6
Will be going to look at a few in the next couple of months to narrow somethings down and get an idea of what to look out for