The ABT RS4-R Is Pure School-Run Craziness

22 August 2018 Redazione News, Tuning

Every time I find myself in front of such a special car, I end up in that typical inner war between the desire to admire all the details and the need to get on board and drive, taking advantage of every moment of a day that fortunately is driving away the clouds that until a couple of minutes were promising heavy rain. Opening the door and jumping at the wheel, you’ll notice once again that the care taken by ABT is immense and in addition to the fantastic leather and alcantara seats with hexagonal stitching and red logos, there is a lot of carbon fiber that enhances an already exceptional dashboard. Obviously nothing is missing and so there is the Virtual Cockpit and a gear knob coated in carbon, but what convinces me to not linger over is the roar emitted by the exhaust as I start its mighty engine. I immediately set the car in “Dynamic” and select the manual mode for changing gears, the engine fluids are now warm and entering the Autobahn appears to me as coming back on a racing track after a pit stop, maybe during the last lap of a Grand Prix fought against the most fierce of rivals. The throttle pedal reaches the floor and the apocalyptic noise out there invades the passenger compartment. While I am literally pressed to the seat, I climb the following gears which enter more quickly than the blink of an eye and are accompanied by a real explosion coming from the four exhaust tips at the back. If I had to get € 1 for every time I intentionally shifted gears for getting that bombing again and again, I could buy a whole block in Beverly Hills.

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Words and photo by Alessandro Marrone