Audi Officially Announces RS5 in the US
Apr 25, 2012 | 08:47 AM
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First off, I was more trying to **** with Chris before based on his earlier review of the RS5. Though I have heard nothing good from EVO and that is a pretty solid source IMO. If you were to have an RS5 as a second car with a GT3, wouldn't you want something with four doors? To each their own I guess. In my perfect world it would probably be a GT3 RS along with a black (very understated) S4 for daily use.
Kind of off topic, but when crash testing a new model for the US market, do companies have to crash test every variant of a model line(ie, Audi already crash tested the A5/S5)? I mean, are there really enough structural differences between the S5 and RS5 to justify such testing?
I was thinking about how Porsche produces so many different varients of the 911. Surely they don't have to crash test eleven 911 GT3 RS 4.0s when they've already done so with the base 911, or even the base GT3.
Which, brings me to the issue of the RS6. Was its not being available in the US strictly due to emissions reasons?
EDIT: The JC apologizes for asking a serious question.
Kind of off topic, but when crash testing a new model for the US market, do companies have to crash test every variant of a model line(ie, Audi already crash tested the A5/S5)? I mean, are there really enough structural differences between the S5 and RS5 to justify such testing?
I was thinking about how Porsche produces so many different varients of the 911. Surely they don't have to crash test eleven 911 GT3 RS 4.0s when they've already done so with the base 911, or even the base GT3.
Which, brings me to the issue of the RS6. Was its not being available in the US strictly due to emissions reasons?
EDIT: The JC apologizes for asking a serious question.
Last edited by "The JC"; Apr 25, 2012 at 08:52 AM. Reason: ninjas
Apr 25, 2012 | 03:00 PM
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Yes, every model requires separate FMVSS cert. NHTSA sucks.
Porsche did not allow sunroof delete on 997.1 GT3's because they did not want to spend the money to cert a sunroof less GT3 thinking the demographic wouldn't care.
Porsche did not allow sunroof delete on 997.1 GT3's because they did not want to spend the money to cert a sunroof less GT3 thinking the demographic wouldn't care.
Apr 25, 2012 | 06:11 PM
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It wasn't crash-testing. They were waiting for the facelift before bringing it here. That's the only reason.
Apr 25, 2012 | 06:28 PM
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Probably only way they could compete with the coming F30 M3 without redesigning an entirely new car.
