Audi’s V-6-powered RS5 Sportback does its best to help you forget the past.
FORGETTING THINGS IS EASY. Like why you’re in the dairy aisle when you came to the store for a six-pack of Labatt. Or the name of that weird kid who’d eat the entire apple, core and all. Dale? Brian? What the hell was it? Other things stay with you, like your first phone number, the name of the teacher who taught you to read, and, if you were lucky enough to have heard it, the caustic rip of the old Audi RS5’s V-8 as it erupted toward its 8300-rpm redline.
Well, try to forget that V-8; you can’t get it in the latest RS5. Now your coupe or Sportback (i.e., four-door hatchback) will arrive with a V-6. Previously, the RS5 came only as a two-door, and while the hatch lacks the midlife-crisis cachet of a coupe, the Sportback is a gorgeous piece of metal and way more practical.
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