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Tamed At The Bic...
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|August 2017
We’ve been waiting for a very long time to tame Godzilla at the BIC. The question is, did the GT-R spit fire and send us scurrying for cover – with the BMW & Audi in tow – or were we actually able to calm the beast?
Now, it’s no secret that we love the GT-R here at autoX. After all, this very car – in all its audacity and red mist – has taken pride of place on the cover twice in just the past four months.
On this occasion, it’s joined by the Audi RS7 Performance – one of its partners in crime on a road-trip earlier this year – as well as the BMW M4. The road-trip in question consisted of a single-day, 600-kilometre round-trip from the capital to the foothills of the Himalayas to prove that these machines are anything but garage queens. And on the public road, and especially the open road, the GT-R just couldn’t shake off the RS7 – what with its twin-turbo V8 that gives it extra muscle when compared with the Nissan.
The M4, meanwhile, is one of the most entertaining cars that we’ve ever thrashed around the track – it bests even blisteringly fast cars such as the Lamborghini Huracan, Mercedes-Benz AMG GT and Porsche 911 for sheer entertainment when you’re pushing to the absolute limit.
So let’s get to it shall we, and see what all the fuss is about…

Audi RS7 Performance
The Suit
The RS7 proved to be quite the cruiser during our road trip a few months ago. Its four seats and capacious boot do absolutely nothing to dull its ferocious turn of speed when you so much as breathe on the throttle pedal. And the standard RS7 isn’t exactly aimed at pensioners either – after all, it produces a full 550bhp and 700Nm.
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