Full Circle

Audi’s RS4 returns to its six-pack roots in a world where boost beats cubes.

- Trent Giunco

RUSHING IN peak-hour traffic is futile – especially when time is of the essence. My body’s natural coping mechanisms aren’t helping allay an anxious mind. My eyes glance at the clock repeatedly as if to somehow, by magic, make the digits regress and my thumbs tap the steering wheel in a rhythm akin to a sporadic nervous twitch. It’s a manic dance performed daily and, on this occasion at least, Melbourne’s hustle and bustle has defeated me. I’m hopelessly late.

“Did you pick up the RS4 on your way to work, Trent?” asks associate editor, Scott Newman. I pause – it’s the kind of fleeting moment where you teeter between fact and fiction – before admitting that I didn’t have the keys to a B9 Audi RS4 Avant in my possession. Despite the myriad expletives running through my head, the overarching thought stuck in my brain is, “how did I ‘forget’ about an Audi RS4?”