Extra visible tweaks come within the type of a brand new splitter and a gloss black therapy for the entrance grilles, making the automobile look even wider than it’s, in addition to a carbonfibre bonnet and carbonfibre entrance wings. They function cavernous air retailers behind the entrance wheels, and there’s a unique rear spoiler with a central spar, too. All of which explains the necessity to ship the automobile to Bollinger Hofe for ending by simply seven specifically educated staff.
To the oily bits. For obligation within the GT, the 4.0-litre TFSI V8 is unchanged and makes 621bhp and 627lb ft. It’s manifestly old-school in its utility, missing any type of hybridisation. It drives by an eight-speed torque-converter automated gearbox, then by Audi’s Quattro everlasting fourwheel drive system, with its locking centre differential and Quattro Sport rear limited-slip differential.
In the meantime, the suspension is radically altered, with the inclusion of RS Sports activities Suspension Professional. As an alternative of air chambers and adaptive dampers, the GT is fitted with height-adjustable coilovers that additionally use dampers adjustable for charges of compression (high and low velocity) and rebound (one common management). Altering the settings isn’t the work of a second, notably on the again, and, relying on what you’re altering, can require the automobile to be lifted and a few cladding to be eliminated. Most house owners will, we suspect, depart the GT in its manufacturing facility settings.
Figures? There are 13 ‘clicks’ for every of the three damper variables, and on the street Audi recommends rebound at 6 (entrance) and 10 (rear); low-speed compression at 8 and eight; and high-speed compression at 10 and 6. For circuit work, these figures respectively turn into 4 and three, 2 and seven, and 4 and 4. The house owners’ guide can be at pains to state the damping ought to by no means be set to opposing extremes at every finish of the automobile, lest the dealing with steadiness turns into harmful: “The distinction between the worth on the 2 axles should not be better than 9 clicks!”
Elsewhere, the automobile’s anti-roll bars are 30% stiffer on the entrance in contrast with the common RS6 and 80% on the rear. Observe additionally that the fundamental spring charge can be elevated, though Audi doesn’t say by how a lot.
As for weight, our take a look at automobile got here in at 2144kg absolutely fuelled. That’s greater than the claimed 2075kg however notably lower than the common RS6 we examined in 2020, which was 2217kg.
