GTP Cool Wall: 1994-1995 Audi RS2 Avant

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1994-1995 Audi RS2 Avant

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AudiMan2011
Fast Audi estate, tuned by Porsche.
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So is this. Seat Ibiza.

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Tuned by Porsche is overrated. :p
 
Tuned is the wrong word. It was build in collaboration with Porsche, and the Audi people involved founded QUattro GmbH
 
Ibonibo
Tuned is the wrong word. It was build in collaboration with Porsche, and the Audi people involved founded QUattro GmbH
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I know that. The car is plastered with Porsche badges. :D

All the Seat has is a lousy valve cover.

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Superwagons are Sub-Zero, especially this one because it is among the first superwagons. You expect them to be slow, but they aren't. I'd want to own one if they had sold them here.

The rear lights are questionable but I don't think that affects the coolness very much. It's not cool because of good looks.
 
AlvaroF
Which had similar output and weighed the same as church... (not that the RS2 is light either)
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3,700 lbs, 370hp and 500 lb-ft of torque is what the 1970 Lemans Wagon with a 455 HO 4 barrel had. I would hardy call that similar.
 
Wagons are not cool.. ?

Why do Americans get so hung up on them, and then not buy them.

They serve a purpose, if you don't need one, then all you did was buy a hearse without a corpse.
 
Slash
3,700 lbs, 370hp and 500 lb-ft of torque is what the 1970 Lemans Wagon with a 455 HO 4 barrel had. I would hardy call that similar.
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First how many bananas are 3,700lbs?

Don't forget that some 455 HO were also rated at 335 HP. Those engines were irregular. Some produced more than that in paper (360 HP) others less and some... well, lesser. I did my homework this time bro.
 
AlvaroF
First how many bananas are 3,700lbs?

Don't forget that some 455 HO were also rated at 335 HP. Those engines were irregular. Some produced more than that in paper (360 HP) others less and some... well, lesser. I did my homework this time bro.
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Yup there was various states of tune from 335 to 370 horsepower. 335 was the rating for the standard non HO 2 barrel 455. Which was laughable because of other small blocks being rated that output. The HO 4 barrel made 370 on paper.
 
You guys are aware that this engine is good for 700hp? Out of a 2.2l, I call that mighty. And 400-500 are easily made.
And it will transfer all those ponies into forward movement, not into smoke.



And that SOUND :drool:
 
That's a lot of power for such a tiny engine. Wow.
 
Ibonibo
You guys are aware that this engine is good for 700hp? Out of a 2.2l, I call that mighty. And 400-500 are easily made.
And it will transfer all those ponies into forward movement, not into smoke.



And that SOUND :drool:
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That's personally not what I'd do to my RS2.
But all credit to the great straight-5. I'm a sucker for bite-sized engines like that. Observe, for instance, my favourite Evos...
 
Sub Zero. Boxy wagon, Turbo power, AWD, 6-speed manual and tweaked by Porsche. And then there's that sexy inline 5 soundtrack.. Oh, and the motor with potential to make 4-digit power.
 
I want to go with SZ, but Noob's right. Wagons aren't the coolest of things to the average person these days. Sure, I got excited we're getting a turbodiesel BMW wagon in Canada this year, and point it out whenever my girlfriend and I are out for a drive, but she just shakes her head and utters "it's a wagon".

...so I'm balancing it out to a cool. Because sometimes people need to know what's better for them, and a turbo I5'd, Porsche-tuned Audi wagon (from before the four rings became beacons of utter douche-canoe attributes) is precisely that.

Oh, and can we have the newer, clean formatting @White & Nerdy introduced recently? This is bare-bones.
 
Slash
So?
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LOL, in the mid 90's, 500Hp was the equivalent of a 1,000Hp today in a production car. The fact this pushed 300Hp, just around 60-70Hp shy of a Ferrari 355, in a Audi station wagon made this one of the ultimate sleepers. Even today, 300Hp has finally become the benchmark for most mid-size sedans & this car was outputting that 20 years ago.

I'm just going to attribute this more to your young age than anything else. It's hard for anyone under 20 these days to comprehend just how crazy 500Hp was in a car when we have Veyrons & Koenigseggs running around now.
 
McLaren
LOL, in the mid 90's, 500Hp was the equivalent of a 1,000Hp today in a production car. The fact this pushed 300Hp, just around 60-70Hp shy of a Ferrari 355, in a Audi station wagon made this one of the ultimate sleepers. Even today, 300Hp has finally become the benchmark for most mid-size sedans & this car was outputting that 20 years ago.

I'm just going to attribute this more to your young age than anything else. It's hard for anyone under 20 these days to comprehend just how crazy 500Hp was in a car when we have Veyrons & Koenigseggs running around now.
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I guess that makes sense.
 
Do we have to turn every cool wall into a comparison between two irrelevant cars?

Do we actually think that anybody is cross-shopping a pre-emissions Pontiac with an Audi or are we that determined to have every thread on this site include a car with pushrods in it?

Back to the Audi... Wagons aren't usually cool but this gets a pass as long as it's in that nice shade of blurple.
 
I wasn't trying to make a big deal out of it, I just wasnted to show that there was sport wagons long before this.
 
Uncool. Fast wagons are only cool to car people and car people aren't cool. With that said, I'd totally rock one.
 
Slash
I wasn't trying to make a big deal out of it, I just wasnted to show that there was sport wagons long before this.
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Well, of course there were, but a 455 Hemi isn't "sport"... it's just relatively quick in a straight line.

The RS2 did everything. It went blaringly fast with a relatively small motor. It had fantastic traction. It could go around corners.

Think of it as the Syclone of the European Wagon world... something that was just way ahead of its time.

Modest cool. Because colors. And because crazy. Not much higher than that, because it's not an original Quattro. Which, IMHO, isn't as cool as a Delta Integrale...
 
Joey D
Uncool. Fast wagons are only cool to car people and car people aren't cool. With that said, I'd totally rock one.
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Would that imply on the Subby Impreza Wagons too? :p

*awaits to be burned by @Joey D *

Ah, nah I kid, I kid. But no seriously, you gotta make that an exception eh? You can't diss an Impreza really.

Also, I voted cool on this one. Doesn't beat a RS6 Avant though.
 
A hefty cool, but not quite sub-zero.

Audi before Audi appealed to the people it does today = cool. It's also slightly quirky, at least for its day, and quite handsome. Also, that five-cylinder sound. Misses out on sub-zero because it's still just an Audi estate car, and lacks that sprinkling of magic that SZ cars require for me.
 

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