Volcanic Eruption
evo India|October 2016

45bhp is added to the already mind-numbing performance of the RS 7.

Sirish Chandran
Volcanic Eruption

THIS STORY STARTED WITH A BLANK. WELL, obviously with a blank page, but my mind too was blank. And this does not usually happen when there’s a very fast car to drive.

So there we were, in time to catch the sun rise over our favourite driving road outside Pune, streaks of mud courtesy the incessant rains wiped clean off the flanks, a glorious day dawning over a glorious car – a car that I’m rather familiar with. In three years of evo India we have done not one, but three major features with the RS 7. And now here we are, staring at a fourth. Where do I find the adjectives for yet another story? Heck there aren’t even lashings of carbonfibre to differentiate this RS 7 Performance from the hardly-shabby-on-performance RS 7. This car hasn’t even been launched in India so I can’t make any wisecracks on what obviously will be a mountain of money that Audi will happily relieve you of should you want to enter this club.

Gaurav is equally flummoxed. “What’s new?” he asks. What remains unsaid is, “Why did you wake me up at 4am?” Well, for that I have a very good reason – when offered a car that has an overabundance of horsepower you always say yes. Always. Even if there’s no story in sight.

Screw the photography then, let’s go for a drive. Engine in Sport. Gearbox in Sport. Steering in Sport. Differential in Sport. Suspension in Comfort. Lavasa, here we come. Left foot on brake, right on accelerator. Launch. F*#k! Nothing to write??? Launch an RS 7 and you can fill all 300 pages of this magazine with expletives. My god, this is bonkers!

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