Big Don's Behind The Wheel Of The Audi RS7

Jack Baruth
by Jack Baruth

Noted bon vivant Donald B, aka Agent 001, is on Audi’s luxury-slathered press launch in Las Vegas. He’s got a ton of shots of the Audi RS7 in the real world, plus all the great food and liquor the company served its captive journos before setting them free in $104,900 Audi RS7.

Not that we’re above taking a free drive in a six-figure German koo-pay-that-isn’t….


AutoSpies has plenty of shots for you to check out, probably mostly taken with Don’s omnipresent Leica compact. The money shot shows the RS7 stretching its legs to a buck-forty somewhere near the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. As fate would have it, I, too, had the chance to blast a turbocharged V-8 German sedan to 140mph — at Nelson Ledges Road Course. Ah, the good life! But truth be told, I’d rather be rolling down a country road in my 560SL at entirely reasonable speeds.

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  • Ion Ion on Oct 23, 2013

    Don't feel bad Jack. I have no idea who that guy is nor do I care. Plus isn't the RS7 an RS8 with a cool faux fastback hatch anyway?

  • Numbers_Matching Numbers_Matching on Oct 23, 2013

    'I’d rather be rolling down a country road in my 560SL at entirely reasonable speeds.' 107 series SLs have always been sissy cars. Bobby Ewing drove one - need I say more? Too heavy, too slow - even with the 5.5L.

    • W Christian Mental Ward W Christian Mental Ward on Oct 24, 2013

      Not in the opening sequnces, but Mr Hart drove one. In fact, he raced one in an episode. Respect the Wagner.

  • FractureCritical FractureCritical on Oct 23, 2013

    shame you didn't get to drive it. I'd honestly be interested to see you benchmark it against your old green S5 in terms of performance (mostly becuase I've actually driven an S4 hard and can appreciate it as a benchmark). Now that I think a little harder about it, I'd love to see an Audi version of the VW comparo that was done a few weeks ago. I'd love to see the winner of the VW cmoparo thrown into the mix for argument's sake, as well.

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    • Juicy sushi Juicy sushi on Oct 24, 2013

      @juicy sushi Matt, thanks for the reply and I agree with your points. I'm looking forward to a Smoking Tire review on it, too. But yeah, it's nice, you're right, there's a business case, but it just doesn't move me in any way. That could be related to Audi's crappy styling...

  • Eyeflyistheeye Eyeflyistheeye on Oct 24, 2013

    AutoSpies has to be the antithesis of TTAC. Their single-minded devotion into worshipping any new car out of Germany and putting down anything made in Japan makes Scientology look like slackers.

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