Destination is another $775, and there are no available options. The RS 4 comes with standard equipment like a navigation system, Bluetooth, a Bose sound system, heated front and rear seats, a rear parking system, an iPod interface and brushed aluminum or carbon fiber inlays.
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There’s good news and bad news for Audi fans this morning: The good news is a 2008 Audi RS 4 Cabriolet will be sold in the U.S. The bad news is only 300 will be available. The 420-hp convertible will most likely feature the same breakneck acceleration as the sedan we recently tested and that's never a bad thing.
Speaking of the RS 4 sedan, for 2008, the four-door gets two new option packages, and standard Bluetooth and standard Sirius Satellite Radio will also be added.
Pricing for both models will be announced closer to their on-sale date this fall, but the 2007 sedan starts at $66,000. We’d expect the price difference for the convertible to follow the lines of the less-powerful S4 Cabriolet, which is $8,000 more than its sedan counterpart.
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We recently spent an exciting couple of days in Audi’s bad-boy sedan, the 420-hp RS 4. Cars.com reviewer Mike Hanley was lucky enough to score the keys for a full-length review. He spent time on city streets and the highway, and even tossed the four-door hot rod around a racetrack. Our bright-yellow tester garnered praise for its goofy-fast acceleration and overall refinement; for all the details, check out the full writeup.
First, I just wanted to point out the cool new graphic the Urban DINK and Suburban Dad series now sport. Spiffy, no? Second, this post is in direct response to some mild complaints that I was focusing too much on small SUVs, since that’s what my wife and I are currently in the market for.
Count your pleas for something more DINK-ish answered. The Audi RS4 should be the dream car for any Urban DINK. It’s ludicrously fast, has the smoothest shift motion I’ve yet to see and it’ll fit easily into city parking spots.
As I explained in the first installment of this series, Audi markets souped-up versions of its cars with the S designation. So what is the RS4? RS is like S, but more so. The analogy is old and tired, but if these cars are A4s on steroids, then the S4 is Jose Canseco and the RS4 is Barry Bonds.
Things are more confusing than ever, unfortunately, because Audi now has "S Line" option packages that give A4s suspension upgrades and the appearance of an S car without the muscle to back it up. False advertising, if you ask me. The S and RS are real players; the S Line is the tailgating fan who's not on the juice so much as the sauce.
The only RS model sold in the U.S., the RS4 ($66,000 base, $73,520 as equipped) looks like an S4, but the only sheet metal it shares are the front doors and the roof. The body is wider, with more prominent wheel arches, and the nose is different.
Don't be sick with envy that I drove the entire collection of Audi's S and RS cars — high-performance versions of their small, midsize and full-size sedans. Be sick that nine or 10 other writers sent RSVPs for this one-day event and didn't show up. Sick, sick, sick. I mean, where else can you drive four cars totaling 1,645 horsepower and $322,795 in retail price — $6,800 of it gas-guzzler taxes? The inconceivable loss of those no-shows was our gain, though, because there were more cars than drivers, and in a short time I was able to buckle the pavement in the new S4 Cabriolet, the RS4, the S6 and the S8.
I'll start with the S4 Cabriolet with six-speed manual ($54,640 base, $60,785 as equipped).
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