(moody synthesizer music) (birds chirping)
(sheep braying)
- Hi there, this is the all-new Audi RS5
and the big headline is (engine roaring)
gone is that sweet high-revving, naturally-aspirated V8.
It has been replaced by a 2.9 liter twin-turbo V6,
which makes exactly the same amount of power,
but way, way more torque.
However, since this is still an Audi,
it means that that smaller lighter engine is
horked out over the front wheels
and when you put cars like this into a head to head video,
something like this always happens.
(engine roaring) (tires squealing)
(bass rumbling)
(engine roaring)
But, here's the thing.
In real life, in the real world,
getting sideways on a public road,
nobody, and I mean nobody drives like that.
(suspenseful music) (car door slamming)
Well, maybe some people drive like that.
(synthesizer whirring) (engines roaring)
(host laughing)
(electronic pop music) (engines roaring)
(tires squealing) (car horn honking)
(engine rumbling) (synthesizer crackling)
(moody synthesizer and percussion music)
For those of you who don't know, this is Jethro Bovingdon
and I've been waiting a long time to say this,
but we're finally working together.
- Yeah, it's happening, man. - Hey, man, welcome aboard.
- Oh, thank you very much. - Yeah, yeah.
- I'm pleased to be here.
I'm so excited,
first head to head, - Yeah.
- but, today, we're not going to a racetrack?
- No, we're not, because, as we talked about,
this is an Audi.
You put it on a racetrack, it pushes, it under-steers,
we complain about it, they get mad,
so we're going to do this one a little bit different.
- Okay, I can buy into that
and if this car is going to work anywhere, it's here.
We've come to Wales.
The roads are perfect Quattro country.
If it's got any chance against this monster,
it's right here, but I wish it was raining almost,
you know, proper Welsh weather.
It's more like California.
- It's a little cold for California.
- Let me show you the road. - All right.
(moody electronic pop music)
- [Jethro] So, we've loaded the dice for the RS5.
These roads really should play to its strengths.
We've covered the basics already,
but here's what you need to know
about Audi's new big hitter.
That new twin-turbocharged 2.9 liter V6
that Jonny was talking about
produces 444 brake horse power
and torque is way up to 442 foot pounds
all the way from 1,900 to 5,000 RPM.
It drives through an eight-speed automatic box
in a Quattro four-wheel drive system
that splits the power up 40/60 from front to rear.
In the rear axle, there's a sport diff
which utilizes torque vectoring
and not cheaper, less-effective torque vectoring by braking;
this actually accelerates the outside wheel
to counter under-steer.
(moody electronic music)
Audi say this thing gets to 60 miles an hour in 3.9 seconds,
and this one has a option
that raises the speed limiter to 174 miles an hour.
Maybe we shouldn't have been so worried
about how the RS5 would fare,
even against the mighty C63 S Coupe,
but, then again,
the Mercedes really does win the numbers game.
It has four liters, eight cylinders.
It produces 503 horsepower and 516 foot pounds,
from 1,750 to 4,500 RPM.
Of course, the AMG does without four-wheel drive,
and yet it's heavier, too.
But, even so, it does appear to have the RS5 cowed,
before it even turns a wheel.
So, is it game over before we even begin
or has Audi produced something cleverer, lighter
and more efficient at going fast,
something to truly challenge this wild Mercedes AMG?
(moody electronic dance music)
(engine roaring)
- All right, RS5, they dropped the V8, they put in a V6,
they got rid of the dual clutch,
they put in an automatic transmission,
so it's complete garbage, right?
- That should be the case, right?
- (laughing) Yeah. - And, even worse,
the old RS5, pretty much, was complete garbage,
except the engine.
- Yeah, it was great V8, - Yeah.
- but, yeah, that car was always underwhelming.
- It just didn't, yeah, it didn't work for me,
but, my expectations - Yeah.
- [Jethro] for this were on the floor,
but you know what? - Yeah.
- I'm surprised.
- No, it's really good.
- I think it's pretty good.
- It's really good, right? - Yeah.
- [Jonny] That's what I thought it would be, another, like,
"Well, the AMG has, once again, wiped the floor
"with the poor Audi," (engine humming)
but it's not like that.
- No, okay, so let's go through the elements.
Gearbox, - Yeah.
- okay, so it's an Auto, we've heard it a million times,
"The Auto's nearly as good as the dual-clutch.
"It's better than a dual-clutch,"
- Yeah, yeah (laughing). - but this is a good Auto,
so it's good enough.
It's good enough. - Yeah, it's the standard.
It's the Zed F eight-speed
and I can say Zed F because we're in Wales
and it's really good, you know?
It's never going to be as good and satisfying as a dual-clutch
and what I mean by that is, you know, a manual,
obviously you have control, right,
- Yeah. - you can put the gear in?
With a good dual-clutch, like a PDK, it changes gears
- It pops. - exactly when you want it.
- I love that pop.
- It's control and it's satisfying.
This, you're still saying, "Please change gears,"
and if it can, it will; if it can't, it won't,
but it's pretty good.
It's pretty good. - Yeah, it's good
and the engine, (engine rumbling)
I feel bad saying it, so the last V8,
it screamed to like eight or 9,000 revs,
in the old RS4, - Oh, the RS4?
- it just worked. - Oh, it was brilliant.
It was perfect, or the R8, - And, then the R8--
- the original R8 with the manual?
- Yeah, oh, it was perfect, - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- but it never really got going in the old the RS5,
- (sighing) No. - and this one,
it's got torque, it absolutely revs.
- [Jonny] So, 2.9 liter, twin-turbo V6 that only makes
450 horsepower, (Jethro laughing)
443 pound feet of torque and that blows my mind,
because we say only, you know,
because, yes, it does not make as much power as the AMG,
but a generation ago, a 2.9 liter twin-turbo V6 was,
was like, well, it was a flat-six,
but that was the Porsche 959. - Yeah.
- It was half a million bucks - Yeah.
- for 450 horsepower.
- We've lost perspective. (Jonny laughing)
- [Jonny] But, I mean, what an engine.
I mean, I'm not, I'm just, I'm just (laughing),
it just pulls and pulls and--
- [Jethro] It does pull
and it feels-- - And, there's torque
and the all-wheel drive...
- [Jethro] I don't mind the small-capacity if it's revving.
- Yeah. - That's what it's got.
It's got some revs.
It doesn't rev super high, (engine humming)
but it's got the bite at the top end.
- That's still the thing with Audis, right, sporty Audis:
7/10, awesome; 8/10, pretty good, 9/10, 10/10, falls apart,
under-steering mess? - Yeah, yeah.
- [Jonny] Not here!
- [Jethro] No, it doesn't under-steer,
but what it doesn't do, though, it's got the sport lift,
it's got the torque vectoring diffs,
- Yeah. - and that used to feel
really cool, I think.
You'd just get the car into the corner, get on the power
and you'd feel the outside wheel really digging in
and that created just a proper balance.
- Yeah. - This, you don't get it.
It's just neutral, it's just hooked up.
It just goes; it just rips and goes.
- [Jonny] But, neutral's good and I think, also, you know,
if you think about this car, again, compared to the AMG,
it's kind of calm.
It's almost mature? - Yeah.
- And, mature is not necessarily bad.
There are times when you want to be
a mature, responsible member of society.
You don't want to be this thug running around
with your hair on fire. (Jethro laughing)
And, this is kind of that car because you can go
just as fast, I think. (engine roaring)
- Yeah, the fact we're saying this, this is good
because I thought we'd just be saying,
"Oh yeah, under-steers, it's boring, it feels heavy, it's,"
- Right. - but we're not.
We're actually saying,
do you know what? - Yeah.
- [Jethro] This car has got a decent chassis.
- Oh. - We want a bit more neutral,
we want a bit more of that oversteer feel with a sport-diff,
but it's got a good chassis, it's got good body control.
It actually works.
What we want is there to get. - It can take the power.
- [Jethro] Take the power.
- Yeah, yeah. - Let us have it.
- Yeah. - Let us have this thing
as it should be, as it could be, as an RS needs to be.
It's a good car to drive. (engine roaring)
- But, let's check out that C63.
- Yeah. (engine humming)
(moody electronic pop music) (engine roaring)
So, what were we saying about the Audi engine being okay?
(both laughing)
- Yeah, I mean, Audi, they make a really nice
four-liter twin-turbo V8 - Yeah.
- and so does AMG and like--
- AMG have actually put it in the right car.
- [Jonny] Look, this is like driving and axe handle, right?
It's just this brutalist, kind of ridiculous and pointless,
but wonderful at the same time.
- I just love how it's completely free.
It's like, you know it, - Yeah.
- the Audi just feels a bit buttoned-down everywhere
and it's like this thing, (engine rumbling)
is like someone's just got drunk and said,
"Yeah, just do everything, do everything you can do
"to make this car burn." (Jonny laughing)
I just think it's nuts.
- Right, no, it's like you asked a 17-year-old, like,
"Would you like it to be really loud?"
Yeah, yeah, yeah! (Jethro laughing)
And, like, "Waste all the gas in the world?"
Yeah, that's cool!
(both laughing) (engine roaring)
- So, let's talk about the engine
because the Audi has got a sweet little revvy V6,
plenty of power and then you jump in this and it's like,
what were Audi thinking?
- [Jonny] Yeah, so, it's a four-liter,
which, to my American ears, sounds very tiny,
but it drives like a seven liter.
I mean, it just - Yeah.
- doesn't feel turbocharged and there's so much power,
so much torque and it's, I'm blown away.
And, what's crazy, this is the minimal state of tune,
practically, for this engine.
If you, if you get this engine in the E,
it's like another hundred horsepower,
another 150 pound feet of torque.
- But, that is, that's a good point
because, normally, when you buy a car
that's like the lower-powered version of a certain,
it feels it, you, it doesn't rev.
It feels blah. - Yeah, I should have spent
another 7,000, yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
But this, it just feels like
all the power in the world, all the time.
It's just mega (engine roaring)
and AMG is the one manufacturer
that when you hear downsizing,
you think, well, AMG's finished.
It's game over, right? - Right.
- And, they've done it better than anyone.
- Yeah, no, it's incredible. - This engine,
it's got proper character, proper noise, loads of power.
- [Jonny] Basically, lag-free,
I mean, it's just a brilliant engine.
- Yeah, I mean, same for for Ferrari,
with the 488, - Yeah.
- you've got that crazy throttle response,
but for everyone else, it just blows them out of the water.
- I'm just shocked by it.
And, notice, we haven't talked about anything
but the engine? - Yeah.
(both laughing)
- [Jonny] So, there's more to the car.
So, transmission, it's that old seven-speed MCT multi-plate,
- Yeah. - no torque converter,
total shortcoming, totally like the worst part of the car,
but the engine's so good, you overlook the transmission.
- I think that's the thing.
You want standout things in a car,
don't you? - Yes.
- It's nice to have even performance,
but you want one thing (hand slapping)
that really drives home what the car is
and this thing is the engine. - Yeah.
I'm not even convinced the paddles are connected
to the transmission because I'm pulling 'em
and, like, sometimes it changes, sometimes it doesn't.
I don't care. (Jethro laughing)
Like, (laughing) it's so great
and, I will say, compared to the sedan,
'cause this is the coupe, (engine rumbling)
the rear track on this is wider,
it's actually off the E63, - Yeah.
- so instead of being this kind of jolly oversteer,
this thing is planted,
puts all the power to the ground and just moves.
I mean, you know, I bet you if we did
a speedo versus speedo comparison,
this is not any quicker than that Audi,
'cause that Audi is really properly fast,
but it just, you get the sensation of like (laughing),
- Yeah. - you know?
- So, it does everything.
So, what I like about it, it's properly quick,
it's properly tied-down, now,
but it's got a wicked balance
between power and grip, - Yeah.
- so, it doesn't feel too locked-down.
You feel like you're driving a car,
so that's great at high speed,
but low speed, it's just like a party, this car.
- Yeah. - Like, that's what I love.
You could be doing 15 miles an hour
and you are having a whale of a time.
- Yeah, and you're the guy in the room holding a knife,
(both laughing) you know, or a hand grenade.
Like, you're just aggressive
and, like, just-- - Okay, I'm not going
to a bar with you. (both laughing)
- [Jonny] No, but you know what?
Like, around all the other cars, this is the dangerous car,
you know, like this thing's just crazy.
- And, it's just, this is where AMG have nailed it.
They've always made fun cars, but they've just got it now.
They've got the craziness, (hand slapping)
but they've got the control, they've got a bit of finesse
that they never had before.
Everything has just come together.
- Yeah, 'cause it, you're exactly right.
They were always like this great engine company
with no steering.
You could sort of say, well, okay, there's no steering,
but the engine is great. - Yeah.
- They just, it's just kind of like average
rear-wheel drive steering.
It's nothing special, - Yeah.
- [Jonny] but with this engine,
it feels like the greatest thing in the world.
- Yeah, it's just-- - I love it!
- In an old AMG, what do you do?
Do a burnout. - You do, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And then, in this, you could do whatever you like.
You could do a burnout, - Yeah.
- But you could also go to a track and have a good time.
You could smoke it about. - Yeah.
- You could drive it neat and tidy.
It just ticks loads of boxes for me.
I love it. - It's pretty impressive.
- [Jethro] This car, it gets it right.
Well, okay, maybe one thing wrong.
- Yeah, the transmission, but, you know.
- Mmm, two things.
It looks a bit weird.
(grimacing)
(both laughing)
- What is that?
Why does it look like that?
I mean, who would put yellow vinyl stickers
all over their AMG?
- Yeah, in the UK, we would definitely call that chav spec.
- We have a term for it in the US,
but I can't say in on camera, but it's just atrocious.
I mean, it's just, (gagging).
- [Jethro] Yeah, and it's done in such a bad way.
That's what I don't get.
It's not like they're beautifully painted on.
- No (laughs). - There's like these
massive ridges where the stickers are.
- It's like the Corvette Grand Sport does the same thing.
It has this beautiful sparkly paint
and then just, bah, here's some ugly,
like horribly cut stickers.
- Yeah, so this is the Edition One,
so you don't have to have it like this,
but there are people who have
and you pay a premium for this.
- I, I've seen people in LA with this,
and, like the stickers, while they do, like, they're bad,
but what's atrocious are the wheels.
The yellow clashes with the brake calipers.
You have two different shades going on.
It looks tacky and then it just, it just shrinks the wheels.
It just makes the car look like dwarfed or something.
- Yeah. - It's just (gags).
- Because they shrink, you get more of that big shoulder
and I quite like that butch look,
but, yeah, overall, it's not great.
- And, now, we've seen the car in other colors.
Like, I drove a blue one with a red interior,
which looks pretty good.
You know, it's pretty good. - Yeah, yeah, they do.
- [Jonny] It's pretty good.
- They've got that aggression about them,
but the Audi-- - It's good.
You know, it's funny, because I think the previous gen,
A5, it was the B8 A5,
I think it's one of the most beautiful coupes of all time,
- Yeah. - just a stunner.
But then, every time they added
a little bit of performance to it,
they'd thicken it and square it off
and by the time got to the RS5,
it was like they had a yardstick
and they just like cut all the curves off the car
- Yeah. - and it was like a rectangle.
- They just added and added and added.
They just took away from the shape.
They completely, lost it.
- Yeah, and then, now, with the new one,
with the B9 A5, I just think it's kind of whatever-looking,
but the RS5 it just works.
The curves are great, the stance is great.
I think it's just gorgeous.
- [Jethro] The detailing, it's like Audi,
they've got it wrong before the RS5,
but they've got the detailing right on this
and the spec of this car, oh, it's perfect.
- [Jonny] Yeah, first of all the color is Sonoma Green.
- Yeah. - Second of all, I love it.
I mean, the tragedy is, in the US at least,
no one's going to get that color.
They're going to get silver or gray or black.
- [Jethro] Yeah, it's the same in the UK.
It's silver, gray, black, maybe red,
but, yeah, - Yeah, right.
- no one's going to get this color; it's a shame.
- [Jonny] I mean, the sad part for us is that it's so good,
it's so much better than I thought it was going to be
that we could have done this episode on a racetrack.
- Yeah, you know what?
I do know this place,
but it's not like any race track you've been to before.
- I'm in.
- Yes, I know we'd get a track in somewhere.
(tires humming)
- [Jonny] Jethro wasn't kidding.
This is Millbrook Proving Ground, an industry test facility
about 30 miles north of London.
Millbrook has all sorts of torture devices for cars
and some pretty intense high speed tracks, too.
The best of them is the tumbling, soaring
alpine handling track where some dude named Daniel Craig
once flipped his Aston Martin DBS.
When it's not acting as a James Bond set,
the Hill Route is tearing up prototypes
like a mini-Nurburgring.
The alpine track is therefore the most perfect
non-German place to test a car,
but before we do that, there's another Millbrook facility
I'm dying to try, the banked, High Speed Bowl.
(engine roaring)
- Okay, so here we go.
You've done a bowl before, haven't you?
You've done loads of bowls?
- I have, but this one seems kind of more concretey.
- It's bumpy, it's concrete, it's two miles long,
so the banking's pretty steep.
A hundred miles an hour in the top lane is meant
to be hands off the wheel.
- We're going to try and go faster than a hundred.
- We're going to try and do a hundred, a little bit more.
- And, we don't know if this car is limited to 155
or delimited to 186?
- We don't. - Oh.
- Or, maybe it it's like full press special
and it's limited to like 210 or something.
(engine rumbling)
Well, let's just get up there, get this over with.
- [Jonny] Okay, we're at a hundred, right now,
(engine roaring) a buck 20,
a buck 30. - It's nice and stable.
- A buck 40. - Rides the bumps easy.
- [Jonny] That's 150 miles an hour.
(engine roaring)
Well, it's not limited, 'cause we're going 160,
(engine humming) 165,
(engine roaring) 170 (laughing).
- This is scary.
- Oh, 171, that's fast man, that's fast (laughing),
three, four, (engine humming)
five. (engine roaring)
- Wow, whew! - Ah, 175 (laughing).
- Wow, that feels quick.
- That felt very fast.
- Well, I'll tell you what, it's stable as anything,
just (mimicking explosion).
- The car felt good.
The road feels bumpy; the car felt fine.
- It's quite hairy, isn't it? - Yeah.
Let's see what that Audi can do.
- Wow, yes. (slapping wheel)
- Good job. (engine roaring)
- [Jethro] Jonny seemed almost too happy during that ride.
This bowl is a scary, scary place,
but I guess ignorance is bliss.
I'm a bad passenger,
so I'm taking precautions, lots of them.
Sorry, Jonny.
One, seven, five to beat.
(engine roaring)
This should be perfect for this.
- [Jonny] Well, let's find out.
- [Jethro] Okay, 110.
(engine humming) 120, it's good,
feels steady. - Yeah, it's good.
- [Jethro] It's quite a weird bowl, isn't it, to drive on?
(engine roaring) 140.
(rock guitar music)
(engine roaring)
50! - Oh, I'm just chickening out.
- [Jethro] It feels stable, you'll be all right.
It seems Jonny, now, suddenly understands.
He's quiet.
I've never known Jonny to be quiet.
One push, one push.
And, to be fair to him,
the RS5 does seem more upset by the bowl
than the consummate C63 S.
One, five, five.
(dramatic synthesizer music)
Yes, keep going, keep going. (engine roaring)
(both laughing) 160!
Oh, let's do 170, go.
- Yeah. - 162.
- I'm just not feeling it, man.
- [Jethro] It's quite weird, isn't it?
- It's just, it just feels like it's going to unglue
at about that speed.
- [Jethro] Yeah, it starts to wander on its,
on its tires. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I probably could have pushed it,
but what are we going to gain?
- [Jethro] One, six, two, I win.
- [Jonny] Oh, yeah, yeah.
All right, you got me there.
- Okay. - It's okay,
160's pretty quick (laughs). - It's not bad.
- [Jonny] Yeah, well, Jethro beat the pants off me.
Look, the AMG was smoother and more stable at high speeds,
but, to quote Homer Simpson, it was my first day.
I may have chickened out a little bit,
however it was time for redemption
and, as Jethro found out,
I'm weirdly skilled a jumping cars.
Oh, look, there's me in the green one.
(engine roaring)
(low bass rumbling)
(engine roaring)
Well, time to wrap this episode up
and, I got to tell you, I was just shocked by the Audi.
- [Jethro] Yeah, I think we both were.
- [Jonny] In a lot of ways, it's kind of the better car.
It's so comfortable, it's so,
like, I guess mature is the word.
I don't know, like--
- [Jethro] Yeah, but it's mature, but not boring,
- No, no. - so it's like, it's resolved.
- [Jonny] Yeah, and then like,
if you need to like really get somewhere quickly,
it's kind of the better car 'cause it's just like,
it's calmer and more comfortable, it eats up miles.
I'm really kind of, developed a crush on it.
I didn't think I would, (Jethro laughing)
you know, does that make sense?
- [Jethro] It's the color.
- [Jonny] Yeah, it's the color
and it very could be the color.
I am that simple.
- I just like that sense that it is,
it's got its own identity.
Although it's got that slightly dialed-back feel,
like they haven't fully gone for it,
what they've come up with, in its own right,
just works as one thing, doesn't it?
It's just, like I say, it's cohesive
and it just does everything.
I guess that's what's impressive,
it does the whole lot. - Yeah, and,
and remember, the other thing is,
we're driving around right now in the C63 S.
They very well might do a RS5 Plus
or Performance or whatever - Plus, yeah, plus.
- and they could like uncork that engine
and make it a little louder and crazier
and, you know, maybe that would be the hairy beast
that we're kind of looking for,
which nicely leads us back to this car.
(both laughing)
- [Jethro] Ah, this is the car.
This has definitely got his hair on fire.
- Right? - I love it.
- Yeah. (engine rumbling)
(moody electronic dance music)
(engine roaring) (both laughing)
You know, it doesn't actually jump
as well as the Audi, but wow! - No, it doesn't,
but it does everything else. - Oh, it's just the noise
and the drama and the fizz and the (growling).
(both laughing)
It kind of was the benchmark and remains the benchmark.
This is just wonderful. - Yeah, forevermore.
(engine rumbling)
(both laughing)
(engine roaring)
- Therefore, the winner of this head of head is
the C63 S (laughing) Coupe. (tires squealing)
- Yeah, man, the 900-pound gorilla on steroids, awesome.
- Yeah. (engine roaring)
("Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
(engine roaring)
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