Audi A6 Avant

The object of our attention this week might be the best estate car in the world.

The Audi A6 Avant is certainly acclaimed as such by its owners and, being an Audi Avant executive load-lugger, is picking up from a line of predecessors that have, almost without exception, sold particularly strongly in this country.

So what can the latest version of the biggest Avant in the showroom do for the station wagon breed?

The A6 entered its fifth model generation earlier this year, appearing first in Audi A6 saloon form. But, as any keen follower of Audi’s bigger saloons will tell you, it’s actually misleading to think of this car as the fifth generation of anything; the original A6 of 1994 was simply a facelifted version of the ‘C3’ – or third-generation – Audi 100.