Yahoo Autos Audi Will Sell Eight New RS Models by 2018
We've joked about Mercedes offering an AMG variant for nearly every car it makes, but its strategy is working well. AMG is selling more cars than ever, helping boost Mercedes' profit nicely. Audi Sport isn't planning on copying AMG outright, but it's about to release an onslaught of new RS models, just like its rival. Eight new models, to be specific.
Audi Sport boss Stefan Winkelmann, formerly of Lamborghini, told Autocar that eight new RS models will arrive in the next 18 months. Winkelmann declined to say which cars will get the RS treatment, and insisted he's taking the company in a different direction than AMG.
"We are not going to do what [AMG does]," Winkelmann told Autocar. "We have a lot of plans but are not revealing them yet. It is better to under-promise and over-deliver."
Currently, Audi offers RS versions of the TT (pictured above), A3, A6, A7, and Q3, though neither the RS6 or the RSQ3 are available in the U.S. Autocar expects that the next cars to get the RS treatment are the A1, A4, Q5, and interestingly, the R8. We're also pretty confident we'll see a new RS5 sooner than later.
Despite Winkelmann's comments on "under-promising," the future of Audi Sport looks bright. We just hope Audi finally brings the RS6 Avant to the U.S.
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