While visiting friends in a distant city, I took them out for 'touring' in the RS6. Unfamilar with the roads I ended up crashing the car. I don't want to go into details except that I will be driving a lot more carefully and cautiously. Injury and death are very real. Fortunately God saved me and my passangers from any injury. The fact that Audi makes the best cars in the world must also be considered!

Body shop says that they see $24,000 in repairs. This does not include the engine which has a crack (not a hairline, but a crack) in the block. I'm told by Audi mechanics these engines are expensive and not available as remanufactured. So I'm assuming that the car is a total.

Thinking about getting a stick shift A4/s4/A6 so that I can still have fun with the car, but not over indulge in the speed.

Thats sad, but good that everyone made it out unharmed.

You cannot put a price tag on safety. Most americans do not pay enough attention to a cars structure.

after spending some extra time in the city where the accident happened, the people that were in the RS6, lent me a pickup truck to drive to Northern Illinios so I could see my family. I was still a little shaken up, so please understand my reluctance to meet you all. Okay, I was embarrassed! Anyway, I'll be back again soon once I get another car. I'm thinking of an Audi with a manual tranny. That way I'm not tempted to hit the accelarator so hard!

they gain amazing speed while feeling like you are doing 25mph less then you really are.

Be safe out there.

I've scared myself few times in the Beast...time for all of us to step back and think about slowing down!

I do believe this car is scary at high speeds primarily because it's such a heavy car with a stock suspension that is relatively soft, truth be told. It is brutally fast and regardless of ESP, DSC, ABC or XYZ, it can get out of control and sideways very fast. No amount of electronics can overcome the very limits of physics. That said, at extreme driving, I truly believe you have to be extra careful in this car.

The first (and only) time I ran this car at Gingerman, I didn't have a very confident feeling coming hot into the turns. the car would nose dive, plow and in general felt like I was in a boat going crossways against the wake of another boat. (Boat owners know that feeling.) In my R32, I have way more confidence. Now, I'm not comparing the two, but what I am comparing is the "feeling" of confidence I get in the R32 versus the RS6. I know with the R32 I can pull myself out of a dangerous situation with greater ease than I can the RS6.

Again, not a comparison of cars, but just that feeling of pushing cars at limits.

i generally feel more confident and in control even in my B6 S4. could just be a matter of having more drive time in smaller audi's and i need to learn this car on a track more. but my current overall impression is that the RS6 is hard to get a feel for.

that said: i love it more than any other inanimate object in the universe!

and above all, glad nobody got hurt and hope to see <b><i>egoroff</i></b> back in a ringed mobile again.

probably due to the fact that:

1. I don't drive the S4 all that much.

2. This is my first NA engine in probably 20 years; I think my driving style has become very turbo oriented.

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Reluctantly, I agree.

My first recent Audi was a 98 A4 1.8T. Fun, light, nimble, but not fast. Better after I chipped, but now I'm hooked on speed.

Next was the 00 S4. Much faster, and very fast with a chip. But not as nimble, due to twin turbo V6 weighing more than 1.8T in same body.

Now the RS6. King of the Road, I call it. But not the track. For that I would return to the 1.8T, perhaps Stasis style.

Although, I kinda wish the first agricultural thing would happen just to get it over with.

we have some lovely world class dirt roads to practice on!

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I could be interested in the wreck/putting it back together.