2005 Audi RS4 revisited. What's the legendary B7 RS4 like to drive today? 

Yeah! £35k for an 18yr old one is a bit spicy though!

​@@K1lostream To petrolheads, the age of the car is irrelevant. It's what it can do, how it looks and the story behind it that matters.

@@dbasq1agreed. Much more interesting than the new stuff

100% agree. More please!

In the future it’ll be all we look at! 😢

Could not agree more. Although the styling of most modern cars is pretty vulgar.

That’s influencers for you…

Still look better than anything BMW is producing.

@@anthonyfarnan5935that’s not exactly a high bar, the content in my toilet this morning looked better than most of the BMW today

​@@Jack-tx2veeverything changed to vulgar nowadays, like the shouty designer clothes, cars followed

Not a truer word said.

Yes, most other car RU-vidrs would title this video "YOU wont BELIEVE how HIGH this F1 inspired RETRO wagon REVS!!!" and they would pixelate the thumbnail so you cant tell what car it is. I hate it and now refuse to click on any video with a blurred thumbnail or unnecessarily capitalized words. Not giving them the clicks is the only way the culture and the algorithm ever changes.

Sam from seen through glass, is very arrogant nowadays had to stop watching

Yeah, one of the only presenters I pay attention to. Doesn't overhype, yell, or try to be funny a lot (sorry doug your style got annoying for me).

Spirt blue sedan here also. 👍

I have been lucky to have two misano red rs4 avants in b5 and b7 variants. Great cars

The best colour, always wanted one!

the clutch ruins the 997.2 gt3 for me. an absolute insult to drivers with it being that heavy...

@@Glasseyed86 get it checked, the 997.1 GT3 clutch is heavy, the 997.2 is far lighter, and lovely to use unless in heavy start stop traffic.

During on The Grand Tour: Season 5 episode he used the 2007 RS4 sedan, he said exactly the same that its the best V8 engine he has ever driven.

I'm sure it's great when it isn't broken.

@@soklot Yes, they're perversely complicated, and not very reliable. I bet that one has another 15,000miles before it starts getting expensive.

@@abayamangali JC has very little idea about technology. I wouldn't take his opinion on much. 😁

Just wondered how it compared with the cosworth designed one in the early rs6,maybe that’s what they should of used ? Would of had more hp and torque being twin turbo,but may of been too much for the manual box

The best era of cars in general I would say. The technology was already at high point while the legislation wasn't yet design to exterminate the combustion engines.

Agreed! It was also a time when roads were quieter so the power could really be enjoyed too. These days it feels like there is little to gain having the 'M' or the 'RS' model unless it is being used on a track, especially as the models below have just as much useable power on a road.

Mind me asking if you sold it at 200k and for what reasons?

Audi during the 2000s was their pinnacle. Much like the early 2000s was for BMW. Both are now just not on the same level despite being more luxurious and tech heavy. I missed what pre renaissance Audi was like in the 90s and early 2000s since I was just too young to know, But I remember being a teenager from the mid-late 2000s, and Audi was definitely killing it with their cars and their styling.

What does "was viewed pre-renaissance of this generation" mean?

@@joshuakhaos4451 Based on what? You are wrong about every single point you made, and you didn't provide any actual argumentation to back any of it up. Audi has always had horrible, total failures of engine-out-in-front fwd-based platforms. With such a platform it's totally impossible to get to a good car at all, no matter what you do after ruining the basis.

@@pistonburner6448 So you're saying Lancer Evo of any generation is not good enough for you as well, correct?

@@bournemichael3227 I don't have much experience with Lancer Evo, and it's pretty irrelevant to bring in a totally different car into the conversation. Seems more like you have no defence (and btw you could just agree with me, you don't HAVE to be contrarian to me and all the facts) and that's why you're trying some strange tactic of defence by pulling some irrelevant car out of left field. In fact I don't think the Lancer Evo is a very good car, but it has a different layout with its transverse engine, its far smaller four cylinder engine which weights a lot less, and far better AWD system than Audi has. And I'd argue at Mitsubishi they had totally different kind of management with very different goals: I know of inside info that Audi engineers were specifically told to reverse some improvements to agility they made to the next generation of the A4 after this one, as according to Audi management "their customers were used to a certain kind of feel" (I'll add that the feel they were used to was totally lifeless, feel-less understeery horrible handling which they liked when driving straight down a straight piece of road) "and they don't want that to change, they'll not like it if the car is more agile". Therefore the Audi engineers had to dial out that slight bit of better agility which they managed to develop.

@@nukleopatra777 Oh totally. The 90s had lots of cool stuff. Yeah, I'm not into the tech heavy nature of modern vehicles. Its just so intrusive and distracting. Let alone more inconvenient when many of the things that should be easy access are stuffed in behind different screens. And the over reliance on needing so many driver settings to make an all purpose car, even when said car is very clearly not another type of car. I would love it if a company made a performance car that was more simple than ultra modern. Like give it the bare minimum standard of safety equipment as legal, but Take out the screens, Bring back some Analog gauges/dials( maybe a hybrid of the 2 at a maximum) and bring back good old fashioned keys to start the cars with.

Agreed 👍 mine is getting kw v3 soon and after that it will feel absolutely bran new deff 👌 165,000km and looking new :-) aging very well ! Hope You happy bud

Metcalf Ave. :)

Still have my salon...in Silver...not selling it ever...its in storage but working condition...Will bring it out to supercharge it

@@throneroom2946will be more of a classic if you keep it standard

@@throneroom2946 Don't let your brake disc go rusty, mines done 42k now used regularly

@@matthewp9015agreed, the only mod I would recommend is to replace the standard suspension with Bilstein, transforms the ride😮

I started 'mooching' some years ago......but then looked at the possible expense ahead!

Same with my 07 b7 rs4 most people ask when I got the bran new car there jaws drop when I tell them 07 :-) 90 000 miles looks new :-)

@@lancegallant3647 I ended up trading the RS4 in, in November. Got a 2014 C7 RS6 also with 70k on the clock. Same again, drives like a dream and even more power lol

@JP_RS6 excellent 👌 glad U are still in the audi club enjoy brother:-)

Very cool build. That is a down payment on a nice house.

@@lop8828 indeed… it wasn’t cheap but always knew running it properly wasn’t going to be cheap. Starting replacing/upgrading components as it went on… kind of a ‘well, might as well do it now’ mindset. From a purely financial perspective it wasn’t sensible spend but I love it. Thanks for your comment

There's no $$ amount the smiles the b7 puts on our faces is worth it 😅

Hell yes it is ❤ b7 rs4 will never sell her priceless

hell ya bro they rule

Unless it's slippery. Then it wants to go straight.

B5S4 is also a beautiful car imo. My good friend has one in Imola yellow 🤤

I think we aren't as impressed by new car launches these days because most new cars are now too big, too fat, too heavy, too ugly, too techy and not distinctive.

That was based on the B6, which is probably why he didn’t mention it.

I've only ever seen 2 cabs in Toronto. I was surprised because I didn't know they made them.

Very true. it was somewhat watered down in the chassis, on top of the inherent weight and rigidity issues that come up with cabriolets, but it had the full fat motor and was sold as an RS4.