No, if you wanted a formidably fast all-weather family wagon it had to be an Audi RS6 or RS4, with which it more or less cornered the market. And one of the best was the C7 generation of RS6.

Der Vorsprung durch Power ist heute ... etwa 15 Zentimeter weiter nach hinten, zudem kehrt Audi beim RS6 zurück zum V8. "Wir wollten den C7 agiler machen und mussten dafür dringend Gewicht ...

And in its fourth generation (C8 for mode code geeks), the Audi RS6 - now exclusively ... to £129,445 for a Performance Carbon Vorsprung. But the RS6 wants for very little in terms of ...

Witness an epic battle between the ABT-tuned Audi R8 V10 Plus and the powerful ABT Audi RS6 Avant C7! High-revving V10 vs twin-turbo V8 – which one takes the crown? Insane accelerations ...