Audi RS 4

... a better buy.

To your point, I, I was tempted to do a B7 RS4.

It's a little cheaty-

Yeah

... as the 25K RS4s are generally not in great condition, but I guess I'm kinda making the same argument for the wagon.

Yeah.

I just wanted to mix it up and not pick the B7 RS4 for the 11th time on this pod.

Yeah.

And I'm really excited to get stuck into it.

Other than that, I've been doing a few bits on my RS4 again, which is pretty much nearly done now.

Yep.

That car, it's come along such a long way.

Oh, yeah.

It looks so, so nice.

I do like your RS4.

I like your RS4.

So it's three Porsches ahead now of the Audi, who will be...

That's an RS3, I think, isn't it? Or an RS4? Um, he's got some work to do now.

That'll be, that'll be annoying to the driver on the first lap going round there, having to get that work back again, but, um, it's, uh, it's four hours to go.

It's fine, he says hopefully and cheerily, optimistically.

Uh, quoting you.

Uh, "Forget BMW's latest offerings, which are really hideous, and I will never buy an Audi after being made to feel like shit on the shoe of a salesperson when I was potentially looking at an RS4 20-ish years ago."

I've heard, I've heard this a lot about Audi dealerships from-

Have you?

Whereas I think in the last decade or so, it was a lot of people I remember going, you want a car for everything.

Hence the RS4, RS6, and I've got one car, it does everything.

Your EV won't do everything.

It will do what it does more efficiently, but it won't give you any feel.

That's one of the reasons why I've got two of them.

Because one is actually, so I've got the Ronin RS4 and one is set up for vertical and one is set up for horizontal shooting.

So if I go to a client site and if they want specifically a Instagram only type of real shoot, Then I'll just use my vertical one.

And then if I want to do a YouTube style video, then I just basically got my other Ronin or RS4.

Take that on.

It's already balanced.

Yeah.

yeah and look you know if you are efficient enough with it you can actually do sliding um shots and you know moving twisting and um there's a number of different shots you can actually achieve with the gimbal where you don't really need all those extra bits and pieces but yes it's it's it's tricky number one number two it's you know you your hands hurt you know you you get you can get extra handles for it to make it easier but

I think it's about how you inject some vim and vigor back into Audi and the drivability because they've always been, for me, had their hands slightly tied for drivability purposes with a few glorious exceptions that you've covered.

B7 RS4, R8.

They've had their hands tied in terms of this whole high-speed autobahn stability piece.

okay which does seem to hold them back from being able to take on bmw nose toes toe in terms of drivability the powertrains have not been in question the design the interiors i can go on audi for hours but the opportunity for audi is big and i it's nice to see as an ex-associate there that there's some of these some of these more emotive things they're trying to bring back.

So you will know that there is now an Audi RS5, which is in fact what?

Which is just an RS4.

It's an RS4.

Mm.

There are plans to make an RS6, though, still.