REVIEW: Potent Audi RS7 Performance is pleasurably bipolar

I’ve always been a fan of the RS6 Avant for its sheer chutzpah, in the way it combines family practicality with sports car thrills. Hauls ass and lots of luggage, as it were. As a driving experience I far prefer it to sports SUVs, which feel top heavy in the corners.

But Audi’s high performance executive car is available in two flavours and I welcomed the chance this time to test the sleeker, less spacious RS7, which has the same high-performance drivetrain — a 4.0l V8 petrol turbo engine and quattro all wheel drive — in a more athletic Sportback shape...

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