Yesterday Audi gave the sports car fans one more reason to celebrate. As if it wasn’t enough to release one more member of the famous RS line, this one is another convertible, like TT and R8’s versions, but more opulent than the first and much cheaper than the second. They already produce the RS5 coupé and the A5 Cabriolet even as S5, so it must have been only the matter of putting some pieces together to obtain this one. The fact is you’re going to read about an amazing union of style and high performance.
It’s widely known that convertibles, even the roadsters, will always have slightly worse performance than their coupé versions because of the aerodynamical differences. The air starts to flow through the windshield but right after that starts to disorder itself due to the abrupt change from the plain surface to the open interior. Their coupé variations, on the other hand, have a more harmonic design regarding these effects, which makes them achieve lower numbers of drag coefficient. Considering that this difference becomes more intense as the considered speed grows, this fact turns very important among sports cars because it can be used to divide the customers between the two options. Basically, the typical coupé buyer looks for the highest speed possible to take opportunities such as the German autobähnen or some eventual laps at race circuits in the events organized by the car’s brand. The cabriolet customers still look for a really fast car, but their main concern is elegance and style. They’re usually the kind of drivers who like to travel with the open roof and enjoy the weather and the luxury of their car. So they really don’t get too much worried about how much their car will run, but how it’ll be done.
Nevertheless, it’s really interesting to take a look on what it has besides the S5 package. Being an Audi RS brought to him larger air intakes at the front bumper and wider exhaust pipes, besides of the entire lower integrated spoilers set. An excellent change is that the wheels got different, instead of using the same model of the rest of this line, and the interior was improved, but this part will be mentioned later. The suspension got lower and more rigid, the brakes were redimensioned and now include the front ones in carbon-ceramic, the wheels are bigger at the rear axle (it uses 19” and 20”), and the roof can come in black, brown, gray and red and its electric operation can be done until when at 50 km/h, taking fifteen seconds. The pictures already show the special seats, which can come in two options of gray, the flat-bottom steering wheel some details in a material who resembles carbon fiber and the classic complete luxury and comfort equipment. The mechanical part is shared with the coupé, so this RS5 also brings the quattro traction system, S-tronic seven-speed and double-clutch transmission and the V8 4.2 engine, which generates 450 hp. All this power takes this cabriolet from zero to 60 mph (96 km/h) in 4s9, while the top speed doesn’t escape from the electronic limit.
