[00:01] >> [laughter] >> I've come to West London Audi to spec my new daily driver. Let's do it. Audi has given me a brand new RS5 for 6 months to
[00:13] spec however I want. No worrying about resale value, no being sensible. So, I'm building two cars. One I can have delivered quickly and one dream version [music] in an exclusive paint that takes way longer to build. Lead times decide
[00:26] which one I actually get. [music] Now, this is actually the Sportback version. I'm not sure whether to go for Sportback or Avant. So, hatchback or estate? Do I Fast estates are cool. What do you reckon, Tommy?
[00:40] >> I think it looks better in this profile. Look at it. I don't think the estate Look at it. I don't think the estate looks so wild in this part.
[00:52] decide. First look in the metal. Seats [music] are good. That red stitching, it's too subtle for me. [music] I mean, it's obviously a paint that people are of the cars in here. This is what has happened to the great British car park.
[01:07] It's become a sea of monotone. Hey, look how slick the door handles are. The door handles are quite cool. And this bit here is really pronounced at the over the rear wheel arch. Hey, it's a great looking car, this.
[01:19] topaz. They must have been PPF on this car. Have they? Yeah, they've totally closely with topaz cuz they do such a good job. Yeah, I'm loving the look of this. Right, anyway, FIFA sold. I'm going to get up into the configuration
[01:32] room now and build my car. Now, just to be clear with you, the car I'm getting as a daily driver, it's what we call a long-term loan vehicle. So, Audi has let like to live with. We'll also be including lots of different drag races
[01:47] and stuff like that. Now, that could change the spec that I go for knowing can be a bit more flamboyant. I don't have to worry about like use values and >> Mhm. Shall I go wild? >> I'm here with Kreshnik. Now, Kreshnik,
[02:02] you are an Audi advisor salesman, what? >> Yeah, Audi sales executive. >> Sales executive, and you're going to talk me through specking my perfect RS5. >> Yeah, always. >> All right.
[02:15] >> Yes, we've had I think we've had about 20 orders since we taken a lot of car being introduced, loads of people coming in specking the car. And then to go for the saloon or the Avant.
[02:29] >> It does look bad ass in the saloon. >> Yeah, something a bit different. color? >> So, it's Daytona gray. >> Can we try that in a state? >> Yeah, for sure.
[02:42] >> What I like about the Sportback is the rear wheel arches just look so like on the estate. >> Well, let me show you. I'll speck it up. >> Yeah. >> And let's put it in the Daytona gray.
[02:55] >> No, don't matter. >> It's better in Sportback, isn't it? >> Can we do a rear like a rear three quarter? Looking at it from the side, >> Sorry, I keep calling it saloon, it's not saloon. The Sportback.
[03:08] >> Even though it's a hatchback? >> Yeah, so the previous one was Sportback saloon and Avant. >> You know what? Audi really likes to the naming because the Avant should actually be an RS4 not an RS5. And now
[03:24] saloon. A saloon has a boot, not a hatchback. What are you trying to do? >> It does just look better. >> We're going to do the saloon. Three trims, standard, carbon black, or Vorsprung, which gets bigger wheels,
[03:37] more carbon, and camouflage finish with a cocky hint. But it costs a lot more. camouflage? >> I'll show you. So, on the wing mirrors, the RS front spoiler, rear spoiler, everything is all in camouflage.
[03:49] everything is all in camouflage. >> Oh, no. That's um no chance. always keep the Vorsprung, but if you don't like them forged sections, you can >> Which is just normal carbon. >> Normal carbon.
[04:03] standard car? >> So, as you can see, go from 20-in alloys >> Yeah, bigger is better when it comes to wheels. resistance. >> Whoa, whoa. We don't want optimized
[04:15] rolling resistance. We want maximum traction. I want sport I want aggressive tires. I don't want to eke an extra one mile per gallon. I'd rather have like cornering stability. Okay. How much Whoa. So, it's a six grand extra for the
[04:27] bigger wheels and more carbon. >> Yes. We'll go have a look at the carbon >> Yeah. >> In the Vorsprung you also get >> Headrest speakers. I love that. Does it do that thing where you're taking a call
[04:40] your headrest speakers? >> Yes, you can alter that to settings. Also, with navigation, if there are any alerts coming up, let's say there's a >> It doesn't disturb the whole car. >> Cuz you know what happens when I'm
[04:53] driving along and I've got nav on and my daughter's in the car, if you like actually if you're doing like a phone call as well, so that could be quite performative crying. Like, >> Yeah.
[05:06] >> Yes. >> Well, they're 3D and 360 surround view around the car, isn't it? >> Correct. Yes, you can tilt it around as parking a bit easier. You either love it or you hate it. I
[05:20] >> But, it's a good feature to have. >> Well, that you just That's so contradictory. I don't use it, but it's a good feature to have. Normal mate telling you about the car, then he slipped into salesman mode.
[05:32] >> Basically, what he means is it's a wasted time. Okay. [laughter] >> Front and rear heating. >> Don't really mind about rear. Microfiber artificial leather, black dashboard with contrast what what what
[05:49] >> Long story short, Vorsprung's another £10,000 and [music] doesn't add enough. >> Now the fun bit, color. >> This color's great in red. With all the black bits it just pops. There is one other color.
[06:03] >> Exclusive, yeah? >> Yeah. >> I'm going to try two, no three. Oat green pearl effect. Now it looks quite but I've had quite a few green cars lately. I do not think your configurator
[06:16] >> And there's another problem. Kreshnik was about to drop a bombshell because it would take Audi much longer to build my RS5 if I go for one of these exclusive >> Currently time on this vehicle is probably looking at about 6 months time.
[06:30] >> Right, you know what we're going to do? to build a fast car and the dream car. This is the dream car that we're on at the moment. Let's try the purple. >> Purple or Merlin purple, stunning color.
[06:43] true. We've got a purple car at the moment that we've been testing. It's a Honda N's little city car, little electric city car we've got in purple. missus hates it. She's like, "Nah." Do you know what she wants? She wouldn't
[06:56] this in black or something. I showed her the red, she was like, "No." I showed purple car." But my daughter Grace would love that. I'm thinking the purple needs >> These wheels look better, I think. Otherwise you've got too much black
[07:10] >> Nothing wrong with that. Can we look at it in red again? >> Put that back. >> Yeah, that's nice. I wonder if red's >> It would need to be exclusive. >> Is that it?
[07:23] >> Vegas yellow. >> Woah. configurator never does car colors justice, so we want to see the real >> Here we go. We're in the basement. There's even more cars here. This is the
[07:36] red. Now you just got to imagine it on the RS5 with its huge wide haunches and the rear diffuser. It looks nice, but I'm earning on the side of purple now. have another look at this showroom car.
[07:50] >> is this the Vorsprung dash you get? >> Yes. >> And yes, it's got the the red there. >> Yeah, so with the microfiber inlays with >> Yes. >> So, are these the standard seats?
[08:02] >> They're not the premium plus ones. >> Not the premium plus ones. the carbon black, you'll get this. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> With the carbon black, do you get the
[08:15] >> No. >> So, you've got Alcantara effect here. do you? >> Yeah, not the OLED ones. >> I don't know whether it even needs carbon. I do like the interior with that
[08:32] >> Yeah. >> They look special. Like they look really >> They are. >> So, listen to this. Still a V6 twin >> So, listen to this. Still a V6 twin turbo.
[08:48] Obviously, there's a soft limiter cuz Audi. I mean, we have only just started it, but it sounds It sounds promising. That's fine. We don't want to gas Thanks for that, though. >> No worries. Do you want to hear it from
[09:00] speakers as well. >> You mean it's got fake noise inside. >> All right. Actually, it doesn't sound that fake.
[09:12] Let's get back to the configurator. Right, and we can go for Let's go back back to the beginning. Let's go for Vorsprung. Yeah, but the normal carbon. I think it'll look better glossy, won't it?
[09:27] >> Shut up. No, we're going to [laughter] go for We're going to go I don't What about the other one? >> You're thinking forged now, aren't you? >> Yeah, it looks maybe a bit different. >> Yeah, cuz it's matte. You've got gloss
[09:41] person it'll look better. I don't think that's doing it justice. >> You better be right, Tommy. >> [laughter] >> Otherwise, you're going to be fitting some aftermarket normal carbon parts to
[09:54] >> Perfect. >> I'm such a sheep, aren't I? I'm just following the crowd here. Tommy talked me into the forged carbon. Apparently, I always cave for the new thing. Wheels, full on silver with that purple. It's
[10:08] >> This is where we get to next. So, of course, you've got the seats. >> An exterior color that is purple. So, you either want purple stitching to wild, or you doing like a silver stitching to match the wheels, is what I
[10:21] Is it going to be red at the moment? >> At the moment, standard, yes, it will >> I'm not sure if red's going to go with purple, is it? If I had a red exterior exterior car, it'd work. If I had a maybe a white one, it would. But like
[10:33] >> don't think so, either. >> Uh yes. >> Are there any other color interior you >> Yeah, so in terms of interior, it will be black, but this you can choose the
[10:46] >> So, if I go to this option here, so this is the standard. So, as you can see, it's got very fine, I like to say yellowy orange stitching. like this option, there are multiple colors that you can select from. So,
[10:59] this one you've got cognac, diamond, diamond silver, change your white. What isn't it? wheel in Alcantara. Can we see what more of violet looks like to make sure that
[11:13] exterior? >> It won't actually show, but these are stitching. >> It's going to be a bit too much like um of disrepute. >> Yeah.
[11:26] think it's too much of a gamble going full on purple stitching through it. Could just be weird. But, I I would love the fake Alcantara steering wheel. So, we're not going to go for all that 7 grands worth of shenanigans. Will doing
[11:40] the stitching delay delivery of the car? >> No. Stitching won't, exclusive paint >> Yes, standard, yeah. >> Okay, we've got black interior, but we've got voice prompt. Yeah, full black interior, that works fine. Yeah, all
[11:52] about? >> Then, last things is sending preconditioning. So, this just enables you to heating. >> Yeah, that's standard.
[12:04] extended preconditioning. So, you can precondition the car, we can set temperature, set departure time. This extended one also allows you to heat your seat, heat your steering wheel, and your window heating. 155 lb lets you do
[12:16] those extra bits as well. >> That is just dirty. I mean, what the Like seriously, like someone, right, they'll be like, "Why is my you know, why is my window defrosting?" Just for
[12:30] 155, just put it just put it in the price. That kind of thing really drives me wild. Yeah, let we've got to add that. It's not the price, it's more >> Of course. Other bits you can add, tow bar.
[12:42] >> Likely. I'm not going to tell you that ever, but yes. >> Do you want to know why? Some of my best short-form videos are me just in a out. So, I've got to have that. It's worth a couple
[12:55] >> It's therapeutic when the tow bar is Do you know what it's easy for as well? If ever I park in a supermarket car park out the blooming tow bar, >> and no one park behind you.
[13:07] >> No, they get they they take it more cautiously. They don't get too close. Right, what else is there? >> Ceramic brakes. color options. You can have a good red brakes, bronze brakes, or black ceramic
[13:20] want >> Do you have a color preference, Tom? the car? >> Yeah. Do it from the side. Just the side have a look at the bronze. I think so. Don't you?
[13:35] >> Yeah, bronze. We don't need to look at red. Red won't work on there. Okay, let's lock that boy in. I like that. But, you say the exclusive paint could be problematic. So, what we're going to do now is build car number two. Second
[13:48] car's the sensible one. Same bones, faster slot, red [music] instead of the exclusive purple. Ceramic brakes, dark wheels, and red calipers. And I'm >> It's a more safe spec. >> What are you trying to say by that?
[14:01] >> [laughter] >> It's what everyone's going to go for, I >> Cuz I'm in everyone we're going to Cuz I think I think it looks better that better, don't you? >> I agree. Yeah, the contrast, especially
[14:14] >> Yeah, lock that one in. Now, I don't know which I prefer. know which I prefer. Audi, the factory, will decide which car I get. And that's that's going to be quite a surprise. Listen, thank you very
[14:26] much, Kreshnik. Really appreciate your time and for putting up with me all right and well. So, it's now just down to the factory. Time will tell. Do you cameras because I forgot the most important thing. The the thing that I'd
[14:38] be asking if I was buying this with my own money and it wasn't a long-term test >> [laughter] >> So, I bet not many customers do that. >> Right at the end, yeah. >> So, on this one, the purple one, because
[14:53] due to the exclusive paint >> Okay, it's going to be about 120,000 in pounds. >> this other one's going to be about >> And then the red one is 119,000.
[15:06] >> Okay, so I mean that there's not much in it. If you want the car, you want the car. What's interesting is I had a Audi RS4 when I that car was like 80,000 and it was pretty much fully loaded as well. So,
[15:19] it's gone up by like 50% since what was it? When did I have that? 2018 or >> Wow. The times have changed. That is wild. Anyway, we're going to find out which car I'm
[15:31] going to get in the future. I sent those two different office the other day and they were going to switch to the factory to find out how long each would take. Now, I'm busy filming this Honda super and and this
[15:44] purple color is giving me vibes that I want to go for the purple one for sure, press office now and hopefully the lead time for the purple car won't be too great, but we'll find out now. Please be lucky, mate. Please be lucky.
[15:58] >> All good, mate. How are you? >> Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. And I'll be me. So, listen, can you give us the build time on the red car first of all? >> So, on the progressive red car, if we
[16:11] were to to put that in a build today and get a slot for that car, we're looking at end of September to early October. >> July, August, September. So, 3 months I can have it for the autumn. Oh, that's good. Tell me now though,
[16:24] how long for the purple car? >> So, on the Merlin purple, because it's a Audi exclusive color, there are more stages that the car has to go through with regards to prep and paint. So, that car, if we were to order that today,
[16:37] that would arrive around early December as a ballpark date. 6-month delay. Do you know what? Don't want to do this, but I'm going to do it. >> Of course. >> I can't wait for it. I just want
[16:51] [laughter] the car as soon as possible. Ah, do you know what I'm going to do? >> It would be a lovely Christmas present, but if you want the car quicker, the red >> Let's just get the red one and I'll I'll get it wrapped purple.
[17:03] get it wrapped purple. >> [laughter] can't wait the extra 3 months. I want the car as soon as possible and the red sorted. >> Thanks, mate. See you later.
[17:18] >> Bye. Ah. Have I made the right decision? Should I have waited? Remember I'm only having it for 6 months. Let me know in the configuration is interesting, you should see how I configured another car.
[17:31] See if that's more questionable. Click on the video window to see exactly [music] and I'll see you next time.