Audi RS5 Spec Guide — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:00] end up going for. >> [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 spec however I want. No worrying about

[00:15] 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 which one I actually get. [music] Now,

[00:28] this is actually the Sportback version. I'm not sure whether to go for Sportback or Avant. So, hatchback or estate? Do I need the estate? >> I'd say estate. >> I think it looks better in this profile.

[00:43] Look at it. I don't think the estate looks so wild in this part. We have to get on the configurator and decide. First look in the metal. Seats [music] are good. That red stitching, it's a winner. But, this paint, nah,

[00:58] more likely to buy. Look at the colors of the cars in here. This is what has happened to the great British car park. It's become a sea of monotone. Hey, look

[01:10] here is really pronounced at the over the rear wheel arch. Hey, it's a great topaz. They must have been PPF on this car. Have they? Yeah, they've totally

[01:23] good job. Yeah, I'm loving the look of this. Right, anyway, FIFA sold. I'm going to get up into the configuration room now and build my car. Now, just to

[01:35] long-term loan vehicle. So, Audi has let me configure a car and I'm going to run including lots of different drag races and stuff like that. Now, that could

[01:49] change the spec that I go for knowing that it's not my own car. So, maybe I stuff like that. >> Mhm. Shall I go wild? >> I'm here with Kreshnik. Now, Kreshnik, you are an Audi advisor salesman, what?

[02:04] talk me through specking my perfect RS5. >> Fantastic. >> All right. Have you had many people in specking

[02:16] 20 orders since we taken a lot of forward orders as well. And now with the car being introduced, loads of people coming in specking the car. And then to go for the saloon or the Avant. >> Same. What's the split?

[02:30] >> Yeah, something a bit different. >> Right, so that's the color that we've >> So, it's Daytona gray. >> Can we try that in a state? rear wheel arches just look so like pronounced, and I wonder if you lose it

[02:48] So, there's the estate. >> Yeah. >> And let's put it in the Daytona gray. >> Tommy, have a look. >> It's better in Sportback, yeah. >> Can we do a rear like a rear three

[03:01] quarter? Looking at it from the side, can we go to the saloon? not saloon. The Sportback. >> It's actually classified as saloon. >> Even though it's a hatchback? >> Yeah, so the previous one was Sportback

[03:14] >> You know what? Audi really likes to confuse people. They confuse people with the naming because the Avant should actually be an RS4 not an RS5. And now hatchback. What are you trying to do? Right, Tommy.

[03:30] trims, standard, carbon black, or Vorsprung, which gets bigger wheels, more carbon, and camouflage finish with a cocky hint. But it costs a lot more. >> I'll show you. So, on the wing mirrors, the RS front spoiler, rear spoiler,

[03:47] everything is all in camouflage. >> Oh, no. That's um no chance. don't like them forged sections, you can always change to the carbon styling

[04:00] >> Normal carbon. >> What do you get over the carbon over the to 21-in alloys. >> Yeah, bigger is better when it comes to 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] >> Yes. We'll go have a look at the carbon blacks. Carbon blacks on the right, >> In the Vorsprung you also get >> Headrest speakers. I love that. Does it do that thing where you're taking a call on Bluetooth and it just has it through

[04:42] Also, with navigation, if there are any alerts coming up, let's say there's a >> Cuz you know what happens when I'm driving along and I've got nav on and my

[04:55] daughter's in the car, if you like disturb her music, she goes crazy. So, handy. Otherwise, you start getting performative crying. Like, >> Yes. >> Well, they're 3D and 360 surround view

[05:10] >> Correct. Yes, you can tilt it around as well. Makes should personally make parking a bit easier. You either love it or you hate it. I >> But, it's a good feature to have. >> Well, that you just That's so

[05:24] 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. wasted time. Okay. [laughter] So, seat comfort.

[05:39] >> Front and rear heating. >> Don't really mind about rear. Microfiber artificial leather, black dashboard with contrast what what what >> Long story short, Vorsprung's another £10,000 and [music] doesn't add enough.

[05:54] >> This color's great in red. With all the black bits it just pops. There is one other color. >> Just go to exclusive colors. >> I'm going to try two, no three. Oat green pearl effect. Now it looks quite

[06:11] lately. I do not think your configurator is quite getting this color across. was about to drop a bombshell because it would take Audi much longer to build my

[06:23] RS5 if I go for one of these exclusive [music] paint options. It may push it back by another 3 months, 6 months. to build a fast car and the dream car. This is the dream car that we're on at

[06:38] the moment. Let's try the purple. >> Purple or Merlin purple, stunning color. moment that we've been testing. It's a Honda N's little city car, little

[06:50] electric city car we've got in purple. My daughter loves the color of that. My mind the green. She wants She'd like this in black or something. I showed her purple car." But my daughter Grace would love that. I'm thinking the purple needs

[07:06] Otherwise you've got too much black going on. >> Yeah. >> Put that back. >> Yeah, that's nice. I wonder if red's actually better. Have you got a yellow?

[07:21] >> Yeah, that's one of those >> Vegas yellow. configurator never does car colors justice, so we want to see the real There's even more cars here. This is the red. Now you just got to imagine it on

[07:38] the RS5 with its huge wide haunches and the rear diffuser. It looks nice, but have another look at this showroom car. So, Chris Nick,

[07:50] >> Yes. >> And yes, it's got the the red there. >> Yeah, so with the microfiber inlays with the leather and the red stitching. >> So, are these the standard seats? >> Yes, these ones are the standard ones.

[08:04] >> So, if you get the standard seat with the carbon black, you'll get this. >> With the carbon black, do you get the You don't get this on there, do you?

[08:17] Also, you don't get these tail lights, do you? >> Yeah, not the OLED ones. >> But this doesn't have carbon here. carbon. I do like the interior with that Alcantara, and I do like those tail

[08:34] >> They are. >> So, listen to this. Still a V6 twin turbo.

[08:46] Sounds pretty good. Obviously, there's a soft limiter cuz Audi. I mean, we have only just started it, but it sounds It sounds promising. Thanks for that, though. >> No worries. Do you want to hear it from

[09:00] >> You mean it's got fake noise inside. >> Pretty much, yeah. >> All right. Actually, it doesn't sound that fake. Let's get back to the configurator. Right, and we can go for Let's go back

[09:18] back to the beginning. Let's go for Vorsprung. Yeah, but better glossy, won't it? >> You think? I prefer forged carbon. >> That's not what we're standard carbon. What about the other one?

[09:35] >> You're thinking forged now, aren't you? >> Yeah, it looks maybe a bit different. >> Yeah, cuz it's matte. You've got gloss paint, matte finish carbon. I think in >> You better be right, Tommy. >> [laughter]

[09:49] >> Otherwise, you're going to be fitting some aftermarket normal carbon parts to >> 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

[10:03] always cave for the new thing. Wheels, full on silver with that purple. It's course, you've got the seats. >> An exterior color that is purple. So, you either want purple stitching to match the outside, which could be a bit

[10:18] think. What is the interior going to be? Is it going to be red at the moment? >> I'm not sure if red's going to go with purple, is it? If I had a red exterior maybe a white one, it would. But like red and purple, does that work? I don't

[10:35] >> Can I just have the the seats just in like black? can have besides black? >> Yeah, so in terms of interior, it will >> Oh. >> So, if I go to this option here, so this

[10:49] is the standard. So, as you can see, it's got very fine, I like to say >> Um and then if you do go for something like this option, there are multiple colors that you can select from. So, this one you've got cognac, diamond,

[11:02] can select >> More of violet is going to be the one, >> Or also, look, you get the steering wheel in Alcantara. Can we see what more exterior? >> It won't actually show, but these are

[11:17] stitching. >> It's going to be a bit too much like um >> Yeah. >> I'm going to keep the seats black. I Could just be weird. But, I I would love the fake Alcantara steering wheel. So,

[11:36] we're not going to go for all that 7 grands worth of shenanigans. Will doing the stitching delay delivery of the car? >> No. Stitching won't, exclusive paint >> Okay, we've got black interior, but we've got voice prompt. Yeah, full black

[11:50] about? >> Then, last things is sending preconditioning. So, this just enables you to >> Yeah, that's standard. >> Uh so, you'd have to pay extra for

[12:05] 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 those extra bits as well. >> That is just dirty.

[12:20] I mean, what the Like seriously, like someone, right, why is my window defrosting?" Just for 155, just put it just put it in the

[12:32] price. That kind of thing really drives me wild. Yeah, let we've got to would just >> Of course. Other bits you can add, tow >> Yeah? >> Likely. I'm not going to tell you that

[12:45] >> Do you want to know why? Some of my best short-form videos are me just in a worth a couple couple of million views on Instagram.

[12:57] >> Yeah. Do you know what it's easy for as well? If ever I park in a supermarket car park where someone can park behind you, pop >> No, they get they they take it more cautiously. They don't get too close.

[13:11] >> Ceramic brakes. And then you've got caliper different color options. You can have a good red brakes, bronze brakes, or black ceramic want >> Do you have a color preference, Tom?

[13:25] the car? >> Yeah. Do it from the side. Just the side I think so. Don't you? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Yeah, bronze. We don't need to look at red. Red won't work on there. Okay,

[13:40] 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 car's the sensible one. Same bones, faster slot, red [music] instead of the

[13:52] exclusive purple. Ceramic brakes, dark wheels, and red calipers. And I'm >> What are you trying to say by that? That's that's think. >> Cuz I'm in everyone we're going to

[14:08] Cuz I think I think it looks better that is. The normal carbon suits the red with the black wheels as well. >> Yeah, lock that one in. Now, I don't know which I prefer. Audi, the factory, will decide which car

[14:22] I get. And that's that's going to be quite a surprise. Listen, thank you very 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

[14:34] important thing. The the thing that I'd be asking if I was buying this with my own money and it wasn't a long-term test car. What's the price? >> [laughter] >> So, I bet not many customers do that.

[14:49] >> Right at the end, yeah. >> So, on this one, the purple one, because due to the exclusive paint >> Okay, it's going to be about 120,000 in pounds. >> this other one's going to be about

[15:01] is 119,000. >> Okay, so I mean interesting is I had a Audi RS4 when I in the early days of Carwow. I think

[15:16] it's gone up by like 50% since what was it? When did I have that? 2018 or wild. Wild.

[15:29] going to get in the future. I sent those two different to switch to the factory to find out how long each would take. Now, I'm busy

[15:42] filming this Honda super and and this purple color is giving me vibes that I 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 listen, can you give us the build time on the red car first of all? >> So, on the progressive red car, if we were to to put that in a build today and

[16:13] 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 >> So, on the Merlin purple, because it's a Audi exclusive color, there are more

[16:30] stages that the car has to go through with regards to prep and paint. So, that car, if we were to order that today, that would arrive around early December 6-month delay. Do you know what? Don't want to do this, but I'm going to do it.

[16:46] >> Of course. >> I can't wait for it. I just want [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

[16:59] get it wrapped purple. >> [laughter] can't wait the extra 3 months. I want the car as soon as possible and the red

[17:14] sorted. >> Thanks, mate. See you later. Have I made the right decision? Should I have waited? Remember I'm only having it for 6 months. Let me know in the comments. Also, if you think that that

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