Audi is ‘not completed’ with the RS3’s 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine

The sonorous five-cylinder engine that powers the Audi RS3, amongst different fashions, hasn’t reached the top of its lifecycle but. One of many firm’s high executives urged {that a} extra highly effective evolution of the straight-five will make its debut within the not-too-distant future.

“Actually, we’re actually joyful that the purchasers are leaping on that automotive like hell and we’re not, for instance, completed with the automotive. We have now the five-cylinder, and we will certainly improve the five-cylinder for the following step. We’ll enhance that,” mentioned Audi Sport boss Sebastian Grams in an interview with British journal Autocar. He added that the model’s V6 engine will “enhance” as properly within the coming years.

Whereas he did not element the enhancements his crew has deliberate, he clarified that he doesn’t “see a have to fully change the engines.” Dialing up the powertrain’s horsepower and torque outputs by including a hybrid increase has seemingly been dominated out, too.

In the US, the turbocharged, 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine is barely obtainable within the RS3 (pictured). Throughout the pond, it is also discovered within the RS Q3 and the TT RS, although the latter is on its means out with out a successor in sight. It develops 401 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque within the RS3, and the way a lot farther Audi engineers can push it is not clear. Regardless, it seems like a sports activities sedan price ready for.

Increased up within the Audi hierarchy, the RS6 Avant is scheduled to obtain a spherical of updates as properly.

“We’re at all times attempting to take the utmost out of the expertise. That is how I problem my R&D division. We will go even additional. We will make the [RS6] even stronger, much more efficiency, even sharper,” Grams revealed in a separate interview with Autocar.

Right here once more, particulars about the place Audi plans to take the RS6 Avant stay up within the air. We might not have to attend lengthy to search out out what the agency has in retailer: Autocar speculates that the warmer RS6 Avant may make its debut in 2024. Time will inform if it lands on the American market.