#Rs5

Recapping the most watched videos from AutoGuide‘s YouTube channel this week, here’s a chance to catch up on what everyone else is talking about. This past week, Autoguide took an extensive look at the Audi RS5 sports car and how the German automaker’s coupe compares to the competition.

Needless to say, Audi’s RS5 is an exciting car thanks in no small part to its 4.2-liter naturally aspirated V8.

Audi will be debuting its RS5 Cabriolet model online ahead of its 2012 Paris Motor Show debut on September 6 at 8 a.m. EST.

After teasing a special RS5 for the 90th Pikes Peak Hill Climb earlier in the week, Audi has now dropped a set of photos of the car. 

Next week, the 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will finally kick off after a delay due to the wild fires in Colorado. Audi apparently has a surprise up its sleeve for this year’s event, teasing an RS5 on its Facebook page.

A busy auto show can feel less like a civilized venue and more like a petting zoo, depending on how many people crowd in.

With Audi already now sporting an A5 and S5 cabriolet in its lineup, it’s almost a no-brainer for them to release an RS5 cabriolet variant to battle it out with BMW‘s M3 convertible.

Audi will make the final decision to build the beautiful Quattro concept in six months. But in the meanwhile, they’re pushing ahead with further developing it…you know, just in case.

While we’re still anxiously awaiting the release of Audi‘s RS5 in America, tuners in Germany have already gotten their hands dirty with the car and finding gobs of horsepower with very little effort. While the stock 450-hp figure already seems potent enough, especially given how beautiful the RS5’s styling is, SKN has already taken the 4.2-liter V8 past 500-hp with a simple ECU re-tune and Milltek Hockenheim Edition exhaust system.

Actual horsepower figures and pricing hasn’t been released by SKN yet, just that they’re already finding the real potential of the RS5. Suspension wise they lowered the car on a set of Bilstein PSS10 coilovers and mated a set of 20-inch BBS CH-R wheels onto each corner. The 20×10.5-inch wheels are wrapped with Pirelli P-Zero rubber in a 285/30/20 size.

It’ll be a little bit longer until we’ll see the RS5 in America, and with the price tag it comes with it’ll be interesting to see how popular it’ll become. But there’s no question that we should be seeing plenty more from the aftermarket for Audi’s new player in the sports coupe segment.

GALLERY: SKN-Tuned Audi RS5

[Source: Automarket.ro]

Famed German tuners MTM have gotten their hands on the new Audi RS5 and immediately began to make upgrades.

Ahead of its official debut at the Geneva Auto Show next month, a complete brochure for the Audi RS5 has leaked online showing the muscular coupe in all its bright red glory. Looking at the photos it’s clear that the RS5 will follow in the tire treads of the RS4 and RS6, delivering massive amounts of power in a low-slung, fender-bulging package.