2015 Audi S6 Long Term review

We’re running a brand new Audi S6 on long-term test for few weeks

By Shahzad Sheikh

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Audi Middle East has loaned us this magnificent Audi S6 to run for a few weeks, and here’s where you’ll get all the updates on how we’re getting on with the car.

You can also follow our posts on the car on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the following hashtags: #MMEAudiS6 & #MMELongTermer

We’ll also bring you a full drive review with video on this car soon.

Car details:

2015 Audi S6 TFSI Quattro S Tronic
Mileage at start – about 7500km
Specs:
4.0-litre Twin Turbo V8, 450bhp, 406lb ft, 0-100kph 4.4secs, 250kph top speed, 9.4L/100k
Starting price: AED310,000
Price of test car: AED335,800
Trim:
Glacier White metallic with 20-inch 5 twin-spoke ‘Star’ design alloy wheels. Valcona leather with S embossing in arras red/granite grey. Inlays in carbon twill, red.
Standard equipment includes:
Active noise cancellation, adaptive air suspension, BOSE stereo, full LED rear lights and Matrix LED headlights with cleaning, MMI navigation and control, parking system plus, soft closing doors, rear sunblinds, storage package.
Options:
Launch Edition: Audi design selection Arras red, Headlining in black Alcantara, leather upholstery.
Sports exhaust system, Sports Differential, Audi Connect, Audi side assist including Audi per-sense rear.

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Final Week 7

The MME Long Termer Audi S6 has gone back, and left a rather empty space in my life. What an absolutely awesome machine this is, and what an amazing feel-good factor it offers.

In the whole time I had it driving more than 2000km over nearly two months, I have had absolutely no issues or no complaints whatsoever regarding this car. It wasn’t even that thirsty. Here’s my review on the car.

Check out my final few posts on the car.

The question now is – how to fill the aching void?

#MMEAudiS6 Parting is such sweet sorrow… Finally had to return #MMELongTermer #AudiS6

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Sunday, 13 December 2015

#MMEAUDIS6 (Shahzad) Last wash before I take it back

What should I get next as the #MMELongTermer? Read all about the #AudiS6 http://bit.ly/MMEAS6LT

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Saturday, 12 December 2015

#MMEAudiS6 Making the most of our last few days with the #MMELongTermer #AudiS6

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Monday, 7 December 2015

Week 5 & 6

Quite a bit of inactivity for the MME Long Termer during this period due to other stuff happening and myself going down with a nasty bout of food poisoning. But I did get a night run in and finish the video road test.

Must say that it’s certainly one of those cars that you love to come back to. There’s a welcoming solid familiarity to the car, a rightness that somehow resettles an upheaved world of confusion and turmoil, with an inherent integrity that soothes and revives. It’s more than comfort and quality, it’s like the reassuringly powerful embrace of an automotive guardian angel – don’t worry, you’re back in the S6 now, and all is right in the universe once again.

I am going to miss this car when it goes back.

#MMEAudiS6 – Wakey Wakey you dirty, filthy, sexy beast, you! #MMELongTermer #AudiS6

Posted by Shahzad Sheikh on Wednesday, 2 December 2015

 

Click below for the video review

Great night-run car!

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Week 3 & 4

Missed out a week because the Audi S6 spent most of it parked in the World Trade Centre car park as we were in full Dubai Motor Show mode (read our full coverage from the show here). We were also doing live shows and essentially were there from morning till late evening every day.

With weary limbs and spent mind, I’d trudge all the way across the bridge into the big car park each night, and the S6 would never fail to serve up a comforting embrace. Being such a soothing and smooth ride, the Audi’s refinement and feel-good factor proved the perfect companion to get me home in sublime serenity.

A few days after the show, after suitably recovering, I finally found time to take it up to some of my favourite roads and take it off the leash. Suddenly the big comfy barge turned into an agile angry sports saloon that not only tore up the road, but cornered like a sports car.

The Audi S6 we have is fitted with Sports Differential with front and rear torque vectoring, the result is that it’s able to fully exploit Quattro’s extraordinary grip and encourages you to trust the car and push through the minor understeer to discover Voodoo levels of insane ability.

If nothing else, the Sports Diff and the Sports Exhaust are options that you absolutely MUST specify when you buy this car.

Posts over the last fortnight:

#MMEAudiS6 – ‘Wanna race?!’ :p #MMELongTermer #AudiS6

Posted by Shahzad Sheikh on Thursday, 19 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – [Shahzad] Been out today filming a video review of our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6. Here’s a short teaser clip (turn up the sound!). Who would like to see the full video review?

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Wednesday, 18 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – Mic test for review of #MMELongTermer #AudiS6, yes, I ruin some more #Shakespeare! 😮

Posted by Shahzad Sheikh on Wednesday, 18 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – after a long day at the #DubaiMotorShow the cabin of our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6 is a really inviting place…

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Wednesday, 11 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) wait for me here good steed, I shall be back. Early in the car park! #MMELongTermer #DubaiMotorShow #MMEDMS2015

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Monday, 9 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – [Shahzad] finally managed to go out and take some photos of our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6. Whaddya reckon? #Audi Audi Middle East

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Saturday, 7 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) Just discovered parking brake doesn’t auto-release in our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6 until you put your #seatbelt on! Nice one #Audi !

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Saturday, 7 November 2015

Week 2

Storming about town between meetings to do with the Dubai Motor Show that kicks off next week and where we’ll be hosting the first Dubai Motor Show Ignition Live Talks every day – full details here – so still haven’t taken it for a proper run, but it’s been a supremely capable and comfortable companion. I feel all businessy every time I get in it – let’s go make that high-powered deal!

Other things I’ve come to appreciate this week is the sensational Bose sound system, particularly if you hook up your own tunes via Bluetooth, the quality is superb and it’s a joy to turn right up! Also the grip, particularly through corners. The thing is to trust it and keep your foot planted through the initial understeer after which it pulls itself tighter, which means you can get on the power so much sooner in this car through a corner than most others and not worry about getting out of shape.

This week’s posts:

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) checking out the centre screen action in the #MMELongTermer. #AudiS6 #Audi

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Saturday, 31 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) kids loving the rear a/c controls in #MMELongTermer #AudiS6. Plus power supply if they need it. strictly nonsmoking though! #Audi

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Monday, 2 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) if you were listening to us on the radio just now, you will have heard how impressed we were with…

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Monday, 2 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) My daughter Leena loves getting picked from school in style in our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6. #Audi http://bit.ly/MMEAS6LT

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Wednesday, 4 November 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) loving the LED indicators on our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6 – nice swiping action!

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Thursday, 5 November 2015

Week 1

Drove about 350km, still on its first tank. First impressions – such a smooth ride, very comfortable, superb refinement and great feel-good factor. Plenty of performance, but I’ve mostly just been cruising around gently in this thing so far. Hoping to take it out for a proper run this weekend!

I’m loving the 360-degree surround view cameras to keep its edges and alloys safe whilst parking and maneuvering, the handy hooks for shopping bags in the boot, the surprisingly good fuel economy – we saw 10.1L/100km from Jebel Ali to Mirdif in rush hour – all of which and more you can see from the embedded posts below.

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) Looking forward to running this for the next few weeks! #MMELongTermer

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Friday, 23 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 #MMELongTermer – (Shahzad) A 4.0 twin-turbo up front producing 450bhp with a 0-100 time of 4.4secs; and pull…

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Friday, 23 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 #MMELongTermer – (Shahzad) 360degree all-around view is a very useful feature when negotiating the tight Ramps of my multi-story car park. #AudiS6 #Audi

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Saturday, 24 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) Like most new cars our #MMELongTermer #AudiS6 has a CD player for the excellent #Bose sound system but I will never try it. How many of you still carry CDs in the car? #Audi

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Monday, 26 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) this is how I set up #Audi Drive Select in the #AudiS6 #MMELongTermer. How would you set it?

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Tuesday, 27 October 2015

#MMEAudiS6 – (Shahzad) From Jebel Ali to Mirdif at this time in rush hour in the #MMELongTermer – see the fuel consumption. Remember the #AudiS6 has a 450bhp 4.0 Twin Turbo V8 engine! Not bad!

Posted by Motoring Middle East on Tuesday, 27 October 2015

 

Come back next week for more!

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