What’s the deal with Audi killing their performance street cars and GT3/4‘s?

You will take the soulless electric transport pod and you will like it.

They were unable to make a profit on them, hence they discontinued them.

Didn't Audi get gimped by the dieselgate situation? You drive by the Audi dealerships and they're still selling pretty much the same cars they were ~7 years ago save for some niche stuff like the badass E-Tron GT and whatever the hell abomination picrel is. Audi used to be fare reasonably well against BMW and Mercedes but now it's like most of their lineup is outdated and unremarkable

>>28493475
>badass
>soulless electric transport pod
Pick one and only one.

>>28493482
Post your car and see if it turns more heads than this

>>28493487
which one?

>>28493487
>making normalfags look is badass
No. Your soulless electric transport pod is an edgy appliance. It's no more "badass" than a refrigerator with a carbon fiber handle.

>>28493487
I like the Etron GT a lot desu.

https://youtu.be/43C8hSLcCAc?si=Knr-2mLLNdc9G3rg

Normal fag audi fans are even seeing how bad the new cars are btw. This video went viral this week and made rounds with the Audi exec board.

The video has some good points desu but the complete death of their Motorsport division from engineers to drivers is the real shit decision. The RS cars used to have the suspension tuned by the Le Mans drivers on the ring. Now they all got let go and we have an RSQ8 which is prob just a badge and maybe a 5% thicker sway bar

>>28493475
The new cars A5/A6 and friends are literally the new cheap interior and the shit exterior with the same engines except they added some more filters and more mild hybrid shit and then they made the S5 one piston brake caliper.
Not really ok on an S car and I don’t care if you think the regen helps. You can’t dissipate heat with one piston which means these are going to be dogshit performers. No coupe either is cringe.

>>28493467 (OP)
Audi hired the BMW sauber F1 engine developer to fix the diesel gate problem and he gutted the Audi Sport racing division bc it had nothing to do with electric cars and he wanted Audi fully electric by 2030. He went all in on F1 next, which is cool I suppose but F1 isn’t really related to customer racing which was a profitable enterprise under Audi. He binned it bc he wanted to to be green and electric and race cars are dirty and combustion. All current F1 teams make more money than the spend so entering F1 is a safe as fuck business move if you can get in. So was GT3 though. Anyway he’s gone now so Audi will likely rebuild its customer racing from scratch considering the whole infrastructure of building the GT3s and being at racetracks for technical support and supplying parts around the globe is gone and so are rhe people that made it work.
there is a chance to make it better because Audi USA refused to spend the money on customer racing bc he didn’t want the expense in his budget but under Germanys budget (similar c suite antics in GM with GM Europe refusing to pay for Le Mans so GM NA funds the corvettes ).

Also interesting about the S5. It has a new DCT and it’s not clear what it is, possibly brand new. People were worried because Quattro Ultra (which is clutch based with a detachable drive shaft and rear axle with no torsen) doesn’t work with the ZF8 so it can’t be used with the Q7. There was concern the new DCT existed to bring Quattro Ultra to the S range. It is not so. Hopefully it’s better than PDK and the older DS501s

>>28493487
rs etron is the only good looking EV

>>28493487
What the fuck is up with all these four door sport sedans?

>>28493836
Normalfags don't buy coupes for some retarded reason.

>>28493467 (OP)
People don't want souped up Beetles that are slower than base model Mustangs and Camaros. People also don't want pigfat sedans that ride like shit.

>>28493467 (OP)
emissions
>>28493471
audis were overpriced though. s3 is the same shit as the golf r for a lot more shekels. RS3 costs double an m140i.

>>28493487
You can turn heads without even being seen with a loud enough fartcan

probably maintaining separation of brand identity for VAG
VW = entry level luxury segment
AUDI = mainstream luxury segment
PORSCHE = luxury performance segment
You generally don't want a fast audi to bite on a slow porsche

>>28493467 (OP)
>Performance road cars
TT was old and didn’t sell, same as the R8. The R8 might come back with the new Lamborghini they’re selling next year.
As for RS versions of their existing models? I don’t know.
As for their Motorsport endeavors- they are all-in on F1. I guess they don’t have the budget to do what Ferrari did and compete with a factory team in WEC as well as F1.

>>28493634
Audi execs don’t care about some chuds on the internet.
It’s the same with politics. You are pea-brained peasants that have no idea what you’re talking about, according to them

Audi gets raped by Porsche. Their performance cars are complete shitboxes compared to the 911 so why bother?

>>28493906
the only overlap with audi and porsche are the cars that are rebadged audis. they don't worry about cannibalizing sales at all

>>28493906
Slow porsches are really fucking slow though.

>>28493487
>This is what a 100k gets you in the latest "state of the art" ev abortion
lol, lmao even

do I buy this one of the RS5 coupe?
I know nothing about the audi v6. is it even any good?

>>28493487
Audi is actually the best looking German brand, grew up around them and I always thought that. Don't know why BMWs get so much attention in comparison

>>28495279
Because BMW is what we call Ultimate Driving Machines, in short UDM.
Everything pales in comparison.
Audi AWD junk is for people that can’t drive and don’t care for actual driver cars

>>28495345
Huh? BMW has been using AWD for years because AWD was the next logical step for performance

>>28495363
no enthusiasts other than rally drivers care for AWD.
they offer AWD for the stoplight racers and retards that can’t handle high powered RWD machines

>>28495625
There's a 99% chance the only RWD vehicle you have experience with is a bus

28495636
not even worth a (You)

>Audi
>BMW
RBX

>>28495640
Hit a nerve, did he?

>>28493467 (OP)
>HUGE ASS WHEELS
>RED CALIPERS
I AM SO TOUGH AND COOL

>>28493475
brief explanation of dieselgate:
government sets absurd unrealistic emissions targets for diesel engines (which is funny because they NEVER applied to trucks or commercial vehicles so really it was a way to kill diesel passenger cars from the start)
these new emissions standards are ONLY achievable by putting urea into a tank- urea isn't cheap and sometimes needs to be added every 5000 miles ish when you drive it hard or tow
vw realizes this - sets it to have a mode where it doesn't require urea - which is obviously sootier - EPA figures this out years later - ALL the other manufacturers were doing the same thing with their diesel cars but only VW was made an example out of
government uses this to milk VW for cash even though it was the government's fault
VW is a shitty unethical company but the government was in the wrong here
instead of reaching out to manufacturers and setting realistic emissions targets they selectively fucked over passenger car diesels almost as if on purpose
it's not like diesel trucks went anywhere

>>28493487
ok now load it up with luggage - send it on twisting mountain roads - and see how far it goes - weird how car journalists almost NEVER test ievs on mountain roads or carrying tons of gear - I wonder why - almost like they are paid by car companies

>>28493634
>first 15 min about badges and logos
>5 min about the awful interiors and capacitive buttons on the steering wheel
>4 min about the terrible UI
>starts waffling about badges again for 3 min
>3 min about the gear shifter
>2 min about digital panoramic roof
>2 min about the key fob
>2 min about fake exhausts
>etc.
It’s all useless waffling about design decisions. There is no discussion at all about how the cars are engineered.

>>28495279
Because of this game. Same reason they "swim" through traffic instead of hitting up the track.

Meanwhile at Toyota
>400 PS - 394 HP
>AWD
>6MT/8AT
>Mid-Engine
curious how the pendulum swings

>>28499049
Bleh that's just ai.

>>28493487
Who gives a shit about turning heads? It's just dull EVslop.
The people who care about "turning heads" are niggers with blinged out shitmobiles and brodozer faggots.