View Exterior Photos of the 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT is the last hurrah for the fifth-generation A6 model line and possibly for the V-8 wagon era at Audi.
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT has a production cap of 660 units, with the automaker earmarking 85 of those vehicles for the United States.
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT shares its 621-hp twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 engine and eight-speed automatic transmission with the RS6 Avant Performance.
Unique to the 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT is a set of manually adjustable springs and dampers, which afford the GT a base ride height that's 0.4 inch lower than the RS6 Avant Performance.
Audi claims the RS6 Avant GT is 88 pounds lighter than the Performance thanks to its lack of roof rails, carbon-fiber body panels, and standard carbon-ceramic brakes.
Carbon-ceramic rotors come standard on the 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT and hide behind GT-specific six-spoke 22-inch wheels wrapped in Continental SportContact 7 summer tires.
Unlike the 2025 Audi RS6 Avant Performance, the GT features a hood and front fenders made from carbon fiber.
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT's springs and dampers work with anti-roll bars that are 30 percent stiffer at the front and 80 percent stiffer at the rear than those of the RS6 Avant Performance.
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT shares its torque-vectoring rear differential with the RS6 Avant Performance but benefits from model-specific tuning when the wagon is placed in its Dynamic drive mode.
Going the GT route means losing the RS6 Avant Performance's roof rails.
The 2025 Audi RS6 Avant GT starts at $200,195.
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