You asked for an audio clip of our 2009 Audi S5 "idling, revving, accelerating away, driving past at WOT."
Alas, our crack video team had a prior engagement, so we bring you this video (after the jump, man, after the jump) with yours truly in the cockpit and my colleague, Loren Wong (subytrojan) doing the camera work. This would be the "accelerating away" clip, and it was recorded on a closed course.
In addition to this video (and it's after the jump, remember), you could always go back and watch the original, professionally-shot track video of our S5.
Erin Riches, Senior Editor @ 12,309 miles
redliner says:
01:17 PM, 11/12/09
Mmm, sounds mellow and smooth, but powerful. I like.
bodyblue says:
01:29 PM, 11/12/09
Ummm, it sounds really not good. Maybe it is the camera.
cr_driver says:
03:09 PM, 11/12/09
I dig it, thou not the video.
stephen987 says:
03:31 PM, 11/12/09
Too thoroughly muted, though the basics are there. Maybe a nice high-quality aftermarket exhaust system would give it some richness without going out of character.
norsairius says:
03:45 PM, 11/12/09
for some reason, that doesn't sound as good as I thought it would. I feel like an older S4/RS4 sounds better. the track test video doesn't make it sound too much better to me either... the S5 doesn't seem to have the same "bellowing" quality that I expected. might just be me, I dunno.
bimmerjay says:
07:28 PM, 11/12/09
mmmm V8....
The RS4 definitely sounds meaner in person, but the S5 holds its own. I like it.
felonious says:
08:28 AM, 11/13/09
Thanks, Donna and Loren! :) I hope you had fun making it.
buickboy92 says:
09:05 AM, 11/13/09
Sounds great! and that seemed really fast too!
wable says:
11:55 AM, 11/13/09
"and it was recorded on a closed course"
Tee hee. Funny.
rick8365 says:
04:50 PM, 11/13/09
Nice launch, Erin!!
Thanks for providing the video/sounds we were asking for.
ba27 says:
03:13 PM, 11/14/09
I've always thought that Audi's 4.2 was the best-sounding V-8 I'd ever heard. It seems to blend equal parts of Euro-smoothness and 'Murrican V-8 bad-assness. S5 sounds sweet, indeed.
However, comma, one day I was outside a dealership as first an S5, then a (C5) RS 6 accelerated out of the parking lot. Good as the S5 sounded, the RS 6's sound put it to shame, even with 2 turbos muting the 450hp goodness....