A rare Audi RS2, and rarer still in RHD - and with a great origin story, too. Find out more right here👇
£60,000 for a 29-year-old Audi wagon? Crazy money. Except, not when it says RS2 on the back and comes with a set of Porsche Cup alloys. And it’s a right-hooker, which means it’s even rarer, because of the 2,900 RS2s that were eventually built between 1994 and 1995, just 180 had the steering wheel on the right side. If you’re reading this in a left-hand-drive market, you can read that statement any way you wish, and you won’t be wrong.
In the early '90s, Audi’s development engineers were a busy bunch, working flat out producing not one but several new model ranges, including the A4, A6 and A8. Big cars, metaphorically speaking in the case of the A4, and literally when it came to the A8, but all crucial to Audi’s projected bottom line. Butman was in charge of Audi at the time the RS2 programme was started.
He knew the guys in Stuttgart well enough to do so, of course. After all, being the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche tends to open doors, and he’d worked for the company between 1963 and 1971. No doubt he was also aware that Porsche, which was still cash-strapped at this point and touting its engineering services to the highest bidders, had just completed its contract to build the Mercedes-Benz 500E. Another little side hustle would be a useful boost to its kitty.
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