It's pleasant to understand a sports-car that truly looks just like a sports-car. And I'd choose a convertible. Sportscars are around driving for happiness, after all, also I really like to be able enough to scent things as I push: gum trees, a backyard filled with magnolias, the ocean air over the shore, the spices from your local Indian eatery... And one car that I might really, greatly like Santa to slide onto my stocking come Xmas time when it eventually makes it Down-Under is the Audi RS5 Cabriolet. In vivid scarlet, of course.

It would need to be a huge stocking, however. The couturiers have widened the body of the Audi RS5 Cabriolet to give it that striking existence that a strong and luxury sports car ought to have. Sitting proudly on 1 9-inch 10-spoke alloy wheels the Audi RS5 Cabriolet just oozes charm. And that's not the only matter to adore about the styling. It's slick. It's smooth. It's wonderful. One factor that provides that super-sporty styling without being vulgar is the carbon-fibre back-lip spoiler, which provides the Audi RS5 Cabriolet the correct type of styling without including any additional weight and placing additional demands to the motor and gas consumption - that's the actual attractiveness of carbon-fibre. The soft-top is totally insulated and acoustically-designed so that you don't get deafened from the concrete practice of the employees beside the route... when they don't halt to steal a peek at your Audi RS5 Cabriolet as you drive-by.

The Audi RS5 Cabriolet doesn't merely look like a proper sports-car; that it also seems like a proper sports car. Seemingly, the designers did something with the dual exhausts at the rear (which are quite discreetly styled in a way that doesn't impede with the clean lines of the vehicle) so you can truly love the sound of the engine. The engine in question is a 4.2-litre V8 engine that guarantees to make the Audi RS5 Cabriolet really nippy truly: it does the 0-100 km/h sprint in an extremely, quite good 4.9 seconds (good? more like exhilarating), thanks to the upper limit of 331 kW accessible at 8250 rpm. It doesn't yell, either. It's more of a baritone than a bass, or perhaps even a tenor. The sound is rather warm and even soothing. "Tea cozy" is the word that springs to mind. It's comfort food for the ears. It's the type of sound that soothes fretful infants. (Now, how's that for the perfect reason to take a sports car for a spin every eventide?)

I managed to locate a YouTube clip that lets you hear the Audi RS5 Cabriolet in activity and determine what you presume it seems like as well as get a great look at it. You might want a pail to drool into, so be warned. The model revealed in this clip is an US model, I believe, or an European left hand-drive variation, and the clip additionally gives you a really great look at some of the gadgets and convenience characteristics accessible, although at the time of authorship, Audi Australia was tightlipped about the complete specs and characteristics of what the Down Under variations are going to have.

A back parking camera is another convenience characteristic of the Audi RS5 Cabriolet that's been verified as clear. If this is accessible, subsequently to judge by what's on the right hand-drive variations of the Audi RS5 Cabriolet accessible in the United Kingdom, we may additionally get a 40-GB hard drive navigation system and a set of loudspeakers of the quality that only German producers can make with an audio system that's compatible with virtually everything you can think of AND charges your mobile apparatus at the same time.

Wish I could be 1 of them!

2013 Audi RS5 Cabriolet - WINDING ROAD POV Test Drive