Mine averages 17.4mpg, my wife uses it mostly during the week to ferry the kids about, and I USE it at the weekend - I especially enjoy blowing 'so called' sports cars away in my estate!! New front brakes going on next week - parts £800 or so!! New tyres a couple of months ago - near on a grand - OH WELL!
Am I bothered - Not at all, the RS4 is every bit as good as people say, and better, it is a special GMBH Audi 'supercar/saloon'(and that is no understatement), and feels it.
Yes it might not be as fast as a 365BHP S3, but who honestly cares, it is ten times the car in every other way, please those who are fighting the S3 corner(and remember I had a tweeked S3 before), go and borrow an RS4 for a day and the headline figures just disappear. The RS4 leaves the factory with sub 5 seconds 0-60 and mid 10 secs to 100, and thats only the start of it. Its the way it just does everything so make it so phenominal.
I'll add a few comments to this:
I've driven a couple of RS4s and driven them hard...and although they don't feel 'that' quick, and don't feel 'that' stable under heavy braking (compared to what I'm used to) they evidently are.
ChriS3 on here has an Avant which he's lent me...
We also were both at GTI International last year covering the 400 mile journey home in convoy, and each day to the show in convoy, on the smallest backroads I could find, as well as numerous other little runs here and there...
The RS4 is quicker up the 1/4 mile (proven 2 out of 3 times) as it can be launched at 5000RPM and it just goes - it has 2 car lengths on me before I've got out of 1st.
Its as quick down a small back road (not as good under braking if you are splitting hairs, but considerably quicker out of tight corners)
It's 1800KG bulk does an impressive job of being thrown about like a hot hatch.
It's at least as quick (probably quicker at 100+ speeds) and has no evident limiter at 155.
Sure, you have to work hard at getting the absolute best from it...but when you put the effort in, what it can do is amazing. The driving we've done is at times not big or clever...really pushing on...and I know of no Haldex car that would come close on a challenging back road when you are really on the edge, loading it up on braking, cornering and accellerating.
Yet from the drivers seat...it doesn't feel fast, or very good under braking.
The RS4 is a very special car indeed.
Of course there are those that will argue, or maybe I've just not come accross a well set up S3 with big power...but what an RS4 can do shocked me.