Top 10 Fastest Audi Models of All Time: 0-to-60

Can you list the top ten quickest-ever accelerating Audis from zero to sixty? And do you know which is the quickest Audi of all?

So what are Audi’s quickest cars of all? Audi’s Quattro-equipped cars have always been super-quick off the mark. Cat-like, they claw off the line with all-wheel traction that harks all the way back to the ‘80s. To when the four-ring brand reinvented the rally world with its incredible stage Quattros. It left rallying years ago, but all-wheel-drive has remained a top-end Audi hallmark ever since. Never mind the foundation on which the S and RS performance sub-brands were built on.

Best of all is that in recent years, the Ingolstadt marque’s fiercest rivals have reluctantly followed Audi to building all-wheel driven über cars. Their old rear-wheel drive was just not up to modern levels of power and performance, no matter what they may have said about all that ten, or fifteen years ago.

But which are the quickest Audis of them all? What is the fastest of all to sixty miles an hour — that universal acceleration standard? And how quick are the best of them? We took a little time to study the figures, from Audi data along with a few other sources. Not least a website that basically lives for 0-to-60 times. This data only considers Audi’s own claimed figures and applies to standard production models.

So, can you guess what the top ten are? Let’s start at number ten and work our way forward…

10 2016 Audi S7 — 3.9 Seconds

Interestingly, it’s not the latest S7 that sneaks into the top ten accelerating Audis of all time. It’s the previous 2016 model that makes the cut to keep the entire top ten under four seconds to sixty. The sleek S7 fastback’s’s biturbo 4-liter V8 was upped 20 horsepower to a fat 450 at the beginning of that year. It broke the 4-second barrier with a 3.9-second 0-60. That rowdy engine made way for a mute twin-turbocharged and supercharged 2.9-liter V6 engine earlier this year, but that one is still a couple of tents off this virile 2016 car.

Michele Lupini

Once a handy engine and chassis tuner, and a combative racer and rally driver, Michele took up the pen to express his passion for cars, racing and motoring over 30 years ago. He published South Africa’s go-to enthusiast motor magazines Cars in Action and Bakkie — some say against all odds — for a quarter century. In that time, Michele had a hand in nurturing many of South Africa's motoring media leaders. Today Michele keeps himself busy with his a range of intrnational motoring media duties alongside his own theauto.page. And a little racing on the side.