The whole point is to build a car that Audi never made.
We're not building a "B7 RS4 Avant"----that car has already been made, and there's like 5 or 6 people across the globe that I am aware of that have already converted a B7 A4 or S4 to the RS4 body work---- but not a single person anywhere that I've been able to locate that has even attempted it on a B6 S4 Avant. Too much work, most likely--especially on the ass end.
There is a guy who has the tagname Sakimono on the AZ and previously here on the QW who, a few years back, converted his B6 S4 sedan to a full RS4 sedan, yes. Bright yellow. An amazing amount of work, yet a lot of people dogged him, saying "why didn't you just buy a B7 RS4 sedan?" But for him in the end, all he had was essentially a B7 RS4 sedan, visually. Special in that it used to be a B6, sure. But the end result was nothing really remarkable.
Conversely, we are, on purpose, building what I'm calling a "B6.5 RS4 Avant"---a car Audi never made.
Unlike any other out there, anywhere, this will retain the cleaner, uninterrupted bodyline of the B6, and the B6 Avant rear tail lights.
Also, if you've ever noticed, the way that Audi accomplished the fold in the body line of the B7, is that it made the doors curvier as it reaches up towards the body line break. Conversely, the doors and panels of the B6 are flatter. Personally I think it's a better looking design. But that's just me.
So, bottom line, we are making something entirely unique: a car that Audi Engineers never made, because of course they never made an RS4 on the B6 platform.
If they had, it would likely look like what we are building.
Audi DID "hint" at a "B6.5" arrangement----go to Google and type in 2006 or 2007 Audi A4 Cabriolet-----then select "images"----and watch what comes up-----BOOM. The B6 unmistakable bodyline from front to back...yet.....she had the B7-era big-mouth single-frame trapezoidal grille and B7 headlights, and front bumper.....essentially a combination of the two platforms. But this was never done on the sedan or Avant. We had to custom-make fenders to make that possible.
Again, that will be the beauty of this new conversion, is that it will be a radical departure from the B6 S4 set up, yes----but will still look like it came that way from the factory. Just like what we did on the B6.5 nose that you see on my Avant in my sig picture. Again there, a car that Audi never made, yet looks like it came that way from the factory. Not "overdone", but unique. Most guys cannot even tell that it's NOT a B7. When they walk by at the shows and GTGs, they take one look at it and basically go "bah, just another B7 S4 Avant"....until they come around the back and go, "uhhhhh, wait a minute....what the &^%$??
Same will occur here again, except this time in full RS4 widebody regalia.
At that point, wearing the RS4 badges is entirely appropriate, as she will not be beholden to EITHER platform. No longer a B6, yet not fully a B7, either. She will be my version....a "B6.5"....and yet she will look factory. Which, again, is the whole point.