Car Spotlight>>wide Body S4 Sleeper

Sleeper or 'Q car', the names are different but the meaning is the same. A car which hides its ultimate performance behind subtle styling.

I've always been a big fan of Q cars. I loved the original BMW M5 because of its everyday looks and its ability to humble supercars around the Nurburgring. At the recent Meguiars BBQ I think I found my ultimate Q car.

Sitting inconspicuously in an corner, MRC Tuning's B4 S4 Quattro just looked like a well prepared RS4 Quattro – That is until you remember that Audi only ever produced Avant versions of the B4 RS4 and not a saloon.

On further investigation it turns out that MRC took an S4 donor with a blown engine and replaced all the panels and doors with RS4 items including cutting and fabricating RS4 Avant rear quarters into the S4 body to achieve a look to rival a factory car.

Sitting on Bilstein coilovers, the 20" BBS CH-R rims just add to the factory look. You could just imagine the car sitting in the showroom looking like this.

The massive AP brakes are a little clue to the cars performance.

Inside is much the same as the exterior. Beautifully trimmed alcantara and leather bucket seats up front …

… and in the back.

Subtle and maintaining the factory look.

Even under the bonnet doesn't really look anything other than factory, until you delve a little deeper that is. The standard 2.7 litre block has been replaced with a 3 litre item, twin turbos replaced with K16/K24 hybrids matched to MRC tubular manifolds with 980cc injectors to match. The result, an astonishing 700ps with 873nm of torque! As sleepers go I think this one is almost as good as it gets.

Ross

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1

this is very sexy indeed...

2

it's a B5...

3

thats a b5 chassis s4

4

The body is a B5 S4. And a very clean one at that. Car overall is done beautifully.

5

Ahhh, the S4 B5 - the best S4 version ever made, such tuning potential. And this one not only is fast but looks nice too!

6

ultimate.. and with bucket seat in the back - i can think of better rims to have put it on tho'.. but its still awesome!

7

come on its not sleeper every body know this audi is fast with awd and turbo >i would call it a sleeper if it have a v10 dodge viper engine yes now it have 700hp but still its v6 and smt u can expect

8

What a boring german technology. No soul at all..

9

Too big wheels for my taste.. makes it look a little bit like a monster truck.

10

I've seen the blue one (same car?) round here where i live and is hella quick...

12

Needs moar stile.

13

Yeah i dislike the rear seats and the big wheels 18" would of been nice in black.

14

Bucket seats in the back.... reminds me of the early 2000's.

15

OMG>>>>>>>>>>>>...................this is the perfect car you could drive it to work everyday humulate anything that trys to challenge u and you can take 4 friends to the track for the time og there lives

16

I have just seen the video of the maguiars meet by Stephen brooks, n the Audi sounds f**kin awesome.

17

Drop the wheel size to 18" with a nice meaty tire and it would be perfect. 20's are too big for the b5 body.

18

This car deserves better pictures!

19

Very very beautiful car!!

The understatement look fits perfectly!

21

This has to win any challenge of HP/subtle looks! Amazing restraint, wow.

22

it's a B5...

23

only Avant RS4s? quite an odd idea.

other than that, great car! i love sleepers. something really special about them

24

If anyone wants to hear what this beast sounds like, check out that "We are Players" video...... Awesome.

25

i love how they put in a current gen gauge cluster and steering wheel. ballin'

26

Oh man hottt! Sorta reminds me of Mines tunings except for a german 6cyl twin turbo awd car. Very subtle mods in all the right places with the look that it rolled off the assembly line like that. The power achieved is really top notch. What an amazing find being tucked away in a corner!

27

This car also has Anti-lag fitted, so you'd hear it coming...

28

Love the newer steering wheel!

Instruments are still the old ones...



Perfect car!

29

Very, very cool indeed. The CH's set it off perfectly.

30

Absolutely beautiful and insane car. As for sleeper however..... really??



Now just read this again:

"Sitting inconspicuously in an corner, MRC Tuning's B4 S4 Quattro just looked like a well prepared RS4 Quattro - That is until you remember that Audi only ever produced Avant versions of the B4 RS4 and not a saloon."



Ok ya, this car merely looks like a quaint and dull rs4 which *couch* only has a 380bhp twinturbo v6.... Have you ever seen a slower looking car than that? Sure its nice and subtle with its missing go-faster striping and yellow firebreathing pickachus on the fenders but this is not a sleeper.

31

It's a B5... and the wheels are too big.

32

Nice wheels, l love these BBS. Nice car.

33

It should have a normal chromed audi logo and stock headlight units. These 2 details ruin the whole idea if you ask me.. 18 inch would be better too, but thats less important.

34

How come SpeedHunters guys always get confused with German (euro cars in general). While they seem to get all JDM cars properly. I sense a bit of favoring here :)

35

A sleeper with wide arches and huge bbs rims is a first!

36

Amazing car = yes

Sleeper = no



Even corvette guys would think twice before betting against a de-trimmed widebody 4-Ring'er.



A car that appears very dull and slow, with loads of power - that's a "sleeper". The Dodge omni turbo was a sleeper. Forester XT was a sleeper.



A Q-ship is any big, understated fast sedan. Every AMG mercedes sedan is a "Q-ship".

37

Very sexy but far from a sleeper

38

henness, those are "stock headlight units" in the european market....

39

I can drive this monster every freakin day!

40

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4 minutes of porn!



Photoshoot pictures now up on facebook.com/mrctuning

41

"Sitting on Bilstein coilovers, the 20" BBS CH-R rims just add to the factory look. You could just imagine the car sitting in the showroom looking like this."

...yeah really. Thats so stupidly overtuned its no where near to factory look. 18" would've been perfect, imho. That right there is FnF for kiddies, wheel wise. Otherwise, its pretty brilliant. Awesome build and great looking car. Leave the rims.

43

stunning audi, although, i think 19' wheels would have looked better, there is just too much rim, slightly wider 19's me thinks.

44

all these haters are missing the point! beautiful!

45

"Boring" "no soul" I take it you have never owned one then.

Audi built THE car that put turbos where they are today and turned rallying on it's head overnight.

I drive a b5 s4 to work everday, i can afford a newer car with less miles and more power but why would i when i have the pleasure of driving the last of the proper audi's !!!!!!!!!!!!

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