Audi RS6 Avant is the long roof of dreams and is a hot new car with high-demand opportunities are already around to make a quick buck. Look in the sales history for some of the small mile examples available now and you’ll learn something surprising: it’s not just lone wolf predators playing in the market. Canadian dealers are also at stake.
No wonder the flips are on the case. RS6 Avant, a highway and occasional track toy, packs a 591-horsepower V8, quattro all-wheel drive and Audi technology in a package that increases your heart rate just by looking at it.
As Road & Track found out, the Canadian representations were among the first to obtain the stock of the RS6 wagon. Some of these dealers decided to put them up for auction. These wagons, now technically used cars, were sent across the border to American dealers. The practice seems pretty smart – Canadian dealers have made a profit without negotiating with a customer.
Check it out Cars.com for used RS6 Avants and you will see many ads for more than sticker. Some of these cars are so few miles away that you would think the owners drove them home and put them up for sale immediately. But CarFax checks will show that many of these cars were first registered in Canada before reaching a dealer in the United States. Take this beautiful example for sale in Wisconsin:
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His CarFax points Two previous Ontario owners, despite having only 154 miles per kilometer.
Keep in mind that buying a recent vehicle from Canada can bring some headaches. Even though these are the same cars you can buy here, they sometimes have VINs that will not appear in a DMV system. Some dealerships will not even touch cars coming from Canada, Car and driver reports.
While the RS6 Avants relaunch of the Canadian representations probably made sense at launch, now it doesn’t. Select New box at Cars.com and you’ll find more new cars around the sticker than used ones. So there is no reason to buy a small but still technically used RS6 Avant, which had two or three previous owners.