The Audi RS6 Avant is the distant roof of dreams and is a new car on the rise with high demand opportunists are already circulating to make a quick buck. However, delve into the sales history of some of the low-mileage examples available now and you’ll learn something surprising: it’s not just predators lone wolves playing on the market. Canadian dealers are also in the game of inversion.
No wonder the fins are on the case. The RS6 Avant, an autobahn stormer and occasional clue toy, comes with a 591-horsepower V8, quattro four-wheel drive and Audi technology in a package that increases your heart rate just by looking at it.
How Road and trail found that Canadian dealerships were among the first to retrieve the stock of the RS6 station wagon. Some of these resellers decided to launch them at auctions. These wagons, now technically used cars, were sent across the border to American dealers. The practice sounds very clever – Canadian resellers made a profit without any bargains from a customer.
Check Cars.com for used RS6 Avants and you will see many advertised for more than one sticker. Some of these cars are so few miles long that you would think their owners took them home and immediately put them up for sale. But CarFax’s checks will reveal that many of these cars were registered for the first time in Canada before ending up at a dealership in the United States. See this beautiful example for sale in Wisconsin:
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Your CarFax indicates two previous owners in Ontario, despite having only 154 miles on their odometer.
Please note that buying a recent vehicle originating in Canada can bring some headaches. Even though these are the same cars that you can buy here, sometimes they have VINs that will not appear in a DMV system. Some dealerships don’t even touch the cars that come from Canada, Car and driver reports.
Although the launch of RS6 Avants by Canadian dealerships probably made sense at launch, it doesn’t now. Check the New box on Cars.com and you’ll find more new cars around the sticker than the used ones. So there is really no reason to buy an RS6 Avant, but still technically used, which had two or three previous owners.