Market Find: Audi exclusive Samoa Orange RS 6 avant

What: 2022 Audi RS 6 avant
Color: Audi exclusive Samoa Orange (samoaorange; metallic UNI; X2U; Audi)
VIN:  WUA1CBF22NN903358
Mileage: 25,227 miles
Price: $109,995
CarFax: N/A
Window Sticker: N/A
Location: Staten Island, NY
Listing: Brooklyn Auto Sales

If there was ever a car that fit the Tailored Driver ethos, this is quite possibly it. George and I had met previously, but really bonded over driving then-new Samoa Orange Audi models- his a TT competition, mine the boss’s S5 – and attending just about every VW Group event in the Mid-Atlantic. Denis was a big part of that as well. Fast forward a few years, and George dropped an RS 6 Tribute edition in our group chat, a car that had until recently been impossible to attain stateside, pulling trigger shortly after. In those ways and others, we can directly trace the roots of Tailored to this color and later this model. For us, that’s plenty of reason to get excited. For others, perhaps it’s the thought of a wagon in an R8 sourced hue, massaged by APR that’d leave any road-going and box stock R8 in the dust. Regardless, this Tailored Driver would make for one hell of a statement piece.

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Color Focus: Audi Samoa Orange Metallic – X2U

Believed to be used initially as a launch color for the R8 GT, Samoa Orange Metallic (samoaorange; metallic UNI; X2U; Audi) embraced Audi’s heritage for earth tones in the late 2000s, a time that also birthed Ipanema Brown and Teak Brown. This fiery dark orange would later be used as more of a standard color when the first-generation R8 got its facelift, then later on the TT competition. It even shows up on an R8 Mk2 on screen as Tony Stark’s R8 Coupé in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. As a result, Samoa Orange Metallic remains a popular choice in the extended Audi exclusive color palette.

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