2023 Audi S6 Review: Stop Shouting – SlashGear

That includes embracing Audi’s elegant design language, which now looks even more restrained than when this generation of S6 launched back in 2020. Even then, the large — but not obnoxious — grille, sober silhouette, and crisp lighting looked mature and even a little conservative. These days, with rivals apparently competing to give their final few gas-powered vehicles the most ostentatious snout possible, the S6 feels like James Bond’s suit hung up amid Austin Powers’ wardrobe.

Audi actually has a couple of brighter colors — a fetching Tango Red, and a deep Ultra Blue — on the S6’s options sheet, though I’m a sucker for a darker metallic gray on a sedan like this. It looks and feels timeless, though here the $4,000 S Sport package and $2,500 Design Edition package do add a little more obvious presence.

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The former adds a sport exhaust and red brake calipers, along with all-wheel steering and the sport rear differential. The latter, meanwhile, includes 21-inch V-spoke design wheels, a black roof, Liquid Dark Chrome finish front and rear valance elements, an Audi Sport design interior, heated sports steering wheel, and Dinamica knee pads. $475 Audi S-beam lights round things out nicely.