In the early 1990s, Volkswagen Group set a corporate objective to design and produce a passenger car that met ambitious fuel-efficiency targets through the application of lightweight construction and advanced aerodynamics.
An index of all Audi models from the post-war era spanning from the brand's post-war rebirth until the shift to the modern alphanumeric naming convention.
Introduced for the 1994 model year, the Audi RS2 Avant represented the first production model to wear the RS designation and marked the beginning of what would become Audi's highest-performance road car lineage.