Audi A4 Avant Black Arrow by AVUS Performance

There's a certain, perverse sense of style in having a station wagon go fast. Or at least there is to some people. And it is a fine line to walk. We've all seen one to many kids in high school, gifted with their parent's wagon as a hand me down, and they try to make it into some sort of hot rod. It's usually a miserable failure on a number of levels that will cost them thousands of dollars in therapy just to get to the bottom of it.

Then there are cars like the Audi A4 Avant. They can be made into quick and stylish little beasts, especially when a German Audi tuning house like AVUS Performance gets their hands on one. The end product can, in this case is something called the Audi A4 Avant Black Arrow by AVUS Performance.

Yes, that name is about as subtle as, well, as subtle as any other name used by an aftermarket tuner these days. There are lots of interesting bits on the car here, and the most interesting might just be the engine. It is a 2.7-liter turbo diesel that used to put out 190bhp and 295 lb/ft of torque in stock Euro trim, but once AVUS Performance got done with it, it now puts out to 230bhp and 358 lb/ft thanks to a Stage 1 ECU upgrade.

AVUS Performance can do a treatment very similar to this to a bunch of different plants. If you don't have a 2.7 TDI diesel model, Avus can offer you the same performance upgrades for the 2.0 TDI and 3.0 TDI diesel engines as well. In addition to the Zaphod Beeblebrox exterior and the engine boosting, the Black Arrow A4 Avant also has big 21-inch alloy wheels finished in glossy black finish and the " of course we're going to put a suspension lowering kit on it" suspension work.

It must have been all those try but fail types we saw in high schools, because cars like this, and there's a slew of them all over Europe, because they just never seem to take much hold here in America.

Source: CarScoop