It's not polite to talk about a person's weight, but cars aren't people. Accordingly, the particularly generous heft of the latest Audi RS5 will be spotlighted and scrutinized below. This time around, Audi's much-coveted performance car has really packed it on. In fact, it's up by 1,200 pounds versus the outgoing machine, and now clocks in at 5,192 pounds.It's important to understand how we got here. Though Audi has generations of weight-saving innovations under its belt, little could prevent the inevitable weight-creep of adding heavy new hybrid hardware to the powertrain team. The latest RS5 follows a common trend of adding plug-in hybrid (PHEV) technology to an existing and finely-honed performance V8 platform to extend its output, emissions, and fuel economy performance. Like many competitors in the space with boosted V8 engines under the hood, PHEV tech is deployed to protect the survival of the V8 engine. Thing is, PHEV tech is also pretty heavy.As we proceed to help readers visualize exactly how heavy the latest Audi RS5 is, keep in mind that the weight figures used below are slightly rounded for easy reading, and often reflect an average of various volume trim grades and equipment configurations. Take the following as an expert comparison for illustrative purposes, as actual curb weights may vary slightly. Your Three-Row Family SUV Is Probably Lighter Ford Explorer_Pope Leo XIV_01 - Copy If you parked a Ford Explorer and Audi RS5 next to each other, would you believe the RS5 was the chunkier machine by nearly 500 pounds? As automakers push for more power and efficiency, most advances have been used to give shoppers a bigger and more powerful vehicle that's a little easier on fuel, rather than holding size and output steady while reducing fuel consumption.Today's modern SUV is, therefore, generally respectable on fuel given its steady increase in size and weight. Still, at 5,192 lbs, the Audi RS5 has hundreds of pounds on many modern SUV favorites, including the Toyota Grand Highlander (4,500 lbs), Honda Passport (4,300 lbs), Kia Telluride (4,400 lbs), Jeep Grand Cherokee L (4,800 lbs), and Toyota Land Cruiser (5,037 lbs). Even as SUVs have continually become larger, most are still lighter than the RS5. It Weighs The Same as The Tesla Model X SUV 2025 Tesla Model X front, falcon doors openIf there's a very close twin for the RS5's weight on our list, it's the Tesla Model X. This all-electric SUV features trick 'Falcon Wing' doors that open upwards, a massive cabin, and a 5,148-pound curb weight for most models. The extreme-performance Model X Plaid, at 5,248 lbs, is in the RS5's ballpark, too. Other machines in this weight class include the Ford Bronco four-door, built on a ladder-frame structure with built-in skid-plating, which weighs about 5,200 lbs. It Weighs As Much As Three Original Honda CRXs 1991 Honda CRX SiThe original Honda CRX was untouched by electrification, complexity, modern safety innovations, and any form of connectivity. The small, lightweight economy hero of the eighties and nineties was slim on the scales, with the lightest versions weighing just 1,713 lbs. This wasn't a design goal per se, but rather a reflection of the absence of excessive size and complication in the era. Weight begets weight, since smaller cars need smaller brakes, smaller engines, and smaller suspension and structural parts, which keep things slim. You'd have to stack three original Honda CRX's onto the scale to equal the weight of a single, modern-day Audi RS5. It's Still Lighter Than a BMW M5 2026 BMW M5 sedan rear, three-quarter Though BMW has long been a leader in lightweight tech, the latest M5 is a PHEV just like the RS5, and has a similarly hefty curb weight to match. Adding hybrid tech to its twin-turbo V8 engine spiked the M5's weight to 5,390 lbs, a tick heavier than the RS5 on the scales. Like the RS5, the latest M5 adapted heavy PHEV tech to move its twin-turbo V8 engine to the modern era, dialing up power and torque while enabling all-electric driving capabilities for shorter trips. The Mercedes-AMG S65 with twin-turbo V12 was in that universe as well, at 5,200 lbs. This means the RS5 also weighs about the same as a twin-turbo V12 limousine with an enormous back seat. The W12-powered Bentley Continental GT is in the same universe, if you're counting. A Mazda MX-5 and A Mazda 3 Weigh Just As Much 2026 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring-1 The Mazda MX-5 is one of the lightest affordable cars on the road today, at around 2,400 pounds. Though heavier than the original MX-5, the lowest possible curb weight has always been a key engineering goal for the popular roadster. Pop one on a scale with an RS5 on the other side, and you'd still need another 2,800 lbs to balance things out. A modern Mazda3 would do the trick. Pound for pound, one Audi RS5 weighs as much as a Mazda MX-5 and a Mazda3 combined. It Weighs As Much As Two Nissan Versas Exactly 2025 Nissan Versa 5 Speed The lightest Nissan Versa in 2025 was the base-model unit with manual transmission, which comes in at 2,599 pounds. Two such copies of this perfectly reasonable small car would weigh in at 5,198 pounds. That's just six pounds (roughly a standard, medium watermelon, if you're counting) heavier than a single Audi RS5. Most Half-Ton Pickups Are Lighter 2019_ram_1500_front-1Surely, the RS5 can't be heavier than a half-ton pickup truck, can it? The answer is actually surprising. Though there are a nearly infinite number of possible curb-weight configurations across modern pickup truck model lines, many a half-ton is actually lighter. A Ford F-150 4x4 Super Crew weighs about 4,500 pounds. A Chevrolet Silverado High Country 4x4 with Crew Cab body weighs in at about 5,080 pounds. A Ram 1500 HEMI 4x4 Laramie Crew Cab comes in at 5,009 lbs. In this way, it's fair to say that most half-ton, non-hybrid pickups on the road are lighter than the new Audi RS5. It Weighs As Much As A Pair of '90s Poster Cars, Too 1994 McLaren F1 The original McLaren F1 weighed 2,509 lbs, including a BMW-built V12 engine behind the passenger cell. The Ferrari F50 weighed in at 2,712. For reference, the average weight of these two V12-powered icons is in the same ballpark as a modern MX5 with an occupant or two on board. If you dropped both these early supercars onto one side of a scale and the 2027 Audi RS5 onto the other, it'd be almost perfectly balanced: the combined weight of the two nineties supercars is just 29 pounds (roughly one standard toddler) more than the modern RS5. The RS5 Is Far From The Heaviest Machine On The Road 2026 GMC Hummer EV Pickup 1st Gen (37) Though the RS5 is a hefty brute, it's far from the heaviest machine on the road today. The heaviest machines today are generally all-electric 4x4 truck and SUV models, including machinery like the GMC Hummer EV, Silverado EV and Escalade IQ. As a group, these machines cover the 8,000 to nearly 10,000-pound range, nearly doubling the RS5's weight. The Original Quattro Shows Us How Heavy Performance Cars Have Become 1980 Audi Quattro If we compare the weight of Audi's original Quattro to their latest RS5, it's easy to see how heavy performance cars have become. Back in 1980 when the original Audi Quattro hit the scene, it brought rally racing technology onto the street and formed the technological blueprint of many fast Audis to follow, with a turbocharged engine and permanent AWD. Back then, the Quattro's curb weight of about 2,900 lbs was on the heavier side, but the advantage in AWD grip more than compensated. If you're wondering, that's about the same weight as a modern Subaru BRZ. Today, the modern RS5 weighs 2,292 pounds (roughly one Chevrolet Spark) more than the original Quattro.Sources: Audi
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