Tuner ABT has gifted the Audi RS7 a beige paintjob… and 986bhp

Clearly appealing to the hitherto untapped market of ‘bored pensioners with a penchant for thousand-horsepower-German-hatchbacks’ comes ABT’s latest offering. Yes, it’s yet another stupendously modified Audi RS7 called the ‘Legacy Edition’.

Only, it is commendably beige and commendably insane, two traits never before combined in a high-end performance car. For this, TopGear.com salutes whomever specced the show car because frankly, there simply aren’t enough beige two-hundred-grand modified Audis in the world.

This one deploys fancy tech for the additional boost. ABT dubs it ‘indirect water/ethanol injection’, fitted ahead of the two throttle valves to cool the engine, allowing more air from the already-upgraded turbos running off already-upgraded intercoolers to be stuffed into the already-upgraded cylinders. Ergo, a not-at-all-beige output.

Or 986bhp – 1,000PS – as ABT calls it, coupled to 848lb ft of torque. It builds on ABT’s Legacy Edition package revealed earlier this year, including better pistons and rods and pins and an exhaust and so on.

On top of that, there’s all the visual menace you’d expect from a large, modified German V8 performance car - like vents and splitters and diffusers and spoilers and wide arches and massive wheels and so on - juxtaposed against an inoffensive car colour favoured by aforementioned pensioners. Look, we’re not at all suggesting the designers took inspiration from Top Gear Telly’s Rover James Multipla for the exterior, but now you can't unsee it either.

You likely won't see it full stop thanks to both the price and the exclusivity, the latter totalling just 200 cars, the former clocking in at €205,000 for the whole commendably beige package.