The long version

It never came to America new, so every RS2 here arrived through the 25-year import loophole, usually bought by someone who had wanted one since reading about it in a magazine decades earlier — a fandom with a two-decade waiting list built in. That patience does not always translate into miles once the car lands; a fair number get treated as the trophy the wait earned rather than the wagon Audi built to be used hard. The ones still doing school runs and grocery trips are increasingly the exception, not the rule the badge is starting to describe.