Probably an oil leak is the culprit
In the summer you hear a lot about forest areas that are affected by forest fires, but a forest can also suffer from fire on the road. The fire brigade of Renkum and Heelsum had to turn out on Tuesday evening for a car fire along the highway. It turned out to be an Audi A6 of the police that apparently spontaneously caught fire. The Rapid Intervention Vehicle (SIV) was beyond rescue.
Police’s Audi A6 burned down on the A50 highway. No one was injured and ‘the officers were able to get most of their belongings out of their car just in time’, the fire service reported. The Renkum/Heelsum Fire Department reports to TopGear that the cause is probably a technical problem. According to the fire service, the Audi already had an oil leak, which could be the cause of the fire. For example, if oil gets on the hot exhaust or hot turbo, it can go fast.
The burned down Audi A6 is an older model
Judging by the rims, this is a police Audi A6 from the first batch. This generation A6 is gradually being replaced by the Audi A6 of the latest generation. The Audi you see here had 272 horsepower (fire usually doesn’t work wonders for power), and the new generation squeezes 286 horsepower from a 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine. The Audi A6 in the photo does, however, wear the new decals, which have been rolled out in phases since 2019 on all existing and new vehicles of Dutch emergency services.
