Latest AUTOCAR Test: RS4 vs V8 M3

[spydersingh]

Has anybody read the latest Autocar proclaiming that the RS4 is better than the latest M3?

Had a quick flick thru it and I'm still in shock!

As stereotypical as this may sound, I have always felt that Audi's were always dynamically inferior to BMW on a whole, but are things a changing? I hope not!

[spydersingh]

disad-vantage-d said:

stevesingo said:

3, So M3's will sell like hotcakes until something better will come along and then the Jones' will be clambering to buy the next big thing. What will that be...M3CS/CSL. Oh Dear. So all of the M3 owners run back to the dealers and trade in their one year old M3's (with a pretty big loss I imagine) for the CS/CSL for about £55k plus and the CS/CSL's fly out of the showroom. The dealers are left with plenty of M3's to sell at a profit as a bonus.

I feel there may be some accuracy in this comment. We have all read that BMW is readying a CSL version of this car much earlier than they did with the E46 CSL. Perhaps THAT is really the new M3 that we have all been waiting for and this version in the meantime is a `M3 lite'. At the end of the day they are a business whose primary concern is making money.........??

There maybe some logic in this as previous quotes have mentioned the price point of the new M3 against equiptment levels ie poor brakes.

Maybe BMW have learnt something from the E46 ie 3 variants being the Standard Spec, CS and CSL.

Either way, i'm still holding on to my deposit!