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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
E28 M5 vs 95.5 Audi S6
can a comparison be made?
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The comparison has to boil down to use.
The Audi would make a better daily driver, and a better all-weather car. It is a quiet, comfortable, luxurious grand tourer when you are commuting, and your personal rocketship when you hoon it. Perfect rooster-tail-shooting four-wheel-drifts are possible if you want to play rally car driver for the day.
The BMW is more engaging, visceral, and 'light'. It's a sports car with sedan sheetmetal. It's not as luxurious. It's not as quiet. It's not as comfortable. The clutch is heavier in stop-n-go driving. But it is the ultimate partner in crime on any twisty back road or deserted freeway.
The Audi's engine is robust and just a boost-tweek away from big power. But it does it without fanfare. The M's engine is, again, engaging and intoxicating. And expensive. But both engines are pretty bulletproof. Both gearboxes can have troubles. Both are expensive to fix, overall, anything M-related will make you gasp.
The M5 would be more 'fun' but isn't that what a 911 is for? Buy the ur- S4/S6 as a DD and have a 911 for a toy.
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