BMW M5 vs the Audi RS6 page 2

The M5 is fitted with the 17' winter wheels and the optional lightly tinted tinted rear windows. The Audi RS4 with it's noticable chrome rear sideviewmirrors that characterisies the S (Sport)and RS (Renn-Sport) cars.   Here is the RS4 and the RS6 sedan again. Short summary The results where a bit surprising to me. First we did a short little test against the clock form 0-200 km/h with a stopwatch which is quite inexact. We got 16,9 s to 200 km/h which is an OK time especially with automatic and 4WD. With 4WD it's very easy to launch the car. Both from outside and inside it has a nice deep euro-V8 rumble. I didn't really take notice to how fast the gearchanges of the autmatic gearbox were but it felt OK. What surprised me was how fast you got to know the car. It didn't take too many seconds before you could go full power with as much confidence. I assume it's more thanks to the 4WD system than the active suspension system. So after some short spins it was time for a little crossing of Teutonic Swords! The smaller teutonic sword which is the M3. To be fair we did a rolling start from 50 km/h because of the 2WD M3 would have traction problems with the winter tires. So first race was behind the M3 up to a litle over 200 km/h. It was totally equal to my surprise since I though the torque of the RS6 would overtake the M3. So we did one run more. Same result. The I said to the M3 driver: "OK go as fast as you can and try to outrun me". And we hit it from 50 km/h. Same result. I was postivly surprised how well the RS6 felt in high speed corners, I had total confidence in the car. But I could never overtake the M3 E46. So the bottom line was that the RS6 is a nice package: good handling at high-speed corners and under full acceleration. Very easy to launch at red lights, M5 owners beware. Always try to start to race from a rolling start. But when the race is on the RS6 can't pass a M3 or M5 in the interval up to 230 km/h that we tried. It might overtake the M3 when it changes to 5th gear around 230 km/h. But the M5 is another match. Apparantly the RS6 have a little higher top speed than the M5 296 km/h but we'll see... The 4WD system apparently eats up alot of the 450 HP at hand and the difference isn't clearly noticable. We are always online on the bmwm5.com Messageboard   This is a cooperation between bmwm5.com, rs6.com and sportbil.com. We will post films, articles and pictures on: bmwm5.com rs6.com zon.se sportbilen.se   Please come back to this place to see the videos. Notice: we have video on everything and it will be hosted here.