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07-27-2010, 04:59 PM | #1 | |
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Motortrend: M3 Wins Again! Still Benchmark for RS5 and CTS-V
Comparison: 2013 Audi RS 5 vs 2011 BMW M3 vs 2011 Cadillac CTS-V
Where Eagles Dare: We Take America's Hottest New Performance Coupe Deep Into Enemy Territory From the September, 2010 issue of Motor Trend / By Angus MacKenzie / Photography by Mark Bramley Summary: Quote:
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07-27-2010, 05:40 PM | #2 |
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wowowowow!!! M sounded INSANE right at the end of the video when he hit the M button. M= King of the road
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07-27-2010, 05:43 PM | #3 |
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Nice find! I have no urge to ever dump the M3 for any of these cars.
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makes my 2 month wait even more painful
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07-27-2010, 06:28 PM | #6 |
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I really like M3 more then the other two and I am glad it won.
But I just can't deny the fact that CTS-V coupe has a lot of power under that hood and did I hear that right that it has a steering feel better then the M3. I have to say that if caddy loses some weight and uses that extra length and width for more roomy back seats. In addition to also improve its old 6-speed auto tranny. The CTS-V can be some thing really amazing. |
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Sounds nice, but I cannot get over the god awful horrible slushbox sound of the DCT. Just too much like an automatic almost identical. Nothing crisp about it.
BAAAAAHHHHbaaaaaaaaaa Yuck! Hate it!
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The M just sounds so sweet in that clip
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With all the "BMW M3 is King" articles these past few days, it's getting overwhelming. Man do I love this car.
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From MotorTrend:
" BMW's M3 has long been the segment's benchmark, but it's not perfect. Left to shift itself, the seven-speed transmission is clunkier than the Audi's. The steering-wheel rim feels fat and clumsy, and these days Hyundais have better-looking interiors (our car's all-black interior looked particularly cheap and nasty). But the M3 is still the most sharply focused driver's car of this bunch, a scalpel among sledgehammers." Ouch!!!!!
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The Novillo extended is gorgeous - what do they expect to see in these cars?
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he does mention in the end that the interior just lacks a tad bit on visual drama, but the rest of the sections on the car more then make up for it... So obviously the M3 is not the perfect halo car, but in its segment and for that matter against all the cars it has ever been put up against, it always came on top overall, and thats true testament to what the M brand stands for |
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But I also wonder if all three were manuals it would have been very interesting indeed
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How embarrassing for the Audi RS5... the thing didn't even come out yet and gets beat by a 3 year old car... so sad.
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I am proud to say I am an owner of the M3!!!!
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this is a good, fair and balanced review in my opinion.
It reinforces my decision to get the CTS-V sedan, which I did, back in late 08 when the 09 V came out. Interestingly--I had narrowed it down to the M5 and the V, and I wouldn't have thought to compare it to the M3 (Maybe because I already have a highly modified 335 that runs 11s). But It may be a good comaparison (the M3 and the V) when your talking about the V coupe. the factual stuff is easy--the V wins the performance part handily. The subjective part is highly a matter of opinion....but I can see how the M3 does so well being the owner of a BMW myself. All in--if I were buying now--I would take the V again. Just too fast and agile to say no to. My two cents....
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