This A6 will only sell in China.

 

This is a great point. I cancelled my S4 order for the E550. The new a4/s4 series have grown and have this 6'2" frame a lot if room.


I do not like the "pop" up nav

 

I was just visiting audi's site and explored the a6.......it stinks man......350 hp?
that's if you get the 4.2? how does this compare? because it's the same price range?
well, that's really where the similarities cease..........
my e550 is much nicer than that..........lol......................

 

I agree, that was the first thing I noticed. It looks awkward. It appears to be a 'normal' size screen, but looks out of proportion to the dash. We'll have to see what it looks like in person.

A friend of mine just bought a new F10 550i BMW. I really like the interior; it's somewhat Bauhaus looking. Or maybe kind of Scandinavian; like Ikea Very subtle but very sleek and ergonomic. And the latest iDrive and Nav makes COMAND look like a 1950s child's toy. The nav maps and the inter-connectivity of the iDrive system is superb.

BMW and Audi seem to be trending towards a continuity in form across all models. But rather than saying the 5 series looks like a bigger 3 series, it's probably more appropriate to say it looks like a smaller 7 series. The 5 and 7 are now built on the same assembly line.

 

You were looking at the A6 and it compares with the current W212 E350. Now go back and look at the S6 and compare it with the W212 E550........

 

okay......hehe.....V10, 435 hp, okay okay..(yipes)...... (for me)
way more expensive than the e550......

 

And the RS6 would compare to the E63. But they stopped exporting the RS6 to the USA a while ago. Although they may bring it in again. In the meantime, there's the new RS5 (a coupe, and competes with the M3 and the C63.) Take a look at it.......

 

props to you for not being a pinhead when your error was explained

 

S6 is a failure. V10 lamborghinni engine and 0-60 in 5.1s. Even an E550 can do 0-60 in 5.3s. In some car magazines, the S6 is slower than the E550. With that money, I'd just be getting M5 or E63.

 

overpriced? maybe

failure? no

 

no one is saying that you can't have an opinion. we know that you prefer a mb because ur a badge ***** but when presented with evidence and facts which support why your statement of "the a6 competes with the c class" is wrong you tell us to "suck it"? thats really classy and mature

 

It's interesting that R&T reviewed the S6 against the M5 and E63 back in 2007. They should have reviewed the RS6 against the MB and the BMW but the RS6 wasn't available here. But nonetheless they preferred the S6 as their number one choice. http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...n/results.html

It's great that we have such choices of car models from BMW, Mercedes, Audi, and Porsche (the Panamera is a really fantastic performer, too.)

You can't go wrong with any of these brand choices. None of them are necessarily better or worse.

 

hehe, E63!!
and then maybe the 10 K for the performance upgrade.....

 

I like A6 over E class, however due low resale value lease rates for A6 just soaring. People still do not accept Audi as real competitor for Merc and BMW. Same problem with Volvo, you can buy it cheap however lease cost is twive that I pay for E class

 

Those two look nothing alike! Of course there's the necessary Mercedes DNA, but they each have their subtle character uniqueness, which Audi (and BMW lately) doesn't, for better or worse (depending on who you ask). The W203 & W211 look exactly alike, with different sizes present, though).

Actually I just heard the A6 "L" is the biggest seller in China in that segment!

Yeah, BMW says that the 5/7/3 (or maybe upcoming 3)/5GT, and maybe more (?), are built on the "same" modular platform. I'm very interested in seeing what route they go with the next 3, as I think that's truly BMW's flagship vehicle.

I hate the pop-up screen too, and the next 6'er has it too. They look terribly cheap and aftermarket. No to mention obvious glare issues.

F10's interior is very "Ikea", now that you mention it. I think it's great either way as well.