[s-cars] BMW 530ix a UrS4 replacement?

[LL - NY]

Autoweek did an article last week on the RS4. It said in pure performance
numbers, it'll spank an M3. Their complaint was that the typical Audi
(their words)
lack of steering feel compared to a Bimmer made things seem less involved even
whilst doing the spanking. And this was with the new rear biased Quattro 
system. Still sounds like an awesome car, and there are no AWD M's
to compare to the RS4. 

LL - NY

On 6/1/05, Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote:
> Delving in to my foggy memory banks I seem to recall that they added
> more rear bias to the new RS4.  Perhaps Quattro is finally "fixed" on
> that car at least.
> 
> Gabriel Caldwell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Maddock [mailto:keith.maddock at gmail.com]
> Sent: June 1, 2005 3:21 PM
> To: dave flagg
> Cc: Joe Petersack; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] BMW 530ix a UrS4 replacement?
> 
> dave flagg <dfautohaus at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > Why does NOBODY ever mention that fact that BMW's "all
> > wheel" driveline doesn't even come close to the Quattro.
> 
> The E30 325ix, E46's, and X5 (pre 2004ish) all had a pretty crappy
> triple-open-differential setup which relied on basically "Triple EDL"
> to control wheelspin with the brakes when the  surface traction wasn't
> even left vs right , or 38% front, 62% rear.
> 
> However the new 3 series, later X5's and the new 5 series have the
> X-Drive, which is a very competent AWD system and I would rate it as
> better than Quattro in several categories, espeically in that it has a
> natural rear bias and is actively controlled to regulate
> understeer/oversteer behaviour.   So far haven't seen "Quattro" do
> that...
> 
> I'd be happy with either system, but I wouldn't take a older
> triple-open-diff system unless I was really forced to.
> 
> Cheers,
> Keith
> 
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