Audi S5: Driving report

The lucky guys from Fourtitude also had the chance to drive the new Audi S5. Luckily for us, they report about it. Read on.

For years, Audi has chosen to stay out of the ring, with nothing to pitch against BMW’s own 3 Series coupe. But now, Ingolstadt is back to square off against its Munich rival, not to mention the rest of the field. The company has fast-tracked the new S5 coupe to market, arriving months before the much-vaunted next-gen M3.

An S-badged coupe is kind of a big deal. It’s been twelve years since the European-only S2 coupe left market, and a full 23 years since the original ur-Quattro marked the most recent offering in this segment for the U.S.A. Since then, BMW has enjoyed a mainly un-rivaled dominance. Whereas the first Quattro taught the original M3 that blistered fenders were cool, today’s S5 finds itself more squarely facing the turbocharged BMW 335i, leaving the M3 fight to the rumored, much-anticipated and highly likely RS 5.

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Source: Fourtitude

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