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      11-12-2013, 06:56 AM   #45
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No, I'm not referring to a magazine review. I'm just talking about comments from actual owners of the cars.
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No, I'm not referring to a magazine review. I'm just talking about comments from actual owners of the cars.
Doesn't get any more biased than that... I wouldn't trust an M5 buyer's opinion of M5 vs S6 any more than I'd trust the S6 buyer on the topic.
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The review where the S6 is compared favorably is the one with the bias. This is the one you're referring to I presume:

http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...omparison-test

This review is utter nonsense as far as I am concerned. The cars are in two completely different classes. As far as I'm concerned, C&D stopped being a reliable source of automotive journalism several years back, around the time Csaba Csere left - or maybe even Brock Yates a couple years before that; which is why I stopped renewing my subscription.
I agree; pointless review. I wasn't aware that Csaba left C&D. A real shame since he possessed their last shred of objectivity and professionalism.
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I agree I love the whole wagon look. I would drive one I heart beat if they brought state side.

Especially the olderV10 twin turbo RS6.
Tuned and modded that car is crazy fast. Sounds pretty good as well from the videos I've seen.
+1!! New RS4 Avant would be very welcome!
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Doesn't get any more biased than that... I wouldn't trust an M5 buyer's opinion of M5 vs S6 any more than I'd trust the S6 buyer on the topic.
Well to be more precise it's not that they are biased because they own one. It's that they bought one because their tastes lead them to an M5.

This is an important difference. Self-selection and bias are not the same thing.

The problem is that there a few less illuminated people who buy not based on self-selection but based on what they read. These people often end up in the wrong car and then put it up for sale a few months later.
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I love the F10 forum...always entertaining.

If it's not an M5, it's garbage.....gotta love it!

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IMO, the review is clearly biased. The S6 (no R) is being compared favorably to the M5. There's no way an RS6 would not.
an S6 is no match to the M5 and those reviews must be out of wack....thats like saying an s4/335i/c350 rival the M3 and an s7/650i/cls500 rival the M6....so RS is in a league of its own?
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The article mentions the RS6 emits a supercharger 'whine' . . .

I thought these cars were turbo??
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I love the F10 forum...always entertaining.

If it's not an M5, it's garbage.....gotta love it!

It was a response before to the comparo between the M5 vs S6 which is somehow a nonsense
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      11-13-2013, 12:29 PM   #54
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First review I've seen praising the M5 steering. If RS6 steering is anything like the S5, I'm not surprised they didn't like it. It is very nice to look at though.

Not sure why they're calling the M5 half a second slower to 60 than the RS6 -- most people and mags are testing it at 3.6 - 3.7.
^^^ What he said
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