Quickly, Audi established itself as a manufacturer of premium automobiles, with models such as the A3 ... BMW offers is driving pleasure, regardless of whether you're shelling out for an M5 ...

The infotainment might be inferior to the BMW’s, but the Audi has the nicer cabin, one that looks strikingly uncluttered and clean after its chintzier rival. You sit down lower than in the M5 ...

If it was the original BMW 3-Series that invented the compact luxury car market segment all those years ago, then it’s probably fair to claim it was Audi’s A3 franchise that gave rise to the luxury ...

Witness the RS6 Avant GT, a spectacular last hurrah for Audi’s petrol-powered ... There’s more than a whiff of M5 CS about the RS6 GT. I can remember thinking BMW had jumped the shark ...