2015 Audi S5 vs. Cadillac ATS Coupe 3.6, Lexus RC350 F Sport - Car and Driver (blog)
While the Cadillac and the Lexus both offer four-wheel drive, a core Audi standard feature, ordering that option adds weight and cost we chose to avoid. Also, the S5 is the performance A5 , whereas the four-wheel-drive ATS and RC350 coupes are intended more as all-weather interceptors than dry-road speeders, as indicated by the following facts: Cadillac locks you out of the ATS’s most aggressive... A V-6 is standard in the Audi and Lexus, so selecting Cadillac’s 3. 6-liter six made more sense than going with its power-lean, torque-rich 2. 0-liter turbo four. That choice aligns the three power peaks, though Audi’s supercharged-small-displacement strategy gives the S5 a significant torque advantage—325 pound-feet versus Cadillac’s 275 and Lexus’s 277. Most of that extra grunt is nixed by the S5’s... To winnow the great from the merely good, we ran these two-doors through our test gantlet in California City, California, then mounted a southwesterly trek crossing the San Andreas Fault to Jalama Beach on the Pacific Ocean. Source: www.caranddriver.com
