2009 Audi A6 3.0T vs. 2009 BMW 535i, 2009 Infiniti M45, 2009 Jaguar XF, 2010 ... - Car and Driver
On comparison tests, the cars with genetically ingrained faults—sometimes glaring, sometimes subtle and varied—will usually have confessed their sins by cocktail hour on Day One. The editors often won’t say anything initially—each man is free to vote without persuasion or influence from his obviously ignorant peers—but we individually already know who won’t be spraying the Dom Pérignon on the podium. It wasn’t until late on Day Three in the Hocking Hills of southern Ohio that various of us ceased saying, “I don’t know who’s gonna win—I like ’em all. “They’re all winners,” gushed assistant technical editor K. C. Colwell, who then added, “Did I just say that. I sound like one of those parents who tell their ADD-afflicted kids, ‘Just say “yes” to life—winning doesn’t matter. The last-place car in this group is a seductive gem of modern transport that any of us would love to own if we had a spare $50,000, which we don’t so won’t. The BMW’s inline six is twin turboed. The Benz E350 settles for a naturally aspirated V-6, while the Infiniti M45 and Jaguar XF cling to the aristocratic tradition of small-displacement V-8s. Three came with performance rubber, but the Jag and the Benz, bless their practical souls,... Alas, we must apologize for the BMW’s surpassingly wonderful six-speed manual, which came to us after BMW searched the. Source: www.caranddriver.com
