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Originally Posted by tturedraider
Just for clarity, the A4 has used a longitudinally mounted motor for a long time, including on the B8 chassis.
?? You bought the wrong BMW. And you didn't understand how BMW views AWD as opposed to how Audi views it. BMW designs and builds RWD cars. That's what you should have bought, with a sport suspension. BMW figures if you want xDrive you must live somewhere where you get a butt-load of snow and you really need to get through it no matter what. Otherwise you'd be buying what they designed, a RWD model. And, as has been mentioned, Audi doesn't make an A4 model that competes with the stock 335/340. The RS jumps higher than the 335/340 in both power and price. The ratio of 335/340 sales to 328/330 is much higher than the ratio of RS4 sales to A4 sales.
The bottom line between the two makes always comes down to this - if you buy a base Audi (A4, A6, even A8) you get a FWD car. If you buy a base BMW you get a weight balanced, RWD car. And RWD cars are capable of sportier driving dynamics than FWD cars are.
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340 competes with S4 pricewise, hpwise and sizewise, at least it used to. It used to have rear biased (60-40) AWD but that may have changed in B( as Audi has gone back to FWD/AWD system in A4 and Q5 and not sure about S4. I'm sure it will be fine but its basically FWD until you need AWD so I guess th e60/40 bias is gone.......