These Audi S5 and BMW 440i are the sportiest versions of A5 and Series 4 … before the brutal RS and M. What is the best sport? And best coupe? We measure and face …

The Audi S5 and BMW 440i are specialists of speed, but also cars that are good for everything. With these “sports centers” you can enjoy a comfortable ride, travel with pleasure and pass through the city every day without becoming a torture. But also They are very good at what he does, sportsmanship, complementing an attractive image and the pleasure of having an Audi or a BMW, value so they are also desired.

As he Audi S5 BMW 440i as are sports coupe with six-cylinder engines of gas. He Audi offers 354 hp, AWD and a termination S sportier presentation, with close to 78,000 euros. He BMW is 20,000 euros cheaper, has 28 hp less And it is rear-wheel drive. To bring them some extras must be added in the 440i, such as the Pack M (3,787 euros) or termination M Sport (5,500 euros), the automatic transmission (2,544 euros) and xDrive (2,600 euros). This difference final price is set at 10,000 euros, which is as close as you can be. Now let’s see if the performance is as far as price and if it compensates pay that difference or not.

Audi S5 vs BMW 440i: inside

As you can imagine, quality Audi S5 and BMW 440i is the best market. 4 Series is awaiting a slight facelift that has already been presented and will arrive in summer, so if you choose this car you should keep in mind. Like any comparison between Audi and BMW, the Bavarian brings a more sober than his rival interior design, and that is if there is something that stands Audi is to make attractive cockpits. Sobriety is not a defect, it is a feature, so here are the personal tastes.

Yes it is true that the Audi S5 perceive greater technological burden, mainly due to elements such as configurable digital box or the new multimedia system who received the A4 and A5 in a recent update. However, you will not find a poor fit or poor ergonomics neither of which seem born to rival even in who hides best use screws or less tolerance between parts; That’s a healthy war for US buyers.

BENEFITS	Audi S5	BMW 440i
Acel. 0-100 km / h	4.52 s	5.67 s
Acel. 0-1000 meters	23,6 s	24,5 s
Overtaking 80-120 km / h	3,14 s	2.96 s
Loudness 100 km / h	65 dB	67 dB
Loudness 120 km / h	68.3 dB	69.8 dB
Braking from 140 km / h	68.2 m	77.1 m
Weight scale	1,748 kg	1,680 kg

Audi S5 vs BMW 440i: engines

Six cylinders. V engine at 90 degrees (Audi) Or online (BMW), Each in his usual style and radically different technologies but with many “similarities”. Both employ cylindering three liter (With longest race in the Audi S5), fully variable valve timing and fixed geometry turbo double shell (One for each cylinder 3). The BMW 440i is an electronic evolution of the previous 35i (N55), while the Audi S5 belongs to the new family of engines of VW Group, using the same base V6 and V8 which launches the Porsche Panamera, although the latter two turbos. Both are complemented by gearbox 8 speed by torque converter, the usual function of driving and sailing or sports management.

The performance of both is more than satisfactory both for sound or feel as a result. Despite the difference in power and initial focus, they are not so far from each other. For our test BMW gave us a unit without all-wheel drive, which when benefits the lower internal friction helps the Audi S5 is not demolishing the outcome, to the extent that in the BMW 440i recoveries manages to be faster. Not straight you’ll appreciate the speed difference since the data that the two threw in our measurements are good enough for the slower you love it. The important difference not look there is behavior.

CONSUMPTION	Audi S5	BMW 440i
Consumption city	10.6 l / 100 km	10.3 l / 100 km
Consumption Highway	8.5 l / 100 km	6.6 l / 100 km
average consumption	9,3 l / 100 km	8,1 l / 100 km

Audi S5 vs BMW 440i: Behavior

The fact that one is all-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive and the other changes the way to deliver the power, but there are also differences of geometries and especially differential. Even if the xDrive version of the BMW 440i in, does not support extra sports vector self-locking rear differential (1,715 euros in the Audi), besides the central self-locking. In normal use they are relatively comfortable, the suspension works with low quality and there is plenty to get around town and suburbs on long marches. They can be used perfectly every day with pleasure and moderate consumption. Highway or motorway so does, there is both good torque motor and seem monomarcha cars and do not spend much.

So far, provided it does not rain, I see that compensate overpay for the Audi except for taste for a particular brand, design or the pleasure of the modern interior of the S5. It’s more, 440i BMW will spend less forever, even if it is the xDrive version. Now, they are sporty and may have reached them to have the most effective. In this case the differences in behavior does see them important enough to tip the balance.

SPACE	Audi S5	BMW 440i
front width	141 cm	141 cm
rear width	126 cm	130 cm
front height	93-100 cm	92-98 cm
rear height	87 cm	86 cm
Legroom	70 cm	74 cm
Trunk	460 liters	420 liters

I appreciate the pleasures of propulsion, but in this case I liked the sporty feel and efficiency of Audi, not have a bad opponent, but offer greater sportiness. The S5 transmits light more poise in driving is more incisive at the entrance and if you want to complicate life can delight a rear axle with air propulsion. The BMW, with excellent performance, does not convey the sense of ease of Audi a high rate. If we choose the xDrive are closer at ease, but the S5 always delivers more traction sportsmanship.

With a BMW 440i have plenty to be happy but altogether more complete the S5; It is also more expensive, of course. If we put everything in the balance at the end and factory conditions without extra car out winning the S5, which I think is one of the best Audi that have been made. BMW 440i is the big car with an impressive engine, but perhaps with a more “quiet” orientation. To convert rival S5 must be “angry” character going to extras M Performance and put a posteriori the limited slip rear differential (3,361 euros) and then athletically would be closer, but without trying it do not I can guarantee. Of course, if you are just looking sporty aesthetic or a good engine, both of you will fall in love.

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