BTW, gas woes wont be only a US issue. Soon you will see the price spikes the US has seen. Let see if you complain when you are paying 2 – 2.5 Euros per liter.

As for the S5, I like it. A good competitor to the 335 coupe. I dont like the leds near the headlights. Looks too feminine like eyelashes or eyeliner. It could use AWD with RWD bias (since RWD isn’t an option for Audi). In that price range if I wanted a less common car (good thing) that is a comfortable ride I would pick the S5. If I wanted a better handling car I’d pick the 335 coupe and save $10k plus have to fill up less often.

So in your ancient, illogical, anti-standard measurement units, it costs 1.43900 (Euros per liter) = 8.40013877 U.S. dollars per US gallon. Darn pricey. It’s not that fun visiting the fuel stations with my A4 1,8T Quattro, although the four-wheel drive is pure awesome on icy rural roads.

So please, stop complaining about the “high” gasoline prices.

Audi, “Cars for the unAmerican in you.”

Also the real 0-60 time of the S5 is 4.8 sec.

…Uh, none.

Anyways, notwithstanding the GM payola scandal going on at LLN, these reviews are pretty good. They keep this up and they might get a real car magazine in print going.

http://www.carsdirect.com/build/options?zipcode=78620&acode=USB80AUC191A0&restore=false

I will agree that too much can be bad, but BMW’s interior are basic and bland. As a side note, BMW doesn’t apparently believe in their own logic as much as they like to talk about, as the 7-series appears to be the interior concocted by the Terminator himself, with more metallic/brushed metal looking knobs and switches to make a fighter jet pilot happy.

The last BMW i was in was my friends BMW 335i (very beautiful coupe imo). He chose the beige interior with some nice wood trim. When I got in the car, I felt like I wasn’t even in a typical BMW. We then went down to the dealer and they put me in the “traditional” black interior and I got that robbed feeling again.

Just recently, I stopped at a local Audi dealership because I saw an A5 rolling down the street. They had a few models in, including a “display only” S5. I sat in all the different cars with different interiors and even the black on black just left me with a great feeling. The interior of Audi is truly remarkable. It’s not too much, but not too little either. It’s just right. Everything is where you’d want it to be and you feel absorbed in the car. The Audi 5 series is truly gorgeous.

At first I disagreed with your 3.5 out of 5 for styling, but I understand what you mean that a lot of the lines SHOULD have been a bit more exaggerated. Personally, I thought the darker colors hid the lines of the car too much. In silver and white, especially in person (you can’t see the lines well in pictures) the car is gorgeous and their Silver color is metallic enough to be used as a mirror. Great quality.