NEW Audi RS6 vs BMW M3 Touring review - what's the best super estate? | What Car? 

M3 is epic!! RS6 looks gorgeous!!

I’ve wanted the M3 Touring since they announced it years ago but unfortunately it’s not sold in North America so I have an RS6 Performance on its way from Germany. On our fairly rough Canadian roads the RS6 will be the much better choice and certainly my wife and family will prefer it’s ride and interior, but the 2% of the time I’m on a twisty toad alone I’ll wish I was pushing the M3. That said the walk up to RS6 will always make me smile. I don’t at all mind the views of the M3, I never hated the grill but the RS6 is the better looking car by my eye, and it’s not close. Great cars, great review.

BMW for me! Can’t wait for the M5 Touring😍

My mate has an RS4 and loves it. He tried the 6 but felt it was just too big and too thirsty. He's a motorcycle world champion and has the money but felt the 4 is just the better vehicle. For me either the 4 or the M3 Touring would be ideal.

Standard rs6 has rear wheel steer as well. Not just the performance.

The price reasoning doesn't make sense, so the rs4 starts at 70k, the m3 at 86k and the rs6 at 115k. Still makes the rs4 and m3 a much closer comparision price wise

All my life I dreamt for an RS4-RS6…and now that I can, I ordered the M3 touring. It’s just fresher in every aspect.. design / experience / fun / technology… the m3 touring just made BMW level up. It’s almost as if they stole the estate show. Time for Audi new CEO to step up!

It's compared to the RS6 because everyone knows its better than the RS4. I've had Audi's all my life and I'm upgrading from RSQ3 to the M3 Touring.

It's always an M3 against other cars 😂

Crazy the m3 is so comparable to the rs6. If the m5 touring becomes a thing it’s lights out for the bmw 🏆

Clearly a watch enthusiast, wearing a Seagull 1963 chronograph.

Great review, thank You! Well as a M340 G21 user i would take Rs6, this car simply looks so good......

Rs6 no matter what ❤

Very good video. Two beautiful cars!

Both superb cars but the RS6 takes my heart. What a car 🚀

Amazing review. Nice guy. Very captivating written.

I like this guy a lot. Top review 👊

They weren't ment to be in the same class,but there we go BMW has beat Audi in its own game by creating this M3 touring Beauty.

Which is more comfortable as a daily ?

wouldnt the RS4 be a more relevant comparison? It's a closer comparsion do m5 vs rs6?

Had the v8 RS4 - loved it. Daily driver doing lots of regular work trips so long range comfort plus performsnce is critical. The BMW would be lovely/superb for a Sunday driver: engaging, tight, quick etc but I wouldn’t want it for relaxing competent work drives. So I’ve had the new RS6 for 8 months. It’s great. All I want it to be. Would I like the BM ? Yes, but as an extra and not in lieu. Different things for different needs.

What’s the point of having this comparison. It should be RR6 vs m5 or RS4 vs m3

I went with Sebring Black, Exterior Carbon package, 22” Matte Black wheels, Blue Carbon weave interior. It’s on a ship… hope it’s under the tree for Christmas!

What a lovely dilemma to have if you can fund it. The RS6 P seems ideal for more major roads but the M3 T scores heavy on nimbleness and its size seems to more appropriate for our narrowish roads. However given the holed nature of the roads in the UK an old Defender with steel wheels may be the quicker option if you include visits to the tyre shop for replacements.

For design, the V8 the quattro heritage I’m and Audi fan through and through RS6 all day long.

Do super estates have be for petrol head?

I'm a bmw fan-boy, but that RS6 still looks beautiful outside.

You missed the upgraded Audi RS 4 with Competition Plus package….

The M3 is the best “one car” garage vehicle out there. It’s a Swiss Army knife and does lots of things well. I’m an RS6 driver and I can afford to have a few vehicles. You can’t beat the RS6 as a daily (comfort, looks, practicability etc) and for the weekends I’ll take something with two doors are rear wheel drive thanks. But, if I could only have one car forever I’d probably end up in the M3.

Fantastic cars, just really down to personal preference, its win, win either way

The interior of the Audi A6 looks like something from the past. Beautiful and up-to-date is different. It boasts the BMW when you bring up a car a class above with quite a few issues on par.

What car has taken the back hander from Audi

Bmw m3 touring faster than audi love you bmw ❤

RS6 is the ultimate daily. Period

alpina B3 touring for me please

Ffs... should be comparing M3 touring against RS4 not RS6. RS6 is a class above, it's in BMW 5 series category 🙄🙄

You are not even in the S mode in the RS6...

SUV market is killing the estate segment

The RS6 perf. Engine are identical to the standard RS6, Urus etc. Only diffrent software. So the turbos a no bigger.

The comparison still makes zero sense...

Will be hard to pick. Theyre both good daddy cars

Which one attracts less scrotes to your driveway? On that basis I’d go for the M3.

Both cars look fantastic but after owning both brands I find the quality and Finnish on Audis superior to BMW they also spend less time in the garage. So in conclusion it would be the RS6 for me.

Id say on the autobahn the rs6 clearly wins (and beats 99.9% of the cars out there) but why would someone in the UK buy it over an M3…?

German Car the best👍

RS6 for me...much better looking exterior, nicer interior, V8 sound and only a little slower and less dynamic which I couldnt give a s#!t about really.

M the strongest letter in the world!

Such a silly comparo, The RS6 is like a super GT, that does everything well... ie beautifully built, super refined, super comfortable - like a Patek Aquatnaut... does everything well and is a jack of all trades... People are cross shopping this with Porsche Cayenne Turbos, Panamera Turbos, S63s etc... luxury performance barges.The M3 touring is a more hardcore, smaller drivers car - its nowhere near as comfortable, well built luxurious, and weighs hundreds of kilos less... its like an Omega Seamaster/Rolex Submariner... a Tool watch thats purist... not a cross continental high powered GT car with an exotic engine.

Ει Μ3 τουρινκ δεν είναι αντίστοιχα του αουτι RS6 αλλά το Σ4RS.

Rs6 all day long ❤

M3 Touring is all the car you need… smashing Audi…

The fact is you’re right, the M3 should be compared to the RS4 but it completely destroys it. The fact that the M3 is even being compared to the RS6 is astonishing. What’s even more astonishing is that the M3 is better than the RS6 😮

just RS6❤

Rs6 is heavy compare to the M3 touring maybe the reason its not nimble ,,,...bust despite the sitting position i will take the key to that Rs6 ....looks like beutyfull monster 💯😎

The Audi is easily the better built and material finished car, but the BMW is the better driving machine. On UK roads the Audi is to big for English narrow roads. ❤ Even the BMW M3 CS is full of cheap black plastic and carbon trim. The Audi C7 is easily a better car than the C8 as it’s under 2 tons..

This is a blatantly unfair comparison. Interior space is bound to be larger in a bigger car. It's like comparing an M5 estate if it were available to an RS4. I have owned both a 3 series touring and a standard A6 estate and the 3 series was a far better car. A6 was too large for British roads.

I take M3

No m3 touring in canada

Big newsflash they chose the warthog.

RS6 for me ❤❤

Well, compare ´em to Polo-Shirts. BMW is the Fred Perry, Audi equals the Ralph Lauren (Mercedes would be the Lacoste). What do you want, the rowdy one with the slight subcultural kick inside or the domesticated model for the random customer beyond being poor? See - it´s got to be the BMW. Always. Pay attention to the heritage. Oh, pardon: those are subtle German shenanigans. MY personal shenanigans, to be exact. M-->RS-->AMG. Straight from the heartland.

An M5 estate would be a better comparison to the Audi.

RS6 no doubt.

❤M3❤😍🤗👿🚀👌🤝👍👉🔊👌👍

audi driver engagement is practically non existant for me. Basically an expensive VW

The RS6 is so beautiful, and it seems more comfortable to drive than the M3.

GJ

BMW take my money

Both are too expensive, but especially the RS6. RS4 is a much better comparison to the M3 and much better value. Residuals are better too.

You forgot to mention both worthless in the uk Speed cameras, pot holes every 200 yds, heavy traffic max speed a good 30mph in towns

m3 brillant car but not big enough

You know you've lost your way when a competitirs car from the class below gaps your best effort. Whatever way you look at it, BMW has now destroyed the only reason you would consider buying an Audi over one of rheir cars!

Both get about 15 mpg in the real world and as such are a total fail as GTs as you have to stop for fuel almost as much as an EV does

These cars aren’t in the same segment or direct competitors. The RS4 is what you need to test against the M3. But I would take the RS6, it’s just beautiful. Don’t care if it’s not *as* engaging.

One outcome...RS6 Wins

BMW all day every day …….

'RS6 to take on the M3 at its own game'? Dear god, they are not even in the same class - and Audi invented 'the game' with the original RS2 30 years ago. Anyone in the market for an RS6 is not going to even look at an M3 (not that you'd want to look at one anyway with that ghastly front end!), and vice versa. You may want to look at your homework again, and realise the 3-Series competes with the Audi A4, and Audi's 6 models rival BMW's 5-Series. Of course the M3 is going to handle better - it's a much smaller, lighter car....... but you're not going to fit as many wardrobes, mountain bikes or Labradors in the back of it - which is why they shouldn't be compared!!

its a bigger car not a good verses

If the M3 touring is already better than the RS6, imagine when the bigger brother M5 touring arrives. BMW being BMW.

If someone who is normal size 6ft ish sits in the back of the M3 with those racing seats it will be torture

Why the fck m3 is compared to rs6? It should be m3 vs rs4 or m5 vs rs6.

I would take rs6 and tune it over 1000 hp and destroy even a bugatti so simply is that

lol, don't care how good the BMW is, the RS6 wins on looks alone

Can't help but feel that there is a coffee shop missing a barista somewhere

M3 vs Rs6???? Hahaha better vs rs4 !!!

What a biased review! RS6 all the way. All drive steering and active differential is killing everything!

Estate = hearse

So you claim to be 5' 9" do you? That's almost Dwarven. But you have the hair to go with that look but the beard needs to _"somewhat grow more"._ ;-))... That aside, 2 great cars. Though I wouldn't have those _"racing seats"_ that the Beemer has.

RS6 way over priced

Nah it's an estate.

Such a flawed comparison loaded with ambiguity and contradiction, should we really be surprised though; its what we have come to expect... As an example, if you want to use the Telephone, you don't need the MMI just press Tel on steering wheel and scroll from the drivers display or say the name. Just because you have a scroll wheel in the Beemer does not mean you don't take your eyes off the road. Also as with my Vorsprung A7; if you want the car cooler or warmer just speak. Most on the move options can be accessed from the steering wheel and displayed between the Speedo/Rev display for selection. In fact I don't use the touch screen for much on the move and the second lower touch screen is very intuitive once you become accustomed to using it muscle memory takes over, like pinch to sync in the climate control, I never think twice about or take my gaze from the road. I set the haptics of because I like the screen to be slick an sensitive to touch not push. This is much more akin to my smart phone. I tend to use Android Auto more anyway so the most crucial and well used car controls, even Sat Nav are all available from the steering wheel or voice control. So Look the RS4 I agree is a couple of generations behind the M3Touring Comp' but the RS4 Competition in Europe when kitted out with similar seats to the M3 Comp' the interior looks amazing and speaks volumes for a design many years older than BMW's. There is also plenty of kit like coil overs and light weight alloys for a few hundred euros cheaper than the M3 Touring Comp. I was watching GRIP the German test between these wagons and it was amazing how close the RS4 Competition was both in the 0-62 dig and around a track. Around the track where you'd have expected the BMW to show its superiority with its 60PS and Torque superiority but it was just a tenth and half quicker. The RS4 shape also stands the test of time very well in my view its a better resolved design outside. In the end they selected the BMW as winner because it was a tad better all round for a few hundred Euros more money, that should not be surprising as they are I agree from different eras but the RS4 was not at any point embarrassed and still looks amazing. So maybe a little long winded but my point is in this video, you were comparing Apples with Melons. For what it offers and what its focus is, the RS6 Performance is without peer and has a car park kudos and head turning road presence that the M3 Touring will never have.

Dodgy colour schemes, I don't like black and red, colours of the Devil.

Don't like this presenter at all.

Come on, BMW!! Remove the petrol engine and put in an electric motor!! That would be so much better for Asthmatics like me!!!!

As I say, take the petrol out and replace with a good electric motor and they’ll be the best cars in the world EVER!!!!

BMW ❤️