Audi RS3 V BMW 1M

[Ferrer]

Wider track probably? Also limited slip diff possibly?

[whiteballz]

1M, RWD shenanigans + Manual box = driver oriented.

[clutch-monkey]

wish the 1M came as a hatch.
1M for me, it's not an audi and AWD is irrelevant here

[Magnum9987]

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but the 1M for sure. RWD, 6 Speed Manual, and a sexy inline 6, its a definite drivers car.

[lisaroy1]

ill go for BMW 1M

[RacingManiac]

A curious thing about the 1M, I saw the car last week when I went to NAIAS. It was parted next to a 135i. The 135 with the sports package gets a 6 piston caliper front, 4 piston rear, FIXED caliper. The new 1M actually has, like all the other M car, a presumably 2 piston caliper floating design. Whats with BMW and their insistence in using floating caliper for their highest performance car?

[group c n b man]

Personally I'd have the Audi RS3 for the all round pace, usability and quality. However, I don't actually like the car very much because it weighs about 1600kg or something ridiculous like that. I'm sure that like other Audis, the steering will be too artificial and devoid of feel. I don't like the BMW because it's still too heavy, and it doesn't look very good. Ofcourse, the worst thing of all about the 1M is that BMW have forced the M division to betray their own ethos with regards to a high revving N/A engine. So, the honest answer is that I wouldn't spend that money on either of them.

[Sledgehammer]

Quattro is for sissy's. Give me the BMW.

[ScionDriver]

I'd take the 1M, mostly based on Kitdy's points; The nose-heavy tendencies of Audis turns me off and the 1M is kind of sort of, but not at all, suppose to be a kind of homage to the 2002 which is a classic car I love.