I wouldn't come on here and initiate saying it myself, but since somebody else brought it up.... I'm not a fan. Multiple reasons but prime ex. would be, take current S4, its total blah, cheap, all leather-textured plastic everywhere.... and that's the S!! RS models are nowhere near as special as they used to be, by numbers or quality, the performance is there, for now, but still cheaply built 10 yr. engineered life max. All cars are like that now, but still I'd say Audi has fallen off from MB/AMG and even BMW/M which I personally have never been a big fan of, or should I say bottom of the big 3 for me.. I'm pretty sure any segment to segment match up b/w Audi, BMW, MB... Audi is probably going to be at the bottom, with some personal exceptions for me, i.e. I'd probably take a S8 over a top line BMW 7...maybe... but over a AMG S63, I don't think so, not even close. An S4 vs. a M4... I don't like Audi in that one either... at all. European RS6 here in states, maybe we'd have something to compete with AMG E and M5 but the S6/S5?? I don't think so. For me AMG is substantially ahead of S/RS and M by pretty far and all the way around = interior, body design and powertrain.

Pulling out of WEC/LeMans, for Audi - being what Audi was to LeMans for forever, is pretty much like saying we're not racing anymore. That Formula E series is lackluster at best, at least as of now IMO, and nowhere near the earthshaking storm-surge Audi produced when it brought its TDIs to LMP1. Sigh.... nostalgia of the days of seeing the ALMS P1 diesel Audis in perpetual tooth and nail street fights with the U.S. / Penske debuted P2 Porsche Spyders. Granted, VW group has shifted a lot of those racing assets to Porsche but still. How far we have fallen in road racing since those times that seem so not long ago. Audi is out of even LeMans, NASCAR took over IMSA/ALMS and made it a redneck sideshow... pitiful. The "auto industry" as we know it is doomed.... time to find a new hobby.