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I have enjoyed my 335i for two years now. However, I'm wanting to pick something up that's just a bit bigger. I've begun to look and am targeting this fall or winter for pulling the trigger on a CPO vehicle.

Right now I'm leaning towards the Audi A6 3.0T prestige. I've got several friends with F10s and they're nice vehicles, they're better as luxury cars than the A6. My buddies with their 535i and 550i are super quiet inside. But driving them and they're both M Sports, is kind of blah. Steering feedback is ok, not great, the steering is somewhat slow and the car feels really big.

The A6 and GS350 F Sport both feel quite a bit more nimble. The Audi A6 is interesting because the steering isn't much if any better. It seems to have slightly less feel compared with some F10s and more feel compared with others which I can't figure out, but it definitely feels more precise. The A6 also seems to have a touch more rear seat room and a better interior layout. Material quality is also better IMO.

I like the way the Lexus drives the best but its smaller inside, interior quality isn't quite as good but it's pretty damn good, but most importantly the drivetrain just feels ancient. Absolutely ancient.

At the absolute limit the BMW probably feels a bit better, but both cars that I have extensive time in get kinda pushy feeling up close to the limit, and it was more pronounced in my buddies 550i. I did push the Audi pretty hard this week in a few corners, probably 8/10ths and while some understeer was present, it wasn't much if any worse than the F10 chassis cars I've driven and it pulled better out of the corner. Can't really drive at 9/10 or 10/10 on public roads anyway...

I'll give the CTS V Sport a drive but from what I'm reading its not any bigger in the backseat than my 335i.

It doesn't help that my local BMW dealer just tried to screw a friend of mine and they bent one of my mirrors backwards at the last service and tried to tell me the mirror motor just "Failed to stop".

Has anyone else made the jump from BMW to Audi? Any thoughts?