Some of the best sports sedans ever made have come out of Germany, and many of them now cost less than a base-level 2025 BMW 3 Series.

Audi, meanwhile, had got the jump on both of them, releasing the B7 RS4 like the one we have here midway through 2006 to ...

Audi claimed you’d hit 62mph from a standstill in a 4.8 seconds - which is exactly what BMW said was possible with its manual M3. Rapid as the RS4 was, the B7’s true party piece came to light ...