Audi Pulls Out of the Power Race

For two and a half decades the performance divisions of Germany's top three prestige automakers, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, have battled it out in a race for ultimate horsepower and all out driving dynamics. With battles waged in nearly all market segments the trio of high-priced German carmakers has turned the '80s, '90s, and what we've seen of this new millennium into an interesting spectacle.