ok yeah the awd system on the STI is better than most audi's but thats the sti, im just talking about every other subaru, when you compare say a wrx to an s4 the AWD on an S4 is much like the standard WRX, open front diff, rear lsd, same split, feels/drives the same. and i hear audi is coming out with similar stuff with their new sports cars and it is supposed to be really good.
from experience though it seems audi has always been better. for example my friend had an allroad, and one time in the mountains it snowed like 2+ ft in a couple hours and pretty much everyone on the pass was stuck, but he had no problem, he was pretty much weaving in and out of big suv's and subarus, everything like it was nothing, now he has an 06 outback xt, which is very similar to the allroad,(similar ground clearence, performance, power, weight, all that stuff) and he even says its not even close to being as good as the allroad. and my s4 outdoes his easily in the snow too, i know audi and subaru awd systems are pretty similar, but mabye audi's are made better/ nicer materials, i dont know, but audi's always seem to outperform everyone else.
plus audi has won sooo many more rally's than subaru, when audi did rally there was pretty much no competition. but that was like 8 years ago and i understand they have changed some.
oh yeah and there is this video of an s4 driving up a snowy/icy mountain road only on rims, and he actually makes it up kinda fast, though i guess nobody has ever tried that with a subaru so you cant really compare.
