It is however likely that people who drive them don't often find themselves outpaced....
I think it's because the M3 is so popular and such a good performer that it is often used as a benchmark.
Now in the 10 month s I've had my S4, 9 months of that with the custom remap I've only covered about 3K miles, so it's not unlikely that I've not come up against much on the road so far......
So on my way home from filling up with petrol and a few Saturday morning errands, I join a roundabout behind the M3. I figure he could be heading out of town on my of my fav. A roads and it would do no harm to give the car a run to see.
Sure enough he went my way. No passengers, I was hoping he might bite.
There was traffic on the road, but mostly travelling in our direction and it panned out well allowing for some good overtakes.
Well lets just say after the 3rd multi car overtake I was still on his bumper as I had been for every overtake. On the first two I had to back off a little, but the third I think the M3 must have used full beans, the two cars we overtook were spaced out a little but we stayed out for both. He didn't pull away at all.
I was well chuffed with that.
Overtakes were from about 50 and I used 3rd gear, hitting about 100 (km right?) in between groups of cars.
Overall a worthile and pleasing detour home
). So I guess he turned onto the motorway thinking he'd just wopped an S4 
