2015 Audi S3 Sedan

Audi's smallest car in America is to go to a hero from scratch. The company is now just an expensive hatchback sold strictly as small as knowledgeable and attractive for those who cashed-up, has ambitious plans to create a family of five instruments outside the tiny A3. Next April, the Audi just under $ 31,000 starting, dropped anchor line with A3 sedan. Also no price has been disclosed or two-door A3 Cabriolet due in August 2014 September, the five-door A3 Sportback hybrid Q3 small SUV and hot, 290 hp S3 sports sedan, to be to S3, but we estimate to about $ 42,000 land. Finally, a planned RS3 RS Q3 will join the US even sorta-Verify can come.

We base the seat while waiting for the US-spec four-door A3-A3 and S3 Euro we had driven three-door Audi all-wheel-instance decision, allowing us to give us a taste of the coming flood S3 tiny sedan drive. Like ours, with the A3 S3 related criticism to soften the landing bridgehead No doubt, the company hopes enthusiast rags. We will not be disappointed.

Even with the S3, but especially six-speed manual will be the only choice in the United States automatic six-speed S tronic dual-clutch, enjoyable. Audi stick is designed for us to ask, but apparently our reviews available to US journalist claims are not made to try. Man up, Audi, and bring it, or stand by and watch enthusiasts (... BMW paging) Change the channel to another brand that wants to serve them: Here is ours. We may be a small number of enthusiasts, but we found a brand's sporty reputation.


Either way, the end of oil of a new segment $ 35,000 ol luxury car volume, to produce smaller front-drive vehicles to keep their brands Mercedes-Benz, Audi, like BMW and race are born in front of our eyes - $ 45,000 price point. (As a final check, the BMW where front-wheel drive still on the fence about the 1-series sales. Now, albeit with 180 horsepower, $ 33,475 320i do not bid.) Among these three brands, but none Audi has more experience with it than the front driver and his sharing the basic structure of the supreme S3, awesome show called code 2015 VW Golf, mqb.

Strut-type front suspension and variable magnetic damper option bonded aluminum joints under changes including Audi, although, in fact, the A3 / S3 wheelbase, the Golf is the basically the same. A3 / S3 Golf multiple four-link rear suspension setup is similar and Audi's body is almost entirely based on a variety of construction steel. To meet the target price of the car, was limited to the aluminum hood, and bumper beam structure under the rear parcel shelf (A3 Sportback will be aluminum front fenders).

However, approximately 3200 pounds empty weight S3 sedan would argue, that amount by about £ 400 if the test-au-bottom CLA45 Benz AMG largest. S3 off Smalling AMG save some of these networks. S3 is 8.8 inches shorter overall. width is the same, but the roof is slightly lower than the Audi.


Inside, however, no significant penalty to its compact size, except in a comfortable back seat, most likely a problem with this segment of the new tools and their precursors cause to effect a reason, Audi A4, Benz C-Class and BMW 3 -series is too large in recent years We get heavy and expensive.

S3, lines and forms are kept low is fine to highlight small footprint and light mass of the car. Panel is skinned with soft plastic sheath punctuated by a single continuous circular air vents with a complex grid pattern. common ventilation directly alters the airflow from a smart push / pull the ring there. Adds a splash of brightness from a thin strip of aluminum and S3 base seats with red flare support. The optional sports seats fold diamond ornaments will be stitched.

indicators for the tachometer and speedo and fuel and temperature of the major search condition to read hash marks on white LCD, as well as the speed of a small augmentation index other Audis, which are similar. A flat bottom steering wheel with white stitching and luxurious feeling out of line engines give off a nav-and-information display accented. Shifter MMI control cluster ass finger gesture input a pair of toggle switches on the touch pad as the top service plus a large control knob gets a rework to include S3.