Win Audi RS3 Sportback
What is it?
The particular RS3 is Audi’utes belated entry into this realm of serious scorching hatches. Like an S3, but faster. It goes on sale in planting season 2011, priced at £ixl,900.
Technical highlights?
This’s essentially a TT RS with a further practicality of a five-door hatchback body, so there’s of which sonorous five-pot turbo up front and also all-wheel drive, although a seven-speed, double-clutch paddle change gearbox comes as normal.
Win Audi RS3 Sportback
What’s it like to drive?
On the frosty blacktop of northern Quebec , canada ,, it’s terrific. Around the pure snow and ice – and on winter old tyres – it’s absolutely fantastic. It starts with the engine note, all heavy and rich and easy and it’s strong, right from the show of the key.
This gearbox is as rapid and slick as you expect of a DSG, however it does make launching it problematical. Get it right, however, and there’s a new fury of glorious sound and a brief scrabbling of 19in rubber.
It might not always be as focused a drive as the BMW 1-Series M Coupe, but it has a broader selection of abilities, as evidenced simply by its ability to very easily, progressively, hold long four-wheel drifts with ice and snow but still have the balance being flung between tarmac esses. It’s also faster. Well, it can feel faster and a several.6sec sprint to 60mph is just several tenths slower than the R8 V10 and the particular torque is so strong, it’s always prepared.
Still, its steering isn’t brilliant nevertheless the rear differential does the best to compensate, as also does the gearbox.
How will it compare?
The undeniably exciting and talented Mini Bob Cooper Works, Ford Focus RS and Renaultsport Megane 250 are approximately ten grand cheaper, then again they are only the front-drivers. Then there’azines the AWD 268bhp Volkswagen Golf R (in essence the same as the actual Audi RS3, minus a cyndrical tube, and £32K in marketplace analysis spec). But the speed, sound and badge hoard should sway plenty of individuals towards the Audi.
Other things I need to learn?
There are a handful of oddball things, not very least of which is that it will only be on sales for around 18 many weeks, because that’s while Audi stops making A3 bodies. The very first is that the front wings are carbonfibre, to allow for the 22mm wider track, while the rears are wider only through messing with the wheel offsets. Amazing . that the front tyres are 235/35 R19s – which might be 10mm wider than the rear boots. That’ll be fun come replacement occasion...
Win Audi RS3 Sportback