Done the paperwork on mine today in prep for Saturday... here she is!!
I also went out in their current S3 demo (3dr Glacier S-Tronic absolutely basic apart from tech pack).
It's the first time I've been out in an S3 on my own and I last drove one in October last year so I could hustle it along at a fair pace and MY GOD, what a car.
I know you'll have all have had a test drive before but my god, it's the way they've tuned the S-tronic and really tweaked the software that just makes it come alive. This is just miles apart from our Golf GTI DSG, you'd think it was a totally different box.
It was wet today and it just kept on gripping - I wasn't being a loon but it was seriously impressive. Anyone who needs to go beyond these limits on the road to find any understeer is just driving too quickly! I found a really nice tight set of S bends which I managed to hook up really nicely in it and I just couldn't believe the way it can get the power down on corner exit - that Quattro really is a masterpiece too.
Even managed to do a quick launch to 60 in the wet and it just did it, no drama or wheelspin, just forward motion.
I am seriously looking forward to Saturday now - I'd forgotten just how much of a treat I'm going to be in for!!
(oh, and I got 15.9mpg on my test drive route out and playing - 20 miles, then got 38mpg on the return "cool down" in economy over 10 miles - pretty impressive really!!)