Wonder if it will be a 5 cylinder, or if they'll tweak the s3's 4 pot. Maybe tweak the 5 cylinder in the rsq3?
Fantastic Engine, Audi and 5 Cylinders go together a perfect match !!
The noise is ****** fantastic.
Hopefully the final version will come with matching alloy wheels...
Shame they stick with the great but heavy five cylinder engine when they already have a TT with 420 bhp with a four pot engine.
Which one's that then thought the RSTT was 5 pot.
I REALLY like the idea of having one of these as my next car, it is #1 on my list currently :icon_thumright:
+1
Provided they don't go bonkers on the base price! Would be nice to be within £3k of A45 base to be 'competitive'. Although based on the last one I've a feeling I'll be sorely disappointed.
I'm hoping this will be available towards the end of next year, that will be perfect timing for my 2 year swap from my S3! I'm guessing it'll be at least £40k basic though so it's going to be tough competition to whether this wins my driveway or an A45...
I used to think £40k for a hot hatch was ridiculous, but I guess it's not bad for the ultimate all rounder.
It is if its not exceptional. It's only creative financing (e.g. bubble payment finance) that really make these things accessible at all for the average buyer.
Yep PCP's make cars like this easily affordable especially with Audi's holding their value so well. I have my own business but there's no way I'd put a chunk of that money into a depreciating asset like a car, better to pay my mortgage off or keep it in my business for future expansion.
Exactly mate, although with house prices the way they are it looks like I've lost about £20k on it over the last few years! The joys of buying at the top of the market but who could foresee the way it was going to crash!
It depends what you mean by "heavily capitalised". I bought my A3 with a redundancy payout. I have no debts apart from a mortgage, but I'm only paying 2.5% on that so paying the money off the mortgage and PCPing the car would cost me more due to the higher interest rate on PCP. I guess I could have PCP'd and invested the money with a hope to get more back over 3 years on the stock market, but that's a bit more of a gamble....Well said. People don't buy cars with cash unless they are heavily capitalised and fair play to them if they are.
It depends what you mean by "heavily capitalised". I bought my A3 with a redundancy payout. I have no debts apart from a mortgage, but I'm only paying 2.5% on that so paying the money off the mortgage and PCPing the car would cost me more due to the higher interest rate on PCP. I guess I could have PCP'd and invested the money with a hope to get more back over 3 years on the stock market, but that's a bit more of a gamble....
Circa £40k base would sound about right to me ... £10k over S3 yeah ?
Bing back the 3.2 V6 from the R32. Best sound ever!