New 2015 RS3!!!
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Can anyone confirm if mythos/panther black colour is selected, can you add the high gloss black pack to achieve the Quattro styling above the front splitter. Currently the configurator looks like this is an option but a few months ago it was not possible to combine...
Finally, a pic with the combination I have went for!
Finally, a pic with the combination I have went for!
Hmm yeah that does look good.
I am beginning to think the black pack is essential !
You gone for body colour mirrors or black ?
Black would be my choice to 'complete' the contrast and black theme.
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Drove my second RS3 demonstrator on Friday. Bedford Audi, Sepang, alu pack, silver SS Seats, standard exhaust, mag ride, 255 tyres.
Great colour
Classy and handsome and not too eye-catching, like the car. Just how an Audi should be.
Alu pack nasty on any colour, even more glad I'm going for standard body colour trim. They had a couple of other cars, a 4 something and a 5 something, both in Sepang but with the gloss black pack. Didn't like it. Blue and black don't work together for me. Each to his/her own. Likewise the silver seats; no thanks. If they want to do a different colour to black, then I'd rather see light tan or dark red.
Exhaust too quiet. Grey wheels look nice though. Still happy with my choice of basic silver ones as I can't live with diamond cut - too easy to damage, expensive to fix and they look even more dated than the plain rotors.
The roads were quite different to my first drive at Cambridge. Lots of big roundabouts and dual carriageways. This exposed an interesting handling characteristic (well, to me anyway...) Modern road designers have got this habit of designing things to slow you down all the time, like putting hedges and other obstructions so that you can't see whether something is coming round a roundabout have to slow right down until you can see, only at the last possible few yards before the junction. Another of their tricks is to build a bad camber on the exit of roundabouts. As you leave the roundabout, it always curves sharply left, and where you'd really like to have a bank to the curve, they camber it the wrong way so that you 'fall off' towards the outside of the bend, slowing you down. ********.
So what did the RS3 make of this? It behaved like a road designer's wet dream. As you accelerate out of the roundabout and accelerate to pass the car on the inside lane, the car keeps all four corners rigid, rides up the camber and then as the camber falls away, the car tips over the crown of the road and 'falls' towards the outside of the bend. So it's flat and simply follows the camber. The sensation is like you've tipped over and rolling a lot towards the outside of the bend. You're not of course, it's the road that is tipping down, but the steering goes light and it feels like the track has suddenly got narrower. Slows you down and you lose that 'planted' feel you normally have. It did this every time. I was in dynamic mode for both dampers and steering.
So I went round this route again and tried comfort dampers and steering. Completely different car! What camber change? Instead of the car rising up and then falling over the camber, it just flowed through it, the wheels moving up and down rather than forcing the body up and down. No sensation of the car falling or going light; it just went round the bend and flicked two fingers to the road designers.
Maybe dynamic mode would help for bump and camber-less race tracks but on real roads it's definitely worse. I'd love to try a car with no mag dampers to see how it compares, but whatever you do, I highly recommend you give comfort mode (for the dampers at least) a chance and don't autromatically select Dynamic, thinking it's going to handle better. Real roads need some suspension travel and in Comfort setting, the RS3 is awesome. On the way home I did the same bends in wifey's Gofl 6 GTI and it almost took off and bounced around like crazy at a lower speed than tha RS3 was able to do. Shame I didn't have the RS4 there that day but I think it would have soaked up the camber change very well but had a bit of a float and lost some accuracy as its extra weight and softer dampers failed to totally check the movement.
Nothing else to report, Yorrick out.
Great colour
Alu pack nasty on any colour, even more glad I'm going for standard body colour trim. They had a couple of other cars, a 4 something and a 5 something, both in Sepang but with the gloss black pack. Didn't like it. Blue and black don't work together for me. Each to his/her own. Likewise the silver seats; no thanks. If they want to do a different colour to black, then I'd rather see light tan or dark red.
Exhaust too quiet. Grey wheels look nice though. Still happy with my choice of basic silver ones as I can't live with diamond cut - too easy to damage, expensive to fix and they look even more dated than the plain rotors.
The roads were quite different to my first drive at Cambridge. Lots of big roundabouts and dual carriageways. This exposed an interesting handling characteristic (well, to me anyway...) Modern road designers have got this habit of designing things to slow you down all the time, like putting hedges and other obstructions so that you can't see whether something is coming round a roundabout have to slow right down until you can see, only at the last possible few yards before the junction. Another of their tricks is to build a bad camber on the exit of roundabouts. As you leave the roundabout, it always curves sharply left, and where you'd really like to have a bank to the curve, they camber it the wrong way so that you 'fall off' towards the outside of the bend, slowing you down. ********.
So what did the RS3 make of this? It behaved like a road designer's wet dream. As you accelerate out of the roundabout and accelerate to pass the car on the inside lane, the car keeps all four corners rigid, rides up the camber and then as the camber falls away, the car tips over the crown of the road and 'falls' towards the outside of the bend. So it's flat and simply follows the camber. The sensation is like you've tipped over and rolling a lot towards the outside of the bend. You're not of course, it's the road that is tipping down, but the steering goes light and it feels like the track has suddenly got narrower. Slows you down and you lose that 'planted' feel you normally have. It did this every time. I was in dynamic mode for both dampers and steering.
So I went round this route again and tried comfort dampers and steering. Completely different car! What camber change? Instead of the car rising up and then falling over the camber, it just flowed through it, the wheels moving up and down rather than forcing the body up and down. No sensation of the car falling or going light; it just went round the bend and flicked two fingers to the road designers.
Maybe dynamic mode would help for bump and camber-less race tracks but on real roads it's definitely worse. I'd love to try a car with no mag dampers to see how it compares, but whatever you do, I highly recommend you give comfort mode (for the dampers at least) a chance and don't autromatically select Dynamic, thinking it's going to handle better. Real roads need some suspension travel and in Comfort setting, the RS3 is awesome. On the way home I did the same bends in wifey's Gofl 6 GTI and it almost took off and bounced around like crazy at a lower speed than tha RS3 was able to do. Shame I didn't have the RS4 there that day but I think it would have soaked up the camber change very well but had a bit of a float and lost some accuracy as its extra weight and softer dampers failed to totally check the movement.
Nothing else to report, Yorrick out.
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It was Sam Edmonds. Alright, just an ordinary sales guy. He didn't have a very good technical understanding and was either bullshitting or ignorant on a few things. About what you'd expect! But he offered coffee, listened and tried hard. Wouldn't let me do a launch start though....'sorry sir, we're not allowed to'...
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Not sure if this has been posted before:
https://recombu.com/cars/article/2015-audi-rs-3-sportback-review-first-drive
https://recombu.com/cars/article/2015-audi-rs-3-sportback-review-first-drive
Interesting points on the mag ride above.
Defo appreciate your comparison to standard suspension of you get the chance to compare.
I had mag ride on a TTS and that was not great so I was dead against mag but some positive comments are turning me round especially if the rs3 rides better on mag in comfort mode than standard suspension .... Plus you get the sports exhaust.
With mag ride can you set suspension to softest mode AND select exhaust to loudest mode or can you only have loud exhaust with dynamic (stiffest) suspension selected ?
Defo appreciate your comparison to standard suspension of you get the chance to compare.
I had mag ride on a TTS and that was not great so I was dead against mag but some positive comments are turning me round especially if the rs3 rides better on mag in comfort mode than standard suspension .... Plus you get the sports exhaust.
With mag ride can you set suspension to softest mode AND select exhaust to loudest mode or can you only have loud exhaust with dynamic (stiffest) suspension selected ?
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Yes you can have different settings for drivetrain, suspension, exhaust and steering, so you can have comfort dampers and loud exhaust if you want. Which you will!
Ah cool that's good to know then.
I will be testing the rs3 in 2 weeks so need to remember all the options to try.
Had my test drive today at Glasgow. It was Mythos black with Alu pack. No Dynamic pack.
Weather was terrible and the roads around Glasgow Audi are not great and not familiar to me.
Floored it a few times on the motorway and I would say it felt a good bit quicker than my S3. I think going from a manual to the Stronic made it feel even faster. Noise from the standard exhaust was not great. I didn't hear any pops or crackles. This was in Dynamic in s mode. However rain was so heavy I couldn't put the window down to listen.
I think for me the Stronic will take a bit of getting used to having nothing to do but put my foot down.
The salesman started the one in the showroom for me that has the Dynamic pack. The difference is unbelievable. Everyone in the showroom stopped talking and turned round.
In my opinion the noise with the Dynamic Pack makes the car special. Without it I wasn't totally sold.
I gave him my spec and he came back with an offer which he say's he will improve tomorrow when someone returns. Think its who decides the trade in values.
Anyone else incredibly disappointed with the trade in on the S3. Mine is almost exactly a year old and was shocked at the trade in.
Edit: I almost forgot. Can't believe I am saying this but I am considering Nardo. Salesman made a good point in that it's exclusive to the car so makes it stand out.
Weather was terrible and the roads around Glasgow Audi are not great and not familiar to me.
Floored it a few times on the motorway and I would say it felt a good bit quicker than my S3. I think going from a manual to the Stronic made it feel even faster. Noise from the standard exhaust was not great. I didn't hear any pops or crackles. This was in Dynamic in s mode. However rain was so heavy I couldn't put the window down to listen.
I think for me the Stronic will take a bit of getting used to having nothing to do but put my foot down.
The salesman started the one in the showroom for me that has the Dynamic pack. The difference is unbelievable. Everyone in the showroom stopped talking and turned round.
In my opinion the noise with the Dynamic Pack makes the car special. Without it I wasn't totally sold.
I gave him my spec and he came back with an offer which he say's he will improve tomorrow when someone returns. Think its who decides the trade in values.
Anyone else incredibly disappointed with the trade in on the S3. Mine is almost exactly a year old and was shocked at the trade in.
Edit: I almost forgot. Can't believe I am saying this but I am considering Nardo. Salesman made a good point in that it's exclusive to the car so makes it stand out.
Could you give a rough idea of what you were offered? Mine is a year old and from experience it doesn't matter what the car is or manufacturer, the hit is usually bad in year 1. I just wonder how bad it will be....
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I expect £27k-£29k?
RS3 being announced plus amount of S3's around will lead to a chunky year 1 drop.
RS3 being announced plus amount of S3's around will lead to a chunky year 1 drop.
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Unless you are fully loaded spec you are not even close. I mean no where near!!!!
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