I think he means the current baby blue 4wd one.
Apart from the convienance in town the initial appeal of DSG is going for me. They do things when you don't want, the paddles with road ratio steering racks are never where you can find them. The Lever +/- is the wrong way around.... + forward... huhhh.... normal shifts to soon and sport won't shift and hangs on too long.
We had an Ibiza Cupra 1.4 TFSI DSG for 2.5 years and now a A3 184 TDI Quattro DSG.... these have been the wife's car as she now likes the easy of driving.
For me they are boring and frustrating...... which brings us to the elephant in the room, want performance drivers car, that puts a smile on your face, loves corners, manual, has loads of involvement. Then get an RS, a real RS one made by Ford... I have have the current Focus RS, I can here the cliche comments about interior quality, but for 10k less and far more involvement and enjoyment I'd not take any spec S3 or RS3... sorry .... hence we have a commuting version of the A3 and proper RS for performance and fun. Also have an old Z4 3.0 auto as my commute car and sunny Sundays with the roof down.
Nope, joined because just traded wife's Ibiza Cupra in for a 2014 A3 2.0 Tdi 184 Quattro DSG 3 Doors S-Line in red, looking for tips and info and possible mod's
no it doesn't .... all A3's look the same
No point your an Audi fan boy ...lolI need to drive a Focus RS sometime.
As bad as they look, I bet they go very well.
To offset my comments on the looks of the Focus RS, I don't think the RS3 drives very well.
No point your an Audi fan boy ...lol
Mines magnetic grey, so imo looks pretty good, bit more classy than the loud Nitious Blue...
If people think it drives same as a golf or S3 then you either stuck in town traffic or didn't know how to drive it...
Hint... drive it like a RWD not a FWD..... anyone who thinks it undeesteer seriously cocked it up.... you can steer it on the throttle right through to power oversteer.
Anyway... I'm collecting the SLine suspension for the A3 on Sunday so hopefully that will sharpen it up a bit... then remap it.
No point your an Audi fan boy ...lol
Mines magnetic grey, so imo looks pretty good, bit more classy than the loud Nitious Blue...
If people think it drives same as a golf or S3 then you either stuck in town traffic or didn't know how to drive it...
Hint... drive it like a RWD not a FWD..... anyone who thinks it undeesteer seriously cocked it up.... you can steer it on the throttle right through to power oversteer.
Anyway... I'm collecting the SLine suspension for the A3 on Sunday so hopefully that will sharpen it up a bit... then remap it.
Sorry no RS3 included.... lets face it would have come last anyway, now where did I put my flame suit.
The RS3 saloon isn't a hot hatch... in terms of saloons I could think of much better cars to be buying M3, M5, CLA 45 to name a fewWait til the new RS3 Saloon comes out. That will blow everything else out of the water in terms of looks, feel and driveability than anything else mentioned in this thread.
RS3 Saloon wins. End of.
The RS3 saloon isn't a hot hatch... in terms of saloons I could think of much better cars to be buying M3, M5, CLA 45 to name a few
I was just referring to the cars mentioned, if I was to buy a weekend performance car I'd probs buy something completely different more then likely something older and japIf you wanted a performance weekend car, why would you need a 5 door hatch?
M3, M5 much more expensiveThe RS3 saloon isn't a hot hatch... in terms of saloons I could think of much better cars to be buying M3, M5, CLA 45 to name a few
He can't have driven it, it's not even out yet! Tail end of this year!Seriously..... Why do you think BMW's are better? have you driven the RS3 saloon or the BMW's
Have I said I'd driven the RS3 saloon ?He can't have driven it, it's not even out yet! Tail end of this year!
TBf what's a specced RS3 gunna cost you 50? If I was looking at that price range I'd be going into the second hand market and looking at say M5 etc is what I meant. For that matter for 60k you can have an RS6!M3, M5 much more expensive
CLA45 looks horrendous.
Have I said you said you'd driven it? No.Have I said I'd driven the RS3 saloon ?
End of the day unless you are using these cars on the track to its absolute ability it's pointless unless you push the car to the absolute limit on the public roads then you are an idiot.
Presumably the OP wants brand new, so no, you can't get either of those models you mentioned.TBf what's a specced RS3 gunna cost you 50? If I was looking at that price range I'd be going into the second hand market and looking at say M5 etc is what I meant. For that matter for 60k you can have an RS6!