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S3 with 333BHP which makes me wonder if the RS3 may have 444BHP? Just like the old RS4 (but no RS3 announced today).
Seen this earlier. Not keen. But then I need to remind myself that that’s the crappy spec version and not what the RS3 will look like.
Hope you're right though because at 444bhp they can have my deposit (although the price may prove to be scary..)
keen myself for another RS3 but if it’s priced in line with the A45s at near on 60k then I’m out.
It is trying FAR TOO hard to be a Lambo ... & it isn't a Lambo.
I personally hate those air vents stuck right next to the main dash - they look horrible and the rest of the dash looks dis-jointed ... as though several different designers came up with a section of the interior each - its just not neatly laid out, things are just randomly positioned IMO.
Exterior is more of a face lift and there are far too many false panels and fake vents etc.
Its 'OK' but it is not raising any excitement levels put it that way.
Those vents jutting out
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Hope the RS3 looks like this though.
I think it looks gash
Like a civic lubed itself up and climbed in bed with an A45 and both parties disgraced themselves to an unreasonable amount resulting in this demon crotchspawn
Hope the RS3 looks like this though.
View attachment 198603 View attachment 198604 View attachment 198605 View attachment 198606 Launched today 3rd March 2020 - Looks very interesting. Totally new interior.
S3 with 333BHP which makes me wonder if the RS3 may have 444BHP? Just like the old RS4 (but no RS3 announced today).
Where did you read the new S3 will get 333hp?
Everywhere I've read so far states only 306 same as out going model, although that must be **** since there's talk the new golf R will get, surprisingly, 333hp !
Interesting the comments on here about 2021 RS3, surely it will be roughly 100hp up on the S3 as it pretty much always has been. I would bet Audi will release an RS4 update prior to the new RS3 and that will have 50hp up on the RS3 i.e 480ish....
Which begs the question, if Audi do give the new RS3 430ish just to spank the A45s then how much more can Merc squeeze out of that already ludicrously over stretched 4pot...
Same engine will be over 500hp when they drop it in the c63!Where did you read the new S3 will get 333hp?
Everywhere I've read so far states only 306 same as out going model, although that must be **** since there's talk the new golf R will get, surprisingly, 333hp !
Interesting the comments on here about 2021 RS3, surely it will be roughly 100hp up on the S3 as it pretty much always has been. I would bet Audi will release an RS4 update prior to the new RS3 and that will have 50hp up on the RS3 i.e 480ish....
Which begs the question, if Audi do give the new RS3 430ish just to spank the A45s then how much more can Merc squeeze out of that already ludicrously over stretched 4pot...
But the e46 m3 has 333hpim in
Always have been to be fair
Gonna enjoy the E46 M3 for a little while longer with its pitiful BHP LoL
Till i can order 1 of these
There is no way that A3 in the pics is not an S-line a standard spec A3 ain’t going to look that good
Of course it isn't coz you've bought a fast Merc lolIt is trying FAR TOO hard to be a Lambo ... & it isn't a Lambo.
I personally hate those air vents stuck right next to the main dash - they look horrible and the rest of the dash looks dis-jointed ... as though several different designers came up with a section of the interior each - its just not neatly laid out, things are just randomly positioned IMO.
Exterior is more of a face lift and there are far too many false panels and fake vents etc.
Its 'OK' but it is not raising any excitement levels put it that way.
Of course it isn't coz you've bought a fast Merc lol
Let’s all pray it sounds like a PFL..........if only
Same engine will be over 500hp when they drop it in the c63!
TX.
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maybe "announced" for Mar 2021 deliveries?Not a hope in hell the new RS3 will be out in Sep this year.
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maybe "announced" for Mar 2021 deliveries?
Yes it will likely be announced in Sep not released. Not sure about the average turnaround between announcement to delivery.
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^^ by all accounts the head of AMG stormed out of the board meeting after he was told AMG need to go to 4cyl............
The regulators are obsessed with emissions and the nonsense that is, anybody who drives any turbo hard (even a turbo diesel) knows that when a turbo is on boost it gobbles fuel down at alarming rates.........if MB get a reliable 500bhp from a 4cyl imagine the size of the turbo/boost pressure and the fuel it will guzzle under full load............would be interesting to see in the real world how the figures are different to current.
For example, I have a V10 and give it some stick now and then yet have averaged 22.4mpg over the last 4k miles........on a motorway run it gets 25-26mpg yet it is taxed so much higher than a similarly powerful BM/MB turbo.
And back on track, if you think 33bhp will make you faster on the road than the current 300 or 310bhp you're kidding yourself.
If I still had my S3 no way would I be changing for the newly proposed S3.
I’m fairly happy with how it looks, but there are some things I don’t like. I think generally hatchbacks are looking less and less like actual hatchbacks lately, and the same goes with this new A3...they all seem to look like some weird 4x4 or something.
I also am not a fan of the LED lights, the shape of the lights themselves look decent though.
Another thing I’m not hugely fond of is the interior, I know Audi needs to go with the times but I really don’t like touchscreens, I still really like the screen that comes out the dash (don’t care how outdated and how unpopular this opinion will be). I like an easy on the eye interior, that being said it’s still nice.
Overall I think it’s really good, I just really want to see what the S3 and RS3 look like and especially how they’ll sound in today’s world were cars sound like a ****** hoover.