This once-sensible car has been given the RS3’s ‘torque splitter’ tech
This is the most powerful Audi S3 ever built, but crucially, it’s also the driftiest Audi S3 ever built. Welcome to either: a) your new not-so-undercover-anymore time travel machine, or b) an unwelcome, possibly permanent presence in your rearview mirror.
To the first point, then. Since before Early Man first trundled out of that cave, S3s have been heroically competent: desirable machines able to compress time and space in easily digestible premium suits. That remained the case right up until now, because the staid, sensible S3 has been given the RS3’s ‘torque splitter’ technology.
We’re told both engine and seven-speed DSG get a ‘sportier’ tune, the latter featuring gearshifts half as quick as before. Naturally, like with its big brother RS3, there’s a plethora of modes to contend with including that new Dynamic+ setting, along with a suite of suspension and steering upgrades, too.Stuff like stiffer bearings and new pivot bearings, which Audi says gives the S3 better steering and grip.
And so to the second point, then: The S3 has a long way from its subtle roots, here doubling down on that new ‘singleframe’ new grille, a new set of spoilers and bumpers and gloss-black detailing, trim elements pinched from the RS parts bin, quad exhausts, and a host of metallic paint options.The S3’s interior features a few tweaks—new air vents, fabric inlays, interior lighting, that sort of thing—but it’s a world away from the, well, world-class interior of the old, old S3. Very dark in here.
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