RE: 2021 Audi RS3 gets drift mode, will do 180mph
Discussion
Wills2 said:
Terminator X said:
If it really is 400hp then there is not enough clear air between it and the f
king rapid new Golf R imho. Audi do seem to have shot the RS3 in the foot by giving the RS4 "just" 450hp imho.
TX.
It's got 25% more power than the golf R? When the M2 was launched it only had 9% more than the 240i and the M2C only had had 17% more. king rapid new Golf R imho. Audi do seem to have shot the RS3 in the foot by giving the RS4 "just" 450hp imho.TX.
TX.
Novexx said:
5 pot, 400 horse, AWD & getting such a slating......WTF.......
Ultimately this is Pistonheads where cars have an emotive quality and are not just chosen by numbers like much of the population. Numbers as they are, the RS3 is still just a hatchback, but with an asking price 1.5 times that of something with an 8 pot, similar power, RWD which most petrolheads prefer and a shape you're more likely to want to look back over your shoulder at.
No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
jamieduff1981 said:
Novexx said:
5 pot, 400 horse, AWD & getting such a slating......WTF.......
Ultimately this is Pistonheads where cars have an emotive quality and are not just chosen by numbers like much of the population. Numbers as they are, the RS3 is still just a hatchback, but with an asking price 1.5 times that of something with an 8 pot, similar power, RWD which most petrolheads prefer and a shape you're more likely to want to look back over your shoulder at.No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
jamieduff1981 said:
Novexx said:
5 pot, 400 horse, AWD & getting such a slating......WTF.......
Ultimately this is Pistonheads where cars have an emotive quality and are not just chosen by numbers like much of the population. Numbers as they are, the RS3 is still just a hatchback, but with an asking price 1.5 times that of something with an 8 pot, similar power, RWD which most petrolheads prefer and a shape you're more likely to want to look back over your shoulder at.No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
(P.S. I completely agree. Indeed, I would have bought a 'Stang, except the Management thought it was uncomfortable. [No, me neither.])
jamieduff1981 said:
Novexx said:
5 pot, 400 horse, AWD & getting such a slating......WTF.......
Ultimately this is Pistonheads where cars have an emotive quality and are not just chosen by numbers like much of the population. Numbers as they are, the RS3 is still just a hatchback, but with an asking price 1.5 times that of something with an 8 pot, similar power, RWD which most petrolheads prefer and a shape you're more likely to want to look back over your shoulder at.No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
simundo777 said:
The new'ish Mustang is the epitomy of the mid life crisis car.
Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
Strange comment. Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
Personally I think this sounds excellent. The RS3 always had a lot to commend it but was let down by the one-dimensional chassis. The second gen version was not the understeering pig some still think of it as, but was really not the most lively or engaging. This should be a whole step above. While some are criticizing this as too similar to the Golf R, to me the 5-pot is in another league of appeal, and the RS3 looks to overcome the dowdy new sad beluga Mk8 Golf platform in aesthetics.
Maybe it's my age, but is there anyone else out there who simply cannot get their heads around a hatchback doing 180mph? I'm from the era when about 9 posters of the Lambo Countach adorned my walls, so now a hatchback?? 180mph?? Straight from the showroom???
Absolutely bloody fantastic and I approve 1 million percent........ but I still just can't get my head around it!!!
Absolutely bloody fantastic and I approve 1 million percent........ but I still just can't get my head around it!!!
PH User said:
This car would be loved on here if it was an estate, you certainly wouldn't get people asking where you would use the performance.
My god what is it with you and your obsession with estate cars?? How anyone can get so worked up about such an innocuous genre of car is beyond me!jamieduff1981 said:
Ultimately this is Pistonheads where cars have an emotive quality and are not just chosen by numbers like much of the population. Numbers as they are, the RS3 is still just a hatchback, but with an asking price 1.5 times that of something with an 8 pot, similar power, RWD which most petrolheads prefer and a shape you're more likely to want to look back over your shoulder at.
No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
You're able to fit your bikes in the back of that ok? And which windows do your dogs stick their heads out of? Strapping the kids in to the child seats not a pain in the @r$e no?No, I don't have a Mustang. Yes, I'd definitely buy one before I ever bought any AWD hatchback with a "Drift Mode" button.
If nothing else, it proves that you can throw all the numbers you want at something but desire for a car (or anything) requires more than just brochure figures.
simundo777 said:
The new'ish Mustang is the epitomy of the mid life crisis car.
Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
Sounds like some weird projection of your own insecurities. Also, the only Mustang owners I personally know bought them in their late 30s and are in healthy but not obsessive shape. As far as I know, neither plays golf.Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
jamieduff1981 said:
I think you're being extremely generous to Joe. Audi are marketed squarely at, and appeal mostly to, people who sincerely believe rear wheel drive cars are scary and/or unusable much of the year in European climates. Joe isn't average - Joe is dangerous and lacks the intelligence to understand AWD might help you hoof more power down when its wet outside but it doesn't help with changing direction or stopping in same slippery conditions. Adding this button in will just get more of them written off even faster. Hopefully they only hit roadside furniture though and not other people or their more vulnerable property.
"Audis always understeer" as the driver is full throttle into a corner. Well this "Quattro" malarky doesn't work too well...jamieduff1981 said:
simundo777 said:
The new'ish Mustang is the epitomy of the mid life crisis car.
Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
Sounds like some weird projection of your own insecurities. Also, the only Mustang owners I personally know bought them in their late 30s and are in healthy but not obsessive shape. As far as I know, neither plays golf.Always driven by middle aged over weight men who think they are literally driving round in a Porsche.
They also tend to be in garish colours to make sure their friends see them as pull into the golf club.
Maybe you just hang out with the wrong kind of people?
(mind you I'm the middle aged one and would also love one... maybe I just need to get bald and overweight first lol)
Arsecati said:
PH User said:
This car would be loved on here if it was an estate, you certainly wouldn't get people asking where you would use the performance.
My god what is it with you and your obsession with estate cars?? How anyone can get so worked up about such an innocuous genre of car is beyond me!Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff