RE: 2021 Audi RS3 officially unveiled

RE: 2021 Audi RS3 officially unveiled

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BigChiefmuffinAgain

1,054 posts

97 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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I think this looks pretty good and the performance numbers that the hyper hatches are producing these days are spectacular. To think that £50k gets you similar numbers to a Ferrari F430 from just over a decade ago in a car which seats 4 people and their luggage. Mind boggling...

Deckert

599 posts

189 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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First impressions, god it's ugly, those gaping front vents and the honeycomb strip all across the back look ridiculous.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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I really like the wheels on the hatch in those photos.

Harry_523

350 posts

98 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Exterior yesyesyesyesyesyes

Interior yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck

CloudStuff

3,676 posts

103 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Chavy

Fast and Spurious

1,295 posts

87 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Dale487 said:
What's the opposite of a Grower?

On first glance, I thought; that's got some understated purpose to it. But as I look more and more, it looks like a Jelly mould because it gets wider at the lowest point of the body. Plus its not understated at all, its over styled.
Katie Price?

cerb4.5lee

30,197 posts

179 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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I usually prefer a hatchback, but that looks really good to my eyes in saloon form.

Xenoous

948 posts

57 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Ooooh now this looks good. Hope it drives as good as it looks. One for the wish list.

Dale487

1,334 posts

122 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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BigChiefmuffinAgain said:
I think this looks pretty good and the performance numbers that the hyper hatches are producing these days are spectacular. To think that £50k gets you similar numbers to a Ferrari F430 from just over a decade ago in a car which seats 4 people and their luggage. Mind boggling...
The car itself isn't my taste but I was thinking similar about the level of performance available in what is a family hatch (or saloon) and how quickly its moving forward.

ian_md

2,890 posts

170 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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My order is effectively in; been waiting for the new RS3 to top the range of hatchbacks again and apart from a bit of fakery, I think it looks good. Whether it will arrive this side of Christmas (next year), who knows; with a shortage of chips, even the S3 Vorsprung's are barely trickling through!

ChrisCh86

832 posts

43 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Definitely over styled.

The grills on the front are largely ok in my view as they are mostly real, but the unnecessary grilles on the rear bumper look ridiculous - especially as they are largely fake.

They need two options of rear bumper - "sports" and "plain" - this would be considerably better with the latter.

Good to see another outing of the 5-cylinder (surely the last?) but you'd have to be brave to have one of these on the driveway - these are magnetically attracted to thieves - especially if you live in the Midlands.

cowboyengineer

1,410 posts

113 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Numeric said:
I used to be highly critical of all the air vents and huge grilles on the front of cars but someone on the forum pointed out that the heat generated by these modern engines is huge and the vents needed.

Once I took that on board it really changed the way I view the styling - so if all these vents are needed to make the car work all over the world, then I think they have done a reasonable job.

And yes the performance is incredible - we finally get these amazing more more importantly relatively affordable machines just as the opportunity to exploit them will quickly diminish, with limiters and seemingly ever lower speed limits. C'est la vie.
You’ll be please to know, that only about 40% of the vents are open, a small bit behind the Audi badge, two small hits under the number plate then the lower edges are also open. The rest is just solid plastic

Augustus Windsock

3,340 posts

154 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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David87 said:
One must be prepared to dominate the stairs with one of these on the drive, I feel.
I know it’s Monday morning, and I’ve just left hospital, but I don’t understand this comment at all.
Is it something to do with a gym stepper machine or is the domination bit some sort of S&M thing when one gets ‘worked up’ over the drift mode?
Anyhoo I guess I’m getting old because wonderfully competent and fast as they maybe, I’d rather have the slower and analogue experience of my old original ur Quattro to one of these.
The designers seem like they are trying too hard to please, with things like the bumper treatments etc and for whatever reasons both this and the AMG45 leave me cold.

Howard-

4,950 posts

201 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Needs more power.

Zumbruk

7,848 posts

259 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Stiffer suspension? Like they weren't noisy and uncomfortable enough already?

jimbim

67 posts

129 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Dale487 said:
MDMA . said:
I'd have the green saloon but without the machined bits on the wheels.
The wheels look "pre-kerbed".

Edited by Dale487 on Monday 19th July 09:24
You took the words out of my mouth…. Weird design.
Over styled, like all of it. Does it come without a ‘black’ pack, I wonder?

ReverendCounter

6,087 posts

175 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Delivery miles to stolen in one week.

iiievolution

42 posts

95 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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It’s ok. Maybe too much black from the grill design protruding into the head light area. Maybe that bit could have been silver like the old RSQ3.

fantheman80

1,412 posts

48 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Augustus Windsock said:
I know it’s Monday morning, and I’ve just left hospital, but I don’t understand this comment at all.
Is it something to do with a gym stepper machine or is the domination bit some sort of S&M thing when one gets ‘worked up’ over the drift mode?
Anyhoo I guess I’m getting old because wonderfully competent and fast as they maybe, I’d rather have the slower and analogue experience of my old original ur Quattro to one of these.
The designers seem like they are trying too hard to please, with things like the bumper treatments etc and for whatever reasons both this and the AMG45 leave me cold.
Ah I am afraid a true PHer instantly recognises dominate the stairs. You can literally google it now!!

EC2

1,447 posts

252 months

Monday 19th July 2021
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Does it still have wider tyres on the front? That put me off the previous two versions as it was an admission that it was really a FWD car with a (laggy) Haldex clutch mechanism. Or does the new 4WD system allow them to fit same size tyres on all four corners?