Audi S3

In the April issue of CAR magazine, we put the BMW M140i Sport Steptronic up against the Audi S3 Sedan Quattro S tronic in an interesting comparative test (grab a copy to read the verdict). But we also set resident race ace Deon Joubert loose on Killarney in each of these practical performance cars. ...

Earlier this year, SEAT took the wraps off the Leon Cupra 290. Now the range has been facelifted, and the hottest model's outputs increased to 224 kW and 380 N.m, putting it somewhere in the region of the Volkswagen Golf R (which is sadly detuned for SA) and Audi S3.And that makes it the most powerful ...

Franschhoek, Western Cape – For a very long time, the Germans insisted that the 2,0-litre TFSI engine found in the Audi S3 and Volkswagen Golf R had to be restricted to 206 kW here in South Africa due to our climate. Finally, Audi South Africa has convinced the hierarchy that our conditions are ...

Audi has refreshed its 2017 A3 range with a revised exterior design and some new extras including an updated engine line and extra trim.The A3 maintains the same dimensions but it has undergone some notable visual changes. The headlamps have been slimmed down and designed to match the ones found on the ...

Audi seems to be on a new product offensive these last few months. With almost every new week there is a new model being launched by Ingolstadt.As the A3 family has grown to accommodate the Sedan and more recently the hotter S3 variants of the cooking variety A3 bodystyle. Now, ahead of the Geneva Motor ...

In the December issue of CAR we tested the new Audi S3 (track test vid here). While we came away impressed with this "gentleman's hot hatch", we always knew there was a hotter range-leader in the pipeline in the guise of an RS. Now comes news that there's not one but two new models on the way to take ...

Audi’s S3 offers 206 kW at 5 500 r/min and 380 N.m from 1 800 r/min. As usual, we handed the key to Deon Joubert for a track test on Cape Town’s Killarney Raceway. The result was a flying lap of 1:28,71 seconds. Look out for Joubert’s thoughts of the car in the February issue of CAR.A full road ...

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Here at CAR we've seen our fair share of scary passenger ride videos. Not least the time our very own Juliet McGuire was given a shotgun ride with Nurburgring track ace Sabine Schmitz in a BMW M3 Frozen edition. This one, however, is slightly different...Trying desperately hard to remain professional ...