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The smart Audi A3 always felt like the entrance level Audi, even though after the appearance of the Audi A1, it no longer was. Its innovative interior worked at a basic level but the style and features enjoyed by those rich enough to pay for larger more posh Audis were missing.
Certainly, it’s a spacious car too, at least in the frontage. Back seat passengers have been intentionally denied more than adequate leg room to give owner/occupiers with the grounds to use more on the longer wheelbase A3 Sportback. The 365 litre boot is impressively competitive in the class but no more.
If you have the preference and can meet the expense of it, the 2.0-litre TDI motor is by far the finest engine obtainable for the Audi A3. The petrol engines are smooth, effortless and sweet but merely don’t add up when you think about the price paid in consumption of fuel, range and limited low down torque and CO2 emissions.
Between the 1.6 and 2-litre diesels, the fact the second is 40bhp more potent yet it seems that will go just 5.4 fewer miles on each and every tank of diesel tells you what you need to know. Yet while the 1.6-litre requires 10.7sec to reach 62mph, the 2-litre is declared to do it in just 8.6 sec. Our testing answered in an 8.9 sec run, but that’s although a night and day differential.
The strong 2.0-litre motor is brand new and possesses an excellent spread of refined torque. It is barely noisy right at the top end in that territory around 5000rpm where normal drivers never ever stray, or if you simply stand outside the car.
For almost all residents almost all of the time, it is truly more than sufficiently refined. All the 1.0-litre TFSI, 1.4-litre TFSI, and 2.0 TFSI petrol engines are really very strong performers, presenting plenty of flexibility, brilliant throttle response, and reliable power delivery.
Test takers would stay along with the standard six-speed manual gearbox too, which is a usually slick mechanism that builds smooth driving second nature. Picking the double clutch S-Tronic auto will not only charge you a handsome four figure sum, it’ll thump fuel consumption, raise the cost of your tax disc and only occasionally when you utilize it in manual mode, aggravate you with its less than faultless shifting too.
Audi’s formula of soft visual evolution cloaking entire transformation under the skin is expected to prove a clever choice. For ourselves, respect the new A3 as we do, we’d have preferred Audi to have been a little more daring. So, what do you think about this masterpiece now?
