Audi RS 3 Sportback 2015

[AleRPM]

Nè Sedan, nè 3p, nè cabrio. Solo così

[__P]

Nè Sedan, nè 3p, nè cabrio. Solo così

Sai anche il motivo?

[Touareg 2.5]

Prezzo:

Benzina:

2.5 TFSI Quattro S-Tronic (367 CV):

RS 3 Sportback: 49.900€

Ecco anche il prezzo per il nostro mercato.

[AleRPM]

Sai anche il motivo?

Nessun motivo ufficiale, in questi casi è già tanto si sbilancino.

[ggg1677]

Nessun motivo ufficiale, in questi casi è già tanto si sbilancino.

Beh la gamma rs non esiste in versione berlina su nessun modello...rs4 e rs6 son solo avant, rs5 coupe e cabrio, rs7 è una 5p., poi fanno il q3 e penso prima o poi tornerà la tt...credo sia una scelta filosofica

[Redbull]

uscirà RS3 sedan, soprattutto per gli USA

[AleRPM]

uscirà RS3 sedan, soprattutto per gli USA

fonte?

[crabble]

Quell'azzurro le sta malissimo, a partire dalla A3 1.6 TDI.

A me piace molto invece, trovo brutto il grigio topo!

Comunque... gotta mine

[Touareg 2.5]

Sposto in Audi !

[poliziottesco]

impressioni di guida da autocar. Non ho ancora avuto il tempo di leggere ma dalle stelline dispensate (3.5/5) non mi sembrano particolarmente esaltati...Ale, quanto puoi se ti va dicci la tua!

[h=1]2015 Audi RS3 Sportback review[/h]

Does our first go on asphalt in the new RS3 confirm or frustrate its impressive first showing on ice?

[h=2]What is it?:[/h]The last time we encountered the second-generation RS3, it was on a blanket of snow just outside the Arctic circle. There, rather unsurprisingly, it proved rather good at carving giant crescents out of a frozen proving ground. But now it’s April and above 20deg C in Italy, and therefore things get rather more serious.

Many items we can quickly cross off the list. Yes, it’s more powerful than the original model - by the 27bhp it coincidentally needed to comfortably knock the Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG off its perch as most powerful mega-hatch. A revised turbocharger and intercooler see the 2.5-litre in-line five to 362bhp, while peak torque is also nudged up by a modest 11lb ft.

The seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch automatic gearbox has had yet more decimal places polished from its upshift times, and the car as a whole is lighter by around 55kg, so the power-to-weight ratio gets an encouraging leg up, too. Added to which there’s now Euro 6 compliance, which brings with it some efficiency savings - not least a 23g/km reduction in CO2 emissions.

None of these things, though, as worthy as they are, particularly furnish us with reasons to be cheerful. The previous model’s problem was not one of pace, but feel, it being overly stiff and drearily intransigent in just about equal measure.

Consequently, what we’re most interested in here is the revamped software code intended to make the RS3’s lightened all-wheel drive system a little less nose-heavy and the current state of the standard (non-adaptive) sports suspension.

[h=2]What's it like?:[/h]Unfortunately, having laid on the sublime in Finland, Audi insisted this time round we go by way of the ridiculous. Despite laying on a perfectly good circuit, the manufacturer opted not to allow the car’s stability control to be fully switched out beyond the pit wall, thereby stymieing at source any serious inspection of the apparently more amenable torque distribution - the one that Audi itself was flagrantly promoting when the conditions were a more conducive -20deg C.

The surrounding public roads, sadly, offered no reprieve either, most being of the skinny and exceedingly pockmarked Italian variety. Poor for performance driving; excellent, though, for showing up the limits of the car’s still-stringent ride comfort, which, though improved, remains a set-up that forces you to endure hefty secondary intrusions while you try to enjoy the tacked-down quality of the primary.

You’ll be doing both things often because the RS3 is exceedingly fast and forever keen to prove it. The five-pot feels marginally more linear than it did before, but it still has the gravelly voice and frenzy enough to ensure it a place high in the hot hatch premier league - perhaps beyond the A45.

That the car also remains riveted to the ground and a doddle to dial into will be testimony enough of quattro GmBH’s skill for some - but we hoped there would be more here to savour.

Instead, the experience, including the dullard steering and grabby brakes, is mostly familiar. That the four-wheel powerslides experienced on ice proved a distant memory is hardly surprising, yet we’d hoped, even with the ESP in Sport mode, for a more engaging sense of the RS3 adjusting its line in accordance with throttle input.

Potentially, given the negligible wiggle of its hips on the odd exit, that may yet turn out still to be on tap. But not on track in this instance, with the car - or its minder - erring too often on the side of exasperating caution.

[h=2]Should I buy one?:[/h]That leaves the jury technically still out, although it must be said that if you’re holding off on buying the model’s half sister, the Golf R, until you’ve heard the final verdict, I wouldn’t necessarily linger much longer.

Marginally slower and less characterful in the engine bay it may very well be, but the Volkswagen steers with more aplomb, levitates above the ground like a cruise missile, gets the standard manual gearbox the Audi doesn’t, and, crucially, doesn’t need the ESP turned off to show you a good time.

da Autocar