Audi Q3 RS Q3 Reviews | Overview

AUDI claims it invented the “Premium Compact Higher-Effectiveness SUV” niche with its very first-at any time RS Q3, which introduced in Australia back again in early 2014. And there’s no doubting the achievement of this effectiveness flagship, observing around 500 of them observed homes below more than the upcoming 5 decades. 

But the outdated RS Q3 was in no way pretty all it could be. Driving on a circa-2003 system (the PQ35, a la Golfing Mk5/six) with an oddly undersized entire body and an definitely outsized motor (Audi’s 2480cc iron-block 5-cylinder), the primary RS Q3’s balance of powers did not pretty unite to variety a strong party. 

But 2nd time around, the new-era RS Q3 understands particularly what it desires to be – as simple as any SUV inside earshot of its size and price tag, backed by not only bahn-storming effectiveness but also chopping-edge dynamics and a conventional gear listing with more highlights than a Schitt’s Creek display-reel. 

All for a price tag that is only marginally northwards of what a 2014 RS Q3 charge when new.

In quickly SUV terms, it not only appears promising, it is promising. 

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