Having had a golf R, BMW m135i and now an A35 AMG , 300 odd horsepower and four wheel drive is definitely where it’s at with UK weather and roads..adjustable suspension is a must…..

Evening everyone. 👋 Thanks Ped, great review based on a real world test rather than an afternoon taster. Shout out to Audi for supporting the channel. Mevagissey looks a picture.

Nice car and a really good review.Actually managed to watch and comment within the two hour time slot this week.Amazing.

By far and away the best looking small saloon. Perfect size for our narrow roads too.

Great shot in Mevagissey ! Really good that you could cover such a range of roads for the review . Lovely looking car apart from the gears as you said , looked both fun & comfortable on those long drives. Loved the colour too !

That was a good review. Very balanced and answered all the issues a daily driver would raise.

Nice to see an Audi back on the channel Mr Ped!

Great review Sir Pete! That color is awesome! The thumb nail pic is nice. What a cool little blue car.

Lovely colour . Ive just bought the RS4 2020 in that colour . Turbo blue

Great review as ever Pete. Tempted to look at the previous gen Black edition in Sepang blue in Tunbridge now 🤔

Even a year later this is one of the few reviews that speaks to the rs3 vs s3 argument. I think the power is the RS is nice but I honestly feel liek the s3 would be enough for me and most

Hi Ped, been looking forward to this since Wednesday and glad you made it down to Cornwall - even if only for a flying visit! The S3 looks great in that colour so looking forward to hearing how you got on with it

Hi Ped Great review as always. You may have transferred your allegiance to Mini but you are still an Audi fan. Have to agree with most of your comments, great value car, dash now as it should be. Colour I prefer Navarro Blue, but that is personal. Well done my friend.👏👏

Spot on with your comment on the Matrix lights - a bit meh if you live and drive in metropolitan areas but a game changer in the boonies. What the RS gives over the S is the overall drama - at least with the pre OPF cars. Not just performance (which is wild) but the noise! It turns us all into animals!

Great review, love the format, looks an awesome car. That gear selector is terrible !! Every car review should be done on Welsh roads. Keep up the fantastic content.

I enjoyed watching the Video Review. I particularly like the Blue Paint Colour and the Interior looks nice as well

Another great review. If I was to change my Disco or JCW the only car I would consider would be an Audi with Quattro but which one is the question. Thanks for the real world honest assesment.

I've had a '16 S3 in the States for about 2 years and love it. I feel like Audi tried too hard to "modernize" the 2020 model. The older style gear selector, as you mentioned, is so much nicer, and I think the number of fake and/or oversized grills has gone overboard.

I think your review is spot on, great design, great size, lovely to see the 'stuck on iPad' has gone (hate that idea), but as for that gear lever, what were they thinking?? Very nice video, thank you.

Totally agree with your assessment and thinking. Beautiful car and a more sensible choice over the A4/A5 for most. I was toying with a TT as I love the styling and size but a big requirement for me is a panoramic sunroof which bridges the gap between a coupe and a roadster. I like to be able to take in the sun 365 days a year. S3 really quite a good albeit not obvious alternative. Much prefer the look of the saloon to the Sportback.

Really enjoyed the footage of driving along the twisty welsh roads, think the split screen method was very effective also

Really enjoyed the new edit style for this video! Can imagine there was a lot of pre-planning involved, but it came out really well ☺️ Great review too! 👌🏼

Nice to see Mevagissey again. This lock down sucks. Im gonna miss spanking my golf r for a while now!!! Great content as always mate 👍

Shwmae!! I agree with the gear selector. Very odd design . A great car, loving the blue colour too!!!

Hi Ped: Great video, another quality vehicle from Audi, colour amazing but would agree with your comments on the central console and gear stick, it doesn’t look right. Having said that, great car with a quality brand.

Good honest and comprehensive review as always Pete 👍👌.

Very nice looking car Peter, you nailed the fact that it's more a drivers car not a rocket ship and I kinda like that to. The turbo blue is a colour that grows on you. Well done great review cheers Dave from downunder DFDU 😎

Very nice car Pete, especially the colour. I liked your comment about the older you get the smaller car suits you. That explains at 63 I am riding around on an electric bike, whats next a pram.

Cool car Pete, I like the integrated screen and virtual dash too !! Agree on the shifter though, it’s just awful it’s a car not a video game controller .... but looks like a lot of fun to drive 👍🏻👏🏻

Brilliantly edited video, thoroughly enjoyable to watch 👍🏼 Great car, but just couldn’t part with my Mini Roadster...

Hi Pete, love the Audi. Great review as usual.

Love the new Audi’s, ordered a Navarra Blue S4 which is coming in March

Great review Pete. The only thing I don't understand is why the new S3 produces less power than the new Golf R, bizarre and to my mind the new model should be producing at least 350 ps. S3s are remarkable cars no question, I've had mine a year and a half now and never cease to be amazed by it's effortless capability.

Really enjoyed the new video format. I much prefer the S3 sedan styling over the hatch..... it’s a shame they don’t make an avant S3

Love an Audi. My choice of car whilst serving in Germany (apart from the odd BMW) you could also use the full power over there. Nice care & upload as per 👍🏻

I like it.... my dad's Triumph Mettisse was that colour blue love it. And my mate has just rebuilt a TT quatro and its so nice ...a great video 😃

Awesome vlog pete,stay safe,

No comment on ‘pulling off’ but I’m glad it’s ‘nice on the hole’!!! Great and honest review PP, good value for money is the S3 but I’m not sold on the new design yet over my current RS3. New RS3 has some big shoes to fill and at that price point I’d probably be out and consider the new Golf R if the looks grow on me. Cheers and have a great Christmas 🎄

Hi Pete Great video mate. As you know I love Audi I’d love my SQ7 in that colour 👍👍👍👍👍

Agree the stuck on screen dash setup is awful but the previous version actually had a screen that automatically concealed itself in the dash when the car was switched off. That was neat, and no awful touch screen in sight!

Great review Ped. Keep them coming.

Great vid as usual Pete but it may be time to invest in a clip on mic for the in car shots as the audio isn’t great.

Nice small Audi, great colour.

Great content as always In 2021 you said e.v was on the cards I think you'll get an s3 and never regret...the infrastructure is going to dissapoint you all the time with the miles you put down on the road.

Liked new format 👍, good to see some colour on the road.

Nice colour, nice car! I can see how driving the S8 around Megavissy would make you feel a touch twitchy!!!!

Sounds great! A perfect daily driver right there.

Good review, great editing, everything on point & timed well👍👌. The nice & bright paintwork reminds me of Volvo's S60 polestar. The engine sound's good for a 4 cylinder👌. Any artificial speaker noise?

Not an Audi fan except rally Quattro. Always interested in your reviews whatever the car though. Good news for Perez today.

thanks for a great year 2020 happy Christmas . to u and your team .

Hi Pete, I am no expert in film production but I think this one shows that you’ve upped your game, brilliant and well done sir! Seasons greetings to you all

Great review as always :) My previous car was a 2017 S3 Saloon and it was perfect for me to use as a daily driver to work. It had all the tools and plenty power. Quattro always helps especially when you live in Scotland and it rains daily! Only reason I got rid of it was I purchased a Porsche Cayman. I genuinely think the Saloons are perfect - not too big not too small.

I can't wait until March, I bought a new 2021 Audi A3 Limousine 35 TFSI in Python Yellow with the Business and Evolution packets. Will be my first car since I'm only 22yo, I'm currently driving my mom's 2007 Fiat Bravo so imagine how huge of a quality jump will it be

Wow, a real car review, great stuff, thanks.

Almost Christmas 🎄 🥂🥳....great colour and lovely shape, better than the hatch

Good honest review...do like the A3/S3 saloon, reminds me of the old S4 b7 for size...new ones are just getting to big now imo.

Can’t go wrong with the s3 saloon, all round winner

Another Audi fan boy here. I have a B5 RS4 and an SQ5. Great channel Pete !

Pete you forgot to do a 0-60mph test . My old TTS said 4.6 but it’s 4.4 in real life. Would have been interested to see this with the new emissions stuff on it tested. Love the colour 👍

Nice one I want one 🚙👏🏿 you get some very good cars pp keep up the good work 🙏

Excellent review! Just wondering for a passenger about 6 ft 2 could they be somewhat comfortable in the back seat for a shorter road trip?

Nice video Ped - recently sold my 6& S3 Saloon for the same reason you shifted the S4., drove one like this a few weeks ago. Nice car, but they've taken a step back imho. Not as exciting, not as high quality interior. Just felt like a let down. The fact that they gave the Golf R more power is beyond me.

Keep on going Mate. Nice video. Love it

Lovely the colour, as you said to pay up to £50 000 for the rs when that s3 seems to be doing a adequate job !😊👍

MY very first car, a Mini 1000 was quite a similar shade of blue but a fraction darker. The Audi looks very nice although I have never really been into them and apart from the classic Quattro's I have no idea which model is which. All I know is they are well out of my price range. Edit: I just heard you say the price of that one and you've floored me. I didn't think anything of Audi's was under £50k WOW 🤩

Totally agree s audis are where it’s at as perfect road cars. I have a saloon sline a3 previous shape as I prefer the interior. I’ve had two s3 and the first one remains one of my best cars owned.

Hi Pete, awesome car. A bit different to how you normally present long trip videos but think that it works. It allows you to do a more indepth look at the car while adding in the driving experience of the week

Late to the post party but as ever I loved your review. The car, i just don’t think the styling is very nice although I know it will drive and feel amazing less the gear selector lol. Am I getting old 🤷🏼‍♂️😉

looks nice, but heard that the steering has no feedback, or rather numb? can it have park assist allowing the car to park in a narrow garage?

I enjoyed your perspective on the Audi S3 Saloon. Honestly, I wish the U.S. imported the S3 Hatchback, but I agree, the S3 is a looker. Unfortunately, about a month ago, an apparently distracted driver tried to enter the passenger door on my 2016 VW Golf R with a large GMC Yukon SUV. The passenger comparted held up well, but my insurance company totaled the car and gave me a reasonable settlement, which I used to purchase a year-end 2023 Audi S3. Here in the States, the dealers were asking a $15,000 premium over MSRP for the 2024 AND the 2023 VW Golf R's they had in inventory. Meanwhile, the Audi dealer gave me a very nice deal on the December closeout sale of the S3, a fairly loaded Premium Plus model with a much nicer interior than the Golf R, the S3 has the adaptable suspension AND a no-cord ability for Apple Car Play. I will miss the 6-speed manual of my Golf R, but I love the S3 and my wife REALLY loves it.

Good review Pete of a very nice Audi, on a public road you need nothing more. Till 2015 i had a Audi A4 convertible with the 3 liter V6 engine, bought it used and i liked the build quality. The road holding was not sporty at all, it was build for comfort. Perfect for long distance and cruising on B roads in sunny wheather. We traded it in for a 2015 F56 JCW. I would like to see a big review of the BMW 128 ti. You have good connections with BMW/Mini, so can we expect you to test the 128ti? Many greetings from Holland ! :)

Pete another great vid. If you had the choice again would it ne the Mini or S3 ?

Cheers Ped, great review 👍

Love the colour but I need a hatch for my bike, keep up the good work

Very brave driving around Mevagissey harbour but what a stunning thumbnail 👍. We do like an Audi and defo agree that as you get older we tend to prefer a smaller car. Be interesting to see how the fuel economy compares with your Clubman

I had the first generation S3 back in 2003 !!

Totally with you. The best car I will never buy. Certainly with the previous gen there is a perfectness to the proportion that very few cars manage. Looks like it was designed by one man rather than corporate committee.

Great looking car prefer it to the sports hatch. Wonderful review .

Great review. Seriously tempted by the new S3

Really interesting video Peter. Could you ask your friends at Audi if I could have a boot net like the one in that car as it was missing from the TT that I bought a year ago and it is quite an expensive option and difficult to get hold of, and yes the quattro drive train is brilliant

Wow, absolutely loved that Pete. Videography, cutting back and forth between footage, intelligent commentary (usual fodder), all ticked the right boxes - a polished performance Sir. An attractive car, I'd detest the finger print magnet screens, BMW/MINI have this nailed with the addition of the controller for us OCD lot. I'm still a manual purist too, the T-Roc R-LIne I had briefly before the MINI came with an auto box which I purposely chose as my way toward accepting electrickery. Whilst a good unit, it was lethargic unless the accelerator was buried. I just didn't bond with that, nor the car for other reasons. I much prefer the 'stick-shift' of the 3-pot MINI (combined with Sports Mode which the 3-pot needs). I'm not sure how I'll feel losing some of the driving enjoyment and engagement as and when the time comes to move to auto - manual all the way for me. Great job with the content as always, enjoy your weekend Pete, same to all the Peddlerz.

good review Ped. Keep them coming!

Looks very good... but is still a saloon! S3 is really a perfect sweetspot! Loved my 1998 A3 1.8T Sport ;)

Love the new design

Really nice format of video 👏

Beautiful colour 👍🏻 Love your reviews, one of the main reasons I bought my S4 B9 - you really are an “influencer” 👀😂

Liking the new S3. Great car 👌

Great review. Thanks

what tyres does it come on ? tyres on last one not great in the wet almost scared to push it terrible on low speed corners

Personally prefer the look of the S3 Saloon the new A3 looks better from rear angles but I still prefer the Saloon. I have a 2019 Cupra Hatch DSG at the moment and I am with you on the auto stick, seems too different in this version, if they went more for a updated look like a BMW it would look better and what is wrong with nudging a gear stick into Manual. With the previous DSG you could override the Auto briefly by flicking the paddles but I find in the Cupra it will be smart and hold in the manual mode when I am going down hill then change when appropriate. The DSG box is a good gearbox though but as you additionally say that it should let you bounce of the rev limiter at least in the sportier driving modes that's what the rev limiter is there for.

Keep the reviews coming

10/10 - Fantastic Review!

I have a 2018 in Ara Blue Crystal Effect! The prettiest blue of all. I also have an APR Stage II flash with a downpipe and carbon intake. On all weather tires and on bad roads I have managed a (Dragy) 0-60 of 3.7 seconds. On a proper track and tires, (tyres) I think she'll do a 3.5 sec 0-60. Yeah, near 400 hp and 400 ft lbs. My biggest gripe was getting the sports seats for $1400 and they deleted the power option that you get with the standard seats!

Good show, thank you.

I think he likes it Peddlers!!! To me it looks a bit modern German oh wait it is modern German not that different shape than a dare I say BMW, however nice colour and I agree with you Pete if you put it in manual it should stay in manual or else where is your freedom to choose what mode you desire! So in conclusion nice honest review as always nice blue car can’t afford one😄

trouble with all auto/manual boxes is that the computer always overrides the driver ! And in a BMW , the 8 speed gearbox, lovely silky smooth as an auto, gives you v. little engine breaking as you drop down the box - Fab Blue colour that S3- just like my mates old s4 until it got nicked!

Love the colour, but I think I’d prefer the fastback, for the kids, dog etc.

Having owned a 2015 8v S3 Sportback I loved the sporty practical mix the car has. For me it's the sweet spot for British roads. Looked at the 2020 version and it didn't excite me as much as I wanted it to. Audi have cheapened it and it really doesn't do enough stylistically to differentiate it from an S-Line model. Love the tech but hate the piano black, vents and gear selector area. Great car but not for me. Ended up ordering a JCW Clubman ;-) Some great discounts to be had and much easier to keep the car below the £40k luxury car tax which the S3 will incur with just a couple of options - B&O + Matrix will likely cost you twice as much over 5 years. If you like small, fast cars you should give the S1 a try. It may compromise on practical space but makes up for it on size and is almost as fast. Manual only for that extra involvement. Might not suit your 6'3" frame though.

Peter...you are right...the best looking Audi so far and the colour is perfect. Compare that car with something from the 1990”s and it is a spaceship...these days there are too many people spoilt with PCP funded choice...that car is superb value. I like it and I don’t like ALL a Audi”s...the gloomy Q5 and dumpy Q3 and well off my list! Now..remember I have a number plate that no Audi enthusiast should be without..TT51TTS....never used as I never bought one. Stay safe...wear sunscreen, wash weekly..😀😀😀😀

Definitely a fan of the colour!