I wouldn't say it shits all over the A45 but for looks, I prefer the RS3. The A45 is an incredible car in my opinion though.

***** in ur dreams the a45 is so much better

Bachar Halabi in what way?...the rs3 is faster, sounds much better its not those exhaust farts only at gear shifts its continuous and deep and also the interior looks better with those seats and the screen in the a45 looks like an ipad sticked to the dash and then the looks of the exterior is up to personal taste but to my taste this looks gorgeous

Pug 306 gti6 ❤❤❤👌 such a lovely hot hatch we used to own one 0-60 sub 8 sec good for 1990-2000 for a hot hatch 33 mpg :/ 155.8 mph no limiter

Jxck Dnb not a bad car i sold mine after a celica gt beat me wasnt happy not sure about 155 though

Dustin Lee Martin We'll see what we can do!

Yes Auto Express​ please do! 😁😀

yes,yes

Wait for the face lift first.. You can check my A45 AMG video

The New A45 Amg Has a 2L turbo engine 381hp This is a 2.5L 5cylinder engine 362hp

Yeah I agree mate it is

S Miller Not really when you consider you can have an M135i for £30,000

For a start you it now costs around £31k without an auto which the RS3 has. If you get an auto its £33k. Secondly you lose over 60hp and a hell of a lot of torque. Thirdly to get a M135i up to the spec of the RS3 you will need to spend a good 5-6k so now you have a £39k car without AWD and without a modern chassis and slower!

Sorry one more thing, the RS3 is £38,820 so quite a large chunk under 40k

S Miller The M135i is 326bhp. The RS3 is 362bhp. Where I was taught maths, that isn't 'over 60bhp' of difference. And by the sounds of the review, the RS3 still understeers badly like it always has, so its 'modern chassis' hasn't done it much good. Also, the RS3 won't be discounted. The M135i can easily be had with a 20% discount, so the price difference is huge.

Is the M2 official and a sedan or hot hatch?

The M2 is official but they are holding it to the BMW anniversary when they will launch it. It's a sedan.

Daniel Maia Nope. The M2 is a coupe. If they're gonna do an M2 sedan, they will have to put out a 2-series sedan ("gran coupe") first.

Daniel Maia It's a coupe.

TT RS?

The focus RS

El BMXICAN Nope, not reaching 367, maybe close, about 345.

El BMXICAN never buy a focus. Because all a focus is just a Fiat bravo with a different body kit literally that's all it is.

Patrick Crawford WTF?!

ReventadorLP1500-2 I'm not joking look it up. A 2003 fiat bravo's chassis and most of the engine is what's inside the new focus.

Those gearboxes(DSG, STRONIC)are very strong if you maintain the service intervals. I do launch control maybe 3 times a month when I'm feeling adventurous at the stop lights and no problems in my audi and vw gti.

I know.

Rihards Linde Those may be the quickest figures recorded in all of the tests out there - but in fact, the average of all reviews is 4,5 to 62 and 17,6 to 124 (average of 11 sources = car magazines.)

Abzug0386 don't say you measure the average haha

ellasOLE22 if this guy is talking about understeer, Harris will probably hate it in the track as much as the old one

yeah but with ECS fully off it should slide under trail brake. Even give more power to rear.

Well they say it can send up to 100% to the rear. The key question is "under what conditions?" If it only does it at low speed or when the front is slipping under low grip conditions, it's useless. Even if it slides a bit under trail brake, the question is what it does when you transition to full gas? Will it keep its tail happy or will it go to full understeer? Well, it's all theoretical until Harris gives it a go and tell us ;) 

yes all true, well just have to wait and see, but hoping that it tries to send as much to the rear as useful. Even so, the aftermarket Haldex units will most likely have a "drift mode" so that would be cool.

dimos k that's bcoz Audi always tune their Quattro with understeer towards the limit for safety issue..... that's why most owners love it and most journos hate it.

+andyb0x at least its in the right spot

+3Vimages and yet, the A45 is still slower in all the metrics. The RS3 is actually closer to 400hp, and a confirmed 3.9sec to 62mph. Audi have always been very understated in the brochure and this is no exception

stinger15au Everything you say is just wrong. The RS3 is 362bhp (A45 381bhp). 0 to 62mph is 4.3sec (A45 4.2sec) Torque is 465nm (A45 475nm). The A45 is ahead in all metrics which is even more impressive considering it is only a 2 litre 4 pot compared to the RS3's 2.5 litre 5 pot! In fact the AMG A45 has more power per litre (190.5obhp) than any other road going production car on earth ... including all supercars! That is almost 50 bhp per litre more than the RS3! Stop inventing 'facts' that are just wrong!

+Thomas Pillow lucky the RS3 does 0-60 in 3.9 completely stock then.....

Norman Wong Nardo Grey....stock color

Its a primer with clearcoat... Awful colour

neil1jnr says you.. most people love the hell out of it. its diffirent. its cool

Understeer is being able to see the tree you are going to hit, oversteer is when you are only feeling and hearing it

Juan Manuel Martinez M135i is the one to look for. It's the sweet spot with that inline 6. It's RWD, manual transmission, 300+ HP. Great car. I'd get the M235i personally, with the shift lights on the steering wheel. Yes please.

Juan Manuel Martinez The weight wasn't much of a surprise to me. My dad has a 2013 A3 and that POS weighs more than the heaviest version of both the MK4 Supra and Skyline R34-GTR. And that's the base version with a 2.0 TDI.

I love the M235i VirusTornado really digging that car, but once the M2 comes out....

Juan Manuel Martinez The M2 is a true M car. M cars are rather expensive to buy and maintain. M235i is the sweet spot in my opinion because it's usable 9/10 on the road.

Juan Manuel Martinez The S3 feels as if it did, in fact, the S3 is quite disappointing regarding cornering and way inferior compared to i.e. the TTS. As always with Audis: If you want to go fast, you have to live with understeer if you drive it tight or you have to do more point and squirt style with heavy breaking into the turns. Same goes for the S1, it has no understeer but has a performance on track comparable to, say, 200kW Diesel sedans.

Wait wer u live u can get an awd focus

Impala Daily the new 2016 focus rs will be 4wd :)

Mike Liu They keep insisting on 20" inch rims with super low profile tyres because it looks better... but it kinda fucks up the ride.

***** That comment is old lol... yea I know they are 19

With an altered Vin and cloned plates presumably 🤣

+timothy mountain stock colour, the only colour you get without a charge, called nardo grey

This is probably the best colour ever.

It's called Nardo Grey - I have it on my RS3 with Dakota White Leather interior !

@@bensealey7380 🤮 Dakota white leather??? Why would you even go there, when you can have black and red supersports

All audis look the same now

Well, myself and my wife have had Audi's and golf's both petrol and diesel for 20 years now never had any issues or probs. Had a couple of Ford's and always a hassle also vauxhall. The car I thought was also fantastic a Toyota Celica Gt4 UK model. I drive a S4 now, my wife Audi A3, my dad VW Golf gt td, again no hassle and fab cars. Mercedes-Benz I would never touch. Got nothing against the Focus St, focus RS, plus drove a Honda civic type r last week a dealer feels like a good car. Everyone has there own opinion but that's a good thing.

Quite correct, mag ride is part of the RS pack that includes the exhaust

Oversteer will kill you quicker, all you have to do is change the rear anti roll bar for an updated H&R one and it becomes totally neutral again

bb-23 It's crazy. I don't think a Golf R400 could be more pricey than this, because, well, it's a Golf... but at 400 hp it'd be above it on power. Which means pure awesomeness.

bb-23 R400 has boring 4-cylinder, which sounds like shit

bb-23 they've confirmed the r400 production for 2016, but i'm pretty sure there's going to be only a limited number made

The golf r the new ones can handle really good its too bad that audi didn't took the knowledge obtained from the golf r. Maybe the engine weights more

***** yeah buet i mean handling, an the rs3 have a different engine than the golf r

Nardo Grey

+Michael Goodwin lol they did get it right. Its a practical daily weapon that sounds like a supercar. Sure it understeer's a bit when pushed, like all AWD's do, but its not THAT bad. I have had mine now for exactly 6 days, and driven 1000km, loved every single second. It is an amazing machine.

firefighter5278 "Nardo Grey" :)

***** Yeah, quite hopefully, but I was just replying to what they said in the video. :)

+Al Seraidy Mohammed forget what the brochure says, this is closer to 390 to 400hp from the factory. 0-100 in a confirmed 3.9sec. Its a decent whack faster than the merc in straight line tests, overtaking, general day to day.

thats what he is saying. its not a fun track car, but a daily driving weapon. personally I think they test on tracks now because pretty much all top end cars are so dynamically good that you really only find the strengths and weaknesses on the track. they are just so competent on the road

stinger15au If what you say is true "they are just so competent on road" the technically the track comparisons are contrived. In short 99.9% of all new road cars bought will never see a track in their life time, and may only become a track car when their value dwindles to less than 5% purchase price. Secondly consider the few cars that do actually venture out onto the track, how many of the £50k RS, AMG and M cars are going to go flat out? The whole thing is a daft. And to wind down a review of s 5 door ESTATE chatting about track days is even more daft. I buy a RS3 because i want super sports car performance with all the benefits of a small family car. Not because i want to drive to the nearest race track and compete with stripped out purpose made or altered vehicles on slicks.

Ohh i agree. It does depend on the car though. I bought a toyota 86, that has seen significant track time of all kinds

+sugarsaint lol rarely do i see so much sense spoken in youtube comments but you're spot on