The Audi RS3 Sedan is an extreme golf-class sedan (segment C by European standards), which combines the practicality of a family car and the driving characteristics of a sports car ... The international show of the four-door "thundered" at the end of September 2016 on the catwalks. -show in Paris - she got the exterior and interior based on less powerful "brothers" in the family and for the first time in the history of the "golf" -class reached the milestone of "400 horsepower".
The exterior of the three-volume Audi RS3 has something in common with that of the "Sportback" - the car looks really cool, and you can recognize it by the mesh grille of a black glossy radiator, "curly" bumpers, a spoiler on the trunk lid and a rear diffuser, into which large-caliber "trunks are integrated. »Exhaust system.
In terms of external dimensions, the "Er-Eska" in the sedan body is slightly larger than the hatch of the same name: in length it extends by 4479 mm, in width - by 1802 mm, in height - by 1399 mm. There is a 2631 mm gap between the pairs of wheels of the car.
Inside, the Audi RS3 Sedan has full parity with the Sportback - a beautiful and thoughtful design, exceptionally expensive finishing materials, the highest quality workmanship and a five-seat layout.
The cargo compartment of the "extreme" four-door in the standard form holds 390 liters of luggage.
Specifications. The "heart" of the car is a 2.5-liter TFSI aluminum petrol "five" equipped with combined fuel injection, turbocharger, 20-valve timing and variable gas distribution phases, which generates 400 horsepower at 5850-7000 rpm and 480 Nm of peak thrust at 1700-5850 rpm.
A 7-band "robot" with a pair of clutches and a "family" all-wheel drive quattro with an electro-hydraulic clutch that transfers torque to the wheels of the rear axle are docked with it.
In terms of "driving" characteristics, the Audi RS3 sedan is identical to the five-door model: from the start up to 100 km / h, it "catapults" after 4.1 seconds, reaches a maximum of 250 km / h (optional - 280 km / h) and "destroys" no more than 8.3 liters of fuel in mixed mode.
The technically “charged” three-volume box echoes the “Sportback”. The car is built on the MQB platform with MacPherson struts at the front and a multi-link at the rear, adaptive shock absorbers with magnetorheological fluid, a steering gear with a "short" rack and an adaptive electromechanical amplifier, as well as ventilated disc brakes on all wheels (370 mm in diameter at the front and 310 mm at the rear axle).
Options and prices. The Audi RS3 Sedan will reach Russia only in the summer of 2017; in Europe, orders for it will begin to be accepted in April. At home, the four-door is offered at a price of 55,900 euros (~ 3.4 million rubles at the current exchange rate), and in terms of standard and optional equipment, it repeats the Sportback.
