In fact, ripping through every section of the fabulous track makes me laugh with glee, in a way that I wouldn’t if I was in last year’s RS3. Typically a mild mid-cycle refresh doesn’t bring ...

Subtly updated suspension and differential tuning turn the RS3 into an even lovelier compact sedan. All it took was a young, ...

Marking a mid-cycle refresh for its third generation, there’s plenty to love about the refreshed 2025 RS3. There are new bumpers up front and out back—each more aggressively styled—a ...

It's vital to balance power with agility to squeeze out those all-important seconds. The 2025 Audi RS3 performance sedan's mid-cycle upgrades leave the engine untouched, keeping output the same as ...

Yep, we may have enjoyed four generations of Audi’s venerable A3 hatchback, but the first RS3 only arrived in 2011 based on the facelifted second gen. Oh, and we’re still only on the second ...

The RS3 is the highest-performance version of Audi's A3, which shares an underlying platform with the Volkswagen Golf. Other markets get a hatchback variant, but the RS3 will only come as a sedan ...

It's little wonder, then, why our Performance Vehicle of the Year judges voted the 2022 RS3 as a finalist, though it entered with a few reservations. For one, its price is flat-out absurd ...

There’s one car that bucks that trend, though, and it’s in a surprising segment. The Audi RS3 has a mega-powerful turbocharged inline-5 that’s one of the most characterful and interesting ...

The RS3 is the highest-performance version of Audi's A3, which shares an underlying platform with the Volkswagen Golf. Other markets get a hatchback variant, but the RS3 will only come as a sedan ...

Worth having over the S3? There’s a strict hierarchy in the hot hatch world, not least at Audi. The S3 has always been the rapid but sensible one, whereas the RS3 is there for those wanting ...

Audi’s latest RS3, as with its predecessor, is dripping with big numbers. A few of the defining ones remain the same: five cylinders and a single turbo for the 2.5-litre engine that produces ...

Offers from our trusted partners on this car and its predecessors... It's easier to understand by starting with the outcome: a new compact class Nürburgring lap record of 7min 33.123sec, which is ...