@@jagen3042024/2025 Audi S3 go for like 52k€, unless you’re looking one with some kilometres on it you can find some for 45k€ that have somewhat like 35.000km, but they’re expensive
Noone would have thought in the past hot hatches will have more than 300 and even 400 hp stock . Cheap practical alternative for the real motorhead. I am addicted to those .
I have an older S3 and I totally agree with you about the missing badge on the front grill! If you pay this much for the upgrade to an S3, the badge should be in the front as well.
Years ago, I test drove an A4 with 19" wheels. The ride was very harsh. One pothole and the wheels would have been toast. With a smaller car like an S3, the ride is going to be very harsh with 19" wheels. If I bought this car, I'd have to get some aftermarket 18-inchers.
Great review, amazing interior and average exterior. For €55,000, the hot hatch market is going nuts in prices. But I guess for a premium fast hatchback, its alright
@@Moscarblog Probably yes. Here in Cyprus it starts from €77K. The Golf R 333PS starts at €56K and the A35 AMG starts at €50K. Thats a hell of a lot of money for a hatchback 🤣
I'm must turn you around, the A3 has nothing truly premium anymore especially compared to its competition the 1-Series and 2-Series Gran Coupe and the Mercedes A-Class. Audi choose to downgrade the interior with new generation of the car. the interior, on first look the dashboard looks great but the quality is absurd. The door panels are out of poor hard plastic and recycled fabric. The rear of the center armrest exposes and an awful design flaw with that pointless drum and some stacked up design. Still, there's no proper automatic shifter we know from the A4, A5, A6 you know the game. While they did improve interior details like proper seperated cup holders (yet still bad positioning) and more ambient lights. The current Generation of the A3/S3 and RS3 is still a garbage can of recycling material. Doesn't compete with competition, neither with it own branding. If Audi, A4 and anything higher☺️
I have a '23 S3. Too bad we don't get the hatch model in the USA. Also, I so wish Audi offered ventilated seats. Even some of the cheap(er) Hyundais and Toyotas have ventilated seats. if you live in the southern USA, you definitely need those!
Great review thank you, could tell how exciting it was for you! The sound is definitely pumped in though, they all do it, you can hear the cabin sound is just like the current Audi models. Exhaust definitely better 100%. I guarantee the UK won’t see the alcantara, but overall a nice facelift.
That Alcantara on the dash is so so amazing right? The sound definitely felt real, it may be pumped in but it‘s super suttle. On all the other modern hot hatches from the competitors it feels sience fiction how fake their sound is…
@@Moscarblog My RSQ3 and RS5s sounded like my A3 TDI in sport mode, it’s fake noise. My current Merc A35 is awful for fake sound, so agree with you that some are worse than others! My BMW M340d I had recently also sounded like a meaty petrol 🤣
My Dad is thinking about getting one of these. He currently has a TT but is having difficulty getting his walking frame out the boot. This looks as though it would be much easier to get things out of the boot for a disabled person who likes fast cars
I was bummed when they announced this but honestly it looka like crap compared to the original 8y pre facelift which I own. Still a bit bummed audi didn’t do the new torqu splitting diff on the 8y’s to start with
Just one quiz....the previous S3 before the facelift had the similar engine as VW Golf R but somewhat suppressed...thus a tad bit slower than the R.....is this one similar or has it been set loose??
The previous model looked much better and higher quality. front and rear bumper are ugly all the rims are so bad Sonos was never a good choice over B&O Why is there no S3 Badge ? The new rear diff is not much different like the previous haldex gen X
Nice car but a class/a35 interior is so much nicer to look at for me. I owned a a4 b9 few years ago they still haven’t changed the steering wheel. Also 47k gbp starting is ridiculous I’d rather get a used a45s or rs3 for similar price.
So you say that everything is so so great, so so amazing, super super nice and super super good? xD Dont get me wrong, it is nice that you are excited but repeating those words again and again can get pretty annoying for viewer xD.
How could you tell its an S3 from the front? Looks like the base model, plastic city. The rest of the car looks great. I'm guessing after market S3 badges are getting made as we speak.
Very nice car, but the price is outrageously high. For 25k less you get a Ford Focus ST fully equipped, the interior is not so high quality but you have just as much fun driving as with the S3
As amazing as this new S3 is, compact class cars are just getting way too expensive at 56000€ Compare this to an i30N - is the additional 22000€ really justified?
True.. we got 4wd in this one, torque vegtoring , the looks and the Rs style interior.. so we are definitely getting something for the money.. but it‘s expensive!!
Another 10% power over my near identical 2019 S3 8V Sportback Black Edition, but does that huge price jump include the custom exhaust as standard? Too much awful alcantara. I Hate that stuff, and it's so unhygienic on a steering wheel or seats. At least my 8V is pure nappa leather with red stitching and I would never buy this new one without a zero alcantara option!
Facelift s3 also comes with rear torque splitter which transform corner and corner exit speed and is a fair bit faster down a B road than the one that came before
Still has the cheap plastics inside and horrible piano black bits. I have an RS3 8Y and those things do annoy me. Not much different to the current car overall, but then it's just a facelift. Not an RS3 though, so I'll wait to see if they do anything worthwhile with that. Had my RS3 one year now, main gripes apart from use of cheap interior parts - B&O system is utter crap, software glitches with drive modes - still not sorted by Audi and then just the overall cheap shortcuts all over the car. Even the parcel shelf is now a bit of wobbly crap. Had rattles in my car as well, which I fixed because the dealer couldn't - now surprise given how crap Audi dealers have become.
@@Moscarblog You are very lucky)It's a dream to have such a car. I love Audi. I currently have an Audi A3 sedan 2.0 Quattro in the back of an 8V. And where are you from?
This car is not exciting anyone anymore. It just another audi, with some lights variations and trying to do something new. Especially in this hatchback box is non good looking car.
Really. Go try and find one. This wasn’t meant to be an argument but my opinion as an owner and someone who drove both. How can u say nobody wants one. You are so wrong fool. Go fight somewhere else. This is a fun thread.
Truth is these are daily cars and you can’t be racing all day. For daily use R way more practical and 10k less. Love both cars and was torn which way to go but at the end of the day I need to move things every now and then for kids and school. Audi was just too small trunk and backseat headroom.
Just bought a 2024 S3 and I am thrilled with it, got a great deal and I didn't have to wait on getting it.
im on the market for 2024/2025 s3, how much did you get yours for? currently driving 2018 s3
@@jagen3042024/2025 Audi S3 go for like 52k€, unless you’re looking one with some kilometres on it you can find some for 45k€ that have somewhat like 35.000km, but they’re expensive
@@jagen304 how do they age
@@EZZYLAND first 2015 s3 had issues with 2 wheel bearings, eventually read differential gave out. 2018 s3 70k miles no issues.
yh I just bought the 2025 s3 too, how much was your steal?
That’s the same starting price as the RS3 like 2 years ago with out depreciation💎
Nothing is to like about the exterior. Love the interior 🙌
Correct 👍
Noone would have thought in the past hot hatches will have more than 300 and even 400 hp stock . Cheap practical alternative for the real motorhead. I am addicted to those .
I have an older S3 and I totally agree with you about the missing badge on the front grill! If you pay this much for the upgrade to an S3, the badge should be in the front as well.
Looks the job inside and out as well as enginewise. Well done Audi.
BEAUTIFUL IT'S UNFORTUNATE THEY DON'T SELL THEM IN THE U.S.
This reminds me of an S1
Love this car...looks really good !!
Thank you!! I agree!
Those rims look like an absolute nightmare to clean
They are😂
Exterior hella nightmare! 🙃
Not nearly as difficult to clean as the RS3 black wheels.
If you need a badge to impress yourself, you don’t need a car like this.
i know its normal for cars to sometimes release liquid out of the exhaust.. but at 8:36 isn't that a lot? (please correct me if im wrong)
It’s not too difficult to buy an s3 badge and stick it on the front of the car if your really that bothered.
I don‘t really mind it tbh it looks way better!
This is what I will do
Years ago, I test drove an A4 with 19" wheels. The ride was very harsh. One pothole and the wheels would have been toast. With a smaller car like an S3, the ride is going to be very harsh with 19" wheels. If I bought this car, I'd have to get some aftermarket 18-inchers.
You can get 18‘s stock I think, but I can assure you that the ride was completely decent. I didn‘t have any complaints
Great review, amazing interior and average exterior. For €55,000, the hot hatch market is going nuts in prices. But I guess for a premium fast hatchback, its alright
Yes so true! They‘re getting more and more expensive.. but this one is also way better than before w. Torque vectoring from the Rs3 etc..
@@Moscarblog I guess then that the RS3 is going to be even more hardcore, but stupidly more expensive.
@emiliospowerballer1441 i think the Rs3 will be around 80k
@@Moscarblog Probably yes. Here in Cyprus it starts from €77K. The Golf R 333PS starts at €56K and the A35 AMG starts at €50K. Thats a hell of a lot of money for a hatchback 🤣
I'm must turn you around, the A3 has nothing truly premium anymore especially compared to its competition the 1-Series and 2-Series Gran Coupe and the Mercedes A-Class.
Audi choose to downgrade the interior with new generation of the car. the interior, on first look the dashboard looks great but the quality is absurd. The door panels are out of poor hard plastic and recycled fabric. The rear of the center armrest exposes and an awful design flaw with that pointless drum and some stacked up design. Still, there's no proper automatic shifter we know from the A4, A5, A6 you know the game. While they did improve interior details like proper seperated cup holders (yet still bad positioning) and more ambient lights. The current Generation of the A3/S3 and RS3 is still a garbage can of recycling material. Doesn't compete with competition, neither with it own branding.
If Audi, A4 and anything higher☺️
No fake pops but a lot of the sound is still pumped through the speakers in the interior…
Great video though.
Thank you so much! The sound felt natural! On the competitors you can instantly tell it‘s fake. Huge plus point for the S3!
@@Moscarblog fair point
Hurry up June 1st. I want this
So sleek, it's mesmerizing.
How much costs the Akrapovič for the new Audi S3?
It would be around 4,100€! Is that worth it to you?
5.500 euro listino prezzi italiano! Un furto !
The price is sick s3 should be under €40,000
wait till you see the price of a golf
I have a '23 S3. Too bad we don't get the hatch model in the USA. Also, I so wish Audi offered ventilated seats. Even some of the cheap(er) Hyundais and Toyotas have ventilated seats. if you live in the southern USA, you definitely need those!
It definitely makes no sense that at the price point both the S3 and RS3 don't offer ventilated seats, while the Golf R does
I love your videos🔥🔥
Thank you🔥🔥
No Akrapovic Exhaust option in the UK for the S3. Golf R does have this exhaust option 👍
Pre facelift ist much more beautiful. looks more aggressive and less cheap
We need a "SO SO GREAT" counter for this video ahahaha, btw SO SO GREAT car 😆 you sold this car to me 👍
Thank you😂💯
There’s definitely a "fake 5 cylinder sound" poppin from the speakers
Still there even after the facelift
You can turn the interior sound down or off from the OBD port. I've got my 8V at 10% which is good.
Finally, Audi starts to use AK exhaust from MK7.5R
love the interior
Me too🔥🔥
13:57 is bro testing the car sound on thin bridges?😂
Ngl,that spec is my favorite❤
😂😂 thanks man it looks amazing
What’s the color of the car?
arkona
@@sigp230 Thank you mate
@@sigp230it’s definitely not
Better looking than the standard A3...
Great review thank you, could tell how exciting it was for you! The sound is definitely pumped in though, they all do it, you can hear the cabin sound is just like the current Audi models. Exhaust definitely better 100%. I guarantee the UK won’t see the alcantara, but overall a nice facelift.
Yeah, so annoying how the UK won't get the alcantara or the red stitching. Not a clue why but I doubt we'll get it. Very frustrating
That Alcantara on the dash is so so amazing right? The sound definitely felt real, it may be pumped in but it‘s super suttle. On all the other modern hot hatches from the competitors it feels sience fiction how fake their sound is…
I hope you will get it !! It makes that little thing look like an RS
@@Moscarblog My RSQ3 and RS5s sounded like my A3 TDI in sport mode, it’s fake noise. My current Merc A35 is awful for fake sound, so agree with you that some are worse than others! My BMW M340d I had recently also sounded like a meaty petrol 🤣
You can thank VW and benny lauiter for developing the 333hp engine which has come out of the golf 30 years
Of course! They‘re a group and that S3 deserves that 333hp
So nice to see it in another colour than daytona grey matt / ascari blue. Is this Glacier White?
Yes indeed! 💯💯
@@Moscarblog wow how stunning. I’m going to place an order in this colour this week
@@Moscarblog love the color. Just to confirm, it’s glacier white right?
My Dad is thinking about getting one of these. He currently has a TT but is having difficulty getting his walking frame out the boot. This looks as though it would be much easier to get things out of the boot for a disabled person who likes fast cars
The TT is a hairdressers car
I was bummed when they announced this but honestly it looka like crap
compared to the original 8y pre facelift which I own. Still a bit bummed audi didn’t do the new torqu splitting diff on the 8y’s to start with
Just one quiz....the previous S3 before the facelift had the similar engine as VW Golf R but somewhat suppressed...thus a tad bit slower than the R.....is this one similar or has it been set loose??
It now has the 333HP from the GOLF R special edition! It‘s now way better than the Pre FL
I want that sportback in the US.
Please let Audi bring this back to Canada next year so the used prices can finally dip 😆
😂 lets hope
When will it be released on the market ?
The first 3-4 cars are just dropping here and you should be able to buy one now!
@@Moscarblog thanks
The previous model looked much better and higher quality.
front and rear bumper are ugly
all the rims are so bad
Sonos was never a good choice over B&O
Why is there no S3 Badge ?
The new rear diff is not much different like the previous haldex gen X
I love the flat Audi logos
1st watcher, 1st like;)
They learn by Hyundai n how make real sounds but good step for this only model let see for new A5 rs5 if the put fake sound or be much better.
Lets see!
Nice one😎
Thank you 💯
Nice car but a class/a35 interior is so much nicer to look at for me. I owned a a4 b9 few years ago they still haven’t changed the steering wheel. Also 47k gbp starting is ridiculous I’d rather get a used a45s or rs3 for similar price.
So you say that everything is so so great, so so amazing, super super nice and super super good? xD
Dont get me wrong, it is nice that you are excited but repeating those words again and again can get pretty annoying for viewer xD.
Correct
Thanks for the critique I know for next time👍👍
What’s the price increase over the pre facelift 8Y?
Around 10k
Se la guardi frontalmente non ha nulla che la fa distinguere da un'A3 sline normale e questo è follia !!
It has real air intakes the A3 has always fake ones! Other then that you are right and I agree.
How could you tell its an S3 from the front? Looks like the base model, plastic city. The rest of the car looks great. I'm guessing after market S3 badges are getting made as we speak.
Very nice car, but the price is outrageously high.
For 25k less you get a Ford Focus ST fully equipped, the interior is not so high quality but you have just as much fun driving as with the S3
ford focus please bro gtfo
@bigdaddyproduction7266 I just wanted to address the extremely high price compared to other cars in the compact class
Ford Focus ST is great car
Peggiorata!!
As amazing as this new S3 is, compact class cars are just getting way too expensive at 56000€
Compare this to an i30N - is the additional 22000€ really justified?
True.. we got 4wd in this one, torque vegtoring , the looks and the Rs style interior.. so we are definitely getting something for the money.. but it‘s expensive!!
Hyundai grill and front lights are awful, and those rings are looking so cheap
I think the car looks way newer than it did before
@@Moscarbloghai fatto bene a dire "penso" , perché purtroppo questo e' soggettivo , se fosse così bella in assoluto sarebbe oggettivo !
@@alessandrobottelli7980👍
Here, I was thinking I'm the only one who noticed it looked more like a Hyundai Elantra than an Audi. Disappointing 😢
🫣agreed with you! 🤣
Corolla style wheels
Golf R different badge,
Its alright, i just feel like Audi does not try enough to make their cars interesting, they all seem to be very similar - thats my opinion anyway
I love it's price tag.., bc it looks soo- soo good -!!! 🫣
You are chasing an SQ8 but you skip the video? why?
The full chase is coming in my upcoming autobahn video with the Audi S3! Subscribe to not miss it it‘s super interesting!
Another 10% power over my near identical 2019 S3 8V Sportback Black Edition, but does that huge price jump include the custom exhaust as standard? Too much awful alcantara. I Hate that stuff, and it's so unhygienic on a steering wheel or seats. At least my 8V is pure nappa leather with red stitching and I would never buy this new one without a zero alcantara option!
Hey! There‘s zero Alcantara Options ofcourse and the Akrapovic sets you back an extra 4.100€ in germany
Facelift s3 also comes with rear torque splitter which transform corner and corner exit speed and is a fair bit faster down a B road than the one that came before
For this kind of money i can buy 2years old bmw ix and drive for free with my solar system.
Lost all aggressiveness, looks like a golf
Bist du Hamburger???
If you really want an S3 badge just go and buy one and stick it to the front grille 🤣🤣🤣
I'll stick to my Cupra VZ2 300
Basically same with more space💯😂
The facelift looks ugly including the lightsignature.,i like the original much more.
ICH BIN DER JUNGE TYP DER DICH ANGESPROCHEN HAT😊
BEIM FONTANAY
Mega 👍
Who needs stinking badges
Wait is that the overpriced Golf R they were taking about😂 quad exhausts straight from Golf R
Still has the cheap plastics inside and horrible piano black bits. I have an RS3 8Y and those things do annoy me. Not much different to the current car overall, but then it's just a facelift. Not an RS3 though, so I'll wait to see if they do anything worthwhile with that. Had my RS3 one year now, main gripes apart from use of cheap interior parts - B&O system is utter crap, software glitches with drive modes - still not sorted by Audi and then just the overall cheap shortcuts all over the car. Even the parcel shelf is now a bit of wobbly crap. Had rattles in my car as well, which I fixed because the dealer couldn't - now surprise given how crap Audi dealers have become.
Akrapovic Exhaust cost more than 4k Euros!!!!!
sie haben vorfahrt
Really don't like the plasticy new grille, it looks cheap and nasty. 👎
🔥🔥🔥😍😍😍👍👍👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
@@Moscarblog This is your Audi s3?
No my friend I was at an Audi Event and could test it there!
@@Moscarblog You are very lucky)It's a dream to have such a car. I love Audi. I currently have an Audi A3 sedan 2.0 Quattro in the back of an 8V.
And where are you from?
@@mitya_ozerov I‘m from germany
an s3 with no sunroof lol, id rather take a taxi.
a car this size, made for daily FUN(!), not abailable with a manual... im out :/
Nope....wtf is happening with cars interior and exterior these days 🤮
geil
All that money and just one S3 badge .....😢😢😢 I'd rather buy the Golf R which is more powerful and cheaper
There‘s also an S3 badge at the window and this car is better than the Golf in my opinion 👀
This car is not exciting anyone anymore. It just another audi, with some lights variations and trying to do something new. Especially in this hatchback box is non good looking car.
Don't like the wheels
I love them
A grade dianteira é horrorosa parece vemaget
Worst looking S3 Audi have ever produced, people in the design department need taking aside.
Sorry. Golf r blows this away for 10k less.
Yea but no one wants a Golf
Really. Go try and find one. This wasn’t meant to be an argument but my opinion as an owner and someone who drove both. How can u say nobody wants one. You are so wrong fool. Go fight somewhere else. This is a fun thread.
@@ghostpace97facelift is also terrible. Car looks cheaper. And yeah. Nobody wants a golf. Lmao. You really know your stuff.
Check out Matt Watson, he’s timed the R against the S3 and guess which one won?……..yes the new S3 😂😂😂
Truth is these are daily cars and you can’t be racing all day. For daily use R way more practical and 10k less. Love both cars and was torn which way to go but at the end of the day I need to move things every now and then for kids and school. Audi was just too small trunk and backseat headroom.
The exterior is awful it will have to be one of the best out there for anyone to buy it and have to look at it ,,, and the front ring design ,,,,, pls