The New 2022 Audi RS3 Is a Little Sedan with Big Performance 

And no electric motors to help either, pretty good indeed

@@Carlisho #BanAnime

I've done 3.2 seconds in mine. Real tested numbers see below 3.6, 3.2-3.4 to be specific This car is a beast to say the least and love every bit of it. Puts a lot of cars on the road to shame that's for sure. Even gives the RS6 & RS7 a run for its money

Yeah, not insane unless you’re awaking from a coma. It’s 2022, not Y2K.

@@_Ambition124 i would definitely choose this over the model 3 performance

Exactly what i thought

Honestly as much as I love what they did to this RS3 performance-wise, I'd much rather they pissed off with that quirky light dance and gave me some decent materials near the center armrest. That cheap plastic isn't acceptable at this price point, especially not in a place you constantly touch.

@@xIcarus227 I don’t think they need to piss off with the lights. They could just do both. Not one or the other.

to bad no company makes a 35K compact sedan that comes close to this

Quirky lights like that are probably going to be problematic and expensive to fix.

The Audi TTRS is one of my favourite Cars and if I could afford to get one from the Company that you can buy a totally Modified Car from them I definitely would (I'm pretty sure The Smoking Tire featured one once). I can't remember the name of the Company off-hand, but I know it's in the southern US I believe (perhaps Alabama or something like that). I might have to look at one of these RS3’s though. I have been waiting for Subaru to come out with a worthy all-new WRX STi, but it doesn't seem like that is going to happen, so perhaps an Audi RS3 modded to about 700whp might be a smarter/more reliable purchase. But my Neighbour finally said I could buy his 2001 Chevrolet Shortbox Regular Cab with a 6.0L LQ9, LS3 Manifold, Brian Tolley Stage 3 Cam, HD Springs + Guides, 3600 Yank Converter, James Hetfield Built 4L80E, 3.73 Detroit Trutrack Posi, Caltrac Traction Bars, Full Stainless Works Exhaust with Long Tube Headers full 3-inch Piping, LS3 Manifold, Full Custom Driveshaft and HD Joints. It's just asking for a big Turbo so it’ll be my first project getting that put in it and then having a Cage built and Tubbed for some fat Mickey Tompson Drag Slicks and a narrow Axle before getting a new Car. It has Volk te37’s on it right now.

Yeah, Audi is offering some GREAT exterior colors. Too bad their interiors only come in black, or black with a tiny bit of green. Would love some saddle brown, or even gray or tan.

It's coming back for sure. Even Mazda started offering some interesting choices. BMW has the pastel blue yas marina on the m4, the gold, lime green, merc on the cla has factory matte clear finishes, alfa on the giulia quad with that grey, purply misty one, i like in particular. I'm an automotive colour tech, so hey. Love that i get to mix and match some different stuff.

Are you Doug DeMuro but on a random account?

Dude watched a 24 minute video in 3 minutes

24:15 Fart and tucking in 2nd t shirt.

19:09 driving impression

0:00-24:13 ugly

I have a 2015 s3 and with a tune these things fly, an rs3 is even better

Ehhh 1000hp is kinda of stretching it most of these 2.5 liters are reliable around 700-800 hp.

@@killakam123321 there’s plenty of people over 1000

@@killakam123321 no not really Many of them are 1000 hp, but as you said yourself, they are only reliable at around 700

@@dumtree3727 im not saying they dont exist ik iroc makes extremely fast rs3. I just know stuff starts breaking past that 800 figure lol

Na remember its a german car they are all very stable at higher speeds

@@draggy6544 not all German cars are the same. This is still a transverse engine, fwd architecture Golf underneath it all. The real autobahn cruisers are the rwd based, longer wheelbase sedans

front-heavy like an arrow. Won't be a problem.

Done about that in my rs3 and the car handles it very well considering it’s a bit over a foot off the a miata

my corolla feels like its going to take off going 90 mph I cant imagine going twice that lol

The only problem is many Americans view minivans and wagons as "family vehicles" not realizing SUVs are the new "family vehicle."

Hatch and Wagons dont sell the best in USA. I love them, I have a 2015 s3.

@@alp.9672 my first car in highschool was a Subaru GL-10 wagon. Loved that car but was constantly asked why I had a family car?

@@stevenwilliams1805 yea it's ironic and kinda depressing lmao

@@alp.9672 ik pretty much all I've ever owned were hatches & wagons. Have had 4 sedans, a sport coupé, 1 truck, 2 minivans, and 7 hatches & wagons haha. Favorites being my current GT Sport, my Saab 9⁵ Aero Wagon, and an old 09 Spectra5 SX. It's a shame they get so stigmatized here bc imo they're superior in almost every single way to an SUV.

then you just buy a classic car.

I hate it on the Chevy Silverado. It’s just ridiculous. Looks like a giant mouth

In 2030 where bmw is nothing but grille I hope Audi doesn’t follow

Imagine hitting a deer 🦌. Its over for your front end.

Lol

+1. GTS 4.0 please. Stop toying with us Dougie

@@ukaszbarszcz7861 I think he had a video on that from around a year ago.

Audi electric

@@collinczech1263 do u know what it is called?

@@mpaul1228 he already did the etron

Same!

Is it the cargo shorts?

Yeah that’s quick it beat the civic type r. By 3 seconds. With 100 more hp. And awd. Damn

@@rayhanrizvi334 cars are getting better every year. I Love It!

@@rayhanrizvi334 doesn't mean it's shit, just means that the civic is amazing and Honda knows what they're doing extremely well.

@@rayhanrizvi334 What Civic? RS3 beat Renault Mégane R.S. Trophy-R's time. And RS3's lap is quicker than the Type R's by about 8s and not 3s comparing 20.6km times. Type R lap was for 20.6km about 5 years ago and the full lap (20.832km) was introduced in 2019.

Take that record with a huge grain of salt. The laptime Audi is quoting was set by their own professional driver, while its competitors (notably the A45S) largely had their laptimes on that track set by press drivers, which just aren't on the same level. As a result if you check fastestlaps you'll notice that the A45S is quicker on most tracks where laptimes were set. Nurburgring is a very technical track and the driver matters _a lot_ there. What Audi is saying about that 'record' is incredibly misleading and more people should be aware.

They just need to put the 4.0TT in the Golf R 🤑 Jk, the golf R I drove didn’t feel in need of much more power. APR is a good resource if you disagree

@@connorberglund7032 Oh I don't think it needs more power, it's just that 5 cylinder is unique and sounds great. They can detune it to the 315hp mark that they went for with the EA888 and I'd still think that's fine

Why would the parent company VW need permission from their subsidiary company Audi? Makes zero sense

@@eternallogic6394 That's what I thought, but that's what the articles said

@@mistamaog They'd be shooting their RS3 brand in the foot if they did that. It would also lose its exclusivity

luck him imma have smtg like ur bro one day

Lot of bang for buck

@@dman5849lots of buck for bang😂

Apparently when Audi were designing the A3, they were inspired by the design of the Lamborghini Urus.

dont give up bro if you really want it you can achieve it!

@@preyhunter4179 Yeah for an example the ai vents in the interior is straight out of the urus just look at them

Looking at current gasprices buying this would probably not be the smartest thing to do.

@@stevenbaeyens2652 to be fair, gas prices was never a factor for customers who are shopping for rs3 Where you from and how much is it there??

@MONICA------👇💋 even the spam bots know yb better

He had a video on why he doesn't review old cars. He did a bunch of older lamborginis and ferrari on a trip to europe and no one watched the videos

He has a video on the Miura

It’s a press car he doesn’t want to crash it

How come When i look at the Top, where all the successful people are.. i see NO mexicans ✔️it makes me sad. I review weed products on my RU-vid channel for a living.. trying to make it out the hood 💯😩

Trunk opening in my S3 is a joke though. Decent capacity, but getting anything other than shopping bags inside is a nightmare

It looks bad on the outside

@@SevenHunnid Hey, good luck with everything, You mexiCAN! Not mexiCANT😆✌

@@_baller It looks insanely good irl. But better in black, dark blue or red.

Seriously, we have plenty of faster sedans in the US, we need the other versions! Who is in charge of US product development? They should be fired

The problem is they wouldn’t sell well. Internet car guys being internet car guys again

@@drippgxd Yea, the RS6 wagon was a total flop! Internet commenters being internet commenters again

@@coosvalley …

That literally isn’t going to ever happen. Audi hasn’t made a manual in over a decade

Yeah he said that

I’d take the green because it is my favorite color. Bright green exterior and interior is a dream

@@drippgxd I thought about getting a green one too at first before i saw the color in real life. It's really a bright and nice color but it's not a "deep" color. It looks very plain in RL. After that i thought about a red one but that's a really unthankfull color in terms of scratches, dirt and so on. In the end i took daytona grey pearl. In first sight a boring grey but with a deep color and in sunlight with really nice effects. Just a classic color from audi :)

You have a VERY long wait. I ordered my RS3 in September 2021 when they went on sale in the UK, still no build date almost a year later and hundreds of folk over here are in the same position. Audi will need to clear all the UK and EU order backlogs before any cars ordered in 2022 get built. You could easily be looking at 2 years I am sorry to say.

@@luciussander8217 i was quiet pleased by the waiting time. Ordered mine on the 13th of december 2022 and picked it up in Ingolstadt on the 15th of july.

I agree

I wonder how much lower the price could be if they only focused on things that matter for the car instead of gimmicks many people could live without... like dancing lights, adjustments and gadgets you'd rarely fiddle with.

The one sad thing about RS3s to me is the fact that these hold their value. Even used RS3s are still in the 50s.

@@PacoRobbins cars holding value is a red flag 🚩! That is unfair af

This is THE compact sedan. And I’m sorry that you’re stuck in 2012 not understanding car prices.

The new Cayman GT4 RS actually shaves the front fender off behind the wheel.

It's for air to flow through.

@@snakeeyes9246 in Porsches maybe, but this one's fake. This is just a small detail and I'd forgive it, but that big 'grille' on the back bumper is yikes. RS5 has the same thing, no idea why they did it.

Its supposed to be a nod to the OG Audi Sport Quattros box fender flares, its just a bit odd because the rest of the car isnt boxy, but the fender flare is

Their interiors are first class too. Not only amazing tech but very useful and intuitive

haha always fun to surprise them

And this grille didn't even really look good on the Q7

i also hate this grill but still better than the bmw ones

manufacturers should stop oversizing the grill

I think it’s the strange paintjob. The black should not overreach to the headlights

same, last gen RS3 front end was far more palatable but still aggressive. I'm afraid this massive grille trend will continue worsening until ICEs are banned lol

Countryman too

@@Pi4zza yes if we watch the video we see that

"We" the people who like hatchbacks and wagons are not the majority sadly. What's ironic though is that us americans seem to love crossovers and suvs, which in my opinion look worse than both sedans and hatches.

I suspect the reason is because SUVs dominate the US market. Any variance of the same model would just be competing with itself.

Subaru stopped selling the Hatch too and it saddens me because I love hatchbacks and I’m not really into GTIs and don’t have money to go up to Golf R territory nobody makes cool hatchbacks anymore beside the GR Corrola and that things gonna be selling for 45k+ easily.

@@tamiwu0346 I just so happened to buy the last year (2018) Focus ST just before Ford announced their decision to stop making cars in the US

Hellcat is supercharged idiot, and also they are built in Ontario so yeah that’s why they can sell it in Canada

Twin-turbo Hellcat?

Yeah, they tightened it up just enough to push the RS3 out. Poo. At least the previous versions are still around. Also: afaik, Chrysler doesn't offer twin turbo V8's from the factory for any of their current RWD models.

Doesn't the Hellcat have a Supercharged V8?

@@jc_47 it does.

Doug is a type of a guy to eat same colour breakfast as his car

THAT IS SO COOL

I completely agree, not to mention that the hatchback looks really good.

You want a car like this as a daily driver ?

@@rolandxor179 why not? I know that I would daily the hell out of it. Wouldn't buy the sedan but if the hatch was released here, I'd get it in a heart beat.

@@rolandxor179 You wouldn't?

@@Kvlt It is a small race car. The hatch would make it a bit more practical but still. Little pocket rocket to go grocery shopping ? Keep it for the weekends you take it to the race track. :D

I recall the 3008 was owned by someone in Mexico. It amused me how Doug though it was a Poogeot.

the 508 been reviewed by doug would we crazy. the 508 is a bit disappointing but it definitely is the best looking car of its class

It does, and a different type of AWD system now that is more rear biased than haldex

it looks very stoopid

Still looks awful

I didn't say it looks good, i just thought it doesn't look so stupid as BMW and Lexus grilles...

Lmao Jesus 70g? Holy shi that’s a lot of money for a Audi

It is... RSQ3, TTRS.