The Audi A3 is built on a revised version of the platform from the old A3 and it's the same platform that underpins the new Golf. This means that if you have an SLI model, you can get Sport Suspension, which lowers the suspension by 50 millimeters to make it look more sporty and improve the handling. The Sport Suspension is designed to enhance the overall driving experience, making the car feel more agile and responsive.

The Audi A3 also features a number of advanced technology features, including speed-sensitive steering. This system adjusts the amount of steering resistance based on the speed at which you're traveling, providing a more comfortable and intuitive driving experience. The steering system is designed to be smooth and responsive, making it easy to maneuver the car in tight spaces.

In addition to its sporty suspension and advanced steering system, the Audi A3 also features progressive steering. This system adjusts the amount of steering angle based on how much you turn the wheel, providing a more natural and intuitive driving experience. However, it's worth noting that this feature is not particularly groundbreaking, as most modern cars already have some form of steering feel adjustment.

The Audi A3 also features adaptive suspension, which can stiffen or relax the suspension depending on the driving mode. This system allows drivers to adjust the level of comfort and sportiness to suit their needs, making it easier to customize the driving experience to their preferences.

In terms of rear suspension, the Audi A3 offers independent rear suspension on models with more than 150 horsepower, while lower-power versions have a torsion beam rear suspension. The independent rear suspension provides a smoother ride and better handling, especially over bumps.

The Audi A3 is available with a range of engine options, including a 1.0-liter turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine producing 110 horsepower. There's also a 1.5-liter turbocharged petrol engine producing 150 horsepower, as well as a 2.0-liter turbocharged petrol engine producing 333 horsepower. The S3 models come with all-wheel drive, while other models are front-wheel drive.

The Audi A3 is also available with plug-in hybrid technology, which allows drivers to achieve improved fuel economy and reduced emissions. In addition to the petrol engines, there's a 1.4-liter plug-in hybrid turbocharged petrol engine that offers a balance of performance and efficiency.

Drivers can choose from a range of transmission options, including a 7-speed automatic gearbox or a 6-speed manual transmission. The automatic gearbox is designed to provide smooth and efficient shifting, while the manual transmission provides more driver engagement and control.

The Audi A3 has been designed to be highly aerodynamic, with a drag coefficient of 0.28 CD. This is significantly lower than the old A3's drag coefficient of 0.30, making it one of the most aerodynamic cars in its class. The car features a number of advanced aerodynamics features, including a flat underfloor and active grille shutters that open and close to optimize airflow.

The Audi A3 also features a range of advanced driver assistance systems, including a head-up display in color, which provides critical information such as speed and navigation instructions without the need for distraction. The car is equipped with cameras, radars, sensors, and other technologies that work together to prevent accidents and ensure safe driving.

In addition to its advanced safety features, the Audi A3 also offers a range of convenience features, including a climate control system that allows drivers to adjust temperature and air quality with ease. The car's interior is designed to be comfortable and luxurious, with premium materials and attention to detail throughout.

Overall, the Audi A3 is a highly advanced and sophisticated car that offers a range of innovative features and technologies. From its sporty suspension and adaptive steering system to its advanced safety features and luxury interior, the A3 is a great option for drivers who want a high-quality driving experience without breaking the bank.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone Matt Watson here from car Wow so this is the new Audi a3 it's all very exciting now this video of a talk around in 60 redesign this shape has been inspired by a Lamborghini show you inside this part has also been inspired by Lamborghini see how practical it is Wow try out some of its technology sorry couldn't resist and poke it with a banana I couldn't find any sticks now before we get into all that please make sure you subscribe to this channel hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload let's start this video by talking about the new a three's design because there's plenty to show you now you might be thinking Matt you pleased to see me or do you have a banana in your pocket well yes I have a banana in my pocket to illustrate this look there are no fake exhaust pipes here yes there's this design treatment here but there's no fake exhaust pipes Howdy's listen to customers and probably journalists as well fed one of them poking their fake exhaust with sticks and stuff and they've decided to do away with them so the exhaust hidden underneath and you just have this bit the rear end however there is still some fake vintage there so they haven't fully got over the fake eNOS anyway let's ignore that nonsense one of the key things about this car is that I just tried to make it more sporty looking in the previous a3 so it has the largest spoiler ever fitted to and a through it's twice the size as on the old a3 then there's the taillights which are nice and slim and they look really good with this LED effects in them as well I'll write them a lot moving down the side is where the big news happens this car is actually lower than the old a3 that's designed to make it look more sporty this one is fitted with the optional roof bars which kind of understand the sportiness but it does sort of make the car look like a baby or s6 key thing to note is this though you've got these blissing wheel arches inspired by the Quattro from the 1980s and it does help give it some stunts on the road most interesting feature I think though is this just look at all the changing surfaces in direction in the body panels the old a3 had like smooth sighs this is completely different apparently this look was inspired by the body panels on the Lamborghini count - it's quite unusual on a car of this level to have such crazy surfacing going on it reminds me a little bit of crisp angled design being too blues now I'm moving down the front other wheels on this car they're 19 inches you won't get those as standard the costs start off with 16 inches then rise in size as you go up the range bonnet more creases and the car is longer than before which does make it seem a bit more sport yet again but the reason for the increased length is improved cross protection of the front mainly for pedestrian protection as a result algae's try to low the nose like they did on the rs6 to get away from the fact that there is quite a bit of distance between the front wheel and the very front of the car the grille is now slightly more squashed than before but it is wider once again that improves the sporty look to it this is the European version and if you have one of these in America you don't have this blacked-out bit here it's honeycomb all the way through because the Americans the lucky buggers don't have to have a front number plate like we do now they actually look at the front bumper will change depending on which model you get whether it's the engine of a car the sport or the s-line this is a mid-level sport look and there's loads of different accents and stuff here and normally on previous out is this would be a whole kind of fake air vent but yet again Audi's trying to move away from the fakeness they've reduced the lies to a smaller white lie this panel here and they've used different surfacing to just fill in this area here key thing on this at the front of the new lights so all I threes get this special light design and you have 15 little LEDs in there and depending on which model you go for you'll have a different graphic also SLI models will have a vent there in the bonnet just like the a1 and just like the a1 it will be a fake vent now what do you think of the look at this new Audi a3 click on the pop-up banner up there to vote which you thing looks the best this new Audi the BMW 1-series the Mercedes a-class or the Volkswagen Golf apart from the r8 this is the sportiest interior of any OD to date it's really got this wraparound cockpit feel to it and that's accentuated by these air vents up here which are rather like those on a Lamborghini Oris yet again Howdy's designers have admitted that they've taken inspiration from Lamborghini for this car which i think is a good thing the quality of the materials are also a good thing really nice materials generally about the place they do get a little bit cheap in places and lower down for that's to be expected it's similar this cost rivals really but everything does feel solid look there's no shake in the centre console no matter how much I try to flex it this particular model actually has an s-line interior even though the outside is based on the mid spec sport as a result you get these lovely sports seats with integrated headrests they are very nice I like the fact you've got Alcantara in the middle of them with this diamond quilting effect also you sit lower than in the old a3 and that adds the sporty feeling the gear selector is pretty short in terms of the throw if you get the automatic version you have a little toggle switch just like in the new Volkswagen Golf so it frees space here and has its own unique design center console there the volume control is a bit odd it's a touch sensitive buttons so you just scroll it like out to increase the volume and it of the way to make it quieter and it's hard together actually round the gear selector though I suppose if you're driving you just use the one on the steering wheel it's not such a problem this car that comes with decent connectivity so there's two USB inputs here in the front you can also get while it's charging for your mobile phone and there's plenty of room for story your mobile devices down here cup holders here putting a storage into there but the door bins are nice and large and the glove box that's alright one thing that's always been a bit ridiculous is how you got rid of all the buttons for the climate control and their latest cars like the QA the a6 and stuff so they're a bit of a faff to operate when you're driving just have to do it through the touchscreen but they've bought them back for this new way through look these kind of control buttons you can do it with one press that's good news what's less good news though is this I don't want to put the stitch in the top of the dash it's pointless as in the front you sit lower down in the back of this new a3 compared to the old car as a result Headroom is pretty good when it is good when there's just TV in the back the roof actually does slope quite inwards as you can see it gives the car that sporty look but it means that you can quite easy bang your head on this pot here especially if you got three in the back could pose a problem that good if you want to give lots of people a lift I do like these seats there there mirrored from the front really nice sporty seats Neru is pretty decent as well it's generally quite nice back here also there's two USB connections there as well USB see of course because this is a brand new car you can also get kind of control here in the back so you can get tri-zone climate control with this car another option you can have is a panoramic glass sunroof which I could do with right now because it's quite dark in here because this rear window isn't that big but at least it does this lock goes Britney won't draw the way down will just forgive it that bit that doesn't matter because I can still rest my arm here I've come living in the 1980s I mean everyone just drives with the windows up in the climate on down there days despite this more sloping tailgate the big capacity of the new a3 is exactly the same as the old a3 380 litres which is about right for this size of car so yeah that's that's handy oh and look if you fall down the rear seats come on you can do it they do like almost completely flat though the actual capacity when you've got the seats folded is ever so slightly less than the old a3 I think that's to do with the fact that it's lower the new a3 gets out is very latest version of their infotainment system it's more advanced than that even in the q8 you operate everything through this main touchscreen you get 10 inches and standard which is good news it's very crisp easy to use and to navigate obviously it has Android auto and apple carplay as standard and if you pay extra for the inbuilt sat-nav then you can import stuff by writing now this is great when you're in left-hand drive car if you're right-handed but if you're in the UK car you have to use it with your left hand so it's like oh no no no I can't can't write still you can use voice inputs if you want to it has its own system of natural voice recognition and you can say things like I'm hungry and direct you to a restaurant the satellite navigation also has Parker pedia so it will find you a parking space not just in like a normal multi-story car park but also roadside parking as well which is really really good that is a new update for this car now as we move on to the digital drivers display as standard you get a 10-inch system this isn't graded 12 inches which is just a little bit larger by 2 inches surprisingly the one that's 10 inches actually has two little bars down the side which is filled in and it has the oil temperature gauge and your fuel gauge it's nicer just having the larger one that says probably well worthy upgrade what is annoying though is that you can't have the map from your Android auto or your apple carplay on that screen only Audi's own map those people who do like a rotary controller will be a little bit sad but don't worry too much because you can operate most of the functions using the steering wheel mounted controls so it's no big issue really calm down it's gonna be fine this new a3 is built on a revised version of the platform from the old a3 and it's the same platform that underpins the new golf you can get it with Sport Suspension you get that if you have an SLI model and it lowers the suspension by 50 millimeters to make it look more sporty and improve the handling asked under the car get speed sensitive steering so it goes lighter when you're going slowly so it's easy to maneuver and it gets heavier when you're going faster so it's not twitchy you can also get progressive steering which will increase the amount of steering angle the more you turn the wheel that doesn't really make sense does it it's because that usually happens anyway what I mean to say is that it makes it feel nice and stable when you're just turning it a bit but you don't have to twirl the wheel so much to do tight turns and that just makes a car feel more agile of course you can get certain versions with adaptive suspension which or stiffen up the suspension if you're put into sports mode or relax it if you put into comfort mode also by going through different driving modes you can alter things like the throttle response to the weight of the steering and stuff like that now if you buy an a3 with more than 150 horsepower you get independent rear suspension whereas the lower power versions have a torsion beam rear suspension which isn't fully independent it's not quite so good over bumps then it's not believe me I've backed about the cars you do notice a slight difference especially if you're a little bit anal like me all right let's talk engines and check this out look the bonnet is supported by a gas strut how premium is that so petrol engine choices will be a 1-liter 3-cylinder turbo with 110 horsepower a 1.5 liter turbo petrol with 150 horsepower and you'll be able to get that engine with mild hybrid technology there'll also be a 2-liter turbo petrol with 333 hormuz power in the s3 that call actually have all-wheel-drive whereas all the others will be front-wheel drive there's also a 1.4 liter plug-in hybrid turbo petrol if you want some economy and some electric only driving ability then there's two diesels both 2-liter one with 115 horsepower and another with 150 horsepower you'll be able to get the car with a 7-speed automatic gearbox or a 6-speed manual do you fancy one of these new Audi a3 s well if you do you can actually order one now they're going to start from around 25 now pounds now if you click on the pop-out banner up there you can go to Carlo to compare reviews and prices of this cause rivals such as the Volkswagen Golf the BMW 1-series and also put your name down for one of these cars if you'd like to go check it out just up there easy-out is done a lot work to make this car as aerodynamic as possible so I'm gonna give you some numbers now which might not mean that much to you so this cars a drag coefficient of 0.28 CD the old a3 had a drug coefficient of 0.3 one CD which is not as good and put it into perspective a BMW 1-series has a drug coefficient of 0.29 CD so the Audi wins yeah yeah anyway the way they've achieved it is by doing certain tricks such as having a pretty much flat underfloor which helps smooth airflow and Neath the car also a lot of cars will have a vent here which will be therein to call the brakes and that does increase the drag that's why they got this fake vent here what actually happens is that the air from the engine bay is used to call these brakes so it's a lot more efficient another thing that the car does is have a grill which can open and shut to only actually open up when the car needs its engine cooling that way it's just more efficient and helps slip through the air much easier and that improves your fuel economy this new a3 is available with a whole suite of Audi driver assistance systems it's the first time the a3 gets a head-up display and you get it in color as well which is really nice then there's drivers ready to stop you're crashing into stuff in fact this car is covered in cameras radars sensors and they'll prevent you from driving into things forward driving into things backwards as well and it'll help keep you in lane on the motorway of course you can upgrade things and have stuff like top-of-the-range automated cruise control which will not only keep you a safe distance from the car in front but it also automatically steer the car to keep it in lane for this new a look through climate control buttons you do it with one press you're in the back we're in the back of our chart I can seehi everyone Matt Watson here from car Wow so this is the new Audi a3 it's all very exciting now this video of a talk around in 60 redesign this shape has been inspired by a Lamborghini show you inside this part has also been inspired by Lamborghini see how practical it is Wow try out some of its technology sorry couldn't resist and poke it with a banana I couldn't find any sticks now before we get into all that please make sure you subscribe to this channel hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload let's start this video by talking about the new a three's design because there's plenty to show you now you might be thinking Matt you pleased to see me or do you have a banana in your pocket well yes I have a banana in my pocket to illustrate this look there are no fake exhaust pipes here yes there's this design treatment here but there's no fake exhaust pipes Howdy's listen to customers and probably journalists as well fed one of them poking their fake exhaust with sticks and stuff and they've decided to do away with them so the exhaust hidden underneath and you just have this bit the rear end however there is still some fake vintage there so they haven't fully got over the fake eNOS anyway let's ignore that nonsense one of the key things about this car is that I just tried to make it more sporty looking in the previous a3 so it has the largest spoiler ever fitted to and a through it's twice the size as on the old a3 then there's the taillights which are nice and slim and they look really good with this LED effects in them as well I'll write them a lot moving down the side is where the big news happens this car is actually lower than the old a3 that's designed to make it look more sporty this one is fitted with the optional roof bars which kind of understand the sportiness but it does sort of make the car look like a baby or s6 key thing to note is this though you've got these blissing wheel arches inspired by the Quattro from the 1980s and it does help give it some stunts on the road most interesting feature I think though is this just look at all the changing surfaces in direction in the body panels the old a3 had like smooth sighs this is completely different apparently this look was inspired by the body panels on the Lamborghini count - it's quite unusual on a car of this level to have such crazy surfacing going on it reminds me a little bit of crisp angled design being too blues now I'm moving down the front other wheels on this car they're 19 inches you won't get those as standard the costs start off with 16 inches then rise in size as you go up the range bonnet more creases and the car is longer than before which does make it seem a bit more sport yet again but the reason for the increased length is improved cross protection of the front mainly for pedestrian protection as a result algae's try to low the nose like they did on the rs6 to get away from the fact that there is quite a bit of distance between the front wheel and the very front of the car the grille is now slightly more squashed than before but it is wider once again that improves the sporty look to it this is the European version and if you have one of these in America you don't have this blacked-out bit here it's honeycomb all the way through because the Americans the lucky buggers don't have to have a front number plate like we do now they actually look at the front bumper will change depending on which model you get whether it's the engine of a car the sport or the s-line this is a mid-level sport look and there's loads of different accents and stuff here and normally on previous out is this would be a whole kind of fake air vent but yet again Audi's trying to move away from the fakeness they've reduced the lies to a smaller white lie this panel here and they've used different surfacing to just fill in this area here key thing on this at the front of the new lights so all I threes get this special light design and you have 15 little LEDs in there and depending on which model you go for you'll have a different graphic also SLI models will have a vent there in the bonnet just like the a1 and just like the a1 it will be a fake vent now what do you think of the look at this new Audi a3 click on the pop-up banner up there to vote which you thing looks the best this new Audi the BMW 1-series the Mercedes a-class or the Volkswagen Golf apart from the r8 this is the sportiest interior of any OD to date it's really got this wraparound cockpit feel to it and that's accentuated by these air vents up here which are rather like those on a Lamborghini Oris yet again Howdy's designers have admitted that they've taken inspiration from Lamborghini for this car which i think is a good thing the quality of the materials are also a good thing really nice materials generally about the place they do get a little bit cheap in places and lower down for that's to be expected it's similar this cost rivals really but everything does feel solid look there's no shake in the centre console no matter how much I try to flex it this particular model actually has an s-line interior even though the outside is based on the mid spec sport as a result you get these lovely sports seats with integrated headrests they are very nice I like the fact you've got Alcantara in the middle of them with this diamond quilting effect also you sit lower than in the old a3 and that adds the sporty feeling the gear selector is pretty short in terms of the throw if you get the automatic version you have a little toggle switch just like in the new Volkswagen Golf so it frees space here and has its own unique design center console there the volume control is a bit odd it's a touch sensitive buttons so you just scroll it like out to increase the volume and it of the way to make it quieter and it's hard together actually round the gear selector though I suppose if you're driving you just use the one on the steering wheel it's not such a problem this car that comes with decent connectivity so there's two USB inputs here in the front you can also get while it's charging for your mobile phone and there's plenty of room for story your mobile devices down here cup holders here putting a storage into there but the door bins are nice and large and the glove box that's alright one thing that's always been a bit ridiculous is how you got rid of all the buttons for the climate control and their latest cars like the QA the a6 and stuff so they're a bit of a faff to operate when you're driving just have to do it through the touchscreen but they've bought them back for this new way through look these kind of control buttons you can do it with one press that's good news what's less good news though is this I don't want to put the stitch in the top of the dash it's pointless as in the front you sit lower down in the back of this new a3 compared to the old car as a result Headroom is pretty good when it is good when there's just TV in the back the roof actually does slope quite inwards as you can see it gives the car that sporty look but it means that you can quite easy bang your head on this pot here especially if you got three in the back could pose a problem that good if you want to give lots of people a lift I do like these seats there there mirrored from the front really nice sporty seats Neru is pretty decent as well it's generally quite nice back here also there's two USB connections there as well USB see of course because this is a brand new car you can also get kind of control here in the back so you can get tri-zone climate control with this car another option you can have is a panoramic glass sunroof which I could do with right now because it's quite dark in here because this rear window isn't that big but at least it does this lock goes Britney won't draw the way down will just forgive it that bit that doesn't matter because I can still rest my arm here I've come living in the 1980s I mean everyone just drives with the windows up in the climate on down there days despite this more sloping tailgate the big capacity of the new a3 is exactly the same as the old a3 380 litres which is about right for this size of car so yeah that's that's handy oh and look if you fall down the rear seats come on you can do it they do like almost completely flat though the actual capacity when you've got the seats folded is ever so slightly less than the old a3 I think that's to do with the fact that it's lower the new a3 gets out is very latest version of their infotainment system it's more advanced than that even in the q8 you operate everything through this main touchscreen you get 10 inches and standard which is good news it's very crisp easy to use and to navigate obviously it has Android auto and apple carplay as standard and if you pay extra for the inbuilt sat-nav then you can import stuff by writing now this is great when you're in left-hand drive car if you're right-handed but if you're in the UK car you have to use it with your left hand so it's like oh no no no I can't can't write still you can use voice inputs if you want to it has its own system of natural voice recognition and you can say things like I'm hungry and direct you to a restaurant the satellite navigation also has Parker pedia so it will find you a parking space not just in like a normal multi-story car park but also roadside parking as well which is really really good that is a new update for this car now as we move on to the digital drivers display as standard you get a 10-inch system this isn't graded 12 inches which is just a little bit larger by 2 inches surprisingly the one that's 10 inches actually has two little bars down the side which is filled in and it has the oil temperature gauge and your fuel gauge it's nicer just having the larger one that says probably well worthy upgrade what is annoying though is that you can't have the map from your Android auto or your apple carplay on that screen only Audi's own map those people who do like a rotary controller will be a little bit sad but don't worry too much because you can operate most of the functions using the steering wheel mounted controls so it's no big issue really calm down it's gonna be fine this new a3 is built on a revised version of the platform from the old a3 and it's the same platform that underpins the new golf you can get it with Sport Suspension you get that if you have an SLI model and it lowers the suspension by 50 millimeters to make it look more sporty and improve the handling asked under the car get speed sensitive steering so it goes lighter when you're going slowly so it's easy to maneuver and it gets heavier when you're going faster so it's not twitchy you can also get progressive steering which will increase the amount of steering angle the more you turn the wheel that doesn't really make sense does it it's because that usually happens anyway what I mean to say is that it makes it feel nice and stable when you're just turning it a bit but you don't have to twirl the wheel so much to do tight turns and that just makes a car feel more agile of course you can get certain versions with adaptive suspension which or stiffen up the suspension if you're put into sports mode or relax it if you put into comfort mode also by going through different driving modes you can alter things like the throttle response to the weight of the steering and stuff like that now if you buy an a3 with more than 150 horsepower you get independent rear suspension whereas the lower power versions have a torsion beam rear suspension which isn't fully independent it's not quite so good over bumps then it's not believe me I've backed about the cars you do notice a slight difference especially if you're a little bit anal like me all right let's talk engines and check this out look the bonnet is supported by a gas strut how premium is that so petrol engine choices will be a 1-liter 3-cylinder turbo with 110 horsepower a 1.5 liter turbo petrol with 150 horsepower and you'll be able to get that engine with mild hybrid technology there'll also be a 2-liter turbo petrol with 333 hormuz power in the s3 that call actually have all-wheel-drive whereas all the others will be front-wheel drive there's also a 1.4 liter plug-in hybrid turbo petrol if you want some economy and some electric only driving ability then there's two diesels both 2-liter one with 115 horsepower and another with 150 horsepower you'll be able to get the car with a 7-speed automatic gearbox or a 6-speed manual do you fancy one of these new Audi a3 s well if you do you can actually order one now they're going to start from around 25 now pounds now if you click on the pop-out banner up there you can go to Carlo to compare reviews and prices of this cause rivals such as the Volkswagen Golf the BMW 1-series and also put your name down for one of these cars if you'd like to go check it out just up there easy-out is done a lot work to make this car as aerodynamic as possible so I'm gonna give you some numbers now which might not mean that much to you so this cars a drag coefficient of 0.28 CD the old a3 had a drug coefficient of 0.3 one CD which is not as good and put it into perspective a BMW 1-series has a drug coefficient of 0.29 CD so the Audi wins yeah yeah anyway the way they've achieved it is by doing certain tricks such as having a pretty much flat underfloor which helps smooth airflow and Neath the car also a lot of cars will have a vent here which will be therein to call the brakes and that does increase the drag that's why they got this fake vent here what actually happens is that the air from the engine bay is used to call these brakes so it's a lot more efficient another thing that the car does is have a grill which can open and shut to only actually open up when the car needs its engine cooling that way it's just more efficient and helps slip through the air much easier and that improves your fuel economy this new a3 is available with a whole suite of Audi driver assistance systems it's the first time the a3 gets a head-up display and you get it in color as well which is really nice then there's drivers ready to stop you're crashing into stuff in fact this car is covered in cameras radars sensors and they'll prevent you from driving into things forward driving into things backwards as well and it'll help keep you in lane on the motorway of course you can upgrade things and have stuff like top-of-the-range automated cruise control which will not only keep you a safe distance from the car in front but it also automatically steer the car to keep it in lane for this new a look through climate control buttons you do it with one press you're in the back we're in the back of our chart I can see\n"