**Audi RS3 vs Mercedes-AMG A45: Which is the Better Performance Car?**

We've got some side skirts that make the car look meaner than usual, with a lower ride height and wider wheel arches. The result is a car that looks aggressive and ready for action. But how does it handle on the road?

One of the good things about the RS3 is its comfort and ease of use. It's perfectly comfortable, even when driven every day, thanks to its adaptive suspension. The car is also very easy to live with, making it a great choice for those who want a performance car that can be used as their everyday vehicle.

But don't let its comfort and practicality fool you – the RS3 is still a formidable performer. It's got a brilliant engine that makes it playful and fun to drive, especially in wet conditions where Quattro all-wheel drive really shines. The stability control system can be turned off, allowing for a bit more agility and handling.

In contrast, the Mercedes-AMG A45 feels more like a racing car. Its design is sportier, with bigger dials and a more aggressive stance. However, this also means it's more of a one-trick pony – if you're going to spend most of your time on track days, the A45 is an excellent choice. But for everyday driving, it may not be as comfortable or practical.

**Comparison: Nought to 60mph Times**

When it comes to raw speed, both cars are very quick. The Audi RS3 can get from 0-60mph in just 3.7 seconds, while the Mercedes-AMG A45 takes a slightly longer 4 seconds dead. However, the A45's more powerful engine means it has more grunt and acceleration.

**Driving Experience: Which Car is More Fun?**

In terms of driving experience, we found that the Audi RS3 is more fun to drive than the equivalent Mercedes-AMG A45. The RS3 feels more agile and responsive, with a better balance between comfort and performance. It's also less prone to feeling like a "beast" on the road, making it a more enjoyable car to live with.

The Mercedes-AMG A45, on the other hand, is very sharp and sporty, but it can feel a bit too aggressive for everyday driving. It's also not as comfortable or practical as the RS3, which may make it less appealing to some buyers.

**Verdict**

In the end, we think the Audi RS3 is the better performance car. Its comfort, ease of use, and handling make it a great choice for those who want a high-performance vehicle that can be used as their everyday car. While the Mercedes-AMG A45 is a great car in its own right, we prefer the more balanced and enjoyable driving experience offered by the RS3.

That being said, if you're planning to spend most of your time on track days or racing, the A45 may be a better choice for you. Its more aggressive design and sharper handling make it a great option for those who want a high-performance car that can really put down some serious power.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new Audi rs3 and I bet you want to know how it compares the Mercedes AMG a 45 while I'm going to find out later in this video but first I'm gonna give this car a jolly good testing because apparently howdy says it's a lot more fun of the old rs3 but I'll be the judge of that with that in mind let's kick off the car low five cool things about this german uber hatchback the highlight of this car has to be it's rather lovely 2.5 liters an altar anyway 2.5 litre 500 turbo tiles has rented it has 410 pounds which is pretty much points up and the original Quattro also absolute native movement at all I think it's more 16 in 4th contender that's more in spoken animated puts biggest weirder good Angela let's cut this myself basically I'm speaking of cut this rs3 gets a special RS Sport dial look at that with a big rev counter with speedo in the middle and then you can get other displays as well such as hello stream meter and power and torque from the engine unlike the Mercedes AMG a 45 and the BMW m2 you can get the rs3 with carbon ceramics from brakes which is gracefully going truck a lot because they don't fade as much as normal brakes the only thing is that costing more than horn applause thousand times so we don't know anything I wanted ideas maybe honestly as the life is possible and as a result it's got a high power-to-weight ratio in its class so better power-to-weight ratio to BMW m2 and the Mercedes AMG a 45 or know what the number is it's 265 horsepower per ton now partly weight saving measures include an aluminium bonnet which say seven kilos as in the war still wanting to go on the a3 also an engine in this car is 26 kilos lighter than the engine in the old diocese rate we add up all these weight savings you get to around 80 kilos less than these old rs3 which is about the same weight as me so new rs3 that's the way too old or asleep different let's move flaps in the exhaust which remain close and just cruising along so the Kaizen - noise on the motorway but they open up when you put your foot down so it's nice and loud and if you want to be even louder you can upgrade to sports exhaust which sounds like this however not everything about the rs3 is great his five annoying things then the normal ID a three starts from around 20,000 pounds but the rs3 is 45,000 pounds which is quite a lot for a hatchback this particular car with options exactly 60 grams in fact if you spec up a nice through as much as you can looking around 65,000 pounds now you click up there you get a car walk out UK and build your ideal car online then within 24 hours you'll get five great offers back and top-seeded so go and do that on any car for that matter unlike the BMW m2 you can't get the Audi rs3 with a manual gearbox it's a 7-speed auto only and the auto can be acute gear to eliminating the low speed having that women brilliant the boot is ten percent smaller than on the normal a3 that's it I don't need that won't be alright with I'm joking er think don't quite go low enough for a sporty car and the side bolsters let me hold you that firmly in place when you go in the corner you almost feel like you're going to fall out of them oh no I've fallen actually get my although this cars top speed is electronically limited to 155 miles an hour it is actually capable of 174 miles an hour but if you want to unlock the 174 miles an hour you have to pay od an extra 1600 pounds that's dirty thieving thankfully you won't feel short-changed with the rest of the rs3 experience being based on an a3 means they're sensibly also interior quality is impressive and being the RS that's Maddox Putin Ripper 8 but way more visual upgrades on the outside I'm going to talk you around the design of this new rs3 and show you how it's different to the normal a three and I'm going to start at the back because this is the view you're most likely to see because usually this car will be ahead of you so you've got a big rear bumper it's got a diffuser integrated into it and you've got oval tailpipes one on each side of course around the side you get some 19-inch alloy wheels as standard almost forgot I actually also got that's spoiler there it's rather discreet that's almost forgot it you know for a hot hatch it's not too in-your-face really you've got some side skirts the car is lowered over the normal a3 and that improves the handling but it also makes it look meaner as do the wider wheel arches as you come around to the front you get LED headlamps as standard some always badging here at the front and you've got an aura star honeycomb grille and then down you've got a deeper front bumper here and Quattro badging to remind you that this car has Quattro all-wheel drive and I like the fact this is in like a battleship gray color look sort of mean not quite as mean though I don't think as a Mercedes AMG a45 but what do you think there isn't pictures of the Mercedes just to remind you now what I want you to do is click up there and vote and let me know what you think looks the best the Audi or the Mercedes what's more important though is how the rs3 and 845 compare from behind the wheel those dub the Audi now one of the good things about the rs3 is the even driving around every day and it's perfectly comfortable and easy typically this is the standard suspension listen till 2:00 but even though I'm writing a massive alloy wheels you get the adaptive suspension please more comfortable it really is a nicely in car now a lot of people think that like an Audi rs3 is going to be a little bit boring but it can actually look at the whole bird then you could imagine turn the first ability controlling this thing and it will be a little bit playful especially in the West it's going to be harder to get it moving around in the dry so that's one of the benefits of Quattro let's enjoy the car fully even when it's peeing down with rain and I'm glad the Audi lector the stability control all the way off the off is indeed off so you can do a little bit have slightly around if you were hunt wiving the disappointed Oh skies the engine so I mean it's lovely but I think the fans a little bit better on the outside and on the inside those has tied the car really it and appreciate the spices of warble warble of the noise this car made like the area is 2 race start and rs3 so you pull up at the light cliff on the brake for the fall release go that agency's number 60 dead at 18 a hundred hundred what tell me they when I measured the Audi it is nought to sixty miles an hour in just 3.7 seconds so how will the Mercedes compare they cost from forty two thousand pounds and has a two liter four-cylinder turbo engine with 381 horsepower and 475 Newton meters power descent of all four wheels through a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox now let's see how it launches now I have to do that you pull both bubbles up confirm I want to race start then go and it's fast very fast as well about sixty that they see and there's the water it involves an hour in the Mercedes I need nought to sixty miles an hour in four seconds dead not bad but how is the risk of the driving experience we jump into the a45 right away does a bit more like a racing car I know that because you're sat lower in it so you bombs close to the road steering has a little bit more weight to it and it's like the designers while the design is just a bit more sporty with these big dials it doesn't seem things move around quite much of the OD people in earth just didn't communicate with you as well as P aesthetically this show things it doesn't knock not for me not for me is an average driver which I'm sure most of you are as well the Audi is the more fun car okay ribboning the Audi RS is more fun than the equivalent Mercedes AMG I've never said that before in my entire life well I must say I'm quite surprised with this new rs3 I do like it a lot more than the old car you know it's got a brilliant engine the shat is actually pretty good as well it moves around its playful I'm surprised by that and of course it's dead easy to live in everyday it's a comfortable easy car to drive what's not to like I really do like the Mercedes AMG a 45 breeze just more of a one-trick pony if you go on lots of track days you'd love it it feels sharp it's a bit like a racing car more so I'd play than this but for most the time yep this rs3 is really impressive let me enjoy this video please like it and share it you click up now on our logo you can subscribe to our Channel and don't forget hit the notification icon so you updated when we upload a new video and if you want to watch more of our videos click here the side of methis is the new Audi rs3 and I bet you want to know how it compares the Mercedes AMG a 45 while I'm going to find out later in this video but first I'm gonna give this car a jolly good testing because apparently howdy says it's a lot more fun of the old rs3 but I'll be the judge of that with that in mind let's kick off the car low five cool things about this german uber hatchback the highlight of this car has to be it's rather lovely 2.5 liters an altar anyway 2.5 litre 500 turbo tiles has rented it has 410 pounds which is pretty much points up and the original Quattro also absolute native movement at all I think it's more 16 in 4th contender that's more in spoken animated puts biggest weirder good Angela let's cut this myself basically I'm speaking of cut this rs3 gets a special RS Sport dial look at that with a big rev counter with speedo in the middle and then you can get other displays as well such as hello stream meter and power and torque from the engine unlike the Mercedes AMG a 45 and the BMW m2 you can get the rs3 with carbon ceramics from brakes which is gracefully going truck a lot because they don't fade as much as normal brakes the only thing is that costing more than horn applause thousand times so we don't know anything I wanted ideas maybe honestly as the life is possible and as a result it's got a high power-to-weight ratio in its class so better power-to-weight ratio to BMW m2 and the Mercedes AMG a 45 or know what the number is it's 265 horsepower per ton now partly weight saving measures include an aluminium bonnet which say seven kilos as in the war still wanting to go on the a3 also an engine in this car is 26 kilos lighter than the engine in the old diocese rate we add up all these weight savings you get to around 80 kilos less than these old rs3 which is about the same weight as me so new rs3 that's the way too old or asleep different let's move flaps in the exhaust which remain close and just cruising along so the Kaizen - noise on the motorway but they open up when you put your foot down so it's nice and loud and if you want to be even louder you can upgrade to sports exhaust which sounds like this however not everything about the rs3 is great his five annoying things then the normal ID a three starts from around 20,000 pounds but the rs3 is 45,000 pounds which is quite a lot for a hatchback this particular car with options exactly 60 grams in fact if you spec up a nice through as much as you can looking around 65,000 pounds now you click up there you get a car walk out UK and build your ideal car online then within 24 hours you'll get five great offers back and top-seeded so go and do that on any car for that matter unlike the BMW m2 you can't get the Audi rs3 with a manual gearbox it's a 7-speed auto only and the auto can be acute gear to eliminating the low speed having that women brilliant the boot is ten percent smaller than on the normal a3 that's it I don't need that won't be alright with I'm joking er think don't quite go low enough for a sporty car and the side bolsters let me hold you that firmly in place when you go in the corner you almost feel like you're going to fall out of them oh no I've fallen actually get my although this cars top speed is electronically limited to 155 miles an hour it is actually capable of 174 miles an hour but if you want to unlock the 174 miles an hour you have to pay od an extra 1600 pounds that's dirty thieving thankfully you won't feel short-changed with the rest of the rs3 experience being based on an a3 means they're sensibly also interior quality is impressive and being the RS that's Maddox Putin Ripper 8 but way more visual upgrades on the outside I'm going to talk you around the design of this new rs3 and show you how it's different to the normal a three and I'm going to start at the back because this is the view you're most likely to see because usually this car will be ahead of you so you've got a big rear bumper it's got a diffuser integrated into it and you've got oval tailpipes one on each side of course around the side you get some 19-inch alloy wheels as standard almost forgot I actually also got that's spoiler there it's rather discreet that's almost forgot it you know for a hot hatch it's not too in-your-face really you've got some side skirts the car is lowered over the normal a3 and that improves the handling but it also makes it look meaner as do the wider wheel arches as you come around to the front you get LED headlamps as standard some always badging here at the front and you've got an aura star honeycomb grille and then down you've got a deeper front bumper here and Quattro badging to remind you that this car has Quattro all-wheel drive and I like the fact this is in like a battleship gray color look sort of mean not quite as mean though I don't think as a Mercedes AMG a45 but what do you think there isn't pictures of the Mercedes just to remind you now what I want you to do is click up there and vote and let me know what you think looks the best the Audi or the Mercedes what's more important though is how the rs3 and 845 compare from behind the wheel those dub the Audi now one of the good things about the rs3 is the even driving around every day and it's perfectly comfortable and easy typically this is the standard suspension listen till 2:00 but even though I'm writing a massive alloy wheels you get the adaptive suspension please more comfortable it really is a nicely in car now a lot of people think that like an Audi rs3 is going to be a little bit boring but it can actually look at the whole bird then you could imagine turn the first ability controlling this thing and it will be a little bit playful especially in the West it's going to be harder to get it moving around in the dry so that's one of the benefits of Quattro let's enjoy the car fully even when it's peeing down with rain and I'm glad the Audi lector the stability control all the way off the off is indeed off so you can do a little bit have slightly around if you were hunt wiving the disappointed Oh skies the engine so I mean it's lovely but I think the fans a little bit better on the outside and on the inside those has tied the car really it and appreciate the spices of warble warble of the noise this car made like the area is 2 race start and rs3 so you pull up at the light cliff on the brake for the fall release go that agency's number 60 dead at 18 a hundred hundred what tell me they when I measured the Audi it is nought to sixty miles an hour in just 3.7 seconds so how will the Mercedes compare they cost from forty two thousand pounds and has a two liter four-cylinder turbo engine with 381 horsepower and 475 Newton meters power descent of all four wheels through a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox now let's see how it launches now I have to do that you pull both bubbles up confirm I want to race start then go and it's fast very fast as well about sixty that they see and there's the water it involves an hour in the Mercedes I need nought to sixty miles an hour in four seconds dead not bad but how is the risk of the driving experience we jump into the a45 right away does a bit more like a racing car I know that because you're sat lower in it so you bombs close to the road steering has a little bit more weight to it and it's like the designers while the design is just a bit more sporty with these big dials it doesn't seem things move around quite much of the OD people in earth just didn't communicate with you as well as P aesthetically this show things it doesn't knock not for me not for me is an average driver which I'm sure most of you are as well the Audi is the more fun car okay ribboning the Audi RS is more fun than the equivalent Mercedes AMG I've never said that before in my entire life well I must say I'm quite surprised with this new rs3 I do like it a lot more than the old car you know it's got a brilliant engine the shat is actually pretty good as well it moves around its playful I'm surprised by that and of course it's dead easy to live in everyday it's a comfortable easy car to drive what's not to like I really do like the Mercedes AMG a 45 breeze just more of a one-trick pony if you go on lots of track days you'd love it it feels sharp it's a bit like a racing car more so I'd play than this but for most the time yep this rs3 is really impressive let me enjoy this video please like it and share it you click up now on our logo you can subscribe to our Channel and don't forget hit the notification icon so you updated when we upload a new video and if you want to watch more of our videos click here the side of me\n"