The RS3: A Car That's All About Having Fun

As we get behind the wheel of the Audi RS3, it's clear that this car is designed to put a smile on your face. The steering feels a little bit more disconnected than some other cars, but in a good way - it's dynamic and engaging, making you want to rock and roll with it. We've had a 1g acceleration and a 1.1g left turn, which shows just how capable this car is when it comes to getting from 0-60mph quickly.

But what really sets the RS3 apart is its sound. The five-cylinder engine sounds significantly better than some other cars in its class, with a lovely, raspy tone that's music to your ears. And with the price point of the RS3 being relatively affordable compared to other high-performance cars on the market, it's easy to see why this car is so appealing.

We decided to do a back-to-back drive with another car, possibly an A45, to see how they stack up against each other. But for now, we're going to pull into a slightly snow-filled car park and take a closer look at the inside of the RS3. The view from here is pretty impressive, with the mountains looming in the background.

As we get out of the car, we notice that the reversing camera can get very dirty, very quickly - it's likely due to its low height. But the interior of the car is well-appointed, with a lot of features and settings to play around with. The haptic feel on the nav and infotainment system is nice, and there are plenty of USB ports for charging our phones on the go.

The central console is small but functional, with a wireless charging pad and some decent-sized door pockets. The glove box could be bigger, but overall we're impressed with what's been put into the interior design. We also appreciate the hexagonal shapes that continue throughout the car - they add a nice touch of elegance to the RS3.

As we explore the car further, we notice that there are a few quirks here and there. The vents feel a bit awkward, and the door handles could be more substantial. But these are minor complaints in an otherwise well-designed interior. We also like the design elements on the front grille and around the door handles - they add a nice touch of personality to the car.

One of our favorite features is the ability to bring up different views on the nav screen. Depending on how you're using it, you can have either a full-screen view or one that's more compact. We also appreciate the light controls over on the side of the console - it's easy to adjust them without having to reach for anything.

The seats in the front are comfortable, and we particularly like the hexagonal quilting pattern through the center. The sunroof is nice, too - we get to see how it opens up with a clear view of the surrounding landscape. And finally, there's the rearview mirror, which is borderless and provides an unobstructed view of what's behind you.

As we make our way back to the car, we notice that the cargo area in the back is pretty spacious - there's plenty of room for luggage or other gear. We also see the lip spoiler on top, as well as a shark fin antenna sticking out from the roof. And despite getting dirty on the roads, the RS3 still looks like a million bucks.

We're now ready to get back behind the wheel and continue our drive through Italy. With its comfortable ride and engaging handling, we can't wait to see what other adventures await us in this wonderful car.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys i'm shmee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me on a glorious afternoon here in the mountains in italy with the newest addition to the schmie mobiles the audi rs3 saloon the new museum team car a couple of days ago brad and i flew over from the museum to germany to collect the new car we had a quick look at it but at the time we weren't yet able to tell you what it's like to drive well we've already done a thousand kilometers driving from munich through the south of germany all the way across austria and now into italy where we are currently in a ski resort we have some amazing roads around so we can take a full look at this the third generation audi rs3 the saloon here in turbo blue but we'll go through all of the details and crucially what this is like to actually drive to take it on some of the lovely roads here with plenty of switchbacks hairpins to enjoy and see what it's all about this is it the museum team car the audi rs3 saloon look at this car then i think very suited to the roads i am about to be driving it on and the new turbo blue color a very different shade to all of the other schmie mobiles but we are now lucky to be the custodians of this rs3 saloon at this museum for the next six months or so fitting very much in with the color theme of the day we've got a bit of snow up towards the mountain peak so the car's been running on winter tires given what we're going to be doing with it i think that makes sense over the upcoming period but it was out in munich as part of the media launch for uk journalists to fly out for a first drive in the new rs3 which is what today is going to be about to go through all of the details of this car the third generation now of the rs3 the rs badge on typically the small hatchback but for the second generation they introduced the saloon we now have the third generation or second generation you could say of the saloon itself now one thing that really stands out is they managed to maintain the five-cylinder engine the 2.5 litre turbo 5 part which sounds glorious it still actually sounds really good despite the opfs and new sound regulations and that side of things making in this case 400 horsepower 500 newton meters featuring the quattro wheel drive system the s-tronic 7-speed dual clutch gearbox and the rs torque vectoring which means a bit of a drift mode so to speak with the power being able to be adjusted between the rear wheels depending exactly what you're doing with it in terms of the styling it is much more aggressive than before and particularly around towards the front come and have a look here and this is the launch edition by the way so very highly equipped there are a few different levels the only one that comes above this is the vors broom which would add 360 cameras we just had the rear camera on this car it would change the wheel design slightly but we have things like the led matrix headlights the adaptive radar for the cruise control the black pack which you can see particularly around the very large front grille lots of edges and shapes you can see the air curtains to direct airflow you've got pieces like this for example aeroblade just sitting out behind those front wheels it is a much more sporty design than before while still being a very compact car a compact car with 400 horsepower that can do the launch control sprint to 100 kilometers an hour 62 miles an hour in just 3.8 seconds and the launch edition also comes with the raised top speed limit to 280 kilometers an hour 174 miles an hour as opposed to the standard 250 ks 155 miles per hour this is a uk car of course it's very kind of audi to be allowing us to run it for the upcoming period we've got the oval sports exhaust the rs exhaust again part of the special launch edition as you can tell i'm short on breath we are very high in altitude at the moment beautiful views and amazing roads to check out in a moment inside we've got the black leather as you can see i'm just going to take a seat on board for a moment audi sport got the nice screens start it up and you can hear a little bit of how this does sound and we've got the drive select so you can change the different drive modes and go through for example the configurable settings rs torque rear is where you have a lot of fun we're in dynamic now as you can hear that nice five-cylinder rasp it really suits the character of the car and it's great they've been able to maintain that in both this and of course the sportback equivalent as well we'll have a better look around the interior shortly for the moment though i think we should get prepared and set to go for a drive that's what this is all about we had a full look at the spec in a way when we were picking it up in munich at the audi conference center but now it's time to take it on the roads we've had a good run on the autobahn although winter tires obviously mean a slightly lower speed limit in fact it tells us right there limited for our drive to 240 kilometers an hour 150 miles per hour so that is all we've been able to do with it for now but maybe we'll see if that can change going into the new year as the weather starts to improve after the winter season i suppose i should stop talking we should get out on the road and go see what this is like the first time that i ever drove on this particular piece of tarmac i was actually at the wheel of a porsche 918 spider so safe to say i have some pretty fond memories of it and since then i've been here with many different cars while making my way south into well further into italy coming through the alps and it's a wonderful place to be glorious views and we seem to be very lucky with today's weather it is currently showing about 10 degrees which is not exactly the warmest but to be here at this time of the year and to have weather like this is simply stunning anyway to talk about the car we're currently in auto everything obviously we've got drive select you can change all of the settings we have the individual mode you can configure it all it's all magnificent but like this it feels like a nice fun sporty car yeah there's not loads of sound but perhaps a little bit more than you might be expecting in the current era the era of opfs and everything being very very quiet which begs an interesting question obviously about exhausts when you go into dynamic it all gets a little bit louder but like this the steering is light the gearbox is magnificent the audi gearboxes the dual clutches always have been with many manufacturers certainly at this kind of price point and style of car going towards auto boxes now instead of dual clutches you appreciate quite how fast this can shift and how clever it is how intelligent it is it knows exactly what you want out of it what you're getting up to and look at this view out the front this is simply magnificent if we pop it though into dynamic which defaults to everything into its most dynamic of settings a little bit of sound out of the five pot there as we head down the hill towards the sun and i apologize for any sun glare that we might have on the video at the moment you get those nice shift sounds those raspy pops so we just drop down and like i said the gearbox shifts magnificently whether you're doing it manually with the paddles which are improved versus the previous gen it feels like a very small car you've got good visibility all around you obviously primarily a hatchback and then offered also in the saloon body style but a car that can be used obviously as a daily without it really standing out yes it looks a bit sportier obviously but it's still an audi a3 at the end of the day it's an audi a3 that has a lot of go as i said the acceleration numbers are really quite impressive and it's really just that kind of car that ticks every box in one it's practical you can take your friends in the back of it you know you've got no problems using it and relying on it and that's why it's going to fulfill our purposes very well as the museum team car and i'm actually going to spin around and head back up here yeah this is exactly where i started my drive in the 918 when i was here with a 918 spider and a p1 about seven years ago it's crazy how quickly time actually flies but as we pull out here in first gear just put the foot down yeah it certainly knows how to get a move on this thing absolutely blasts away and to be honest the steering is really quite nice for obviously the electronic variable steering everything about the car is positive and this for me begs an interesting question because as its spec this car is just over 60 000 pounds whereas my m3 which is not a particularly high spec m3 was already 20 000 pounds more than that this feels like a relative bargain yes it's 100 horsepower down but it's got quattro it's off the line very quickly my m3 is the rear wheel drive as opposed to the mx drive and although some of the sound obviously inside here is speaker pumped it still sounds good as a result so we're going to come back to that little tunnel in just a moment it's a cool place to be isn't it driving in the mountains in the new rs3 and we'll go out the other side of the town and enjoy some hairpins and really quite fun roads just after this so drop down the gears maybe go down to first gear go into the tunnel it does go up through the revs very very quickly but the big thing is that the torque is so much more usable now versus the previous iteration power is still at 400 as it was before but with 20 newton meters more and crucially talk earlier in the rev range that's where you feel most of the difference now with what they've done god this is breathtaking right let's get through the town out the other side and onto some twisties heading uphill then we also in here have the rs button on the steering wheel so we've either got rs individual or rs performance which wakes it up even more and i think one of the most impressive things with this is how quickly you get on the power and it just takes off honestly the performance is there very very quickly there is a sense of the turbo lag the tradition with this engine and you feel it building as you get higher up towards the rev range i would like the seats to be a little bit more supportive you feel a little bit like you're being thrown around and touching here but the sound of it as we make our way up through the various hairpins here and if you were traction off of course you could let the back slide and dance around a little bit but this is where very few other cars could go point to point on a road like this quicker than this does and it sounds good on the shifts as well the sounds you get on the downshifts and the steering is i think significantly improved versus before that's one of the big things they worked on making the track wider at the front and giving it wider wheels and tires as well if you then want to let the car allow you to play a little bit more obviously you can press traction into the sport setting i'm not going to try and be too brave given we're on a very narrow mountain pass at the moment but this thing obviously has launch control maybe we'll get somewhere we can test that very shortly it's just a really good all-round car that's one of the great things about it yes the interior is perhaps not as premium as even the m3 or something in the segment above this that's not really what you're looking at when you're driving along a road like this is it it's all about the driving experience and what it's like when you get back on the power and we're going uphill accelerating that hard it's really really very impressive we've also got let's go carefully around the other cars here on the screen we can go into car and we can go into rs monitor we've got a series of different displays temperatures g-forces tire temperatures and pressures you can have all of those up as well done a 1g left turn just now on winter tires obviously pop this thing on to um summer tires it's going to allow you to go even more can't get my head around how quickly this can get up a road like this my ears are popping as we go another thing that we haven't done is try the launch control so we've got traction in sport i'm going to pop open the sunroof you can open it fully i'm going to put the car into auto so come to a standstill foot firmly on the brake foot on the throttle launch control program activated go that is ferociously fast that's really really really very very quick as you would expect that's where this car truly excels wow yeah just obviously building up the boost unleashing it all quattro doing its thing changing the distribution of power depending obviously what you're doing how you're driving et cetera and certainly doing its best possible job of going very very fast now if i turn around one thing i'm not the biggest fan of is the turning circle the turning circle being a small car with four wheel drive means that yeah while you might hope you could do a full loop there i oh yeah we can do it we can do but the point is the same it's not the best for this kind of thing we managed but it's not the best the ride is decent the ride isn't too firm obviously when you're in performance dynamic with it whichever setting it firms up significantly but when you pop it back out of rs mode into auto into automatic on the gearbox everything's pretty comfortable it's just a nice car to drive again steering feels a little bit more disconnected but it's so nice and dynamic that yeah why not just rock and roll it that way oh we've had a 1g acceleration and a 1.1 g left turn anyway you get the point it's just a car that yeah okay it's not the most premium of premium cars but it's not the price point of that either and for the price point it is at it's fascinating to think you know how does this compare to the a45s it sounds significantly better with the five-cylinder um and it goes really pretty well i'd love to do almost a back-to-back drive to see how they actually stack up as cars but let's pull in here into a slightly snow-filled car park we've got a stop sign i suppose you better follow the rules because i want to show you a little bit more around the inside of the rs3 well it's a lot colder in the shade but the view is pretty impressive with the mountains over in front of us but looking around here a little bit more obviously we've got the reversing camera up at the moment which has a tendency to get very dirty very quickly we've noticed it must be quite low down obviously in here you've got the haptic feel on the nav and infotainment and there's a lot in there that you can change and do and settings and all of the different pages that you can imagine um your tiles on the main front screen down here i quite like you've got the wireless charging pad a couple of usb ports so we can both charge our phones on the go this is your very small selector for drive or for reverse popping it into park and then for the media this works nicely it's like an old ipad mini you just rotate your finger around start stop button central console some cupholder space we've got a few things tucked away inside there decent sized door pockets glove boxes not the largest in the world i'm not the biggest fan of the vents either they feel a bit awkward obviously you've got the hexagonal shapes which continue everywhere around the car the front grille and all of the different design elements that you can see around the door handles are quite fun when it's closed to help if i close it properly i think the design of those is quite nice the way again inside these angular shapes and edges the car does have a tendency to beep at you pretty much whatever you do various different views that you can bring up here you can have the full screen nav depending where exactly you are in the settings there's the nav then go view and it goes full screen audio one of the first to do this with the virtual cockpit and i've always done it very well in terms of offering you lots of different information depending how you want that to be your light controls over to that side and then the seats to touch on for a moment rs logo up there at the top nice hexagonal pattern again for the quilting through the center but i'd like a little bit more bolstering out of them really our sunroof close up that have it open depending how you'd like to go about things with that and this borderless rear view mirror it's quite nice as well switch it off for the moment show you a little bit more around the rest of the car pop on out back decent space back here no shortage of headroom feels quite comfortable obviously we've got the three seats in the back and you've got through load as well on the armrest you're gonna pull this down seats give us a bit more storage as well if you fold those tuck them away and then towards the back of the car we've got the lip spoiler we've got the shark fin antenna up top and we've got a car that is quickly getting very dirty driving around on these roads at the moment but hey that's exactly what it's for we are discovering it to the best of our abilities having a lot of fun out on the roads with this wonderful thing as i said while there are some things that could certainly be improved about it some little things here and there i do look forward to trying it to uh put it into effectively it's drift mode at some point as well to experience that certainly not out on the public roads but for now i've quite enjoyed driving it here and it's quite comfortable as well for the longest logs on the motorway we've got a lot of driving still to come in front of us so do go check out the museum channel if you haven't already for the journey ahead to get this all the way back to the barn to visit the garage for the first time after a few more things on our journey of this particular adventure for now though that's all it's actually very cold up here i want to hop back in the car we will continue our drive further into italy and i'll see you again very soon cheers youhi guys i'm shmee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me on a glorious afternoon here in the mountains in italy with the newest addition to the schmie mobiles the audi rs3 saloon the new museum team car a couple of days ago brad and i flew over from the museum to germany to collect the new car we had a quick look at it but at the time we weren't yet able to tell you what it's like to drive well we've already done a thousand kilometers driving from munich through the south of germany all the way across austria and now into italy where we are currently in a ski resort we have some amazing roads around so we can take a full look at this the third generation audi rs3 the saloon here in turbo blue but we'll go through all of the details and crucially what this is like to actually drive to take it on some of the lovely roads here with plenty of switchbacks hairpins to enjoy and see what it's all about this is it the museum team car the audi rs3 saloon look at this car then i think very suited to the roads i am about to be driving it on and the new turbo blue color a very different shade to all of the other schmie mobiles but we are now lucky to be the custodians of this rs3 saloon at this museum for the next six months or so fitting very much in with the color theme of the day we've got a bit of snow up towards the mountain peak so the car's been running on winter tires given what we're going to be doing with it i think that makes sense over the upcoming period but it was out in munich as part of the media launch for uk journalists to fly out for a first drive in the new rs3 which is what today is going to be about to go through all of the details of this car the third generation now of the rs3 the rs badge on typically the small hatchback but for the second generation they introduced the saloon we now have the third generation or second generation you could say of the saloon itself now one thing that really stands out is they managed to maintain the five-cylinder engine the 2.5 litre turbo 5 part which sounds glorious it still actually sounds really good despite the opfs and new sound regulations and that side of things making in this case 400 horsepower 500 newton meters featuring the quattro wheel drive system the s-tronic 7-speed dual clutch gearbox and the rs torque vectoring which means a bit of a drift mode so to speak with the power being able to be adjusted between the rear wheels depending exactly what you're doing with it in terms of the styling it is much more aggressive than before and particularly around towards the front come and have a look here and this is the launch edition by the way so very highly equipped there are a few different levels the only one that comes above this is the vors broom which would add 360 cameras we just had the rear camera on this car it would change the wheel design slightly but we have things like the led matrix headlights the adaptive radar for the cruise control the black pack which you can see particularly around the very large front grille lots of edges and shapes you can see the air curtains to direct airflow you've got pieces like this for example aeroblade just sitting out behind those front wheels it is a much more sporty design than before while still being a very compact car a compact car with 400 horsepower that can do the launch control sprint to 100 kilometers an hour 62 miles an hour in just 3.8 seconds and the launch edition also comes with the raised top speed limit to 280 kilometers an hour 174 miles an hour as opposed to the standard 250 ks 155 miles per hour this is a uk car of course it's very kind of audi to be allowing us to run it for the upcoming period we've got the oval sports exhaust the rs exhaust again part of the special launch edition as you can tell i'm short on breath we are very high in altitude at the moment beautiful views and amazing roads to check out in a moment inside we've got the black leather as you can see i'm just going to take a seat on board for a moment audi sport got the nice screens start it up and you can hear a little bit of how this does sound and we've got the drive select so you can change the different drive modes and go through for example the configurable settings rs torque rear is where you have a lot of fun we're in dynamic now as you can hear that nice five-cylinder rasp it really suits the character of the car and it's great they've been able to maintain that in both this and of course the sportback equivalent as well we'll have a better look around the interior shortly for the moment though i think we should get prepared and set to go for a drive that's what this is all about we had a full look at the spec in a way when we were picking it up in munich at the audi conference center but now it's time to take it on the roads we've had a good run on the autobahn although winter tires obviously mean a slightly lower speed limit in fact it tells us right there limited for our drive to 240 kilometers an hour 150 miles per hour so that is all we've been able to do with it for now but maybe we'll see if that can change going into the new year as the weather starts to improve after the winter season i suppose i should stop talking we should get out on the road and go see what this is like the first time that i ever drove on this particular piece of tarmac i was actually at the wheel of a porsche 918 spider so safe to say i have some pretty fond memories of it and since then i've been here with many different cars while making my way south into well further into italy coming through the alps and it's a wonderful place to be glorious views and we seem to be very lucky with today's weather it is currently showing about 10 degrees which is not exactly the warmest but to be here at this time of the year and to have weather like this is simply stunning anyway to talk about the car we're currently in auto everything obviously we've got drive select you can change all of the settings we have the individual mode you can configure it all it's all magnificent but like this it feels like a nice fun sporty car yeah there's not loads of sound but perhaps a little bit more than you might be expecting in the current era the era of opfs and everything being very very quiet which begs an interesting question obviously about exhausts when you go into dynamic it all gets a little bit louder but like this the steering is light the gearbox is magnificent the audi gearboxes the dual clutches always have been with many manufacturers certainly at this kind of price point and style of car going towards auto boxes now instead of dual clutches you appreciate quite how fast this can shift and how clever it is how intelligent it is it knows exactly what you want out of it what you're getting up to and look at this view out the front this is simply magnificent if we pop it though into dynamic which defaults to everything into its most dynamic of settings a little bit of sound out of the five pot there as we head down the hill towards the sun and i apologize for any sun glare that we might have on the video at the moment you get those nice shift sounds those raspy pops so we just drop down and like i said the gearbox shifts magnificently whether you're doing it manually with the paddles which are improved versus the previous gen it feels like a very small car you've got good visibility all around you obviously primarily a hatchback and then offered also in the saloon body style but a car that can be used obviously as a daily without it really standing out yes it looks a bit sportier obviously but it's still an audi a3 at the end of the day it's an audi a3 that has a lot of go as i said the acceleration numbers are really quite impressive and it's really just that kind of car that ticks every box in one it's practical you can take your friends in the back of it you know you've got no problems using it and relying on it and that's why it's going to fulfill our purposes very well as the museum team car and i'm actually going to spin around and head back up here yeah this is exactly where i started my drive in the 918 when i was here with a 918 spider and a p1 about seven years ago it's crazy how quickly time actually flies but as we pull out here in first gear just put the foot down yeah it certainly knows how to get a move on this thing absolutely blasts away and to be honest the steering is really quite nice for obviously the electronic variable steering everything about the car is positive and this for me begs an interesting question because as its spec this car is just over 60 000 pounds whereas my m3 which is not a particularly high spec m3 was already 20 000 pounds more than that this feels like a relative bargain yes it's 100 horsepower down but it's got quattro it's off the line very quickly my m3 is the rear wheel drive as opposed to the mx drive and although some of the sound obviously inside here is speaker pumped it still sounds good as a result so we're going to come back to that little tunnel in just a moment it's a cool place to be isn't it driving in the mountains in the new rs3 and we'll go out the other side of the town and enjoy some hairpins and really quite fun roads just after this so drop down the gears maybe go down to first gear go into the tunnel it does go up through the revs very very quickly but the big thing is that the torque is so much more usable now versus the previous iteration power is still at 400 as it was before but with 20 newton meters more and crucially talk earlier in the rev range that's where you feel most of the difference now with what they've done god this is breathtaking right let's get through the town out the other side and onto some twisties heading uphill then we also in here have the rs button on the steering wheel so we've either got rs individual or rs performance which wakes it up even more and i think one of the most impressive things with this is how quickly you get on the power and it just takes off honestly the performance is there very very quickly there is a sense of the turbo lag the tradition with this engine and you feel it building as you get higher up towards the rev range i would like the seats to be a little bit more supportive you feel a little bit like you're being thrown around and touching here but the sound of it as we make our way up through the various hairpins here and if you were traction off of course you could let the back slide and dance around a little bit but this is where very few other cars could go point to point on a road like this quicker than this does and it sounds good on the shifts as well the sounds you get on the downshifts and the steering is i think significantly improved versus before that's one of the big things they worked on making the track wider at the front and giving it wider wheels and tires as well if you then want to let the car allow you to play a little bit more obviously you can press traction into the sport setting i'm not going to try and be too brave given we're on a very narrow mountain pass at the moment but this thing obviously has launch control maybe we'll get somewhere we can test that very shortly it's just a really good all-round car that's one of the great things about it yes the interior is perhaps not as premium as even the m3 or something in the segment above this that's not really what you're looking at when you're driving along a road like this is it it's all about the driving experience and what it's like when you get back on the power and we're going uphill accelerating that hard it's really really very impressive we've also got let's go carefully around the other cars here on the screen we can go into car and we can go into rs monitor we've got a series of different displays temperatures g-forces tire temperatures and pressures you can have all of those up as well done a 1g left turn just now on winter tires obviously pop this thing on to um summer tires it's going to allow you to go even more can't get my head around how quickly this can get up a road like this my ears are popping as we go another thing that we haven't done is try the launch control so we've got traction in sport i'm going to pop open the sunroof you can open it fully i'm going to put the car into auto so come to a standstill foot firmly on the brake foot on the throttle launch control program activated go that is ferociously fast that's really really really very very quick as you would expect that's where this car truly excels wow yeah just obviously building up the boost unleashing it all quattro doing its thing changing the distribution of power depending obviously what you're doing how you're driving et cetera and certainly doing its best possible job of going very very fast now if i turn around one thing i'm not the biggest fan of is the turning circle the turning circle being a small car with four wheel drive means that yeah while you might hope you could do a full loop there i oh yeah we can do it we can do but the point is the same it's not the best for this kind of thing we managed but it's not the best the ride is decent the ride isn't too firm obviously when you're in performance dynamic with it whichever setting it firms up significantly but when you pop it back out of rs mode into auto into automatic on the gearbox everything's pretty comfortable it's just a nice car to drive again steering feels a little bit more disconnected but it's so nice and dynamic that yeah why not just rock and roll it that way oh we've had a 1g acceleration and a 1.1 g left turn anyway you get the point it's just a car that yeah okay it's not the most premium of premium cars but it's not the price point of that either and for the price point it is at it's fascinating to think you know how does this compare to the a45s it sounds significantly better with the five-cylinder um and it goes really pretty well i'd love to do almost a back-to-back drive to see how they actually stack up as cars but let's pull in here into a slightly snow-filled car park we've got a stop sign i suppose you better follow the rules because i want to show you a little bit more around the inside of the rs3 well it's a lot colder in the shade but the view is pretty impressive with the mountains over in front of us but looking around here a little bit more obviously we've got the reversing camera up at the moment which has a tendency to get very dirty very quickly we've noticed it must be quite low down obviously in here you've got the haptic feel on the nav and infotainment and there's a lot in there that you can change and do and settings and all of the different pages that you can imagine um your tiles on the main front screen down here i quite like you've got the wireless charging pad a couple of usb ports so we can both charge our phones on the go this is your very small selector for drive or for reverse popping it into park and then for the media this works nicely it's like an old ipad mini you just rotate your finger around start stop button central console some cupholder space we've got a few things tucked away inside there decent sized door pockets glove boxes not the largest in the world i'm not the biggest fan of the vents either they feel a bit awkward obviously you've got the hexagonal shapes which continue everywhere around the car the front grille and all of the different design elements that you can see around the door handles are quite fun when it's closed to help if i close it properly i think the design of those is quite nice the way again inside these angular shapes and edges the car does have a tendency to beep at you pretty much whatever you do various different views that you can bring up here you can have the full screen nav depending where exactly you are in the settings there's the nav then go view and it goes full screen audio one of the first to do this with the virtual cockpit and i've always done it very well in terms of offering you lots of different information depending how you want that to be your light controls over to that side and then the seats to touch on for a moment rs logo up there at the top nice hexagonal pattern again for the quilting through the center but i'd like a little bit more bolstering out of them really our sunroof close up that have it open depending how you'd like to go about things with that and this borderless rear view mirror it's quite nice as well switch it off for the moment show you a little bit more around the rest of the car pop on out back decent space back here no shortage of headroom feels quite comfortable obviously we've got the three seats in the back and you've got through load as well on the armrest you're gonna pull this down seats give us a bit more storage as well if you fold those tuck them away and then towards the back of the car we've got the lip spoiler we've got the shark fin antenna up top and we've got a car that is quickly getting very dirty driving around on these roads at the moment but hey that's exactly what it's for we are discovering it to the best of our abilities having a lot of fun out on the roads with this wonderful thing as i said while there are some things that could certainly be improved about it some little things here and there i do look forward to trying it to uh put it into effectively it's drift mode at some point as well to experience that certainly not out on the public roads but for now i've quite enjoyed driving it here and it's quite comfortable as well for the longest logs on the motorway we've got a lot of driving still to come in front of us so do go check out the museum channel if you haven't already for the journey ahead to get this all the way back to the barn to visit the garage for the first time after a few more things on our journey of this particular adventure for now though that's all it's actually very cold up here i want to hop back in the car we will continue our drive further into italy and i'll see you again very soon cheers you\n"