Although it is not faster in a straight line, the 2025 RS3 is 7 seconds faster around the ring than its predecessor
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- The Audi RS3 2025 update sedan obtains an increase in prices of $ 1,900, from $ 63,400.
- Audi promises better handling with a redesigned suspension and a updated torque separator.
- Outdoor updates include sharper bumpers, larger air intakes and fresh paint colors.
Audi has just updated the RS3 for 2025 and although it costs more, it also offers more. The price now starts at $ 63,400, or $ 64,695, including destination fees of $ 1,295. Of course, it is more than the final price of $ 62,795 that we would pay last year, but this additional species allows you to make a series of upgrades, some of which are, apparently, rather important.
If you are considering a rival, the BMW M2 473 HP could be on your radar, although it is an option with two -door rear traction. Without forgetting, Audi managed to beat the Tour time on the M2 on the Nürburgring, despite the slightly higher price of $ 65,500 from BMW.
External and interior changes are only the aperitif
The most obvious changes in RS3 are in the form of design and style. The bumpers are more pronounced than in the past and have specific RS diffusers. The front air consumption is larger and the grille obtains a diamond pattern and an anthracite audi badge. In addition, new 19 -inch wheels are available and buyers can choose from new paint colors such as Arkona White, Progressive Red Metallic and Ascari Blue Metallic.
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The most important change for daily driving is perhaps the addition of LED headlights with matrix design. These can, when activated, cut the patterns of light in order to illuminate as much road as possible even when there are other cars around. In addition, as in the previous RS3, owners can choose their own DRL model in the infotainment system.
Audi has also updated the interior of the RS3. The new flat -bottomed steering wheel has pimples in RS mode and aluminum palette pallets, in addition there is multicolored ambient interior lighting and a updated gear lever. In addition, the silver cabin filling of the previous model is now available in vanadium gray.
Less power but better handling – and a new Nordschleife record
All these external changes are good and good, but what really matters is the way this car is driving. Audi promises that it is better than ever thanks to redesigned suspension bits and a new logic for the RS torque separator. It is essentially a fancy rear differential that we liked when it was released. It is difficult to imagine that the RS3 becomes much better than when we led it for the first time – but we are always impatient to test the 2025 model anyway.
As we should, because the pre-production model has broken the Nurburgring recording for the fastest car in the compact class defined by its predecessor over 7 seconds. In fact, last summer, he hung green hell in a Blister 7: 33.123 compared to the time of 7: 40.748 that the RS3 sedan takes place in 2021 – and it is despite the five turbocharged cylinders, which makes the same 394 hp as in the prefacelift model in European specifications.
There are unchanged straight line performance, because the new RS3 always exceeds 0 to 60 MPH (0-96 km / h) in 3.6 seconds and can go as fast as 180 MPH (289 km / h) with the dynamic package more (25 MPH more than the standard package of 155 MPH / 250 km / h of the high speed).
Thus, this incredible improvement in its annular meat time is, logically, thanks to the changes in the suspension and the RS torque separator (and, perhaps, a progression of tire technology, although Audi did not explain which rubber the record car used).
