2007 Audi S3 2.0 TFSI Quattro in Lamborghini Orange color Review,Start Up, Engine, and In Depth Tour

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Happy birthday to the A3. Audi's little hatch is ten years old this year, yet in all that time it's never really rolled up its sleeves and picked a fight with the best fast hatches. Perhaps it's because VAG has the Golf to do that job, allowing the A3 to appeal to a more mature audience, with even the most potent S-line models standing aloof from the occasionally sordid and often garish hot-hatch herd. From these pictures, you'd guess that the new S3 is true to type. In the lobby of the Audi Forum at Munich airport there sat an electric orange S3, but this bold statement wasn't backed up by the choice of test cars outside: black, white or grey. We got stuck with grey, which could have been described as 'Shark Grey' but was, of course, 'Dolphin'. It doesn't show off the S3's bolder front end or rear diffuser to best effect and, worse still, our car didn't even have the RS4-style alloys that will come as standard and which give the shape a real lift. Now, this is a shame, because technically the S3 is considerably more exciting than it looks here. Its engine is a development of the excellent 197bhp 2-litre FSI turbo engine which debuted in the A3 and subsequently found a home in the Golf GTI. Significantly reworked for the new S3, it now offers no less than 262bhp backed up by 258lb ft of torque. This is fed through a short-throw, close-ratio, six-speed gearbox and distributed by the latest version of the Haldex four-wheel-drive system. Electromechanical actuation of the <b>...</b>

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