I repent, I have not managed to keep fidelity 1,4-liter three-doors car. But I have a justification. Its 5-door girlfriend Sportback, that, that since recent time make a show nameplate “S3”, has started all arsenal seduction. In the form of 265-strong turbo engine, notorious Magnetic Ride and a constant full drive quattro it is impossible to resist to charms. From it 5,8 with up to “hundred” intercepts breath. It would not be desirable to get out of its armchairs sheathed by a leather. The sports rudder with leather furnish and the oblique bottom part is to be let no go. However, quickly enough you notice also a back of this seductive madness. Reduced by 25 mm road clearance does not allow to move down even on moderately broken first coat. Through huge platens of lateral support it is necessary to jump almost at an input and an output. Made active system Magnetic Ride together with low-profile 18-inch trunks, probably, and the ideal decision for German autobahn, but on the Russian roads “S” will shake more likely not imagination, and all organism. Rather short wheel base (2578 mm), borrowed at Golf V, reminds of itself on speeds for 200 km/h. S3 starts to jump up on road roughnesses, and it is necessary to compress a rudder more strong. Though this misfortune as it was found out, it is possible to overcome almost if to be removed together with forward armchairs hardly further to a back axis. With removal from forward wheels bumpiness almost you cease to notice.
What our verdict? For daily vigorous driving in city we would choose a beauty and clear head A3 c 125-strong turbo engine. Just right to fall before it on knees and to ask about a pardon. S3 - a choice of the adventurouses giving due style and comfort. “S” at its all merits and demerits - hundred percent driver’s car with corresponding “hot” hatchbacks by - from 37850 euros. Thus S3 you will not name the car for inveterate bachelors and solvent egoists. Moreover, restyling S3 even shows adherence to family values. At least, externally. In fact it is far not everyone knows, that behind a 5-door “family” environment so explosive habit disappears.

If “three” sharply to put spurs a pedal of an accelerator, you feel, how the box “has dumped” pair transfers. Shares of second - and here it, a pleasant push in a back. Here the beauty, however, not to fail to leave the message on the instrument panel: on pair transfers “above” in such situation would be more comfortably and more economically. However, appetite at our beauty quite moderated. The average charge - 6,5 L on 100 km. Therefore we perceive reminders on the display as a female whim and again we press on a pedal of “gas”.
But here again an alive surprise: on road the pair the hares who have frightened away small flight of partridges has run out. It not a Mirage and not a fruit of imagination. The nature near Munich amazes primeval. Sharply sink the left pedal also I enjoy so intelligent braking. Hares are rescueed, and A3 even on centimeter has not descended from a trajectory. Here it, Ingolstadt school!
Well and how to you, a beauty, such test? I intentionally go to far in speed on a loop of an outcome autobahn. A3 flies in turn, registering hairdressing saloon an arch and contemptiously screaming trunks. I have time to note, that small rolls of a body all the same are present, but they do not affect in any way controllability. The rudder is poured by elasticity, lateral support compresses in strong embraces. Very soon I shall find out, that freilen can pass such turns (at least, it is subjective) without any rolls.
The miss is necessary for this purpose in the world of the “charged” motors only. The suspension bracket is h.p. accessible to petrol units capacity from 160 h.p. and 2-cylinder updatings TDI from 140 with adapted characteristics. The choice between comfort and sporting is carried out by means of electronic adjustment of shock-absorbers. In their flasks the special synthetic oil containing microscopic magnetized particles circulates. On a command of an onboard computer in system the electromagnetic field is formed. Distribution element varies, and rigidity of a suspension bracket is instantly corrected. For switching between normal and sports modes it is enough to press the corresponding button on the central console. However, after sensible reflection you are asked by a question: and whether such not cheap option designated in press releases and price-lists as Audi Magnetic Ride is necessary “three”? In fact even the standard suspension bracket at A3 is quite universal - provides comprehensible smoothness of a course and does not annoy palpable rolls in turns.

And in fact it now also the present clear head. Has learned to park almost without assistance and does it not worse, than the “senior” models of concern Volkswagen. “ The electronic assistant ” A3 itself will find out space suitable for a parking and the car on an empty seat will tire out. From the driver the minimum of efforts is required: only to press on a pedal of “gas” and a brake. Such electronic toys at ours freilen now much. There is a mechanism of the prevention of theft and breaking, the monitoring system of pressure in trunks, headlights Xenon Plus and the rotary light Adaptive Light, the improved navigating system with the 6,5-inch color monitor. In total you will not list. These cost all option the blessings rather dear, but our beauty can allow itself it. However, options on that and options that from them to refuse at a corresponding spirit. A3, deprived excesses, certainly, a nonsense. But if it would be desirable greater democratic character - always please! The Prices begin about 20350 euros for “base”. Sales should start in the first months of summer.
Well, have gone? Perhaps. With pressing a pedal of an accelerator the equal, intelligent, confident dispersal begins. I try to keep up the conversation: “ Is not that so, a beautiful place? Be accurate! There at a roadside - small deer”. But what is it? the Arrow of a speedmeter has stolen up to a mark “200”, and I and have not noticed. And the reason is simple. The beauty, appears, has got the new motor and new transmission. The alliance 1,4-liter 125-strong TFSI with new 7-step “robot” S-Tronic is organic. Compact short piston the unit gives out peak 200 Nanometers that provides good draft in a working range from 1500 up to 4000 rev/min. And 80 % of capacity of the engine are reached already at 1250 rev/min, and it is the best result in a class. The box with two couplings touches transfers so delicately, that switchings almost do not feel. The confident dispersal thus is reached since any speed. All the matter is that six of seven transfers are located in a sports way is close to each other (last has rather long course to please profitability), and both couplings are always active. When III transfer, IV, settling down in the second group of transfers, available is involved, say. The driver presses on “gas”, there is an instant switching and immediate acceleration.

I am almost ready to take back words about conservatism. All the same it the real woman of fashion. Now at it new the block-headlight with necklaces of light-emitting diodes - same, as at sister-cabriolet A3. In “sight” of the German - the whole philosophy. Antifog headlights have got stylish “glasses” from chrome. In a firm lattice of radiator Singleframe - new chromic frameworks. On external mirrors of a back kind - nice ribbon repeaters of indexes of turn. Directly at a mirror part - tiny “ear-rings”- small squares. It too repeaters turn signal - not too functional because of the sizes, but obviously added to the woman of fashion of charm. Above bumpers stylists have worked thoroughly enough. The design of cardinal changes has not undergone, but A3 in a new appearance was extended at length on 25 mm - up to 4238 mm. Well and, certainly, new “footwear” which the beauty has obviously ordered under catalogue Audi Exclusive.
I shake sharpened the handle freilen, I make the way in interior, I prove on a driver’s place. Adjustment of mirrors and armchairs borrows counted seconds. Quality of furnish all as is faultless. In an interior like it is not enough changes. retouched scales of the devices, new buttons on the central console, hardly more than chromic costume jewellery. Chromeplated clambid beetles air baffle now same, as in TT Roadster. Numerous rod and to toggle-switches have a little corrected forms. In the rest it is all the same A3, bribing the verified balance sporting and elegance. However, during any moment it seems to me, that freilen nevertheless abuses sports. “Muscles” of platens of lateral support too pumped up.

Aristocrat
“ The student, member of the Komsomol, sportswoman! At last, simply beauty! ” Restyling Audi A3, certainly, not member of the Komsomol. More likely aristocrat
But in the rest the citation from film Gaydai to got prettier “German” quite applicable. It studies, exhales energy and tempts. Here at last and it. All same harmonous, self-assured, full of charm, advantage and style. Surprisingly, but me it is almost awkward, that so refined, charming freilen it is necessary to wait at doors. I hasten to take keys to invite lady to country walk. It is assured, travel is pleasant to it. Our route is laid on suburbs of Munich where accustomed to mad speeds autobahns are replaced by silent rural roads. In these places are able to put asphalt, and the culture of road works is inseparable from culture of driving. For mine sputnik it is a habitual and comfortable inhabitancy. She is a thoroughbred German. Respectable and intelligent, but full of vital forces and emotions.
You have for certain guessed, that the bouquet of metaphors intends Audi A3, was to the world in 1996 and since then an automobile fashion set the fashion to the world. Ingolstadt parents have imparted to a daughter good manners. It is in German conservative, exquisite and is brought perfectly up. Its success at public does not weaken, though it and ignores superfashionable crazes. A secret of its popularity - in following to family style which is set by relatives A6 and A8. No, certainly as any young lady, A3 considerably changes a wardrobe. However, while it has occured only once - in 2003, when A3 appeared in the second generation. Now freilen was on appointment, only having run for a short while in a beauty salon. But its order, as always, is picked up with taste, and the make-up is faultless. The feeling of a measure to a beauty again has not changed.