2025 Audi S3 Gets A Power Boost And RS 3 Tech

A period aft the Audi A3 was updated for the 2025 exemplary year, some the sporty S3 Sedan and S3 Sportback person been upgraded with much grunt and improved driving dynamics.

In updating the S3 for 2025, Audi’s engineers person worked their magic connected the 2.0-liter TFSI four-cylinder. It present pumps retired 328 hp and 310 lb-ft (420 Nm) of torque, coagulated increases of 22 hp and 15 lb-ft (20 Nm) implicit the outgoing model. The caller exemplary tin sprint to 62 mph (100 km/h) successful 4.7 seconds and powerfulness done to a constricted apical velocity of 155 mph (250 km/h).

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Audi says that erstwhile the caller S3 is driven astatine a dependable velocity with debased to mean acceleration, the turbocharger remains astatine a changeless rpm to amended performance. Modifications person besides been made to the seven-speed S tronic transmission, cutting displacement times nether afloat load by half. The caller exemplary besides rocks the aforesaid torque splitter arsenic the RS 3, allowing for afloat adaptable torque organisation betwixt the rear wheels.

It’s not conscionable the motor and transmission changes that committedness to marque the 2025 S3 better. The caller exemplary has six driving modes, including a Dynamic Plus mode that forces the torque splitter to nonstop arsenic overmuch torque arsenic imaginable to the rear axle and to the rear instrumentality connected the extracurricular of a curve, providing the car with a inclination to oversteer. The throttle effect is besides improved successful this mode.

There’s plentifulness much to similar astir the caller model. Stiffer wishbone bearings and pivot bearings person been installed, the progressive steering has been optimized, and S sports suspension comes standard, lowering the thrust tallness by 15 mm (0.6 inches) compared to the modular A3. Wheel-selective torque power to brake the wheels connected the wrong of a crook has besides been optimized for 2025. There are besides beefed-up brakes with 357 mm (14-inch) beforehand discs and caller two-piston calipers.

Then we get to the design. There is simply a caller singleframe grille, tweaked LED and LED Matrix headlights, and configurable daytime moving lights. The compartment besides gets a caller shifter, aerial vents, an ambient lighting system, and backlit cloth panels connected the beforehand doors. Other distinctive features recovered successful the S3 see a achromatic extortion lining, stainless alloy pedals, aluminum accents, sports seats, and immoderate pieces of c fiber.

The 2025 Audi S3 volition deed dealerships crossed Europe this 4th with prices starting astatine €55,600 (~$60,400).