hi you're watching tech in the car i'm oliver in this video i'm going to talk to you about the
pricing in the u.s and what has been missing in europe from the 2223 audi rs3 please watch all my
other videos on audi and the rs3 on this channel if you're interested all right let's get into it
what does a 22 23 audi rs3 cost in the us well the base price is 58 900 but you of course have to add
sales tax to that some states don't have sales tax and if you're in those states we register car in
those states then you're going to make your car a lot less expensive i'm not sure how it works in
the u.s as far as registering cars goes but it'd be better to register it in one of those states
instead of somewhere like california which has a very high sales tax so the price is not including
any taxes how does that equate to europe actually it probably comes out slightly cheaper than europe
if you convert the pricing just about but there are some things which you can't get on the us cars
that you can get in europe or vice versa so first of all let's start just talking about the specs so
in the us this car has 401 horsepower and can do zero to 60 miles an hour in 3.6 seconds in europe
and the rest of the world the car has 400 ps of power and can do zero to 62 in 3.8 seconds now
i've had conversations where we've discussed that this is a conversion between ps to horsepower i'm
not sure that's necessarily what audi is doing because the previous generation rs3 had exactly
the same power on the us and the european sites so who knows but let's start with colors if you
want a car that isn't turbo blue like this car or calami green then it will cost you 595 dollars
for glacier white python yellow kimora gray or daytona gray so those are your options now one
thing which i've complained about a lot in my videos is the lack of an interior design pack
on the european rs3 now there is the option for the design pack on the us rs3 but only the green
design pack if you're in the eu you will be aware that you can get it in red or green not in the usa
you can only get it in green which means it will only be available in a few different colors so
that includes calamity green naturally the gray colors and the white color but not turbo blue
and not some of the other colors so check if you want the design pack what colors are available
with the design pack because i think design impact really improves the interior what do you actually
get for that fifteen hundred dollars for the design pack you get the green highlights on
the vent you get the green surrounds on the seats and on the seat belts and then you get the green
alcantara round wheel now you can't get in the us just like the rest of the world you cannot get
a car with the assistance package which has a flat bottom steering wheel this is because
there are capacitive sensors in the round steering wheel which audi have designed not to put in the
flat bottom steering wheel now there doesn't appear to be any technical reason why that is
i have a thought that it might be due to some regulations that requires a round steering wheel
i don't know tesla obviously doesn't even have a steering wheel in the traditional
way you expect a serial to be with a yolk so maybe i'm wrong about that so it's interesting it does
mean hopefully that going forward maybe audi will start introducing flat bottom steering wheels
with those capacitive sensors in which case maybe you can top the steering wheel but it's round for
you and it's alcantara now if you don't opt for the design pack you get a perforated leather round
steering wheel there is no option as far as i can see in the us to have a flat bottom steering wheel
at all even without the design package just seems to be round and that is it unlike europe where you
can get the flat bottom steering wheel so that's a disappointment of course you do get as standard
red brake calipers across the ranges only available in the uk on the launch edition you
can't spec them with anything else you even get them if you pay 5 500 pounds of the dynamic which
includes top speed de-restriction and ceramic brakes they come in ready in europe they come in
well silver or blue depending on where you are and you can obviously change the colors if you're in
a european country but you have only red in the us which is an interesting change to make as well
what if you're on the rs sports exhaust that's a thousand pounds extra it's not included as
standard with any car you can also option pirelli semi-slick tropheo or tyres which are 450
and they require a sign disclaimer before you drive up with them because they don't provide
very good grip in weather which is cold so basically anyways you can probably drive them
in is in a warm state like california the other thing you can option is the carbon pack you could
have the carbon wing mirrors the carbon sills and the carbon engine cover that is an optional
extra again not an optional extra in the uk you have to have a carbon black edition for that
you can option them in the us and then we have the rs tech pack which is 2 750 which includes
all the driver assistance technology banging all of some speakers the head-up display and
everything else you'd expect in a tech pack that also includes a cross traffic and rear alerts
which are missing from uk cars for some reason even available on the s3 they're not available
on the rs3 and if you're not clear those are the alerts you get when somebody comes up behind you
and your mirror flashes at you or when somebody pulls up behind you the car automatically breaks
those are gone from uk cars 350 options separately on the us configurator and the rs step pack is 2
750 dollars so they come together those two packs so if you want to have the latest tech
which i would recommend heads up display is really really cool on the rs3 you might be able
to see it down here then i would recommend that very very much you can also option a matte black
pack which includes the black badges and the black trim everywhere and that is an extra seven hundred
fifty dollars also house of matte black wheels as well as far as wheel design is concerned you get
the glossy black wheels as standard with the graphic design if you want to have the matte
black wheels then you have to go for the matte black pack which includes the black badges and
also black trim and the matte black wheels like on the uk launch edition what happens
if you want to spec a us car to one similar to a uk launch additional wall spring it cost sixty
four thousand eight hundred and fifty six dollars approximately you'd have to take a few boxes the
audi are not planning on launching the sportback at this time in the u.s so it's saloon only now me
personally i'm a big lover of the saloon i think it's the best looking of the cars i'm not a fan
of the design of sportback if you want to see my video on this what about i do have one you
can see me driving it over 100 miles an hour on a bold test track so this is a high speed bowl
here at millbrook and we're gonna put it into dynamic as we join the high speed bowl here
and kick it off here
and you can see other cars going around the outside here so we're going now this is 100
miles an hour so how does compared to the bmw m240i there's definitely more noise there's more
wind noises more road noise we do have a sun roof and on top of us so that may also be well that is
part of the reason why we have that right now it does make a difference there's no doubt about that
let's go into the fast lane here this is our 100 miles an hour lane up top here and we're doing
high high speed way faster than you would drive on the on the other motorway unless
you're in germany you're on the autobahn and the car is again very stable very comfortable
feels very very very very good to drive and very very safe
you know and that's faster than most people are going to drive on a road normally unless you're
in germany on the autobahn so you know we've driven around a twisty road and we've driven
it round here let's do it again just for fun and we're now driving around a high speed bowl
at 100 miles an hour
oh [ __ ] a lot of fun this car has the best of everything
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