Welcome to Tech in the car. Today, Audi announced a brand new 2023 Audi
R8 three performance edition. Why Audi why? Why did you do that? You can't even deliver the cars
if you ever bought voted from last year and now you're bringing up performance vision. Anyway,
in this video, I'm going to tell you what makes this special and different from the
current RS three if you even have one, which is unlikely if you're watching this video.
And also I'm going to tell you why I don't think you should buy it. I'm taking the car. The 2023
Audi Rs3 form station starts at €75,000 for the Sportback. If you're in the US sorry, and it's
€77,000 for the saloon. Actually the thing is exchange rate that actually turns out to
be about the middle 60,000, which is currently what the current version costs in the UK anyway.
So I'm not sure that the pricing is necessarily that expensive. I mean, expensive for an 83,
but relative to what they are right now, it does actually seem like it might be pretty good value,
but it's messed up. Come on. It really, really is. First of all,
let's talk about the positives. It's got a 300 kilometer now, 186 miles per hour top speed,
which is slightly faster by a few miles an hour than the dynamic version of the current RS three.
And it's available in some limited colors as well in a row blue,
which the famous Audi heritage color they tone a gray arrow gray. No idea what that color is.
And this is available in a white and a black as well. So there are a few limited edition
colors. I really like blue and I think globally would be a fantastic color for an RS three.
What else is new? It's actually got a bit more power, but even here,
I think Audi have got it wrong. We've got 299 kilowatts or 407 horsepower,
which is exactly the same to me as a polestar, two that I drove into
town. So check out my review of that. But anyway, that's still less than the Mercedes
AMG A45 s and it's definitely a lot less than the new BMW M2, which has over 460 horsepower.
Now, if you're going to bring out a performance edition, please give it more than ten horsepower
extra or seven more strikes or whatever you want to call it. Still, it's a very,
very small amount. Is really anything to get excited about. It now does 0 to 60 in
3.8 seconds instead of 3.9 seconds for people already getting 3.5 or quicker.
So I mean, it's not really a big deal. Some other changes. Instead
of saying R. S three on the daytime running lights, when it starts off,
it's going to say 302. The note is 300 kilometers an hour top speed and also
its limited run of 300 cars. I don't know if that really is cooler. I'm not sure about that.
Honestly, one thing I do think is cool is a new alloy wheels. It's got new 19 inch,
ten cross spoke matte gray wheels. And I think they do look fantastic
and I would love those on my Whitehall inside the car. There is something to
get excited about though. For the first time there are bucket seats in an S three.
Now these are the same bucket seats as you will have seen in the RS four and RS five performance
editions which are also being unveiled recently. They are very, very beautiful
to look at and they are matte carbon on the back, but they're manual. Why couldn't Audi
have made electric carbon bucket seats? Why? I just, you know, it just smacks of being cheap.
And then to top it all off, you have a carbon fiber background on your new infotainment
display. I mean, like carbon fiber background, it just looks so cheap and horrible and tacky. Why
would anybody at Audi think that it was good fake carbon fiber background? I mean, come on, guys,
come on, come on. This car also has something else which everybody's been clamoring for.
It's got a new silencer on the back of it, which means it will actually rev louder and
which means it will be allowed a car. And that's what everybody complained
about with this new rs3. It's not as loud as the previous generation. So that is the
one thing which might make this car special is louder. And that is good to see because
the five part engine sounds amazing and we really want to hear that noise.
But other than that, it's new colors with a tiny bit more horsepower, which doesn't really
make much difference. So new wheels which look cool and in different colors which you could pay
for, you can get any way if you went the Audi exclusive route. It doesn't change the fact
that this car is not available in the UK and it's going to be very, very hard to get even next year.
This brings me back to my point at the start of the video, and that point was most people
do not have that RS three order of a normal standard editions from last year. Now I have
a new launch edition which I managed to get, but my original order from 2021 in
August is still not built. In fact, it may not turn up until February next year, 2023.
That is a year and a half, maybe longer. And that's assuming no delays. Audi are being really,
really sneaky. They've got record profits, record sales, and they can't deliver their
cars. This is not a good service. This is not something which makes you light the fact that
they're doing it. Yes, they're a business. But businesses supply the product that they sell.
They don't make you wait a year and a half or longer for whatever you want it. I know
I'm not the only person in this situation. And of course, it's not just the Irish three, it's many,
many other models as well. In fact, the reason why Audi said the new RC won't
be available in the UK is because they can't make enough of them.
They've got production issues, which they do. That's not in doubt at all.
Now, what does that mean in the scheme of things? Well, it means that we're going to have a limited
edition R three, which will be available in Europe and maybe even the US eventually
at some point next year, which has slightly more power, a cool wheel design, but it's still much,
much, much less of a performance car than its competitors from Mercedes and BMW.
Yes, I know in drag races the arteries faster than the a45 s become an Audi.
Give us something to be excited about and not something which we're just milking for
some extra money when you can't deliver on what you're doing. I don't agree with how it's working
now. What about those orders I made from last year? They are obviously eventually coming.
I'm doing air quotes because I see it when I believe it. If you've ordered one,
there is some good news. It seems like cars which are being built towards the summertime
do have some features which were removed from the bought for nothing exciting like the 360
camera but wireless charging seems to be in there something which was removed at one point.
And who knows, maybe by the time the cars do come next year,
Audi will have put back some of that stuff they've taken away. But overall, you know,
the RS three is a fantastic complete check out my review of my own car, what I like and what
I don't like, and also watch my other content on it. But overall, Audi have made a great car.
They just can't deliver on their promises of Audi's and ultimately the car company lives and
dies by producing cars for its customers. Can't do it. It's not doing a good job. Let me know
what you think. Down below in the comments of the new RS three Performance Edition,
would you have a sportback? Would you have a saloon? Or do you think it's just,
like I said, a move from Audi, which is really greedy.
And if you have any questions about my own car,
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