Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver this video is comparing the brand new 2022 Audi
RS3 saloon with the 2018 facelift Audi RS3 saloon! I'm at Marshall Coulsdon Audi and
they very kindly let me use their car here and film it please visit them if you're interested
in one of these or any Audi they're great! that's where i am now and it's very very cold
today so later on i'm going to rev both these cars and compare the sound the exhaust makes
let me know in the comments which one sounds better the brand new 2022 RS3 or the facelift
2018 RS3 which exhaust tone sounds better same engine remember let's start with talking
some stats so these are both Audi RS3s based off the A3 models this is based off the 8V
generation and that is the new 8Y generation both cars have the same engine in fact exactly
the same in terms of power they both have five-cylinder 2.5 litre engines which put
out 400 ps the differences are in the torque the 2018 puts out 480 newton meters of torque
and the 2022 puts out 500 newton meters of torque and if you watch my driving video you'll
also find out that that comes out much much lower down in the power band so it feels a
lot faster and it is a lot faster and let's talk the grilles at the front so the first
thing you'll notice is the 8y has a much wider grille at the front with the headlights actually
having black surround over to them and the headlights are actually bigger on the 8v this
was actually a really big grill for the time and one interesting fact about the RS grilles
are they're actually very 3D they kind of curve and move away from you which unless
you look at them closely you don't actually notice this obviously has silver logos that
car has silver logos being a launch edition although you can get black Audi logos and
RS logos on the Vorsprung version of the RS3 on the front here you'll notice this has the
aluminium styling pack i selected that myself because i thought it made it look really really
special it's important to consider that the way the paint colour on this car which is
Ara blue crystal looks actually is different depending on if it's got the aluminium or
the black pack which was an option you could have had this all blacked out i liked it in
aluminium however on the launch edition you can see it's all in black just like on the
Vorsprung version if you want the aluminium surround then you have to go for the standard
RS version not the voice run not the launch edition and not the carbon black edition this
car is 57 000 pounds there is a price increase coming on the first of December Audi putting
up the prices on these cars right now these are basically impossible to get if you order
one now you're probably looking at late summer next year the only cars on the market are
these launch editions which are meant to be dealer demos some dealers have sold them there
are a lot of them in Bradford for some reason and there's quite a few of them on auto trader
way way way overpriced but this is an amazing car check out my driving video so you can
hear what i think of it in that and i also do a launch as well so we talked about the
front design there are some other changes as well this car is wider than that car you
can actually see it as well it's got wider arches the front here which stick out wider
than the 8v generation but it also is even more three-dimensional and the rs logo actually
is sticking out so far it almost looks like it's going to fall off it isn't don't worry
but it looks like it is so it's a very very much more aggressive design you've got these
power dome lines over the bonnet here which don't exist as much on that car they do have
the side lines but nothing down the middle so it makes it more aggressive as well so
that's the front of the car let's make our way down the side here and look at the differences
on the side of the car there is one big difference right here behind the wheels which isn't on
this car let's talk sidelines here so what's really interesting here is there is a vent
behind the wheel arches of the RS3 which means that any air pressure coming behind the tires
there will be release which improves the aerodynamics and the performance that is very very clever
the other thing you might notice is the wheels on here the wheels are perhaps the best wheels
that Audi have ever put on any car in my opinion they look beautiful in this matte black this
five spoke design looks really very very very good at the front here there's actually a
more pronounced vent sort of down the side here i'm guessing this is a channel for water
to escape and this being the launch edition it has a heads-up display as well also available
on the voice room for now although there's talk about being removed from the voice room
and then as we come down the side here you can see there's much more aggressive sidelines
on this car you've got a side skirt a black side skirt which kicks out from the side there
there's a v shape here and there's a v shape here at the back and the rear is wider as
well so it's much more aggressive and more purposeful at the back of the 8y RS3 than
the 8V RS3 you know obviously I love my 8v RS3 it's beautiful and it sounds amazing you'll
hear that in a little bit another insane consideration is the led headlight so i've got the dynamic
scrolling indicators on my car and when i lock it it does that and when i unlock it
it does that nothing that exciting when I lock the 8Y RS3 and then i unlock it you will
see that the led lights do a little darts which fills out RS3 that is a very very very
fun little detail there which i absolutely love which makes it just a bit more special
let's talk tire differences so the brand new 2022 RS3 has 265 30 19 on the front these
are pretty p0 tires and on the back it has 245 35 19 inch wheels so it's got wider wheels
at the front than at the back but both of these are wider than a previous generation
RS3 my car came with two 35-35 r19s on the front and on the rear it came with 235 35
r19 so i had the same width wheels on my car you could actually order the 8V RS3 with wider
front tires than the rear even when they were wider i believe they were 245 not as wide
as this car and the reason for the extra wide front wheels is to try and remove understeer
when driving i certainly did not feel any in the 8y 2022 RS3 at the rear both cars actually
look very similar there are obviously changes to the tail lights these tail lights have
a different design they're dynamic as well just like on the 8v and then we've got our
spoiler here obviously on the sportback version you have a spoiler as well on the carbon edition
this is a large spoiler on both the saloon and on the sportback and then we've got this
interesting plasticky finish at the bottom of the bumper i don't really like that i have
to be honest with you but it does its job one thing which is very different however
is the exhaust now the exhaust on this car the tips are not attached to the exhaust pipes
you can see the exhaust pipes through the back there and they're not attached now is
that a good thing or a bad thing well look maybe it's a bad thing because this is not
a real exhaust anymore but also maybe it's a good thing because previous generation RS3
has got lots of pitting on the exhaust ends and to replace them or to repair them required
removing the entire exhaust now it's just a question of removing the bottom part of
the bumper and in fact probably because it isn't actually connected to the exhaust that
probably won't even happen so it'll last longer plus they've got the very very cool perforated
insides as well which i think look ace they really really really do we've got a reversing
camera on the back here on some cars unfortunately none in the uk that will be part of a 360
pack which will also include cameras on the side mirrors and also on the front but again
not in the uk that's being removed from the uk specification there was never a 360 option
of the brake calipers on the 8V you could spec it in different colors i have mine in
red on the 8Y you can only get a different color if you choose the carbon ceramic brakes
or you have a launch edition otherwise just suck with the standard color that's a bit
disappointing as i love having really brake calipers but it's still an amazing car if
you watch this far into the video please give me a like it really helps me get more cool
cars and subscribe on the channel for more now let's do the thing which you really wanted
to hear what sounds better the 8V RS3 or the 8Y RS3 well let's test it out first and then
let's have a discussion about it!
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Which card did you think sounded better so i did them both in the same modes i did come
first both of them and then i did dynamic for both of them the RS3 8Y 2022 model also
has a RS performance mode which just doesn't have so i just revved it again in dynamic
so you can hear with the valves closed and with the valves open now you might be wondering
why is there a difference and by the way let me know which one sounds better in the comments
below there are a couple of reasons why these cars sound different this has a soft limiter
which means it can't rev up above about three and a half thousand rpm my car doesn't have
that i can rev it up as high as i want these eu emissions regulations have also meant that
there can't be as many pops and bangs from the car so i've got a ton of pops and bangs
from my car as you can hear and you don't have as many from here and they can't be as
loud so that's why they sound different now it's worth considering a couple of things
first of all this car like i said has the OPF filters which make it less loud and also
has a rev limiter this car does not but also this car is not running as anyone will know
with a car the more you drive it the more the engine loosens up the more it's running
the better it sounds so there's a very good possibility after a thousand miles two thousand
miles twenty thousand miles the eight wide 2022 RS3 will sound a lot better and it is
worth remembering that when driving you do get pops and bangs again not as loud as the
8v but you do get them so this will get louder this will get louder so if you're worried
about your brand new 50 60 000 pound RS3 not being loud enough or not sounding special
enough it will get louder it's very important to remember when driving it still sounds amazing
although there is noise pumped into there which doesn't happen on this car working with
mine too however one way this car does destroy my car is this is a lot faster it can do zero
to 60 officially in 3.8 seconds i probably imagine he could do it much much faster than
that it's got the latest technology it's got a lot of things where discard doesn't have
and we're going to look at the inside now and talk about that technology one other change
between these cars is boot space now although the 8Y RS3 is actually slightly longer and
slightly wider it has slightly less boot space because it's got the RS torque rear the torque
vectoring system at the back of this car which means that there is space taken up by the
rear clutches which allow it to have their clever drift mode which is called RS torque
rear so there's slightly less space in the back here than the back of this car that's
just how it is there's still a lot of room though as you can see let's talk about differences
inside the 8Y RS3 the 2022 RS3 compared to the 8V RS3 so there's a few things first of
all the number one thing people will notice is the steering wheel this is a round steering
wheel it's a very nice steering wheel but you will know that in Germany and the rest
of the world it's available as a design pack which means even though you get the round
steering wheel with the assist features the adaptive cruise control the lane assist in
those countries it's available in a full alcantara steering wheel with a 12 o'clock stripe being
either red or green which looks beautiful so it's a bit of a disappointment it isn't
like that in this car in the uk out of the uk it's a shame it's a real disappointment
but you could get this re-trimmed or alternatively you could order the eu version from Audi i
don't know what to do to your warranty but you could change it the other thing which
is different in here of course the next biggest difference is arguably this 10 inch touchscreen
in the middle now on the 8V RS3 he's got a seven inch pop-up screen which uses a jog
wheel for you to control the infotainment system now it is very cool having the screen
pop up like that and i've had plenty of people get in my car and ask me where the touchscreen
is or where the screen is and i'll say wait a second and it'll just pop up but it's not
a touch screen which means a lot of functionality that you want to use is harder to use with
the jog wheel than it is with a touch screen having android auto apple car playing the
latest infotainment system on here it's a big improvement having that touch screen the
next thing is these seats these are really really comfortable seats i really really like
these seats they are a big improvement over the 8V seats in the 8V they weren't electric
if you have the bucket seats in this car they are fully electric with lumbar support in
the 8v the lumbar support was electric but the bucket seats were manual if you wanted
electric seats you had to choose a standard not very special looking seats again it would
be nice if these were part of the design pack then the stitching would be contrast either
green or red and it would look even more special but i would say that sitting here in the car
looking at these seats they do still look special they still do look really really nice
they do actually have alcantara on the sides here as well for a tiny bit of contrast grey
alcantara which is very very nice to look at and it adds a bit of detail up close the
other thing too of course in here is the inlay so this has got carbon inlays all the way
across on the 8v there were little small carbon inlays available they weren't as standard
on this car they are standard now i'm not sure how much carbon this really is but it
looks like it is carbon and it does say carbon inlays on the order sheet the next thing is
these air vents so on the 8 v they were round and you could get different colors surrounding
them as well for contrast on this version they're just long vents and that means that
they're basically not very very special looking again in the design pack you can get contrast
colors on them red and green which we're going to add to the interior design and make it
look slightly nicer one thing this does feel is more driver focused now this design with
these hexagon air vents facing the driver is not unique to the RS3 it's available on
all the A3 models but it does feel more special in the RS3 it could just be because this is
a new car and my car isn't new and i'm excited by being in a new car but it does make you
feel a bit more special to me the next thing is the doors now the doors are different the
handles are in a different position these seats can also be memory seats on the Vorsprung
version and then we've got our colored ambient lighting so we've got ambient lighting in
the pockets in the glove compartment in the door vents along the sides there's lots of
ambient lighting in this car and there's also along the aluminium silver trim up here there's
also lighting as well and there are different colors there are over 30 colors and you can
change the brightness and the combinations something you can't do on the 8V facelift
RS3 it's white and it's only in a few limited places and it lets it down a bit because it
doesn't have that cool ability to customize the interior of your car which i really really
like on this car and makes it more special other than that it's very very similar in
the car they are a bit bigger and wider the why RS3s but they feel very very similar inside
and you know they do feel very very similar the center console is different on the 2022
to 2018 we have our cop holders here which are kind of pull our little things here and
then we've got our space here and then we've got our charging port and we've got two USBs
this is obviously only charging on the launch edition Audi have removed the wireless charging
from all uk models other than the launch edition due to the silicon shortage which is why cars
are very very delayed as well on the 8 v there is also wireless charging but it is actually
inside this area in the middle and the cup holders are actually here where the wider
charging is on this car which design is better i'm not sure obviously if you had wireless
charging on the new RS3 in the uk then that would be a great place for the phone because
in the middle and it uses wireless android auto and Carplay to connect but it doesn't
so you know that space is just going to be used for whatever you have i guess not just
your phone probably lots of other things as well interior wise it does feel more special
than 8Y the 8V was more about luxury i would say i would say this is more about a driver
focus environment and i think that is shown in the driving of this car as well now i can't
really make a video about the RS3 without looking at the engines of the RS3 now it is
worth remembering that these engines are actually exactly the same and they look exactly the
same and they are the same engines but let's just show them and see both these cars have
exactly the same engine my engine's a bit dirtier because it's been obviously driven
around a lot 2.5 litre five-cylinder Audi RS3 engine this one is a lot cleaner looking
but in terms of packaging where everything is inside it is exactly the same there is
no difference now this car has more torque in this engine and there's probably slightly
more power and it's definitely faster but in terms of the design the packaging it looks
exactly the same it doesn't look like there's some cladding on the inside of the bonnet
here which doesn't exist on the 8 v model but other than that everything else is exactly
the same with these cars i hope you enjoyed this video comparing the 2022 Audi RS3with
the 2018 face-lifted RS3 please give me a like if you found this video entertaining
and maybe educational as well and do let me know which car sounded better to you and which
one would you buy faster better sounding let me know down below and don't forget to visit
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