welcome to tech in the car this is a 2022 audi rs3 in this video today i'm gonna see how powerful it
is we're gonna think it's a diner we're gonna give it a test big thank you to marshall calls
and audi for lending me this car i have a load of content on this car there's loads more to come so
please give it a like and subscribe so you never miss out today is an interesting day i'm going
to share you my impressions driving the car a bit longer term now let's talk about the driving first
of all in this car and what it's like to drive so i've been driving around now for a little bit
and let's talk about a sound because the sound is very important this car is very quiet in
comparison to the previous generation there's nothing wrong with that it is as i discussed in my
comparison video between the 2018 and 2022 which you should check out is down to opf and european
emissions regulations which means that the cars can't pop they can't bang and it can't make a
lot of noise because that obviously uses up more fuel and more fuel means more emissions and more
emissions is bad for the environment and we're trying to protect the environment and this being
a petrol car with a five-cylinder turbocharged engine with 400 ps and 500 newton meters of torque
is one of the engines which the eu isn't very happy with and they want to basically make sure
that they put out as little emissions as possible so this car doesn't have the loud noise of the
previous generation it doesn't pop and bang when you're stationary and you try and rev
it it's got a rev limiter and it won't let you go over 4000 rpm and it won't pop and it won't bang
but when driving it does pop and it does bang and interestingly enough if you want the best
noise you need to put it into rs performance or rs torque rear when the display on the heads up
changes to red that basically means and also the virtual cockpit when the symbols go red
instead of white then that is when it makes the most noise which is really really interesting
to see up until that point is pretty quiet you put it into rs performance mode it gets a lot
louder it makes a lot more noise still not as loud as the previous generation but you can hear
on downshifts little blips from the exhaust so there is still a noise there i'm sure it sounds a
lot lot better from the outside of course i'm not on the outside so i can't compare it but based on
videos and drive-bys you would have seen on my channel as well it sounds basically identical
on the outside to the previous generation it just doesn't have the drama inside the car in terms of
noise in terms of speed this is a faster car this car does 3.8 seconds 0-60 official time
unofficially it can do it in about three and a half to three point one seconds we've
seen videos we've done in 3.1 seconds officially like i said 3.8 i've done it in 4.1 just quickly
from some traffic lights in my first drive video and that was much much faster launching
than my previous generation they've definitely refined it we've got a natural launch control
program now on here and it lets you know when to launch and it's definitely a lot faster
and a lot quicker and this car is a faster car when i put my foot down i can immediately feel
it's giving me a lot more torque a lot more power much much quicker than the previous generation
and that's a big you know it's a big noticeable difference to me
for someone who's driving this car who's got the previous generation if you weren't somebody who'd
previously driven this car you might not notice the difference okay let's let me show you what
i mean so if you hit the rs button on the wheel this will let you alternate between dynamic rs
performance and rs individual you can't go into talk rear unless you do it manually on the screen
so you have to do that manually you can only go into dynamic rs performance and individuals so
if i put this into rs individual you see dials of white on here and my head up display i know you
can't see it but my head-up display is normal head-up display if i put it into performance
immediately the car gets louder immediately and the next thing you notice is the dials go red
the dials go red up here as well and it gets a lot louder inside the car and you can hear it from
the back as well there's a noticeable difference between how the car sounds between individual mode
which in theory should let you tune it exactly how you want and performance and the same with
dynamic as well so if you want the best noise from this car you really do need to make sure
that you've got it in rs performance mode otherwise you won't get that noise put it
back into auto and it just sounds like normal the noise has gone down it's being reduced the
other thing too and i mentioned it before is the suspension the suspension and the ride quality is
significantly better on this car than on the previous generation rs3 there's a big shopping
mall here they're all over the world westfield i'm sure you've probably got one near you and
the west field here in london the one in west london has this sort of really really strange
surface when you go into the car park it's like sort of got lots of screws and things a bit weird
i'm not really sure what's going on with that but in my rs3 i go over that the car shakes i'm like
oh i hate that in this car i went over it nice and smoothly so that is something which i can confirm
my observation from before this car is definitely a lot better riding than the previous generation
what about the interior so next thing is the interior yes we don't have the rs design pack
i would love the rs design i love the red accents i love the green accents we know
that they make the cars in europe and the rest of the world look more special
it's a real real shame that we can't get those here in the uk and if you're in a country that can
get the irs design pack then i'm really jealous i would love an alcantara steering wheel i don't
really mind that much fact that it's round ground doesn't bother me actually i know a lot of people
are getting upset about the fact that it's not a flat bottom steering wheel what bothers me is
the fact that it doesn't have alcantara so it doesn't feel as special it's a really really
nice interior i want to you know i want to be fair to audi here because i you know i've
ordered one of these i love this car it's a fantastic car there are some things which are
different and there are some things which are special about this and the first thing is this
as standard on the vor sprung and the carbon editions and i guess you know in your country
you can spec it is this carbon fiber effect on the dashboard now there is a negative to this you
lose the interior lighting which used to go across here which was on the all the other models of the
a3 variants which is a shame but it does look very very good and particularly at night when
you see that carbon fiber effect catch the light it looks really really good interior wise you
know i know it feels like an s3 i know in the uk model of the car it doesn't feel that more special
but the seats are more comfortable than the previous generation if you go from a current
generation a3 an 8y generation to an rs3 and you already have these seats and you're not gonna
notice different but they are more comfortable in the previous generation they do have a nicer
feel to them they are more comfortable they are more supportive they do feel a lot better
and it's an obvious difference to me when driving the car so you know it makes a big difference what
about rs torque career there's no doubt that if you put this car into rs talk rear you can feel
the back squirming a tiny bit maybe squirm is the right word but you can definitely feel it
come alive and that's a good way to describe it it makes the car feel more lively that's a bit of an
unusual feeling in an rs3 because you're used to rs3s being very very planted and that's not to say
that you feel like you're about to lose control and like having an irish toy is suddenly going
to make you enough in a bush or something not at all like that it just makes it a bit more dynamic
a bit more exciting and our talk really also gives you the maximum sound in terms of dials red
and changes the head up display so our story is a really interesting feature i haven't been
understood hopefully at some point i will be able to try out the drifting functionality
of rs torque rear but i think the main benefit for you as a person that's driving around normally it
just feels much more lively the car you feel a bit more involved with the driving in terms of
steering steering really precise really sharp it definitely goes where you want it to go
and you know comfort like i said it's really really comfortable this car and i said it in
my first drive video i do think right now this is the best car that howdy make i know maybe
audi might disagree with me about that there's no doubt that the econ gt which i've driven in
the rs e-run gt are the fastest cars audi make but i feel like their interior is a bit overdone
compared something like a porsche tycoon i feel like taikan has a better interior than the e-tron
gt and a lot of people disagree with me about that but i that's my personal opinion and then the ra
the r8 is magnificent you know that is double the size of this engine in terms of cylinders
it sounds double the size of this especially now with all the opf stuff and there's a new version
of the r8 which just been released as well you can see my video on that on the channel
but the r8 is not the car that you could take everywhere and do everything with it so
it's a super sports car it's not one of those cars so i think when you sit in the middle here the rs3
is the best you might say what about the rs6 rs6 for me too big too heavy a really fast car amazing
how it rides on 23-inch wheels over uk holes and the road and bumps but it's just too big it's not
practical for me in terms of parking down country lanes got tons of storage space too big maybe the
rs4 then it's compromised but i would say you know even with the opf on this engine there's something
magical about that five-cylinder engine which the rs3 has which no one else has which is absolutely
and it's really really individual and people love it and it feels special being driven so for me
this is the best audi that you can get right now i'm sure that will change as audi brings up
more rs models and updates their cars but right now this is the best so let's now see how powerful
this car is and get to that diner i'm here at onyx performance we're going to die know the 2022 audi
rs3 big thank you to marshall course and audi for lending me this car to make all these videos
we're going to find out how much power it's got so let's get in there and let's see what it's got
so we put the 2022 rs3 on the dyno big thank you to the guys here onix performance and of
course to audi marshall calls them for the car and these are the results here
and as you can see the car is putting out about 405 horsepower and about
550 newton meters of torque so it's a bit more powerful and quite a bit more torque
than the factory really interesting to see big thank you for the guys here if
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