Welcome to Tech in the Car! I am Oliver and this is the 2022 Audi RS3 and this is the launch
edition hatchback in white and i have to say the white is very very eye-catching especially with
these wheels so everything we know about the new RS3 i've got a ton of videos on my channel like
literally i think there must be at least 10 so so there's plenty to watch on here so if you haven't
watched any of those watch those but in this video i'm going to take this car around the test
track here millbrook we're going to go on the hill course and we're also going to go on a high-speed
bowl and we'll see what this car is like at higher high speeds and when i say high speeds i mean like
speeds you should only be doing on the autobahn and even then that's questionable let's talk a
bit about the design first let's start there so i really do like the contrast here with the white
on this launch edition there are four versions available four trims in the uk
standard carbon black vorstern and the launch edition the launch edition is limited to 96
cars this is one of them the saloon is another one there aren't many in the uk the standard entry RS3
has more aluminium on it it's got aluminium blades here instead of being black the wing mirrors are
aluminium as well or silver and then when we got to carbon black it comes with a contrast
black roof and then all the aluminium goes away and it goes to be blacked out like this on the
launch edition it's very similar to the other versions to the carbon black and the voice room
except for the logos on this car are silver the audi badge is silver on the other trims they have
black badges so this adds a bit of contrast to it the other thing with the launch edition
is it's the only trim along with the wall spring where you can get a panoramic glass sunroof so if
you want the panoramic glass sunroof the only way you can get one is a launch edition or volkswagen
version of this car so there's other things on the launch edition which have been taken away from
other models in the uk so there's wireless charging audi remove that wireless charging
there's also red brake calipers you can't get red brake calipers on any other trim car in the uk you
can get ceramic brakes which are a 5 000 pound option on the dynamic pack but they give you
silver brake calipers which look very very good but you can't choose your color the other thing
this car has which no other cars in uk have is a tpms a tire pressure monitoring system that has
been removed from all other trims other than the launch edition due to the silicon chip shortage so
that is a quick walk around of the launch edition comparing the side of the saloon and of course
of the hatchback we've got you can see again the very angular lines here we've got these beautiful
black side skirts we've got the vent here which is a real vent which brings the air through and
then we come to the back well again we've got obviously the hatchback which is a key part of
this car we've got the silver logos again on the launch edition on the vorskla and carbon black
these are blacked out and so is the rs3 branch and then we've got this honeycomb
design i'm not a big fan of that but it adds a break up there and then we've got
the big round oval rs exhaust which are perforated and which look very very cool with the black tips
and of course being the sport back is a hatchback and so it's got in this case in this trim it's
got a powered tailgate same as the voice ring which opens up and then there's a ton of space
and there's these little skid plates here and you can lift it up like this and underneath here so
there isn't any storage underneath here because in the rs3 the battery is under the boot but you
can put the seats down and there is a pass through as well and you can remove this as
well and being powered i can just press it like that and it will close automatically
very simple like that now i'm not a huge fan of the back of the new RS3 2022 hatchback
i think it looks better sportback i should say i think it looks better on the previous
version i just i just think it looks a bit stubby like it kind of just stopped and that
was it so i'm not a big fan of that but that is the hatchback that is the launch edition let's
take it for a drive now driving the 2022 Audi RS3 and we're on the circuit here at millbrook
and millbrook has got all kinds of testing circuits i've been around here in the bmw m240i
which was a lot of fun to drive and now we're in the audi rs3 this is the hatchback version
and we're in rs performance mode so you can really hear the noise coming from the car now there
is artificial noise being pumped into this car there's no doubt about that you can hear
it it's quite obvious in rs individual like i'm in i am able to adjust it and change it
so right now you can see we're in dynamic ninjatown automatic if i change it for
now that will make it louder we've got esc in dynamic this is probably the best mode to be in
if you're on if i'm honest when you're driving and you know rs performance mode is designed for the
track designed for this kind of hill course and i drive around here around the millbrook circuit
i can enjoy the performance of this car and the precise turn in and how sharp it is to drive
and it's definitely sharp to drive i'm turning in here and it's just sticking to the corners now it
feels very different as i go over the bumps in the roads which are part of the handling course now
it feels very different to drive to the M240i, the M240i was a lot more I don't know you know
interestingly enough how I would describe it is this car is a lot more playful there's nothing
about it in the corners it's got the turn in but you can also feel the back moving a bit,
not to the extent you don't feel safe because car very very well sorts it out for you but like in
terms of the bmw you felt so precise a lot of fun but you feel really really precise this feels more
like a baby tiger waiting to get out of the cage and i say baby tiger because the r8 has to be the
adult tiger but this is a really angry aggressive baby tiger waiting to get out of the cage as we
come up here on this straight into this corner where they flipped the aston martin in casino
royale the james bond movie if you've seen that that was filmed right here where we are now and
just it just pushes you out the corners you got a lot of grip you've got a lot of sound
I love the head-up display as well I turn in I hit the brakes and they are very precise
yeah just all round
fantastic you know really really good to drive really really comfortable to drive
this is this is great over the blind
crest there which is pretty completely disconcerting the
first time you go over there and i would say that the way the rs3 went over that
i felt like the most confident of the cars i've driven so far around here today definitely
around this tight hairpin
now let's put it into let's put it into rs torque rear and see if the back of the car
jumps out a bit as we come around the corners
and you know even though i'm in oracle rear and the car can obviously in this mode
drift it's not just drifting for the sake of it you do have to
make it work to drift which is good because i don't think you want your car to just
drift as soon as you go around the corner i think that would be a bit disconcerting so it's good you
don't do that so if you're worried about that even in rf taught rear it won't just drift around the
corner without you doing anything you do have to actually work for it so this is a high speed ball
here at millbrook and we're gonna put it into dynamic as we join the high speed bowl here
and kick it off here
get it into
and you can see other cars go around the outside here so we're going now this is 100 miles an hour
so how does it compare to the bmw m240i there's definitely more noise there's more wind noises
more road noise we do have a sunroof 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 now 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
in the rs3 so that's what the new 2022 audi rs3 is like on the testing track on a high speed bowl
there are other videos on the rs3 you can see my videos up here or here so click on them and
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