Welcome to Tech in the Car today in the U.K. Audi have announced prices for the new 2022 audi rs3
and in this video i'm going to talk about the trims and the specs and what it all costs
give it a like if you find it useful and subscribe for more so we've talked about the audi rs3 on my
channel it's got 400 PS (NOT kilowatts!) of power or 394 horsepower in the uk and 401 horsepower
slightly more in the us which i'm jealous of and it's coming out this year or the end
of this year we're expecting it in november up until now the pricing hasn't been really clear
but today how the uk have given us a price price is starting at 50 900 pounds on the road
and there's four specifications the rs3 trim the carbon black trim and the launch edition trim
and of course a vorsprung trim the first customers are due to take deliveries from november
let's talk the pricing so the rs3 sportback pricing starts at 50 900 for the standard rs3 trim
the carbon black is 55 550 pounds then there's a special launch edition for the uk which is 56
and the raw sprung version which is 58 650 this is all for the sportback when we talk about the
saloon pricing it starts at 51 900 pounds then we talk about the rs3 saloon carbon black edition
which is 56 550 pounds and then the launch edition which is 57 900 pounds and the vor spring edition
which is 59 650 pounds so what do you get in these packs so if you go from the standard trim
to the carbon black trim which is around four thousand six hundred and fifty pounds you get
darkened matrix led headlamps you get five spoke 19 inch matte black aloe wheels you get
a gloss black front spoiler and carbon finish to the exterior mirror housings rear spoiler
side skirts and engine cover above that sits the rs3 launch edition which is an extra 6000 pounds
of which are only 96 examples which should be allocated to the uk the specification brings a
wealth of additional standard equipment such as a driver assistance pack which i recommend adaptive
suspension and drive select an audi's comfort and sound pack a glass panoramic roof heads up display
electric front seats which would be amazing phone box light which lets you charge and use your phone
through the car sports exhaust red brake calipers and a gloss black finish to various interior and
exterior elements also appear and the top speed has also been increased 174 miles per hour
rounding off the lineup is the rs3 vor spring trim which is an extra 7 750 pounds and it benefits
from black 19 inch wheels with graphic print whatever that means an electric boot lid helpful
and a 360 degree camera which quite frankly every car should have right now and really there should
be standard on all of them that's not all them if you want the dynamic pack which is an extra 5500
in the rs3 and 5 000 pounds of the carbon black and four spring edition this includes optional
extras such as adaptive suspension with audi drive select rs ceramic brakes with black calipers
in gloss anthracite grey and a top speed increase as if 174 wasn't enough to 180 miles per hour
and audi's are a sport exhaust system so what do i think about this pricing well as i said
in my original video i expected it would be a similar price to the original model maybe just
a bit more expensive and in the uk that does seem to be true yes it is about 5 000 pounds more than
the base one but if you add up all the options up to the launch edition and the vor spring
it probably ends up being a significant saving on different countries let's have a look at the
dealer configurator so this is what dealers can see though anybody can see it they've got the
link and this shows the rs3 now so i'm going to choose saloon although you can obviously choose
sportback and we've got the three different models saloon carbon black and the vor sprung version
you can see the prices these prices do not include all the various taxes that you need to do so first
of all let's start with the standard rs3 saloon let's click on next and then we go through and
we can see that various options comfort and sound pack so the comfort and sound pack
includes advanced keyless entry bang and olufsen premium system sound with 3d sound which is 680
watts from 15 high performance speakers including subwoofer and a reversing camera we've got the rs
dynamic pack which we know about which includes the adaptive suspension with audi drive select
as well as the rs torque rear the ceramic brake system and a top speed increase of 180 miles an
hour and the rs sports exhaust system and then we have high beam assist which lets the car see
who's coming from the other side of the road and adjust the light so it doesn't blind them
we've got our advanced keys separately which is 825 pounds and then this is the interesting
thing the rs sports exhaust system black which is 960 pounds which you can get as a separate option
here which is less than it was on the previous generation rs3 and then we can have our microfiber
alcantara artificial leather combination as a seats then we have the three spoke leather
multi-function steering wheel which is necessary on this car for the driver assist features
because it's got capacitive sensors where you can detect when you're holding the car steering wheel
and keep that engaged we have our bang olufsen sound separately which is 760 pounds then we've
got adaptive cruise control camera base traffic sign recognition driver assistance back and the
reversing camera so i think what you'll find is if you try and click on one of these it will ask
you to add everything else that's required so you can't just have one so essentially this is a
driver system pack and then we have the reversing camera separately we've got our rs ceramic brakes
in grey 4 455 pounds separately the rs adaptive suspension separating 1 175 pounds and then we've
got our warranty extension if we go to the colors we have our exclusive paint finish which is two
thousand four hundred pounds and then we have the options that we know about glacier white kamora
gray mythos black pipe and yellow and tango red daytona gray kylami green and turbo blue
and then the interior in the uk is black and black basically unfortunately and this is what the
standard edition looks like so you'll note that i have no option to change my aloe wheels we've got
the aluminium pack on here as well which i really like the look of but that's not an option that i
can choose and in the uk class it doesn't appear to be the design packs the style packs inside
which is a real disappointment and let's click on the saloon carbon black version and again these
options are the same and the sport back so don't worry about that so i have to deselect ibm assist
and we got the same prices here 1 195 pounds of comfort sound pack rs dynamic pack 5 000
pounds everything here is exactly the same there are no extra options we've got the same colors
and then we get through to this so the difference you'll see this time if you look at these
are black aloe wheels and there's no aluminium on the front bumper or anywhere like that
and inside the car it pretty much looks the same there's no difference again with the round wheel
if you have the driver assistance back so if we just go back here for a second and take off the
driver assistance back and it asks us to deselect those and you'll now see the flat bottom steering
wheel but again no alcantara no style pack no design pack like in the german or other countries
which is very disappointing to see now if we go back to the vor spring so we've discussed that the
vorsprung has pretty much everything you'll notice there's no launch edition on this configurator
that's because there's only a limited edition and i believe the way this works is you place an
order and audi you're just building them anyway and they just get delivered when they're built
in theory that means they'll be the first cars off the line because they're basically being built as
audi decides without anybody needing to spec them or pay for them in advance and then it's just
a question of the order coming through whereas the other models require you to spec them first
anyway onto the vorsprung version bluetooth interface there's not really many options until
with the vorsprung version and then we've got of course our colors the same as before and our audi
exclusive finish and you can see that 60 225 on the road now we've talked about what's included
in the vor spring and you can obviously check that out at the start of the video if you don't
remember but that is the uk configurator so this is done a few days before the consumer version is
out so you will get more options and obviously more information because this doesn't tell us
what's in the individual packs which is a bit disappointing but that's basically what it looks
like here is the rs3 in the four-spring model so this now has the it calls it the print design on
the wheels they're basically part diamond cut and we've got the darkened headlights as well
but you'll notice inside the car again with a driver assistant pack it is a round steering
wheel and because it comes with a driver system pack there's nothing we can do to change that
you can't tell in this configuration whether that is a carbon fiber or not rear spoiler if we just
go back and compare it here now if you look at this so this definitely has a different spoiler as
you notice the carbon fiber model has a different spoiler so based on this information it does not
look like you will get the carbon fiber trim on the vor spring model if you want carbon fiber you
have to use a carbon fiber model if you want the 360 camera you have to choose a horsepower model
let's have a look and see this doesn't feel like this configurator is complete but hopefully this
has been useful it's not clear how the packs add up on top of each other i'm assuming for example
that the launch edition of which has only 96 units in the uk includes the carbon black and the rs3
trim and then if you go to the vault spring it includes a launch edition trim and the carbon
black and the rs3 but it's not clear we also don't have individual pricing for the various options so
what if you just want a 360 camera by the way 360 camera not available in any other country
on any other configurator that i've seen up to now so that's a really good move from out of the uk
i think cars like this should definitely have a 360 camera and then all the other options we don't
know how much they're going to cost are they going to be available individually we don't know yet
as soon as more information comes out i will add it in the comments or the description down below
if there's enough i'll make another video on it if you have any questions let me know as well
down below in the comments thank you very much see you next video stay safe everyone!