Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and in this video i'm going to give you my October 2021
update on the new RS3 for 2022. what's changed what hasn't changed has it been seen anywhere
what's going on with orders stay tuned to this video to find out let's start off talking about
where the new RS3 for 2022 is actually being seen in person and there's three places that it's been
seen in person some of them may be more expected than others actually four if you include the
factory with people standing outside and taking pictures big shout out to audi.pix on instagram by
the way for that now the first place audi showed up the new RS3 both the sportback and the saloon
limousine sedan depending what country you're in was at the international motor show munich
this is a big opportunity for people to get along there see the cars up close look at them sit in
them and actually have a look for themselves which nobody's been able to do yet so plenty of people
saw the new RS3 in both guises at that show the next place people have started seeing the RS3
maybe unsurprisingly maybe surprisingly depending on your perspective
is in audi dealerships in poland not in germany but in poland now that might make sense because
up until recently the rs models were actually produced at the polish audi plant now i believe
they are being produced in germany but that might have something to do with it but even if it isn't
if you're in poland you can go see an rs3 in your dealership i don't know if all of them have it
but it is there and then the next place that you would have seen the RS3 well
journalists would have seen the rs3 was at audi's special event in the Col de Tourini in the french
alps and i know i pronounced that wrongly i'm sorry where audi celebrated their quattro history
and they took along a load of cars and they put some journalists in those cars
and they got to experience a ride-along in the new rs3 both saloon and the sedan
what about for journalists and the rest of the world well it's unclear i believe there are going
to be some european events for journalists for magazines for youtubers to try out the
new RS3 the end of october beginning of november i don't know exact dates and i'm not on the list of
invitees unfortunately but i believe that's when that's happening the next opportunity i believe
specifically for the UK where i am will be for some journalists in february maybe january next
year yes i did say next year it's going to be a while before there are lots of reviews of the
new RS3 in fact if you're watching this video you might get your own RS3 before lots of journalists
get to drive it so let's talk about availability so first of all let's start off with the usa
so usa you can configure your Audi RS3 on the configurator but you can't order it yet now of
course this is a fluid situation it might be even as i'm recording this but that isn't true
and you can go to your local audi dealer but the delays which are affecting european deliveries
are surely going to significantly impact your deliveries if you're in the us and there is no
word yet on whether the sport back is coming to the u.s right now audi usa only shows the saloon
or sedan as you call it over there what about uk orders well i have to give a big shout out
to everyone on the audi sports forum i love it there if you have an audi if you're looking for
an audi i strongly suggest you go and visit them over there and if you're watching hi! according to
various people on the forums orders basically in this situation if you ordered a launch edition
which technically you shouldn't be able to get because they're meant for dealer demos
they will apparently start turning up in november some people have had build weeks of week 37 which
has come and gone and the car hasn't been built yet so they think they might turn up in november
but it's not clear exactly in fact there's a good chance that even if you ordered a launch edition
they and the carbon models won't arrive until week three of January in 2022. this really is the 2022
Audi RS3 what about for people like me who ordered a force from well unfortunately Vorsrpung models have
no date they were meant to start their build in week 48 but there's been no movement from anyone
who's ordered a Vorsrpung model as far as factory dates and build start points go so realistically
again we're probably looking at march next year if you're lucky if i'm lucky unclear keep your
eyes on taking the car because I will let you know if anything changes and i'll keep you up to date
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