There's one car that bucks that trend, though, and it's in a surprising segment. The Audi RS3 has a mega-powerful turbocharged inline-5 that's one of the most characterful and interesting engines ...

Full disclosure: Audi flew me to Barcelona and put me up in a hotel in the nearby town of Sitges so I could drive the 2025 RS3 and RSQ8 Performance at the Parcmotor track and the roads surrounding it.

Whether racing around a track or playing its distinctive five-cylinder soundtrack, the Audi RS3 is a raucous little sports sedan. For 2025, it receives a host of updates that make it look meaner ...

Strictly speaking, neither the facelifted Audi RS3, nor the latest Mercedes-AMG A45 ... s new dash looks terrible and pleasingly retro JDM at the same time. I think I’m a fan.

It's vital to balance power with agility to squeeze out those all-important seconds. The 2025 Audi RS3 performance sedan's mid-cycle upgrades leave the engine untouched, keeping output the same as ...

Audi’s RS3, one of the most powerful sport compact cars on the market, just got even better. The luxury automaker refreshed ...

Fast-forward to 2024, the RS3 has now evolved into a newer generation, with beefier underpinnings, and is claimed to be more hardcore. In fact, the 2024 Audi RS3 is the hottest small car in Audi ...

While we may one day see an R8 revival, that could be years away. The Audi RS3, however, is here now. It is a highly capable model descended from a long line of equally capable models. One of its ...

The updated 2025 Audi RS3 sedan gets a $1,900 price hike, now starting at $63,400. Audi promises better handling with a re-tuned suspension and updated torque splitter. Exterior updates include ...

the 2025 Audi RS3, toppled BMW’s record for the fastest lap in the production compact class. In an impressive display of speed and precision, the RS3 clocked a lap time of 7 minutes and 33.12 ...

This is the new Audi RS3, and it smells quantifiably better than the old RS3. As metrics for updates go, it certainly trumps ‘gets a new front/sounds better/is more oversteery than before’.