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Regardless of how we view this nose at any size, we know for a fact that we are looking at an Audi, and that is exactly the goal. We shouldn’t be ashamed of ourselves on the inside lane of the highway either, even though it can be classified in the Golf category in size. But does it offer so much more compared to the now rather hatched and more expensive popular car? With a diesel engine and dual-clutch transmission, we drove the fourth-generation A3, which promises an interior of unmatched quality and was able to retain most of its physical buttons.
The new A3 Sportback (five-door design) suggests a strong image of Audi, not only through its nose, but through all its lines. The previous generation operated with even more curved shapes, the current one is so German that the edges almost cut. The result of the test car’s S-Line design is that it sits 15 millimeters lower on its 19-inch wheels, so even with its less responsive white paint, it easily catches the eye of people in the parking lot. It provides a percussive view, despite the fact that as you get closer the many fake bumper grilles loosen up a bit in your enthusiasm.
From the front light to the rear, a defined line passes above the handles, then an even stronger step awaits at the rear. Two plastic-sealed but chrome-framed holes open like a faux exhaust end as gases are expelled from a drum transversely under the bumper, at least on the diesel version. It could even be A4 from the front, the little baddie from behind, whom you would most like to hug and forgive at the same time, unnecessarily fake details that don’t fit in with the bounty of the premium world. Anyway, there is only one other body variant, the four-door limousine.
Quality sense: is there now a hole in the shield?
When we close the door with a soft bang, we calm down, here everything is real. Perhaps no one knows better than the readers that journalistic espionage pierces any exemplary interior: the eye goes, the hand gropes until it finds something. In some models, one has something simple to do, we notice three or four errors, we don’t even care about the others. But Audi is different. Even here on the smaller A3, which is more intended for a wife’s car, the parallelism of the seams extends across the smooth dashboard with immeasurable (or rather very measurable) precision.
The touch of the steering wheel in the most hidden corner does not hide a disturbing detail, as if we were sitting on the same brand of ring, only in a larger model. That was also the goal because not everyone needs a big car because they have money, but it also demands the kind of perfection that pampers the soul that this kind of interior gives. Obviously, for the most part, he doesn’t travel more than a second, so the first living space is important to him. Here you can relax boldly in the more padded, but also comfortable, sports seats with long-term thigh support.
While cruising a few hundred highway miles in the stillness measured for larger cars, the screen in front of the wheel can be configured to our liking, even as an audis tradition of running the map across the surface. The center screen is no longer a protruding tablet, but a larger, built-in tablet, elegantly placing the slim, snap-fit air vents in front of the passenger. The premium is hidden somewhere in these mechanically handcrafted details left to the mechanics that many keep.
The menu is adventurous, but even buttons remain
Fortunately, the physical buttons that have been used a lot, such as the temperature and volume control or the seat heating, have been retained, which is definitely a huge positive compared to the over digitized VW Golf, Seat Leon and Skoda Octavia. While somewhere grotesque enough for the physical switch to be a luxury item in the new world, obviously everything shown is a cheaper option. At the same time, all other Audi functions can be configured on the touchscreen, which is embarrassingly translated, incomprehensibly complicated, and communicates with garbled phrases.
You soon learn in which submenu the deactivation of the lane reassembling every time you start is located, because either it brakes the car unreasonably when you stop on a bike on the opposite side, or it simply does not allow you to pull the handlebars. The other driving aids like LED headlights, rain sensing windshield wipers, adaptive cruise control and others, which turned on the front and reflector on their own, obscured the approaching one and worked thankfully. In fact, everything does its job well when we don’t even feel its existence while driving, and A3 knows that very well.
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