We’re even now patiently waiting around for Audi to finally choose the wraps off the new RS3, but in the meantime, ABT has well prepared the subsequent finest matter. The Kempten-based tuner has by now managed to get its hands on the new S3 and carry it nearer to its a lot more muscular brother by massaging its turbocharged 2.-liter gasoline motor.
The four-pot TFSI unit by now develops a healthy 306 horsepower (228 kilowatts) and four hundred Newton-meters (295 pound-feet) of torque when the S3 leaves the gates of Audi’s Ingolstadt factory. Just after ABT works its magic, the output improves to 365 hp (272 kW) and 450 Nm (332 lb-ft). It’s not very up there with the five-cylinder RS3 in conditions of electricity, not to point out the soundtrack, but it does bridge the gap among the two incredibly hot hatches.
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The aftermarket specialist isn’t conversing overall performance facts for the time remaining next the excess 60 hp (forty four kW) and 50 Nm (37 lb-ft), but we’re betting the ABT-tuned S3 is very seriously brief. Just after all, the regular model is by now very zippy, completing the to 62 mph (one hundred km/h) run in 4.eight seconds on its way to an electronically governed one hundred fifty five mph (250 km/h) major speed.
Aside from modifying the coronary heart of the S3, the athletic compact hatchback will get new footwear courtesy of a custom made twenty-inch established with a five-spoke black look. Alternatively, prospects can opt for smaller sized 19-inch alloys with gunmetal and matte black finishes. ABT is also working on a a lot more menacing quad exhaust process with big 102-mm guidelines to intensify this isn’t your run-of-the-mill S3.
We’re hoping ABT and other tuners will occur out with a human body package for the most recent S3 models that will get rid of the gastly phony vents at the front and rear due to the fact these really don’t actually do the incredibly hot hatch any justice. The types at the back are specially an eyesore, especially if the car is painted in a lighter coloration. The black S3 shown right here does a superior task at partially masking the fake things, but we even now know they’re there…
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