2022 Audi S3 - Review & Final Thoughts. #AUDIPAKISTAN #S32022 #SPORTSSEDAN

Hey, guys today we're Writing the Blog For 2022 audi s3 a car i have been very excited to get behind the wheel of we have a 306 horsepower 2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine that's mated to audi's fantastic dual clutch 7-speed automatic oh yes we have a very nice interior this s3 starts around 45 000 this has a premium plus package i'll uh include all the specs and options in the description this blog but as tested this car is about 55 000.

                       We already filmed a pov night driving video on this audi s3 with some first impressions behind the wheel and a little bit of a winter driving which was fun today we're going to be walking around this in the daylight showing you what it looks like inside and out we'll take it for a drive and hopefully give you guys some final thoughts on this s3 do i like this as much as the golf r is it better than the golf r how excited am i for the rs3 very alright let's start from the outside we'll walk you around this thing i really do think this s3 looks pretty good pretty conservative from a design standpoint doesn't have the crazy blacked out front grille from the rs3 that we've seen in europe a nice middle child between the a3 and the rs3 which is kind of the theme of this Blog here's the trunk space miniaturized but still functional and usable no spare tire unfortunately you get an inflation kit and a battery in the back love these exhaust tips blacked out a little bit beefier nice little exhaust note from this s32 we have some pops and bangs under downshifts in dynamic mode in this sounds pretty good love the lighting this is kind of uh the perfectly sized smaller sport sedan um it's nimble it's spacious enough on the interior but it's just kind of a nice little package unfortunately we don't get the s3 hatchback in the united states but this sedan i think is a nice compromise we've got a little bit more rear leg room than we used to and the rear seats are actually quite comfy i'll sit behind myself at my 510 driving position.

    I had my son back here in his rear-facing car seat and i had to push that passenger seat forward quite a bit to get him to fit but uh in a pinch i think it would work and you can fit adults back here relatively comfortably too it's tight but not as tight as it used to be love this interior super high quality materials really nice accents i mean this is audi at their best and for starting price of 45 000 this interior is fantastic and the driving experience here is even better i love the stitching on these seats got a couple of nice cup holders right here everything feels very solid and well made lots of usbc ports we've got a couple up front a couple out back little rear climate control vents everything just slightly miniaturized in this s3 but i'm not seeing a lapse in quality here compared to some of audi's higher end models and i really appreciate that we recently drove the bmw M240i and i found the similar thing with that car this though i think has better steering the all-wheel drive system is not as rear biased but it's still a very fun and very satisfying car to drive.

               Which would i choose as a daily driver that's actually a really tough call this new s3 is so so good all right so a few more informational tidbits about this car we have 19 inch wheels on this today we have pirelli subtle zero winter tires the 19s are an optional extra if you live in the midwest or the north where there are potholes and rough roads i would highly not recommend these 19s they are not pothole friendly at all uh these sidewalls are super thin and i actually already got my loan delayed on this car because it hit a pothole destroyed a wheel and tire uh there is a standard 18 inch wheel option i would definitely swing for that and get as much sidewall on these cars as you possibly can it's rated for 23 miles to the gallon in the city 32 miles to the gallon on the highway direct injection looks pretty good get a little bit of room to work around it too in this engine bay made it with this dual clutch this is a fan fantastic powertrain i actually think it's a little bit more responsive engaging and it sounds better than my golf r interesting difference between this and the golf r is this s3 retains the traditional haldex all-wheel drive system that audis have had in the past and the golf r adds that trick limited slip differential in the rear that can have yaw control and send power to the right or left of that rear axle um so a little bit of a disadvantage with this s3 considering the golf r and this are about the same starting price point but i think the interior and the usability and functionality of this s3 is far far better than the golf r's this interior is a really nice space from a quality standpoint in ergonomics we have a lot more physical controls and buttons we have actual switches for climate control and they make a really nice sound they have a nice tactility to them we have a clear display that shows us our temperatures our heated seat function one thing i'm missing in this s3 is a heated steering wheel this week we have the same little tiny shifter down here standard reverse camera nothing special parking sensors again not a huge deal this touch screen is really nice too similar layout to what audi's doing with the rest of their vehicles wireless apple carplay and android auto functionality seems to work pretty well.

             This week i've had an issue with siri actually recognizing and hearing my voice but phone calls haven't been a problem you have a home button to the left of the screen and a few quick access controls right here i actually really like this infotainment really my only complaint is that to dim the gauge cluster at night you have to go into the settings display in brightness and hit the dimmer switch right here there's no physical button and there's no quick swipe down from the top menu that i've found yeah it's all just kind of a couple inputs into the menu otherwise i think this interior is great got your standard crumb collector down here and the seats these seats are very comfortable very supportive they have a nice s logo on the top there pretty big sunroof here really nice led interior lighting see that at night these slide i just feel cozy and uh i don't know well settled into this cockpit it's not a tight space but it's not huge it feels i feel like it fits me really well really nice sound system too this is a bang and olufsen and we'll test that at the end of this video one more note before we go for a drive we have this fully digital gauge cluster we have a couple different view options we can see this view or just information overload uh there's a lot going on in this view so i think we're gonna go back to our first option on the left side of the screen we can customize what we see we can see fuel economy short term long term.

                      What music we're playing any warning messages from our phone navigation i think we're just gonna leave it on driving assistance there we go and we actually have an oil temperature gauge right down here it says we're at 162 degrees fahrenheit a little bit more driving and we'll be good to get into boost all right guys let's uh bring up ways and we'll set off we'll start off in automatic drive mode we have the options between comfort auto dynamic and individual you get a little bit more of an aggressive engine note in dynamic and this 2-liter turbo sounds really good in this s3 it's actually maybe one of my favorite 2-liter turbo sounds on the market yes it's a little bit piped in yes it's a little bit artificial similar to the sound doctor that volkswagen group has used in the past but i think it kind of sounds like a five cylinder this is a healthy 306 horsepower from this engine pretty responsive not a lot of turbo lag and the seven speed dual clutch is perfection let's put us into dynamic mode sounds better is more entertaining for the blog you can hear we get a little bit of a pop from the exhaust back there the ride quality the suspension tuning all excellent here really nice ride handling balance from this s3 a lot of fun to use the paddles too we've got a traction control button go figure look at that it's quick i love the steering in this s3 super light at low speeds weights up beautifully around corners and it actually has a decent amount of feel to it more so i think than the golf r definitely more so than the m240i that we drove recently I gotta be honest driving this s3 really really makes me want an rs3 as a daily driver someday it is as close to perfect i think as it gets for a vehicle of this type i don't think this new s3 has gotten boring if anything it's just gotten better and better and better audi does such a nice job with the refinement of their vehicles there's no rattles in here everything visually is very interesting and very just nice looking really my only major complaint about this car are these dang 19-inch wheels.

         If volkswagen is waging a war on buttons audi seems to be waging a war on tires and uh trying to just get rid of them completely because the side wall is almost non-existent on these tires that's pretty bad yeah i would definitely swing for a set of inch wheels if you're getting an s3 and you don't live somewhere with perfect roads one pothole and uh you're stranded you don't have a spare tire every large pothole you hit in this s3 is a bit of a cringe moment because it makes a lot of noise it's rim on road contact and it's never pleasant so this car is absolutely a weapon in the winter on a proper set of winter tires it's unstoppable super capable in the snow still really fun to drive in the dry these pirellis always have a little bit more of a performance oriented compound too they're good enough on the snow but they don't really detract from dry driving grip and performance and i appreciate that so even in manual mode this car does have a kick down switch with the throttle pedal but even in manual at redline it'll automatically up shift into the next gear let's talk about this all-wheel drive system so in the snow for inclement winter weather driving i would chalk this all-wheel drive system and the golf r's as equal you're not really going to want to use drift mode in the winter that's more of a dry grip oriented driving mode that will over rotate that outside rear wheel in the golf r and give you just a little bit more rotation on throttle in the snow you're going to want to just use traditional all-wheel drive and that's what this quattro audi s3 has but in the dry i think this has a little bit more understanding than the golf r it's not as dialed in suspension is a little bit softer it's a little more comfortable to drive but it's still very capable and yeah there's a little bit of understeer here at the limit a little bit more body roll but unless if you're racing you really don't notice the difference and and i think some of the advantages that come with living with this s3 on a daily basis really kind of make up for that performance differential literally and figuratively for the same price i would absolutely have this s3 over the golf r and i realize that that's not really going to work for everyone some people want that hatchback functionality and that extra space in the golf r and i've got to say i do wish audi offered the s3 hatch in the us but i understand that this is kind of a differentiating factor between this and the golf r and that makes sense this is such a nice car to live with though and the functionality here the usability the interior quality and the feel of everything is just it's an audi and it feels it feels that next level that next echelon of quality even if the performance maybe suffers just a smidge like five percent.

               Let's add one more entrance ramp on the way back and we'll talk about adaptive cruise control all right so dynamic mode traction off can we get another launch controlled start out of this let's see there we go dual clutch just needed to warm up a little bit that was fun cool oh you guys this thing is good this s3 is really good i love the way it sounds it's exciting it doesn't sound fake so many other manufacturers could take a page out of audi's notebook here and just making a nice sounding turbocharged 4-cylinder all right settling down on the highway we'll put us into comfort mode here engage cruise control this is the same cruise control stock that audi has used in their vehicles for quite a while we can control our following distance very easily with this switch on the side and we can skip this is kind of fun two and a half mile an hour increments with every press and if you want to just speed up really quickly you can just hold the stock and it'll raise your speed very fast but this 2.5 mile an hour increment change is really neat because you can go from 75 miles an hour to 77.5 miles an hour and that's just kind of it's kind of cool it's different and i i like it you can also quickly turn on and off your adaptive cruise with lane guidance right here so it'll has a lane centering system with this premium plus package and uh it works quite well it does prompt you to put your hands on the steering wheel about every 10 seconds or so but when it's active it seems to do a pretty nice job of navigating highways freeways slight turns definitely something you want to keep an eye on but uh it's a nice system on first impressions i think i would probably want an s3 with this spect trying to follow at the closest following distance here with adaptive cruise and if i just put a little bit of weight on the steering wheel with one of my hands it doesn't seem to prompt me with steering assistance too much and if you want to turn that system off it's just a quick press of the button on the side of the stock right here let's see how quickly we pass slow traffic so we're set to 80 miles an hour cruise control at 70 accelerating i'm not pushing anything.

                         It's the car accelerating on its own it's about average it's a little bit more conservative but it's getting up to speed at a reasonable rate i don't feel like i'm going to be holding back traffic in this s3 wind noise road noise all pretty good got a little bit of tire roar from these winter tires but that's to be expected on ultra smooth pavement yeah you guys if i had a little bit higher of a budget this year for a daily driver i would actually consider an s3 this fits and just checks all my boxes i really really really like this car i like it a lot um yes it's not as exciting or dynamic or hoonable as a bmw or a rear-wheel drive option but it just kind of does everything well but it still remains entertaining one of the biggest problems i always had with my gti was that it was a bit boring you couldn't completely turn everything off i had a mark six out of 2010 gti and it was so good it was a bit dull this remains very very good but still exciting that launch control feature back there was awesome engine sounds great i don't know this is just a really nice overall package and i i love what audi has done here well done bravo it doesn't even seem to understeer too badly on these winter tires oh potholes the s3's nemesis yeah the only other thing that would hold me back in a car like this is the lack of a spare tire that's a bit of a bummer but get a good AAA membership or a good towing package deal from the dealer and uh.

            You're probably in good shape there are honestly very few vehicles on sale today that do come with a spare tire unfortunately it's just something of the past i mean if you think about it i've really only been left stranded once in the last decade and a spare tire came in handy i wasn't that far from home worst case scenario if you're going a long long road trip you could always put a compact spare or have some type of solution in the trunk for uh if you get stranded there are after-market options out there what do you think launch control start into a corner all right so some final thoughts what do i like about this s3 it talks to you it's gruff it's a little bit rugged but it's so refined it's just like a it's like a nicely tailored suit it reminds me a little bit of what porsche is doing with some of their performance cars it just feels right everything here is as it should be i feel like as car reviewers we have to kind of review and evaluate cars for their intended purpose and i feel like this s3 achieves its intended purpose about as well as it possibly could i have a few little complaints here and there but they're not they're not deal breakers they're not huge issues no car is perfect this s3 i think it's pretty darn close i really ever enjoyed my time in this this week and it's making me consider buying one someday or getting an rs3 i'd love to have a five cylinder uh rs3 that would be just so cool can't i'm so excited to drive that car when it comes out later this year yeah all right so anyway what are your guys thoughts uh personally i put this over the golf r the interior here the functionality the lack of all the stupid haptic buttons is a real incentive i think to go for the s3 over the golf r everything else is a positive the interior's nicer the driving experience i think is a little bit more fun and engaging the steering's better it's an audi so you get kind of that just extra niceness and luxuriousness out of the out of the daily experience with the car yes it's not as spacious it's not as practical but this s3 the added back seat room i think is helpful in making the case for this as a as the only car let's say you've got a family or a small family and you've got a bigger vehicle this could be your daily driver and if you needed to transport the kids in the back in a pinch you could yeah this would work for me.

         Thanks for Reading um probably one of my favorite cars i've driven so far in 2022. i am surprised i was not expecting to like this s3 as much as i do and uh i am so excited for the rs3 that's going to be cool i've actually never driven an rs3 excited to see what a modern five-cylinder turbo sounds like because it's the only one if you haven't already go check out the pov night drive where we slide this around in the snow a little bit it was uh in the middle of an ice storm and i could barely keep the windshield defrosted but we got some good driving in this thing and this car is a blast in the snow it's super capable super buttoned down in the dry and in the snow it turns into a bit of a hool again super quick off the line tons of traction um yeah a fun car all right that's it for this one thanks for Reading guys we'll see you later take care your mobile device is still in the vehicle oh yeah and mobile device lady always tells you that it's probably setting turn that off somewhere but i haven't found it yet love some of the lines with this gray too it's just subtle subdued not shouty but a great driving experience oh you know what we forgot to do sound system test let's listen to this bang and all of some gonna go for a little bit longer see how quickly carplay connects here instantly look at that amazing all right so sound system playlist we have this little volume touch slider down here which is actually kind of nice it works well you can mute quickly change tracks quickly and then you have volume controls and track selection controls which are physical buttons and and uh switches on the steering wheel  foreign so uh there's a bottle for you just reverberates through the entire cabin.

  Okay so nothing revolutionary about the bang olufsen sounds assuming here but it's still it's pretty good it feels about right sounds about right for a Ninty thousand dollar audi of this uh within this class so anyway hopefully that gives you a good idea of the sound system and the crazy traction you can get on the snow and ice in this car that's the end of the video for real thanks for watching guys we'll see you later. #AUDIPAKISTAN #S32022 #SPORTSSEDAN