Test Drive Audi S3 2006 - 2008 Hatchback

Let's go on the top three ride

The presentation of the new charged model from Ingolstadt coincided with the anniversary.
The decade ago, in the fall of 1996, I saw the light of the first Audi A3 CD car with the cross-location of the engine. Three years later, a brisk S3 appeared. And here is the new three, harmful with abundant horses. Well, we went to ride!
Running on the spot
Even so far Troika is submorted, waiting for the cat, modifying with the letter S in the index on some characteristic features it is not difficult to distinguish from the usual A3. Single Frame branded grille with red-black emblem
The S-family is decorated with chrome, in the front bumper with a built-in spoiler large air intakes, thresholds expand plastic lining.
With the feed, a novelty S3 is unmistakably learn on a dark diffuser looking from under the bottom, and two silvery ovals of exhaust pipes. Another pair of individual traits of outer mirrors with aluminum tint and 18-inch discs, drowning in low-profile tires.
Throw through the threshold with shiny linings and logos of the model and get into the arms of the sports seed. His seemed to be used for me comfortably on a long pillow, the back does not allow to get roaring (but also does not shine movement) developed side support. However, from my colleague of a person of a good complex for the entire test I also did not hear a single landing complaint. I lower the left hand to turn on the servo drives and set the seat and find there only adjusting the lumbar back. Bend the back and pillow manually or order more expensive equipment.
The seat is adjusted, the steering column is adjusted, hands comfortably fall on a chubby steering wheel, covered with soft skin. This version has an ordinary, no round, I slept well. Just to order for S3 offer a replacement ram. Of course, it looks more spectacular, but the hands are still accustomed to the right form. By the way, at the request of the client can also put the so-called bucket seats.
Touch!
Audi S3 grunkly sniffs the engine as a stagnant horse while waiting for the head. I let go of the clutch pedal and barely manage to raise the momentum so as not to stumble. But under the hood praised two-liter TFSI engine with a beautiful burden on low revs. Miracles do not happen motorists raised power up to 265 horses, but the victim fell a working range to two with little thousands of revolutions The motor is spinning very reluctantly, but then the car is like someone pushes. The tachometer arrow rushes sharply in a circle and, quickly unscrewing the first transmission, the engine rests on the limiter. With such a dynamics, you willingly believe that S3 changes the first hundred in just 5.7 s.
However, to the new nature of the gasoline unit with immediate injection and turbocharging, they will soon get used to the then and its naughty behavior, and the explosive character is beginning to take pleasure. The developers have brought the gear ratios of the box and reduced the moves of the handle to reduce the time to switch and give a sitting behind the wheel to feel like a dental rider. However, until you adhere to, then it's a thing of the neighboring gears, for example, you will bind the third instead of the fifth.
  A quiet triple does not happen even in fairy tales. True, on the one that from Ingolstadt, the bubbles do not ring, do not hear the cries of the launched sedes here are completely different music. With an applub of the opera singer, he delays his Aria, the engine, which, apparently, was specifically set a voice, setting up the outlet system. The sound does not cut ears, but does not caress the hearing for the perfect velvet tone, the motor lacks a pair of working volume liters. At speeds above 100 km / h in the salon, aerodynamic noises begin to penetrate, and the road joints and small holes are spoken by a spinning cocan, as if the hoofs are knocking on the pavement. In addition, a rigid sports suspension reports to everything that falls under the wheel, not only sounds, but also you feel even a small crack on the asphalt.
AT FULL SPEED
But it was not necessary to finalize the suspension (lowered the clearance by 25 mm, changed the characteristics of the springs and shock absorbers), set up the electric power steering force under its sporty character, set the engine over the engine so that some kind of mannerly stated cynically, as if S3 had a low smoothness of the stroke or lacking torque On low revs! No, you need to drive quickly and with a courage, only then you get real pleasure. For this we have allocated an hour in Munich airfield ... Naturally, in the distance from the runway.
Brief brief, acquaintance with the track. Torn the flag in front of the silend's nose! Troika briserly gains speed, quickly switch (already used to!) On the second and enter in turn. The car, displeasure to be bunted by tires, remains on the trajectory specified by understandable and informative steering wheel. In reliability, behavior is finally convinced after snake from cones, the car discharges the right sinusoid.
This is just a shooting now I will try to quickly. Before the next turn, the braking is much later than the S3 begins to slide outwardly with all the wheels, and terminal electronics comes into effect, saving restrictive cones from pinks.
After a couple of circles, we studied the track. It's time to press the cherished button and turn off this skip the stabilization system. Sorry, it does not interfere with the speed of the circle with the ESP turned on, because the electronic stopwatch can be displayed on the dashboard display. And yet I feel that now go faster, although you have to work more more and gas, fueling the car in turns.
The organizers are suitable for small breaks to give a little cool to the winding journalists. That's where, then, as the shooting sleeves, fly towards the cones, the tire squeezes everything louder and longer. I, too, too, disperse on a straight line, is forced to slow down to the floor in front of the next obstacle from the cones. The acquaintance of ABS's dweller rang out, and the pedal was vigorously. I would like to soften from such vibration not to push the brake harder, but you will be free to let him go. But all the rest of the electronics made a clear anti-locking system began to correct my oversight, and disabled ESP, feeling danger, woke up and took the relay.
Traditional Russian fun skiing on the top three today is no longer so popular as before. It is understandable, because people have other entertainment, more sophisticated and interesting. For example, the German Troika is a worthy replacement!
Audi S3 The smallest model S is able to deliver great pleasure.


 
 
Maxim Sachkov

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"