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Audi has announced its latest RS3 Sportback hot hatch back in last Decemeber. Today it published the pricing: the RS3 Sportback starts at £39,950.

The 8V-generation RS3 Sportsback is equipped with Audi’s most powerful 5-cylinder engine.  With the help from the turbocharger, the 2.5L engine outputs a maximum of 367ps, with 343 lb-ft or torque from a broad range of 1,625 RPM to 5,550 RPM. According to Audi, the RS3 Sportback can reach 62mph within 4.3 seconds, and go all the way up to a top speed of 174mph.

Enjoy the below gallery and read the press release for more information.

Audi RS3 Sportback

Audi has put a lot of hope in its compact car products. For example, the A3. Audi not only provides all kinds of variants of the A3 product line, it also builds the hotter S3.

Audi dropped some exciting news about the even-hotter RS3, which will first be released as a hatchback version. The RS3 will keep using Audi’s long-time 2.5L 5-cylinder engine, turbocharged to output 367hp and 343 lb-ft of torque.

While this 5-cylinder engine does provide benefits that Audi wants, however it does have some shortcomings...

Today Audi announced more models of the newly designed A3 sedan product line: the S3 sedan, the A3 Cabriolet and the A3 TDI.

Only the hp rating of the S3 engine is known at this moment: a 2.0L 4-cylinder turbo making 292hp, and it is mated to a 6-speed dual clutch transmission with Quattro AWD. The base S3 starts at $41,000.

The diesel version A3 can only be front-wheel-drive, the 2.0L diesel engine will output 150 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque. Price tag of the A3 TDI starts at $32,600.

There are two powertrain choices for the A3 Cabriolet: one is the 1.8L turbo 4-cylinder engine paired to FWD, another is the 2.0L  turbo-4 paired to the Quattro AWD system. The 1...

Because of the high fuel prices, European customers always get more engine choice for the same car model, than people in the US side.

Recently, Audi has expanded its Ultra trim lineup of the A3 to more models, including the 4-door sedan and the convertible. Two transmissions are available: 6-speed manual, 7-speed S Tronic double-clutch transmission.

The heart of the Ultra trim is its super efficient engines, which includes the 1.4 TFSI gasoline turbo, good for 50mpg (EU standard); and also the 1.6 TDI diesel, which achieves 71.3mpg.

The gasoline engine is rated at 150ps and the diesel counterpart is 110ps...

Today IIHS released its crash test result for the 2015 VW GTI and Golf (they are essentially based on the same platform and share the same frame structure). They got “Good” result for all testing categories, which earns them the Top Safety Pick Plus rating.

The highlights of the result are in the small overlap front test and also the side impact test. For the small overlap test, unlike some cars that use the “trick” to slide over the test barrier, avoiding a direct impact to the car body to get a good result, the 2015 VW GTI directly hit the barrier...