Chris Tsui, Reviews Editor For the first time in The Drive Awards history (so, like, three years), the Best Performance Car isn’t a Corvette—it’s the five-cylinder Audi RS3. Updated for 2025 ...

Although it's no quicker in a straight line, the 2025 RS3 is 7 seconds faster around the Ring than its predecessor ...

and the standard torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system has been tweaked to make big drifts even easier. The RS3's bona fides are capable enough for track days too, with Audi providing ...

While the quicker new Audi RS3 will be better in almost every ... $2,000 less than the much less practical and rear-drive-only BMW M2, the car from which Audi stole that record.

A quick breakdown just to get your bearings on the RS3’s all-wheel drive ... of the car, the RS3 was formidable on both the ...

After teasing us with the S3, all-wheel-drive version of its A3 sedan and hatch (Sportback in Audi-speak), Audi has finally given us the full-fat, RS3 variant of the same car. Any time you see an `R’ ...

After teasing us with the S3, all-wheel-drive version of its A3 sedan and hatch (Sportback in Audi-speak), Audi has finally given us the full-fat, RS3 variant of the same car. Any time you see an `R’ ...

There’s the distinctive burble from the motor, a sound you’re unlikely to tire of that marks the Audi RS3 out from all of ... So even in a car weighing 60kg more than its predecessors (1570kg ...

Can the new car ... wheel drive (of course), turbocharged, twin-clutch ‘box, five-doors… its closest rival is the A45 AMG. However, we much prefer the Golf R to the Mercedes and the RS3 ...