The S3 slots into the middle of Audi's entry-level sedan lineup. For 2025, the regular A3 starts at $38,200 (plus destination) and gets the automaker's familiar 2.0-liter TFSI turbocharged inline ...

The 2025 Audi S3’s updates for the new model year were well-executed, and it looks like it’s a great compromise for those wanting more than what the A3 can offer but don’t want to spend ...

Audi says that one of the changes for 2025 was to bump up the torque load from a standing start, and while I'd need an old S3 to fully compare them side-by-side, there's undoubtedly a puppy-like ...

For 2025, Audi has delivered an upgrade along with the A3 facelift. That means the S3 now has the Golf R’s updated engine, an upgraded rear differential from the RS3, more equipment, and ...

Though the 2024 Audi S3 starts under $50,000, you probably won't keep it that way. My Prestige tester has all sorts of goodies, like Matrix LED headlights, a Bang & Olufsen sound system, ...

The 2025 Audi S3 adds real performance tech from the powerful RS3, but still swims in its A3 roots. By Nathan Adlen. Audi S3 . Audi. Mar 11, 2025 5:00 AM EDT Start the Conversation .

Details for the U.S. are still pending, but elsewhere the updated S3 will extract 328 hp from a 2.0-liter turbo-4. The same engine in the current S3 makes 306 hp for models delivered to the U.S.

Twenty-five years ago on some very nondescript, featureless roads around the Munich suburbs, we experienced Audi’s inaugural hot hatch: a buttercup yellow S3, with chrome mirrors, a set of flat ...

The price of the 2023 Audi S3 starts at $47,895 and goes up to $54,595 depending on the trim and options. Premium. $47,895. Premium Plus. $50,595. Prestige. $54,595. shop used.

Right on cue, Audi swept in with something different. A new thing. A premium hot hatch: the S3. It approached the performance hatch from a classier, more mature angle. Big spoilers were replaced ...

The 2025 Audi S3 strikes a great balance. No, it’s not a cut-price RS3 killer, but it is a genuinely nice thing to behold and sit in and inherits just enough from that car to be pretty fantastic ...

Audi arguably created the posh hot hatchback class when the first S3 was launched back in 1998. Its combination of a high-quality interior, all-wheel-drive security and turbocharged petrol engine ...