Audi pretty much invented the premium hot hatch with the first-generation Audi S3 back in 1999, effectively dropping in the running gear and engine from the Audi TT sports car into the A3.

It feels like the adaptive dampers fitted to the Vorsprung model should be standard across the range. Audi has kept changes to the interior of the S3 to a minimum, with a new centre console ...

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 ... the £49,920 Vorsprung model ...