2025 Audi RS3 vs. VW Golf R Black Edition

Is it controversial to call Audi RS3 and MK8.5 VW Golf Rast better than the strains of each? There has been a quick golf game and four wheels for more than 20 years so far, and RS3 for nearly a decade and a half. However, for the first time, VW is now offering R with a torque background (which was used to be a four -digit option), while Audi made RS3 more than seven seconds faster around Nordschleife than its predecessor – with no other power. Some amazing internet angle should explode with news that RS3 was systematically repaired – inhibitors modifications, software promotions, and some brakes to bite to help transform – in favor of lamp times.

For a few, the Audi A3 may still quickly exceed nothing more than warships and less, and there are likely to be jokes revolving around the cheap lease contracts of the golf. But if anyone needs to be reminded, a lot has changed in the past decade, and with the end, both R and RS are certain in its current gasoline forms, it is good to see improvises worthy of devices for both. This asks the clear question – Can Audi justify the price premium with a legendary engine and a more charming cabin? Or is the Golf r game really all the four -wheel drive you will need it?

If there is a debate about any model at its peak for generations, then the source of the controversy falls inside. GOLF and RS3 are lower places to spend the daily time of their ancestors for half a scale, and there is still any escape from that. Scripchy plastic materials abound in the golf game, from the seat lever to window keys, while the AUDI and Start gear specified will be followed in coastal theme parks. While both of them outperforming decent driving sites and a reasonable touch screens, neither of them feels the prices that are completely requested. It is completely an obstacle to overcoming it. Audi is better, clearly, with some beautiful leather, two useful descriptions of the buttons, although it still requires improvement. The customer who came to either, for example, the new M135, will be disappointed. And BMW costs less.

Fortunately, for both of them, the interior design does not dictate the judgment on the pH, and it is safe to say both of them are more satisfactory than the strange normal BMW. The exterior design is not made, although it is useful to say this for these eyes restores some of the Earth on this result. Even white. Although both of them should transfer some intentions and position as a pioneer in their ranges, Audi appears to be trying very difficult – from back in particular. Anyone who signed the wheel design should not be allowed again. Whatever happens to the elegant handsome Audi?

Easily, both RS3 and Golf R are very good in mixing these reservations on the back of your mind when driving. There was no Golf R game at all to please this one. It is alert, exciting and witnessed, and always ready for the rear axis to dictate the position of the turns in a way that is still a little strange in the golf game. He is fasting evil, more difficult than he will need, and they usually ignore the worst way he can throw. There is still a little beating on the golf game for the maximum speed and minimum voltage, with a torque on hand to ensure that it is no longer a single -dimensional driving experience.

In comparison, the RS3 initially quieter, like GT instead of the adult GTI. There is more flotation in the front end because gambling must have a more good engine, less sound from everywhere and slightly late before waking up and going. But his rejection of your danger, because this is the RS3 better than the former general is already impressive. Like a golf, the rear axis feels more accurate the way it is divided into force through the wheels, so that the driver can be more confident in getting the suffocating. Audi rear “RS Torque”, if barely romantic, however a more convenient name feels preparation than “Drift” in the golf; The car gives a more back bias, which works well with the severe front end. Audi puts all the tools at your disposal to stumble and discover their talents. Which is great.

Where it was possible to avoid dynamics once due to the weight of concrete guidance and concrete injection of the camps, this is the best setting – in addition to setting up the Model RS performance – to show what Audi really can. There is always more sting, more grip, and more sidewalk – not to mention encouraging more difficult experience. All this with the help of, it should be said, through useful, impressive, impressive dimensions, RS3 has not wandered over the years. It is likely to be faster than RS6 road as a result. And more fun.

The golf still feels that it is an adult. The advantage of its weight means that it always glimpses more agility and the lowest stagnation a little less, which is difficult to indulge. Although he is still unable to provide loyalty and luxury joy to the civil type r, there is always harm. Wonderful distraction is less than the stars; When it was possible to overlook a great golf experience in the regular driving game, the roles have now been reflected.

It is a shameful thing, then, that the four -cylinder engine is more interesting, and of course no comparison will be highlighted to highlight the personality deficit like this. Even the price of the AKRAPOVIC and the placing of the new manual gearbox (eliminating automatic kicks and changing) cannot hide the fact that if it is effective, the esteemed EA888 is still not exciting. Likewise, not all filters and engagement in the world can hide the quality of the stars from five liters of guaranteed; You can drive this car with ear plug and the most satisfying unit is still, that great swelling of torque (about 20 percent) turns into an outdated impulse of the specified in each one. Add these old schools with a large heart to the unambiguous and forgotten sound and the engines are the largest point of the two. Audi is charming at all speeds, while the VW unit does not continue to memory, but it is paid. Both deserve the best gearboxes, which is another region where perhaps competitors like BMW and Mercedes are probably forward again. Responses can be slow, and the browning is not nice to use.

However, rolls to remind what can be achieved using a turbocharged engine and four wheels driven in the hatchback of five doors, the latest RS3 and GOOF R are still providing a large amount. There is no position or weather that does not fit with it, as is the skill on the highway as is the case on road B, ready to operate advice or day of the path, or the crawling passengers or the bad guys late at night. Previous publications were always close to this type of the ability of all the court, but both added depth of the talent of the temple that had not been there not long ago. This means that there is a lot to discover it during ownership. Or the duration of the lease, perhaps.

Who leads us to the issue of thorny cost. Because for all the perceived RS3 advantages (internal quality and engine, mainly), there is definitely a connected installment: even the normal RS3 is now 61,785 pounds. Golf R game starts at 45,785 pounds, or 46,910 pounds in the black version of the top; Carbon Vorsprung RS3 is now a possible 70,000 pounds before thinking about the color of the unconventional paint. With the highest APSARASPR rises at the present time, the customer will push thousands of deposit, and more each month, and he faces an additional 50 percent payment if a golf game compared to this one with standard RS3.

Ultimately, these additional expenses buy you the best car, as you hope to be – and as the Volkswagen group was a broader intended. It gives up a little precious, if any, to golf as a driving experience, and even if you prefer a VW tune for some ingredients, this is met by the single personality of his less anxious electrical and internal disease. However, it is more expensive at a value of 17,000 pounds in this comparison, compared to almost a car competing in real life, and sometimes more enjoyable on a twisted road. MK8.5 is still swinging due to the frustrating shortcomings, yet its moral victory here does not exceed the question: as usually, the golf game represents a good value for money. But if you are looking for a hot opening for investing and enjoying long -term, while the world is around it, the RS3 is that.

engine: 1,984cc, turbine shipping, four cylinders
Transition: 7 dual clutch speed speeds, four -wheel drive
Power (HP): 333@5,600-6500 rounds per minute
Performing torque (l Libh): 310@2,100-5500 rounds per minute
0-62 miles per hour: 4.6sec
top gear: 155 miles per hour (168 miles per hour) optional)
weight: 1,548 kg (VW “unlimited weight”)
Mila in the gallon: 34.5 (WLTP)
CO2: 186 g/km (wltp)
price: 45,785 pounds sterling (standard price; tested price of 52,580 pounds, which includes the area width for 335 pounds, and control of the adaptive structure (DCC) – including choosing the profile to drive 735 pounds, a panoramic ceiling – tilt, sliding, vod £, scd60 s5 TATCHAM Tracker – including 6 -month subscription for 270 pounds.

engine: 2,490CC, five cylinders, turbo
Transition: 7 dual clutch speed speeds, four -wheel drive
Power (HP): 400@5,600-7000 rounds per minute
Performing torque (l Libh): 369@2,250-5,600 rpm
0-62 miles per hour: 3.8 seconds
top gear: 155 miles per hour (174 miles per hour with the Carbon Forebung package)
weight: 1,640 kg
Mila in the gallon: 30.4
CO2: 211g/km
price: 68,680 pounds sterling (as a standard; the price tested 69,575 pounds, and includes the blue Ascari coating for 895 pounds)