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.

View all 2023 Audi S3 specs. The good: The bad: Five-seat, four-door subcompact sedan FWD or AWD 201-horsepower, turbocharged four-cylinder Performance-oriented S3 and RS 3 variants After a 2022 ...

And it borrows the torque splitter from the RS3.

The original S3, which ran from 1999 to 2003 and represented Audi’s initial foray into the hot hatch market, came with a 221bhp version of VAG’s faithful 1.8-litre turbo four-pot. It was neat ...

The reinvented Audi A3 is poised to make a big splash in the compact sedan segment. The A3 abounds with attractive athleticism, and it pioneers and technology features such as a 4G LTE data connection ...

Carefully manipulated to fit in the space left between the practical A3 and the all-out, full-fat Audi RS3, the S3 has often been labelled with the automotive equivalent of middle-child syndrome.