Audi’s compact car gears up for new competition from Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
After the Audi A3 concept debuted with an asylum escapee of an engine at last February’s Geneva auto show—it packed a 408-hp turbocharged five-cylinder—it’s hard not to be disappointed by these spy pictures of the three-door prototype, which is closer to production form. It’s not so much that the burqa-clad test car is likely powered by a frugal four-cylinder engine, but more that some of the show car’s clever styling details had to be ditched. This explains the absence of the show car’s space-age door handles, as well as the addition of the familiar Audi body-side crease. The final shape of this iteration is what you’d expect for a two-box hatchback based on the Volkswagen Golf.
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