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eazy
November 30th, 2005, 11:05
AudiPassion and GermanCarBlog are reporting an interesting siting. Check out the A3 shown. Outwardly, it's a black A3 with S-line package. Inside, you'll spot what looks to be a special interior from quattro GmbH. All of that may not be so special, but consider the background. The spot this A3 sits in is typically used for Audi board member parking at the company's HQ in Ingolstadt. Remember the RS 4 spotted a few weeks ago with ceramic brakes and reported on here a few weeks ago? Same spot.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this A3 is the small sign affixed to the steering wheel. It instructs the driver not to rev past a lofty 7500 rpm. Does that mean it's the next S3, or even RS 3 given what we know of the high-revving RS 4?

Well, that's possible I guess, but unlikely. Cars driven by board members are sometimes special build or prototype cars that may or may not get built. We'd heard months ago that a prototype twin-turbocharged A3 existed, but that the engine was too costly for series production. Just because a prototype exists doesn't mean a car will be built.

Text is from fourtitude.com (http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=2317394)http://www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/actualites/2004/mulet_rs3_v6/mulet_rs3_v6_00.jpg
http://www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/actualites/2004/mulet_rs3_v6/mulet_rs3_v6_04.jpg

More pics and the original news on audipassion.com:
http://www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/actualites/2004/mulet_rs3_v6/index.php

I don't know what i should think of it, because in the original text at audipassion (in french) you can read something about a v6 biturbo.
Maybe someone who can speak french can translate it a little bit.

QuattroFan
November 30th, 2005, 16:04
Welcome to last year. This one has been floating around for quite a while now.

gnomik007
November 30th, 2005, 17:51
This is the same spot that in summer 2002 I saw first RS6 with my own eyes,and that was the moment when I fell in love with Audi.Three months later I got my baby in Moscow :)

eazy
December 1st, 2005, 09:27
Oh, sorry. I thought it was a new one. :blush:

Mr Balsen
December 2nd, 2005, 18:48
I took those pictures a long time ago ! ! !

I recall german people with Audi badge talking a lot about Turbo. The car had a deep bass sound from the exhaust.

Cheers from Paris,
Frederic

steffenr
December 4th, 2005, 20:46
buy a 3.2 and fit it with hgp stage 3 bi-turbo then you have a rs3:D

Matteus
December 8th, 2005, 10:42
and are those 'normal' 3.2 front brakes? they seem very big for an A3.