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Audi A3 Saloon Concept

AugustusMinimus · 2011-03-06 11:23:44

All I have to say is wow. Outside of all the bells and whistles on the car, Audi have absolutely nailed it in terms of lines and overall back to front balance. I persoannly thought that the boot on the new A4 is just too short. But they have got it almost perfect on this car. The side view is spot on. Question is wether…

06-03-2011 11:23am

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All I have to say is wow. Outside of all the bells and whistles on the car, Audi have absolutely nailed it in terms of lines and overall back to front balance.

I persoannly thought that the boot on the new A4 is just too short. But they have got it almost perfect on this car. The side view is spot on.

Question is wether they would bring it to Ireland. It would cut into A4 sales but I'd imagine it would make Audi money.

Is this Audi back on from, especially with the A7 and A8 being quite disappointing personally.

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#2 06-03-2011 11:52am

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have to admit... it looks class. unfortunatly not many cars stay same as production models.

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#3 06-03-2011 11:59am

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ShadowHearth wrote: »

have to admit... it looks class. unfortunatly not many cars stay same as production models.

The thing I like about this car though is it's general lines and shape.

I like to think that these would be carried over to a production model, but as you say, you just don't know.

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#4 06-03-2011 12:02pm

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discussed a few days back
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056197415

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#5 06-03-2011 12:03pm

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Amateur question here,

Bu isn't the A3 the hatchback version of the A4?

Would an A3 Sedan/saloon not just be an A4, or is there a size difference?

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#6 06-03-2011 12:11pm

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Take away all the concept car paraphernalia and how is that substantially different to the A4? Seriously, I'm struggling here..

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#7 06-03-2011 12:12pm

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spank_inferno wrote: »

Amateur question here,

Bu isn't the A3 the hatchback version of the A4?

Would an A3 Sedan/saloon not just be an A4, or is there a size difference?

No, it's not a hatch A4 in fairness. More a re-bodied Golf, Octavia

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#8 10-05-2011 11:00am

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http://www.completecar.ie/news/article/962/Audi-A3-saloon-to-go-on-sale-in-Ireland-in-2013

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#9 10-05-2011 11:07am

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And the differences between the odels becomes even more blurred

Looks great though...

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#10 10-05-2011 11:17am

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Just what the Motoring World needs, yet another Audi!

Any word of the Skoda equivalent? :rolleyes:

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#11 10-05-2011 11:49am

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Aren't Volvo replacing the S40 with a hatch because of poor sales? I'd see this suffering from the same paradox of being too expensive to cut it as a c segment saloon and too small to cut it as an executive saloon.

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#12 10-05-2011 11:54am

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This is surprising because you don't see too many Focus saloons around despite the sheer number of Focus cars out there. Same witht eh Civic saloons. I wonder who's going to buy this car?

If the bootspace is huge (Cough *Octavia*), then perhaps people with families will buy it. The boot on my A3 is not that big tbh.

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#13 10-05-2011 12:00pm

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CompleteCarGuy wrote: »

http://www.completecar.ie/news/article/962/Audi-A3-saloon-to-go-on-sale-in-Ireland-in-2013

Just me or...

I'd buy it. Looks class.

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#14 10-05-2011 12:01pm

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Gophur wrote: »

Just what the Motoring World needs, yet another Audi!

Any word of the Skoda equivalent? :rolleyes:

aye !!

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#15 10-05-2011 12:16pm

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(very poor) Artistic Impression of the Irish Specification

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#16 10-05-2011 12:56pm

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OSI wrote: »

But it still has metallic pain, leather seats and xenon head-lights.

My mad paint skillz only go so far...........:p

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#17 10-05-2011 1:40pm

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Seeing as an A4 is already very cramped inside, why is it a good idea to make a smaller saloon?

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