Audi RS Q3 2014 Video Review

The Audi RS Q3 crossover SUV has the credentials to match the insignia it proudly carries -- RS in German stands for RennSport, which translates into Australian as Racing Sport. The Audi RS Q3 is all about performance and plenty of it. Let’s look at acceleration as a benchmark. Back in the mid 1980s when I first began road testing cars, the kings of the road were Brock Commodores. Time after time I took them to Oran Park raceway south-west of Sydney and tried to get them to accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in under six seconds. Something they were never able to do in real-world testing.

Our  test Audi RS Q3 -- despite being an off-road SUV (well, sort of off-road) --  managed to sprint from zero to 100km/h in a mere 5.2 seconds. That 5.2 seconds (which is only a little short of eternity in drag racing) was way under the Brock Commodore’s time - and with three fewer cylinders.

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