Audi A3 Sportback 1.6 SE

Author's product rating:   

Safety	Excellent
Comfort	Excellent
Road Handling	Excellent
Looks	Excellent
Features	Excellent

Advantages:	Stylish, smooth and spacious (good  ` sporty' family car)
Disadvantages:	slight slow to pick up but not a major minus

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Audi A3 Sportback is an amazing car and a nice drive both in the city and on motorways. As pointed out before, it is slower to pick up the speed than traditional 3dr A3 merely due to its additional weight. However, it does not affect its top speed and you can drive up to 100mph easily without even feeling it swirling. It is an extremely smooth ride and you can barely hear the engine ( i own a petrol version mind you). As it is SE, it comes with at least audi concert cd player, air conditioning (essential for summer) and alloy wheels. All the windows are automatic. What impressed me was the sound quality of the speaker (Mine is only audi concert II). It was excellent and for a minute, i thought i had a subwoofer. I think the car has 4 little speaker with 4 main ones ( front and back). The security feature (alarm and immobiliser) of the car are also wonderful (very distinguishable alarm). The boot is deceivingly spacious and I just love front grill.

Obviously, the tiny downside of this car is that it does consume slightly more petrol than i expected but it is definitely worth it for the its performance. Other thing i notice is that, the handbrake is situated more to the left than most other cars (not surpising since it's an European car) which i find hard to get accustomed to initially. But, it's not a problem after 2-3 days.

Overall, a very nice drive worth the money - its value hardly drops even after 3 years.