Audi A3: An Audi for the rest of us

Ok, we don't know who is "the rest of us", because we believe everybody should have the pleasure to drive one of Audi's great cars, but the Christian Science Monitor made a review of the Audi A3.

Good news for devotees of sport compacts - those tightly built cars that marry performance with back-seat utility: Audi just had a baby. And, baby, it screams for attention.

But what's memorable after a week of driving, besides the thrill of downshifting into passing lanes, are touches of pure functionality. The round air vents on the dash, for example, open and close with a twist of their big outer rings. The ventilation system filters out pollen and dust. Gauges are clean; controls are where they ought to be.

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor via AudiWorld's Audi News Blog

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