Unhappy medium

AUDI S3 MONTH 8

This car was not supposed to exist. The 8Y-generation Audi RS3 was signed off based on a business case that assumed it would never make it past the base A3’s midlife facelift, because the 2.5-litre fi

HAVING been launched in 2020, the A3 had a nip and tuck last year, gaining a new look, extra equipment and improved infotainment. We like the Audi’s practicality, high-quality cabin and efficient engi

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT, AT SOME point, Ian Eveleigh and I would get our two big, blue, V8-engined German estate cars mixed up and go home in each other’s cars. And we did. Ev got the better deal, of t

THE COOPER S WAS A SOGGY effort and this isn’t any better. You can forgive a hot hatch appalling ride but when it’s on top of a transmission that’s hard to gel with, an uninspiring soundtrack and impr

‘INJECTION’ is a word that conjures up unpleasant thoughts for many of us, so perhaps it’s no surprise that BMW ditched the ‘i’ suffix (which stands for ‘fuel injection’) for this latest version of th