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What‘s it?
The entry-level version of Audi’s new compact SUV, the Q3. If we’re being absolutely precise relating to this, it’ll be later to market than the remainder of the range – albeit only using a month, deliveries starting in December 2011 – but it’ll still account for an enormous chunk of Q3 sales. It’s reckoned that several example from the baby 4x4 sold inside the UK will certainly be powered by this engine.
Priced from lower than £25k, the cheapest Q3 has front- instead of Quattro all-wheel drive, 138bhp, 236lb ft of torque, and also a six-speed manual gearbox rather when compared to a seven-speed twin-clutcher. Weighing only a smidge over one-and-a-half tonnes and fitted with switchable engine ancilliaries and an automatic starter-generator, the car emits just 138g / km of C02 and should return better than 50mpg in everyday use – both impressive figures for just about any taller-than-average family car.
But will it possess the quality, refinement, and impressive dynamic deportment from the high-spec diesel we drove just a few weeks ago?
What’s it like?
A taste from the Q3 at its most basic certainly doesn’t reveal any shortcomings inside the car when it comes to material quality and uniformity of finish. Our test car featured dark textured plastics and leathers, patterned aluminium highlights, a tactile three-dimensional black and dark grey fascia and black cloth seats, and feels markedly more special and expensive when compared to a BMW X1. Comfort’s good – better, slightly, inside the front row compared to the rear – and just a set squab upon the standard driver’s seat spoils a fine driving position.
On start-up it becomes pretty clear immediately that £25k buys you a little less sound and vibration insulation, inside the entry-level Q3, than you fall into the 175bhp diesel ; why else would a less stressed 2. 0-litre diesel engine sound noticeably more gravelly at idle than its higher-powered equivalent?
During typical utilize the step-down when it comes to refinement is equally clear. Under load at low rpm and also at high revs the entry-level engine sounds decidedly noisier compared to the pricier tune. It’s still acceptably refined by class standards, but doesn’t increase the impression of premium-brand quality you will get from much of the remainder the Q3.
And unfortunately, neither will the cheapest Q3 go later on quite as comfortably once we hoped. The fixed rate chassis in our test car provided accurate and stable handling and good lateral and vertical body control. Traction, exclusively coming from the front wheels, was commendable too, admittedly on dry tarmac. Though there was an unbecoming restlessness towards the car’s ride, which felt slightly unabsorbtive and took too long to settle after being disturbed by bumps that an adaptively damped Q3 might just glide over. That spoiled the car’s overall dynamic performance slightly.
Should I buy one?
Most likely, if you’re purchasing a Q3, this is actually the one you’ll get – and you’ll be acquiring a car that rides, handles, performs and generally behaves competently enough. Considered as complete package, this bottom-rung Audi offroader does justice to its maker’s reputation for producing cars of sufficient quality, class, style and real-world efficiency to become worth paying a premium for.
It’s only a shame that Audi’s engineers couldn’t reproduce a similar refinement and polish from higher-spec Q3s inside the mass-selling model. Cynics might call that the deliberate failure ; a designed-in shortfall to encourage customers to option the adaptive chassis and also the more costly diesel engine. Whatever the rationale, the cheapest Q3 isn’t quite the car we’d hoped it may be.
Audi Q3 2. 0 TDi 140 SE
Price : £24, 560 ; Top speed : 126mph ; 0-62mph : 9. 9sec ; Economy : 54. 3mpg ; Co2 : 138g / km ; Kerbweight : 1450kg ; Engine type, cc : 4 cyls in line, 1968cc, turbodiesel ; Installation : Front, transverse, front-wheel drive ; Power : 138bhp at 4200rpm ; Torque : 236lb ft at 1750-2500rpm ; Gearbox : 6-spd manual
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Audi Q3 2. 0 TDI SE
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Audi Q3 2.0 TDI SE
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What‘s it?
The entry-level version of Audi’s new compact SUV, the Q3. If we’re being absolutely precise relating to this, it’ll be later to market than the remainder of the range – albeit only using a month, deliveries starting in December 2011 – but it’ll still account for an enormous chunk of Q3 sales. It’s reckoned that several example from the baby 4x4 sold inside the UK will certainly be powered by this engine.
Priced from lower than £25k, the cheapest Q3 has front- instead of Quattro all-wheel drive, 138bhp, 236lb ft of torque, and also a six-speed manual gearbox rather when compared to a seven-speed twin-clutcher. Weighing only a smidge over one-and-a-half tonnes and fitted with switchable engine ancilliaries and an automatic starter-generator, the car emits just 138g / km of C02 and should return better than 50mpg in everyday use – both impressive figures for just about any taller-than-average family car.
But will it possess the quality, refinement, and impressive dynamic deportment from the high-spec diesel we drove just a few weeks ago?
What’s it like?
A taste from the Q3 at its most basic certainly doesn’t reveal any shortcomings inside the car when it comes to material quality and uniformity of finish. Our test car featured dark textured plastics and leathers, patterned aluminium highlights, a tactile three-dimensional black and dark grey fascia and black cloth seats, and feels markedly more special and expensive when compared to a BMW X1. Comfort’s good – better, slightly, inside the front row compared to the rear – and just a set squab upon the standard driver’s seat spoils a fine driving position.
On start-up it becomes pretty clear immediately that £25k buys you a little less sound and vibration insulation, inside the entry-level Q3, than you fall into the 175bhp diesel ; why else would a less stressed 2. 0-litre diesel engine sound noticeably more gravelly at idle than its higher-powered equivalent?
During typical utilize the step-down when it comes to refinement is equally clear. Under load at low rpm and also at high revs the entry-level engine sounds decidedly noisier compared to the pricier tune. It’s still acceptably refined by class standards, but doesn’t increase the impression of premium-brand quality you will get from much of the remainder the Q3.
And unfortunately, neither will the cheapest Q3 go later on quite as comfortably once we hoped. The fixed rate chassis in our test car provided accurate and stable handling and good lateral and vertical body control. Traction, exclusively coming from the front wheels, was commendable too, admittedly on dry tarmac. Though there was an unbecoming restlessness towards the car’s ride, which felt slightly unabsorbtive and took too long to settle after being disturbed by bumps that an adaptively damped Q3 might just glide over. That spoiled the car’s overall dynamic performance slightly.
Should I buy one?
Most likely, if you’re purchasing a Q3, this is actually the one you’ll get – and you’ll be acquiring a car that rides, handles, performs and generally behaves competently enough. Considered as complete package, this bottom-rung Audi offroader does justice to its maker’s reputation for producing cars of sufficient quality, class, style and real-world efficiency to become worth paying a premium for.
It’s only a shame that Audi’s engineers couldn’t reproduce a similar refinement and polish from higher-spec Q3s inside the mass-selling model. Cynics might call that the deliberate failure ; a designed-in shortfall to encourage customers to option the adaptive chassis and also the more costly diesel engine. Whatever the rationale, the cheapest Q3 isn’t quite the car we’d hoped it may be.
Audi Q3 2. 0 TDi 140 SE
Price : £24, 560 ; Top speed : 126mph ; 0-62mph : 9. 9sec ; Economy : 54. 3mpg ; Co2 : 138g / km ; Kerbweight : 1450kg ; Engine type, cc : 4 cyls in line, 1968cc, turbodiesel ; Installation : Front, transverse, front-wheel drive ; Power : 138bhp at 4200rpm ; Torque : 236lb ft at 1750-2500rpm ; Gearbox : 6-spd manual
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Audi Q3 2. 0 TDI SE
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