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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #60 on: September 22, 2012, 02:18:01 pm »
Quote from: sub39h on September 22, 2012, 11:39:41 am
Quote from: andrewparker on September 22, 2012, 09:52:04 am
How come a flat bottomed wheel is optional?

Flat bottom steering wheels have always been standard on the 8P S3 in the UK. I can't imagine this will be any different.

Incorrect, the first 8P S3s came with the regular wheel as standard and the FBSW as an option, iirc it was 2008/9 model year where it became standard  :happy2:

Therefore it's reasonable to assume that Audi may well pull the same stunt again to milk more ££s out of the option list junkies...
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #61 on: September 22, 2012, 06:55:56 pm »
Are you sure? I've never to date seen an S3 without it and for example I've never seen an S3 MFSW that wasn't flat bottom for sale on eBay either.
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #62 on: September 22, 2012, 07:03:56 pm »
Quote from: sub39h on September 22, 2012, 06:55:56 pm
Are you sure? I've never to date seen an S3 without it and for example I've never seen an S3 MFSW that wasn't flat bottom for sale on eBay either.

 Absolutely sure  :wink:
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #63 on: September 23, 2012, 11:49:15 am »
You learn something new every day.

Anyhow the FBMFSW is standard on the new S-Line anyway, so my money is still on it being standard equipment on the S3 too.
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #64 on: September 23, 2012, 05:55:26 pm »
Did we already have this?

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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #65 on: September 23, 2012, 06:31:56 pm »
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Quote from: Greeners on September 21, 2012, 02:34:53 pm

And the net has been cast!  :grin:


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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #66 on: September 23, 2012, 06:33:26 pm »
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Is it really 296 bhp and not a misprint?  :surprised:

That seems a lot out of an ex-factory 2.0T FSI engine and also more powerful than the RS3, IIRC.
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #67 on: September 23, 2012, 06:35:52 pm »
RS3 is 340PS Robin. You didn't remember correctly.  :P
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #68 on: September 23, 2012, 06:40:16 pm »
^^^^
Then 296 bhp will be very nice. However, even though the build quality will doubtless be good, I don't find myself at all excited by its body styling.
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #69 on: September 23, 2012, 08:16:23 pm »
You love the zorsts though right?

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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #70 on: September 23, 2012, 08:50:24 pm »
And thats how you ruin a S3 from the factory.. :congrats:
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #71 on: September 23, 2012, 10:36:59 pm »
Quote from: andrewparker on September 23, 2012, 08:16:23 pm

You love the zorsts though right?

:grin:

....I don't have a strong feeling either way but would prefer if they were black like mine and therefore were less obvious.

A Golf mule, rumoured to be a mk7 R, has been seen with quad exhausts too.
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #72 on: September 24, 2012, 05:39:46 pm »
Quote from: sub39h on September 22, 2012, 11:39:41 am
Quote from: andrewparker on September 22, 2012, 09:52:04 am
How come a flat bottomed wheel is optional?

Flat bottom steering wheels have always been standard on the 8P S3 in the UK. I can't imagine this will be any different.

no they haven't  :smiley:, up until the face lift at 2008 they were an option, quite an expensive one at that
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #73 on: September 25, 2012, 07:14:38 pm »
Quite like the sportback S3 version
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Re: New Audi S3
« Reply #74 on: September 26, 2012, 01:05:59 pm »
Quote from: neg on September 25, 2012, 07:14:38 pm
Quite like the sportback S3 version

Bizarre how the Sportback has the same engine but only two exhaust pipes...

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/a3/60349/audi-a3-sportback-pictures/page/4/0#main-content-area
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