2024 Audi Q3 review

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I reckon the Audi Q3 is 1 of those softly fantabulous cars that much radical should consider.

Personally, I’d spell for the SUV version, and it’d beryllium the basal 35 TFSI. For maine it’s the sweetest offering, due to the fact that it’s applicable and almighty enough, and priced beauteous nicely too.

So erstwhile I was thrown the keys to the 2024 Audi Q3 Sportback 40 TFSI S line – the astir expensive, theoretically slightest applicable mentation of the scope earlier you get into RSQ3 territory – I didn’t expect to emotion it.

But I did – it’s truly good, and I’ll archer you astir it successful this review.

How overmuch does the Audi Q3 cost?

There are a wide scope of Q3 variants successful some regular SUV and Sportback assemblage styles connected connection successful Australia. On trial present is the Sportback 40 TFSI quattro S line.

2024 Audi Q3 pricing:

35 TFSI: $54,600
40 TFSI quattro: $62,800
40 TFSI quattro S line: $68,400
RSQ3: $102,300

2024 Audi Q3 Sportback pricing:

35 TFSI: $58,200
40 TFSI quattro S line: $70,800
RSQ3: $105,300
RSQ3 10 Years Edition: $109,100

Prices are earlier on-road costs

To spot however the Q3 compares with its rivals, usage our comparison tool.

What is the Audi Q3 similar connected the inside?

The word I support coming backmost to for Audi interior plan is ‘technical elegance’, and yet again, the marque has nailed that little for the Q3 lineup.

Admittedly it mightiness look and consciousness a small little braggadocious compared to its German rivals, but I for 1 admit the polished-look finishes crossed the dashboard, the angular plan elements, and the colourful and elemental screens.

The 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment strategy is casual to larn acknowledgment to its intuitive menus, positive it features wired and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. I had nary issues with connecting and reconnecting my telephone during my clip successful the car.

There are nary carnal buttons down the side, and portion determination is simply a volume/tuning dial, it’s mode down beneath the clime power panel. At slightest it has one, I guess.

Speaking of that clime system, there’s a wide and elemental array of clime buttons and dials. There are heated spot power buttons too.

The 12.3-inch integer instrumentality clump is crisp and elemental to navigate, and there’s a navigation presumption for those who similar to inactive usage the in-built GPS strategy – successful this case, with real-world Google Maps imagery connected the clump successful beforehand of the driver.

Storage comprises decent vessel holders successful the doors with rubberised bases to halt things moving around, cupholders betwixt the beforehand seats, a wireless telephone charging dock, arsenic good arsenic 2 USB-C ports successful that aforesaid area. There’s besides a tiny centre console bin nether the armrest.

The leather-trimmed seats connection a bully level of comfortableness – we did a mates of two-hour-plus stints and had nary complaints – and there’s electrical spot accommodation for some riders.

With the driver’s spot acceptable for my presumption (at 182cm/6’0”) there’s capable country for maine to beryllium without my knees hitting the hard plastic-backed spot up of me, and there’s reasonably bully toed room, but thankfully – for a coupe-style exemplary – my caput inactive had a spot of clearance supra it.

My 6’4” brother-in-law didn’t find it rather arsenic amenable, but we knew that from the outset.

The five-up trial saw a fewer complaints astir ft room, chiefly arsenic transmission passageway intrusion is simply a origin for back-seat space. Two successful the back? No biggie. Three? Not great.

However, successful regular duties wherever my daughter’s kid spot was fitted (there are dual ISOFIX points successful the window-seats and 3 top-tether points), it proved a large size.

Back-seat riders are treated to directional air-vents, a brace of mesh map-pockets, bottle-holders successful the doors, a flip-down arm-rest with cupholders, and a brace of USB-C ports for instrumentality charging, too.

Audi claims the footwear abstraction of the Q3 Sportback is identical to the modular SUV, but that’s due to the fact that it’s measured to the parcel cover. It’s a sizeable space, with 530 litres of capacity.

If you effort and load immoderate taller items you mightiness find the limits of the load area; but really, it’s decidedly large capable for a household of three’s luggage for a play away, with country to spare.

It’s large to spot nether the adjustable footwear level – which you tin little to let much space, oregon support successful the higher presumption for a level load-through implicit the fold-down backmost seats.

There’s a space-saver spare wheel, which besides houses a subwoofer. Cleverly determination are stoppers astatine the edges of the footwear truthful the level conception stays up erstwhile you’re accessing the subfloor.

Further, determination are retention trays connected the sides of the footwear area, including 1 with a 12-volt larboard and the different with a archetypal assistance kit.

There are those ever-handy buying container hooks too.

What’s nether the bonnet?

Unlike immoderate of the different Audi products, the Q3 scope hasn’t yet been updated to connection 48V mild-hybrid (MHEV) tech. As a result, it inactive runs the aforesaid motor scope arsenic it did from launch.

The Q3 40 TFSI quattro powertrain tested present has a 2.0-litre turbo-petrol astatine its core, with outputs of 132kW (4000-6200rpm) and 320Nm of torque (1400-3900rpm).

This 1 gets a seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch automatic, and it has the brand’s customary all-wheel thrust system. There’s a spot of a terms to wage for the deficiency of 48V MHEV tech, with substance usage for these models being higher than immoderate rivals.

2024 Audi Q3 substance consumption:

35 TFSI: 6.9 litres per 100km
35 TFSI S enactment Sportback: 7.2 litres per 100km
40 TFSI quattro: 8.0 litres per 100km
40 TFSI S enactment quattro (incl. Sportback): 8.2 litres per 100km
RS Q3 (inc. Sportback): 8.9 litres per 100km

For context, I saw 8.5 litres per 100km crossed a premix of driving, truthful beauteous adjacent to the claim. You’ll request to capable it with 95 RON premium unleaded petrol (98 RON for the RSQ3), and it has a 60-litre substance vessel capacity.

How does the Audi Q3 drive?

Before I archer you what I thought of the 40 TFSI mentation of the Q3, I conscionable privation to accidental that if I was buying 1 of these SUVs, I would much apt instrumentality with the entry-level 35 TFSI powertrain.

I don’t request all-wheel-drive, and I find that the free-revving quality of the smaller motor does marque for a somewhat much enlightening thrust experience, including the information that it has a lighter consciousness astatine the chemoreceptor of the car.

That said, the 40 TFSI quattro exemplary is much almighty and snappier successful its behaviour, and I tin spot wherefore you’d take it if you cognize you’ll admit the all-wheel thrust strategy and much effortless performance.

I would reason it’s not rather zesty capable to beryllium considered a sports SUV, but it does person capable grunt to consciousness effortless successful astir situations. In fact, it’s beauteous sprightly erstwhile you enactment your ft down, particularly successful the Dynamic thrust mode, and with the Sport transmission mode selected.

For that crushed it could beryllium each the SUV that anyone volition ever truly request if they’re looking astatine this benignant of car, but I astir consciousness similar it looks faster than it is.

The quattro all-wheel-drive strategy is tremendous successful the mode that it helps you powerfulness retired of corners, and there’s a beauteous linear weighting to the steering, which makes for a beauteous engaging thrust experience.

The thrust is bully for a conveyance sitting connected 20-inch wheels with low-profile tyres excessively – whether you’re conscionable dawdling astir town, oregon amassing the miles connected the highway, it feels comfy and beauteous composed for the astir part. If you find a sharp-edged bump however, things tin get a small clunky.

I adjacent tested retired the quattro all-wheel thrust connected a escaped aboveground (I was the designated operator for a wedding successful state NSW) and connected a unspeakable ‘road’ extracurricular Goulburn. It coasted on comfortably with 5 adults connected board, with plentifulness of road-holding information too. That said, though, the front-drive 35 TFSI would person handled it…

But determination are different elements of the thrust acquisition which aren’t rather arsenic awesome – the levels of refinement, mainly.

The car tin beryllium large wrong implicit coarse-chip surfaces, and astatine debased speeds you tin perceive the mechanicals of the transmission erstwhile you’re shifting betwixt R and D erstwhile parking. Many different SUVs (luxury oregon not) marque you consciousness a spot much distant from those sorts of intrusions.

There’s besides a noticeable magnitude of roadworthy sound connected galore roadworthy surfaces, and upwind noise. Remember, this is astir $75k worthy of SUV, but it doesn’t needfully consciousness arsenic refined arsenic immoderate different $75k SUVs similar the Lexus NX, for instance.

What bash you get?

There are a wide scope of Q3 variants successful some regular SUV and Sportback assemblage styles connected connection successful Australia. On trial present is the Sportback 40 TFSI quattro S line.

Q3 35 TFSI highlights:

18-inch alloy wheels
Adaptive LED headlights
LED daytime moving lights
Aluminium extortion rails
Power tailgate
S enactment exterior styling bundle (Sportback only)
10.25-inch integer instrumentality cluster
10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system
Audi link plus
Wireless Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
Satellite navigation
DAB+ integer radio
6-speaker dependable system
Wireless telephone charger
Dual-zone clime control
Interior ambient lighting
Keyless introduction and start
Leather upholstery

Q3 40 TFSI quattro adds:

19-inch alloy wheels
Heated and power-folding broadside mirrors
Painted bumpers
Selectable thrust modes
10-speaker sounds system
Paddle shifter
Auto-dimming rear-view mirror
Black cloth headliner
Power driver’s spot incl. 4-way powerfulness lumbar

Q3 40 TFSI quattro S enactment adds:

20-inch alloy wheels
Rear privateness glass
S enactment exterior styling package
Progressive variable-ratio steering
12.3-inch integer instrumentality cluster
Flat-bottomed sports steering instrumentality with ‘S’ badging
Stainless alloy pedals
Alcantara interior elements
Aluminium-look interior accents
Aluminium sill plates with illuminated ‘S’ logo
Front athletics seats with S embossing, contrasting stitching
Heated beforehand seats
Surround-view camera
Semi-autonomous parkland assist

Is the Audi Q3 safe?

A five-star ANCAP information rating – based connected Euro NCAP investigating conducted successful 2018 – covers each but the RSQ3 models successful the section range.

The Q3 scored 95 per cent for big occupant protection, 88 per cent for kid occupant protection, 76 per cent for susceptible roadworthy users, and 85 per cent for information assist. Good numbers.

Standard information instrumentality includes:

Autonomous exigency braking (AEB)
- Pedestrian, Cyclist detection
Blind-spot monitoring
Rear cross-traffic alert
Lane departure warning
Active lane assistance (NEW)
Adaptive cruise power with stop/go (NEW)
Front, rear parking sensors
Reversing camera

Choose the 40 TFSI S enactment and you get a surround-view camera and semi-autonomous parkland assistance arsenic standard.

How overmuch does the Audi Q3 outgo to run?

The Audi Q3 is covered by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.

Logbook servicing is required each 12 months oregon 15,000km, whichever occurs first.

Audi offers a five-year work prepaid work plan, and for this people it costs $3330 oregon an mean of $666 per twelvemonth for maintenance. If you work with Audi, you besides get your roadside assistance topped up.

There’s different enactment disposable however, which mightiness good beryllium worthy considering: the Audi Advantage battalion ($3250) allows you to widen the warranty, servicing screen and roadside assistance retired to a seven-year plan. Good for your mindset, and perchance bully for your resale worth too.

CarExpert’s Take connected the Audi Q3

There are immoderate things that could beryllium improved to marque this an adjacent amended ‘luxury’ SUV experience, but arsenic is compared to its overpriced rivals, the Q3 Sportback is simply a large prime for those who privation higher thrust tallness and a swoopy profile.

Tell america if you’d prime the 40 TFSI powertrain successful the comments, oregon if you hold that the 35 TFSI is the amended choice. Also fto america cognize if you’re squad SUV oregon squad Sportback!

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