Saw an A3 today
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Originally Posted by morknmini
Egad. It becomes more controversial with each post. I must Google "A3".
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Thanks. That photo makes it look hideous. I doubt that in 5 years the exaggerated grille will endear the car to anyone. Unlike the Edsel it will find it hard to straddle the aesthetic line between kitsch and camp. But perhaps it's better in real life. And Audi interiors are usually gorgeous. 
i dont know about you guys but i love the purple... pair that with some gold CE28N wheels... that'd be killa!
ive seen it in the flesh, even driven the DSG... all i can say is that the photos does not do it justice... but to each is own... im always a fan of 5 dr hatchbacks and wagons...
ive seen it in the flesh, even driven the DSG... all i can say is that the photos does not do it justice... but to each is own... im always a fan of 5 dr hatchbacks and wagons...
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Originally Posted by kyriian
i dont know about you guys but i love the purple... pair that with some gold CE28N wheels... that'd be killa!
ive seen it in the flesh, even driven the DSG... all i can say is that the photos does not do it justice... but to each is own... im always a fan of 5 dr hatchbacks and wagons...
ive seen it in the flesh, even driven the DSG... all i can say is that the photos does not do it justice... but to each is own... im always a fan of 5 dr hatchbacks and wagons...
I agree the photos does not do a darn justice...not even half of the real beauty.
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Originally Posted by MyPocketRocket
I agree the photos does not do a darn justice...not even half of the real beauty.
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I much prefer the 2 door version as well.
The A3 is nice looking - just happens to look like any/all Audis (except the TT). To me Audi sedans/wagons look like the same car in small, medium and large
I can see where that would take away from the specialness of any one version and make them all seem blander.
The A3 is nice looking - just happens to look like any/all Audis (except the TT). To me Audi sedans/wagons look like the same car in small, medium and large
I can see where that would take away from the specialness of any one version and make them all seem blander.
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Jalopnik:
"And then there’s the fact that the A3 is ugly. It’s one of those cars where you walk around the side and say “Is that it?” To my eyes, the A3’s sloping rear roofline and awkward quarter glass make the miniature machine look like nothing so much as an upmarket cut-and-shunt job, cursed with Barbara Streisand’s schnoz. Although Audi’s probably saving the body mods for an S3 or RS3 derivative, something this homely needs a tattoo or twin pipes or something to say “You looking at me?” Either that or they should have made it a plain old one-box hatch and called it good."
"And then there’s the fact that the A3 is ugly. It’s one of those cars where you walk around the side and say “Is that it?” To my eyes, the A3’s sloping rear roofline and awkward quarter glass make the miniature machine look like nothing so much as an upmarket cut-and-shunt job, cursed with Barbara Streisand’s schnoz. Although Audi’s probably saving the body mods for an S3 or RS3 derivative, something this homely needs a tattoo or twin pipes or something to say “You looking at me?” Either that or they should have made it a plain old one-box hatch and called it good."
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Originally Posted by kenchan
i can't get past the damn headlights hyundai uses on their Elantra's.
something about that angle on the A3's headlights always reminds me
of this pos... really ruins it for me.
something about that angle on the A3's headlights always reminds me
of this pos... really ruins it for me.
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The new Audi design scheme is not for everybody. I personally like it better than the last series, which we had two of them. Great cars and fits in with not being obnoxious – at least to me.
Some Audi executive said that their Teutonic design was “reverse pretentious” – or maybe I read that in R&T, anyways works for me. We are getting another Audi soon – wife loves them, and she calls my Mini Pooper a truck suppository.
Like I love saying “a seat for every *** and an *** for every seat”.
Also, did you notice that the Mini has the same headlights as the Porsche 993? At least they copied a great car there.
I really like the Lotus Exige - and to some that looks like a guppy on land, so there!
Some Audi executive said that their Teutonic design was “reverse pretentious” – or maybe I read that in R&T, anyways works for me. We are getting another Audi soon – wife loves them, and she calls my Mini Pooper a truck suppository.
Like I love saying “a seat for every *** and an *** for every seat”.
Also, did you notice that the Mini has the same headlights as the Porsche 993? At least they copied a great car there.
I really like the Lotus Exige - and to some that looks like a guppy on land, so there!
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Originally Posted by Android993
The new Audi design scheme is not for everybody. I personally like it better than the last series, which we had two of them. Great cars and fits in with not being obnoxious – at least to me.
Some Audi executive said that their Teutonic design was “reverse pretentious” – or maybe I read that in R&T, anyways works for me. We are getting another Audi soon – wife loves them, and she calls my Mini Pooper a truck suppository.
Like I love saying “a seat for every *** and an *** for every seat”.
Also, did you notice that the Mini has the same headlights as the Porsche 993? At least they copied a great car there.
I really like the Lotus Exige - and to some that looks like a guppy on land, so there!
Some Audi executive said that their Teutonic design was “reverse pretentious” – or maybe I read that in R&T, anyways works for me. We are getting another Audi soon – wife loves them, and she calls my Mini Pooper a truck suppository.
Like I love saying “a seat for every *** and an *** for every seat”.
Also, did you notice that the Mini has the same headlights as the Porsche 993? At least they copied a great car there.
I really like the Lotus Exige - and to some that looks like a guppy on land, so there!
true to the core.
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Mixed feelings about the new Audi/VW semi Bugatti copy big nose look.
Read this and now I laugh whenever I see them
Jeremy Clarkson on the A6 Avant:
"Enlivened only by a radiator grille that somehow resembles George Michael’s goatee, it has about as much on-screen presence as the table on which Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange cavorted in The Postman Only Rings Twice. You just don’t notice it."
Read this and now I laugh whenever I see them
Jeremy Clarkson on the A6 Avant:
"Enlivened only by a radiator grille that somehow resembles George Michael’s goatee, it has about as much on-screen presence as the table on which Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange cavorted in The Postman Only Rings Twice. You just don’t notice it."
