The Swiss performance specialists at Sportec now present their take on the all-wheel-drive speedster, the Audi RS3. At first glance it seems to be nothing really special, but then the Swiss are famed for their discretion.
It cannot be said that the 4.2 litre V8 TDI sitting on the shelves at Audi or Volkswagen is an underpowered engine. But MTM have turned in into a motorization monster with titanic torque and they have also released the A8 from its ‘V-Max’ top speed limitation.
The creations of the leading after-market tuners have their rightful place at any contemporary motor show, as is the case at the 82nd Salon de l’Auto in Geneva .
No longer fitted with ten-cylinder mills, the big Audi ‘S’ models will be hitting the road next spring with eight-cylinder power plants. But the S6, S6 Avant, S7 and S8 will be already on display at the IAA motor show in Frankfurt.
It was one of the new models to have its première in Geneva but the new Audi A3 has already undergone the attentions of a tuner. In this case it was Abt and they picked on the AS3 model