AUDI S3 (1996 - 2003)奥迪374(1996年至2003年)
Long before the ?superhatch?早在?superhatch? concept ever really gained popularity there was the Audi S3.以往确实有流行观念的奥迪374. With over 200bhp being directed to each of its four wheels, chunky styling and a correspondingly chunky price tag, the S3 was somewhat overshadowed by the TT coupe at the time of its launch but soon established a reputation as the finest driver?s car Audi had produced since the iconic quattro 20v.超过200bhp导演每四个轮子,块状块状造型和相应代价,有点被淹没的374特采伐当时它很快建立了声誉,但推出优秀司机?奥迪轿车的生产自慑人20V条图标. Sales have been steady and there are a number of quality used examples available.销售一直稳步有一些例子可用于质量. Tough and capable, the S3 is one of the more reliable used buys amongst the hot hatch elite.硬能力,三是较可靠其中用于购买热点舱口精英.
HISTORY历史
It?s easy to forget that the Audi A3 had been around for three years by the time the Ingolstadt company finally got round to launching the sporty S3.?收盘容易忘记曾奥迪A3级三年左右的时间,终于圆了塔特奥迪公司推出374潇洒. Until it debuted in May 1999, the quickest A3 on offer was the 150bhp 1.8T version.直到1999年5月亮相,最快的A3总额是150bhp1/2版. The S3 used a tuned version of this very same engine that pumped out a healthy 210bhp.374用调谐的版本,也是这家打捞出健康210bhp引擎. A marketing decision dictated that the electronic control unit ramped power down from the 225bhp the top TT model produced to 210bhp so as not to steal the thunder from the glamourpuss coupe.市场决定结婚斜路电力电子控制单元顶下来225bhp至210bhp特模型制作以免窃取打雷从glamourpuss采伐. Nevertheless, keen drivers quickly realised that due to its improved visibility and more benign chassis, the S3 was in fact the more satisfying driver?s car.然而,由于激烈的司机很快意识到自己的知名度,更完善的良性底盘、三是事实上的司机更满足?收盘轿车. Electronic Stability Control was nevertheless added in December 1999, but the major change to the S3 occurred in early 2002 when Audi did the decent thing and gave the S3 the full 225bhp monty.但是电子稳定控制加上1999年12但发生重大变革的2002年初,当奥迪374没有象样的374件,给予充分225bhp举行一次. In effect the changes were forced by ever more powerful ?实际上被迫改变了越来越强大? and significantly cheaper - SEAT hatchback models and the introduction of a whole host of new rivals such as the Ford Focus RS, the Alfa Romeo 147GTA and the Volkswagen Golf R32.而便宜座位hatchback模范和引进一系列新的竞争对手如福特焦点遥感、<罗蜜欧与福士高尔夫147gta育成. The S3 was deleted from Audi?s range in 2003 when an all-new A3 range made an appearance.奥迪374被删了?收盘时程于2003全范围作了新的A3外观.
WHAT YOU GET 什么才叫 
The doors close with a thunk; everything is damped and chunky.咚大门关闭了;万事阻尼和块状. There are no squeaks and rattles.没有任何和风细雨、摇铃. The car feels as if it was milled from a solid billet of some hideously expensively heavy substance.轿车感觉仿佛从坚实绞碎令人发指昂贵一些重型钢坯物质. Specified in dark colours, the interior has a certain Bauhaus austerity about it.指定颜色暗,内政部有一定包豪斯紧缩一下. There are no flashing lights, rows of piano keys, colour LCD displays or multi function stalks.有没有闪灯,排钢琴键,彩色液晶显示器及多功能秸秆. You gaze across the fascia.你凝视全国筋膜. Sheets of black appliqué trim gaze back.张黑色案例中将浪凝视回来. Putting this few buttons in a top of the range car represents admirable confidence on Audi?s part, but the equipment?s all there.这几个按钮,把一顶射程奥迪轿车代表钦佩信心?收盘部分但设备?就是了. It?s just like old money though; hard to spot.?像老钱虽然收盘;难点.
The issue that I have with the S3 is that the essential pert femininity of the A3 range doesn?t translate harmoniously into the aggressively macho caricature that Audi have created.这个问题我已同374的本质就是女性的A3级评审范围不惜?翻译笔式漫画,积极融入和谐奥迪创造. Like something escaped from a stylist?s pad, seventeen inch Avus wheels squeeze into bulging wheel arches whilst the sinister blue xenon lamps, gaping black maw of the air intakes and blade edged roof spoiler add to the visual incongruity.像逃离一个设计师?收盘垫底17英寸车轮avus挤入胀车轮拱门虽然险恶蓝色氙灯成见不空收黑肚的破坏者和屋顶上加刀刃视觉矛盾. Underneath all the go-faster addenda the S3 is still perhaps too pretty for its own good.底下所有任我行更快的374仍然编为自己的好也许太漂亮.
WHAT YOU PAY 您付出
Being an originator in any given market can make pricing difficult.作为发端于任何特定的市场定价难能. The S3 is no exception and when it was first introduced it carried an enormous price tag of £28,132 which was gradually eroded down to its final £24,770 asking price.<374也不例外,但当初它携带了巨大代价是28132英镑逐渐侵蚀到了最后要价24770英镑. Despite the idiosyncratic new pricing, used values have been very steady, the first of the 99T plated examples fetching £11,000.尽管奇特新价格,用价值一直很稳定,第一条镀例子取99t11,000英镑. Opt instead for a 2001 X plated model and you?ll need £14,300 while an 2003 52-plated 225bhp example will still be worth a hefty £18,600.而选择为2001×镀模型和你?当地需要14300英镑,而2003年52-镀225bhp来说仍然是一个沉重的价值18600英镑. Insurance for the S3 is distinctly reasonable given the capabilities on offer; the little Audi weighing in at Group 17.三是对保险的能力明显合理投标;奥迪在下午一点重集团17.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR 寻找什么
It?s a testament to the quality of modern Audis that most used guides have nothing to report.?收盘质量证明,大多数采用现代奥迪向导没有报道. ?Too new to report any problems??太新报告任何问题? or ?nothing significant?还是?什么重要? are the usual commentaries on the S3, and it?s the same across the Audi range.通常的评论是374,它?收盘同一海峡奥迪射程. Reliability of the SA3 has been excellent so far, so just look for main dealers service stamps, a sheaf of receipts and check for the usual accident or misuse damage.可靠的能量已经很好到目前为止,便往主要邮票交易服务,一、支票收据胶束通常意外损坏或误.
On the models fitted with low profile tyres, check the expensive alloy wheels for kerbing damage, and insist on locking wheel nuts.型号装有低调的轮胎,检查昂贵合金轮子镶边损坏坚持车轮螺母锁紧. Ignition coils have been a recurring bugbear with the 1.8T engines and many owners have complained about spares being in very short supply.点火线圈已经常想到与中高级发动机和零部件许多业主抱怨被十分匮乏. Thankfully Audi have rectified this issue but you may want to ask the previous keeper if the coils have been replaced.奥迪纠正了这个问题,但幸好你可能要问,如果先前畜养圈已经更换.
REPLACEMENT PARTS 替换零件
(approx based on an 2000 S3) Potential buyers will be cheered to know that premium pricing does not stretch to Audi?s parts prices.(大约2000年的基础上374)潜在买主将欢呼不知道保费定价弹力奥迪?收盘价部分. A replacement headlamp unit is £110 and a starter motor a comparatively inexpensive £150.更换前照灯股110英镑和150英镑的起动马达相对便宜. An alternator costs in the region of £130, and front brake pads should cost £60.一个发电机的成本约为130英镑,而前面刹车皮应该英镑费用60. An exhaust system is circa £170 and a clutch assembly around £130.排气系统离合器及装配170英镑130英镑左右.
ON THE ROAD 在路上
With permanent four-wheel drive, the S3 imperiously shrugs aside adverse conditions.永久四轮驱动,374imperiously耸耸肩一旁不利条件. With only the most insignificant chirrup of wheelspin, the little Audi will launch itself from slushy T-junctions, power being distributed to each of the wheels by an electronically controlled multi-plate clutch.只有最微不足道的wheelspinchirrup,奥迪将推出小脱污泥笔路口、电力发给每个轮子由电子控制的多板离合器. No drama, no torque steer, just the pervading exhaust roar building as the speed builds.没有戏剧,没有把握扭矩、公正无私的排气轰鸣建设速度建成. Like most four wheel drive Audis, the S3?s nose will run wide out of a corner if severely provoked, but it inspires huge confidence, if not quite enjoying the same unassailable feel of a Subaru Impreza.最喜欢奥迪四轮驱动,374?收盘鼻宽展期出强烈刺激,如一个角落,但巨大的鼓舞信心,如果不享受同样感受到了富士impreza无懈可击.
The engine is the familiar 1.8 litre twenty-valve engine that appears in Golfs, Toledos, A4s and Octavias across Europe.发动机是熟悉一月八日公升21气门发动机,似乎在golfs,toledos,a4s和octavias到其他欧洲国家. In normally aspirated form this engine wheezes and vibrates under load like a 2-stroke weed-whacker, but the turbo conversion transforms it.通常在这种发动机喘和送气形式下震荡负荷像个2-冲程杂草whacker,但涡轮转化变换. There?s little turbo lag and the gutsy lugging power of a much larger engine whilst the yawning gulf between the torque peaks in second and third gear has been decisively bridged.?收盘小涡轮滞后的血性测井权力大得多引擎虽然峰值扭矩昭彰的差距一直在第二和第三轮果断桥. The cable operated six-speed gearbox feels purposeful and the twin exhaust system has been especially tuned to produce a gruff roar that will appeal or appal in equal measures.有线电视经营六速变速箱感觉针对性和双排气系统已调谐特别制作粗糙轰鸣,激起上诉或同等措施. Sounds assault you from all angles.听起来你从各个角度进攻. There?s a sibilant intake sound, low frequency tyre rumble, omnipresent exhaust roar and the zinging turbo whistle.?尼sibilant摄入声隆隆低频轮胎、排气轰鸣无所不在的zinging涡轮哨子. Refined it is not.它不是成品. Despite the dramatic sound effects, the 210bhp car never feels enormously quick.尽管戏剧性的音乐效果,感到非常快没车的210bhp. Upon consultation of the specification sheet, the reason becomes clear.经协商规格表,原因变得清晰. The S3?s mother would charitably describe it as ?big boned?.<374?收盘母亲将它形容为造桥?大保税?. In fact, there are Volvo 850s for sale that weigh less than the 1375kg at which the bouncing baby Audi tips the scales.事实上,沃尔沃850s出售,还有重达1375kg比该男婴奥迪弹跳天平. The 225bhp model feels a little more vivid but both make deceptively rapid cross-country progress.225bhp的模式,而是生动的感觉一点都迅速做出假越野进步.
OVERALL 总体
Although more recent rivals may well garner more column inches, few can match the balance, the build quality and the all round feel good factor of the Audi S3.虽然最近的对手很可能争取更多的篇幅,很少能够配合均衡建立全面的质量和自我感觉良好的因素奥迪374. If you like fun that feels like its been hewn from solid, here?s a worthy contender for your cash.如果你喜欢它的乐趣,喜欢被送到从固体这里?你们不愧为斯竞逐现金.
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