Audi Q3 2019 Review
Audi Q3 2019 Review welcome to audicarusa.com discovers New Audi sedans, SUVs & coupes get our expert review. There are times when Audi, to great fanfare, takes out a totally new car and you look at it or even drive it and you go “new, right? ” This is not one of those times.
The body of the second generation Q3 ‘s is larger by 10cm, better proportioned and much more spacious than before. It had to really grow, only to open a gap between him and the Q2, which came late in the old life Q3 ‘s and made it largely redundant.
In addition, since the first Q3 was launched, the entire “compact class of Premium crossover ” has become a great thing, and has been coalescing around a fairly fixed-size band and mechanical design. See the BMW x1, the Volvo XC40, the Jaguar E-Pace. Inbound, and channeled in the same template, are the Lexus UX and the second generations of the Range Rover Evoque and Mercedes GLA. Almost none of them existed when the first Q3 was born.
For the new Q3, another variation of Audi’s fear-Goth LED eye makeup sits out of the gunwale of a large eight-sided grille and more angular front ‘ Tomas ‘ (most are actually blank spaces). The metal of the body is formed in a set of tapered pleats, enlarged by a dose of your-Quattro on the front and rear wings. It is German, so, of course, the base wheels, in this case, 18S, look like weeds and you will want to intensify an inch.
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Inside, the Infotainment moves to a touch screen. No more dials for the driver: Each model has the TFT screen ‘ virtual cabin ‘. Under the body, another sea change. For absolutely no one surprises, now uses the MQB platform of the VW group. It’s the same wheelbase as the VW Tiguan. Top Gear asked the project manager if there were fundamental chassis differences between the two. He was sincere. None. Well… the wheels. “
That said, the Audi feels surprisingly more agile than the VW, because of its different configuration: springs, cushions, shrubs and so on. And also because you feel 4cm lower on the Audi. It launches with more petrol engines than diesel. In fact only a diesel, the familiar 2.0 TDI with 150bhp. The petrol is 1.5 liters 150bhp and a 2.0 with the power of 190 or 230bhp.
All 2.0 liters have Quattro’s. But many Q3s will be used entirely for the gentle suburban bimbling, as opposed to actual sport-using (look, it’s a word ‘ because we say it’s a word). Therefore, for obvious reasons the base petrol engine comes with front-wheel drive.
They use the new Audi engine output logos. So the lower power engines are called 35 TDI and 35 TFSI, and 190bhp gasoline is 40 TFSI, and 230bhp gasoline is 45 TFSI. Audi provided us with a document of the whole page that establishes this new schema. But nowhere did he say how they came up with that number, or more saliently, why.
150bhp’s gasoline deactivates two cylinders to save fuel when it’s not getting too high. This is a good engine in a VW golf or somewhere else, but here you have problems. Absolute performance requires patience, taking 9.2 secs to reach 62mph from scratch, but you can forgive that because it is a small engine in a bulky car. More seriously annoying is that it is leafy instead of playful.
It is slower below 3,000 rpm and sandy-sounding above, so any team you choose, you’d like to be in another. The new seven-speed DCT doesn’t help, it doesn’t change smoothly.
It has a gasoline particulate filter and complies with the latest exhaust standards, and has also been configured for WLTP fuel measurements. The engineers were overwhelmed by all these new requirements and had to let the actual driving quality glide down the list of priorities.
230bhp 2.0 gasoline is similarly out of sorts, if less so. It makes the Sprint 0-62mph in a brisk 6.3 secs. But you would never guess that it is fundamentally a Golf GTI engine.
Meanwhile, the 2.0 TDI Quattro with a manual is a good example of the genre – good in the lugging, and not especially rattly. The lever moves around slickly, the clutch is smooth and the whole rig is well-mannered even in the stop-exit traffic.
In the corners, the front-drive Q3 TFSI rolls Little and works with good precision. It’s a fleet of feet. It mixes this with a walk which, though tense, is not rough or crashy, and copes well with broken roads of the city. What it does not do is interact; No rolling in the accelerator, no direction feeling.
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You can have more fun in the Quattro 2.0, with stronger engine reactions to fun sneaking tires, either under power or when lifted. Among the many mode settings, the torque ratio to the rear wheels becomes more significant in the ‘ dynamic ‘ mode. Adaptive damping is optional or standard on the top molding. You can subtly tune the curves without ranting the trip, but it is not transforming.
All Q3s settle decently on a cruise because that’s what German cars do – demolish the Autobahn, even if they do absurdly high speed. The optional driver support address loses lane marks more often than some others, so please don’t trust her while you open your sandwiches. There is also an off-road mode, which gives you control of hill descent.
Now it’s all the screens. Not even the base version is clung to the hardware dials. All models have the Audi virtual cabin TFT screen ahead of the driver. Occasionally it is useful to fill most of this screen with a map, but that leaves you with a nano-sized Speedo. A head-up display would compensate as in other Audis, but is absent here, even as an option.
The central screen looks great. It has a finer resolution than an electron microscope and is perfectly integrated into the board instead of perched on top. That leaves the vents sitting high so they really point to your face.
The display system is connected to the cloud as standard, so you will get accurate and similar real-time traffic. Use the same network to set up a WiFi hotspot in the car for all devices.
But it’s not perfect. Since Audi went to touch screens, the MMI selector wheel down on the console has been evicted. A pity. It was very well developed by the end, and good for introducing instructions when the car was jumping down the road.
Audi Q3 2019 Review
On the touchscreen, it is difficult to hit small icons with a Jiggling finger, however beautifully depicted can be. So I might as well go back to using play or Android auto. At least the air conditioner retains the actual knobs.
The cabin is good for families, not only for the Wifi access point and plugs but also because the back is decently spacious. Behind her the boot is hungry-belly. The rear seats also slide. It makes sense: when you need a lot of boots because you have to deal with a pushchair, your kids won’t need leg space so you can slide them forward. When you grow ganglier, pack more gently and slide it back.
Ornaments and upholstery materials can be in some outrageous colors and textures. But some of the plastics in the cockpit are out of the usual form of Audi. Why are you obsessed with a top of the soft dash to the touch, which you never really touch, and still fit the hard scratch door pulls that insult your fingers every time you get in?
