The 8Y keeps the beloved 2.5 five-cylinder (which owners frame as its last hurrah) and adds the RS Torque Splitter, which owners say makes it night-and-day better than the previous, front-drive-feeling generation — genuinely playful and rear-biased.
Last-hurrah five-cylinder, transformed by the torque splitter
Audi RS3 (8Y) · ownership-experience