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Excellent Small SUV
I looked at three small Luxury SUV's (Volvo XC-40, BMW X1, Audi Q3) and the Audi Q3) was the best in my opinion. I am 6ft and this SUV has plenty of room. Here are my Pros and Cons: Pros: - 8 speed automatic transmission - More buttons to control things even though it does have a touch screen. Folks looking at the BMW X1 and Volvo XC-40 will not like the big touch screens with no buttons. These touch screens are a distraction and can cause accidents. Also the BMW X1 is one of the top 10 most traded cars within a year. I used to like BMW but not so much anymore. - Comfortable seats if you get the better seats - Audi Quattro ( the best all wheel drive system) - Uses regular gas - 360 parking screen, dynamic cruise, Audi Pre-sense - Very good GPS system - Nice leather seats - No recalls in 2022 or 2023 so reliability is very good (See JD Power review) NO issues with mine so far. Cons: - Wish it did better in gas mileage, but I getting over 32 MPG on the highway - Wish it had a bit more horse power, I did get the 45 engine at 228 HP - Wish it was alittle more quieter like the Q5 Advice: Make sure you do your research and go drive the cars/SUVs you are interested in. Take with a grain of salt all these reviews you see on Youtube, etc.
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Good things in Small Package
Picked up my new Audi Q3 a little over 1 week ago. My 3 year lease on an 2021 Audi S5 premium plus expired and I decided to go for a larger, higher vehicle. The Q3 premium plus 45 was exactly what I wanted- quick enough, using regular gas (S5 used premium) and very comfortable interior. After driving it for a while, it handles and accelerates well and does not have turbo-lag. Very quiet and composed ride. By far the best safety feature on the car is the Top View 360 degree camera - this works so well I cannot imagine parking without it. You can squeeze into a small space and know you can open all doors when you get out. Rear windshield wiper is also very nice to have. All told - a winner!
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- Premium S line 4dr SUV w/45 TFSIMSRP: $32,49510 mi away
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Fun and Sporty
love this car drives very good, fun to drive, interior is okush
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Quiet, comfortable and nice to drive
The Q3 is mainly the wife's car but I like driving it enough that it’s has turned into our road trip car as well! We've owned it for a little less than a year and have about 6k on the odometer. It is great for long trips as it is very quiet, handles well, has a very comfortable ride and the Apple CarPlay has worked well so far. It’s a good looking rig with a nice metallic blue color. Parking the Q3 is a breeze and it fits well in our small garage. Doesn’t have the biggest interior in the world but it’s very nice and put together well. We like how it has a nice mix of screens and actual buttons. The engine has plenty of torque for making easy work out of the long steep grades we encounter on road trips. The adaptive cruise control is great. I love how it can control your speed both up and DOWN hills, it really helps take some of the exhaustion out of long trips. The cons are mostly minor. The engine does have a bit of turbo lag off the line and the mileage around town is not great, but it takes regular gas so that is a savings from most luxury cars. Opening all the doors without the key fob is annoying but the hands free tailgate is wonderful. Another dislike or quirk is the fact that it has an indirect tire pressure monitoring system so you can't tell the individual pressure of each tire. On one trip we had in the summer the system went off. We pulled over and the tires all looked OK with nothing visible in them. The next town we got to we went to a tire shop and they said the PSI in one of the tires was over 50psi! All the rest of the tires were fine, around 40 because it was 100 degrees out. They took some air out of that tire and reset the system and we were good to go. That problem has not repeated so we’re not really sure what happened. The TPMS went off one other time and I thought it was the system acting up. Inspecting the tires when we got the car home there was a huge screw in one of them. So in that case the system was better than a direct system because it alerted us to a tire problem before there was even a loss in pressure which was cool. Not sure how the AWD is in the snow yet because we usually get one big snow event a year and purchased it last year after our big storm, but I think it helps the handling some in the dry and wet as well. Overall we have been happy with the Audi Q3 and would recommend.
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2024 Audi Q3
It is my wife's car, and she loves it. My only problem is with the limited leg room for me as a passenger.
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