BUYER’SGUIDE: Audi Q3
Audi Q3 BUYINGCARS
CO2 /tax
174-184g/km
£155
Running costs
34-46mpg (40 TFSI)
£87 fill-up
Performance
0-62mph/top speed
7.3 seconds/136mph
THE mid-sized SUV segment is hugely popular, and premium brands are also massively in demand. So combine the two and you’re likely to have a sure-fire winner.
That’s certainly the case for Audi, which launched its first SUV – the seven-seat Q7 – in 2006, with the Q5 following two years later. For an encore to that it came up with the even smaller Q3 in 2011. Audi’s most affordable SUV at the time proved to be another hit, so expectations were high when an all-new Q3 arrived seven years later.
Offered with petrol, diesel or plug-in hybrid power, the second-generation Q3 also came in ultra-quick RS Q3 form to make it more appealing than ever.
History
AUDI delivered the first Q3 Mk2s in
