arU4ic

Yeah… the color is good in the shade. I'm also looking for decent UV protection for the leather… red fades pretty easily, as anyone with a red car will tell you.

It's still growing on me, and no one who's been in the car or seen it agrees with me, they all love it, that helps too.

arU4ic

One more complaint…

a 10GB hard drive??? Really? is this 1995?

QuartzS4

That is a little too small, but you have to remember that you are still driving an A3. Audi's entry car for the United States.

habu987

Yes, it's the entry level car...but seriously, 10GB? At the consumer level, I can buy a 3TB hard drive for around $100. At the scale that Audi buys hard drives, I find it very hard to believe they can't provide something like a 500GB for the price they charge now. Heck, Audi could just stick the same $45 flash card I have in my phone in there and have 64GB of storage.

kdigital

Outside of the MMI OS and the maps, what else gets stored on the hdd?

sailor99

I ordered an S3 on Tuesday and I am somewhat dismayed to find out that the S3 does not have a coolant temperature gauge. It has a boost gauge instead. I love the car but I see this as a potential problem and since the cost of the car is high I think there should be a coolant temperature gauge. There is only an oil temperature gauge. Is that sufficient?

Spoonie G

Yes, it is sufficient. When was the last time that you had a car overheat on you? I've been driving for 26 years (6 different cars) none of them ever overheated on me. I haven't even seen a car overheating on the side of the road in about 20 years.

Temp gauge is nice for sure, that's why I use a OBD2 Bluetooth adapter with the "Torque" phone app. I have every engine parameter, as well as the ability to check and clear codes, all on my cell phone. Look into one of those if you need the temp gauge.

sailor99

Thank you for your response. I too have owned many cars over the years, including four other Audi's, without overheating problems.

I am really looking forward to driving the new S3 but I want to "put it out there" so others don't get a surprise like I did. I may look into the phone app. Thanks for the suggestion.

Spoonie G

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gamegenie

With dual SD slots, the 10GB storage is almost a non-factor. You can get two 64GB SD cards and have a combined storage of 138GB.

Heck they make SD cards as big as 128GB now, so imagine 2 of those plus the 10GB storage.