IF you want a compact sports saloon for your next business car – take a look at this.
It’s the Audi A3 Saloon. And it’s been given the Audi sports S treatment.
That means a 300PS engine with 380Nm of shove from the 2.0-litre turbo engine and a crackerjack 0 to 62mph time of 4.9 seconds.
There will be no excuses for getting to a business meeting late, then…
It’s not all whizz-bang though for the Audi S3 Saloon – there’s fuel consumption of 40.9mpg, which given the performance is really quite credible.
If you’re thinking about putting it through your company then CO2 emissions are the right side of the 160g/km barrier with 159g/km when the Audi S3 Saloon is fitted with S tronic auto transmission.
That means for the 2014/15 tax year you’ll be looking at a company car tax band of 24% for the Audi S3 Saloon.
At the heart of the new S3 Saloon is a new 2.0-litre engine.
Although it has the same 1984cc capacity as the previous 2.0 TFSI engine, Audi says it’s all new and stuffed with hi-tech wizardry: direct and indirect injection, integration of the exhaust manifold into the cylinder head and the use of innovative thermal management for faster warm-up – to name but three.