Saw one at the Canary Wharf Motorshow last weekend in London too... an Audi UK guy came over to talk to me about the car and I asked him straight away why are there no A2s on display? Very sheepishly he said that a lot of people had been asking after the A2, but he had no explanation... sad that Audi UK doesn't even know the A2 exists or promotes it!
As to A3. Not as much of a style statement as the original A3 when that came out. In 1996 it was just soo cool... this new version looks too much like the old one and is not something someone would buy to say look at me, I'm different, I buy clever cars and just look at the styling... nope it only says boring, boring to me. Rather buy a Golf mark 5 when that comes out with the same chassis anyway... the A3's rear lower bumper is too heavy as well. Read some of the comments on the A2 body kit that is fully colour coded and you'll soon realise why it looks so heavy: the entire body is colour coded and there is no more black lower half to hide the car's height. (Also makes it more expensive to repair as this is where sans mudflaps you get a lot of stone damage... give me black any day there...)
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The interior is really good quality, but again ho-hum Audi. I stepped in and it feels no different than my A2 really even down to exactly the same radio as I have... you do want to feel as if you've bought something new when you move up! And the texture of the main dashboard is too much like the Alfa 147's: like rough, unfinished rubber! The A2 has a hard dash, but it LOOKS good. This A3 dash does not look good to me... How many times a day do you touch your dash anyway? And looking at it? hmmm
Nope no A3 in my garage thank you.
BUT mr Audi UK said I should wait 18 months for the one I'm after: the new and different looking A3 Estate and specifically I want an A3 5 door allroad quattro 2,0 TDI with a DSG Tiptronic gearbox! That sounds nice (though unfortunately it will have said same Alfa 147 dash!)
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2001 A2 TDI SE Crystal Blue with Open Sky, 6CD Symphony II, BOSE upgrade, DIS and HALF a winterpack!
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