Tag: FiveCylinder

27 JAN

Keep Audi Weird! An Ode to the RS3’s Riotous Five-Cylinder Engine

– From the January 2018 issue – We’re losing the special engines. They don’t make sense. Used to be, when you bought a dedicated performance model, there was a whole different animal under the hood—a V-10 in a 5-series or a 7000-rpm 7.0-liter in a Corvette. Nowadays, you just slap on a supercharger or dial […]

27 APR

Five-Cylinder Fever! Audi Announces TT RS and RS3 Pricing

– Now that those who were imprinted by Group B cars as children have reached their prime earning years, Audi has smartly returned the departed TT RS to us and deigned to send along the RS3. Equipped with 400-hp turbocharged five-cylinder engines, just like Michèle Mouton used to run—only less laggy, more efficient, and featuring the […]