The 2025 Audi A3 sedan and its high-performance S3 cousin received’t look dramatically totally different than 2024 variations of the automobiles. Besides, that’s, for the headlights. These can look totally different daily if homeowners really feel it.
Audi hasn’t launched particulars on the ultra-high-performance RS 3 model for 2025.
Minor Type Replace
Automotive designers are taking part in with massive grilles this yr, even on the smallest automobiles. Audi’s subcompact sedan will get a bigger grille and bigger air vents flanking it, all full of bigger mesh. It’s a playful look, emphasizing the automobiles’ small measurement with bigger options. Nonetheless, the adjustments are restricted to the entrance fascia. The remainder of the automotive stays the identical on A3 fashions. S3 variations get a reshaped rear bumper and diffuser.
Inside, the shifter and air vents have been reshaped. “A brand new blade design operating the width of the sprint is completed in chrome on the outer floor and makes the air vents seem thinner, additional emphasizing the width of the cockpit,” Audi explains.
A ten.25-inch digital gauge cluster is now commonplace on even the bottom mannequin.
Audi has partnered with Sonos for a brand new sound system. New commonplace ambient lighting backlights cloth door panels and adjusts to any of 30 colours.
Customizable Headlights
The outside lighting, nonetheless, often is the A3’s greatest new trick.
Consumers can select from commonplace LED and optionally available matrix headlights (newly authorized within the U.S., these work like everlasting excessive beams however reshape their mild to keep away from blinding oncoming site visitors).
The daytime operating lights constructed with both are constructed from rows of pixels. A brand new customization system lets drivers activate totally different patterns of pixels, altering the automotive’s lighting signature.
Extra Energy, S3 Chassis Upgrades
Audi’s quattro all-wheel-drive (AWD) system shall be commonplace on each A3 and S3 for 2025. The automobiles use the identical turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine as final yr, however the model within the A3 features torque. Horsepower is unchanged at 201, however torque jumps by 15 lb-ft to 236.
S3 fashions get extra horsepower – 328 as an alternative of 306.
The S3 additionally borrows a couple of elements from the RS 3. “The addition of a brand new commonplace rear torque splitter and swivel bearing suspension are designed to enhance lateral dynamics, traction, and dynamic stability, together with steering response and efficiency habits,” Audi says.
New digital stability management and stiffer suspension wishbones ought to enable extra exact steering on the restrict for many who take their S3 to the observe.
2025 Audi A3, S3 Pricing
All costs embrace a compulsory $1,295 vacation spot cost. The 2025 Audi A3 and S3 shall be obtainable within the fourth quarter of this yr.
| Trim Stage | MSRP + Vacation spot |
| A3 Premium | $39,495 |
| A3 Premium Plus | $42,095 |
| S3 Premium | $49,995 |
| S3 Premium Plus | $52,395 |
| S3 Status | $56,195 |