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What is it?

It’s Audi’s A3 with a reworked 1.9-litre turbodiesel engine, revised gear ratios, tweaked aerodynamics, low-resistence tyres and a ‘recommended gear’ display on the dash. The result is a CO2 figure of 119g/km, allowing the A3 TDI e to sneak under London’s proposed congestion charge cut-off.

What’s it like?

Frugal; we raised eyebrows at the claimed 62mpg but after a decent blend of motorway miles and urban crawl, we can believe it. But it’s noisy too. Th...Read the full article

Surely this model is only a short-term, hastily introduced model, with 'past its sell by date' technology?

 Audi have already started introducing the common rail diesel engines which will replace the unsophisicated rough & noisy TDI engines in the whole Audi/VW range. 

 Mercedes and BMW have already moved-on to the second generation common rail engines.