The potent Audi RS badge has been shrunk! For the first time since its launch in 1993, the A3 is finally being given the full RennSport treatment - as this exclusive video shows.
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The prototype was spotted testing at Germany’s Nürburgring race circuit, and is disguised with the body of an S3 Sportback. But giving the game away are the large alloy wheels and a front bumper with gaping air intakes, similar to that on the A3 TDI Clubsport Concept, revealed in 2008.
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