Ultra-exclusive Audi RS3 Competition Limited coming to Australia, marking golden jubilee of the five-cylinder

Audi will impress the fiftieth anniversary of its employ of 5-cylinder engines by releasing a hardcore and strictly shrimp version of the RS3 badged as the Competition Dinky.

We’re attempting forward to the RS3 Competition Dinky to role a heady new file for Audi sizzling hatch pricing within the community.

In its home market of Germany, the shrimp version commands a limiteless 60 p.c top class over the typical vehicle.

Even brooding about that Australia’s standard RS3 is greater equipped than its German counterpart, the Competition Dinky would perchance per chance restful land at spherical $150,000.

The conventional RS3 is priced from $104,800 plus on-boulevard payments in Australia.

Output from the 2.5-litre turbo ‘5 live level with the typical RS3, at 294kW/500Nm, with the Competition Dinky focussed on chassis upgrades and visible adjustments.

Whereas the 0-100km/h claim is regular at 3.8 seconds, Audi Sport has lifted the tip velocity for the RS3 Competition Dinky to 290km/h as standard.

Plus, it’s a noisier affair because of reduced firewall sound insulation besides to conventional inclusion of an RS Sport Utilize plan and earlier-opening exhaust flaps.

A entire of 750 examples of the Competition Dinky would perchance be constructed globally across the 5-door Sportback and four-door sedan physique kinds.

From 139 correct-hand power devices, Audi Australia has secured a exiguous slash of the allocation with 18 vehicles earmarked for the local market — 10 Sportbacks, and eight sedans.

Whereas there could be not this kind of thing as a legitimate note out of Audi that the RS3 Competition Dinky is a ‘farewell particular’, the firm has beforehand intimated that the 5-cylinder’s days are numbered.

It has been a immense week for 5-cylinder news out of Europe.

The tip-shelf RS3 grade has been confirmed stunning sooner or later after Cupra confirmed an Australian initiate of the Formentor VZ5 that borrows the iconic Audi powertrain.

The finest alternate sits below the RS3 Competition Dinky, tucked out of gape.

For the main time on an RS3, Audi has fitted a coilover suspension kit with 3 suggestions of (handbook) adjustment.

Special instruments are integrated to enable drivers to alter high-velocity compression, low-velocity compression and rebound parameters.

A stiffer rear stabiliser bar is extraordinary to the Competition Dinky, whereas rear spring charges cling also been elevated for consistency.

Audi says the adjustments are aimed at sharpening the RS3’s turn-in traits whereas improving physique regulate and damper performance in high-velocity driving.

Carbon ceramic brakes cling also become standard equipment for this variant with crimson brake callipers making the stopping kit more noticeable.

Visually, the Competition Dinky is mighty by matte carbon exterior parts whereas the vehicle is accessible in three colors: Malachite Green, Daytona Grey, or Glacier White matte.

Uncommon 19-walk alloy wheels are painted matte Neodymium gold. Whereas avenue tyres are integrated by default, Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R semi-slick tyres are not foremost.

Up entrance, the Competition Dinky nabs double entrance canards and a split lip, whereas matte carbon replicate caps, facet skirts, and a variant-explicit rear spoiler up the aggression.

Darkened matrix LED headlights feature a custom startup animation referencing the 5-cylinder’s 1-2-4-5-3 firing dispute.

Inside, the Competition Dinky sports a particular colour design with the RS bucket seats done in Dinamica upholstery in a delicate gold colour.

A numbered plaque identifies each and every vehicle, and the digital instrument cluster gets trim-explicit graphics with a white revolutions counter inspired by the ‘90s Audi RS2 Avant.

On top of the extraordinary parts, the RS3 Competition Dinky lands with high specification including Sonos top class audio, heated seats, three-zone local weather regulate and privacy glass.

Audi RS3 2026: prices in Australia

All prices listed are forward of on-boulevard payments.

• Sportback: $104,800
• Sedan: $107,800
• Competition Dinky Sportback: TBC
• Competition Dinky Sedan: TBC