Audi Q3 35 TFSI: Convenient and classy compact crossover

Audi Q3 35 TFSI: Convenient and classy compact crossover

The second smallest of the German manufacturer's line of various size SUVs and crossovers to suit most tastes, the Audi Q3 is a compact and convenient daily drive proposition, with improved technology, efficiency, driving dynamics and cabin room.

Winner of the 2020 Middle East Car of the Year award's best Sub-Compact Premium Crossover prize, the second generation Audi Q3 is ideally sized as a young family vehicle with plenty of comfort, combined with compact and easy to manoeuvre dimensions, and during test drive in regional entry-level drive-line guise, proved impressively intuitive and nimble to drive. 

Characterised by its dominantly large octagonal grille with its matte metallic outline, the Q3's sporty and assertive look echoes that of other Audi SUVs, and features slim squinting headlights with a dramatic LED signature. Meanwhile, big faux side intakes and contrasting lower wheel-arch cladding and sills play up its sportingly rugged styling sensibilities, and prominent wheel-arch surfacing is a direct nod to Audi's most defining and original 1980s Quattro sports coupe, and the four-wheel-drive system that takes its name from it. Optional S-line 19-inch alloy wheels meanwhile better fill in the muscular wheel-arches.

Compact and confident

Driven in Q3 35 TFSI, Audi's compact crossover is powered by a small