£424.68 a month.
Doesn’t sound like a performance car rate. It shouldn’t. Not for something this quick. Not when it has a five-cylinder engine underneath that hood. Five cylinders are rare now. They feel analog. Mechanical. They thrum. Most manufacturers abandoned the sound for six-cylinder symmetry or turbocharged fours that whine. Audi keeps one alive. Barely.
“Five seems to be a pretty good Number for pop bands”
It’s also good for engine layout. But this specific layout is dying. The RS 3 is one of the last bastions of the inline-five in a mass-produced hatchback. Once this deal passes or production shifts. Gone.
You can lock it in through Auto Express ’ Buy A Car service via Carwow Leasey. The numbers are tight. You drop £5,391.28 upfront. Then you pay the monthly chunk for two years. Just five thousand miles allowed each year. Five thousand. That is very little for a car that begs you to floor it.
Maintenance is not included. Read that twice. Usually, these deals hide service costs to make the monthly figure look softer. This one does not. You get the car. You get the 394bhp. You handle the upkeep.
But what you get. Oh, it is nice. The interior is properly sorted. No plastic tricks here. You sit in bolsters that hold you during lateral G-forces. You stare at a 12.3-inch virtual cockpit that actually matters in this car because it has a G-meter. You want to know how hard you’re braking? It tells you.
The performance specs are brutal. 2.5-liter turbocharged engine. It launches to 62 mph in 3.8 seconds. It hits 155 mph. There is a reason for this speed. Torque vectoring. An all-wheel-drive system. A dual-clutch gearbox that shifts before you even realize the previous gear is finished. It hooks. It rotates. It feels sharper than older generations. More capable.
Why buy now? Because engines change. Regulations change. The sonorous roar of a five-pot might become illegal noise before it becomes obsolete engineering.
Prices shift. Offers vanish. If you miss this specific slice of the UK market deals from Auto Express, other leasing options exist for the RS 3. They will be more expensive. Or have worse mileage limits. Or require a bigger deposit.
So. The math is clear. The miles are low. The power is high. The cylinder count is fading into history.
Are you going to let it drive itself off the lot? Probably not. You would rather be inside it. Feeling that specific mechanical shudder. Listening to that specific frequency.
While you still can.
