Topic: Audi A3 Sportback May Come To Canada

[Fobroader]

Why do I live in the US? where I can't get the Merc B-Klasse and now, potentially the A3 hatch. 

(And 99% of people use the wrong units of measure, and look at me funny when I use a 1$ coin)

Way off topic, but since you just reminded me...

When did Americans start to use and be comfortable with metric engine displacements? Why does nobody seem to care that their beloved Chevy 305, 350 and 454 are now 5.0, 5.7 and 8.1?

I would have thought there'd be a fuss, but they seem perfectly okay with it. Same with all the new 1.6, 2.0 and 2.5 engines. Does anyone even have a clue what those are in cubic inches anymore?

The 454 is 7.4L....

Oh, thanks for that. Should have done some fact checking before posting.

Wow, so the mythical 8.1L gasser is actually a 494. Nice!

And a Lycoming 540 is 8.9L. Yikes!

Mythical?  My friends dads truck has that engine in it.  Talk about a gas hog.

A right proper gasoline truck engine, pulls like a diesel, revs like a gas, drove a dually with one, amazing engine!! But yes, you cant be one of those "oh my god my car went above 7L/100Km" types 

[mlin32]

Isn't the A3 Sportback going to the states as the A3 e-tron plug in hybrid?

Yes, but hybrids make little sense for the majority of us who don't live in dense urban areas and do a fair amount of highway driving, or even suburban (80-90km/h) driving. Diesel sells decently where I live, partly because of good availability and near-parity on price with premium petrol. The previous A3 TDI sold reasonably well around here.

And whoever gets my X3 when I sell it in a few months is going to have to learn to live with l/100km for fuel consumption on the Board Computer cuz it's not user-configurable

[mnztr]

How about a manual while we are at it?

[OliverD]

How about a manual while we are at it?

Especially in the S3.