Photo: X-Tomi Design
Once upon a time, in a land not too far away called Germany, a car with two doors could be called a saloon and there was no such thing as a four-door coupe. But the big bad ogres from the SUV clan invaded and changed everything. Now all the Germans work for them, tirelessly producing profits.
3-door cars were still around at the beginning of this decade, and VW Group made some as well. That's how the Audi A3 started life, as a relatively short car for the city which distinguished itself from the Golf by having two fewer access ports. The A1 was the same, and even the A4 had a 2-door incarnation, the convertible.
But now nobody wants this configuration, partly because of practicality, but also because big cars are considered cooler. We don't know if the new Audi RS Q3 will go down in history as the car that killed the TT RS, but it certainly looks that way from where we stand.
The two share the same 400 horsepower 2.5-liter turbo engine, and while the TT is lighter and thus noticeably faster, the RS Q3 looks like a smaller version of the Lamborghini Urus, at least in Sportback format. Having fewer doors wouldn't help the resemblance since the Urus has five of them, but we also wondered what a less practical quattro SUV would look like.
And here it is, an RS Q3 3-door, courtesy of X-Tomi Design, the green mean wolverine. If you ignore the angular front end, the rest of it looks a lot like the VW Scirocco or the Astra GTC. The rendering also resembles Audi's own Allroad Shooting Brake concept, which was based on the TT.
Of course, there's nothing stopping somebody from chopping an RS Q3, but this is a €65,000 car, and there would be better ways to make it special. A drag racer would be nice, with wider slick tires and lots of power. Or maybe give it a Rocket Bunny body kit.
But now nobody wants this configuration, partly because of practicality, but also because big cars are considered cooler. We don't know if the new Audi RS Q3 will go down in history as the car that killed the TT RS, but it certainly looks that way from where we stand.
The two share the same 400 horsepower 2.5-liter turbo engine, and while the TT is lighter and thus noticeably faster, the RS Q3 looks like a smaller version of the Lamborghini Urus, at least in Sportback format. Having fewer doors wouldn't help the resemblance since the Urus has five of them, but we also wondered what a less practical quattro SUV would look like.
And here it is, an RS Q3 3-door, courtesy of X-Tomi Design, the green mean wolverine. If you ignore the angular front end, the rest of it looks a lot like the VW Scirocco or the Astra GTC. The rendering also resembles Audi's own Allroad Shooting Brake concept, which was based on the TT.
Of course, there's nothing stopping somebody from chopping an RS Q3, but this is a €65,000 car, and there would be better ways to make it special. A drag racer would be nice, with wider slick tires and lots of power. Or maybe give it a Rocket Bunny body kit.
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