The new Audi S3 Sportback receives an extra dose of power thanks to ABT Sportsline

As you may remember, this past summer the range of the new Audi A3 added a new member with the S3 version in both Sportback and Saloon bodystyles, which have recently started to be sold in Spain. While we wait for the range to be completed with the arrival of the superlative RS3, the new Audi S3 is the most powerful version of the German compact that we can choose, and ABT Sportsline have wanted to add a little more spice to it.

You already know that ABT Sportsline is the specialist tuner for four-ring vehicles, so we can always expect work carried out with every guarantee that also fits like a glove. In this case, it is on the new Audi S3 Sportback, the body style they have chosen to give us long fangs with a tuning package that can be ordered starting next January. As you can see, without resorting to garishness, ABT Sportsline gives the S3 Sportback a slightly sportier look and, of course, an extra dose of power under its bonnet.

ABT Sportsline has considered that Audi has already done a good aesthetic and aerodynamic job on the new S3 Sportback, so the German tuner will not, as on other occasions, replace the bumpers to differentiate it from the factory model. Instead, ABT Sportsline will offer three new wheel models that give it a more sporty look: the first model is called Sports GR, fitted to the S3s seen in the photos, in 20-inch size and Gloss Black finish; the second model is the Sports FR, also 20-inch but with a classic 5-spoke design and a Mystic Black finish; while the last model, the ER-C, is 19-inch and offered in Gun Metal in a polished finish or Matte Black.

The exterior look, and also part of its mechanics, can be completed from spring 2021 onwards, when ABT Sportsline launches a new exhaust line for the S3 Sportback made of stainless steel, which will feature four exhaust outlets with a diameter of 102 mm and finished in matte black. There are hardly any changes to the interior; in fact, the only one affects the start button, which now carries the ABT Sportsline logo and backlighting.

At ABT Sportsline they say they have listened to the fans of Audi who asked for more power for the new S3, so no sooner said than done: ABT has managed, through slight adjustments to the control unit, to have the new S3 Sportback increase its power by 60 CV and 50 Nm of torque, going from the 310 CV and 400 Nm it delivers as standard to 370 CV of power and 450 Nm of torque. It should be remembered that the new S3 Sportback fits a 2,000 cc TFSI engine linked to a seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch automatic transmission, which sends the power to all four wheels thanks to the Quattro system.