83 mm

But, apart from sport, "pyatidverka" carries with it a number of new consumer features. First of all, it is an opportunity to let the driver and release the rear passenger, not looking up from his chair. Ie, Sportback - promise to those who frequently engaged in transportation of the rear passengers. This is an age - it comes and you realize that the usual A3 is small. Sportback is lengthened by as much as 83 mm in the rear overhang and a 68 mm through the roof and the side looks like already shortened A4 Avant. "Audyushniki" disingenuous, saying the "competitors" in the plural. In fact, market sector, "Sportbeka" is not saturated and is only one competitor - BMW of the first series, the compact hatchback category of "premium". Deduction of this rank Alfa 147 is rather a duty to employees, rather than being done "by feel". Ex-chief stylist of "Alpha" by Walter de Silva now heads the Audi Design Center, and perhaps, therefore, in the hope of intrigue, "147 th" are trying to play off with the Audi A3. But Alfa is old, and the situation in "fiatovskogo" brand in Europe is very complicated. It's all understood. But ... How to tell the people responsible for the design, the first thing that made Silva - it gave the nod to "reconstruct" original "audyushnoy" grid, extended it across the "front" - from the hood to the lower spoiler. First on the flagship A8 W12, then the new "Six". The idea is not new, its roots in pre-war racing cars and Auto Union "reprint" was brewing in the mid 90s. Silva just accelerated this process. "Flagship" is different grille fashionable, and in common prezentativnostyu Sportback A3 Hatchback front. It also means brutality, to embody that in practice have installed inside the engine. Such as the 2.0 FSI, and especially if the lattice is also marked shildikom quattro, 3.2, 250 six-cylinder power. It is fair to say that with the engine at A3 Sportback there are no competitors among the "premium brands". Rear view is also not devoid of imagination, although fifth door (on the former A3 only the third) does not backed up by brutality. Back, back in the sense, as opposed to an aggressive forehand, on the contrary very romantic. You feel the master's hand ... "156th", "147th" "Alpha", the red lights and the solid South vrazlet elegy. Looking forward again, I would say that the promised three-door sport-top version of the S3 will shine the same large monoreshetkoy, and after a year it will be all "treshki" and, later, next-generation TT. Inside the car is finished, as usual with Audi, benign materials and decorated, reasonably, and various aluminum trim, handles and rims. All right. With the advent of Silva's "greyness of German genius," the Audi resorbed somehow by itself. Perhaps Monaco acted as Wednesday, possibly, PR-escort, but the first impression made Sportback car design, layfstaylovogo, active and low-calorie. Yes, and the principality of Monaco is selected under the Sportback is not accidental. Here on the streets and yards so much the "Rolls-Royce" and "Bentley", so easy to draw parallels. Like, you see what they overweight, dekadansnye, hungry, which her aunt in them greasy, stained, and the Sportback - feshenebl this new century.