2025 Audi RS3 price and specs: Hot hatch and sedan sharpen up with price rises

• 2025 Audi RS3 pricing and specifications
• Updated styling, retuned stability systems
• Hot hatch and sedan up to $9585 dearer than before
• Priced from $104,800 before on-road costs

2025 Audi RS3 Sportback.

The 2025 Audi RS3 hot hatch and sedan have been detailed for Australia.

Priced from $104,800 before on-road costs, the updated RS3 is up to $9585 dearer than before, and introduces revised exterior and interior styling, retuned stability systems, and new colours.

New-for-2025 is a flatter and wider 'singleframe' grille, larger side air intakes, new apertures above the front splitter to allow the car to sit even lower, and updated matrix LED headlights with three selectable daytime running light designs, including a checkered flag pattern.

2025 Audi RS3 Sportback.

The RS3 also adds redesigned 19-inch alloy wheels, updated tail-light graphics, and a new steering wheel with haptic controls and red chequered flag and RS buttons for the Performance and RS Individual drive modes, respectively.

The digital instrument cluster now shows its rev counter in the centre of the display, while five chemists are said to have developed an improved new-car smell for the RS3 in all climatic conditions.

Its 15-speaker Bang & Olufsen audio system has been replaced by a Sonos 3D unit with an identical speaker count.

2025 Audi RS3 Sportback interior.

Audi has added three new colours – Arkona White, Ascari Blue metallic and Progressive Red metallic – but Australia misses out on the Daytona Grey matte finish introduced overseas.

Newly optional carbon bucket seats similar to a BMW M2 are also not listed in the RS3's specifications for Australia.

In addition, Audi has removed the $13,000 RS Dynamic Plus package with carbon-ceramic brakes and a 290km/h top speed limiter – up from 250km/h as standard – with the carbon-ceramic brakes now a $10,800 standalone option.

The previously-optional $2000 Matte Aluminium Styling Package is also unavailable for the new model.

2025 Audi RS3 Sedan (left) and Sportback (right) variants.

An algorithm change for the modular driving dynamics controller (mVDC), which combines the software behind the torque splitter, electronic stability control and adaptive dampers, has improved the car's agility and stability.

Audi says the updates to the mVDC have allowed for higher cornering speeds with increased lateral dynamics to minimise understeer.

While there are no changes to its 294kW/500Nm 2.5-litre turbocharged five-cylinder petrol engine, the revisions to its mVDC have allowed Audi to reclaim the Nürburgring race-track lap record in the 'compact' production car class.

2025 Audi RS3 Sedan.

In August 2024, following the global reveal of the updated RS3, Audi confirmed a time of seven minutes and 33.123 seconds, beating the BMW M2's record by more than five seconds.

The 2025 Audi RS3 is on sale now ahead of first customer deliveries due in the middle of the year.

• RS3 Sportback – $104,800 (up $9085)
• RS3 Sedan – $107,800 (up $9585)

Note: All prices above exclude on-road costs.

• 19-inch matte black alloy wheels with Pirelli P Zero tyres (and tyre repair kit)
• RS exterior and interior styling
• RS sports suspension with adaptive dampers
• Audi drive select system with RS Individual, Performance and Torque Rear modes
• Steel brakes with red RS calipers
• Black exterior styling package (includes window surrounds, front intakes, side sills and rear diffuser)
• Black mirror caps
• Darkened matrix LED headlights with three unique daytime-running light signatures
• 10.1-inch infotainment touchscreen with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, satellite navigation, digital radio and Wi-Fi hotspot
• 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster with RS displays
• Electric front sports seats with heating and four-way power lumbar support
• Fine nappa leather upholstery with front RS embossing and honeycomb pattern
• Memory for mirrors and driver's seat
• Leather-wrapped steering wheel with paddle shifters
• Dual-zone automatic climate control
• Keyless entry and start
• 15-speaker Sonos 3D sound system (replaces Bang & Olufsen)
• Head-up display
• Wireless smartphone charging
• Multi-colour ambient interior lighting
• Carbon atlas interior inlays
• Auto-dimming rear-view mirror
• Electric folding side mirrors with heating and auto-dimming
• Rear privacy glass
• Rain-sensing wipers
• Front and rear parking sensors
• Semi-automated parking (auto steering)
• Autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, and intersection support
• Adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go
• Lane-keep assist (with lane-departure warning)
• Blind-spot monitoring
• Rear cross-traffic alert
• 360-degree camera
• Safe exit warning
• Tyre pressure loss indicator

• Inlays in carbon
• Carbon roof (sportback) or tailgate (sedan) spoiler
• Black styling package plus, with gloss black badges
• Carbon mirror caps and side skirt inlays

• Alcantara steering wheel with 12 o'clock marker and red/green stitching
• Black seatbelts with red/green edging
• Dinamica microfibre seat shoulders in red or green
• Black floor mats with red or green stitching, and RS logos on front mats
• Red or green air vent accents

• Carbon-ceramic brakes with red, blue or grey calipers ($10,800)
• 19-inch wheels with black finish and metallic accents ($1200)
• 19-inch wheels with matte grey accents ($1400)
• Panoramic glass sunroof ($2600)
• Black roof rails ($750, hatch only)
• Black roof ($950, sedan only)
• Carbon matte and gloss black interior inlays ($1900)

• Ascari Blue metallic – $650 (new)
• Arkona White – no-cost (new)
• Progressive Red metallic – no-cost (new)
• Kyalami Green – no-cost
• Mythos Black metallic – no-cost
• Kemora Grey metallic – no-cost
• Python Yellow metallic – no-cost
• Daytona Grey pearl – no-cost

Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.

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