Weird video depicts Audi RS3 'birth'

Transformers has nothing on Audi promo video showing an R8 giving birth to the new RS3 Sportback.

Transformers has nothing on Audi promo video showing an R8 giving birth to the new RS3 Sportback.

Published May 5, 2015

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Ingolstadt, Germany - Comments on this Audi promo for the upcoming RS3 Sportback range from "creepy" to "life-affirming" (C'mon, people - this is a machine we're talking about!) to "misleading" (The RS3 is based on the Volkswagen Group's MQB platform and has a lot more in common with the current Polo than a first-generation R8) - but it's undeniable that these are some of the most powerful images we've seen in a car commercial since the iconic South African-made Volkswagen ads of the early 1980s.

The RS3 Sportback, due in South Africa in the fourth quarter of 2015, will boast the hottest five-cylinder production engine in Audi history - a 2.5-litre TFSI turbopetrol quoted at 270kW and 465Nm, the latter delivered 1650-5550rpm.

Meanwhile - what do you think of the RS3's delivery-room footage - skin-crawlingly weird or just plain gross?

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