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Is the A3 Saloon too big?
Hi Shane, Intended to ask if the A3 saloon was a much bigger car overall than the sportback as my wife thinks its too big for my knocking around and the SB would be better. Grew up with saloons, bit of love still there for the 3 box.
Our answer:
Hi Frank,
The A3 Saloon is 150mm longer than the five-door Sportback model (4,310mm overall length compared to 4,456mm) so it’s not excessively large. To put it in context, that’s six inches in the difference, or about the diameter of a medium grapefruit.
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