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Audi RS3 Sportback

Bigger isn't always better. Case in point: the new Audi RS3 Sportback. Based on the compact A3, the RS3 Sportback is a five-door premium sport hatch that packs a whopping 340 horsepower from its turbocharged five-cylinder engine – through to all four corners via Audi's Quattro all-wheel drive system and seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission – to rocket to 60 in just 4.6 seconds.

The RS3 Sportback's nearly 50,000 euro pricetag in Germany would put it around $68,000 in the United States. Unfortunately, like the rest of the top-shelf RS range, Audi does not appear to be planning to bring this model to America, so this is one more European model we'll just have to admire from afar.

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Ultra-Exclusive Veritas RS III Priced at $487,000

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

If you were enchanted by the idea of a retro German roadster with a 500-horsepower V10 engine on tap, you'd better start saving. Because reports from Germany, home of the eminently desirable Veritas RS III, place the supercar's price at a handsome €342,000 (about $487k in US dollars).

You'd also better act fast if you want to get your hands on one, because Vermot AG, the engineering start-up responsible for the Veritas, will only make 30 examples, pretty much guaranteeing you won't pull up next to another one at a traffic light. After those initial 30 are sold, they'll build an additional 30 versions with a fixed roof, and they're also said to be working on an ultra-exclusive sport-utility vehicle with an aircraft engine underneath the hood. Oh dear, this is going to be expensive.

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