[UPDATE] In an e-mail to Motor1, Steven Marks, Senior Specialist, Product Communications at Audi USA, declared: “We have not yet released U.S. specifications and will do closer to the launch a little later this year.”

It’s been almost 4 years since Audi launched the current-generation S3, so the time has come for a facelift. Thinly coated in a typical Audi Sport livery, the compact efficiency mannequin is being previewed in each hatchback and sedan physique kinds. There are surprisingly a whole lot of mechanical adjustments for under a mid-cycle replace.

At the center of the brand new S3 is an uprated model of the acquainted turbocharged 2.0-liter gasoline engine. The four-pot TFSI unit now belts out 329 horsepower and 420 Newton-meters (310 pound-feet) of torque. It has gained a considerable 23 hp and (20 Nm) 15 lb-ft over the pre-facelifted mannequin to completely match the mechanically associated Volkswagen Golf R 333 particular version.