Little more than two and a half years later it will be a reality. The Audi A3 Cityhopper will be one of the great novelties on the market in 2023, when the brand with the four rings will start selling the crossover variant of the Audi A3. With its own name and with the genes of the Allroad concept as a flag, we anticipate its production design, and its novelties.
The project of Audi A3 Cityhopper dates from the conception of this latest generation of the compact of the brand with the four rings. Even, from a year before its world presentation, we already knew that the German brand was seriously considering this option, granting the green light for production during the summer of 2020, a few months after starting sales of the fourth generation of the A3. And it is that everything had to follow an established plan, consolidating the sales of conventional bodies, before presenting the specials.
The A3 Cityhopper is the first application of the Allroad concept to a compact model. Although this commercial name is dedicated to the family variants, we have also seen it on board the Audi A1 City Carver sharing personality. The tests of the model have already started, as you have seen in some recent spy photos, which we have used to present this advance in the form of recreation uncovering the camouflage of the recently sighted prototypes of the A3 Cityhopper 2023.
Rear 3/4 view of the new Audi A3 Cityhopper 2023, with a clear higher ground clearance
The Audi A3 Cityhopper 2023 has been a priority of the brand
The most prominent, the increased body-to-ground clearance and with a retouched suspension. The camouflage shown by the Audi model hides the usual and typical plastic protectors in the wheel arches, extending over the side skirts and the front and rear bumpers, both with their corresponding satin aluminum protectors on the lower edges. The front also with new air intakes highlighted by special decorative appliques.
The new A3 Cityhopper will be offered with versions of gasoline and diesel, not being planned to do so with plug-in hybrids, although yes with front-wheel drive and with quattro all-wheel drive and automatic transmission. The presentation is expected for the 2022 Paris Motor Show, so the commercialization and first deliveries will be postponed until spring 2023.
Keyword: Preview of the Audi A3 Cityhopper 2023, the compact adopts Allroad genes