Acura ILX Vs. Audi A3: Compare Cars - The Car Connection
As the luxury market grows, the appeal of driving a car with a luxury badge has become as much a sign that you’re headed to affluence and success as one that you’ve arrived. Yet the A3 offers ‘quattro’ all-wheel drive throughout the lineup—a key difference for those in snowy climates. The ILX, on the other hand, is offered only in front-wheel-drive form. You can see a bit of the Civic in some angles of the ILX’s design, even though it doesn’t share a single inch of sheetmetal and its much more lavishly trimmed dash follows entirely different contours. These two models skirt the line between comfortable, tech-savvy, and value-oriented on one side, and give you just enough of a tease of sportiness and an engaging drive on the other side. Between the basic versions of the A3 and the ILX, we think the ILX is the clear winner, though. That’s in part because Acura has gone and finessed what used to be the top engine on the ILX—a 201-hp, 2. 0-liter four-cylinder. Source: www.thecarconnection.com
