Nardo, according to the online Urban Dictionary, is the state of being “really trashed” while high on drugs or alcohol. Does high on exhilaration also count?I’ve just test-driven an Audi RS3 which happened to be nardo-grey and I was genuinely sorry to hand the keys back to the manufacturer. It takes longer to say the car’s name — Audi RS3 Sportback 2.5T Quattro S Tronic — than it does to accelerate from 0-100km/h. But it’s not just the speed and agility that make this car such fun. It’s the fact that these qualities are contained in such a neat, under-stated package.The RS3 was one of three high-performance Audis I drove one after the other in the space of nine days. All three have been on the market for a few months but it’s rare to have an opportunity to drive them in succession to compare their very different attributes.First was the TTS 2.0 TFSi quattro S Tronic. The TT marque, after shaking up the market when it was first launched nearly 20 years ago, seems to have morphed into...
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